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It's great to see individuals express their individuality and identity within a subculture through fashion.
A subculture is a group of people that differentiate themselves through their own norms and values while keeping a number of the parent culture's principles.
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Zen Mind
Zen mind is the "Natural" state of our beings: No self, no identity, no memes, no beliefs.
Any idea of "what is" takes us away from what is - to be in the moment, all ideas need to be gone. There's not even an "I" to have the ideas.
The natural being acts as an outcome of the movement of the universe, in the same way that an artist's brush is moved by its "universe".
All "teachings", "spiritual" paths or "sacred" practices actually take us away from the moment, because it needs an "I" to do them, with an agenda of some kind, something to gain. All of which removes our beingness from the identity-free moment.
The only way that "what is" can be experienced is to lose all traces of self, in which case the "what is" can't be experienced because there is no one there to experience it.
Any description of the state of the natural mind is false, including this one. "It" cannot be described. "It" is always "bigger" than the limiting description.
There is not even an "ultimate" state to gain, because the very idea that there is, takes us away from it.
All there is, is the operation of the universe in its all-ness. There's no such thing as "enlightened" or "unenlightened". These are just ideas of what is.
Even "bliss" or "transcendence" is a state of mind that needs an "I" to experience those feelings.
Thoughts are the glue of our belief structures. "I" is the creation of thoughts and beliefs.
What's happening, when we think we are functioning human beings, is the operating system of the brain, running sophisticated meme/belief structures that create the content of our identities and sense of self.
The only act awareness can "do" is to let go of "self" awareness. Awareness, to be fully there, needs to have no "I" attached to it.
Where there was self, there is now "active" emptiness.
Action, from this place, is an instantaneous, pure response to the call of the moment. It is the moment, the universe acting, not the person.
True peace is an absence of agitation, an absence of self-generated internal activity. So peace cannot be "done", or created - it's an absence of doing. This allows unadulterated "what-is" to be.
All action out of this state is completely harmonious and non-conflicting. There is nothing there to conflict with anything else.
A transcended being feels the world cleanly, whereas an "I", full of beliefs and ideas of self, overlays those unadulterated feelings with external content, imbuing them with emotional "charge". This charge is reactive to the world around it, continually creating conflict as it attempts to dissipate.
Whatever is actual or real can only be there when all ideas, all thoughts, all belief, all traces of identity are gone - when there is no "I" left to take us out of the moment. If the eternal now moment is all there is, this may be the only way to be in it.
Thought is only necessary, only of any use, when it is called for by the moment, for a particular task. To keep thinking beyond the particular call of the moment is the same as keeping your arm above your head all the time, or hopping on one leg all the time.
What comes out of the moment relates only to that moment. It's already past and nonexistent as it is experienced. To hold to anything experienced or said in that moment, is to live in the dead past.
If you can't touch it, show it, taste it, does it have any reality?
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340.365 // Y3 // 01.02.2011
Today marks the beginning of Project SoulPancake! It is a 52 week project of challenges in which we will tackle art, philosophy, creativity, spirituality and most importantly, the self.
The challenge for the very first week is to "Closely Admire Your Fingerprints". This set a lot of cogs whirling in my head, but the most persistent was that of contact: what and who we touch. I thought about the role that fingerprints play at crime scenes, how they show who was there, what they touched, what happened. Throughout today I spent time thinking about exactly what I touch in an average day, and the list is endless! From my clothes when I'm getting dressed in the morning, to the pen I use to sign-in at work; from the photo-copier I use on a daily basis, to the cutlery I use when I eat; from the brush I use to brush my hair, to the three cats that I stroke when I get home, from the keyboard I spend my day typing on, to the piano keys I play when I feel like a bit of Chopin.
These touches, as well, mark us as individuals in the same was as our fingerprints do: no person would touch the exact same objects/people in one day, and even if they did, they would not touch them in the same places, nor in the same way.
Anyway, there's my obligatory ramble!
Project SoulPancake: Week 1, Closely Admire Your Fingerprints.
Bear with me for a few thoughts. Or, don't.
Photography, as with any creative pursuit, is a form of personal expression. And expression helps to define one's identity.
This image helps to define me. Any image that you post... will help to define you. Even an image posted without a title, without a description, will help me to define you. Who you may be, or strive to be. Who you've been. There are so many decisions that go into the creation of a photograph, decisions that describe you. The subjects you choose, the angles you find, the perspectives you search for, the light you seek, the processing you use. In this way, I start to learn which places you like to go, which activities you pursue, how you go about pursuing them, and most importantly, how you see the world. Are you a dreamer, or a realist? An optimist, a pessimist? Are you moody, lonely, in love? Some photographs may only form a sentence about you. Others form entire chapters. And some only leave questions, but even the questions are informative, in describing you.
