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If you ever need an excellent vibrating back massage then between the cars on the Paris Metro is the place to go.
Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.
Oscar Wilde
I’ve been journaling a lot lately, for me it’s a way to articulate to myself and see the bigger picture. Things have been a bit all over the place and now trying to focus on too many things at once which has made the journey a bit of a struggle. But there’s always a silver lining!
Life can be viewed as a balancing act or rather a tipping scale. At any given point in time you will have your priorities and needs and wants while on the other hand there will be the things you’ve been neglecting or choosing not to focus on. And so you decide to take those things out of the closet and start balancing them back into your life. There is not enough time in a single day to get everything done so you have to choose what gets done. It’s easy to fall into habits or put it on auto pilot and sometimes reintroducing something back into your life can feel like a struggle. But I’m finding the more I just set a schedule for those things and not get psychological about it, it gets done and I can check it off the list. As I play with this game of balancing it has become apparent that in time those things that once seemed so tedious and complex have softened and become part of life, the part where you don’t have to think so much but rather do. Yeah life can be toilsome but in hindsight it’s worth the work and what once was so overwhelming has been integrated into simplicity by putting one foot in front of the other.
They round all around and they're bigger on the bottom,
Small round the top and we're glad we've got 'em.
And they're egg shaped,
coz they're Eggs.
Every bird you ever heard..
Lays eggs
~ Play School
My model has all the features one would expect of a fighter jet, including opening canopy, folding wings, articulating horizontal stabilizers, airbrake, and (not seen here) arrestor hook.
Poco dopo l’aurora mi sveglia il latrare dei cani, rabbioso e così presente: eppure così distante, da qualche posto che non conosco, oltre la collina. Dietro le trasparenze della tenda, e oltre la finestra, il cielo è incolore, freddo. Esattamente come qualsiasi nuovo giorno che nasce senza di te.
Mi volto dall’altra parte, richiudo gli occhi e scivolo via alla ricerca della deriva.
Oltre il bordo, alla ricerca del sogno interrotto che già ho dimenticato ma che vorrei tanto ritrovare, fosse solo per il senso di tepore che è ancora qui, simile alla stretta di un abbraccio, proprio dentro di me.
Tu dici sempre che è solo tempo perso, tempo sottratto alla veglia che non tornerà più: che fuori c’è un mondo intero che gira e si avvolge su se stesso, e che aspetta me, che aspetta te. Come un globo in fiamme che corre lungo l’arco dell’orizzonte e non si può fermare.
Lo dici ma non puoi sapere di tutte le notti che – come sospesi fuori dal tempo - camminiamo attraverso le foreste pietrificate dell’Asia, lungo la curva di una spiaggia deserta, attraverso una pioggia battente e verso il tramonto.
Lo dici ma non puoi immaginare di tutte le volte che – mentre camminiamo in questo fitto silenzio che precede l’alba - mi stringi la mano, mi copri di baci, mi mostri come volare.
Camminiamo ancora, ti prego.
Le stelle stanotte sono così luminose e ci mostreranno il sentiero.
Il resto lo faranno i tuoi occhi.
Possiamo andare lontano.
© Marco Ortolani Kuemmel
I drink to you and toast your name
A name that I don't know
I think of you and see a face
A face that never shows
The lips I never kissed
Are lips I can't forget
The dress you never wore
On the day we never met
The name I never whispered
As it echoed in my mind
The man I never was
The sweet thing that's not mine
(The Day We Never Met - Crash Test Dummies)
God does not necessarily choose a person who is very skilled or successful ("equipped") to begin with to fulfill His mission. He equips the person whom he chooses - for example, in the book of Exodus, God chooses Moses to lead His people. Moses argues that he is not eloquent or articulate enough for the task, but God assures him that he will be able to accomplish the task at hand, with the help of his brother Aaron
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
(The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost)
Dedicated to Moses Serubiri
This picture which has no editing was shot a few hours ago at sunrise near river Ganga in Varanasi (Benaras).
The model is a young pehlwan (Indian wrestler) named Manish who accepted to pose for our new catalogue.
On this image he is wrapped in a woolen shawl in several shades of brown.
It was the first time that he was modelling however he was feeling so easy with the camera.
This is the last shot I did, we had to stop around 8 o’clock as the sun was becoming too strong.
Many Indians usually ask me to change their skin complexion on the pictures for a lighter shade that they call “fair”and as I don’t do it they oftenly show me that they are desapointed whenever I give them the prints.
I tell them that in Europe people like their colour and that they even go to sun cabin in order to have it.
Of course both attitudes mean the same, we always want what we don’t have, Indians use “White perfect” while Europeans are using self tanners...
