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I initially created the image without anything in mind. Its meaning sought during the #edcmchat yesterday when @maddiekp (quoted here) created this metaphor. @maddiekp 's profile and artwork is at www.flickr.com/people/92318598@N04/
To view the actual tweet go to twitter.com/maddiekp/status/302900217630576640
The depiction of fireworks was created with Fingerpaint Magic iOS app. The image was manipulated with Gimp
The original parish of Sibonga was a visita of Carcar since 1690. So when the town built its pseudo-gothic stone church in 1868, the influence of the awe-inspiring church or Carcar was evident: the arches, the ceiling floral panels, the one-nave interior and the wooden columns. The most dramatic feature is the mural by a local artist, Raymundo Francia. At close inspection, the details are folksy but the overall glow of brown and earth when bathed by natural illumination makes me realize the genius of the artist.
the Church of Nuestra Señora del Pilar of Sibonga, South Cebu, the Philippines
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BEYOND THE VEIL
SOLOMON’S TEMPLE and the ‘ARK of the COVENANT’.
A metaphor for communicating with the SPIRIT WORLD.
The Devil's Contract is an ancient belief that mortals can sell their soul to The Devil (or a powerful demon) in exchange for vast wealth and absolute power at the cost of being damned to spend the rest of eternity in Hell (or a similar dimension) : the belief in these Contracts allowed the infamous Witch-Trials that massacred many innocent people and has since entered popular culture as one of the most well-known Satanic tropes in media. It is perhaps one of the oldest and most recurring theme in many morality tales, theological discussions and fantasy of many genres - dating back at least as far as organized religion the idea of signing away one's eternal soul to Satan or similiar evil has become a lasting image of malice within the human mind.
The Devil's Contract can take many forms but has become most associated with a literal contract written by the infernal power in question (be it Satan, Beelzebub, Mephistopeles or otherwise) detailing the terms of the agreement and often demanding the mortal's soul after their death or (alternatively) after a set amount of time.
Once a living mortal agreed to this contract, a demonic pact was formed via many varied means, the most common in the public imagination was the willing signing of one's name on the contract - often in one's own blood.
Other ways of sealing a demonic pact could involve sacrifice (human or animal), consentual sex with the demonic spirit or recieving a mark from the Devil or a similar evil force signifying ownership (in witch-hunts it was common practice to exploit belief in the Devil's mark to accuse people with birthmarks or other skin defects of being witches and warlocks, despite it having nothing to do with the supernatural).
A deal with the devil (also called a Faustian bargain or Mephistophelian bargain) is a cultural motif in European folklore, best exemplified by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, as well as being elemental to many Christian traditions. According to traditional Christian belief about witchcraft, the pact is between a person and Satan or a lesser demon. The person offers their soul in exchange for diabolical favours. Those favours vary by the tale, but tend to include youth, knowledge, wealth, fame, or power.
Additional info:
In Abrahamic Religions, NOAH features as the tenth and last of the pre-Flood patriARCHs.
The story is all about the signs of the Zodiac - the Royal ARCH or ARK….
‘NOAH’S ARK of the COVENANT’ PDF Document Download Link:
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Mirit Ben Nun: Shortness of breath
'Shortness of breath' is not only a sign of physical weakness, it is a metaphor for a mental state of strong desire that knows no repletion; more and more, an unbearable glut, without repose. Mirit Ben Nun's type of work on the other hand requires an abundance of patience. This is a Sisyphean work (requiring hard labor) of marking lines and dots, filling every empty millimeter with brilliant blots. Therefore we are facing a paradox or a logical conflict. A patient and effortful work that stems from an urgent need to cover and fill, to adorn and coat. Her craft of layering reaches a state of a continuous ceremonial ritual.
This ritual digests every object into itself - useful or discarded -- available and ordinary or rare and exceptional -- they submit and devote to the overlay work. Mirit BN gathers scrap off the streets -- cardboard rolls of fabric, assortments of wooden boards and pieces, plates and planks -- and constructs a new link, her own syntax, which she alone is fully responsible for. The new combination -- a type of a sculptural construction -- goes through a process of patching by the act of painting.
In fact Mirit regards her three dimensional objects as a platform for painting, with a uniform continuity, even if it has obstacles, mounds and valleys. These objects beg her to paint, to lay down colors, to set in motion an intricate weave of abstract patterns that at times finds itself wandering the contours of human images and sometimes -- not. In those cases what is left is the monotonous activity of running the patterns, inch by inch, till their absolute coverage, till a short and passing instant of respite and than on again to a new onset.
