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this photo was taken by ancient camera - nikon coolpix 4300.
This cathedral is one of the most beautiful over world. I think that I will obligate to you to try realize which place I took this photo. This was taken in July 2006 somewhere...
I dedicate this photo to Stavros - www.flickr.com/photos/markop who like architecture. See those awesome pinacles! But I saw much more beautiful cathedral than this one. Then you can ask me which...
-- Then I will show you other photos I took with canon coolpix 3100, even more older than 4300 (that is not my camera.) I didn´t use tripod to take this photo.
thank you all.
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Dedicated to Keith Johnstone
Every day I eat a slice of floor
with a thick layer of the window
Afternoon I drink a cup of moon
and take a nap on my mirror
Before I go to sleep I pray to dog
save the spoon have mercy on my ceiling
In my dream I walk without my door
and wake up to start from the beginning
Dedicated to the memory of Jamie Leigh Meyer. This one is for you, Kim.
(4126candlesforjamieleighmeyerBIGnooilembobrtcontniceRIT)
After 26 years of dedicated service, Col. Regina M. Grant retired from the U.S. Army in a small ceremony at the Pentagon Feb. 16th. Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch, commanding general of the U.S. Army Installation Management Command and Assistant Chief of Staff of Installation Management, said he knows there are certain people across the OACSIM that he can focus on for magnificent performance, and Grant is at the top of his list. Grant’s husband, Col. (R) Michael O. Grant, friends, and coworkers attended the ceremony. U.S. Army Photo by Sarah Samoraj
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
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Bhante Yogavacara Ruhula a Theravadan Buddhist monk
conducting a meditation seminar.
Pittsburgh Buddhist Center
7/5/2008
Joseph Stella ( 1877 – 1946 )
The Quencher - Night Fires - circa 1919
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Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature
February 24 – May 21, 2023
Italian-born American modernist Joseph Stella (1877–1946) is primarily recognized for his dynamic Futurist-inspired paintings of New York, especially the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island. Lesser known, but equally as ambitious, is his work dedicated to the natural world, a theme that served as a lifelong inspiration. Throughout his career, Stella produced an extraordinary number of works—in many formats and in diverse media—that take nature as their subject. These lush and colorful works are filled with flowers, trees, birds, and fish—some of which he encountered on his travels across continents or during his visits to botanical gardens, while others are abstracted and fantastical. Through these pictures, he created a rich and variegated portrait of nature, a sanctuary for a painter in a modern world.
Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature is co-organized by the High and the Brandywine River Museum of Art and is the first major museum exhibition to exclusively examine Stella’s nature-based works. The exhibition features more than one hundred paintings and works on paper that reveal the complexity and spirituality that drove Stella’s nature-based works and the breadth of his artistic vision. Through expanded in-gallery didactics, including a graphic timeline of Stella’s career and a short film, the exhibition digs deeply into the context of the works, exploring their inspirations, meanings, and stylistic influences.
Touring Dates:
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (October 15, 2022–January 15, 2023)
Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania (June 17, 2023–September 24, 2023)
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If you know the painter Joseph Stella, it’s probably from his famous urban landscapes like Brooklyn Bridge (1921), a futurist interpretation of New York’s dramatic 20th-century industrialization. But Stella was just as captivated by the botanical world as he was by cityscapes, and today, Atlantans can see that side of the artist in vivid color. Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, an explosive new exhibit at the High Museum of Art, features dozens of his flower and plant-filled paintings and drawings. In Atlanta through May 21, the exhibit travels chronologically through Stella’s lifelong love-affair with the natural world, from an early study of a piece of bark to the epic, intricate Tree of My Life.
Visionary Nature was a joint effort between the High; the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida; and the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where it heads next. “They were really focused on [Stella’s] nature works, and we have a great work by Stella here at the High,” said Stephanie Heydt, the museum’s Margaret and Terry Stent Curator of American Art. “It was a great collaboration.”
Stella was born in 1877 in Muro Lucano, a hilly city in southern Italy. He immigrated to New York originally intending to follow his brother into medicine, but after a uninspired stint in medical school, he pivoted to painting. Stella studied briefly under the impressionist painter William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and soon developed a reputation as a sensitive interpreter of the urban working class.
The High’s exhibit features of some of these early works, in which the natural world spills out amidst the smokestacks and steel mills of America’s industrial revolution. “This is the Progressive Era at the turn of the twentieth century,” Heydt explained. “And he’s looking at the people in his own community, specifically the Italian immigrants.”
