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"The Famous Existential Crawdad Surfer of Yavapai County" Once this Crawdad commits to the big wave (the spillway at the dam at Mountain View Park in Prescott Valley, Arizona), he has become an existential hero. His choice means death. He will either be killed for some kid's dinner, picked up and eaten by a raven, or die a slow death when the wash dries out and the sun slowly cooks him. Whatever happens, he will choose to struggle and therein lies the heroic nature of any creature. To struggle, to fight to survive--this is the noblest any of us can do. Jean-Paul Sartre be with you, Existential Crawdad Surfer of Yavapai County.
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
1/1600 sec. at f/1.7, ISO 100
April 2011
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
Again, just look at that face. Georgie's slightly different to a lot of the other girls, because you can really see the existential anguish in her face.
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
Shot with "on screeen" solarization- not photoshoped.
I was walking on the Santa Monica pier, the bubble machine was there, then the woman with the hat the kid & stroller, this is one of my favorite shots....the great thing is I did'nt do anything it was just there in my viewfinder
An encounter with my ailing ex this summer sucked me into an event horizon of existential angst (eggs-istential angst?), a mid-life crisis I'd dodged up til now. There is not enough therapy in the multiverse to fully process all the heartbreak you get to experience... if you live long (& arguably well) enough. Roz Chast or the like had a cartoon called "Museum of Ex-Boyfriends" that I cannot find. Maybe the Mandela effect? I mentioned my idea to a friend at Sign of the Dove, who suggested "Eggs Boyfriends, amirite?" So it had to happen. Technically, some were boyfriends only in name, or only in other ways, but, whatever.
Heat Rock
To paraphrase:
“If you’re gonna be stupid, why not be stupid with someone who already loves you as a friend?”
We were FWB, maybe still are, but decades might pass before we pick it up again.
This egg didn't take color well. A later attempt looks much better.
Manderly
That's supposed to be a Sleep No More mask.
Jotto
He (presumably) also plays wordle now.
Playa Bats
My first burner...
Yeah...
Coffeecat
Coffee, cats, cogs, and the Core. I have already thought of other symbolism, so there'll be a second egg. Not sure how to draw “What? professors don’t motorboat!” Although that happened decades after we dated, just good friends trying to get the other to snort their coffee during a shared bus commute.
Carmen Medusa
In college, some combination of women's studies & art history made me muse about melting plastic bananas to make a post-modern Gorgon headdress. Reflecting upon it now, there is a non-trivial chance it was also inspired by the heraldry of a pretty boy I photographed walking off the Pennsic battlefield, back when I was still an undergrad. Nearly a decade later, he pretty much threw himself at me at Arisia. Still cute, but unrecognizable. “Wait, you're who?” It was a big ego boost to discover I wasn't out of his league.
Spoiler: No one is ever truly out of your league. To paraphrase a recent conversation, when you arrive in hell, you first get a list of all the people who would've been yours if you'd merely asked.
Balloon Snake
A moment with a fellow "ninnie". Still a friend.
Inspired
The Ailing Ex, about which there is so much to say...
Hopefully that Red Crescent will deter folks who might misappropriate Icelandic sigils. The semaphore references The Cure song that still reminds me of our moody matchup.
The greenish shell luckily etched beautifully to look like antiqued gold on white. The heraldic colors look stunning. More eggs in progress to try for that effect again, but eggshells are moodier than we were.
Black Lotus
The first person whose intense first impression I immediately read as "Love at first sight" or, as I now know, "stupidly obsessed against all reason". The griffins are pretty cool, but I possibly over-etched the shell in my effort to get the egg to take color better. A later egg came out much better.
The Fourth Tower
He introduced me to ZBS. "Life’s like that," says the Moon, picking its teeth with a twig."
The egg did not take color as darkly as it looks in the photo. I like the design tho, so may redo it.
Frosted Flakes
He introduced me to the SCA. He was visually intense, sharply angular. He looked like he stepped out of the marginalia of medieval scrollwork.
Cloud Report
The only 2 kids of the oldest day camp group who weren't paired off, folks naturally assigned us together. During a rainy overnight we all ended up in the YMCA gym rather than at camp. He took me to the highest point in the building we could get to, not to make out, which disappointed my tween expectations, but just to enjoy the sky.
Now his "cloud report" posts on social media are a treat.
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
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
this colour of christmas light makes my eyes blur in specific fashion-- everything else stays in focus, while tiny holes of confusion are created. is it related to colourblindness ? is this faulty wiring inside me ? no, the fact of the matter is it's the colour of infinity and my brain can simply not allow itself to comprehend the awestriking beauty directly. thanks be to the small mercies. i dreamed once that i was dying under a tree with a number of these lights hanging from it while the music on my headphones started to wind down like when your batteries start running out in your walkman... you kids probably don't even know what a walkman is though. i wrote this when i woke up
The world spun with the force of the blow
And my retinal memory contained only
Blue Christmas lights on a thick wire
hanging lazy and low like a pig over a fire
My mind grants one final betrayal
With a thick slur of dying:
A smeared memory of beauty
Lit by Christmas lights hanging like leaves in July
I will spend forever dwelling in history
As life and death blur by.
The Summer 2014 issue of California strove to balance genuine existential threats against other, more far-fetched fears. The giant squid was a shoe-in to represent our less-deserving worries, and having it attack the iconic campus bell tower was perfect for the University of California, Berkeley alumni magazine. To capture the squid, Design Director Michiko Toki wanted an epic style—like a disaster movie, but still beautiful—with a hint of ukiyo-e paintings, and a style contemporary, if not downright futuristic. New Zealand-born illustrator Andrew Archer, who lives in Australia, had exactly the style she was looking for.
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
Two of my favorite Flickr groups are "Stick Figures in Peril" and "Stick Figures Who Have the Situation Under Control." As the group moderator of "Stick Figures in Peril" is a stickler for signs of clear and present danger, I must stress the clear evidence that this stick person has been repeatedly run over, in addition to its general sense of postmodern identity fragmentation.
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
2012 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Irresitible attraction between Mr. and Mrs. Dinaz! (Sorry, inside joke with Mr. Mole. See the dancing skeletons.)
Neal Kharawala
Finally, it’s October! My favorite month for busting out some thick turtlenecks, wool socks, scary movies!!, and for having epic existential meltdowns over almost everything.
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