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2019 oct 16
abstract optical materialism paintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Jenna 2.8/ 50mm
342. The present time as a modern time, that is, an antitraditional time in the extreme, is the time of negative dominances. And it holds true even on the level of the most base profanities: for example, a young and healthy man feels bad much more often than good, he is much rather depressive, sad and gloomy than luminous, happy and joyous.
343. The present age - as René Guénon put it - »is the crisis of the modern world«. Yet, the modern world without any inner crises is ab ovo the crisis of the world itself. When the crisis itself gets into crisis, it will not come about in the sense as if a traditional world were to take the place of the modern world but in the sense that the modern world as one built on materialism - that is on a view representing lifelessness, destruction and even active forces of death - reached a phase when the destructive and necrotising forces let loose by materialism are starting to disintegrate modern world itself.
344. Modernity is not a stiffened, static reality, but a dynamic process, which is continuously working to make itself darker and darker.
345. Descent is not merely a monotonous descent. Phases of sudden halts, sharp falls and slow descents are changing - but these take place in the process of a monotonous descent.
346. Exactly as in the demential phase of paralysis progressiva there are lucida intervalla, but they come about more and more raerly and are less and less luminous, in just the same way in the last phase of the Kali-yuga there can be lucida intervalla, but those who examine processes in their total coherence cannot be deceived by these.
347. Modernity is maximal just now.
348. Once darkening could be perceived in fifty or a hundred years. Now it is perceivable every five years.
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Notre Dame is one of my favorite places of Paris. When I lived there years ago I used to go inside regularly and sit down to enjoy the cool darkness and the deeply nourishing atmosphere and quiet. In recent visits to Paris, I still enter beautiful Notre Dame at least once, to go listen to the soprano singing vespers and just to be there. It has less to do with religion for me, and much more to do with the amazing beauty of this structure, and the energy one can feel.
The special energy of this sacred space has grown over the centuries as people of all faiths and walks of life have gone inside to connect with something ineffable but tangible, and greater than themselves.
And if you have a chance to visit at around 5:30 or 6:00 PM sit down and wait for the soprano to come sing solo accompanied by the organ, and let the sound wash through you. It is exquisitely beautiful. Although I don't understand the Latin words, the feeling is so very very sincere and moving. Wondrous!
Little secret for those of you who love to find the golden treasures from the angels: look for the little chapel of La Vierge de Lourdes. It's inside along the north wall, near the entrance. Stay there a long while very quietly and watch the candles and the statue, and see what happens. Millions have prayed there. It is a mindspace of gossamer energy that soaks your soul in radiance. What a gift that place can be if one is willing to receive. I left the cathedral with eyes of Wonder.
[Tout simplement dit, j'adore Notre Dame. Un de mes lieux preferes a Paris, j'y retourne chaque fois que j'ai l'occasion de visiter Paris. Et la derniere fois que j'y etais, je me suis trouvee devant la chapelle de la Vierge de Lourdes, tout tranquilement pendant longtemps. Le passe' - le present - et le future s'effondraient ensemble .... le temps passait et le temps ne passait pas. Dificile de m'arracher de cette orbe d'energie bienfaisante. Quand je suis sortie de la Cathdrale, je me suis sentie changee. Dans notre age de materialism regie par la Raison, il est heureusement toujours possible d'etre touche' par les Anges. Ils sont tres tres pres. On doit simplement laisse' la porte ouverte.]
Information about Notre Dame here: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cath%c3%a9drale_Notre-Dame_de_Paris
Here is a link to a wonderful series of old maps of the historic center of Paris, showing the development around the Ile de la Cite and Ile St. Louis from the 1400's to the 1800's.
abstract optical materialism paintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/50mm
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Alternate take on this week's Smile on Saturday challenge, Music For My Eyes.
"Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same..."
The 1972 Malvina Reynolds song, “Little Boxes on the Hillside” criticized the homogenization of a culture obsessed with materialism and upward mobility that was displacing any sense of character, place or individuality, set to a self-referentially folksy tune. Things have gotten even more homogeneous in the years since that song was popular. It is also the theme for the TV series "Weeds."
Music Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoXtddNPAM
Intro by Christopher Columbus (a voice from the distant past): “Holy shit, Eureka! I discovered the America!
I enslaved the Indians. Fuck it! I did it for the profit!”
Wacky Chucky: “I am a fearless warrior and a peerless spy
My codename is 666 A Good Guy
I am a great révolutionnaire
I steal from rotten millionaires
It ain't no crime, I keep just a dime,
The rest I share, for the poor people I care
Fuck off Bernie Madoff, you bamboozled many people
Because of you many families are literally fucked, it’s a brutal fact
With your act you pissed off my pal American Ninja Aka Michael Dudikoff
Your Ponzi scheme attracted many citizens
Who were hungry for the mendacious American dream
You’ll be remembered forever and ever
As an antagonist in a story with a sad theme”
Che Guevara: “Materialism and capitalism are worse than fascism and Nazism”
Super Gran: “We are falling apart slowly
Unholy world became like a game of Monopoly
In which avaricious banks are honest like a deceptive Judas's kiss
People are slaves running for the worthless printed money like a blind monkeys”
Wacky Chucky: “In violence for justice I trust, my drug is a music from Angel Dust
I'm especially addicted to the Pentagram’s song Bloodlust
God bless Second Amendment, baseball & Heineken
I am a real American better known in the media as Mr. Ruffian
I do what is right I fight against imperialists and capitalists
In the combat li'l ol' me kick villainous butts with baseball bat
Like a mean Punisher I attack with the fire extinguisher
I don't choose the means but dammit, I admit I am keen on M-16
Furthermore, I was born ready for the war
I use fists, spanner and hammer, knife, pistol & shuriken…
You better run as fast as you can
My biggest opponents are Democrats and Republicans
CIA & FBI agreed that I need to die
They unsuccessfully hired a hitman Ninja Ryukenden
Martial artist died quickly with honor before I even count to ten
Little ol' me is a nuts rhymer adored by Wu-Tang Clan”
To be continued
Song recommended by Wacky Chucky: Russ Ballard - Once A Rebel
I've said in a previous seascape (one of the Phillip Island series) that the German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich is one of my favourite artists. In this shot I have in mind his enigmatic painting, "Monk By the Sea".
www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticis...
