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There is no society that doesn’t run on greed {Milton Friedman}
My opinion:
Greed within reason, in moderation, not too little, not too much, just to meet your existential needs, is good when it benefits the whole team, group, nation and works for the benefit of all participants contribution to the greatest good for the greatest number
We should be greedy for right knowledge, right understanding, right wisdom and justice, in other words, we should be greedy enough to get us out of bed in the early hours of morning to go to work and earn a living to pay bills without to rob the state or others
We should not be greedy for bloodshed, senseless massacres, raping and molesting kids etc like Putin and partners in crimes
We should never be as greedy as Putin & mates to meet evil desires at the expenses of others’ lives, killing anyone to grab their land, properties, belongings, livelihoods and aspirations; this type of greed is unacceptable in a civilised world and must be eliminated
World institutions aren’t equipped to deal with corrupt evil criminals like Putin, they can’t be removed from power no matter how sick they become medically, mentally or spiritually; Xi Jinping's medical and mental condition will decline and disintegrate with age yet because of his tenure to permanent power he will be in a position to call the shots no matter how crippled he becomes by age related diseases; the fact that this is happening is really a grave cause for concern
Whatever a despot like Putin does on his own territory may well be his business but once he invades and kill people of neighbouring friendly countries to rob their land, it becomes everybody’s business including Biden’s, he should be arrested, detained, treated, rehabilitated and exiled like Napoleon Bonaparte was, but should never be allowed to govern ever again; loose cannons are threats to world peace and security and should be removed from office by an international body made up of top incorruptible, impartial high court judges from around the globe
'The thing to do is to keep the head alert but empty. Things come to pass, arising and disappearing' - John Cage, '45' for a Speaker'
existential foundations of nothingness
double exposure self portrait
Wet plate collodion
4x5 ambrotype
21cm Fujinon f5.6 SF
Natural light
Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
It was a late, sunny afternoon in the spring of 2019 at the Headington campus and, after yet another useless and somewhat frustrating meeting with the group lead (a total Oxbridge idiot), I wanted to take a moment to ponder more existential topics and decouple from the daily drudgery.
I took my special pen, the Pilot's 80th Anniversary, and as I tried to scribble something on the paper, the nib left no trace. The pen was empty. At that moment, I noticed a strong shadow cast by the nib on the paper, and a brief Chinese poem came to mind:
The bamboo shadows sweep the stairs,
But stir no dust.
I have not made any significant contributions to society. I shall not be remembered. All that I am and all that I have done will soon disappear and leave no trace behind. That impermanence, while one of the scariest aspects of life, at that moment seemed so natural. If only for a moment, I was at ease with myself.
The song True Love Leaves No Traces by Leonard Cohen came to mind, and I felt even more relaxed about my predicament. My pen leaves no ink; my life leaves no stain. I thought of myself as a Native American scout, moving without disturbing a single twig beneath my feet. I was like Leonard's lover; I leave no scar. I was in perfect harmony with Nature.
That feeling of nirvana did not last long, but it has remained in my memory, and I decided that whenever I next inked this pen, I would reflect on that feeling. I have remained faithful to that promise and, over the last seven years, I have always paused when inking this pen and dedicated a moment of silence to commemorating that feeling.
In fact, whenever I ink this pen, if circumstances allow, I take a photograph of the nib right before filling it, always trying to recreate that late-afternoon sun shining on this thin, magnificent piece of gold, sometimes using natural light, sometimes a desk lamp, or simply my phone's torch.
I have well over a hundred photographs of this nib, taken with a number of different camera and lens combinations, and here I share one of the more recent one, taken late at night using a small portable LED light.
Nothing escapes a black hole. Light cannot escape and neither can existence. At the event horizon, existence does not precede essence; existence precedes extinction. A being on the precipice will inevitably become extinct. But what happens to a being after its extinction is not so well-known. The supercollider photos in the sequence to the immediate left of this image show what happens after extinction. And thanks to Monty Cook for the title.
East-German postcard by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, nr. 2992, 1967. Photo: Progress.
French actor and stage director Laurent Terzieff (1935) starred during the 1960’s and 1970’s in many films by famous French and Italian directors. The magnetic and politically engaged actor began his film career as one of the existential youth in Les Tricheurs (1958) and later often portrayed cynical bohemians or political activists.
