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Day 154 - June 3, 2010
This is what it looks like at 2:50 in the morning outside our newsroom.
Have been staying real latethis past week working on something exciting. The wee hours of the morning afford me the peace and quiet that you don't get during "crunch time", I find that I get a lot more done this way. At the same time I don't really have much choice since most of the day is spent at meetings and what not. The situation should improve after about a month when everything has been set in motion.
In the meantime I really need to look into ways of making sure I have enough time, and creative juices left for my Project 365. The last few days have been tough, photo-wise.
From the series Empty [#1.1-1.6]:
The artifacts of bustling commerce are juxtaposed against the apparent emptiness of a major port city. The red/copper/green palette evokes a muddled American banknote. These cues suggest an examination of our relationship with commerce: its necessity, how it benefits humanity, the need to make sure it is constrained by a substantive focus on human well-being.
...or not so empty...
Portland, Oregon - July 2019.
Nikon F3/T
AF Nikkor 35-70 mm f/2.8
Expired Agfapan APX 400 in Acufine stock for 6 minutes.
2021.01.22 - Covid-19 seems to be hurting all the stores in the neighbourhood.. this one, usually busy, sits empty.. one shop looking for a tenant, the others fast food delivery, a cash outlet and a barber.. the basics of today's retail local success chain
#2940
shops and streets are closed due to covid 19, a few remain open, but don't have a lot of customers, empty plates are the result of this
The empty voices,
they call to me;
whisper in my head.
They sing songs of sorrow,
And speak harsh truths of despair.
Their cruel reality crushes me,
destroys the little spirit I have.
They tell me I can stop it,
The fierce pain I feel each day.
They tell me I can fight it,
I can end it all.
But could I do it?
Could I leave my loved ones?
Take away my pain,
And make it theirs to bear?
Hi all ^ ^
Sorry, I’ve been away quite a while!
I’ve been having major problems with my computer and the graphics card burnt out, so that meant no more sims! =[
But the good news – the computer has been replaced and I should soon have the sims back!! Give it about a week or two!
So anyway, here’s a picture I took and edited a long time ago but never uploaded. Nothing special, just to announce my return will be soon! =D
Hope you like the poem too, just a quickee I whipped up to add a little something to the pic! Can't wait 'till I can finally come back and start editing again. =)
Although - it's been very good to have a break from it for a while XD
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Ok, quick break from my random babbles XD Here's the story behind the pic - basically, this girl has voices that speak to her in her head and she's a scitzafrenic. If you hadn't already guessed, they want her to suffer as they did, to feel the pain they had to. And so they try to tempt her, telling her all her pain will end, tricking her. Where as, they're actually tricking her into a lifetime of lonelyness.
This girl will actually appear in the next black dust chapters (when I get the sims back) but I don't think she'll be the same girl as in this pic - meaning she'll have a totally different personality and background, but she'll still look the same. Although, you never know, I may keep her as she is... You'll have to find out! ;)
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By the way - extra important little note here XD
If the colours aren't quite right - too dark or too light, it's probably my computer screen. You see one is REALLY light and the other is REALLY dark and I use the dark one so this picture may be too dark or bright on your screen. So if it looks a bit funny, sorry about that! =S
Empty bleachers face a temporary inflatable sports arena. (Remarkably, the arena was assembled in one day.)
This Old Navy opened in the 1990s (1995 I believe) and relocated in the 2000s to a newer store.
The Lincoln Park Shopping Center opened in 1957 as one of the Detroit Area's largest shopping centers. The Sears opened the previous year and was once the top grossing Sears store. In the 2000s the shopping center became mostly empty besides Dollar Tree, Sears, and a Big Boy Restaurant on an out-parcel. Plans for a Walmart to open at the shopping center fell through twice.
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After leaving the empty ballast train in Morrisville Yard, Amtrak KN720 reemerges onto the Northeast Corridor with the GP38-3 duo running lite.
Someone has left this empty Corona beer bottle on a plinth in the gardens at Nymans. There are no bins here but it's very rare to see litter in National Trust gardens – I wonder why?
Rolleiflex Automat Model 1 (RF 111A)
Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 1:3,5 f=7,5cm
Kodak Ektar 100
Epson GT-X970
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DB class 66's 66053 and 66152 slow into Yate station with a Little Kimble to Tytherington empty ballast train
The #FlickrFriday #MadeInJapan challenge
Empty hand . . . or in Japanese, "Karate".
"Karate is properly applied only in those rare situations in which one really must either down another or be downed by him"
- Gichin Funakoshi, Founder of Shokotan Karate
I had a go at karate rather too late in life, to support my autistic son in an activity which features control, sequencing, memory, balance and a whole load of other stuff which is very beneficial in developing the life skills of people with that increasingly understood yet still mysterious condition.
Here (with grateful thanks to my dear wife who again found herself as my muse at very short notice) we have three strikes illustrated. Any black belt karatekas out there may be giggling by now, but anyway, 'Shuto', the knife hand strike is depicted on the left. Here the strike is delivered using the finger side (not the fingers themselves) of the hand using a chopping motion. It also most clearly depicts the concept of 'Empty Hand'. 'Zuki', the classic punch is in the centre with 'Taisho', the heel palm (or panther claw) strike on the right. This strike is delivered using the bottom of the palm. Dear wife refused to model for that one saying she'd been biting her nails. She always has been more of an origami girl.
There is a whole lot more to karate than the above. Hand strikes (including others not shown here) are delivered in different ways and styles, including from the forward or reverse hands, from different stances and to different parts of the unfortunate target. Mind you, a karate enthusiast, honour-bound to follow the ethos of Funakoshi, might observe that should they become necessary then the target deserves all he or she gets. And of course there are kicks, which in hands (OK, legs and feet) other than mine can be both spectacular and devastating. Indeed, I found footwork the most challenging aspect of this ancient art. I bowed out (literally as one does in karate) with a humble green belt.
This (ahem) striking photo is constructed of six layers, each subject to the wonders of Lightroom and Photoshop. At the back is a light grey layer, overlaid with a photo of a paving stone to add neutral texture and which was greatly reduced in opacity. The background to each hand was deleted using the background erasure tool and positioned on the canvas using the move tool, with the transform tool used to resize each. Finally the text, which Google Translate assures is 'Karate', was copied to to Photoshop's text tool and again positioned and resized appropriately.