Here is another almost abstract shot, where line, form and colour are critical to the composition.
Neil Kent writes that Friedrich "came of age during a period when, across Europe, a growing disillusionment with materialistic society was giving rise to a new appreciation of spirituality. This shift in ideals was often expressed through a reevaluation of the natural world, as artists such as Friedrich, J. M. W. Turner and John Constable sought to depict nature as a 'divine creation, to be set against the artifice of human civilization'."
That quote sums up what I feel is a similar experience for people today. Rationalist Materialism has stripped us of our spiritual hopes and dreams and replaced it with consumerism. As we've seen in recent days, this resulting Nihilism produces bad fruit indeed. Ego, greed, selfishness and in the end the destruction of the human soul itself.
I had an inkling (there's a word the secularists hate) as I looked out on this scene last Saturday night, that I saw Caspar's ghost walking along the stone field like the monk in his painting. And I also thought of Hamlet.
When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.
You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man’s self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred—like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible governments have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.
From Mere Christianity
Compiled in A Year with C.S. Lewis
Lancing College was founded by Nathaniel Woodard, curate at Shoreham-by-Sea, in 1848. He went on to establish what is now the Woodard Corporation of schools and academies.
In his 'Plea for the Middle Classes' Woodard had argued the need for more, and less exclusive, independent schools. In these 'the teaching and practice of the Catholic faith, as it is expressed in the Book of Common Prayer', was to be central. Dedicated to Saints Mary and Nicholas, after the beautiful ancient churches of Shoreham, the school moved to its present positon in 1857. The Founder believed in the educational value of 'correct buildings' and employed RC Carpenter as architect of the College. It was his son RH (Herbert) Carpenter and his partner William Slater who completed the design for the Chapel as the place of worship for Lancing College and the Central Minster of all the schools founded by Woodard or associated with his foundation. It is intended as a symbol of faith and a challenge to materialism.
The style of the Chapel was described by Sir George Oatley as 'a perfect blend between the lightness and elegance of the early French Gothic and the strength and muscularity added to it on the soil of England'. The foundation stone was laid in 1868 and the building was done by resident masons. Foundations up to 21m (70ft) deep hold the Chapel on its spectacularly eminent site. It is built of Sussex sandstone from Scaynes Hill. From its completion in 1875 the Crypt was used by the school, until the upper chapel was consecrated on 18 July 1911. Even then, the tower, originally planned to be 107m (350ft) high, and the west end were not built. Between 1921 and 1937 the War Memorial Cloister was built and the interior sumptuously furnished. In 1947 the Friends of Lancing Chapel commissioned a new design for the west end from Stephen Dykes Bower. His west wall and rose window were dedicated on 13 May 1978, but again this remarkable building was left unfinished. At last, on 23 April 2022 a west porch, designed by Michael Drury and constructed of Somerset limestone, was dedicated to complete the Chapel after nearly 154 years.
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__________ 1929 Auburn 8-120 Boattail Speedster__________
The ornamentation, as noted is a cross between or an eclectic mix of what might be called; “neo- Art Nouveau Art Deco classic”………..or in other words, “Appleman’s concoction”.
Art Nouveau An artistic movement borne in Europe around 1890 lasting until around 1910. A artistic style highlighted by curvaceous lines, often inspired by plants and flowers, as well as geometric patterns. It took on many different characteristics in different places, and some of the most famous designers from the era have disparate styles, including Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona, Josef Hoffmann in Vienna and Carlo Bugatti in Italy. And let us not forget internationally recognized artist, Alphonse Mucha, (24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist (one of whose work has been used as the backdrop for this artwork).
____________ The evolution of artistic design _____________
Art Deco Coming of age in the 1920’s - The “Roaring Twenties” representative of a period of social, artistic, cultural, and economic dynamism. “The Lindy Hop” and “The Lost Generation”. The economy was good - times were good. Money and despite the 13th Amendment (Prohibition) booze and dance clubs flowed across America and Europe. An era of bootlegging, gambling and mobsters.
The 20’s also ushered in a fruitful period for the arts, music, and writing. Popular among designers and architects, Art Deco threaded its way into every aspect of design, from women’s fashions, furniture style, architectural elements and yes, even automotive design. Art Deco went in bold new directions, and jazz music became all the rage. In literature, two popular movements or groups of writers arose: The Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance.
American literary notables who lived in Paris at the time, including Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein - expatriate authors who wrote novels and short stories expressing their resentment toward the materialism and individualism that was rampant during the era.
________________ The Bottom Falls Out ________________
October 24th, 1929 - “Black Tuesday,” Nervous investors began selling overpriced shares en masse, the stock market crash that some had feared eventually happened. A record 12.9 million shares were traded that day, known as “Black Tuesday.”
Five days later, on October 29th - “Black Thursday,” some 16 million shares were traded after another wave of panic swept Wall Street. Millions of shares ended up worthless, and those investors who had bought stocks “on margin” (with borrowed money) were wiped out completely.
Seemingly in the blink of an eye, millions of Americans were thrown into financial turmoil. Forced to buy on credit many Americans fell into debt, and the number of foreclosures and repossessions climbed steadily. The global adherence to the gold standard, which joined countries around the world in a fixed currency exchange, helped spread economic woes from the United States throughout the world, especially Europe.
No longer was the average citizen concerned with artistic style or design. They were much more concerned with; where is their next loaf of bread coming from. And more to the point - the automobile industry, many car manufacturers struggled to make ends meet. Many manufacturers had no choice. They were forced to “close their doors”, go out of business and file bankruptcy………or simply walk away and take their losses. Auburn Automobile Company struggled on until 1935 but due to its weakened financial condition finally succumbed to the pressures of E.L. Cord - Cord Automobile Company who took control of Auburn’s assets in what amounted to a “leveraged buyout”.
Afterword: Don’t be misled. The “crash” of 1929 did not wipe out everyone. Many enterprising wealthy businessmen made “millions” off the misfortunes of others. Millionaires became overnight billionaires.
Priced at under $2,000 the 1929 Auburn 8-120 Boattail Speedster was a bargain……… for some. A comparable Stutz cost nearly $5,000. The pictured car brought a healthy $341,000 USD at Hersey, Pennsylvania auction in 2019. RM Soheby’s
Hope ya’all enjoy ……………….
