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To me this is a metaphor for Bangladesh.
The urban development project in the far distance, the fishing boats and a view that cannot be explained.
Oh yes, film alright. Yashica FX-3 and ISO 200 film
Just about ran over this while out on my ride this morning. Today is my second day out riding the bike again. Wahoo! The 4 and a half months away have certainly cost me ... I'm really s-l-o-w ... But that's okay. I'm riding again and that's all that matters at the moment.
I thought the empty nest (albeit a little worse for wear having been sitting out in the middle of the road for at least a day) was an appropriate metaphor for my having recovered enough from the hernia surgery to get back out there and do a little flying of my own.
p.s., No, I don't carry my camera with me while out riding. After I got done with my ride I went back out and brought it home to photograph.
It's always so hard for me to let go of summer. A shell in my desk drawer working as a catch-all for paperclips and doo-dads makes me smile each day :)
Created by the group "Pseudo Folk-Dancers" (Eng 11, White 4) for the 2008 Winter Lit Term Olympics
Using Stripcreator
Scottish Chocolate Breakfast Stout. Not as meaty as the Imperial Stout but with its distinctive roasted malt flavours, smoothed with oatmeal, it can hold its own with the best of them. It's also infused with Brazilian Sertao coffee and Venezuelan Cacao.
This is Swedish artist Karl Momen's "Metaphor: Tree of Utah" scultpure. It lies in eastern Utah in the salt flats right next to Interstate 80.
The chainlink fence surrounding the sculpture is a recent addition.
A plaque mounted on it reads:
The Tree of Utah (Metaphor) by Karl Momen
Completed January 1986
"A hymn to our universe, whose glory and dimension is beyond all myth and imagination" Karl Momen
Utah State DFCM Collection of Fine Art
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Update 2009-06-01: This photo was chosen for publication in Weird US: The ODDyssey Continues.
Picture of where it was published here.
ink, paper
1936 Map of Milwaukee County
The term “lungs of the city” is one of several metaphors commonly used to describe nature. Borrowed from parks in London, the phrase was made popular in the U.S. by renowned landscape designer and engineer Frederick Law Olmsted. Charles Whitnall, having grown up on the Milwaukee River, readily elicited similar language as a member of the Socialist Party and first Secretary of the Milwaukee County Park Commission (starting 1907) – referring to the benefits of a “transfusion of nature’s refined blood” associated with the development of a geographically and ecologically interconnected park system.[1]
While both Olmsted and Whitnall believed that nature was an indicator of human physical and mental health, they differed in their means of reaching such a state. Olmsted’s background in English Romanticism and Victorian landscape led him to emphasize the “view,” or an accentuated aesthetic brake in the landscape, as an element of formal parks.[2] In contrast, Whitnall focused on providing experiences of nature in everyday settings – such as streets, boulevards, and “parked ways” as green space corridors.[3]
Both viewpoints can be seen as a response to the industrialization period and the urbanization of Milwaukee. Olmsted reflected on culture itself and declared the designation of parks imperative. As illustrated in the 1868 memoir The Justifying Value of a Public Park, he asked himself a dire question: “Considering that [the park movement] has occurred simultaneously with the great enlargement of towns and development of urban habits, is it not reasonable to regard it as a self-preserving instinct of civilization?”
1.Charles B. Whitnall, lecture at USC, 1937, Milwaukee Historical Society
2.Frederick L. Olmsted, Address to {the} Prospect Park Scientific Association, 1868
3.Charles B. Whitnall, The First Tentative Report of the Metropolitan Park Commission [City of Milwaukee], 1909, Milwaukee Historical Society
Today's daily create us to take a photo of the most ridiculous hat you own.
Last year when I met Mike Berta for the first time in Buffalo he gave me this Bills knit cap (Mike "ridiculous" here means owned with grand honor!).
Ridiculous also is that it is sunny and 60°F today. So why not a Bills hat on a Bear? And given how far I am these days from following.... Perfect.
My first time using the Big Lens iPhone app, imitates large aperture, useful to blur the clutter of lamps and stuff in the background.
La clé des temps
La clé des vents
La clé des champs
La clé des gens
La clé des songes
Et des éponges
La clé des clés
Le serrurier
En fait assez
Qui vont sur toutes les serrures
N'enfermez pas les confitures.
Luc Bérimont
Experiment in Light and texture. This isn't a PCosta Texture but I thought the group would enjoy it nonetheless.