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Photo floue, photo ratée, photo moche pour certains ! Pas pour moi. Je fais ici l'éloge de l'imperfection en photographie, en réponse à un certain Christian G qui donne des leçons à mes amis, et à qui je rappelle que la critique est aisée mais l'art libre et subjectif !
L’Homme est par nature imparfait, ainsi soit-il de la photographie.
Je l'encourage et vous encourage à lire l'excellent papier de Benjamin Beaumont dont je vous livre quelques phrases à méditer..
"La photographie est imperfection.
Plus que les autres arts, l’imperfection n’est-elle pas ce qui donne à la photographie sa valeur ? La photographie échappe au contrôle total de son auteur : elle met en jeu une forte part de chance, et exige de composer avec le hasard des conditions de la prise de vue. L’imperfection est ce qui fait de nous des humains : une photographie inaboutie ou inachevée n’est pas pour autant à jeter. Si elle transmet auprès du spectateur une émotion aussi ténue soit-elle, alors elle a déjà accompli sa mission."
"Au fond, une photographie ne sera jamais qu’imparfaite. Elle ne tombera jamais parfaitement juste. Mais elle pourra néanmoins transmettre quelque chose."
"Peut-être faut-il admettre que la pratique de la photographie fait sens non pas au regard de la qualité de la production mais du processus en lui-même. Photographier c’est produire des images : on fera aussi bien qu’on le pourra, dans les limites de nos capacités et avec toutes les faiblesses de notre humanité. Mais photographier, c’est aussi et peut-être surtout se sentir vivant. En observant le monde autour de soi, on ressent la gratitude de pouvoir en témoigner. On accorde de la valeur à l’insignifiance des choses. On apprend à reconnaître la Beauté. Et on cherche à la saisir à travers le viseur. Voilà la puissance de la photographie : une façon de nous rendre plus intensément conscient du simple bonheur qu’il y a à vivre."
"Alors mettons un terme à ces grands discours vides de substance tels qu’on peut souvent les lire. Arrêtons les verbalisations fumeuses et les théories moralisatrices et définitives. Vivons plutôt l’expérience photographique au plus près du cœur, éveillés à nos sensations les plus brutes. Ayons l’humilité du débutant, la même que celle du bébé qui s’éveille au monde, sans cesse surpris, assoiffé de découverte et de nouveauté."
Et surtout surtout, ne changez pas de lunettes mais d'état d'esprit, monsieur qui-sait-tout et qui fait-mieux-que-les-autres ...
Un peu de respect, de douceur, de tolérance ferait du bien sur nos Flickr.
Ce que tu vois ne te plaît pas ? Passe à la suivante et abstiens toi d'emmerder ton voisin ... Perso, quand je n'aime pas, je ne commente pas, je passe. Ou alors, je fais remarquer une petite tâche sur l'objectif ou un horizon un peu penché, sans remettre en cause la qualité ou l'intention de la photo.
On peut se dire les choses gentiment aussi, ça ne coûte rien.
Et ce n'est pas forcément hypocrite de lui dire qu'on aime sa photo ou son travail.
A bon entendeur ....
Référence :
benjaminbeaumont.fr/photographie-imperfection/
Blurry photo, failed photo, ugly photo for some! Not for me. I am here praising imperfection in photography, in response to a certain Christian G who is giving lessons to my friends, and to whom I remind that criticism is easy but art is free and subjective!
Man is by nature imperfect, so be it with photography.
I encourage him and you to read Benjamin Beaumont's excellent paper, from which I offer you a few phrases to ponder..
Photography is imperfection.
More than other arts, isn't imperfection what gives photography its value? Photography escapes the total control of its author: it involves a significant element of chance and requires dealing with the randomness of the shooting conditions. Imperfection is what makes us human: an unfinished or incomplete photograph is not necessarily to be discarded. If it conveys even the slightest emotion to the viewer, then it has already accomplished its mission.
"At the end of the day, a photograph will always be imperfect." It will never be perfectly right. But she will nevertheless be able to convey something."
"Perhaps we must admit that the practice of photography makes sense not in terms of the quality of the production but in terms of the process itself." Photographing is producing images: we will do as well as we can, within the limits of our abilities and with all the weaknesses of our humanity. But photographing is also, and perhaps above all, feeling alive. By observing the world around us, we feel gratitude for being able to witness it. We value the insignificance of things. We learn to recognize Beauty. And we seek to capture it thru the viewfinder. That's the power of photography: a way to make us more intensely aware of the simple happiness there is in living.
"So let's put an end to these grand speeches devoid of substance that we often read. Let's stop the smoky verbalizations and the moralizing and definitive theories. Let's rather live the photographic experience as close to the heart as possible, awakened to our most raw sensations. Let's have the humility of the beginner, the same as that of the baby awakening to the world, constantly surprised, thirsty for discovery and novelty.
And above all, don't change your glasses but your state of mind, Mr. Know-it-all who does better than others...
A little respect, gentleness, tolerance would do well on our Flickr.
What you see doesn't please you? Move on to the next one and refrain from bothering your neighbor.
We can also say things to each other nicely, it doesn't cost anything. Personally, when I don't like something, I don't comment, I just move on. Or, I might point out a small spot on the lens or a slightly tilted horizon, without questioning the quality or the intention of the photo.
And it's not necessarily hypocritical to tell him that we like his photo or his work.
A word to the wise....
Reference:
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THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO:
At a first glance, the photo above may appear to show the slightly gruesome scene of a flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) munchin' on a hairy scoliid wasp (Scolia hirta), but that's in fact not what is happening here. It's an optical illusion, because the spider sits a little below the wasp of the peppermint flower, and didn't touch it - in fact, the eight-legged predator showed no interest in it all, and it wasn't harmed.
To provide some context: I'd discovered this beautiful female M. vatia a few days prior to taking the photo. I love photographing spiders, and particularly when I find one of the crab variety - of which there are at least 4 different species present in my garden - I make sure to visit it regularly, always in the hope of catching it with prey (somewhat morbid of me, I know, but the way these arachnids hunt is just endlessly fascinating and makes for great photos).
