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This shot was inspired by Corey's photo of a week ago called "Terracotta."
It may be the same building.
I'm not sure if this is a metaphor for Man's existential dilemma between light and darkness, or if it's just a picture of two windows that are vastly oversaturated!
sim: Black Atoll
uber: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Black%20Atoll/91/58/24
See Flower's Amazing capture
here .. [really Amazing ! ] :
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Tune:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB6a-iD6ZOY
Flower and me were walking around the Black Atoll , she took my hand while I was 'rebaking' .. my hand was gooey .. I apologized. She just smiled. She saw the beauty in the flowers and took out her Canon EOS Rebel T7 DSLR .. I grabbed my
YS977 HD Student Digital Camera Entry Level Campus Walkaround and like a dog wagging his tongue I said: 'Oh ! Look ! Lighthouse ! .. I had that goofy look on my face .. Flower just shook her head and smiled .. she started to snap away .. I saw her photo and I was just stunned by the total beauty ! ... I was like ... 'Wow' .. She asked me: Twain ? Why don't you try a different wind light ? .. . I said: 'Well ? I only have this one WL in SL ... why ? Should I have more ? ..
Flower smiled and took me by my re-baked mesh hand and we walked around the entire sim .. and talked about love and fragility and feelings and all kinds of existential things .. and I don't really know what 'existential' means .. then I got sleepy .. and we went home and drank a lot of coffee and ate some chocolate.
It was a fine evening ! Thank you Flower !! ❤️
..and thank all of you for your kind support of my photo page ! 💕
My beautiful spacebabes,
ALSO OUT NOW @ the mainstore, is Sky High (joints included). The perfect pose for some existential conversation between stoner buddies.
Check it out here:
Or, "All for Nothing # 24".
Oh man, the Hong Kong skyline. What a view. If I could pick a single viewpoint from my entire trip, it would be this (just narrowly beating Guangzhou from the Canton Tower).
Hong Kong Island really is an urban beauty. So many unusual buildings poking out from a landscape of tall towers with Mount Austin as a backdrop. Wow.
Look there, in the middle at the top of the frame. It's the Peak Tower from my previous shot, The Urban Dam.
If only I could fly. It's maybe a childish want, but I long for such freedom. Little reason to be socially anxious or existentially depressed when you could soar among the buildings.... Sigh.
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April 2016: The trip of a lifetime to China... that didn't go so well. These are my photographs that I was able to take in the fewer, happier moments.
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The sea was angry that day... I mean, somewhere, I'm sure...
Somedays you find yourself existential, in your head, wondering, what's next? What's still to come? Is it alright as I am?
I don't know what to think, just take the day, as another transient start, another forced draft.
Tool is an American rock band
Tool formed in Los Angeles in 1991, in the middle of the grunge era. Vocalist Maynard James Keenan, drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones and bassist Paul D'Amour managed to forge a terrifying, claustrophobic sound, the ideal soundtrack for the insanity of an inmate confined in solitary confinement. It is a highly psychological music, which seems to want to open the most hidden ravines of the human psyche, where evil hatches waiting to be triggered by an external stimulus. The sound of Tool does not just reproduce the teachings of the masters of the 70s (certainly Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult), but assimilates the characters of a series of bands that have made the history of the last 20 years of extreme rock .
The aggressiveness of Metallica, the darkness of the Swans, the barbarism of the first Soundgarden, the tediousness of Godflesh echo in a highly spectacular sonic mosaic, somewhat in contradiction with the intent of the band to make existential music. What distinguishes Tool from the myriad of "hard" bands that populated the charts in those years, is the recovery of the progressive 70s, which can already be felt in the first compositions, but which will undeniably reveal itself in the last album, Lateralus.
“Uncertainty and unpredictability of behavior of a teenager (12-17 years old) is the main cause of stress for parents who used to controll everything. And little control is obtained. 😢
There is such a term in existential psychotherapy - uncertainty tolerance. Take care of your health - stop controlling, be tolerant. "
(gestalt therapist Ilya Latypov)
«Неопределенность и непредсказуемость поведения подростка (12-17 лет) - основная причина стресса у родителей, которые привыкли все контролировать. А контролировать мало что получается. 😢
Есть такой термин в экзистенциальной психотерапии — толерантность к неопределенности. Берегите здоровье - перестаньте контролировать, будьте толерантны.»
(гештальт-терапевт Илья Латыпов)
This was harder than I thought. I still might have been able to do better. I did not want to resort to B&W to make it easier. I like that there is still a hint of colour there.
Happy Macro Monday
Mudhoney Faye Mini Set at Collabor88, will be in Main store after:
Collab: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/8%208/172/193/1087
Main store: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MudHoney/109/125/31
MudHoney Faye Corner Chair
MudHoney Faye End Table
MudHoney Faye Mirror
Ex Machina Existential Crisis Decor Words Gacha at Imaginarium.
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Ex Machina- Love Rusted Steel
Tuesdays Tessle Ball located at the Main store
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Tuesdays Vintage Pillow GROUP GIFT
Krescendo Ever After set previously at Redeux, now in the main store.
