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"Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
friedrichnietzsche.free.fr/17.php
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"I assure you I'm quite conscious of my position. Shall I tell you what it feels like?."
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy. He became the youngest ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. Nietzsche resigned in 1879 due to health problems that plagued him most of his life; he completed much of his core writing in the following decade. In 1889 at age 44, he suffered a collapse and afterward, a complete loss of his mental faculties. He lived his remaining years in the care of his mother until her death in 1897 and then with his sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche. Nietzsche died in 1900.
Nietzsche's body of work touched a wide range of topics, including art, philology, history, religion, tragedy, culture, and science. His writing spans philosophical polemics, poetry, cultural criticism and fiction while displaying a fondness for aphorism and irony. His early inspiration was drawn from figures such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Richard Wagner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Prominent elements of his philosophy include his radical critique of truth in favor of perspectivism; his genealogical critique of religion and Christian morality and his related theory of master–slave morality; his aesthetic affirmation of existence in response to the "death of God" and the profound crisis of nihilism; his notion of the Apollonian and Dionysian; and his characterization of the human subject as the expression of competing wills, collectively understood as the will to power. He also developed influential concepts such as the Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return. In his later work, he became increasingly preoccupied with the creative powers of the individual to overcome social, cultural and moral contexts in pursuit of new values and aesthetic health.
After his death, his sister Elisabeth became the curator and editor of Nietzsche's manuscripts, reworking his unpublished writings to fit her own German nationalist ideology while often contradicting or obfuscating Nietzsche's stated opinions, which were explicitly opposed to antisemitism and nationalism. Through her published editions, Nietzsche's work became associated with fascism and Nazism; 20th century scholars contested this interpretation of his work and corrected editions of his writings were soon made available. Nietzsche's thought enjoyed renewed popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th and early-21st century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, psychology, politics and popular culture.
Nietzsche grew up in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He was named after King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, who turned 49 on the day of Nietzsche's birth (Nietzsche later dropped his middle name Wilhelm). Nietzsche's parents, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche (1813–1849), a Lutheran pastor and former teacher; and Franziska Nietzsche [de] (née Oehler) (1826–1897), married in 1843, the year before their son's birth. They had two other children: a daughter, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, born in 1846; and a second son, Ludwig Joseph, born in 1848. Nietzsche's father died from a brain ailment in 1849; Ludwig Joseph died six months later at age two. The family then moved to Naumburg, where they lived with Nietzsche's maternal grandmother and his father's two unmarried sisters. After the death of Nietzsche's grandmother in 1856, the family moved into their own house, now Nietzsche-Haus, a museum and Nietzsche study centre.
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Lincoln is infested with right-wing bible-bashing cults.
This one has nothing better to do than stand outside Barclays Bank taking turns berating busy shoppers about their sinful worldly existence.
Metaphysical discourse of any kind should be welcome in this age of bland humanism.
But surely we deserve something a little more up to date than Jesus With A Pitchfork?
Here's a city where people suffering from alleged madness and genuine desperation coming in one direction routinely lurch into the welcoming arms of concerned happy-clappers from the other, usually via some fluoridated pharmaceutical intervention of an SSRI nature. That'll sort them out.
There is something of a problem locally with demonic possession, hearing voices, yes, gabbling unintelligbly, yes. Social Services is holding a corporate review of the situation with a view to establishing a Demon Monitoring Unit with responsibility to the Dept of Xenolalia and Glossolalia at the Peter (As Chairman of the Health Authority I Put Fluoride In Them) Hodgkinson Psychiatric Unit.
Column hectares of Lincoln newspaper letters pages are devoted to dire warnings, complete with biblical quotes, of the influence of Harry Potter on children's desire to get involved in witchcraft.
There's no such thing as a white witch, they opine, evidently hoping for a revivial of popular assent to the existence of a few black ones upon whom they can vent their sexual frustrations.
A good slogan might be: "Down with thongs, in with tongs, out with their tongues." Poor Miss Rowling.
In the midst of this primitive superstitious timewasting, perhaps a sermon on string theory from the local philosophy society would make a nice change from this fantastical question-begging over what God says about you not believing in God.
Unfortunately it meets at the Bishop's Palace, part of the cathedral, suggesting that even the non-shouty metaphysicians have not progressed very much further than their anti-telephone brethren depicted here.
