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Juzno: A penny for your thought.
Old Mather: How do I know that I'm going forward if I don't know which way I'm going? How do I know that I can examine the facts without prejudice? How can I know that there is truly an objective reality independent of my subjective proclivities? How can I trust that the bondage of the past provides direction to the future? How can I know that you are really here with me?
Juzno: Uhmm ... are you going to answer all that?
Old Mather: That will be a penny.
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with streams of notions, and a bucket full of regret.
I am happy with this
Life is full of pang, and stress. I feel separated from everyone lately.
Thoughts go on my Tumblr
I got tagged for that "10 things" Like a gillion times so here goes.
1.My mum married for the second time this january. I have a stepdad, his name is Blair.
2. I currently have a sunburn only on my knees
3. I like existentialism, I don't like how it's become some hipster way of life though.
4. I only have two pairs of pants that fit me.
5. I want to do something in fashion, If not photography; perhaps fashion production.
6. Cellar-door is my favourite word, fetus is my least favourite.
7. My room currently consists of a bed, shelf, and closet. Bare walls equals a good life.
8. I have a deviated septum
9. I have a mild obsession with palindromes.
10. I hate the concept of getting old, not like dying. but the concept of not being able to button a button, or walk up chairs.
This epic science fiction film, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of an alien monolith affecting human evolution. The film deals with themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke’s 1951 short story “The Sentinel” and other short stories by Clarke.
The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. Kubrick avoided conventional cinematic and narrative techniques, dialogue is used sparingly, and there are long sequences accompanied only by music. The soundtrack incorporates numerous works of classical music, among them “Also sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss, “The Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II, and works by Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, with Kubrick winning for his direction of the visual effects. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1991, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. [Source: Wikipedia]
Movie Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0
Taking and editing this image reminded me of a philosophical musing that first came to me some years ago. I often think life is shaped like a tree.
It starts out as a seed in mother earth, and reaches up into the light. Our journey begins as a shoot, then grows into a trunk. Then the branches begin to grow out from the trunk. These are the first choices we make on the path of our destiny. As more choices come to us, so more branches grow – each one is a path. When we reach the end of our lives, the many different paths – the ones we did and did not take – would look like the shape of a tree. Then we become the seed, drop to the ground – and perhaps we grow again someday.
I guess no-one really knows, but it seems like a pleasant thought. Maybe there is some truth in it. I hope to pick the sequence of branches that gets to the seed with the best view. When the time comes, which branch will you pick?
Join me on:
Chairil Anwar (26 July 1922 – 28 April 1949) was an Indonesian poet and member of the "1945 Generation" of writers. He is estimated to have written 96 works, including 70 individual poems. Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra, before moving to Batavia with his mother in 1940, where he began to enter the local literary circles. After publishing his first poem in 1942, Anwar continued to write. However, his poems were at times censored by the Japanese, then occupying Indonesia. Living rebelliously, Anwar wrote extensively, often about death. He died in Jakarta of an unknown illness. His work dealt with various themes, including death, individualism, and existentialism, and were often multi-interpretable. Drawing influence from foreign poets, Anwar used everyday language and new syntax to write his poetry, which has been noted as aiding the development of the Indonesian language. His poems were often constructed irregularly, but with individual patterns.
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AI creation on Nightcafe with Dreamshaper XL Lightning
I was using two different prompts, with the higher prompt weight on the tardigrade.
PROMPT 1:
tardigrade (water bear or moss piglet) extreme environment, 16k resolution scanning electron microscopy tardigrade research tardigrade anatomy. tubelike mouth, barrel-shaped body four pairs of legs ending in claws. range in size from 0.1 to 1.5 mm, tough chitinous exoskeleton, simple digestive system, brain and several ganglia. Cryptobiosis, cryptid taxidermy in Bogomil's Universe, Surrealism. A colossal tardigrade adrift in a void, its microscopic form rendered monumental and distorted. Spectral figures writhe and grasp at its shell, embodying the concept of fate. Neo-expressionist brushstrokes convey a sense of existential dread. A single, harsh spotlight illuminates the scene from above. Digital painting, unsettling, cosmic horror, existentialism, body horror, grotesque, high detail, dramatic lighting, 8k.