One of my favorite songs - Gypsie by Fleetwood Mac
"No PERFECT CAMERA? No PERFECT GEAR?....do not let materialism kill your creativity. Show the whole world your creativity through your photos and let us change the way others see things."
Hermes was the ancient Greek god of commerce. Notice the vaulted ceilings and artificial stars representing the heavens in his modern temple. Benevolent demigoddesses gaze down upon supplicants as they make their pilgrimage toward their chosen alters of worship.
Hermes' godly portfolio also included being a patron to thieves and leading the dead to the underworld. Seems that Greek poly-theology was onto something there with that combination.
Yes, I spent my afternoon in a mall yesterday. I bought a recent issue of Silvershotz magazine to peruse while I waited around. And a cup of tea. I hope that Hermes was at least somewhat pleased with me.
Sony DSC-W330
0.077 sec (1/13); f/2.7; 4.7 mm; ISO 100
2019 aug 11
abstract optical materialism macropaintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/50mm via extension tube
2020 apr 21
One more stretch-framing completed for possible exhibition in Oxford a few months down the line ..... hopefully.
macropaintograph - 'reprint the news' (2012)
So much nicer imho.
Times Square, Manhattan
I hope the corporations that can afford to advertise here can put aside some ad-money to help Haiti.
When you live in the city of glitz and glamour, it's hard to remember that in other parts of the world, people live with next to nothing.
Photo is psuedo HDR. Not processed with any HDR program. Simply pieced a few exposures together the way I wanted in Photoshop, then moved to Lightroom for post. It looks pretty awesome in BW too, but I just can't bring myself to sap the color.
Nikon D90 + Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8
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If you haven't noticed...this weekend we have been presented a grand event of viewing the 'Super-Moon'...so you may ask, what is a 'Super-Moon' ? This happens when a full moon coincides with it's closest approach to Earth. This weekend the moon will appear bigger...be 16% brighter & will increase the force of tides by 42%. It is also called the 'Buddha-Full-Moon'... from a luxurious life of materialism, the prince who became 'Buddha' gave it All up & nearly died in his search to achieve enlightenment. Today we know that it is not necessary to deny the body of basic needs...to become enlightened we simply must learn to detach ourselves from seeing materialism as wealth & embrace Truth... LOve, Peace, Compassion...Respect & Appreciation for the natural treasures of creation that Mother-Earth provides !~
We sure were blessed in the East Coast with clear skies this weekend...She's soooo beautiful tonight...LOvely Luna !!~
In the city centre of Copenhagen in Denmark.
Copenhagen was founded in 1167 by Bishop Absalon, who erected a fortress on Slotsholmen Island, fortifying a small and previously unprotected harbourside village. After the fortification was built, the harbourside village grew in importance and took on the name Kømandshavn (Merchant’s Port), which was later condensed to København. Absalon’s fortress stood until 1369, when it was destroyed in an attack on the town by the powerful Hanseatic states.
In 1376 construction began on a new Slotsholmen fortification, Copenhagen Castle, and in 1416 King Erik of Pomerania took up residence at the site, marking the beginning of Cop-enhagen’s role as the capital of Denmark.
Still, it wasn’t until the reign of Christian IV, in the first half of the 17th century, that the city was endowed with much of its splendour. A lofty Renaissance designer, Christian IV began an ambitious construction scheme, building two new castles and many other grand edifices, including the Rundetårn observatory and the glorious Børsen, Europe’s first stock exchange.
In 1711 the bubonic plague reduced Cop-enhagen’s population of 60, 000 by one-third. Tragic fires, one in 1728 and the other in 1795, wiped out large tracts of the city, including most of its timber buildings. However, the worst scourge in the city’s history is generally regarded as the unprovoked British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807, during the Napoleonic Wars. The attack targeted the heart of the city, inflicting numerous civilian casualties and setting hundreds of homes, churches and public buildings on fire.
Copenhagen flourished in the 19th and 20th centuries, expanding beyond its old city walls and establishing a reputation as a centre for culture, liberal politics and the arts. Dark times were experienced with the Nazi occupation of the city during WWII, although the city managed to emerge relatively unscathed.
During the war and in the economic depression that had preceded it, many Copenhagen neighbourhoods had deteriorated into slums. In 1948 an ambitious urban renewal policy called the ‘Finger Plan’ was adopted; this redeveloped much of the city, creating new housing projects interspaced with green areas of parks and recreational facilities that spread out like fingers from the city centre.
A rebellion by young people disillusioned with growing materialism, the nuclear arms race and an authoritarian educational system took hold in Copenhagen in the 1960s. Student protests broke out on the university campus and squatters occupied vacant buildings around the city. It came to a head in 1971 when protesters tore down the fence of an abandoned military camp at the east side of Christianshavn and began an occupation of the 41-hectare site, naming this settlement Christiania.
Information gained from www.lonelyplanet.com/denmark/copenhagen/history
I am currently on a business trip to a small town called Bidar in India. I only wish this distinctly average image did the vibe of the place justice, but it does not. A western face is an oddity here. A western face with a camera is really unusual. It is impossible to take candid photos, because everyone wants to pose and know where you are from. Each time I visit India I realise more that we put ourselves on a ridiculous treadmill of materialism in the west. People in India do not have the trappings of western life, but they are irrepressibly happy and optimistic. Taken with a Samyang 85mm f/1.4 lens. If the focus isn’t as good as it could be, I was more worried about whether I was about to get run over than I was about nailing focus!
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2019 oct 6
abstract optical materialism paintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/50mm
In 1965 poet Allen Ginsberg arranged for Larry Keenan and fellow student photographer Dale Smith to photograph him, Michael McClure and Bob Dylan in the alleyway behind City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. The images were never used. The session was arranged the night before at a party after Bob Dylan's concert at the Berkeley Community Theater.
Michael McClure (1932- ) is an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. His poetry is heavily infused with an awareness of nature. He has published eight books of plays, fourteen books of poetry and four collections of essays, including essays on Bob Dylan and the environment.
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of both the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s and the counterculture that soon would follow. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression.
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941- ) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and artist who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when he became a reluctant "voice of a generation" with songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" which became anthems for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement.
Larry Keenan is an internationally noted San Francisco Bay Area photographer. His prized photographs are in museums and private collections throughout the world.