I suspect they chose that venue because the more "normal" godbotherers want to keep a shifty eye on any rival isms that might be taking hold, such is the competition for fee-paying disciples.
Paranoid? But then what is God but a big conspiracy theory?
Worse even, the Bishop's Palace do is actually a philosophy COURSE, where after a brief loss leader event you go and pay quite a large sum to listen to someone else's rather eggy philosophy.
This illustrates the fascinating thing about philosophy - that going on courses about it or even spending years on it at university is acceptable, even admirable behaviour for a human being to indulge in.
But actually HAVING a philosophy, or discussing "reality" or "existence" outside these confines, is a risky, oddball (and in a thudheaded provincial nuthouse like Lincoln even dangerous) thing to do.
At least with these street philosophy vendors you get a free show, and you can take your own eggs if you desire.
Over twenty years this group has dwindled from a peak of about nine, to four.
Due, I suspect, to the group's lack of a proper business plan and a well-defined market niche, the sinful shoppers have failed to flock to this particular version of what Jesus said.
Right wing or wrong, in a battle between mindless consumerism and mindless deism these are the losers.
If only the public wanted a saviour, instead of a saver.
But a few theologico-financial schisms away the Plymouth Brethren are thriving, a sort of inbred, Amish-style, our-children-are-not-mixing-with-the-Devil-yes-that's-you group with their very own computerless, telephoneless, televisionless, outsiderless and doubtless clueless "school".
Where the fruits of their irrepressibly naughty loins are educated about how great it is not finding out about things or meeting other people, except God and his chosen representatives.
Better hide the razor blades on the top shelf, maw.
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"Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
friedrichnietzsche.free.fr/17.php
Secrets revealed of the Abode of Chaos (112 pages, adult only) >>>
"999" English version with English subtitles is available >>>
HD movie - scenario thierry Ehrmann - filmed by Etienne Perrone
----------
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999 : visite initiatique au coeur de la Demeure du Chaos insufflée par l'Esprit de la Salamandre
Film HD d'Etienne PERRONE selon un scénario original de thierry Ehrmann.
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
"The Luxembourg Palace (French: Palais du Luxembourg, pronounced [palɛ dy lyksɑ̃buʁ]) is at 15 Rue de Vaugirard in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was originally built (1615–1645) to the designs of the French architect Salomon de Brosse to be the royal residence of the regent Marie de' Medici, mother of King Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled (1835–1856) by Alphonse de Gisors. The palace has been the seat of the upper houses of the various French national legislatures (excepting only the unicameral National Assembly of the Second Republic) since the establishment of the Sénat conservateur during the Consulate; as such, it has been home to the Senate of the Fifth Republic since its establishment in 1958.
Immediately west of the palace on the Rue de Vaugirard is the Petit Luxembourg, now the residence of the Senate President; and slightly further west, the Musée du Luxembourg, in the former orangery. On the south side of the palace, the formal Luxembourg Garden presents a 25-hectare (62-acre) green parterre of gravel and lawn populated with statues and large basins of water where children sail model boats.
The 6th arrondissement of Paris (VIe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as le sixième.
The arrondissement, called Luxembourg in a reference to the seat of the Senate and its garden, is situated on the Rive Gauche of the River Seine. It includes educational institutions such as the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and the Institut de France, as well as Parisian monuments such as the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, the Pont des Arts, which links the 1st and 6th arrondissements over the Seine, Saint-Germain Abbey and Saint-Sulpice Church.
This central arrondissement, which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (surrounding the abbey founded in the 6th century) and Luxembourg (surrounding the Palace and its Gardens), has played a major role throughout Parisian history and is well known for its café culture and the revolutionary intellectualism (existentialism, authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) and literature (writers Paul Éluard, Boris Vian, Albert Camus and Françoise Sagan) it has hosted.
With its cityscape, intellectual tradition, history, architecture and central location, the arrondissement has long been home to French intelligentsia. It is a major locale for art galleries and fashion stores, as well as Paris's most expensive area. The arrondissement is one of France's richest districts in terms of average income; it is part of Paris Ouest alongside the 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, as well as the Neuilly-sur-Seine inner suburb. The 6th arrondissement is the smallest in Paris in terms of area covered.
Paris (French pronunciation: [paʁi]) is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,150,271 residents as of 2020, in an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, science and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated official 2020 population of 12,278,210, or about 18 percent of the population of France. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore, and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on a par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.