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[Kres] Ever After Frame - Silver
[Kres] Ever After Candle - Silver
Rezz Room American Bully Puppy Gacha at A+ Event
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[Rezz Room] American Bully Puppy Duo
..::THOR::.. Big Wall Clock at the Main Store
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Refuge - Ren Lantern Blue at the Main store
In the east of Amsterdam lies the pretty Flevopark of which I have often posted photos. Besides nature and sporting facilities, the park also boasts sculptures.
In the photo is 'Anxiety Bunny', in Dutch called 'Angsthaas', a relatively common word. It's more or less equivalent in meaning to the English 'Scaredy Cat'. But I rather prefer 'Anxiety Bunny' - given it by the sculptor -, because the loanword 'angst' (=fear) in English has the connotation, of course, of anxiety. Look carefully: this is not just a Bunny that's afraid; it's terrified existentially.
The peaked nose - so very different from a Bunnysniffle - makes this Bunny quite anthropomorphic. Peaked noses are a hallmark of the sculptor.
It was sculpted by Piet Parra (Pieter Janssen, 1976-), a well-known Amsterdam artist. Flevopark has been Bunny's home since 2018.
║ ❝ Existential Dread. ❞
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║ OUTFIT
HEAD: LeLUTKA Avalon
BODY: LEGACY
SKIN: (Enfer Sombre*) Porcelain tone - Cherry
HAIR: Magika - Amy
FACE TATTOO: -Lepunk- Moon Face Tattoo
LIPS:-Lepunk- Svea Lipgloss
NOSE: PUNCH / Nose Guard
COLLAR: Vibing -- Ember Collar -- Onyx
DRESS: imbue. luci tshirt dress - dread
LEGS: Lunar - Joss Socks - Black
TATTOO: -Lepunk- Love Bites & Scratches V1 +BOM+ & Body Wounds V1 +BOM+
GLASSES: [Cubic Cherry] {Lala} glasses
NAILS: RAWR! Glitter Nails
RINGS: Vibing -- Kaia Rings -- Silver
HEAD PARTICLES: - sixx - Animated Kitty Ears & - TRIGGERED - Starry Halo
POSE: STUNAnim - Cupcake 3 (All Bodys)
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|| PLACE
Suffering - All existence is suffering. Our lives are a struggle.
Craving, Desire and Attachment cause suffering.
Ceasing Craving, Desire and Attachment is the solution. We are the solution to our own suffering.
There is a Path - Although it is our responsibility to end our own suffering, a path exists.
“We’re Here!” -- reflecting on all things Existential .
Photographic topic 71/120 is “Meditation / meditative” at 120 pictures in 2020
Entered in the May/June 2020 Mystic Challenge Group Contest, “The Buddha in Art.”
"Big cities are not dumb. They talk, they often scream, and the words are not always beautiful. For most people, what the city tells us through its problems reveals to us an environment in which feelings of most diverse: frustration, fear, anxiety, sadness… uncomfortable."
There begins an existential journey for artist Kadu Doy, who currently signs his work as Sosek.
"An internal and external nuisance too. We work in both spheres. The nuisance is internal and also how you interact with the external," he says, about the way your work is born from your urban experience. "This city life is the food. I use this fuel to create. My creative energy comes as much from my relationship with the outside world as with my inner world, from my inner questions, from my evolution, from what I believe to be human. ", ends.
Dans le Dasein, aussi longtemps qu’il est, quelque chose qu’il peut être et qu’il sera est à chaque fois encore en excédent. Or à cet excédent appartient la «fin » elle-même. La « fin » de l’être-au-monde est la mort. Cette fin appartenant au pouvoir-être, c’est-à-dire à l’existence, délimite et détermine la totalité à chaque fois possible du Dasein. Cependant, l’être-en-fin du Dasein dans la mort et, avec lui, l’être-tout de cet étant ne pourra être inclus de manière phénoménalement adéquate dans l’élucidation de son être-tout possible que si est conquis un concept ontologiquement suffisant, c’est-à-dire existential, de la mort.
Être et Temps - Martin Heidegger
Soundtrack // Bande-son: Peter VON POEHL ("Story Of The Impossible"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls_-ZMuJO-k
"Whatever happened to the great escape ?... The finest ever made... (...) We have this story of the impossible... A tale best told softly... ONE OF MAKE-BELIEVE... Maybe impossible to achieve... And really close..."
"Belle représentation minimaliste des plages du Nord." (Jacques CAFFIN / www.flickr.com/photos/126603373@N08/)
"Une belle compo qui nous emmène dans les nuages !" (VINCENT / www.flickr.com/photos/58769600@N07/)
"That existential moment - captured so well in this painterly work." (Elliot MARGOLIES / www.flickr.com/photos/elliotmar/)
own texture
: listen
My internal monologue
Is saturated analogue
It's scratched and drifting,
I've become attached to the idea,
It's all a shifting dream bittersweet philosophy
I've got no idea how I even got here
I'm resentful,
I'm having an existential time crisis
What bliss!
Daylight savings won't fix this mess.
Under-worked and over-sexed
I must express my disinterest.
The rats are back inside my head
What would Freud've said?