Ferdinand Hodler (Bern, March 14, 1853 - Geneva, May 19, 1918) - Landscape with Lake Geneva (1916) - Oil on canvas 59.8 x 84.5 cm - Neue Pinakothek (Temporarily at Alte Pinakothek) Munich
Se segui la letteratura artistica dell'inizio del XX secolo, tre pittori vengono più volte menzionati in un sol colpo: Munch, Hodler, Kirchner. Con loro, una società delusa dal materialismo e dal positivismo scientifico del secolo scorso cerca di risalire a una penetrazione spirituale della realtà e dei suoi fenomeni. Oltre al "quadro interiore della realtà esterna" di Kirchner e alle rappresentazioni psicologicamente cariche di Munch, sono anche i paesaggi di Hodler che sembrano dare realtà, identità e un'anima.
If you follow the artistic literature of the early twentieth century, three painters are mentioned several times in one fell swoop: Munch, Hodler, Kirchner. With them, a society disappointed by the materialism and scientific positivism of the last century tries to trace back a spiritual penetration of reality and its phenomena. In addition to Kirchner's "inner picture of external reality" and Munch's psychologically charged representations, it is also Hodler's landscapes that seem to give reality, identity and soul.
Highgate Cemetery, London
The memorialisation of Karl Marx at the Highgate Cemetery is fascinating. There is this famous tomb, which was erected by the Communist Party in the 1950s.
And then there is the original grave of Marx, modest and almost unknown (or, at least, less valorised and much less visited).
The remains of Marx were disinterred and moved from the original grave to the tomb site in 1954.
TumbleWorld takes a twist. While the image has been splintered and faceted with the same technique as the other "TumbleWorld" images, this time that method is used to draw out metaphors. Fashion as Fascism, a world of Tumbled Value and Values. As we scan from left to right the image, already distorted, becomes less and less "human" and something more ... alien, more removed from the possibilities of basic human connection.
A "Mirror" treatment was used not only for strength of composition but also to further the "Fashion" metaphor - a world so self-absorbed with its own "reflection" in all aspects of its life. The popularity of "selfies", of which songs are written ( !!! ), smart phones and their screens which can also act as actual mirrors as well.... Our whole world now is ourselves. The Fascism of Anthropo-Centrism.
In our rush for Glamour we jettison the Human. This itself is a layered metaphor. There is not only the glamour of fashion and so called "Beauty", there is the glamour of status, of power and influence, of position and rank, wealth and affluence. We live in a culture that MUST feed these notions in order to perpetuate itself. A Fascism of Materialism and Consumerism. A Tumbled World.
Music Link: "#SELFIE ( But First Let me Take a )" - The Chainsmokers. Yep, here it is. Loud and Clear. It's hard to know if this is a celebration of the phenomenon or a sharp-toothed parody. I'm hoping the latter.
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This creation was inspired by our unsustainable culture of excess and materialism – pushed on us through corporate greed. Our table is set and we are expected to dine. Obsessive consumerism is the message, and we take our seat at the table by working to borrow, borrowing to buy, buying to indulge and… feel. We're told the seats must be filled or the table will be cleared. In the end, this dinner is an illusion, weighed down with promissory notes long since due. The sickening sweet days of excess are upon us. It's 2pm and that sugar high is giving way to a serious crash.
…it's a fine time to walk away from this banquet.
I'll be featuring this on the cover of Beautiful Lego 2. Everything here Lego. Credit for the crochet technique goes to Lasse Vestergard: www.flickr.com/photos/66344850@N06/
So with the last photo I talked some about how I believe we need to make a pretty drastic paradigm shift in the way that we raise children, in general terms regarding materialism and empathy. But I think arguably the most important change we need to make in the way we raise children is how we socialize them in terms of gender, which I think I touched on but wanted to expand a little. If you haven't watched it yet, you need to watch Chimamanda Ngozi's TEDx talk "We Should All be Feminists". She says it all better than I ever could, and in such a beautiful accent on top of that (it's also what Beyonce took snippets of for '***Flawless').
A person's sex is biologically determined, but a person's gender is entirely socially constructed--what is characteristically 'masculine' and 'feminine' has all been decided by us, throughout human history. In her talk, Chimamanda specifically discusses the gender differences in how we are brought up to view marriage, something that I've actually only realized fully within the last year or so. One day I was at the Crisis Center with a little girl who wanted to watch a princess movie, so I put on 'The Little Mermaid'. We got to the end, when Ariel physically changes to be with her dude, and finally lives "happily ever after" because she got married, and I felt horrified. This little girl just went through hell and back and I was basically saying to her "it doesn't matter what you've been through, or what your dreams or aspirations are, unless it's marriage". I was at the Center another day, watching Cinderella with another little girl. Cinderella marries and lives "happily ever after". Jasmine, Belle, Snow White, Aurora, etc etc etc, until very recently the list just kept growing.
I realized that the majority of the female heroines of my childhood only reached true "happiness" once they got married. My childhood, and the childhoods of other girls my age, were all filled with leading ladies needing men to complete their stories, instead of following their individual dreams of achievement. One of Chimamanda's brilliant (and most well-known) points in her talk is that very idea--that we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don't teach boys the same. We teach boys that they are strong and brave and good enough on their own, but we don't teach girls the same. I don't believe that marriage is a bad thing in and of itself, but the way in which we teach children to view it definitely is. Perhaps it's the reason so many marriages end so badly or become abusive; girls, but not boys, are taught that once they're married all their worries will just disappear, which is obviously not true. Marriage is not a happily ever after.
Gender norms and the fear of femininity make my blood boil, honestly. Even though human leaders no longer have to be the most physically strong among us, but the most creative and intelligent, we are socialized to retain belief in the former. To quote Chimamanda, "we have evolved, but it seems to me our ideas of gender have not."
I could go on and on for days and weeks and years about this, but I guess what I really want to communicate is to please just be very, very critical of the things you were taught growing up about your gender. And to be extremely careful about what you teach your own children about their gender, because it will continue to primarily impact how the world functions (or dysfunctions) in the future. No more machismo, please. I'm actually begging you.