PROMPT 2:
The surrealistic monster landscape of H.R. Giger - assisted by Arcimboldo and Bosch, highly detailed extremely detailed fantasy oil on canvas imperial colors fantastic view hyperrealistic cinematic postprocessing Hieronymus Bosch Giuseppe Arcimboldo H.R. Giger Surrealism Giger Alien, fantasy illustration, detailed painting, deep color
posing for a book, a lyrical love story, featuring two tango dancers and their passion - compare the slide show with 18 pics and background music (me on guitar): THE DANCE
In Invisible Art Sartre can’t define the language and what symbols are used to substitute things.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre Existentialism
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism
Facticity is a concept defined by Sartre in Being and Nothingness as the “in-itself”, of which humans are in the mode of not being.
(Sartre maintained that the concepts of authenticity and individuality have to be earned but not learned.)
Sartre analyzed the problem of language in correlation of symbolism to expression. In language we don’t operate with things. When we speak about a thing we don’t use the thing but substitute it with the word. Same happens in science, art and so on where language uses symbols or substitutes to convey an idea.
Sartre can’t define the language of invisible painting, therefore there’s no symbols that substitute things in the language of the invisible painting. All creativity and science known to this day uses its own language.
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O céu, essa imensa tela azul, que foi cúpula de um berço, o da luz, e será mais tarde véu de um leito, o da vida; a alma só o procura, só o contempla, quando a dor prostra. -José de Alencar
São Paulo, Brasil
read the article in my daily blog: flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/weekly-photo-chal...
the name of this cat perhaps is ...Robespierre?? [comment by fratella]
frizz: or Barack Obama, Wilhelm Tell, Garibaldi, Genghis Khan?
I propose we ask my daughter Pia, her husband has done the shot in Bavaria...
comment by marineavoile: Always this need to be where the action is. In the city, it is on our papers in front of our computer screen, in the country, I guess it is on the chopping block. He did tuck his tail away neatly, though, he is no fool!
comment by El Paso Joe: Well, it's a good thing we don't eat cats for Thanksgiving.
Through art we can know another's view of the universe. - Marcel Proust, Maxims
People enjoying the Lanzada Beach, Pontevedra, Spain.
This doesn't really have a witty story behind it. But I like the picture. It kind of reminds me of Martin Parr's style - satirically journalistic anthropologistic images of aspects of everyday ordinary life of retrospective social England. Except this was shot at Lanzada Beach, a tourist site in Galicia off a few miles away from Santiago de Compostela. Quite frankly, I find Parr's images quite boring. Does it mean that I find my image equally boring? At this point, I don't really have much of an opinion. Maybe deep inside I think it is because I have procrastinated sharing it. I see the fat lady with too much sunscreen cream on her back, the hot chick beside her - applying some faux cream on her arms, the lazy people in the background - they look like miniature toys. The whole thing looks surreal. That's because I really want it to. What else can it be? Unexceptional for sure. Ordinary. Maybe if I included the topless woman sitting next to a man at the lower left hand corner of the photo. Oh but I have to blur out the topless lady because my art is rated PG. She is there though - I can assure you. In fact, there were some more topless women at the beach so it was a challenge not to include them in my frame.
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its gonna take a lotta love to change the way things are
its gonna take a lotta love or we wont get too far
so if you look in my direction
and we don't see eye to eye,
my heart needs protection and so do I
(Neil Young)
Yea, I know the song has nothing to do with the image but I hear the music in my head whenever I think about it. Maybe it was playing somewhere when I was there. All I remember was getting excited chasing this shoot. So excited that my hands shook as I pressed the shutter release. Damn that long black I just had. With all the jagged light and blurs, I think I just created art.