Traveling back in Europe, Stella was inspired by the contemporary artists he saw there: the cubism of Pablo Picasso and early futurism of Umberto Boccioni. He drew on these sources back in the U.S, earning acclaim for his dynamic geometric paintings of the metropolis; several choice selections, including American Landscape (1929), and Smoke Stacks (1921), are on view in this exhibit.
But even as Stella built his career on the towering achievements of urban industry, he yearned for the sunny landscapes of his youth. He frequented havens like the Bronx Botanical Gardens, which opened in 1891 and offered escape from New York’s sooty streets. Walking through Brooklyn one day, he later wrote in an essay, he stumbled across a sapling.
“This little tree is coming up from a crack in the sidewalk, shadowed by a factory, and he sees himself in this tree,” Heydt said. “He says, This is me.”
That encounter inspired Tree of My Life (1919) a florid aria sung to the natural world. A sturdy olive tree—Stella himself—anchors the canvas, surrounded by a vortex of tropical plants, birds, and, in the background, Stella’s native Italian hills. Brandywine Museum Director Thomas Padon envisaged the exhibit after seeing Tree of My Life in a private collection. “I was transfixed,” Padon told the New York Times.
Stella painted Tree of My Life and Brooklyn Bridge within a year of each other, announcing a duality that would define the rest of this career. While he painted flowers throughout his life, it was his moody, futurist treatments of New York that made him an art-world celebrity. European artists fleeing World War I were landing in New York in droves, sparking a new creative fascination with the cutting-edge American city. “(Marcel) Duchamp says the art of Europe is dead, and this century is about America,” explained Heydt. “Stella’s understood to be one of the first American-based painters to figure out . . . how to paint the new modern city.”
But Stella’s love of the natural world—and of Europe—endured. He returned to botanical themes throughout his life, infused with the Old Master styles of the Italian Renaissance. Many works in this exhibit invoke the sun-drenched vistas and towering cathedrals of Italy, overrun by sumptuous flowers that are decidedly not native to the Iberian peninsula. Stella—a native turned immigrant—seems to delight in the contradiction: in Dance of Spring (1924), tropical orchids and calla lilies burst open in a beam of beatific light, like Jesus rising to the heavens in a Raphael. Purissima (1927), part of the High’s own collection, evokes the iconic Renaissance Madonna, here transformed by Stella’s whimsy: the stamens of a lily serve as her celestial crown, while snowy egrets (the Florida kind) grace her sides.
With saturations of color abounding in every room, Visionary Nature enjoys an added depth through words. Stella was a prolific writer, and the exhibit makes canny use of text to explore his passion for the living world. “My devout wish,” reads one such diary segment on view, “That my every working day might begin and end . . . with the light, gay painting of a flower.” In a unique addition to their exhibition, the High created a short video featuring more of Stella’s own thoughts. “We wanted to end with his voice telling us how he felt about various paintings in the show . . . or his ideas about art,” explained Heydt.
Stella, who died in 1946, spent the last years of his life in ill health, largely confined to his studio. He never stopped painting the natural world; a few of those last works, modest trees still full of flair, are on view here. A few years before his death, his friend and fellow artist Charmion von Wiegand paid a visit to his studio. She found Stella amidst a riot of color, studiously painting his favorite subject. “Flower studies of all kinds litter the floor,” wrote von Wiegand, “and turn it into a growing garden.”
Dedicated to all you weekend warriors! Hoping you're out of town or at your favorite spot taking tons of photos for your flickr friends. :)
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Washington, DC. Jul/2017
O Museu Nacional de História Natural (em inglês: National Museum of Natural History) é um museu administrado pela Instituição Smithsoniana, localizado no National Mall, em Washington, D.C., Estados Unidos.
A coleção do museu totaliza mais de 125 milhões de espécies de plantas, animais, fósseis, minerais, rochas, meteoritos e objetos culturais humanos. O museu é o segundo mais visitado dos Smithsonianos. No museu trabalham mais de 185 profissionais especialistas em história natural, o maior grupo dedicado ao estudo cultural e natural de todo o mundo. O museu foi fundado em 1910, num edifício projetado por Hornblower & Marshall. O edifício, de estilo neoclássico, foi o primeiro a ser construído na região norte do National Mall, ao longo da Constitution Avenue, como parte do plano da Comissão McMillan, em 1901.
