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

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

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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)

Existentialism

I'll try and give this one meaning:

And there he stood, the late afternoon's sun streaming down him, trying to make sense of these two weird people with bigger eyes and noses than his three years on Earth have ever before introduced him to ;-).

PS: Of course, as per most kids, he looked at Mau next to me, not at me and the camera.

Outside the Flying Pony cafe on Gerrard Street East

cazzeggio da spiaggia ... superfluo dire che non c'era più nessuno :-)

Frágil -Sting

"Existential Crisis 22: A Hole in One" Blaise Pascal said, "The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me." I am an insignificant being, one with a hole at my core. And a black hole swallows the hole that is my essence. I am a vacuum inside a vacuum, nothing inside of nothingness. My dilemma "lies in not just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."*

*Fyodor Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Chiharu Shiota, site specific installation

Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

© photo Martino Margheri

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)

The Land on the Other Side (1990)

Artist: Kjell Erik Killi Olsen (Norwegian - born 1952)

KilliOlsen became known for a hybrid style that mixed graffiti, kitsch and what is called bad painting. He often depicted dreamlike situations full of grotesque yet evidently human figures. Here, the 1980's interest in existential themes is given an unusual twist: bodies float about, merge with each other, are penetrated and amputated - for no apparent reason. The picture is typical of the artist's pictorial universe. Through thin veils of trickling paint, we are drawn into a world that seems to represent either dreams and delirium, or something extraterrestrial.

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www.visitoslo.com/en/articles/national-museum/

On 11 June 2022 the new National Museum opened in Oslo. This is the largest museum in the Nordics. The new museum now consists of the collections of the former National Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design.

The new museum has a permanent exhibition of about 6 500 objects. Design, arts and crafts, fine art as well as contemporary art will be exhibited alongside each other. As such, the permanent exhibition highlights interesting connections between different collections that previously have been on show at three different museums. Additionally, audiences will be able to see the most famous paintings by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, including The Scream (1893) and Madonna (1894).

The building was designed by Kleihues + Schuwerk Gesellschaft von Architekten, with emphasis on dignity and longevity over sensationalist architecture. Great care was given to achieve a balance with the museum’s surroundings and the existing monuments in the area, such as Oslo City Hall and Akershus Fortress.

The most eye-catching feature of the new museum is the large, illuminated exhibition hall on top of the building. It will be used for temporary exhibitions.

The rooftop terrace offers a unique view of the inner Oslo fjord. The square in front of the main entrance has become an urban meeting place, with benches and a café that invites you in to take a rest.

www.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/visit/locations/the-national-mus...

news.artnet.com/opinion/new-national-museum-norway-2129606

www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2022/06/14/what-to-expect...

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Le Soleil

Le long du vieux faubourg, où pendent aux masures

Les persiennes, abri des sécrètes luxures,

Quand le soleil cruel frappe à traits redoublés

Sur la ville et les champs, sur les toits et les blés,

Je vais m'exercer seul à ma fantasque escrime,

Flairant dans tous les coins les hasards de la rime,

Trébuchant sur les mots comme sur les pavés

Heurtant parfois des vers depuis longtemps rêvés.

Ce père nourricier, ennemi des chloroses,

Eveille dans les champs les vers comme les roses;

II fait s'évaporer les soucis vers le ciel,

Et remplit les cerveaux et les ruches de miel.

C'est lui qui rajeunit les porteurs de béquilles

Et les rend gais et doux comme des jeunes filles,

Et commande aux moissons de croître et de mûrir

Dans le coeur immortel qui toujours veut fleurir!

Quand, ainsi qu'un poète, il descend dans les villes,

II ennoblit le sort des choses les plus viles,

Et s'introduit en roi, sans bruit et sans valets,

Dans tous les hôpitaux et dans tous les palais.

— Charles Baudelaire

The Sun

Along the old street on whose cottages are hung

The slatted shutters which hide secret lecheries,

When the cruel sun strikes with increased blows

The city, the country, the roofs, and the wheat fields,

I go alone to try my fanciful fencing,

Scenting in every corner the chance of a rhyme,

Stumbling over words as over paving stones,

Colliding at times with lines dreamed of long ago.

This foster-father, enemy of chlorosis,

Makes verses bloom in the fields like roses;

He makes cares evaporate toward heaven,

And fills with honey hives and brains alike.

He rejuvenates those who go on crutches

And gives them the sweetness and gaiety of girls,

And commands crops to flourish and ripen

In those immortal hearts which ever wish to bloom!

When, like a poet, he goes down into cities,

He ennobles the fate of the lowliest things

And enters like a king, without servants or noise,

All the hospitals and all the castles.

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

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

Self Portrait Argentum for IOS

My existential dread flared up again and my mood sank. Doing this quick photo edit helped a bit. On the bright side, my hands have been drawing with more precision.

Meet the Diablo GT, done by Kyosho in 1/43rd scale. A lovely effort and as usual, it can be found still for a reasonable price.

It also has an opening engine cover!