Happy weekends to all <3
CONFIRMED - As part of the group 'Oxford Photographers', present on Flickr within Flickr group www.flickr.com/groups/65593335@N00/ , I will be 1 of 12 photographers accepted to take part in a photography-art exhibition from 8th to 29th May 2023 as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks 2023 at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford. The institute is located after Somerville College and just before Green-Templeton College
|*|=== If you live in or near Oxford, do come and view the exhibition. (Entrance is FREE) === |*|
My contribution is four to five 1-metre painting-size optical materialism macropaintographs, in my contnuing exhibtion theme there 'Line, Plane and Space'. My centrepiece for this year will be 'Flora Fortuna' (2019), shown below as extracted from my bio page in this year's current draft exhibition catalogue, available online by mid-April.
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Timetable:
Exhibition: Mon 8 May - Mon 29 May [AWB, M-F 8am - 6pm]
Links - Mathematical Institute >> en.wikipedia.org/.../Mathematical_Institute...
Oxfordshire Artweeks 2023 >> www.artweeks.org/artist-portfolios/O
jAm, jericho, oxford, 29 mar 2023
2019 july 24
abstract optical materialism macropaintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/50mm via extension tube
Every year 10 days of movies to be seen.
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>>To be seen in Flickr-group "Creative Composition" and others<<
"No PERFECT CAMERA? No PERFECT GEAR?....do not let materialism kill your creativity. Show the whole world your creativity through your photos and let us change the way others see things."
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"Please feel free to use my images any way you like.I do not feel the need to "own" them. It is only a picture.
Well, we've been on the road for over a week now, with two more to go! It's been an amazing journey, traveling and camping our way up the west coast, camping out on some incredibly scenic beaches and in some fairytale worthy forests! Here's a first image from our 24 day roadtrip up the west coast, through the Pacific Northwest, and on to the Eastern Sierra and Yosemite.
Haystack Rock is no secret. Corporations have been allowed to build massive multimillion dollar resort hotels for the opulent wealthy within feet of it, due to a serious lack of protection of the area and a local government motivated to allow environmental destruction by the lure of tax dollars from the hotel corporations. However, once you get beyond the facade of man's endless corporate greed and short-sighted materialism, nature is as always, awe-inspiring in its quiet majesty.
Haystack Rock is a 235 foot tall intertidal sea stack, one of the tallest of its kind in the world. Due to the beach's rather flat grade, the waves coming in with the tides coat the sand in a highly reflective glassy surface that mirrors the sunset spectacularly, and somehow allows you to forget everything else and just relax in the peaceful moment.
Rather than stay in the absurdly expensive hotels in the area, and separate ourselves from the area's profound natural beauty, we opted to camp for the night in a somewhat secluded forest campground, surrounded by verdant ferns and covered by a canopy of towering coastal hemlock and spruce trees. We awoke after a peaceful night's sleep in the woods to the sounds of songbirds singing in the trees, and a 6 inch banana slug cruising through our campsite, looking for some tasty greens to snack on. And then, it was on to La Push in Washington for more coastal rainforest camping!
You should follow me if you haven't already!
To those of you who have, thank you.
lowerylandscapes.com
Bitter Sweet Materialism.
Dostojni metropolia modne pościel ekonomiczne Zlekceważyłaś koszty kwitnące,
Les inspections de plaisir les progrès de loterie désobéissance d'argent exorbitantes dépensées,
مصيبة المستقبل اكتشاف الشكليات همسات سرية ذات العوائد إغراءات الخضراء,
πολύτιμα μαθήματα τα πάντα ενστικτώδεις διαθέσεις ψευδολογία τεντώνοντας τα χέρια πλοιάρχου καταπατήσεις,
simplicitas desiderabilem aspectu alius conceptus superioris causae spectat ut malum, quantum voluptatibus opera diaboli,
schenkende psychologische ideeën te benadrukken rechtvaardigingen verboden dromen disparagement liefdadigheid's vergeten,
symud ymlaen cosbau tragwyddol ddichellion tystiolaeth diffodd meddu pechodau ffugio undeniable cysylltiedig,
concentrazione interrelazione disarmonico spesa permeazione coinvolgimento interiore penetrazioni forti raccolta numeri,
指に目を義務付ける個々の経験を扱う欠い方向模式平滑度興味深い財布を対照的な.
Steve.D.Hammond.
A sculpture by Chen Wenling's called "The God of Materialism" on display at an art gallery in Beijing fashionable 798 art district.
You can also follow my work on Instagram ;D
www.instagram.com/yasha_jakovsky/
This image represent me but I believe some other people will feel same or similar (in this photo there is a person in a little boat so far away from little lighthouse - his life goal). I can't find any better photo that can describe me from my gallery. When I was in high school I didn't understand and I didn’t think about materialism & capitalism, I was too young & too naive to understand. When you grow up everything become crystal clear. Before few years I saw a Soviet movie Interdevochka (1989) in which main female character Tanya Zaytseva works in hospital in Leningrad but after work she is a prostitute, she said that every profession is a prostitution and everybody is selling themself the best they can (lawyer, architects etc.) and maybe she is right... We are living in a crazy world.
This is the movie that I mention
I don't see myself in this kind of world, everything is moving around bank credit, making profit etc. I think our world is very ill, only we can cure it together.
Our world become like a huge supermarket (you can get everything for money legal and illegal), only money matter not human values. How much I tryed to reach my goal I can't. Fisherman in his boat in this photo is trying to catch the light but he is always too far, will he ever reach his goal…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Su-5ro-Rh8
I choose one song that I like, I think many people don't know this song, it have unusual but cool intro.
A familiar form of materialism is what has been called the atomo-mechanical theory, which derives all phenomena from the movements of material atoms in space. Matter is thus a percept derived from the interaction of the physical senses with the physical plane of nature.
The nave looking west. Walker organ and Rose Window.
Lancing College was founded by Nathaniel Woodard, curate at Shoreham-by-Sea, in 1848. He went on to establish what is now the Woodard Corporation of schools and academies.
In his 'Plea for the Middle Classes' Woodard had argued the need for more, and less exclusive, independent schools. In these 'the teaching and practice of the Catholic faith, as it is expressed in the Book of Common Prayer', was to be central. Dedicated to Saints Mary and Nicholas, after the beautiful ancient churches of Shoreham, the school moved to its present positon in 1857. The Founder believed in the educational value of 'correct buildings' and employed RC Carpenter as architect of the College. It was his son RH (Herbert) Carpenter and his partner William Slater who completed the design for the Chapel as the place of worship for Lancing College and the Central Minster of all the schools founded by Woodard or associated with his foundation. It is intended as a symbol of faith and a challenge to materialism.