The city is a major railway, highway and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle (the second busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly. Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th busiest railway station in the world, but the first located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015 Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre was the most visited art museum in the world in 2019, with 9.6 million visitors. The Musée d'Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet, and Musée de l'Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art, the Pompidou Centre Musée National d'Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and the Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO Heritage Site, and popular landmarks in the city centre included the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, on the Île de la Cité, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur on the hill of Montmartre.
Paris received 38 million visitors in 2019, measured by hotel stays, with the largest numbers of foreign visitors coming from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China. It was ranked as the second most visited travel destination in the world in 2019, after Bangkok and just ahead of London. The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
"Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
friedrichnietzsche.free.fr/17.php
Secrets revealed of the Abode of Chaos (112 pages, adult only) >>>
"999" English version with English subtitles is available >>>
HD movie - scenario thierry Ehrmann - filmed by Etienne Perrone
----------
voir les secrets de la Demeure du Chaos avec 112 pages très étranges (adult only)
999 : visite initiatique au coeur de la Demeure du Chaos insufflée par l'Esprit de la Salamandre
Film HD d'Etienne PERRONE selon un scénario original de thierry Ehrmann.
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
It is one of my top 10. It made a big impression on me when I saw it at age 16.
"Of Kirk Douglas's seventy-five films, Lonely Are the Brave remains his favorite. It is not hard to see why. The hoary cowboy myth of the rugged individual versus straitjacket society calls forth one of Douglas's best performances as the irrepressible Jack Burns....Edward Abbey, the craggy Western novelist on whose book, The Brave Cowboy, the movie is based, conceded that Dalton Trumbo's screenplay improved his story, especially the dialogue. You can hear what Abbey was raving about when Douglas, stuck in jail, grouses: 'I'm so hungry, every time I take a deep breath my stomach squeaks like a wet balloon.' The film draws on solid performances from Gena Rowlands and from Walter Matthau as the lawman torn between respect for his adversary and duty to the law....As worked-over as this myth has gotten, Douglas still manages to make his boots-and-leather existentialism achingly poignant" (Ben Pappas, Forbes).
• Written by Dalton Trumbo, from the novel The Brave Cowboy by Edward Abbey. Photographed by Philip Lathrop. With Kirk Douglas, Walter Matthau, Carroll O'Connor, George Kennedy. (107 mins, B&W, 35mm, From Universal)
Kirk Douglas left us at age 103, February 5, 2020. RIP, Jack Burns
There's a point at which your body prepares for impact.
I had a close call driving home last night. A car changed his mind about a turn and cut me off just past the viaduct. It's all a blur. I don't know how we didn't actually collide in the end. I have to laugh a little that I'd just left a quiet back-patio talk about choices; who we love, who we leave, how we live, what we do. Sometimes the big decisions aren't ours to make.
"Even crustaceans face existential crises. However, if they don't retreat into "rock" or "seaweed" nature [being-in-itself], they'll come out of it OK. If they lapse into being-in-itself then they'll crash on the dam of bad faith."--from Paul Ewing's forthcoming book, "Existentialism for Invertebrates: How to Have Spine When You Don't Even Own One"
A light panel is a mystery...
- Is it Nouveau or Deco?
- Is it light or dark?
- Does its existence depend on the observer?
- Is it Quantum Physics or Solipsism?
- Is it Logical Empiricism or Existentialism?
- Is the observer a human or a honey bee?-
- Are these even the right questions?
To answer one question: This lamp and backdrop panel are likely Art Deco and not its precursor, Art Nouveau... Art Deco's bold, linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the soft pastels and flowing asymmetrical organic forms of its predecessor Art Nouveau.
What always interests me is the streamlining of cars and statues of tigers, leopards and jaguars... Streamline objects are considered Art Deco.
Un panneau léger est un mystère ...
- Est-il nouveau ou déco?
- Est-il clair ou foncé?
- Est-ce son existence dépend de l'observateur?
- Est-ce la physique quantique ou solipsisme?
- Est-ce l'empirisme logique ou l'existentialisme?
- Est-ce à l'observateur un homme ou une abeille? -
- S'agit-il de même les bonnes questions ?
Pour répondre à une question: Cette lampe et le panneau de toile de fond sont susceptibles d'art déco et non de son précurseur, l'Art Nouveau ... Art Deco gras, la symétrie linéaire était très différente de la pastels doux et fluide asymétrique des formes organiques de son prédécesseur, Art Nouveau.