They are pretty territorial; once a spider has settled on a flower where the harvest is plentiful - which is to say the plant gets visited often by insects and thus provides a steady stream of fresh victims - it will try to ride that "gravy train" for as long as possible and remain lurking inside (or just underneath) that flower, which will allow you to locate it again.
The individual in the photo had chosen my peppermint plants as her hunting grounds, which made sense, because even though she wasn't exactly well camouflaged in them (as you can see here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... ), the flowers of this exquisitely fragrant herb attracted more insects than any other plant blooming at the same time in my garden.
But something was off in the land of mint: whenever I visited Mrs. Crab Spider over the course of several days, I never found her with prey. At first I thought she had chosen her hunting grounds poorly after all, because she was so easily visible the insects were probably thinking: "Nice try, but I know my peppermint flowers, and you sure don't look like one!"
Yet when I stuck around for a bit and closely observed her for a few minutes, this hypothesis quickly came undone, because there was certainly no shortage of potential victims landing right in front of the spider: one apparently suicidal honeybee even literally shoved its bum into the spider's face, and she didn't move a muscle! And the same was true for the hairy scoliid wasps, as you can see in the photo above.
This was very confusing behavior, because even if the spider hadn't been hungry when I first found her (maybe after just devouring a calorie-rich bumblebee), her appetite should have come back by now, and I witnessed no sign of it. It made no sense: was this perhaps a vegetarian spider? Had I come across the next step in arachnid evolution and found the first individual sticking to an exclusive diet of tofu and quinoa?
What I saw puzzled me, and I needed answers. If this crab spider was neither eating bees nor wasps (nor waiting for a flying soy bean to miraculously land on the peppermint flower) - what was going on here? Was this maybe a deeply spiritual spider on the path to enlightenment adhering to the ancient principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings?
Indeed, when I leaned in closer to better observe her, I thought I caught a whiff of incense sticks (granted, it might have only been the fragrance of the peppermint, but I started to like the idea of a "hippy spider" in my garden 😉 ). The longer I thought about it, the more it made sense: the spider's motionless pose wasn't that of a lurking predator ready to strike as I foolishly had been assuming - this spider was in fact MEDITATING (or at the very least doing Yoga).
The next day I wanted to visit my enlightened friend again, but to my chagrin I couldn't find her in the peppermint plants. After a careful search of the area I was relieved when I finally spotted her; she had climbed up into the phlox and now resided approximately fifty centimeters above her previous location, in the midst of the bright pink blooming flowers (I wouldn't have been surprised to find her reading a tiny version of Herman Hesse's 'Siddhartha', holding it tight with all eight legs, but she was just doing her previous meditation/Yoga pose 😉 )
For what happened next, however, I was NOT prepared: as I was watching, a green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata) landed right in front of my hippy spider - who caught the poor bugger faster than you can say "tofu" and immediately started sucking the life out of him.
"And there goes the ancient principle of nonviolence right out the window...", I thought to myself as I went to get the camera. Either I had been wrong in my previous assessment, or Mrs. Crab Spider wasn't a strict ideologue (or just a good ole' hypocrite like the rest of us 😉 ); in any case, she obviously enjoyed her meal very much, even spinning the fly around like a corn cob (here's a photo, in case you're interested: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... )
What I eventually did realize though, and I'm not joking for once, was that I had indeed observed a very interesting behavior: this flower crab spider had specialized on a particular prey. Over the course of two weeks, I only ever saw her catch flies (who were omnipresent on the phlox, but rarely visited the peppermint), while she ignored any insect with a sting, regardless how close and easy to grab it might have been.
To my knowledge, this was very unusual. Misumena vatia is a notorious bee killer, and I myself had witnessed many a careless honey bee fall victim to this highly skilled predator in my garden over the years (here's just one example: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-... ).
Although I have zero proof for this, I suspect my choosy spider simply wanted to avoid the risk of getting stung; perhaps because she'd learned from past experience that the pointy end of bees and wasps can be quite painful - or maybe this was innate behavior that occurs in some individuals but not in others.
In any case, I was half relieved and half disappointed by this outcome; on the one hand it was good to know this beautiful arachnid wouldn't starve to death in my garden for a lack of tofu - but on the other I had really liked the idea of a spider on the path to enlightenment and was now a bit saddened that there would probably never be a commune of tiny, eight-legged hippies in my garden. 😉
As always, many thanks for reading and commenting: have a great remaining week everyone! And on a very personal note, let me again express my gratitude for all the best wishes I got from you after my hand surgery (which thankfully went well: as you can see, I'm already able to bore you with my usual overlong photo descriptions again ;-) - thank you guys, so, so much!! ❤🙏😊
The demon in me is finalemnte out.
it is unleashed on those who turned their backs on me, who called their brother
the demon that is in me will be very vindictive, cruel motion, do not get too close you can go crazy, but even from a distance I will drive you crazy miserable hypocritical people and false
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2 a.m. and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing, their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize
Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
May, he turned 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
"Just a day," he said down to the flask in his fist
Ain't been sober since maybe October of last year
Here in town, you can tell he's been down for a while
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, boys
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
"There's a light at each end of this tunnel," you shout
'Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around
2 a.m. and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
'Cause these words are my diary screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them however you want to
But you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand
And breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
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But do not forget, that this field is no longer the home of animals.
It is lost for wildlife and especially insects because of using pesticides.
The Green party does not bother about this fact. They are hypocrites and basically only interested in gaining power. Then everything will be regulated to death using senseless rules.
Ingredients:
Sony ILCE-7M2
Sony FE 2.8/90 Macro G OSS
fresh peeled Crocus
Manual setup and focus, available light, handheld. Hope, you enjoy! All visits, faves and comments are appreciated!
I'm winning, you're losing
I'm falling, your agony
Lower than Lower before
Your forgotten memory
I'm heaven, you're hell
I'm killing, your fantasy
More and more, you follow
Your divorced reality
You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel.