The style of the Chapel was described by Sir George Oatley as 'a perfect blend between the lightness and elegance of the early French Gothic and the strength and muscularity added to it on the soil of England'. The foundation stone was laid in 1868 and the building was done by resident masons. Foundations up to 21m (70ft) deep hold the Chapel on its spectacularly eminent site. It is built of Sussex sandstone from Scaynes Hill. From its completion in 1875 the Crypt was used by the school, until the upper chapel was consecrated on 18 July 1911. Even then, the tower, originally planned to be 107m (350ft) high, and the west end were not built. Between 1921 and 1937 the War Memorial Cloister was built and the interior sumptuously furnished. In 1947 the Friends of Lancing Chapel commissioned a new design for the west end from Stephen Dykes Bower. His west wall and rose window were dedicated on 13 May 1978, but again this remarkable building was left unfinished. At last, on 23 April 2022 a west porch, designed by Michael Drury and constructed of Somerset limestone, was dedicated to complete the Chapel after nearly 154 years.
MOSTRA FOTOGRAFICA DI TIZIANO TERZANI
Modernità e nostalgia nell'Asia di Tiziano Terzani
Che tipo di fotografo era Tiziano Terzani ??? Che cosa cercava ? Che cosa desiderava mostrare ? Al cuore della sua indagine c'era una contraddizione insanabile: da un lato l'elogio della belllezza di un continente antico, l'Asia, dall'altro il lamento per la sua progressiva dissoluzione nella folle corsa verso il materialismo e il conformismo di matrice occidentale.
Note tratte dalla brochure distribuita gratuitamente dai curatori della mostra
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PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION BY TIZIANO TERZANI
Modernity and nostalgia in Tiziano Terzani's Asia
What kind of photographer was Tiziano Terzani??? What was he looking for? What did he want to show? At the heart of his investigation was an irreconcilable contradiction: on the one hand the praise of the beauty of an ancient continent, Asia, on the other the lament for its progressive dissolution in the mad rush towards materialism and conformism of Western origin.
Notes taken from the brochure distributed free of charge by the curators of the exhibition
Immagine realizzata con lo smartphone HUAWEI MATE 20 PRO
When God created man in His image, He created a measure; the human perception of the world corresponds to God's creative intention. Man by definition is a center, or "the center" in a given universe; not by accident, but in virtue of the very nature of Being, and this is why that which is large or small for man is large or small in the divine intention; man perceives things as they present themselves in the divine Intellect. And that is why the world of the indefinitely small, as well as the world of the indefinitely large, is as it were forbidden to man, who should not want to disproportionately enlarge the small or to disproportionately reduce the large. Man ought to feel that there is no advantage or happiness in such enterprises; and he would feel it if he had maintained a relationship with the Absolute, or if this relationship were sincere and sufficient. He, who is really at peace with God is free from all unhealthy curiosity, if one may say so; he lives, like a well-guarded child, in the blessed garden of a grace that does not forsake him; the Creator knows the best place for the creature, and He knows what is good for man.
In a certain sense, the world of atoms as well as that of galaxies is hostile to human beings, and comprises for them, in principle or potentially, a climate of alienation and terror. Some people will doubtless argue that "the man of our times" is an "adult," but this is pride, even satanism, for a normal man always keeps a childlike side, as all sacred Scriptures attest by their language; if such were not the case, childhood itself would not comprise a positive aspect. Of course, a mature man ought to be "adult," but he can be so otherwise than by plunging into forbidden abysses; the spiritual victory over illusion is a matter appreciably more serious than the insensitivityof the explorers of the inhuman.
There are two points to consider in created things, namely the empirical appearance and the mechanism; now the appearance manifests the divine intention, as we have stated above; the mechanism merely operates the mode of manifestation.
For example, in man's body the divine intention is expressed by its form, its deiformity, its symbolism and its beauty; the mechanism is its anatomy and vital functioning.
The modern mentality, having always a scientific and "iconoclastic" tendency, tends to overaccentuate the mechanism to the detriment of the creative intention, and does so on all levels, psychological as well as physical; the result is a jaded and "demystified" mentality that is no longer "impressed" by anything. By forgetting the divine intention - which nonetheless is apparent a priori - one ends in an emptiness devoid of all reference points and meaning, and in a mentality of nihilism and despair, if not of careless and brutal materialism. In the face of this deviation it is the child who is right when he believes that the blue sky above us is Paradise.
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Frithjof Schuon: Roots of the Human Condition
Stedelijk Museum; Studio Drift; Coded Nature
Materialism; Dyson vacuum cleaner; 2018
All the materials needed to build a Dyson vacuum cleaner.
Independently of doctrinal atheism and cultural particularities, modern man moves through the world as if Existence were nothing or as if he had invented it; it is for him a commonplace thing like the dust beneath his feet (more especially as he is no longer aware of the Principle at once transcendent and immanent) and he makes use of it with assurance and inadvertence in a life that has lost its sacredness and thus become meaningless. Everything is conceived through a web of contingencies, relationships, prejudices; no phenomenon is any longer considered in itself, in its being, and grasped at its root; the contingent has usurped the rank of the absolute; man scarcely reasons any more except in terms of his imagination, which is falsified by ideologies on the one hand and by his artificial surroundings on the other. Now eschatological doctrines, however exaggerated they may appear to the sensibilities of those whose only gospel is their materialism and dissipation and whose life is nothing but a flight before God, provide the true measure for the cosmic situation of man; what the Revelations ask of us and what Heaven imposes or inflicts on us is what we are in reality, regardless of our own opinion; we know it in our heart of hearts, if only we can detach ourselves a little from the monstrous accumulation of false images that have become entrenched in our mind. What we need is to become once again capable of grasping the value of Existence and, amid the multitude of phenomena, the meaning of man; we must once again find the measure of the real. Our reactions to eschatological doctrines (or to the one that concerns us most) are the measure of our understanding of man.