Qu'est-ce toujours me confond est la rationalisation de voitures et de statues de tigres, de léopards et jaguars ... Rationaliser les objets sont considérés comme l'Art Déco.
פאנל האור היא בגדר תעלומה ...
- האם זה נובו או דקו?
- האם זה אור או חושך?
- האם קיומה תלוי המתבונן?
- האם זה פיזיקה קוונטית או סוליפסיזם?
- האם זה הגיוני או אמפיריציזם האקזיסטנציאליזם?
- האם הצופה אדם או דבורת הדבש? -
- האם אלה גם את השאלות הנכונות ?
כדי לענות על שאלה אחת: זה המנורה בלוח רקע צפויים דקו ולא מבשר שלה, ארט נובו ... , סימטריה ליניארי מודגש אמנות של דקו הייתה סטייה ברורה מן פסטלים רכים וזורמים צורות אורגניות סימטרית של קודמו ארט נובו שלה.
מה תמיד מבלבל אותי היא התייעלות של מכוניות פסלים של טיגריסים, נמרים יגוארים ... אובייקטים יעל נחשבים דקו. עם זאת, בשל שלהן מעוקלים, לא ישר, קווים אני מרגיש שהם יכלו בקלות להיות מסווגת כ ארט נובו ...
Un pannello luminoso è un mistero ...
- E 'in stile Liberty o Deco?
- È chiaro o scuro?
- La sua esistenza dipende l'osservatore?
- È Fisica Quantistica o solipsismo?
- E 'empirismo logico o di esistenzialismo?
- è l'osservatore un essere umano o un ape? -
- Sono questi, anche le domande giuste ?
Per rispondere a una domanda: Questa lampada e il pannello sullo sfondo sono probabilmente Art Deco e non il suo precursore, Art Nouveau ...
Ciò che sempre mi confonde è la razionalizzazione delle auto e statue di tigri, leopardi e giaguari ... Razionalizzare gli oggetti sono considerati Art Deco.
um painel de luz é um mistério ...
- É Nouveau ou Deco?
- É claro ou escuro?
- Será que a sua existência depende do observador?
- É a física quântica ou solipsismo?
- É empirismo lógico ou existencialismo?
- É o observador um ser humano ou uma abelha? -
- São mesmo as perguntas certas ?
Para responder a uma pergunta: Esta lâmpada e um painel de fundo é provável Art Deco e não o seu precursor, Art Nouveau ... Simetria Art Deco, negrito linear foi uma partida diferente da pastéis suaves e fluidos assimétricos formas orgânicas do seu antecessor Art Nouveau.
O que sempre me confunde é a racionalização dos carros e estátuas de tigres, leopardos e onças ... Dinamize objetos são considerados Art Deco.
света панель тайна ...
- Это модерн или Деку?
- Это светлый или темный?
- Есть ли его существование зависит от наблюдателя?
- Это Квантовая физика или Солипсизм?
- Это логического эмпиризма или экзистенциализм?
- Является ли наблюдателя человека или мед пчелы? -
- Являются ли эти даже правильные вопросы ?
Чтобы ответить на один вопрос: Эта лампа и фон панели, вероятно, ар-деко, а не его предшественник, модерн ... Жирный, ар-деко в линейных симметрии явный отход от мягкой пастели и течет асимметричные органические формы своего предшественника модерна.
Что всегда смущает меня является упорядочение автомобилей и статуи тигры, леопарды и ягуары ... Оптимизация объекты рассматриваются ар-деко. Однако, в связи с их изогнутыми, а не прямой, линии я чувствую они легко могут быть классифицированы как модерн ...
Un panel de luz es un misterio ...
- ¿Es Nouveau o Deco?
- ¿Es la luz o la oscuridad?
- ¿Su existencia depende del observador?
- ¿Es la física cuántica o solipsismo?
- ¿Es empirismo lógico o el existencialismo?
- ¿Es el observador un ser humano o una abeja? -
- ¿Pueden incluso las preguntas correctas ?
Para responder a una pregunta: Esta lámpara y el panel de telón de fondo es probable Art Deco y no su precursor, el Art Nouveau ... Negrita Art Deco, la simetría lineal era una salida distinta de los pasteles suaves y fluidas formas asimétricas orgánica de su predecesor, el Art Nouveau.