Identity, fantasy, heresy, Killing me
Lower than lower, before
This thing to feed
Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic
More and more you follow
Your divorced reality.
You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel.
Hypocrite, lunatic, fanatic, heretic
You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel.
You're trying to take me
You're trying to make me
This is the only
Give me the only thing
Tired of trying
I'm tired of lying
The only thing I understand is what I feel.
(Static X - The only)
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Whatever It Takes
Song by Imagine Dragons and Jorgen Odegard
Lyrics
Falling too fast to prepare for this
Tripping in the world could be dangerous
Everybody circling, it's vulturous
Negative, nepotist
Everybody waiting for the fall of man
Everybody praying for the end of times
Everybody hoping they could be the one
I was born to run, I was born for this
Whip, whip
Run me like a racehorse
Pull me like a ripcord
Break me down and build me up
I wanna be the slip, slip
Word upon your lip, lip
Letter that you rip, rip
Break me down and build me up
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
Yeah, take me to the top I'm ready for
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes
Always had a fear of being typical
Looking at my body feeling miserable
Always hanging on to the visual
I wanna be invisible
Looking at my years like a martyrdom
Everybody needs to be a part of 'em
Never be enough, I'm the prodigal son
I was born to run, I was born for this
Whip, whip
Run me like a racehorse
Pull me like a ripcord
Break me down and build me up
I wanna be the slip, slip
Word upon your lip, lip
Letter that you rip, rip
Break me down and build me up
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
Yeah, take me to the top, I'm ready for
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes
Hypocritical, egotistical
Don't wanna be the parenthetical, hypothetical
Working onto something that I'm proud of, out of the box
An epoxy to the world and the vision we've lost
I'm an apostrophe
I'm just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see
I'm just a product of the system, a catastrophe
And yet a masterpiece, and yet I'm half-diseased
And when I am deceased
At least I go down to the grave and die happily
Leave the body and my soul to be a part of thee
I do what it takes
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes
Yeah, take me to the top, I'm ready for
Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do what it takes
© Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
I see street photography as a privilege. The right to photograph anyone and anything in and from a public place for the purpose of art and documentary is not universal around the world. Rights can be taken away at any time, especially when abused.
I shoot courteously and always respect my subjects right to refuse to be photographed. I have always deleted shots when asked to do so.
On Thursday in Glasgow I was harassed by another street photographer. I don't have to justify why I turned my back to them as they tried to photograph me and I am not a hypocrite for doing so despite their protestations that I 'had a nerve'.
However, if someone indicates or tells you that they do not want to be photographed, if you continue to photograph them over and over again what you are doing can be classified as harassment, a criminal matter. Don't be a jerk and don't bully people.
I reacted out of a place of trauma and I am not proud of that but, as you all know, harassment formed a major part of causing my trauma in the first place. The point is that we, as street photographers, have a responsibility to treat people respectfully. This is deeply important if we want our 'rights' to continue in a world becoming increasingly wary of photographers and 'surveillance'.
This is why I take one shot and move on.
You don't follow people, chase them, take multiple shots or feel affronted if they refuse to be photographed.
Take care my Flickr friends. Take photos. Be kind to one another and I wish you a wonderful week in this crazy world.
For 'Macro Sundays — In the Kitchen'
This photo was accepted, then refused by 'Macro Sundays', and I've been removed from the group by Dominique Robert, its administrator, without any communication.
I cannot recommend that you join this group, as its Administrator is a flagrant hypocrite with a huge ego.
Strolling about in DTLA. I am amazed at how much DTLA has changed in this era of the Corona Virus. On the other hand, the more they change, the more they are the same. Biggest difference is that for the first time in walking and shooting these streets, I now walk with pepper spray. Crime is at an all time high as are the muggings, attacks, murders.
Perhaps I will post some of the ugly and I mean ugly. The truth is that the lack of Police and the police being defunded by the politicians who do not walk these streets, but live inside their gated and guarded communities don't care. We have the worst Governor since Gray Davis and the mayor who I once supported is a disaster. In my opinion a total Hypocrite.
Any way, I digress. Just frustrated by the mad max type of madness I now see.
have a blessed and safe day.
Javier
wtf have i ever done to you?? i'm sorry but you look really stupid right now, named and shamed. i couldn't give two shits if my photos are "leaked" unlike you i don't spend all my time trying to find rares etc. you must be mistaken as i'm not "obsessed with miley cyrus" i think you must be talking about yourself. what does my mum have to do with this? i've never spoken to you in my life please get over your self and stop being so hypocritical.
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Part of me wanna to do stupid shit
Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite
I like it way better than bein' on the side of it
I'm a psycho, lovin' it
Part of me wanna to do stupid shit
Gotta admit, I'm a hypocrite
I like it way better than bein' on the side of it
I'm a psycho, lovin' it
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And by that, I mean, let's all pray in a Christian way, whether you are spiritual or not. I'm not a so-called Christian, but I do believe in a Christian way of life and living to the principles of the 10 Commandments, although I confess to being somewhat of a hypocrite. I can hope (and pray) that God will forgive me just a little bit, but I'm not an especially bad sinner IMHO.
Pictured is the CBD (in an Australian sense) of the city of Acharacle. At it's heart is the church and nearby the firestation ready for those who edge too close to the burning inferno of Hell. The Community Centre is next door and the village shop which quotes "It's nice to be nice" on its signboard is nearby. Note the luxurious spacing between the different facilities. The medical centre, pharmacy and primary school are a short distance in the other direction. There is ample room for parking. Window shopping is not possible as the village shop has no windows. There's a hotel, a takeaway and one B&B. And a few elderly people (mostly widows and widowers) who appear occasionally to pick up another bottle of wine, vodka or pack of beer from the shop which is open 9-7 almost every day of the year where you can buy bread and milk with an expiry date of tomorrow (if you are lucky). What more could you want between heaven and hell?
Hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday in downtown Montreal to call on the Canadian government and Prime Minister Mark Carney to avoid participating in ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. The Canadian-Iranian Congress condemns Prime Minister Mark Carney’s hypocritical support of U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran.