As amostras mais importantes do piso inferior (entrada pelo National Mall) estão no salão de mamíferos Kenneth E. Behring, que expõem mamíferos dessecados de todo o mundo, alguns dos quais foram colecionados pelo Presidente Theodore Roosevelt. Também no piso inferior está a sala dos dinossauros. Ao lado desta sala fica a exposição sobre a evolução da Terra, que leva até o Pré-Cambriano. Neste piso também podem ser observados objetos das culturais orientais.
O primeiro piso contém a Coleção Nacional de Gemas, na sala de geologia, gemas e minerais Janet Annenberg, onde a peça de maior destaque é o Diamante Hope. Ainda, neste piso, está o zoológico de insetos Orkin. O resto do piso está ocupado pelo cine IMAX que projeta filmes sobre a vida selvagem, geografia e natureza.
No piso superior ficam as lojas do museu, a cafeteria e o auditório. Neste piso pode-se contemplar uma coleção de 100 pássaros que vivem na zona metropolitana de Washington D.C.
Fonte: Wikipedia
The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is part of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s preeminent museum and research complex. The Museum is dedicated to inspiring curiosity, discovery, and learning about the natural world through its unparalleled research, collections, exhibitions, and education outreach programs. Opened in 1910, the green-domed museum on the National Mall was among the first Smithsonian building constructed exclusively to house the national collections and research facilities.
Cretaceous Diorama, Dinosaur Hall, National Museum of Natural History
Cretaceous Diorama, Dinosaur Hall, National Museum of Natural History
Whether looking at the history and cultures of Africa, describing our earliest Mammalian ancestor or primate diversity around the world, examining ancient life forms including the ever popular dinosaurs, or exploring the beauty of rare gemstones such as uniquely colored diamonds, the Museum’s temporary and permanent exhibitions serve to educate, enlighten and entertain millions of visitors each year. The main building on the National Mall contains 1.5 million square feet of space overall and 325,000 square feet of exhibition and public space; altogether the Museum is the size of 18 football fields, and houses over 1000 employees. With a growing network of interactive websites, the Museum is transforming itself into a hub for national and international electronic education, accessible to anyone with access to the internet
Source: Wikipedia
When nobody else will listen to you,
I will hear every word.
When nobody else will talk to you,
I will say it all.
When everybody else looks right through you,
I will look into your eyes with a smile.
When everybody else laughs at you,
I will remain by your side.
When others hurt you,
I, too, will feel the pain.
When noone else in this world looks up to you,
I will place you on a pedestal.
When you are hungry,
I will give you my last piece of bread.
When you are thirsty,
I will give you my last drop of water.
When you feel as though you are drowning,
I will swim out to save you.
When noone else seems to need you,
I will always love you.
When you feel as though you are being torn into pieces,
I will give you my heart.
(Heather Cacciatori)
hat Aleks für rettet die wabe entdeckt, als wir heute bei Ikea waren: "Wie viele Ecken sollte das nochmal haben?"
"It takes nine months, the child is born. It takes few seconds to take that person's life. Can you imagine that?" Usman's father, Mohammad Afzal Chaudhry, far right, asked the crowd. "Over here, in the most democractic country in the world, our beloved country. Help us. We are over here for justice. We want to know the truth. What happened?"
LOWER MAINLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA, 30/May/2016 --- GreatStrides is a fundraising walk dedicated to raising funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis. GreatStrides 2016 took place on May 30 in VanDusen Botanical Garden in Vancouver. Further information at: www.cysticfibrosis.ca/walk/ & www.facebook.com/CysticFibrosisVancouver
Photo by Matt Smart.
Dedicated to the amazing Silvi aka Miss Takes!!!Thanx for all those gorgeous little master pieces!!!!
Dedicada a Silvia, Miss Takes!!!Gracias por estas increibles obritas de arte!!!!!
Dedicated on March 6, 1905, this Dieman and Fiske design now houses offices for the United Methodist Church. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.
Dedicated in August 2001 , it is a 12 foot high bronze sculpture, on a granite base, along the Gloucester waterfront
Dedicated to my "primeval" extraordinary Friend, the Rose ...
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La gazza ladra, The Thieving Magpie, is a melodramma or opera semiseria in two acts by the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on La pie voleuse by Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez.
According to legend, before the first performance of the opera, the producer assured the composition of the overture by locking Rossini in a room, from the window of which the composer threw out the sheets of music to the copyists who then wrote the orchestral parts, to complete the composition of the opera.
As such, The Gazza Ladra is best known for the ouverture, which is musically notable for the use of snare drums. Stanley Kubrick has taken the overture to achieve bizarre and dramatic effects in "'A Clockwork Orange". This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie.
Claudio Abbado : youtu.be/pxOUaXTAbIU