Lo que siempre me confunde es la simplificación de los coches y las estatuas de los tigres, leopardos y jaguares ... Racionalizar los objetos se consideran Art Deco. Sin embargo, debido a su curva, no recta, las líneas siento que fácilmente podría ser clasificado como de estilo Art Nouveau ...
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"Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra"
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
friedrichnietzsche.free.fr/17.php
Secrets revealed of the Abode of Chaos (112 pages, adult only) >>>
"999" English version with English subtitles is available >>>
HD movie - scenario thierry Ehrmann - filmed by Etienne Perrone
----------
voir les secrets de la Demeure du Chaos avec 112 pages très étranges (adult only)
999 : visite initiatique au coeur de la Demeure du Chaos insufflée par l'Esprit de la Salamandre
Film HD d'Etienne PERRONE selon un scénario original de thierry Ehrmann.
courtesy of Organ Museum
©2011 www.AbodeofChaos.org
Robert Indiana, an American Pop artist known for his "scuptural poems," is best known for his "LOVE" with a titled "O." This image, first created for a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964, was included on an 8 cent United States Postal Service postage stamp in 1973, the first of their regular series of "love stamps." This sculptural version outside 535 Madison Avenue is one of many. The others can be found along Sixth Avenue, on the Pratt Institute campus in Brooklyn, NY; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Scottsdale's Civic Center, in so called "LOVE Park" in Philadelphia, the New Orleans Museum of Art's sculpture garden, on the University of Pennsylvania campus, at the Museum of Modern Art at Brigham Young University, on the campus of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, outside the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan, at the Red Rock Resort Spa and Casino in Las Vegas, in Shinjuku Tokyo JAPAN, and on the world-famous Orchard Road, Singapore.
Infamously, Indiana failed to register a copyright for the work, and found it difficult to deter unauthorized commercial use. The image has been reproduced in countless times in varying forms, including sculptures, posters, and 3-D desk ornaments. It has been translated into Hebrew, Chinese, and Spanish. It strongly influenced the original cover of Love Story, the Erich Segal novel. It was parodied on the Rage Against the Machine album cover for Renegades, as well as the cover for Oasis' single Little by Little from the 2002 album Heathen Chemistry. Recently it has been parodied by London artist D*Face with his "HATE", the "A" tilted similarly. The LOVE emblem has been adopted by skateboarders, frequently used in skateboard magazines and videos. After skateboarding was banned in Philadelphia's LOVE Park, the emblem was used by organizations opposing the ban.[
Indiana moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism, that gradually moved toward what Indiana calls "sculptural poems". Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like "EAT", "HUG", and "LOVE". He is also known for painting the unique basketball court formerly used by the Milwaukee Bucks in that city's U.S. Cellular Arena, with a large M shape taking up each half of the court.
Indiana, born Robert Clark,moved to New York City in 1954 and joined the pop art movement, using distinctive imagery drawing on commercial art approaches blended with existentialism. Indiana's work often consists of bold, simple, iconic images, especially numbers and short words like "EAT", "HUG", and, of course, "LOVE". He is also known for painting the unique basketball court formerly used by the Milwaukee Bucks in that city's U.S. Cellular Arena, with a large M shape taking up each half of the court. Despite his early success at the center of the art world, Indiana retreated to rural obscurity in later life. Indiana has lived as a resident in the island town of Vinalhaven, Maine since 1978.
CRIME CONFUSION OVER SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR MP
Yes, this city centre sculpture in Lincoln, England, is called "Empowerment", which is something to do with listening to people.
Interestingly, if the people behind this erection had done anything of the sort, the item would not be there, as the rufty-tufty fluoridated folk of Lincoln have no time for namby pamby artworks, which is why in the event this semi-industrial style proved least offensive to the Powers That Be.
The Powers That Be chose from four possible sculptures, and according to a leading member of the committee, this was the least worst.
As to the subject of empowerment, well it was just the usual New Labour flim-flam. To the best of my knowledge "Empowerment", chosen for the plebs by their betters in the traditional Lincoln way, has never empowered anyone.
This composition is the exception, drawing attention as it does to the mysterious refusal of Lincoln MP Gillian Merron to eat one milligram of fluoride (in a tablet form) even though I told her to.
My face-to-face demand that she consume the same amount of fluoride which you would find in one litre of fluoridated water proved to be such a horrifying dose of reality for our girl in (unfluoridated) Westminster that I subsequently received a strange visit from a police inspector.