Des centaines de manifestants se sont rassemblés samedi au centre-ville de Montréal pour exhorter le gouvernement canadien et le premier ministre Mark Carney à ne pas participer aux conflits en cours au Moyen-Orient. Le Congrès irano-canadien condamne le soutien hypocrite du premier ministre Mark Carney à l’agression américano-israélienne contre l’Iran.
Most dictionaries would explain the meaning of this phrase as to ignore something bad that is happening and not try to stop it. Some definitions are a lot more specific and highlight the fact that, usually, this attitude is applied to one group but not the other. That would lead us into the territory of hypocrisy. It is hypocritical to shout about Russian atrocities in Ukraine but stay silent about those committed in Gaza. While there are currently practical steps being taken to end the war in Ukraine with a compromise, unsatisfying as it may be, the developments in Gaza are completely off the chart and moving towards a scenario reminiscent of the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII. Looking the other way is not a real proposition, because, as one observer said, not only Israel's fingerprints will be all over this catastrophe, but those of other nations too. Leica M8, Elmar (collapsible) 2.8/50 at F8.
and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah, we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize
Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe
Oh, breathe, just breathe
The 'Skyfall' Waterfall, Glen Etive, Glencoe, Scotland
Sorry if the title gives you an 'earworm' but just came to mind as being so obvious!
I shouldn't tempt fate but seem to be on a bit of a roll with the upload page here loading 'properly'.
Back to my productive January trip to Glencoe.
Fuelled by a hearty breakfast at the Kingshouse Hotel I decided I’d set off in the tyre tracks of James Bond’s DB7 in Skyfall to THE waterfall. I’d shot it before but wasn’t happy with the images I’d got and having watched a Karl Griffin YT video I thought I’d give it another go.
This time instead of getting down near the water I stayed a bit higher but shot more towards the bridge and what I think is Stob Dubh (883m). I played around with various shutter speeds, focus stacking, bracketing, vertical panos and various combinations of them. Typically though I was just finishing up when the sun popped out so I quickly took some single image shots at f/16 and ISO 50 to get the slowest shutter speed I could. The light on Stob Dubh(?) meant that this had more interest for me that the other attempts. Typical but at least it cut down on editing time!
I’m sure my YT ‘journey’ is typical of many Togs. I initially regularly watched a lot of the big names but after a couple of years I’m increasingly looking at those made by the slightly lesser profile names who spend a lot of time in the places I’m visiting. I’ll give a big shout-out to Cliff Hands who is happy to provide Wah3Words details for many of his locations. I do find it hypocritical when the ‘big names’ tell you to research locations on Google maps and Google earth and other places people post images but then try to keep the locations secret when they shoot.
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
And you're like a 90's Noah
And they laughed at you as you packed all of your things
And they wonder why you're frustrated & so angry
They'll throw opinions like rocks in riots
And they'll stumble around like hypocrites
Is it just me or is it dark in here?
Well you may never be or have a husband you may never have or hold a child
You will learn to lose everything cause we are temporary arrangements
And may god bless you in your travels in your conquests and queries
Dedicated to ...... il'3alyeeen:
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 moved America along a moral arc toward Jefferson's claim that "all men are created equal." Now some want to reverse those gains, and others call Jefferson a hypocrite who should be remembered for his personal failures rather than his public contributions. Deep in my heart, I do believe that we can reach a better future.
Happy Mono Monday!
Second coming of Jesus | What will the outcome of the CCP government and the religious world be after they madly condemn and resist God?
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Bible Verses for Reference:
“All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come” (Matthew 12:31-32).
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:13).
“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever” (Revelation 20:10).
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My dear Flickr friends, I can no longer stay quiet! I am a mother of 5 and a grandmother of 9 and as by now you all know how important the family unit is to me.
I am watching doctors and professionals walking away from their jobs because they are afraid of being sued for saving a life!
Isn't it a little hypocritical to allow hanging or death by lethal injection and yet not to help an abortion to save a child or a mother. Where does government come into this question? Can we not leave this up to the mothers and the professionals. Believe me, there are few mothers who would willingly abort outside absolute dire circumstances. Are we to tell others how to live, when it is hard enough to make our own decisions.
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️
75 Percent of Animal Species to be Wiped Out in ‘Sixth Mass Extinction’
Under the most conservative estimate possible, development, disappearing habitats and climate change will exterminate animal species within just three human lifetimes, a new study finds.
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION
Commentary by Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson
So now it’s official.
This is the age of the Anthropocene.
The Sixth Extinction.
Finally the Scientific Community has recognized officially what they have known for decades.
We’re all responsible. If you have a birth Certificate you’re guilty. We’re all hypocrites by varying degrees of complicity.
The question is; what the hell are we going to do about it?
The choices are to continue to ignore reality as we continue to amuse ourselves or actually get down and dirty to do something about it.
There are only two kinds of humans on this planet. The Anthropocentrics that believe this world was created solely for humanity to be used in any way we desire, that we are the only species that counts, and whose guiding instincts are selfishness, arrogance and an amazing ignorance of the laws of ecology.
And there are the biocentrics that understand that we are a part of nature, that we need and that we are interdependent with all other species, that we are not superior to them and that we are subject to the laws of ecology.
We biocentrics are the minority but we are the only hope for the future because if we are going to survive as a species, we will only be able to do so if biodiversity itself survives.
The diminishment of biodiversity diminishes humanity.
If the Forests die, we die!
If the bees die, we die!
If the Ocean dies, we die.
If we compare ecology to a baseball game, the situation is this.
It’s the 9th inning and humanity has just played their last play. The score is tied. Nature is up to bat now and their bases are loaded and Nature’s equivalent of Babe Ruth has just stepped up to the plate.
It does not look good.
But then again miracles can happen.
More info :
www.usnews.com/news/blogs/data-mine/2015/06/19/75-percent...