It is shocking “Cause no one's really black or white, we're all just shades of brown” (“Shades Of Brown” lyrics by MDC).
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just a little longer?
it always seems like you're leaving
just when i need you here a little longer
--good feeling
by violent femmes
i figured you could all use a little break from little children and shoes with hearts on them and stuff. i'm feeling very natural today. i don't want to leave the house, i just want to lie around, edit photos from this weekend, read thoreau, NOT do my hair or makeup, have a cup of jasmine tea, listen to some simon & garfunkel...some days i think we just need to be ourselves a little more than other days.
july 13, 2008
With reproductive conceptacles,
North Point,
Morro Strand State Beach,
Morro Bay, California
These are very small strands. This view is ~1.5" (just under 4 cm) across.
Compare to this view in a different season: www.flickr.com/photos/marlinharms/22641426172/
Explored May 31, #304. Thank you!
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maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and
millie befriended a stranded star
who's rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea.
e. e. cummings
Whenever I have to drive from Delhi to Benaras I always enjoy to stop at the Taj Mahal (ताज महल) in Agra.
This mausoleum built by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal might be a "cliché" for many but each time I find something new there.
The day I took this picture was during the monsoon season and very few tourists came however I met those Rajsthani villagers who accepted that I take a few pictures of them.
They were fascinated by the "symbol of eternal love" maybe because they were under the spell of its architecture or by the many myths which are related to the monument.
A poetic story relates that once a year, during the rainy season, a single drop of water falls on the cenotaph, it has inspired Rabindranath Tagore's description of the tomb as "one tear-drop...upon the cheek of time".
I came there several times but those beautiful people allowed me to show different views of the Taj that I was not expecting.
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Handmade v2 Flamethrowers, with rubber hoses, rubber propellant tank, black ABS valve frame, and articulating OD green ABS handpiece. They will also come with the BIG flames as well.
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October Rust
by Patricia A Boudreau
Lost in silence, sitting here
remembering
the first gold-green of early spring.
So sweet the breeze,
so soft the days of misty bliss,
of memories.
The birth of total trust.
Into the heat, of summer's sun,
the sands of time strewn on a beach
that held the moon so long,
eternity held out a hand
to all who fell
under the spell
of silvery star dust.
But dreamers waken,
broken spells lie dashed
like fragile shells,
the souls they held now vanished,
the bits and pieces fall
then call upon a wintry wind
that swirls to fate's slow waltz,
and dance alone in moonlight
now stained October rust.
A dental articulator produced by Phillips in 1929, Westmead Dental Hospital.
An articulator is a mechanical hinged device to which plaster casts of the upper and lower jaw are placed, simulating movements of the patient's jaw......Wikipedia
Westmead, Sydney
Trying my hand at a realistically proportioned, fully articulate humanoid figure. The arboreal dress, with its dragon and ant wings, and the butterfly motif were a lot of fun to work with!
This was one of my favorite childhood cartoons. It's basically a character that molds into anything it wants.Here's the Wikipedia entry
(much more articulate than anything I might attempt at):"Barbapapa is both the title character, and name of the "species" of said character, of a series of children's books written in the 1970s by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who resided in Paris, France. The books were originally written in French, and were later translated into many languages. As short cartoons of a length of only five minutes, they reached a broader audience via TV.
Barbapapa himself is a generally pear-shaped, pink shapeshifting blob-like creature who stumbles upon the human world and tries to fit in. The shapeshifting is usually accompanied by the saying "Clickety Click Barba Trick". After various amusing adventures, he comes across a female of his species (more shapely, and black-coloured), named Barbamama. They produce seven children, known as the Barbababies, each a different colour"
I often wish I can be one of the barbas. Especially when I'm stuck in the plane forever.
Here's a link to one short barba story and Episod.. for all the kids at heart ;)
Taraxacum officinale, the common dandelion, is a flowering herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae. It can be found growing in temperate regions of the world, in lawns, on roadsides, on disturbed banks and shores of water ways, and other areas with moist soils. Wikipedia
68 images images were stacked and processed through Helicon Focus 7 and CS6
My photographs may not always be "visually articulate", but I do enjoy taking them and learning new things as I go.
Crystal water turns to dark
Where ere it's presence leaves it's mark
And boiling currents pound like drums
When something wicked this way comes...
A presence dark invades the fair
And gives the horses ample scare
Chaos rains and panic fills the air
When something wicked this way comes...
Ill winds mark it's fearsome flight,
And autumn branches creak with fright.
The landscape turns to ashen crumbs,
When something wicked this way comes...