Captured with the old reliable 18-55mm crappy kit lens mounted on my battle worn Canon Rebel XT (350d)
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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
“Marxism remains the philosophy of our times because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which created it.”
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905 - 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism.
As an anti-colonialist, Sartre took a prominent role in the struggle against French rule in Algeria, and the use of torture and concentration camps by the French in Algeria. He became an eminent supporter of the FLN in the Algerian War and was one of the signatories of the Manifeste des 121. Consequently, Sartre became a domestic target of the paramilitary Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS), escaping two bomb attacks in the early '60s. (He had an Algerian mistress, Arlette Elkaïm, who became his adopted daughter in 1965.) The role of a public intellectual can lead to the individual placing himself in danger as he engages with disputed topics. In Sartre's case, this was witnessed in June 1961, when a plastic bomb exploded in the entrance of his apartment building. His public support of Algerian self-determination at the time had led Sartre to become a target of the campaign of terror that mounted as the colonists' position deteriorated. A similar occurrence took place the next year and he had begun to receive threatening letters from Oran, Algeria.
Sartre opposed U.S. war in Vietnam War and, along with Bertrand Russell and others, organized a tribunal intended to expose U.S. war crimes, which became known as the Russell Tribunal in 1967.
Logic can either operate as part of an intellection, or else, on the contrary, put itself at the service of an error; moreover unintelligence can diminish or even nullify logic, so that philosophy can in fact become the vehicle of almost anything: it can be an Aristotelianism carrying ontological insights, just as it can degenerate into an "existentialism" in which logic has become a mere shadow of itself, a blind and unreal operation.
Indeed, what can be said of a "metaphysic" which idiotically posits man at the centre of the Real, like a sack of coal, and which operates with such blatantly subjective and conjectural concepts as "worry" and "anguish"? When unintelligence (and the variety we mean here is in no wise incompatible with what passes for intelligence in "worldly" circles) and passion prostitute logic, it is impossible to escape from that mental satanism which is so frequently to be found in contemporary thought.
The validity of a logical demonstration thus depends on the knowledge which we, as demonstrators, have of the subject in view, and it is evidently wrong to take as our starting-point not this direct knowledge but pure and simple logic.
When man has no "visionary" knowledge of Being, and merely "thinks" with his "brain" instead of "seeing" with his "heart", all his logic is useless to him, because it starts out from an initial fallacy. Moreover, the validity of a demonstration must be distinguished from its dialectical efficacy; the latter evidently depends on the intuitive disposition available for the recognition of truth when demonstrated, and therefore on an intellectual capacity.
Logic is nothing but the science of mental co-ordination and of arriving at rational conclusions; it cannot, therefore, attain the transcendent through its own resources; a supralogical -not an illogical- dialectic, based on symbolism and analogy, and therefore descriptive rather than ratiocinative, may be harder for some people to assimilate, but it conforms more closely to transcendent Reality.
Contemporary philosophy, on the other hand, really amounts to a decapitated logic: what is intellectually evident it calls "prejudice"; wishing to free itself from servitude to the mental, it sinks into infralogic; shutting itself off from the intellectual light above, it exposes itself to the obscurity of the lowest "subconscious" beneath.
Philosophic scepticism takes itself for a healthy attitude and for an absence of "prejudices", whereas it is in fact something completely artificial; it proceeds, not from real knowledge, but from sheer ignorance, and for this reason it is as alien to intelligence as it is to reality.
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Frithjof Schuon
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Quoted in: The Essential Frithjof Schuon (edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr)
In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world
Djerba 1993; Analog picture taken with Pentax; digital version created by scanning negative with Canoscan 8800F
A tropical looking house on a street corner in DeLand, Florida shot in digital infrared. The title refers to the "no outlet" street sign.
sunlight creeps through the tree outside of the window, then enters the fishtank with some stripes and looks below the belly of my drinking cat Emily; silence; moose is still sleeping...