Add in words, and your complexity increases. A simple title can speak volumes - your choice of that. Do you quote authors, poems, songs? Do your tags round out the image? And your description - of course, that can contain multitudes. Or it may say less than the image itself. It may even contradict the image, and that's alright as well. The most important things I may learn from you, and you from me, are not necessarily found in the words you choose to describe an image, but rather in the form of the image itself. Your words may lie, they may paint a prettier scene than what exists, or a darker scene. But your image, that photograph you share, with me, with all of us - there is a secret language there.
It is even possible, over time, for a person's images to inspire more than a simple mutual understanding. It is possible for photography to inspire love. Is that so far-fetched, really? If you pay close enough attention, you may learn much of a person through their creative expression - their voice, their views on the world, their dreams and heart. It's an ideal, of course, and we all exist in many forms outside of ideal, but the foundation of that is solid enough, real enough, and if given the chance, ever-lasting.
So I say to you - I may not know all of you, out there, very well. But through your photography, I learn a little more about you every day. With or without words, your images speak, your images make an impact. Sometimes they are uplifting. Sometimes they are wounding. They are reflections of your character, your aspirations, your fears, your past and present. They reveal you, whether or not you intend them to. Be honest and careful with your heart, for it will show in your images, and you will attract those who admire you for it. Be inspired, and look for inspiration in others. Find echoes of yourself in the art of others, let those images move you, and then move others to do the same.
And this image... this image was taken along the trail up Dog Mountain. I could tell you what it says about me, but that would defeat the purpose of this little essay.
MASQUERADE: DISCOVER YOUR OTHER.
Young people from GYRO have responded to the Keith Haring exhibition through interactive workshops.
The work presented in Tate Exchange explores the various ways that young LGBTQ+ people express themselves. The young people wanted to share that their LGBTQ+ identities are very important to them and that they do not exist in isolation from the rest of their identity.
Visitors to Tate Exchange will be encouraged to explore their own identities through a series of activities.
Tate Exchange Liverpool
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Liverpool L3 4BB
4–10 November 2019
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Interesting images, but I didn't know what LGBTQ+ stood for.
So "Google" provided the answer:
People often use LGBTQ+ to mean all of the communities included in the “LGBTTTQQIAA”:
Lesbian
Gay
Bisexual
Transgender
Transsexual
2/Two-Spirit
Queer
Questioning
Intersex
Asexual
Ally
+ Pansexual
+ Agender
+ Gender Queer
+ Bigender
+ Gender Variant
+ Pangender
LGBTQ is the more commonly used term in the community; possibly because it is more user friendly --------------- your not joking there.
----------- And I thought we were all just people, turns out to be a whole lot more complicated.
I wonder why people want to be classified at all? What's wrong with just being you ?
Well I guess that these days everybody has a right to be whatever they want to be; but I can see it creating all sorts of problems that we as a society may not want to face.
A pair of MARC RDCs purchased from NJ Transit and also lettered for the PRSL sit at the Riverside Shops in Baltimore back in 1990.
This was the fun rainbow era of MARC, where F and E units rubbed shoulders with RDCs, and leased CSX freight motors.It was over way too soon as a fleet of MK-rebuilt GP40WH-2s and then later MPI MP36PH-3Cs descended upon Charm City and the variety went elsewhere.
How does one feel about national identity ?
Personally, I’d identify myself mainly as Scottish, then European - though occasionally British (currently with a degree of embarrassment, sadly)
Hi everyone! Before I post some bigger medieval mocs which are really cool btw, I present to you, built for the Monthly Prompt of RebelLUG: True Identity. I'm so dissapointed in the photoquality which is really blurry, but still pretty proud of the edit, figure posing and the road. The prompt was 'Mirror'.
Let me know what you think of it below!
“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”
Apart from the fact I do not have a proper ID for this character , he has an identity crisis of his own . Yes this chap thinks he is a bird ! Well i did take his picture at the bird hide on Bookham Common .
Entrance of the shop and the port wine cellars of Sandeman in Vila Nova de Gaia on the south bank of the Douro river, City of Porto, Portugal
Some background information:
Sandeman is a trading company specializing in wine and spirits, particularly Spanish and Portuguese fortified wines such as sherry, port, and Madeira, as well as brandy and red wines from the Douro region. The company was founded in 1790. Its well known logo features a caped man known as "The Don" dressed in a Portuguese student's cape and a wide traditional Andalusian type hat. Besides Port and Sherry wines, it also produces Brandy and Madeira wine. Brothers George and David Sandeman from Perth, Scotland, founded the company in 1790 with £300. David left the company in 1798 to found the Commercial Bank of Scotland leaving George in sole charge.