Laurent Terzieff was born Laurent Didier Alex Laurent Tchemerzine in 1935 in Toulouse, France. He was the son of a French visual artist and a Russian sculptor who had emigrated to France during the First World War. The spectacle of the bombardments during WW II had a dramatic effect on nine-year-old Laurent. As an adolescent, he was fascinated with philosophy and poetry. He assisted director Roger Blin by the production of the play La Sonate des spectres (The Ghost Sonata) by August Strindberg. Then and there, he decided to become an actor. Terzieff made his debut in 1953 with the Theatre of Babylon in Tous contre Adamov (All Against Adamov) by Jean-Marie Serreau. In 1957 he gained some notoriety playing a role as an assassin in a television series. Legendary director Marcel Carné spotted him and offered him a leading role opposite Pascale Petit, Jacques Charrier and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Les Tricheurs/The Cheaters (1958, Marcel Carné), a portrait of the existentialist youth in the late 1950’s. On All Movie, Hal Erickson writes about the film: “Carne's youthful characters are not so much people as symbols of the postwar relaxation of worldwide manners and mores. In anticipation of the ‘hippie flicks of the 1960s, the main characters indulge in a great deal of sex, but abstain from true love and commitment, citing these things as irrelevant in a world full of instant gratification. “ His ddebut was also Terzieff’s breakthrough in the cinema. For a long time, the public would identify him with the bohemian and cynical student.
Laurent Terzieff played roles in films by famous directors such as Claude Autant-Lara, including Tu ne tueras point/Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961) - a portrait of a conscientious objector, and Jacques Demy in the portmanteau (anthology film) Les Sept Péchés/The Seven Deadly Sins (1962) He appeared in the segment about the lusty conversation between two young men, one of whom has x-ray eyes that enable him to see through women's clothing. He starred with Rosanna Schiaffino and Elsa Martinelli in the Italian film La Notte Brava/Bad Girls Don't Cry (1959, Mauro Bolognini), a socially conscious drama written by Pier Paolo Pasolini about three young Roman criminals and three streetwalkers. Some of the best of the Italian film directors would ask him for their films. Terzieff appeared as a revolutionary on the run from government troops in Vanina Vanini/The Betrayer (1961, Roberto Rossellini), as the centaur in Medea (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini) opposite Maria Callas, as an anarchistic petty thief in Ostia (1970, Sergio Citti, Pier Paolo Pasolini), and as a military in Il deserto dei Tartari/Desert of the Tartars (1976, Valerio Zurlini) with Vittorio Gassman. In France, he played in A cœur joie/ Two Weeks in September (1967, Serge Bourguignon) with Brigitte Bardot, and La Prisonnière/The Prisoner (1968, Henri Georges Clouzot), in which he interprets a manipulative artist. Famous Spanish director Luis Buñuel took him on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in La Voie lactée/The Milky Way (1969, Luis Buñuel). Terzieff worked with more great auteurs. He made four films with Philippe Garrel (of which Le Révélateur/The Revealer (1968, Philippe Garrel) was shot in May 1968) and one with Godard, Détective/Detective (1985, Jean-Luc Godard). On television he appeared in the mini-series Moses the Lawgiver/Moses (1974, Gianfranco De Bosio) starring Burt Lancaster.
Since the 1980’s, Laurent Terzieff was less seen in the cinemas and he mostly acted on stage. In the theater he often worked as a director, writer and actor with his own troupe, founded in 1961. He also runs the theater Lucernaire in Paris. His later film roles include a Trotskyist in Rouge Baiser/Red Kiss (1985, Véra Belmont), an anarchist in Germinal (1993, Claude Berri) and the painter Hérigault in Le radeau de la Méduse/The Raft of the Medusa (1994, Iradj Azimi), inspired by a tragic maritime event happened in 1816. Politically engaged, Terzieff signed in 1960 La Déclaration sur le droit à l'insoumission dans la Guerre d'Algérie (Declaration on the Right of Insubordination in the War of Algeria), and in 2002, the petition Pas en notre nom (Not in our name) against the Iraq War. Now in his seventies, the gaunt-faced actor has not lost his magnetism, as was proved by his appearance in the Agatha Christie adaptation Mon petit doigt m'a dit.../A Little Bird Told Me... (2005, Pascal Thomas). Laurent Terzieff is also still active in the theatre. In 2009 he played an acclaimed Philoctetes in the play by Sophocles. His most recent films are J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster/I always dreamed of being a gangster de (2008, Samuel Benchetrit) with Jean Rochefort, and the Italian production Le ombre rosse/The Red Shadow (2009, Francesco Maselli). During his long career Laurent Terzieff was hailed with many awards (Prix Gérard Philippe, Molière for Best director and Best Show for Temps contre temps (Time against time) in 1993), and he is also an Officier de l'Ordre du Mérite (Officer of the Order of Merit) and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (Commander of Arts and Letters).
