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One last ICM picture before I return to something more traditional. Combining motion blur and still subjects was a fun challenge, a very different kind of photography experience. I will probably attempt this again at some point or go "full ICM", we'll see. Thank you for the feedback so far!
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You knew where this was going.
I'm not gonna lie, this was originally conceived as a retirement post.
I mean, where do I go from here? I've completed the holy collection, and I feel like I've been out of ideas for a while honestly. Just been killing time till the last of these came in.
Honestly I haven't really been feeling the lego thing lately. Don't get me wrong, I love the hobby and the community and all you guys, but I dunno, the appeal isn't the same these days, and I've been kinda trying to figure out like, what's my plan for this collection in the long run. What am I gonna do with this stuff in five, ten years. Just being existential and crap. Plus I've just had a lot going on, so I haven't really found the time, and, in a way, I feel like I've pretty much accomplished everything I could have hoped to do. Well, outside of finishing up my JP figs, and making the perfect Popeye figs, who I do have plans for, but not the parts. I'd also love to do a Squad series someday like Moth Stories, but I haven't got the time or means right now.
This isn't retirement though, just musing. I'll still be around, fear not.
ANYWAYS, you're not hear for my existential crap, you're here to ask if that Gordon is a real Christo. Ha!
All of these figs, save for Man-Bat, Moth, Hatter, Ra's, Hush, Clayface, Batgirl and Gordon, are the 100% official, classic 2006-8 Bat figs. All of em. This is essentially my dream collection, and I'm stoked to finally have them all.
Hush is a LYL Brick custom, Clayface is one of those cheapass knockoffs, Moth is a purist custom, Ra's and Man-Bat are as well, save for the former's hair and latter's wings, Hatter has a painted CMF Balloon clown hat, an Onlinesailin head, and that Western torso with the card suits. Batgirl is old news, and yes, Commissioner Gordon is indeed a Christo, supplied to me by Saga Customs/Bravo Bricks, a gentleman and scholar. I had to wait a good many months, but it was damn well worth it.
Anyways, it's no Sharp Hand Joe, but this would have made a damn fine retirement post I think.
Cheers everybody, I'll see you round the flickersphere
To wander through a bleak and barren landscape is to experience freedom from purpose--no goals and no pressures from an outcome based existence.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
...with the company of my thoughts and the solace of my dreams. I walk alone into a night of mystery where every raindrop contains the essence of possibility. I walk alone into a night of solitude, where the world belongs to the dreamers and the wanderers.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
Hi, everybody! It's been a while. I took a creative break from photography for the summer and have only now been slowly getting back into it.
For the past couple of weeks, I've been experimenting with intentional camera movement, something I've always found fascinating but haven't done much myself. The results so far are exciting; especially when combined with still subjects the scene becomes very dreamlike and esoteric. The picture you see here is essentially a double exposure – the person and the surroundings were shot in the same location but with vastly different techniques. It's like street photography taken to a whole new, existential level.
Tell me what you think, or just say hello in the comments, and I'll make sure to catch up on your latest photos!
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A goodbye can mark the end of a chapter or the beginning of a new one.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
the modern man taken by an attack of existential angst
Image distortion due to the mirror itself/
Saturation due to Photoshop tools/
Feeling disconnected? It might be time to find an alien.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio 2.0 and Lightroom Classic.
I'm perplexed when encouraged by full-time transwomen to be my "true self." What? To do so would mean that everything I've been before now isn't true. Crazy! It also presupposes I'll not change in the future. How can anyone say who their "true self" is when there is still lots of life to experience?
Do you agree we need to get away from popular language of authenticity and simply understand we are all works-in-progress and be happy, if not excited, about it?
I am tired of being made to feel less than authentic because I fail to meet expectations of others. I’m still me, regardless, and pretty happy about it.
When the comic character Popeye famously said “I am what I am, and that’s all that I am” didn’t he insist others accept his state of being, regardless of what that may be?
Popeye, after all, was a one-eyed, lantern-jawed, vegetarian, sailor, with mutant-sized forearms and fists, yet no biceps, who wore the very same outfit every day for decades. However, he breaks out of his largely imagined life situation prison and asserts his “true self” – whatever that needs to be at the moment.
Shouldn't we be the same?
Nora
This photo was taken by Cassandra Storm at a strip mall while on a shopping trip and photo safari with girlfriend Alex Forbes. The chair just happened to be there so I thought a seated pose would be different. Also different are my regular eyeglasses. They are rimless so not immediately obvious. I no longer need spectacles. Instead, I've become one. Ha ha ha!
Self Holga lens for DSLR to LR preset
Existential portrayal of the times. A touch of anxiety and depression. Best seen through obfuscation of the figure provided by the Holga lens.