...I love to be out walking, just zipping in whatever I happen to see, Let my eyes either focus on amazing things in the real world or go inwards exploring, memories, fantasies, emotions, deep thoughts or just shallow Abstract dreams...
Sometime You have a camera at hand when you walk pass something beautiful in the urban landscape...
...As this amazingly weathered little stud on something, has created a pattern so amazing, I couldn´t even paint it in a million years, well, perhaps but it would probably take me 5 years, but still why, it exists there is no need to make a painting of it... and luckily I photographed it for you to see...
But hey remember this is just from a certain angle in a certain lighting in a certain time...
Still it is beautiful enough to die for, well rather live for....
...our world is full of amazing treasures, it is a pity some won´t ever experience it, since life is a passing thing...
I wish more people could see more, and actually see what they are seeing...
Life is short, I wouldn´t even be able to finish all projects and dreams I wan´t to do if I lived a million years and especially all the things I will discover that I want to do and experiment, research and play with all along those million years...
...That is perhaps why I hate wars, people plucked away often young, experiencing horrible things I wouldn´t like to experience and wouldn´t wish even my worst enemy to experience... then a lot of these will perish on some dirty field somewhere forgotten by all except for their friends and family...
Two people killing each others who under different circumstances could have been friends, work mates or lovers...
...people which will experience horror just before they end their brief life...
Peace and Peace!
/ MushroomBrain an observer of humans and nature!
leaving the "Public Library" at 42nd street / Broadway, Manhattan, on a rainy day...
compare:
an old BLURB-book, where you can find this NY street-shot too......
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or read my article AIN'T NO SUNSHINE WHEN SHE'S GONE in my daily wordpress blog at flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/aint-no-sunshine/
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comment by gcquinn: not only a stylish woman with umbrella in the rain, but one who reads books!
comment by Ian@NZFlickrs: Overdressed librarian and the man is waiting to catch her if she slips in those high heel shoes ;-)
Joe Wig commented: ...She's the beauty who has to battle the elements. You can feel the wet environment. The man's an afterthought. In fact, you wonder why he's slowing down since it IS raining.
comment by thorvaala: I suspect she's a goddess and that has caused the man to hesitate.
congratulations! you are a winner
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of contest 8 of our group EXISTentialism!
☆Location: Tate Art Museum, UK.
Sources: www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/freud-girl-with-a-white-dog-...
www.tretyakovgallerymagazine.com/articles/2-2016-51/lucia...
www.the-village.ru/village/weekend/weekend-guide/343543-l...
This picture shows the artist’s first wife when she was pregnant. The style of the painting has roots in the smooth and linear portraiture of the great nineteenth-century French neoclassical painter, Ingres. This, together with the particular psychological atmosphere of Freud’s early work, led the critic Herbert Read to make his celebrated remark that Freud was ‘the Ingres of Existentialism’. The sense that Freud gives of human existence as essentially lonely, and spiritually if not physically painful, is something shared by his great contemporaries, Francis Bacon and the sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
This epic science fiction film, produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, follows a voyage to Jupiter with the sentient computer HAL after the discovery of an alien monolith affecting human evolution. The film deals with themes of existentialism, human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The screenplay was written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was inspired by Clarke’s 1951 short story “The Sentinel” and other short stories by Clarke.
The film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of space flight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous imagery. Kubrick avoided conventional cinematic and narrative techniques, dialogue is used sparingly, and there are long sequences accompanied only by music. The soundtrack incorporates numerous works of classical music, among them “Also sprach Zarathustra” by Richard Strauss, “The Blue Danube” by Johann Strauss II, and works by Aram Khachaturian and György Ligeti.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, with Kubrick winning for his direction of the visual effects. It is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1991, it was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by the U.S. Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. [Source: Wikipedia]
Movie Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_e9y-bka0
Venice is a very friendly city and the visitors are mostly happy,
even if it is raining cats and dogs... - photo shot by my wife Barbara
P.S.:
I've found also a wonderful movie titled RAINFALL IN VENICE at youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q93hNq1s9U4&feature=related
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