Put me on a pedestal and I'll only disappoint
You tell me I'm exceptional and I promise to exploit you
Give me all your money and I'll make some origami, honey
I think you're a joke but I don't find you very funny
Above the lakes, above the vales,
The mountains and the woods, the clouds, the seas,
Beyond the sun, beyond the ether,
Beyond the confines of the starry spheres,
My soul, you move with ease,
And like a strong swimmer in rapture in the wave
You wing your way blithely through boundless space
With virile joy unspeakable.
Fly far, far away from this baneful miasma
And purify yourself in the celestial air,
Drink the ethereal fire of those limpid regions
As you would the purest of heavenly nectars.
Beyond the vast sorrows and all the vexations
That weigh upon our lives and obscure our vision,
Happy is he who can with his vigorous wing
Soar up towards those fields luminous and serene,
He whose thoughts, like skylarks,
Toward the morning sky take flight
Who hovers over life and understands with ease
The language of flowers and silent things!
Charles Baudelaire - Élévation
A masterpiece of poetic imagination and aesthetic exploration. Through his use of vivid imagery, compelling language and daring metaphors, Baudelaire takes his reader on a journey through the heights of human aspiration and the depths of existential despair. Imaging himself as a bird,
soaring high in the air, free from the constraints of gravity and the limitations of the earthly realm. He speaks of his desire to "breathe in the scent of the infinite azure sky," and to "bathe in the sea of the ineffable light."
Shot with a Canon EOS 700D from the Blaauwberg Nature Reserve, Cape Town
Agra (Inde) - Quand j’ai croisé la route de cet homme, je ne l’avais pas vraiment remarqué au premier abord. Il avançait dans la cohue de la circulation, en tirant son vélo lourdement chargé, tout en me regardant faire des photos. Jusqu’au moment où j’ai croisé son regard. Un regard perturbant et fascinant qui s’imposait à lui seul. Il exprimait une grande lassitude, proche de la détresse L’homme était visiblement épuisé et probablement fiévreux. Chose rare chez moi, j’ai hésité à faire la photo. Il y avait quelque chose d’indécent à capter l’image de ces grands yeux qui trahissaient un certain fatalisme sur sa condition. Tant d’émotions dans un simple regard. Alors comme pour me déculpabiliser, j’ai zoomé en une fraction de seconde, sans me préoccuper de l’environnement et encore moins de mon cadre. L’indécence aurait été d’esthétiser cette scène. J’avais aussi peur qu’en me posant des questions existentielles, l’intensité de ce regard ne s’estompe. J’ai donc laissé mon instinct reprendre le dessus.
En exposant ce regard, illustration d’un désespoir, j’ai le sentiment de rendre hommage à cet homme et à tous ses compagnons de misère. Mais j’ai aussi pour la première fois, la désagréable impression de lui avoir volé quelque chose. Même si après l’avoir remercié d’un petit geste de la main, l’homme a esquissé un rictus que j’ai interprété comme étant un sourire d’approbation.
- Le flou de l'arrière-plan n'est pas vraiment agréable. C'est étonnant car le 17-55 mm f : 2,8 est un excellent objectif. Insondables lois de l'optique.
All the misery in the world in a single look
Agra (India) - When I crossed paths with this man, I hadn't really noticed him at first. He rode through the rush of traffic, pulling his bike, heavily laden with bags, while watching me take pictures. Until the moment I met his gaze. A disturbing and fascinating look. He expressed great weariness, bordering on distress. The man was visibly exhausted and probably feverish. Rare thing for me, I hesitated to take the photo. There was something indecent in capturing the image of those big eyes that betrayed a certain fatalism about his condition. So much emotion in a simple look. So as if to rid myself of guilt, I zoomed in a fraction of a second, without worrying about the environment and even less about my frame.
The indecency would have been to aestheticize this scene. But by acting on instinct, I was also afraid that by asking myself existential questions, the intensity of this gaze would fade.
By deciding to expose this look, an illustration of despair, I have the feeling of paying homage to this man and to all his companions in misery. But looking at him, I also have for the first time the unpleasant impression of having stolen something from him.
"MURMURATION" by Lalie Sorbet & Chrix @ SLEA6
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1_TnoSbGCY
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♫ Music
Despite the joy that Teilhard felt whenever he would sink into the divine milieu or perceive Christ's presence at the Heart of Matter, he also experienced, at times, a deep-seated existential terror, especially when no one else seemed to see what he was able to see (HM, 100). Always aware that this departure from the traditional might be misguided, his terror at these moments was similar to Jacob's. The path was not safe, and the outcome, unclear. Yet, Teilhard never tired of his struggle to find the ever-greater Christ who was always waiting for him just beneath the veil, just over the horizon.
-Teilhard's Struggle, Embracing the Work of Evolution, Kathleen Duffy, SSJ
While chasing bubbles around my parent's garden over the holiday... Thoughts of mortality rise and burst all around me. Occasionally coating me with existential goo (detergent and sugar, in case you didn't know ;-)
Happy 2015 to you all....wishing you a year rich in photographic treasure, wonder and friendship.
Cheers and gratitude to all....
'Gifts and the Raft' by The Cave Singers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eplsBWNT-Og