“There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity. This relation of transcendence as constitutive of man (not in the sense that God is transcendent, but in the sense of self-surpassing) with subjectivity (in such a sense that man is not shut up in himself but forever present in a human universe) - it is this that we call existential humanism. This is humanism, because we remind man that there is no legislator but himself; that he himself, thus abandoned, must decide for himself; also because we show that it is not by turning back upon himself, but always by seeking, beyond himself, an aim which is one of liberation or of some particular realisation, that man can realize himself as truly human."
—JP Sartre
Faith47 is inspired by everything she sees when travelling the world: broken cars, faces filled with emotions, old factories, dusty roads and so much more. Essentially, she is inspired by everything that tells an authentic story about human experiences in different environments.
Faith47 touches upon themes of dreams and human vanity and fragility. She is humble regarding the destructive and creative forces of human life, and for that reason, her art is both metaphorical and full of meaning, always with a touch of greater existential considerations.
The mural in Aalborg depicts a young man, working at the railway in Aalborg during the 19th century, that Faith47 found in an old photograph and the mural helps draw lines between a distant past and today.
This mural is part of the Out in the Open project by Gallery Kirk.
From now on, "non-existential stores" (bar, pub, restaurant, shoe stores, clothing stores and so on) must close at 6 p.m. (18:00). And we have to stay at home from 10 p.m. (22:00) until 6 p.m. (6:00).
Straight out of the Camera. A camera is a receptacle of light. A photographer is a gatherer of light. A camera can capture infinite attributes and hues of light. Attributes and hues which can be manipulated but (perhaps) never enhanced by post processing on a computer. Personally I believe that a mild tweaking of exposure or white balance may be necessary at times but extensive processing sucks out the meditative and emotionally charged component of an image leaving behind something which is unreal and lifeless. To PP or not to PP? An existential dilemma which every photographer has to solve for him-her-self.
An aluminum pirate statue in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Seriously bad ass, no?
So, existential question. How do Pirates know they exist?
A: They think, therefore they Arrrrr!
Photograph published in News Junkie Post on 5/30/2020
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Also photograph published in The Duran on 5/31/2020
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Energy shall be clean, inexpensive, dependable and safe. Dedicating this picture to those brave operators at the Fukushima reactor making "Existential Sacrifices" to save the world.
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A popular getaway for Somewhereville residents. Booking includes color-therapy bedrooms and one week of existential clarity. Book now and get free admission to the Paint-by-Emotion Classes – watercolors derived from your unresolved feelings.
Image imagined in MidJourney and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
...and you know it's serious when cinematographer Jerry Finnerman puts him in the dark with only his eyes lit.
"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not.
It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person - without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other." -Osho
I edited this photo so many times but never ending liking the tones. Colors are everything to me and the combination of them in a photo is one of the most important things in the aesthetics I am trying to achieve. After so many tries and start overs, I was happy with this result.
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"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner's pies
And we walked off to look for America
Cathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
Michigan seems like a dream to me now
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said, be careful, his bowtie is really a camera
Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat
We smoked the last one an hour ago
So I looked at the scenery
She read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
Cathy, I'm lost, I said though I knew she was sleeping
And I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
All come to look for America
All come to look for America"
Simon and Garfunkel 1968
This dog has an existential crisis every time we walk down the alley. Doing its job. I respect it.
Also, I'm going to open a bar called The Deranged Poodle.
Confronting a giant version of yourself can be daunting. Especially when you realize it has better posture than you.
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
The drone has been sitting in an unfinished state for literally about 3 years. It feels good to have it done and I like how it turned out.
I will say, I had an existential crisis while making an AK-47 for the duplo kid. Who have I become?
He used to be the stuff of nightmares. Now he’s just the stuff of meh. Bolts still intact, but the spark? Gone. He’s not stomping through villages anymore - he’s shuffling through his own existential dread.
He tried to reinvent himself. “Frankie the Influencer” didn’t take off. His makeup tutorials were too patchy, and his skincare routine involved lightning. He auditioned for a reboot, but the producers said he was “too stitched” and “not marketable to Gen Z.”
Now he just sighs. Loud, echoey sighs that rattle windows and make squirrels reconsider their life choices. He’s not scary - he’s just tired. Tired of being misunderstood. Tired of being called “it.” Tired of people asking if he’s Shrek’s cousin.
He doesn’t want fame. He doesn’t want fear. He just wants someone to say, “Hey, you’re doing great for a guy who was literally sewn together during a thunderstorm.”
This Halloween, don’t run from the monster. Offer him a snack. Maybe a nap. Or just a moment where he doesn’t have to explain why his arms don’t match.
My favorite model, Daniel, who also happens to be my little brother.
This is some of the stuff I got for Christmas (The flash and the old camera) and I decided to have Daniel do some modeling with it.
That ivy covered wall is in our back yard, yah I know, I'm lucky :]
The proverbial lady in waiting--but what is she waiting for?
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.