There is something in man which is able to conceive the Absolute and even attain to it and which therefore is absolute. This being the case, one can assess the extent of the aberration of those for whom it seems perfectly natural to have the right or chance to be man, but who wish to be so without participating in the integral nature of man and the attitudes it implies. Needless to say, the paradoxical possibility of denying itself is also a part of this nature (for to be man is to be free in a “relatively absolute” sense) much in the same way as to accept error or throw oneself into an abyss is a human possibility.
We have already said that “unbelievers” no longer have the sense of either nothingness or existence, that they no longer know the value of existence and never look at it in relation to the nothingness from which it is miraculously detached. Miracles in the usual sense of the word are in effect only particular variants of the initial (and everywhere present) miracle that is the fact of existence; the miraculous and divine are everywhere; it is the human outlook that is absent.
Fundamentally there are only three miracles: existence, life, intelligence; with intelligence, the curve springing from God closes on itself like a ring that in reality has never been parted from the Infinite.
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Frithjof Schuon: Light on the Ancient Worlds
First of all , I give the glory back to God for giving us the break of the weather
from days of rain and rain and rain storms, then sun shines , wonderful , no rain at all
for the two days we booked with hubby on this walk. Praise God !
I was praying for this break of the rain , as this wouldn't be a pleasant walk
, neither I'll be motivated to photograph in the middle of outpouring rain.
Even my new lost woolly hat for this walk , I gave up finding it back
was found hung on a fence , no dirt , I had it on this walk :D- too windy
and cold on high elevation. I don't believe anymore in coincidences.
Everything I give back to the Lord. He is so good !
He looks after me :)
...and He will surely look after of those whose hearts
loved Him .
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Romans 8:9
"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit
of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is
none of his."
Clearly said here - if anyone has not the Spirit of Christ he is not of Christ.
When the Holy Spirit is in us, we knew it, just indwelling peace and happiness
and knowing you are of God . Having the Spirit
of God in us , are we to still to love and keep up of the ways of this world ?
God is purging people to remember Him.
In the scale of prolonged disaster in parts of the UK,
though how sad to see people in so much distress
blaming the government for the disasters --
C'mon people, in the first place why you bought your houses in
the flood plains. No wonder , ouch ! I hope people will remember God
in their midst of utter distress .
Living a lifestyle of comfort and success make most people ( not all )
forget God. Loving entertainments that don't glorify
God ; entertainments tolerant to the abominations God has declared ,
pushing all corrupting ideas of fornication, adultery, materialism, self
enhancement , hedonism etc. not the least going into churches that are largely
apostate and fallen .
There will be a time when the government can not anymore
take care of all great scale of disasters , neither secure safety of the entire
population in distress. Be ready people, it's coming . You like this
message or not, you've been warned. This is not only a warning of
the UK but all around the globe.
Freak accidental deaths happened too - you never know it will
be you next .
This is in reflection on the woman who died from heavy falling debris
straight down her car in London. Had she ever thought that morning when
she woke up , it will be her last day?
Most likely not . Is she saved in Christ ? As I watched the news, I
feel deeply saddened . Though I hope she was . Because if not,
then that was her last ...
People who believe there are so many ways to be
spiritually saved, and there's no absolutes -- you're wrong and very
deceived. No more debates / duel with philosophical ideas and arguments.
After all let God be the judge , and He will judge righteously !
Salvation in Christ has already been offered and given by grace to anyone
who believes and receive Him, where salvation is given freely .
Salvation is only for those who believe and everyone is given a choice.
Soon to come the days God will be separate
the righteous from the wicked.
Revelation 22 : 11
"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous
still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."
Let all who is wicked at heart remain wicked - full stop !
Let them that search for God , find Him and have Christ as their
protection and comfort ! Let God reveal His wonders to them
that seek Him.
I do believe we are in the time of the revelation. Revelation of
God's supernatural power, whilst also the great unveiling of
the evil ones, programmes and works of evil doers are disclosed. They
can not hide . Unveiling to us those who are not of God, and their wicked
evil ways to their shame and destruction yet to come .
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
*The Terror Of The Lord By Excatholics ( YT )
My same reflection of the disasters in England
as I am an exCatholic too.
*God's Curse Falls On the USA By Franks Di Mora
I suppose this applies not just for the USA but for all nations
supporting the giving away for the Two Solution ( God's covenant land of Israel )
to the Palestinians . Read the Bible carefully asking God's guidance and you would
know what comes next when this happens. It will eventually happen
as it is spoken and declared it will . But make your mind ready for
the great disaster that come next when the finality happens.
*Distress of Nations - 50 Ft Waves - Nazi Space Aliens - Doomsday Clock - Bible Prophecy!
*The New World Evil Occult & Fashion Industry Exposed
*Selling Their Soul: The Luciferian Contract
Wanna get rich for the price of Hell ?
*Illuminati Whistleblower "They Worship lucifer"
*Hollywood's Satanic Slaves II [Part 1]
Endorsement of prepping by The Guardian
*Is it time to join the 'preppers'? How to survive the climate-change apocalypse
But I'll rather suggest be prepared spiritually in Christ Jesus.
EXPOSING the False prophets and advocates of ONE WORLD
FALSE religion leading many many people to hell !
Burner, David. Making Peace With The 60s. 1996. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. (Photograph by Ken Heyman at Woodstock, 1969.)
The Hippie movement was as much about fashion statements of natural fibers, leather, hair headbands, and plenty of sincere skin (LIFE: The '60s 1989) as it was one of ideals and beliefs brought about by prior events of the country, mainly that of the Vietnam War. Terry Anderson had called the war the “engine of the sixties,” claiming that without the war, “the decade would have remained a liberal reform era, not a radial decade, not the 60’s” (Dominick 1999). As the war dragged on year after year, people began to lose faith in their leaders. This loss of trust and faith was met with a response of dropping out of society, and either joining the alternative one of the counterculture, or leaving the mainstream altogether by selectively adopting certain elements of hippie lifestyles (Dominick).
These Beat descendants and Hiaght Ashbury originators offended the mainstream with not only their creed of peace, love, and personal freedom, but with their mere fashion alone. According to the California governor, Reagan, they were once said to be those that: “dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like a Cheetah” (Our American Century Turbulent Years: The 60s 1998).