Next to this assembly of garbage and it's recycling into 'painted sculptures' Mirit offers a surprising reunion between her illustrated objects and so called cheap African sculpture; popular artifacts or articles that are classified in the standard culture as 'primitive'.
This combination emphasizes the difference between her individualistic performance and the collective creation which is translated into cultural clichés. The wood carved image creates a moment of peace within the crowded bustle; an introverted image, without repetitiveness and reverberation. This meeting of strangers testifies that Mirit' work could not be labeled under the ´outsiders art´ category. She is a one woman school who is compelled to do the art work she picked out to perform. Therefore she isn't creating ´an image´ such as the carved wooden statues, but she produces breathless ´emotional jam' whose highest values are color, motion, beauty and plenitude. May it never lack, neither diluted, nor dull for even an instant
Tali Tamir
This image is a metaphor for the effects of time on memories. Just as a neglected image degrades differentially with time so do memories. Certain things persist (the bright colours of the gorse) but they do so in a defused matrix of other less well preserved/recalled details.
This is, I guess, my first attempt at overt photographic metaphor. Since I'm no student of history, nor particularly sensitive to artistic or expressive convention, I figured I'd sneak this in near the end of the day on June 6; I'm not sure it "flies." When I photographed this bald eagle on a sandy "beach" at Ebenezer Point, Jordan Lake, I immediately thought of the landing of Allied forces on the northern coast of France on what would become known as D-Day, 6/6/1944. I reckon the bald eagle, symbolizing the U.S.A., is ultimately inaccurate in symbolizing the citizens of numerous countries that made up the entirety of Allied troops that stormed the Norman beach that day.
Modern Technology owes Ecology an Apology! - Alan M. Eddison
This is the last Tennis Ball Tree known to be in existence. It can be found off I-80 20 miles east of Wendover Nevada in Utah. A fence has been constructed to preserve this remarkable beauty. Some of it's fruit however has fallen and is rotting outside of the fence line for you to view. Go see it, and don't be afraid to stop. The Utah Highway Patrol have peculiarly posted signs nearby that state "Emergency Parking Only".
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For more information: www.roadtripamerica.com/roadside/Metaphor-The-Tree-of-Uta...
Maybe that modern work of art is a sad metaphor for today… what strikes me most is that more than one meaning can be got here…!!
Una metafora contemporanea...
Forse questa opera d'arte contemporanea è una triste metafora dei giorni nostri... quello che colpisce di più è la varietà di significati che le si possono attribuire...!!
This is the Dodocase for the iPad. From the outside it looks like a Moleskine. Click here to see it closed.
See also Agata Olek talks about her 100% Acrylic Art Guards (Flickr 720p HD video)
Agata Olek (Flickr)
100% Acrylic Art Guards
"I think crochet, the way I create it, is a metaphor for the complexity and interconnectedness of our body and its systems and psychology. The connections are stronger as one fabric as opposed to separate strands, but, if you cut one, the whole thing will fall apart.
Relationships are complex and greatly vary situation to situation. They are developmental journeys of growth, and transformation. Time passes, great distances are surpassed and the fabric which individuals are composed of compiles and unravels simultaneously."
Agata Olek Biography. The SPLAT! of colors hits you in the face, often clashing so ostentatiously that it instantly tunes you into the presence of severely cheeky humor. A moment later the fatigue of labor creeps into your fingers as a coal miner's work ethic becomes apparent. Hundreds of miles of crocheted, weaved, and often recycled materials are the fabric from which the wild and occasionally wearable structures of her fantasylands are born.
Olek was born Agata Oleksiak in Poland and graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland with a degree in cultural studies. In New York, she rediscovered her ability to crochet and since then she has started her crocheted journey/madness.
Resume sniffers may be pleased to know Olek's work has been presented in galleries from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Venice and Brazil, featured in "The New York Times", "Fiberarts Magazine", "The Village Voice", and "Washington Post" and drags a tail of dance performance sets and costumes too numerous to mention.
Olek received the Ruth Mellon Award for Sculpture, was selected for 2005 residency program at Sculpture Space, 2009 residency in Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and is a winner of apex art gallery commercial competition. Olek was an artist in an independent collective exhibition, "Waterways," during the 49th Venice Biennale. She was also a featured artist in "Two Continents Beyond," at the 9th International Istanbul Biennale.