What looks like a seagull is just dust on the camera sensor. If you look closely, it is visible to the naked eye. Easy to remove. The rest are microscopic dust particles that are invisible to the naked eye. I had to use a special magnifying glass with LED lighting. Removal is very difficult, requiring a lot of skill and patience. I tried blowers and vibrations. Impossible to remove. What they show on the internet, backpacks filled with various lenses, is unrealistic, hypocritical. Every time you change the lens, outdoors, there will always be dust. The worst thing is when the sensor is IBIS, you can break the sensor at any moment. Good luck.
Diary Entry August 28th, 1867
Arrived in Goatswood met with the same hypocritical judgement. No matter what town I arrive in, if it is not what the locals perceive as "normal", then I am perceived as abnormal. At least I can resupply here. Everyone loves money as a common denominator.
Zoraya will never have to worry where her next meal is coming from. She will never have to bring down a beast to feed her pride and herself but her natural instincts and the way she plays with things, mimics without a doubt what she would do if that opportunity ever arose.
My thoughts about having big cats in captivity has definitely changed over the time I have gotten to know these cats.
Before I became involved with the zoo, I really had no idea about the plight of the lions or any animals. I was ignorant.
Then i started to appreciate the role of zoo's and started to look into their role in preserving a species.
Fast forward to now and I feel extremely conflicted.
While I agree Zoo's do have a role to play and without them some species would of become extinct by now. I also question their need to continually breed cats in captivity merely to spend their life in a cage.
My personal thought is their is no value in breeding lions in particular, in captivity. In the wild lions are great breeders unlike the cheetah who has so much going against it.
The problem lies in the human/wildlife conflict and habitat loss and addressing that and working with communities is far greater benefit than breeding lions in a zoo only for those lions to stay in a cage and not be introduced to the wild.
This is my conflict.
Despite my personal thoughts, here I am photographing and spending time with these lions. I feel hypocritical and this is something I am still figuring out how to deal with in my own head.
Pensées sur l'hypocrisie.........
L'hypocrisie est l'art de cacher ses intentions, ou de tricher sur ses sentiments, ses pensées. L'hypocrisie est toujours négative, contrairement au mensonge qui peut parfois être pour une bonne cause. Avoir une attitude hypocrite, c'est avoir un comportement lâche et malhonnête.
Cependant, il peut arriver qu'on soit hypocrite sans le savoir, en toute bonne foi.
C'est souvent à ses amis et à ses amours qu'on reproche une hypocrisie, une parole non sincère et de toute évidence sans aucune franchise. Il faut parfois être fourbe et doué dans l'art de tromper pour être un bon hypocrite, comme l'est le Tartuffe de Molière.
Thoughts on hypocrisy .........
Hypocrisy is the art of hiding one's intentions, or cheating on one's feelings, thoughts. Hypocrisy is always negative, unlike the lie that can sometimes be for a good cause. To have a hypocritical attitude is to have a cowardly and dishonest behavior.
However, it may happen that one is hypocritical without knowing it, in good faith.
It is often to his friends and loves that one reproaches hypocrisy, a word not sincere and obviously without any frankness. Sometimes it is necessary to be deceitful and gifted in the art of deceiving to be a good hypocrite, as is the Tartuffe de Moliere.
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«Dans la vie, fais confiance à ceux qui peuvent voir ces trois choses: ta peine derrière ton sourire, ton amour malgré ta colère et la raison de ton silence»
"In life, trust those who can see these three things: your pain behind your smile, your love despite your anger and the reason for your silence"
Hybrid tea rose
André Delbard-Chabert 1961
Volksgarten Vienna
"Qu'il soit minuit, qu'il soit midi,
Vous me faites chier, docteur Schweitzer
Il importait que ce fût dit..."
Boris Vian
DeepL translation of this excerpt from the poem:
"Whether it’s midnight or midday,
You’re pissing me off, Dr Schweitzer.
This had to be said..."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Is_Midnight,_Doctor_Schweitzer
At the time, Albert Schweitzer was practically hero-worshipped in France and Germany. Boris Vian, on the other hand, saw the way the world celebrated Schweitzer – the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ‘jungle doctor’ – as hypocritical. He criticised Schweitzer’s actions as a colonial moral smokescreen.
Shinjuku Gyoen is not a natural garden it would seem. It was part of an Edo residence when it was first created and belonged to a wealthy family, the Naitos. The pond you see in this shot, Tamano pond, was manmade. Around a decade later, in 1879, it was established as an Imperial botanical garden.
Today, this area of the grounds was erected as a small Taiwan pavilion. It was meant to be a show of peace to mark the beginning of the Showa era, and the Emperor's wedding (which is very ironic because it was 2 decades before World War 2). The building you see in the back is the Goryo-tei. A terrace on the water.
Gotta love the tighter security in this place, dumb people rarely get in, (a bit hypocritical for me to say, I mean dumb as in people who cannot assimilate or respect someone else's culture on their soil). My experience here was relatively peaceful of interference, and endless opportunities presented itself throughout the area. I saw the reflection of the villa across the water and it had a still reflection. But it was hard to find a suitable composition from across the water cause there was no sakura behind it. So after circling like a vulture, I eventually found this low hanging branch and switched strategies to a focus shot.
Since I approached most of my shots in Japan in an experimental way, I do have a separate focus shot in this spot with Goryo-tei in focus and the sakura blurred. (I'm gonnna be honest, I never use AF, I'd prefer having full control over my zoom at all times). Maybe I'll take that image down and process it, but for now, enjoy this little piece of Heaven. I'm very proud of how this one turned out.
Le Rouge et le Noir meaning The Red and the Black is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830.
The title refers to the contrasting uniforms of the army and the church.
The adventures of the hero satirise early 19th-century French society, accusing the aristocracy and Catholic clergy of being hypocritical and materialistic, foretelling the radical changes that will soon depose them from their leading roles in French society.