I'm beginning to see that I gravitate toward this angle on a lot of my models.

In middle of Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood- Qc Canada

I got the waiter to walk (or pose) i both directions

WH: Existential

Well, someone cleaned out their bookshelf and dumped it at our local park. I guess they were done learning about farts. See far left yellow and red book.

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

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

Managing Director Kristalina Greorgieva participates in an event with Jeff Sachs -- Climate Change: An Existential crisis.

IMF Photo/Kim Haughton

18 November 2021

Washington, DC, United States

Photo ref: KH211130022.jpg

APRIL 13, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/ INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS.

Accelerating Development in an Age of Global Crisis

The existential threat of climate change, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, persistent high inflation and increased fragility have injected volatility and uncertainty into the global economy – a reality that may continue for a while. The panel of speakers explore central questions around what it will take to address some of the most critical issues of our time including climate change, food insecurity, pandemics, and increasing fragility and poverty.

Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank Group; Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations; José Antonio Ocampo, Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia; Leila Benali, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Morocco; Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Daniel Zelikow, Chair of the Governing Board, Development Finance Institution, J.P. Morgan. Photo: World Bank / Simone D. McCourtie

WATCH EVENT HERE

Through the glass.

Through the mask.

Through the monitor.

Through the screen.

How are we enjoying our human made environment?

Will we take responsibility this time?

Will we learn?

Are we truly...intelligent?

That remains to be seen, doesn't it...

From the series "TOTEM"

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Exhibition view "Francis Bacon and Existential Condition in Contemporary Art", CCC Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

© photo Martino Margheri

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APRIL 13, 2023 WASHINGTON DC. WORLD BANK GROUP/ INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND 2023 SPRING MEETINGS.

Accelerating Development in an Age of Global Crisis

The existential threat of climate change, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, persistent high inflation and increased fragility have injected volatility and uncertainty into the global economy – a reality that may continue for a while. The panel of speakers explore central questions around what it will take to address some of the most critical issues of our time including climate change, food insecurity, pandemics, and increasing fragility and poverty.

Axel van Trotsenburg, Senior Managing Director, Development Policy and Partnerships, World Bank Group; Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations; José Antonio Ocampo, Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Colombia; Leila Benali, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Morocco; Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Daniel Zelikow, Chair of the Governing Board, Development Finance Institution, J.P. Morgan. Photo: World Bank / Riccardo Savi

original mixed media painting on canvas by Christina Loraine (8/2011)

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Today members of the We're Here! group are visiting the The Three Stooges Existential Balloon Factory. Things could get messy.

Had a slight existential crisis and unfortunately backed away from Tiona for a while. But a couple of days to myself and an attempt at being girly again has got my mojo back

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

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

Our 11 week old kitten sleeps with her eyes open. It took us a while to realise she wasn’t just having an existential crisis. -

Our 11 week old kitten sleeps with her eyes open. It took us a while to realise she wasn’t just having an existential crisis. – Cats, kittens and kittys, cute and adorable! Aww! (via ift.tt/29KELz0)

- via ift.tt/29KELz0. Cats, kittens and kittys, cute and adorable! Aww!

Even now in the final hour of my life

I’m falling in love again

Again

Again

Again

- morrissey -

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FORTUNE Brainstorm Health 2022

Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, May 11th, 2022

9:15 AM

EXISTENTIAL THREATS: PREPARING FOR THE NEXT GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS

In a hyperconnected world rife with virulent pathogens, preparedness is our best defense. After Ebola roared through West Africa and the novel coronavirus brought the world to its knees, the most pressing question for the safety of the global population is this: What have we learned—and how can we better prepare for the next hyper-contagious disease?

Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Virologist, Department of Vaccine and Infectious Disease, University of Saskatchewan

Moderator: Clifton Leaf, Former FORTUNE Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Fortune Brainstorm Health

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune

question: if a fluffy white dog plays in fluffy white snow, can it get dirty?

answer: yes, every single time.

please see daisy large, on white (naturally) :

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I don't usually smoke first thing in the morning.

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

Source: Werner Herzog’s Maniacal Quests ―A newly published travel journal shows how walking, like filmmaking, brings us to the naked core of existence. (Noah Isenberg)

020

FORTUNE Brainstorm Health 2022

Los Angeles, CA

Wednesday, May 11th, 2022

9:15 AM

EXISTENTIAL THREATS: PREPARING FOR THE NEXT GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS

In a hyperconnected world rife with virulent pathogens, preparedness is our best defense. After Ebola roared through West Africa and the novel coronavirus brought the world to its knees, the most pressing question for the safety of the global population is this: What have we learned—and how can we better prepare for the next hyper-contagious disease?

Dr. Sandro Galea, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health

Dr. Angela Rasmussen, Virologist, Department of Vaccine and Infectious Disease, University of Saskatchewan

Moderator: Clifton Leaf, Former FORTUNE Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Fortune Brainstorm Health

Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune

As Lily Tomlin said, "One can't be cynical enough."

" How am I not myself ? ! "

From the Centurions line by Kenner 1986.