Flowers bloom as black as night
Removing color from your sight
Nightmarish vines block your way
Thorns reach out to catch their prey
And by the pricking of your thumbs
Realize that their poison numbs
From frightful blooms, rank odors seep
Bats & beasties fly & creep
'Cross this evil land, ill winds blow
Despite the darkness, mushrooms glow
All will rot & decompose
For something wicked this way grows...
Ray Bradbury
it.youtube.com/watch?v=LD8HDta7Z_4
Spargo la mia follia
in bolle di sapone
velate d'arcobaleno
sfumatura sospesa
ascolto il vento
parlare del mare
e di sussurri dell'Alpe
ingenuità di bambina
non oso tacitare
il battere d'ali
d'angeliche essenze
giunte al veleggiar dei miraggi
quest'aria tersa
dissolve la zavorra del quotidiano
mi perdo
nelle chimere del tempo
(Laura Cappellini)
ringrazio CRISTINA per la dedica..........
evanescente miriade cristallina
rotonda e trasparente
creata da un soffio leggero
ti espandi nell'aria
e mi animi, per ... Visualizza altro poi dissolverti.
PUSSYCAT PERFORMANCE II
Found photographs
I’m trying to be as stupid as possible.
It’s quick, easy, dumb and cheap.
I’m making a face at Art.
I’m teaching Jan Fabre how it’s done proper.
Port House Antwerp, Belgium by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Port House combines a new beam-shaped structure and a former fire brigade building into a new headquarter building for the Port Authority. The project is strategically located between city and harbour, with magnificent views over both the centre and the port from behind the articulate glass walls – some transparent, others reflective – in reference to the Antwerp diamond trade.
In early September 2012 Zaha Hadid gave the official order to begin construction work on Port House, the new headquarters for Antwerp Port Authority on the Kattendijk dock. The new Antwerp Port Authority headquarters will house approximately 500 staff in a single new location that comprises both a former fire station and a new extension. Together, these two entities form an impressive new landmark as the headquarters of the Antwerp Port Authority, overlooking both the city and the harbour. Staff and visitors arrive in the central atrium from where public counters, offices and meeting rooms in the existing building are directly accessible. The offices, meeting rooms, auditorium and panoramic restaurant in the new extension are accessible via panoramic lifts just off the central courtyard. Two underground levels of car and bicycle parking, the restoration and renovation of the existing building and the exterior landscaping of the site also form an integral part of the design. The new extension is positioned asymmetrically over the central courtyard, allowing light to enter the heart of the building. Leaving the existing structure untouched, it is supported by two sculpted concrete pillars that house stairs and lifts as well as a series of carefully placed steel columns that land in the courtyard. The new volume is enclosed by articulated surfaces of triangular glass panels which are slightly rotated with respect to one another to achieve ever-changing reflections that enhance its diamond shaped geometry. From the new building visitors will have a truly impressive view over the city as well as the port, so further strengthening the dialogue between the people of Antwerp and their port.
Total Floor Area: 12,800m2 (Gross); 114m Length; 24m Width; 46m Height (4 Extra Floors) Site Area: 16,400 m2 Date: 2008-2016.
Big thanks to Shutter Photo Magazine and D. Travis North for the article on my photo, Swag, and for awarding Back From The Future one of their 10 most interesting photos of 2010!
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As for this image:
A boy tries to catch raindrops in an empty bottle. Taken in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; not a composite.
I've been thinking about the notion of sharing photography artistically as being a lot like initiating a conversation. We "say" something, hoping to spark a thought or emotion, to ask a question, to convince others of an idea, or at least to invoke some sort of raw response - hopefully in a constructive, progressive fashion. With that thought in mind, the idea of catching and sharing an authentic, fleeting candid moment like this is the reason why I have largely given up pursuing composite imagery.
I'm not talking about whether it's right to edit your images beyond whatever the camera captured. I'm not referring to work that is clearly conceptual or abstract in nature, nor am I knocking surrealism as a genre; in fact, I love to (try to) shoot concepts as well as study the complexity of dreamy, artfully conceived images. I also understand that properly executing a surrealistic concept requires substantial artistic intelligence, and is WAY easier said than done.
Still, and I could be wrong of course, it seems to me that trying to convincingly capture and present both surrealist composites and slices of life, without sufficient context, would cause the viewer to question the moments I had hoped to articulate as the real thing - to possibly cause the audience to even question the nature or motive of the conversation.
On the other hand, in some cases I suppose that "misdirection" could be an artist/photographers' intention. Perhaps the key word here is context. Hmmm... I do indeed have a lot to learn...
I'm sure I will revisit and challenge that thought at some point, because, you know... I must. This is just the way I feel about it today, and I was in the mood to write. :)
Anyway, title inspired by Fela Kuti's "Water No Get Enemy".