Olek herself however can be found in her Greenpoint studio with a bottle of spiced Polish vodka and a hand rolled cigarette aggressively re-weaving the world as she sees.
13th annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® (Sept 25 to Sept 27, 2009)
www.dumboartfestival.org/press_release.html
The three-day multi-site neighborhood-wide event is a one-of-a-kind art happening: where serendipity meets the haphazard and where the unpredictable, spontaneous and downright weird thrive. The now teenage D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival® presents touchable, accessible, and interactive art, on a scale that makes it the nation's largest urban forum for experimental art.
Art Under the Bridge is an opportunity for young artists to use any medium imaginable to create temporary projects on-the-spot everywhere and anywhere, completely transforming the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, New York, into a vibrant platform for self-expression. In addition to the 80+ projects throughout the historical post-industrial waterfront span, visitors can tour local artists' studios or check out the indoor video_dumbo, a non-stop program of cutting-edge video art from New York City and around the world.
The Dumbo Arts Center (DAC) has been the exclusive producer of the D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival® since 1997. DAC is a big impact, small non-profit, that in addition to its year-round gallery exhibitions, is committed to preserving Dumbo as a site in New York City where emerging visual artists can experiment in the public domain, while having unprecedented freedom and access to normally off-limit locations.
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Photo metaphor encapsulating a definition of Greenwash.
Where there's a shortcut to a quick buck at the cost of some environmental damage, most green-claiming companies as well as "eco individuals" on the planet will, in practice, grab the chance.
Very few have even partially transcended
BHN ( background human nature ) TM - the cause of 90% of the world's problems and suffering.
Links to London Dada Work no 378 " The Trouble with the Whole world " from 2011 www.flickr.com/photos/147432762@N06/47000977032/in/album-...
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" Greenwashing can make a company appear to be more environmentally friendly than it really is. It can also be used to differentiate a company's products or services from its competitors by promising more efficient use of power or by being more cost-effective over time." - WhatIs.com
we're an interesting and talented bunch, the translation studies students. we've been prompted to come up with "working metaphors" for our approach to translation, as it's something most of the big-shot theorists do. friend and fellow student A has taken to drawing images to go along with these metaphors as we hear them in class or read of them in articles. then she posts them online. the latest one features my potential metaphor, which i included in my presentation last week:
"the original text is a pretty piñata. the translator is the bat/the person holding the bat. the translation is the candy inside the piñata. depending on the translator's personal level of bat-wielding bad-assery, it could take anywhere from one to one hundred whacks of the bat to get to the candy. sometimes the candy is not exactly what you want, so you go back to the store, buy a similar piñata, and try again."
for the in-class summary and pretty word-for-word illustration of my metaphor, go here. also, is anyone surprised my metaphor involves a piñata and marginal violence toward an inanimate object? frickin' mounds...
271/365
This scene seemed a fitting metaphor for our current situation; the storm clouds gather and swirl , but in the end, I have faith that those with common sense and the interests of the nation will move our country forward.
Our Daily Challenge 15-21 December : Memory
Self explanatory.
My son and granddaughter are busy going through 100's of my slides and reporting back on anything of interest.
"served up a number of suggestions"
lensbaby composer
+4 macro
shot without an aperture ring
words added in InDesign
hmm!
Deamon of Boredom
My eyes don’t see you anymore
My tounge does not taste your lips
A kiss without love
Routine
HKD
Langeweile ist ein Plagegeist, ein Dämon.
Mithilfe der Routine versteinert er die Gefühle.
Langeweile ist eine Energieform,
die das Ich-Bewusstsein manipuliert.
Langeweile quält die Seele
daher sucht man neue Abenteuer...
Man sucht den Wandel - bewusst oder unbewusst...
HKD
Embracing WTO rules.
I was unable to make it to the massive march in London, calling for a second referendum to pull the brexit decision away from the UK's paralysed politicians. So I found an excuse to shoot some stereotypical scenes of destruction that pretty much sum up how I feel about the UK right now...
This was an exhibit featured at Torell Nederland... unfortunately it is already gone otherwise I'd provide a link. :(
This river is massive and moves fast. Such is life, right? … and standing in front of this huge bend in a such a powerful river you can't help but to find parallels with nature and everyday life. I've made more than one massive turn in my life then ultimately lead to a huge cliff and a lot of chaos. But at the bottom of the huge cliff the water keeps moving on. Deep eh?
Or maybe it is just a pretty picture of Yellowstone canyon.