While offensive, the statement was somewhat true, these people had lost all hope in the society of their day, were tired of standards and an establishment that had let them down, they sought to escape and reject that which had disappointed them in every form. So the material was abandoned for the natural and second hand. The focus on appearance was left behind for long and minimally up-kept hair and usually no makeup for women. They sought to reject all that embodied that which had disappointed them (Our American Century Turbulent Years: The 60s 1998).
However, interestingly enough in their attempt to escape fashion, for a brief time, despite the distaste of others, they caught designer’s eye. The new sanitized versions of the look’s patch work skirts, flowered dresses, and elegantly tie-dyed pants suits, underwear, and nearly everything else, suddenly appeared. However, both consumers and designers alike soon realized that the hippie of ideals and no materialism prevailed over their fashion alone, and spending $300 on a designer tie-dye pants suit would take anyone from as far from hippie as possible. Thus the decade was ended with its signature uncertainty in all, even fashion, as the years to come would see the appearance and then sudden disappearance of one fad after another (American Decades: 1960-1969 1995).
The above picture is one of a hippie couple at Woodstock, the perfect embodiment of the signature raggedness of these people.
American Decades: 1960-1969. 1995. Edited by Richard Layman. New York: Gale Research International Limited.
Dominick, Cavallo. A Fiction of the Past: The Sixties in American History. 1999. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
LIFE: The '60s. 1989. Edited by Doris C. O'Neil. Boston: Bulfinch Press.
Our American Century Turbulent Years: The 60s. 1998. Edited by Sara Brash and Loretta Britten. Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books.
Further information discussing "hippies": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
Further information discussing Woodstock: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_Festival
2019 oct 19
abstract optical materialism macropaintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Jenna 2.8/ 50mm via extension tube
2019 sept 17
abstract optical materialism macropaintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Tessar 2.8/50mm via extension tube
Please indulge me here:
Many people are either in love with themselves
or they hate themselves-which is just another form of self love, but we can call that self absorption or self indulgence.
There is little middle ground here!
There is only you in the world and everyone else is either out to lower or raise your self esteem.
Other people are either our makers or breakers.
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As people/human organisms we mostly want obedience, loyalty, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, UNDERSTANDING, GRATITUDE, AFFECTION, ACCEPTANCE.
We want our asses kissed, our flaws overlooked, our attitudes accepted our negativity applauded, our way of making coffee the best ,
We crave the best homes, gardens, cars, children, kitchens, bathrooms
basically .......... the best of everything!
And the MYTH that only America is great, all other countries are filled with ignorant morons who kill and hate and beg and have no money and dont strive and lack ambition and are dying to come to AMERICA but arent as good as Americans and basically AMERICA is the greatest thing since oral sex
well... is truly a MYTH!
Many of us think we are interesting.
Not true at all.
MEDIOCRE is the word for most Humans and
IGRAM and Youtube are prime examples saturated with MEDIOCRITY.
The DEMOCRATIZATION OF talentless talent!?
Many of us want an audience, fame and applause without actually making the effort.
Many of us are Narcissists, self aggrandizing and want clones of ourselves.
Materialism justifies our entire existence & it leaves us empty & poor in the soul and deceived because its illusory, ephemeral and basically just crap put together until its replaced by version 2.0
We dont want to work at relationships.
We want the relationship one way
our way
with our values
our opinions matter
our decisions are always the right ones.
What we say goes. Its our way or no way. We want it ALL our way.
THE LOYALTY OF THE DOG THAT ONLY A DOG GIVES IS WHAT We WANT .................. a DOG.
MANS BEST FRIEND.
SMACK A DOG,
CURSE IT,
THROW ROCKS AT IT,
POKE ITS EYES
KICK IT
REFUSE ITS AFFECTION
ABUSE IT
THROW IT DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS
MAKE IT AN OBJECT THAT HAS NO FEELINGS AND MAKE IT ENDURE AS MUCH VENOM YOU GOT FROM YOUR CHILDHOOD....
A DOG WILL ALWAYS BE LOVING AND OBEDIENT.
IT WILL NEVER ABANDON YOU.
IT WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.
IT WILL WAG ITS TAIL AND JUMP ON YOU AT THE DOOR UPON ARRIVAL AND CRY WHEN YOU LEAVE IT.
EVEN AFTER A SEVERE BATTERING.
MANS BEST FRIEND ....
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We treat,
evaluate
and judge others like we were treated as a child.
some call this PROJECTION for you psychology nuts.
If uncorrected or unanalyzed ( most human beings ) we pass all this crap on to our offspring, thus
a generation of drug addiction, hopelessness, you get it...
OUR VIEWS are " DOGMA "
a principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.
Our opinions are rarely unchangeable, we are rigid, we are so full of our childhood traumas we dont even know they are traumas. We find others to convince that youre reasoning is the right reasoning and they should join forces with you.
We want universal unconditional non negotiable unmitigated floridly wholeheartedly 100 percent edly acceptance. Yes basically........ we want DOGS!
ruff ruff.................
Dr Losack ......
Photography’s new conscience
I loved the portrayal of modern culture presented on this advertisement board. While waiting to cross the street for a closer shot I saw the man in this image approaching the sign and thought it would be a great complement to the message, that the latest products from the biggest brands aren’t important in life and that who we are as people sits above materialism.
Location: Unknown, London.
Camera: Olympus OM10.
Lens: Zuko 50mm F1.8, with Fungus.
Film: Ilford HP5, 35mm. +2. Cropped.
From the exhibition catalogue:
"During a trip to Europe, Liu Ruowang bought a Pinocchio toy as a gift to his child. After telling the story of Pinocchio, the words "puppet" and "lie" continued to torment him. In 2019, he began the sculpture group "Mr Pinocchio". The artist uses extraordinary spatial scale, full of symbolism and metaphors, to express problematic relationships in our modern society. With Pinocchio's character at the centre and a group of contemporaries marching unaware in the endless circle,
the manipulator and manipulated reverse their conventional roles. The soulless "people" have lost control over the soulless "thing". It is becoming impossible to jump out of the strange circle of control and manipulation by "things" in modern society where materialism and money worship prevail. The artist warns people about the seamless lies that encourage material desires, to shake off the shackles of materialism and return to the authentic state of life. Liu hopes to inspire people to think about the origin and nature of lies. Who is the puppeteer? Can manipulated people recognize the lies and, if they do, have they got the will to withstand the puppet's manipulation?"