He received a quick education about how to separate uranium isotopes. Along with no reassurance whatsoever that I wouldn't try to correct the "fluoride deficiency" in our MP again.
Perhaps I might slip one in her champagne some time.
LEGAL NEWS: SAVINGS POSSIBLE ON CALABOOSE JUICE
Water authorities have always insisted on legal indemnity against claims for fluoride poisoning.
Following recent legislation they are additionally indemnified against non-payment by customers who feel the same way about fluoride as Gillian Merron MP.
So how has the situation changed for people like Gillian?
Before, water companies knew dumping fluoride in people was wrong, didn't care, blamed the health authority for requesting them to do it, and wanted you to pay them for doing it.
Now, water companies don't care if you don't pay either, because the health authority should pay any amount you deduct from your bill for bottled water, or distillation to remove the fertiliser factory waste disposal problem that the BBC always forget to mention in their insightful health documentaries.
Remember, we are all empowered by our democratic representation in Parliament.
By refusing to let me administer her the vital nutrient, Gillian found herself accidentally behaving like a real human being instead of a party robot.
In that brief existential moment, she came closer to representing her constituents than at any other time in her otherwise completely phoney career.
So if, for some peculiar reason, it is demanded of you to explain why you don't want to buy any fluoride, thanks to Empowerment you can just say "The same as Gillian Merron's reason." and leave it at that.
Now she is de-lected that position cannot change. I hope to check her successor as MP for Lincoln Karl McCartney shares her strong feelings about individual liberty.
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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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The Philospohy of the Absurd and Existentialism. What a magnificient book. “There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger
Adventure; 1. An exciting or very unusual experience; 3. A bold, usually risky undertaking; hazardous action of uncertain outcome.
We met each other when we were looking for adventure, in the middle of the month in which nothing use to happen. At some point of our lifes, the circumstances gave us the need of a turnaround. And so we did. Me, wounded, pursuing the solo activity as always. He, wounded too, hunting for fresh air. And there you had the two of us, melt in a kind symbiosis without any further or preconceived interest.
One of the most significant facts about our wonderful encounter it is how our first serious conversation was indeed about the moment in when we better found ourselves in the past, respectively. Irish grass and swedish pines came together creating a world full of pure essences, inspiring nature and a bit of nostalgia.
Since that very first day, the best impression I got from you was your extraordinary way of listening to my words, sometimes wise, sometimes young, but equally important for your breathtaking eyes. At the same time, you were talkative, even after you had said you were apparently not. I felt, and feel, lucky for being the one able to listen to your feelings and thoughts. And, of course, for the learning.
I remember how did you talk about the concept of Sharing. How did you felt like you had the necesity of giving, and you have been surprised about how good you feel when you are given too. Honestly, I haven’t been reflecting about it until you started, and it has take me some time until I have understood the full meaning of such a beautiful word. For me, it feels somehow as if a single person could duplicate itself in other to imbibe life in it maximum exponent for becoming one again at the end of the day.
Because being solitary does not mean to need, want or even like to live life alone. It is much more than that. It is the inteligent exercise of doing things separately in order to gain double experiences to enjoy together. Because the key is about the most sincere, generous and equitable way of sharing. Wolf, we are reinventing the concept of true Love in the century we are here to live, and I can not even put into words how fortunate and happy makes me the sensation of being in the best of the paths ever.
Listening to: Magic, Coldplay.
blind people often make very good music - they are able to concentrate much more... - remember: Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder and so on...
On a funny note, Shiina Ringo's single Tsumi to Batsu is 'Crime & Punishment' in Japanese... which probably explains all the Cyrillic in the single's promo.