Branches were soon established in Cádiz, Spain, in 1795, and in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal, in 1811. In 1953, Sandeman bought the port company Robertson Brothers. Initially passed to his nephew, George Glas Sandeman, Sandeman remained a family business until bought out by the drinks company Seagram in 1979. In 2001 the operation was sold to Sogrape by Diageo and Pernod Ricard who had acquired it from Seagram. A descendant of the founder family, George Thomas David Sandeman, is a member of the board of Sogrape Vinhos S.A.
Porto, also known as Oporto, is the second largest city in Portugal, after Lisbon. It is located along the Douro River estuary in northern Portugal, about 280 km (174 miles) north of Lisbon. With an estimated pospulation of 250,000, Porto’s city center is rather small, compared to its metropolitan area, which has around 1.8 million residents. Porto has one of the oldest European centres. Its core was proclaimed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996, as the "Historic Centre of Porto, Luiz I Bridge and Monastery of Serra do Pilar".
Port wine, one of Portugal's most famous exports, is named after Porto, since the metropolitan area, and in particular the cellars of Porto’s quarter Vila Nova de Gaia, were responsible for the packaging, transport, and export of fortified wine. It is typically a sweet red wine, often served with dessert, although it also comes in dry, semi-dry, and white varieties. Famous port wine brands are among others Sandeman, Cockburn’s, Graham’s, Fonseca, Offley, Ferreira and Quinta do Noval.
Proto-Celtic and Celtic people were among the first known inhabitants of the area of Porto. However, archaeological findings from the 8th century BC hint at a Phoenician trading settlement. During the Roman era, the city developed as an important commercial port, primarily in the trade between Olissipona (the modern Lisbon) and Bracara Augusta (the modern Braga).
Following the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, Porto fell under Muslim control in 716, but was reconquered by Alfonso I of Asturias in 741. Thus Porto became a border settlement, occasionally invaded and conquered by the Muslim Moors. In 1092, during the so-called Reconquista, the area finally came under Christian rule, initially as part of the Kingdom of León. In 1093, Teresa of León, illegitimate daughter of the king Alfonso VI of Castile, married Henry of Burgundy, bringing the County of Portugal as dowry.
After eventually expanding its current frontiers and conquering additonal territory inhabited by the Moors for centuries, the county became the independent Kingdom of Portugal at the beginning of the 12th century. At that time, Porto also became one of the hubs of the Reconquista led by Afonso I Henriques, the first King of Portugal. In 1370, during the reign of King Ferdinand I, the new, expanded, and reinforced city walls, known as the Muralhas Fernandinas (in English: "Ferdinandine Walls"), were completed.
In 1387, Porto was the site of the marriage of John I of Portugal and Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt. This marital bond symbolized a long-standing military alliance between Portugal and England. In the 14th and 15th centuries, Porto's shipyards contributed to the development of Portuguese shipbuilding. In 1415, Prince Henry the Navigator embarked from the port of Porto on the conquest of the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco. This expedition was followed by navigation and exploration along the western coast of Africa, initiating the Portuguese Age of Discovery.
By the 13th century, the wine produced in the nearby Douro valley had already been transported to Porto in so-called barcos rabelos (flat sailing vessels). In 1703, the Methuen Treaty established trade relations between Portugal and England and strengthened both countries‘ military alliance. The production of port wine then gradually passed into the hands of a few English firms.
To counter this dominance, the Portuguese Prime Minister Marquis of Pombal established a monopolistic Portuguese firm, the Douro Wine Company in 1756 to receive all the wines from the Douro valley. He demarcated the region for the production of port, to ensure the wine's quality, which was the first attempt to control wine quality and production in Europe, almost a century ahead of a similar exercise in Bordeaux. The small winegrowers revolted against his strict policies on Shrove Tuesday, burning down the buildings of the Douro Wine Company. The revolt became known as the Revolta dos Borrachos (in English: "Revolt of the Drunkards").
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the city became an important industrial center and hence, its size and population increased. The invasion of the Napoleonic troops in Portugal brought war to the city of Porto. In 1809, when the population fled from the advancing French troops and tried to cross the river Douro over the Ponte das Barcas, the bridge collapsed under the weight of the people and almost 4,000 residents of Porto died in the floods of the Douro river. In the Second Battle of Porto, which too place still in the same year, the French Army was thrown out of the city by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and his Anglo-Portuguese Army.