This two were found by chance... good fortune I should say.
flower, dark, red, black, two, design, "conceptual art", portrait, colour, blooms, horizontal, "Magda indigo"
De ton cul tu te mêleras
Ta grande gueule tu fermeras
Tes yeux tu baisseras
Devant ta porte tu balaieras
La merde tu ne sèmeras pas
D'être hypocrite tu arrêteras
De voir ta gueule on se passera
De mentir tu arrêteras
De profiter tu stopperas
Et éventuellement ma main dans ta gueule tu prendras si tu ne respectes pas ça
These two images are left full of grain and photographic character that sometimes I would remove in favour of smoother less noisy end results. Here these pictures are set to show the camera and lens being pushed to record the diminishing light. Photographically there are options of exposure including Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO. Here the options have been decided upon so as to create a slightly stressed look, rather than a smooth serene scene there is some strength to gnaw at with a taste of piquant pepper and even a dark sprinkling of crisp crunch to enliven the pictorial munch at every eye bite.
There is a quote and links around the Red sky at night and other weather lore below giving a source from the Gospel of Matthew to show our weather lore and other sayings even beliefs have old roots, not all religious texts.
The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.
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Pentland Hills Regional Park
Red sky at night and other weather lore
www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weat...
Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.
Celia Farber claims to be an investigative *ahem* journalist. Really she is nothing more than a person who gets paid for spreading HIV denialist propaganda. Every cause has their mouthpiece. Celia Farber is an expert. Not in HIV or AIDS. No Celia is an expert in very publicly stitching herself up! The following extracts from an interview are taken from bookslut all comments in bold are my own observations:
BS:You are constantly described as an AIDS dissident that does not believe HIV causes AIDS -- but nowhere in your book is this explicitly stated. So how would you describe your views?
CF: Thank you for noticing that critical detail. I have never written that HIV does not cause AIDS. I don’t think I’ve ever said that HIV does not cause AIDS. I took one semester of journalism in college. Thanks Celia. Good to see that you spent a hell of a lot of time earning the title of journalist!!!
CF: It is not for me to say as a journalist -- as a nonscientist -- what causes or doesn’t cause AIDS. Great Celia. You are off to a blinding start. Not only do you admit to having no substantial education as a journalist but you make it perfectly clear that you are not a scientist...
BS:Do you wish you had taken a different approach reporting? Is there anything you would have done differently?
CF:My quick answer is usually yes, of course. But it’s unanswerable… What I wish I had done differently, in retrospect, was to calculate the damage and the blight, both on myself and on my family and ask myself, “Is it fair to do to others?” Because what you actually do is you invite financial ruin. The damage and the blight Celia? Oh poor you and your poor family! How many of your denialist chums have died? How many people who have listened to your warped rhetoric are now dead because they did not access the treatments that could have prolonged their life? That is the damage and that is the blight Celia. NOT the fact that you did not earn more money. But I think that is more to do with just the one semester at journalist school than anything else...
BS:As a non-gay male AIDS reporter and Westerner investigating Africa, did you have to deal with identity politics?
CF: I never got that kind of guff from any Africans, [but] certainly from the gay community. Those that were opposed to what I was doing -- that was one of the charges: that I wasn’t gay and how the hell could I know what I was doing and what right did I have to say anything? But that’s inconsistent with the core belief system, which is that AIDS is everybody’s disease... Yes darling but you started spouting your denialist crap in 1988. Do you also have selective amnesia? Of course the Gay community were going to take exception to your denialist crap because Gay men were bearing the brunt of the numbers of deaths and the social stigma. The last thing they would have wanted when they were dying would be for someone like you to add more bulshit to the fire...
I would go to AIDS conferences and go through an immense crisis each time, “Am I crazy or are they crazy?” Answers on a postcard...
BS: Do you think The Constant Gardner was able to voice political dissent as it is shielded as fiction?
CF:I would caution people against assuming that John le Carre is writing fiction. Let me make a generality: fiction writers today like John le Carre are doing journalism, and the journalists are writing fiction. Thanks again Celia.... i didn't need to read this interview with you to know that you talk a pile of stinking shit! But thanks for the clarification!
I do wish that I could crawl away, quietly and turn up on some completely other part of the beach. So do we Celia, so do we... and take your denialist chums with you...
Celia worked as a researcher on the BBC documentry "Guinea Pig Kids" This is what the BBC had to say about the programme in question:
ECU ruling: Guinea Pig Kids, BBC2, 30 November 2004 and related websites
www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/news/2007/11/30/51154.shtml
Publication date: 30 Nov 2007
Complaint
The Director of Planning and Policy Research of the New York-based Center for HIV Law and Policy, supported by several academics and other agencies involved in HIV research and treatment, complained that the programme unfairly claimed that New York City's Administration for Children's Services, together with a number of medical and child care institutions, "effectively conspired to force helpless children of colour into inappropriate and sinister 'experiments' when in fact they made life saving drugs already approved for adults available to children living with HIV/AIDS who were in the foster care system", that it gave a misleading impression of the effects of anti-HIV medication, and that it falsely claimed that "denying medication to children with AIDS will improve their health while appropriate treatment will kill them".
BBC Editorial Complaints Unit's ruling
The programme explored legitimate concerns about a research project involving the testing of anti-HIV drugs on children in the care system, where (it had emerged) there had been a failure in some cases to provide independent advocacy as required by the research protocols. However, the programme portrayed this failure as being the more serious because the drugs being trialled were, it claimed, both "lethal" and ineffective. In support of these claims, the programme interviewed an expert witness who was, though the audience was not told, a leading advocate of the propositions that HIV is unconnected with AIDS, that anti-retroviral drugs do not work in the treatment of AIDS and that they are, in fact, responsible for deaths attributed to AIDS. The audience was not told that his was a minority and controversial view which would be challenged by mainstream medical opinion. No other medical opinion was heard on this subject.
The programme also gave the false impression that parents or carers who objected to their children being placed in the trials risked losing custody of their children. In fact, the three case studies which created this impression did not involve children connected with the trials. Though there was no explicit claim that "denying medication to children with AIDS will improve their health while appropriate treatment will kill them", the treatment of case studies in the programme contributed to that impression. This complaint has been partly upheld.