2011年首獎 2011 First Prize
蔡昌吉 / 台中大安
拍攝動機：
當年過半百之後，人的身心靈總是處於衰退老化狀態。焦慮、不安、空虛、膽怯...隨著時間一一迎面而來，自2010年起興起了參加新光三越國際攝影大賽的念頭。目的：一來活化自我的身心靈，二來考驗攝影技能是否退化。從上網、填表、送件、等待、失落、驚喜...，過程中一切的酸、甜、苦、辣...點滴在心頭，相當慶幸這兩年來的收穫頗豐，讓自己有了「老而不休」的真實體現。
攝影心得：
存在哲學指出“生命是一種不斷被拋入某種現實情境的歷程，而生命一開始即為面向死亡的存在”。因此，海德格爾指出，人必須正視死亡，從恐懼中明白自己活著的重要性。
我以“貼近土地，面對死亡，體現存在”作為攝影表現中影像的核心，藉由影像展現對死亡與生命存在意義的描述。並以時間化為「此在之存有」的寓圖，讓生命中憂心、虛浮、陷落與醒覺...在自我中開顯「存在」的真實。
Tsai Chang-chi / Ta’an Township, Taichung
Why I Took These Pictures :
Once you’ve passed the half-century mark, you tend to go downhill, both physically and mentally. Slowly, feelings of anxiety, restlessness, emptiness or timidity start cropping up. So when in 2010 I heard about the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi International Photo-Taking Contest, the idea of participating soon took hold of my mind. I saw it as a way of revitalizing my body and mind, and also a chance to find out how rusty my photographing skills had become. I downloaded the form online, filled it out and sent it in. The period of waiting and uncertainty was followed by a very pleasant surprise—basically the whole process was an emotional roller coaster for me, but I’m glad I went ahead with it, because the last two years were filled with interesting experiences and have made me realize that in spite of my age, I’m still capable of doing something positive and meaningful.
What I Learned :
Existentialism tells us that to live is to be thrown into the world, and having to deal with reality. From its very beginning, all existence must face its own death. Or, as Heidegger puts it, we all need to look death in the eye, because confronting our worst fears helps us to realize the importance and value of being alive.
At the heart of all my photographs, then, lies the basic principle of staying rooted in my native soil while maintaining a constant awareness of my own mortality. In this way, I can achieve a truthful expression of my own existence, and, through my motifs, offer a personal account of life and death and what they mean to me. Time is distilled into the present moment. The photograph serves as an allegory for all the doubts and uncertainties, the vanity and insubstantiality, the dissipation but also the awakening, the process of becoming aware: I become the medium through which reality manifests itself.
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Radical Transcendence *
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... Looking into the mirror - Seeing my face in it - And the words and signs on the mirror glass - Looking deep - Long and deep - And ever deeper - Deeper - So deep until I look through my face - Looking into me - Until the thoughts dissolve - Until the face dissolves in its familiar forms - Until the words and signs dissolve - Until I dissolve - And come to me at the same time ... *
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... In den Spiegel blicken - Darin mein Gesicht sehen - Und die Worte und Zeichen auf dem Spiegelglas - Tief hineinblicken - Lang und tief - Und immer tiefer - Tiefer - So tief bis ich durch das Gesicht blicke - In mich hineinblicke - Bis sich die Gedanken auflösen - Das Gesicht in seinen bekannten Formen auflöst - Die Worte und Zeichen sich auflösen - Bis ich mich auflöse - Und gleichzeitig zu mir gelange ... *
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Photo: Patricia Adler
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Wolfgang Sterneck:
In the Cracks of the World *
Photo-Reports: www.flickr.com/sterneck/sets
Articles and Visions: www.sterneck.net
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2011年首獎 2011 First Prize
蔡昌吉 / 台中大安
拍攝動機：
當年過半百之後，人的身心靈總是處於衰退老化狀態。焦慮、不安、空虛、膽怯...隨著時間一一迎面而來，自2010年起興起了參加新光三越國際攝影大賽的念頭。目的：一來活化自我的身心靈，二來考驗攝影技能是否退化。從上網、填表、送件、等待、失落、驚喜...，過程中一切的酸、甜、苦、辣...點滴在心頭，相當慶幸這兩年來的收穫頗豐，讓自己有了「老而不休」的真實體現。
攝影心得：
存在哲學指出“生命是一種不斷被拋入某種現實情境的歷程，而生命一開始即為面向死亡的存在”。因此，海德格爾指出，人必須正視死亡，從恐懼中明白自己活著的重要性。
我以“貼近土地，面對死亡，體現存在”作為攝影表現中影像的核心，藉由影像展現對死亡與生命存在意義的描述。並以時間化為「此在之存有」的寓圖，讓生命中憂心、虛浮、陷落與醒覺...在自我中開顯「存在」的真實。
Tsai Chang-chi / Ta’an Township, Taichung
Why I Took These Pictures :
Once you’ve passed the half-century mark, you tend to go downhill, both physically and mentally. Slowly, feelings of anxiety, restlessness, emptiness or timidity start cropping up. So when in 2010 I heard about the Shin Kong Mitsukoshi International Photo-Taking Contest, the idea of participating soon took hold of my mind. I saw it as a way of revitalizing my body and mind, and also a chance to find out how rusty my photographing skills had become. I downloaded the form online, filled it out and sent it in. The period of waiting and uncertainty was followed by a very pleasant surprise—basically the whole process was an emotional roller coaster for me, but I’m glad I went ahead with it, because the last two years were filled with interesting experiences and have made me realize that in spite of my age, I’m still capable of doing something positive and meaningful.