In 1820, the Liberal Revolution began in Porto. The revolutionaries demanded the return of King John VI of Portugal, who had transferred the royal court to the Portuguese colony of Brazil since the French invasions, and also a constitutional monarchy to be set up in Portugal. But after the new constitution had been accepted in 1822, the new Portuguese King Miguel I rejected this constitution in 1828 and reigned as an anti-liberal, absolutist monarch.
Porto rebelled again and had to undergo a siege of eighteen months by the absolutist army. After successfully resisting the siege in 1833, King Miguel I had to abdicate and the liberal constitution was re-established. However, not bevore 1910, the monarchy was overthrown and Portugal became a republic. In 1919, forces favorable to the restoration of the monarchy launched a counter-revolution in Porto known as the Monarchy of the North. During this time, Porto was the capital of the restored kingdom, but the monarchy was deposed less than a month later and no other monarchist revolution in Portugal happened again.
Today, Porto is the most important industrial city in the country, thanks to its textile, leather goods, metal, food, and chemical industries, its oil refinery as well as the overseas port Porto de Leixões. The university, the art academy, museums, theaters, and the opera also emphasise Porto's status as a major cultural and scientific center. But it’s mainly the export of port wine and its beautiful UNESCO-protected old town, to which Porto ows its appeal to visitors from everywhere.
The final images for my uni project on portrait identity. I focused on a loss of identity photographing people from a distance and height- the 17th floor of a car park ! To get consistency they were all taken on the same day in the same conditions with the same 200mm lens.
"For nothing is evil in the beginning."
Elrond, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
EXPLORE Jan 28, 2009 #87
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I am not sure about this one.maybe I'll delete it the morning. :)
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Thank you Stephen for suggestions.You were right. :)
Film
Wow. The last time I uploaded was mid-December. I never even thought I could go three months without flickr, but I think this break served to be useful.
I wasn't happy with the pictures I was uploading. It felt more like a chore, than something I enjoyed.
I'm still not sure where I stand with photography. I adore this art, sometimes more than writing, which is a tough thing to beat. I want to truly to this for myself; not for a project, or for others. But rather, a sense of accomplishment, and pride, when I look a something I have created. So I'm quitting my 52 Weeks, which is a good thing, because I'm like 20 weeks behind. Haha.
I enrolled in a photo class this Spring semester, and for the past two months I have learned so much. I can develop film, and print photos in a dark room, and nothing is more satisfying than that. I love digital photography, but I haven't picked up my digital camera in three months. But when summer rolls around, I plan to. Honestly though, if you haven't developed film and printed it on your own, I suggest taking a class and learning to do so. It's incredible, and really brings a smile to my face.
Anyway, I hope that you guys are all doing well. I have checked in on your work every now and again, and it's still amazing! Hopefully I can catch up on all of it during my up-coming spring break.
I'll probably upload more pictures from my Photography class. :)
Cami Hairbow
Hair - Olivia-L
Delicious tears
Don't Cross Me Necklace
Grace Shirt
Grace Skirt
Cleo Sandals
After having a breakdown (a nervous breakdown perhaps!) MDS862V was abandoned in a corner of Stepps depot. It was cannibalised, but it was decided to put it back on the road. It was in the process of being rebuilt and repainted when snapped. It would eventually be rebuilt as a National Greenway.
Here's a Canadian National M338 train on the CN Freeport Subdivision at Burlington, IL, heading eastbound to Chicago and eventually to Gary, IN. He's about to knock down the ABS block signal as it passes by the old train depot, now used as a township office.
Note the engine lettering under the cab window: NS. It's a SD90MAC that Norfolk Southern purchased from Union Pacific (and after NS got it, they only patched the words "Union Pacific" in matching yellow paint, but not their logo "We Will Deliver", clearly seen here), and then gave it to the CN to satisfy/burn off horsepower hours.
Thus, we see 4 railroads represented here: CN, NS with the lead engine, but in the original UP paint scheme, and the Illinois Central block signal.
Weather at the time of this photograph: +1 degree Fahrenheit, wind chill -15 degrees.
So I finally painted my Lusis blank face plate always been planned to be the alternate face for Feli (Unoa Akubi face), so I started doing a similar face up using same colors and a bit of freckles as I did on Feli... AND... again... the doll said "NO" - doesn't wants to be the neko girl. Doesnt suits her! ;)
What am I going to do? I only have one Unoa body and not planning buying /having anymore msds. LOL I would have done totally different face up if I didn't have Feli in mind!
So, here she is - Feli with no cattitude, still undefined ;]