Further action
A correction will be published on bbc.co.uk, as part of the pages on which the material complained of appears, with a link to this summary. In addition, the ECU will contact other websites featuring the material in order to draw their attention to its ruling. The management of BBC News is addressing the issues arising from the ruling for the commissioning and supervision of independent productions of this kind.
Celia Farber: An AIDS Denialist Masquerading as a Journalist
Celia Farber, the author of the March 2006 Harper's Magazine article attacking HIV clinical research, misrepresents herself to the popular media as a legitimate journalist and science writer, interested only in doggedly covering a good story. She is in fact an AIDS "dissident" who has been publicizing and extolling the claims of AIDS denialists and attacking scientific research on HIV/AIDS since the late 1980s. Farber has signed the two defining petitions of HIV denialism and she co-authored with members of the denialist group HEAL a core tract of the denialist movement called "HIV: Against Science." She described herself in the subtitle of one of her articles as "an AIDS Dissident" and she is a prominent member of the denialist "Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV/AIDS Hypothesis." Her denialism is well documented, but she conceals her beliefs in order to fool the mainstream media into allowing her to promote them in print.
Farber's main contribution to the AIDS denialist movement is to broadcast their views to the general public in the disguise of objective journalism. In her writing for the popular press, she has consistently and deceptively refused to fully disclose her deep involvement with, and her role as a spokesperson for, the denialist camp. She has also evaded explaining clearly her own understanding or beliefs about HIV and AIDS. Instead, she allows other denialists to make the case for her in extended, laudatory quotes, while maintaining the pretense that she is just an objective reporter asking honest questions, and one who is unfairly abused for her honesty:
All I ever did was follow and report, with what some may consider excessive attention, the vital debate about whether HIV is the cause of AIDS. And whether AZT is a viable therapy for those who are HIV antibody positive. And whether being HIV antibody positive is the same as "having" HIV. And whether "having" HIV necessarily means your immune system is decaying. Etc. I consider all of these questions to be very straightforward, logical, and of obvious importance. I simply picked up a thread and followed it. (Farber , "AIDS Inc." 1994).
Farber's disingenuous claim to "follow and report" on an issue in which she is deeply committed to one side is one she has tried to maintain even as the Harper's Magazine piece brought new attention to the denialist clique. She is reported in The New York Times as saying that she "does not endorse [denialist Peter] Duesberg's position but is simply reporting on an unpopular view. 'People can't distinguish, it seems, between describing dissent and being dissent [sic],'" she wrote in an email to the reporter, Lia Miller. But in fact, people can distinguish between reportage and the party line, and Farber has always toed the latter. She has for two decades consistently attacked medicine, belittled scientific research and enthusiastically promoted denialists and their various claims. There is nothing even remotely balanced in her work.
Despite the denialist motive that drives her writing, Farber lacks the courage of her convictions and won't publicly stand behind the denialist ideology she promotes so relentlessly. She even cravenly disclaims her own positions when cornered. In a recent email she sent to a wide circulation list, she wrote of her Harper's Magazine article, "It does not, for example, say that all AIDS drugs are ghastly, or worthless." No, perhaps not in those exact words, but Farber is being disingenuous. What her article does say is "Duesberg thinks that up to 75 percent of AIDS cases in the West can be attributed to drug toxicity. If toxic AIDS therapies were discontinued, he says, thousands of lives could be saved virtually overnight." In the same email, she asserted "In each article [in the past] where I have addressed HAART I have included, clearly, the fact that the regimens have absolutely helped people who are very sick." That statement's as absolutely false as it is hypocritical. For example, in an article about HAART published in 2000, she made two comments about the benefits of antiretroviral drugs:
There are facts and figures, studies and counter-studies, a virtual blizzard of data that could be arranged to show any number of things. The new AIDS drugs have saved people's lives: that's one piece of truth. The new AIDS drugs have killed people: that's another. The new AIDS drugs have damaged and deformed some people so badly that although they are alive, they wish they were dead.
And:
Precisely what it means for a life to be "saved" is complicated, especially when the patient was not sick to begin with. As [German denialist Claus] Koehnlein wryly commented, "If you treat completely healthy people you can claim great therapeutic success."
Both of these statements, spun by sarcasm, are in effect claims that no people with HIV/AIDS have benefited from HAART, which is a blatant lie.
Farber has tried to portray herself as a neutral observer to The New York Times and critics by claiming she merely presents the contradictory views of others for the edification of the reader. But when we reviewed 34 articles about AIDS by Farber, we found that the clear thesis and topic of every single one was some variant of AIDS denialism--HIV does not cause AIDS; AIDS doesn't exist; there is no heterosexual AIDS; there is no AIDS epidemic in Africa; HIV is not transmitted by sex or by semen or by breast milk; HIV does not exist...
Farber's writing style typically highlights extensive quotes from denialists, whom she describes in warm, laudatory and respectful terms and whose claims are given great credence. By contrast, she consistently attacks legitimate HIV science, medicine, researchers and AIDS activists. Occasionally, she takes the words of legitimate doctors and advocates out of context to support the denialist argument. All of this is held together with her grandiose narrative of her Quest for The Truth: This, she says, "is my private hell, but also my great Sisyphean challenge. My labyrinth…" (Berkowitz: "Interview" 2000).
Celia Farber wants the world to regard her as a courageous and objective investigative journalist, but in reality she's nothing more than a lying propagandist for the denialist mini-movement. What is shocking is that Harper's Magazine's editors fell for this scam.
Roger Hodge: In Cahoots or Just Incompetent?
Roger Hodge, Farber's editor and, sadly, the man replacing Harper's Magazine's legendary editor Lewis Lapham, has defended his ignominious debut by claiming that he is merely airing an important controversy. It is not yet clear if he actually shares Farber's denialism or was, by failing to exercise due diligence, merely deceived by her masquerade as a journalist. Quite possibly, both of these things are true. On the question of HIV as the cause of AIDS, he told Gay City News "I don't feel like I am qualified to judge it"-a dodge similar to Farber's feints when she's in the headlights. The New York Times reported that "Mr. Hodge said the magazine stood behind the article and Ms. Farber. 'The fact that she's been covering this story does not make her a crackpot - it makes her a journalist. She's a courageous journalist, I believe, because she has covered the story at great personal cost.'"