"Everything shifts as you move, and different things come into focus at different points of your life, and you try to articulate that."
"Tudo muda quando você se move, e coisas diferentes entram em foco em diferentes pontos da sua vida, e tentar articular isso pode fazer toda diferença "
I really liked the results of projecting 2D images onto a 3D form to articulate its contour, so I decided to draw some vertical lines in Illustrator and project onto my body and see what would happen.
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Light source: Panasonic PT-AX100U projector hooked onto computer screen (pattern drawn using Adobe Illustrator)
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gratitudes :: for the ordinary days that make up our lives, for sunshine and blue skies, for sweatshirts and sunglasses, for dandelions and wishes, for articulating hopes and desires, for sharing stories, for gathering around the table and for rest.
I hate not being able to articulate what I want to say. It drives me crazy. I hate when people will "let me know then" but they never do. I hate how everyone just drifts away. & I hate the fact that I live in a country where it's cheaper to buy a cheeseburger than a bag of carrots.
So, what do you guys hate?
Anger
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Some scholars believe that the name "carnation" comes from "coronation" or "corone" (flower garlands), as it was one of the flowers used in Greek ceremonial crowns.
Carnations are often worn on special occasions, especially at weddings.
At the turn of the century dandies would not leave the house without a white or red carnation in the buttonhole of their suit. With the end of this tradition and the fact that carnations are so easily cultivated and grown, the flower has lost some of its popularity. Although apparently in the UK it is still the most sold flower…
However, carnations are not only beautiful and long lasting flowers, they also send a message.
When you receive a red carnation bouquet, it means, "My heart aches for you" and when you receive white carnations the sender is saying: "I am still available."
For the most part, carnations express love, fascination, and distinction.
I wanted a bit of drama here and lots of detail in those 'feathered' beauties...
Have a gentle day and thanx for viewing, Magda (*_*)
She’s still in the box but she appears curvy articulates.
I think it’s so cool to see Mattel’s diversity. I get happy when I see different AA tones and hair textures, so I can only imagine how a Muslim woman collector feels.
#sheismorethanherreligion
#sheismorethanherhijab
#youcanbeanything
“…a walking engine of glittering metal, striding now across the heather; articulate ropes of steel dangling from it…a great body of machinery on a tripod stand”
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
(Vance Havner)
Appalachian Trail near Kent, Connecticut. This is a repeat of a group of trees I've photographed a lot as they're quite spectacular. I wanted to try them with the Fuji X70 and that's what's used here.
There are two groups of tulip trees in this area and this is two separate trees close together. I've also shot another single tree with three trunks that's about 20 feet to my right as this picture is taken.
The Fuji X70 makes this kind of shot easy and fun with its articulating LCD screen. I continue to be very pleased with the camera. I updated my copy of Lightroom so it can read X70 RAW files and this is a converted RAW file. Frankly, the Fuji X70's JPEGs are of such high quality I probably won't shoot RAW all that much unless I know I'll be in an artificial light situation where I'll need to adjust white balance.
Esperimenti con Photoshop. Il lavoro che vedete qui è una rielaborazione dello scatto originale (molto articolata direi).
Di solito tendo a non strafare con Photoshop e a usarlo con adeguata moderazione, giusto qualche correzione qua e là sulle alte luci, saturazione, contrasto etc. etc.
Ultimamente però ho visto alcuni tutorial su YouTube su come sfocare lo sfondo, enfatizzare il soggetto, insomma creare proprio uno scatto che con l'originale ha ben poco a che fare. Quindi mi son detto "perché non provare?". Devo dire che il risultato ha sorpreso anche me, oltre ad aver scoperto molto funzioni di Photoshop che erano a me del tutto sconosciute, mi sono divertito parecchio... rimango però fedele alla mia idea, ovvero di non utilizzare Photoshop per creare dei "falsi" ma per intraprendere piccole migliorie e correzioni.
Alcuni dei tutorial che ho visto su YouTube:
Experiments with Photoshop. The work you see here is a reworking of the original shot (very articulate I would say).
Usually I don't tend to overdo with Photoshop and to use it with adequate moderation, just some correction here and there on highlights, saturation, contrast etc. etc.
Lately, however, I have seen some tutorials on YouTube on how to blur the background, emphasize the subject, in short, create a shot that with the original has very little to do. So I told myself "why not try?". I must say that the result surprised me too, in addition to having discovered a lot of Photoshop functions that were completely unknown to me, I enjoyed a lot ... but I remain faithful to my idea, that is not to use Photoshop to create "fakes" "but to undertake small improvements and corrections.
Some of the tutorials I saw on YouTube:
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