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The task tonight was to set up a basic 'still life' and light it as you see fit ... here are the results !!!
The images were lit by using my Canon 430EX II flashgun behind a white umbrella, all controlled wirelessly by my 7D.
Thanks to Jeff and Brian for supplying the 'props' tonight !
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No other sport is as efficient as Football when it comes to burning off calories. Good people of Banasree and Aftabnagar make good use of empty spaces by playing football in every morning.
It's quite crowded on the hockey field this morning. On the court 170 men, no women, did their warming-up and disappeared in the morning light. Gyeongju, Korea.
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Benidorm,Spain- An unidentified elderly man carries out an exercise routine on the board-walk of this beach resort. Photg Hugh Peralta
Almost all Japanese have practiced "radio exercises" starting at a young age, to the dictates of a voice from a radio, or these days, a image on a television screen (image top, copyright NHK).
The noh theatre actor Zeami (Yusa, 1987; Zeami, 1984) claimed in the 15th century that the practice of noh theatre - which, like radio exercises, is performed as a sequence of kata or set forms/poses - enables the aficionado to see himself from the position of their audience.
The ability of Japanese to see themselves as if they have a mirror in their head (Heine, Takemoto, Moskalenko, Lasaleta, & Henrich, 2008), even in their memories (Cohen & Gunz, 2002), and also their dreams (Masuda et al, in preparation), is found displayed most strikingly in Japanese artworks which were traditionally taken from the position of an eye in the sky (E.g. Edo artwork, image bottom. If you give a Japanese school child or university student a piece of paper and pencil and ask them to draw their sports day, or a house and a stream, then they will often draw a picture from a comparatively elevated perspective (Masuda, Wang, Ito, & Senzaki, 2012).
Your average Japanese person does not practice noh. Some do, and some practice other martial arts that also consist in a sequence of self forms. However, all Japanese are encouraged to learn how to do radio exercises. My son has started in his first summer holiday of primary school. I am practising with him, and it is trippy.
Notice that the line of sight that the NHK chooses to present the first shots of the radio exercises is once again from the that ghostly 'land of light'. Practice radio exercises, or noh or karate or taichi, and you will learn to see yourself from the eye in the sky -- the eye of the Other -- too.
Till now these fix poses or kata have generally been argued to be opposed to creation. I think that the are the equivalent or reading an learning sections of the classics, or sections of the bible, elements in the Western education designed to produce a mind which can reason, equipped with an ear of the Other which Jefferson (Dawkins, 2008, p64) calls "reason" -- "Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion" -- but is known by a variety of other names.
Bibliography
Cohen, D., & Gunz, A. (2002). As seen by the other...: perspectives on the self in the memories and emotional perceptions of Easterners and Westerners. Psychological Science, 13(1), 55–59. Retrieved from web.missouri.edu/~ajgbp7/personal/Cohen_Gunz_2002.pdf
Dawkins, R. (2008). The God Delusion. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Heine, S. J., Takemoto, T., Moskalenko, S., Lasaleta, J., & Henrich, J. (2008). Mirrors in the head: Cultural variation in objective self-awareness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34(7), 879–887. Retrieved from www2.psych.ubc.ca/~heine/docs/2008Mirrors.pdf
Masuda, T., Wang, H., Ito, K., & Senzaki, S. (2012). Culture and the Mind: Implications for Art, Design, and Advertisement. Handbook of Research on International Advertising, 109.
Yusa, M. (1987). Riken no Ken. Zeami’s Theory of Acting and Theatrical Appreciation. Monumenta Nipponica, 42(3), 331–345. Retrieved from myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/yusa/docs/riken.pdf
Zeami. (1984). On the art of the nō drama: the major treatises of Zeami ; translated by J. Thomas Rimer, Yamazaki Masakazu. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
Qianjiang New Town - view towards the River.
© Andy Brandl / PhotonMix (2012)
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Calgary fire department training on the Bow river, extra points if you can spot the cyclist.
Helping keep Calgarians safe for many years, thanks for all you do guys much appreciated.