Hodge also continues to assert the accuracy of the article against the overwhelming evidence presented to him that the piece is a farrago of fabrications, errors and innuendo. Gay City News reported that he said: "It was very, very thoroughly fact-checked over the course of three months. … A lot of what people are describing as errors are differences of opinion about the data." But his fact-checkers were either biased or incompetent, because at least 58 scientific and non-scientific howlers made it into print (www.aidstruth.org). Did Farber provide Hodge with her own list of "experts" to consult as fact-checkers? Or did Hodge select them based on his own knowledge of science and medicine? In either case, this vital task in the editing of any article was thoroughly botched.
If all it takes to get a science-bashing article into the new, dumbed-down Harper's Magazine is to warm-over baseless conspiracy theories and wild speculation, then we can expect the next issue to feature a piece from the Discovery Institute that promotes Intelligent Design – let's teach the controversy, brave Sir Roger! And perhaps he'll offer space to the oft-maligned Holocaust denialists, too, who make the same claim that legitimate scholars will not pay attention to their theories.
Hodge's quotes in Gay City News reveal that he still sees AIDS denialism as something honorable, a case of the little guy taking on the big bad wolves of the federal government and the pharmaceutical industry, standing up to be counted, risking it all for the sake of the truth and freedom of speech. If this were true, Hodge would have the full support of all of us, for we share this predisposition. We, like most scientists and AIDS activists, are liberals and progressives. That's why it's so difficult for us to accept that Harper's Magazine, a journal aimed at liberal intellectuals, would print Farber's article. The AIDS denialists are not honest dissidents, and they tarnish the word by using it. In South Africa, they even have tried to link their dissidence to that of Nelson Mandela, as if the two positions could in any way be equated. And when it comes to craven profiteering and the unethical exploitation of people with HIV, the denialists' champions, such as Matthias Rath and David Rasnick, take the cake.
Where Roger Hodge got it so badly wrong was to allow such an obviously error-ridden and biased article into a once-reputable magazine. In the circumstances, Hodge should now do what is honorable and resign for the sake of his magazine's reputation. He's proven himself not up to the task of editing an article. He's proven unable to exercise intelligent judgment about scientific discourse, medicine, public health and the HIV epidemic. He's proven himself gullible and sloppy by being fooled by a writer he told Gay City News he's known for "many years." Perhaps you knew Farber both too well and not well enough, Roger? And perhaps, Lewis Lapham, you knew Roger both too well and not well enough when bequeathing your legacy to him?
Jeanne Bergman, PhD, Health GAP, New York, NY
John P. Moore, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York
Well done Celia... keep on digging.....
"Momentaneamente assente" – By Paola Marchi
THANATOS Exhibition, Bar Ecuador (Massa).
The artist does not show herself as a unity, but fragments herself. The viewer is faced with a split and multiplied face, trapped behind letters and dark backgrounds. This decomposition evokes the duplication typical of psychic defense mechanisms: one part of the self remains visible, the other withdraws into the void.
In this withdrawal, the conceptual and philosophical act is fulfilled: the word contradicts the image and the image contradicts the word. Declaring oneself "absent" attests to a vigilant presence watching those who are looking. Language becomes a physical cage, a subtraction in which the artist decides where to disappear and where to show herself, transforming the void into a space of resistance.
Possible reactions of the viewer
Faced with this dynamic, the artwork does not impose a single emotional response, but triggers different psychological dynamics and reactions depending on the viewer's sensitivity:
* The uncanny effect or protective detachment: For a portion of the audience, those wide-open eyes emerging from the dark background and piercing the canvas can trigger a feeling of vulnerability, shifting the observer from the role of the subject who looks to that of the object being examined. Conversely, in other visitors, it can trigger a reaction of intellectual detachment or protective calm, perceiving the writing as a legitimate shield behind which the artist defends her inaccessibility and right to silence.
* Mirroring or repulsion: The fragmentation of the self-portrait behind the golden letters can generate a sense of familiar recognition of one's own dark areas and repressed internal conflicts. On the other hand, the work can provoke a movement of rejection and repulsion when faced with the exposing of those unconscious mechanisms of duplication that each of us implements in daily life.
* Anxiety of loss or fascination with subtraction: The violent contrast between the rigorous black and white of the faces and the textured orange of the wall behind them amplifies the visceral tension of the display. This aesthetic dissonance can make the viewer fluctuate between the anxiety of the dissolution of the Self and the fascination with voluntary subtraction, demonstrating how disappearance is not nothingness, but a necessary psychic transition.
The social reaction: rejecting the system
Then there is a visceral and collective reaction that sparks when reading that "MOMENTANEAMENTE ASSENTE" right in the face of this rotten society. In a broken system that imposes hyper-presence, total availability, and the constant commodification of the image and the soul, declaring oneself absent becomes an act of open rebellion. Those who look at the artwork can feel a profound sense of liberation or a surge of shared anger: Paola Marchi's absence turns into a refusal to play along with a cynical society that swallows the individual whole. Withdrawing, hiding the face, and reclaiming one's own void is not a cowardly escape, but a frontal assault: it is the only remaining way to avoid being consumed, to say no, and to defend one's truth from the background noise of a hypocritical world.
July 02, 2016
Disingenuous:
[dis-in-jen-yoo-uh s]
adjective
1. lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere
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I always find it amusing when products advertise themselves to be 'squirrel proof', I've yet to see any bird feeder that deters the squirrels.
They're resourceful and pretty clever when it comes to getting to the food.
This feeder had a label letting me know that the squirrels wouldn't be able to figure it out, but the instant I saw it, I knew the squirrels wouldn't have an issue with this one.
I was right, within 2 days they had this thing figured out and were chowing down. No worries, there's plenty more feeders in the garden and the squirrels tend to favour this one, so the birds aren't going hungry!
Hope everyone has had a good day.
Click "L" for a larger view.