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The images are based on Danny Castillones Sillada's live art performance at Cesare A.X. Syjuco art exhibit "The Ancestry of Stone", July 24, 2010, Galleria Duemila, Pasay City, Philippines.
Ya know how when you look at a wonderful photograph on flickr, and your heart composes poetry, or sings a song, or ponders existential conundrums? Isn’t it fascinating when more than your eyes are touched by a photograph?
That’s how Spring is for me.
Ya know how when you take a familiar lengthy trip and measure distance traveled and distance to go by familiar landmarks along the way? It may be towns, silos, potty breaks, but we tend measure our journey by pre-arrivals rather than time or distance. That’s how spring is for me.
One travels through February dreading the last few cold nights. Along the side of the road a robin is spotted. - the first landmark. A bit further, a daffodil, then the Bradford Pears, the azaleas, the dogwoods, until eventually, the greatest moment of all – Wisteria’s dripping purple tears.
The paradox of spring centers on new birth and blossoming life. But no birth comes without pain, not even a re-birth, perhaps especially not a re-birth. Great pangs are endured before the dormancy of winter is overcome and the first buds are put forth. Death has been endured, and being reborn requires great fortitude and pain.
Wisteria paints this picture for me, and on the day that I spot the first purple tear, I inevitably shed a tear myself. It is so much more than beautiful. I could never presume that my blessings were without cost.
Purple blessings in falling tears.
Read some backstory?
He has resting existential crisis face.
I got too busy being held down by cats today for me to try the theme in We're Here!, so here's today's 365.
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
Minolta Dynax 800si
Minolta AF 50mm f2.8 Macro
Minolta 5200i Flash (Manual exposure, off camera and bounced of ceiling).
Ilford HP5+ developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 11 minutes at 20C. Chosen to maximise the appearance of grain.
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
Minerva Stage is proud to present Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 20th Century masterpiece about the desolation of humanity and the existential hope that drives life forward. Directed by Berkshire-based Edward Cating, this production features local actors Eric K. Auld, Ed Drummond, Bruce T. MacDonald, Edward Cating, Keith Weil, and Sam Cabot. Performances are Thursdays, December 2nd and 9th at 7PM, Fridays and Saturdays, December 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th at 8PM, and Sunday, December 12th at 3PM. All performances will be held at the Minerva Arts Center, located on 1288 Massachusetts Avenue in North Adams, MA. General admission is $15, students and seniors are $10, and children 12 and under are free. To reserve tickets, visit www.MinervaArtsCenter.org or call the Minerva Arts Center at (413) 346-4502. For any questions or concerns, please e-mail MinervaArtsCenter@gmail.com.Minerva Stage is proud to present Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett’s 20th Century masterpiece about the desolation of humanity and the existential hope that drives life forward. Directed by Berkshire-based Edward Cating, this production features local actors Eric K. Auld, Ed Drummond, Bruce T. MacDonald, Edward Cating, Keith Weil, and Sam Cabot. Performances are Thursdays, December 2nd and 9th at 7PM, Fridays and Saturdays, December 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th at 8PM, and Sunday, December 12th at 3PM. All performances will be held at the Minerva Arts Center, located on 1288 Massachusetts Avenue in North Adams, MA. General admission is $15, students and seniors are $10, and children 12 and under are free. To reserve tickets, visit www.MinervaArtsCenter.org or call the Minerva Arts Center at (413) 346-4502. For any questions or concerns, please e-mail MinervaArtsCenter@gmail.com.
Ya know how when you look at a wonderful photograph on flickr, and your heart composes poetry, or sings a song, or ponders existential conundrums? Isn’t it fascinating when more than your eyes are touched by a photograph?
That’s how Spring is for me.
Ya know how when you take a familiar lengthy trip and measure distance traveled and distance to go by familiar landmarks along the way? It may be towns, silos, potty breaks, but we tend measure our journey by pre-arrivals rather than time or distance. That’s how spring is for me.
One travels through February dreading the last few cold nights. Along the side of the road a robin is spotted. - the first landmark. A bit further, a daffodil, then the Bradford Pears, the azaleas, the dogwoods, until eventually, the greatest moment of all – Wisteria’s dripping purple tears.
The paradox of spring centers on new birth and blossoming life. But no birth comes without pain, not even a re-birth, perhaps especially not a re-birth. Great pangs are endured before the dormancy of winter is overcome and the first buds are put forth. Death has been endured, and being reborn requires great fortitude and pain.
Wisteria paints this picture for me, and on the day that I spot the first purple tear, I inevitably shed a tear myself. It is so much more than beautiful. I could never presume that my blessings were without cost.
Purple blessings in falling tears.
Read some backstory?
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
A set inspired by Sartre's existential conclusion that the consequence of God's nonexistence leads to an ongoing experience of anguish, forlornness, and despair.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF1
Panasonic Lumix G Vario 20mm/1.7
1/80 sec. at f/16, ISO 100
April 2011
Secretary Antony J. Blinken participates in a high-level meeting on Addressing the Existential Threats Posed by Sea-Level Rise in New York City, New York, September 25, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
Arrêt brief à Cambria pour un cappuccino. En flash-back, nous venons de visiter le Hearst Castle et nous allons maintenant à Solvang, puis à Santa Barbara.
Brief stop in Cambria for a cappuccino. For a recap, we just visited the Hearst Castle and we're now going to Solvang and then to Santa Barbara.
an Existential balance sculpture according to what I read by Vietnamese master artist Taun. Night image at the Monarch gallery in La Jolla. In my opinion a powerful work.