Sources: Hal Erickson (All Movie Guide), Evene.fr, Ciné-Resources (Cinémathèque française), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
Lucy is Lucrezia Borgia reborn—her fiery hair, crimson choker, and enigmatic gaze declaring that one life is never enough. This artwork fuses Renaissance intrigue with 1960s art-house style, a portrait of eternal glamour and danger
This is inspired by SharonMay 24. Thank you!!!
Texture is a product of Lenabem-Anna.
Texture - 193. Thank you!!!
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systemic existential concerns
improvised protection against fallout
improvised protection against fallout
improvised protection against fallout
march is here again
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listening: Throbbing Gristle - Hot on the Heels of Love (+ some other jazz funk greats)
Walking on foot brings you down to the very stark, naked core of existence. We travel too much in airplanes and cars. It’s an existential quality that we are losing. It’s almost like a credo of religion that we should walk.
There is, of course, something inherently romantic—if not heroic—about the extreme solitary explorer enveloped by nature. The very image of Herzog on foot recalls the iconic 19th-century paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, especially his Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, with its lone figure staring out at the wide vista above the clouds.
'Truth itself wanders through the forests,' Herzog writes near the end. Yet here he embroiders his memories for effect: The vast swath of geography between Munich and Paris is littered with industrial towns and cities.
Once he comes out on the other end, traversing the deforested Champs-Élysées (“We were close to what they call the breath of danger”), Herzog emerges victorious.
― Of Walking in Ice: (Munich-Paris, 23 November–14 December 1974)
by Werner Herzog
This project takes a view on how seeking acknowledgment in a rapid stream of external demands and expectations influences this particular human being. It can increase a sense of existential loneliness - and the feeling of being numb.
"The Depleted Self"
See the full project on www.bendikjohan.com
This is the second image from our exhibition "LIMBO - Identities in Transition".
My ФЭД-2 camera went into existential crisis and required the application of the prestigious RED DOT. I could not find it and I veered on a less noble blue dot... :))
ФЭД-2 (Fed 2-C) - 1958 - by FED.
shutter > 1/25 - 1/50 - 1/100 - 1/250 - 1/500 + B
lens > Industar-50 - 3.5/50, old style, silver.
SPOTLIGHT SESSION
The Mental Well-Being of the Next Generation: How We Can Support Young People’s Mental Health Amid Multiple Existential Threats
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. ET
Location: Mercury Ballroom
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an existing mental health crisis, particularly among children and young people. The emergence of “climate anxiety,” new and ongoing international conflicts, and widespread use of technology have added to the stressors impacting our youth across the globe. A study last year estimated that one in seven children and adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa have experienced significant psychological challenges, and almost 10 percent qualify for a psychiatric diagnosis. Overdose rates among teens in the United States are on the rise. Youth are facing cultural and infrastructural challenges – from stigma in seeking help to barriers in accessing support – in finding the tools and treatment they need.
This session will explore:
•How can organizations take action to directly support the mental health of young people in their communities and around the world?
•How can we develop and implement effective models for delivering mental health care in schools, clinics, and community settings?
•How can we leverage technology – which has exacerbated much of the mental health crisis among today’s youth – to reduce stigma and give youth easier access to support and treatment?
Speakers:
•Dr. Tia Dole, Executive Director, The Steve Fund
•Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, U.S. Surgeon General
•Heather White, Author & Founder, OneGreenThing.org
•Tristan Harris, Co-Founder & President, Center for Humane Technolog
•Mahmoud Abdelwahab Khedr, Founder & CEO, FloraMind
•Dometi Pongo, Journalist, MTV News
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 20: Spotlight Session at the Clinton Global Initiative September 2022 Meeting at New York Hilton Midtown on September 20, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for Clinton Global Initiative)
It's already been ten years since you headed towards your new existential level, but for me the memory of you is always the same, when I watched you with my child eyes. For more than 30 years you have taught drawing and art history to generations of kids, instead you taught to me how to dream, how to love our neighbor, how to love nature and animals, and I still remember when we sat in the evening on the balcony of our small house of Ferentino to watch the stars together imagining worlds and distant civilizations or dreaming about the mysteries of life and death, and if "Someone" were watching us from up there. I am sending you a kiss Mom, now as at that time. Your Riccardo.