What I Learned :
Existentialism tells us that to live is to be thrown into the world, and having to deal with reality. From its very beginning, all existence must face its own death. Or, as Heidegger puts it, we all need to look death in the eye, because confronting our worst fears helps us to realize the importance and value of being alive.
At the heart of all my photographs, then, lies the basic principle of staying rooted in my native soil while maintaining a constant awareness of my own mortality. In this way, I can achieve a truthful expression of my own existence, and, through my motifs, offer a personal account of life and death and what they mean to me. Time is distilled into the present moment. The photograph serves as an allegory for all the doubts and uncertainties, the vanity and insubstantiality, the dissipation but also the awakening, the process of becoming aware: I become the medium through which reality manifests itself.
Dutch postcard, no. 662.
French actress and chanson singer Juliette Gréco (1927) was the muse of the existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. Later she became the protégée of film mogul Darryl F. Zanuck, who cast her in his films.
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Got to work with my cousin again today; I love taking pictures of her because she is more intelligent than anyone this beautiful has a right to be. As I took this picture, we talked about French philosophy and existentialism - she's just too good to be true, isn't she?
This wasn't exactly what I set out to create, and I have others in the set which are far closer to the image I had in my head, but I chose this because I prefer the composition and then I took the processing in a slightly different direction.
Strobist:
Just one SB600 fired as a rim light on 1/2 power to the camera's right, bare. Triggered with Pocket Wizard Plus IIs.
Silver reflector on the ground.
...But mostly - this is all natural sun!
Le Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France
I headed south to le Cimetière Montparnasse. After the Paris churchyards closed in the 18th century, a full three quarters of a century before the English closed their urban churchyards, four great cemeteries were laid out to the north, east, south and west of the city. Pere Lachaise is the most famous, Montmartre the most aesthetically pleasing, but Montparnasse probably the most interesting. I spent about three hours and three hundred photographs pottering about. Some of the famous graves are easy to find because they are well documented, and visitors have placed tributes on them. For example, the first grave I went in search of, Samuel Beckett's, has metro tickets placed on it by visitors as a mark of having waited for something.
I already knew where Beckett's grave was, but two others in the same section were more difficult, as I did not have exact locations. I eventually found the grave of Phillipe Noiret, an actor I very much admired particularly for his role in my favourite film, Cinema Paradiso, but also for his role in Le Cop, which has criminally never had a DVD release with English subtitles. There were no public tributes on it, merely a plaque from his wife saying 'pour mon Cher Philippe' and a picture of a horse. While I was photographing it, four gendarmes, two men and two women, passed behind me and came across to see why I was photographing it. "Noiret!" exclaimed one of the men, and then "mais pourquoi le cheval?" wondered one of the women. But they didn't stop for me to explain, for I had read an article about Noiret about fifteen years previously in a copy of La Nouvelle Observateur while staying in a hotel in Boulogne, and I knew that he had bred horses in his spare time.
The other grave I had hoped to find in this section was that of Susan Sontag, but I couldn't track it down.
The joint headstone of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir is easily found by the main entrance, and I thought it rather sweet that they were remembered together. Despite all their efforts for existentialism and feminism, it was like a headstone in a quiet English churchyard which might have 'reunited' or 'together in eternity' inscribed on it. I think he wasn't pleasant company, and while she was certainly more intelligent than he was she made intellectual arrogance respectable. I photographed their headstone more out of interest than admiration.
Admiration was at the heart of my search for a gravestone lost in sections 6 and 7 which I think is not found often. It is for the surrealist photographer Man Ray. I was delighted to find it after barely 20 minutes searching. He designed it himself, and in his own handwriting into the cement it says 'unconcerned, but not indifferent', which could be taken as rebuff to Satre and his circle I suppose. Charmingly, beside it like the other half of a book is a photograph of him with his wife and the inscription 'Juliet Man Ray 1911-1991, together again'. Enough to leave De Beauvoir spluttering into her Pernod.
You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.