C/O Berlin is opening SHOOT! . Existential Photography tonight at 7 p.m. at the Postfuhramt, Oranienburgerstrasse 35/36.
You are all cordially invited to join us and find out about the peculiar fascination of fairground shooting galleries: making a target of one’s own ego, or—for the price of a picture—succumbing to the temptation of staging a duel with yourself as the opponent.
C/O Berlin, 4.Februar 2011
Ausstellung
SHOOT! . Fotografie existentiell
5. Februar bis 27. März 2011
Eröffnung Freitag, 4. Februar 2011, 19 Uhr
"Wie die Kamera eine Sublimierung des Gewehrs ist, so ist das Abfotografieren eines anderen ein sublimierter Mord – ein sanfter, einem traurigen und verängstigten Zeitalter angemessen." Susan Sontag
Anlegen, zielen, abdrücken, schießen, nachladen – wer ins Schwarze trifft, begeht fotografischen Suizid oder visuelles Harakiri. In den Jahren nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg tauchte der sogenannte Fotoschuss als kuriose Attraktion auf Jahrmärkten auf. Die spielerische Herausforderung beinhaltet die verstörende Geste, angesichts der fotografischen Trophäe auf sich selbst angelegt zu haben. Welch‘ seltsame Faszination, sein eigenes Ego in eine Zielscheibe zu verwandeln, oder – um den Preis eines Bildes – der Versuchung zu erliegen, ein Duell mit sich selbst als Gegner auszutragen.
Zum Selbstporträt mit Waffe wurden unzählige Schützen verführt, berühmte Künstler und Intellektuelle kosteten den Taumel der fotografischen Selbstzerstörung aus. Die Ausstellung beleuchtet diese fast vergessene Bildform und spürt dem Motiv, bei dem der Betrachter zur Zielscheibe wird, in zeitgenössischen Arbeiten nach.
Legen Sie selbst an! Im Zentrum der Ausstellung steht die Rekonstruktion eines echten Foto-Schießstandes. Hier kann der Besucher die Erfahrung machen, welche Lust es bereitet, von sich ein Porträt zu erzielen.
The deepest, most fundamental question, positioned at the foundation of everything we do, think and desire in our lives is: "What is the meaning of life?" Most people bury this question under a lifelong search for pleasures and comforts through food, sex, family, money, honor, control and knowledge. However, the question about the meaning and point in life always awaits us. It usually reels its face in life's most desperate moments. The fact that online searches increased for "what is the meaning of life" during the times of the 2008 financial crash, and the 2011 Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street protests shows how when crisis strikes, when the status quo is breached with disorder and imbalance, then more people find themselves opening up to answers to this most existential, foundational question to our very being. The wisdom of Kabbalah was made for answering the question about the meaning of life. Using its methodology, we can discover the eternal world where we sense harmony, tranquility and perfection, a world hidden from our five inborn senses that holds the answer to the age-old question about the meaning of life.
The baby turtle stuck his head up high and looked at the bee. Then soon after he crawled under the lily to his right. Bee 1. Turtle 0.
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
The more I learn about myself, the more I fear myself. I’m told I should remain neutral. A Switzerland of the mind.
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
Photography by Shay Rowan at the first performance.
Come for the music, stay for the existential crisis.
"As irreverent as it is poignant" (Australian Arts Review), this classical cello recital plays out like a piece of performance art run by a masterly jester blurring artistry, humanity, and insanity. Featuring Suite Number One in G Major by JS Bach and personal comedic pieces crafted in Idiot classes, Karen fuses in a healthy dose of pathos tackling identity, expectations, and success through the eyes of a fool.
Winner - Tour Ready Award San Diego Fringe
Winner - Best of the Broadwater encore at Hollywood Fringe
Winner - Weekly Judges Pick in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Nominee - Best Overall in Spoken Word and Storytelling at Sydney Fringe
Top Ten Theatre pick by Stage Raw Los Angeles
★★★★ - Sydney Arts Guide
★★★★ "comic timing as impeccable as her playing" Everything Theatre UK, London
★★★★ - The Alternative Gig Guide, Melbourne
SOLD OUT Run at Vancouver Fringe
Tickets greatermanchesterfringe.co.uk/events/delusions-and-grandeur/
June 29, 2017 - Aspen, Colorado, USA: Aspen Institute Ideas Festival:
438 - Pandemics and the Existential Threat to Global Security (Priority)
Ron Klain, Lisa Monaco, Nancy Sullivan
Moderator: Tommy Vietor
St. Regis Hotel Ballroom
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Photo by Ian Wagreich
Scot Summer Season 2009
Toga Director's Contest
[Zo The Elephant]
base on Minoru Betsuyaku
Directed by ISHII KOICHI
Zo (The Elephant)
Premiere: 1962
This is the story of a patient who is a victim of the atomic bombing and has a strange desire to show people on the street the keloid scar on his back and use it as a way to win sympathy and applause. His nephew tries to stop him from such actions and convince him that people neither love nor hate or are repulsed by the atomic bombing victims. People are just unquestioningly kind and understanding, so we victims of the atomic bomb should be strong and suffer our pain in silence, he tells his uncle. From the contrasting feelings of these two characters we sense the estranged world these victims have fallen into and, by extension the existential anxiety that the entire world must bear. It is a work that deals with these questions in style strung taught with silence.