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I traded ink for pixels’ glow, Sat crowned beneath reception’s throne. The books that built me lie below, Unread, while I scroll alone.
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Oil on paper
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I received these little origami from a Japanese guy who sold me two CDs a couple of weeks ago.
The MacBook in background provides lights reminding a faraway city.
Imagination is like a bird in a cage... Time to time imagination must be freed. Then, it can really exist and go over the top...
Metaphorically, that's his life, the path ahead. I can only stand behind him and shout encouragement over his shoulder.
A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.
Jeanette Winterson
tones: AllEdges and Bärbel's PS/PSE actions
texture: sarah gardner
Without a doubt, life is a fundamental concept. However, if on such things as table, book or car people have agreed on some universal notions, then when it comes to 'life' everything seems much more complicated. The understanding can be found in a single visual and verbal mode, however, there is no unique concept or notion of life to our days. For one life is an endless adventure, for another sequence of difficult lessons. For the third it is a pure bad luck. Biologists would focus their attention on processes that lead to the life's appearance, its development and its end, philosophers would try to as they call it themselves 'look into deep'.
It is obvious that everyone of us has a unique idea of life, based on our experience and up bringing. But as any even from the part abstract notion it should be characterized.
The theory here is quite simple: for the one who wants to live in harmony and full understanding thinking of life is of high necessity.
Life is to be here and now. Life is an incredible journey. Life is a trial and error method. Life is a justified and unjustified risk. Life is an aspiration for better self. Life is an incredible joy. Life is an insupportable pain. Life is an understanding of impermanence of existence. Life is faith in your own strength. Life is an ability to forgive. Life is to be yourself. Life is early or late pass away.
This is my interpretation of life. Life is too versatile to be explained in a single sentence.
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From the "archive", playing a bit while converting from RAW... I've already posted a shot of these steps but I like them too much :-)
I'm still quite busy and I have just a few time to take a look at your shots. Nevertheless I'm using this break to look for new ideas.
Dall'archivio... giocando un po' durante la conversione con RAW. I toni potrebbero sembrare strani, ma altrimenti che gioco sarebbe? Lo so che ho già messo una foto di questo posto ma mi piace troppo :-)
Gli impegni sono molti e ho poco tempo per le visite flickeriane, approfitterò di questa pausa forzata per cercare nuove idee!
EOS 30D + EF17-40L@17mm, f/4 1/20s, ISO 1000
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What a way to go!
Had a great time at Staveley Hall 1940s Weekend, re-enactors, vintage vehicles, memorabilia, stalls and wartime songs.
Lemmings are small creatures with wild reputations. In the 17th century, naturalists perplexed by the habit of Norway lemmings to suddenly appear in large numbers, seemingly out of nowhere, came to the conclusion that the animals were being spontaneously generated in the sky and then falling to earth like rain. (The prosaic truth is that they migrate in herds.) Some people also thought that lemmings explode if they become sufficiently angry. This is also a myth, of course—lemmings are indeed one of the more irascible rodents, but they mostly channel their rage into fights with other lemmings. People probably came up with the notion of exploding lemmings after seeing the picked-over lemming carcasses that were left behind following a migration.
*So why is the myth of mass lemming suicide so widely believed? For one, it provides an irresistible metaphor for human behavior. Someone who blindly follows a crowd—maybe even toward catastrophe—is called a lemming. *
Written and fact-checked by
The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
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ai/gimp/pixlr/politics:P
Blue Jays certainly make their presence known with a raucous call ( I would hesitate to say song) but I love their brilliant blue plumage - especially in winter. This one was in Algonquin Park and hopped out of the shadows into the afternoon sun to probe around the snow for something to eat.
Thinking about something to describe this image, I found the following quote, which also seems to work well as a metaphor for my own creative limits:
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best." ~Author unknown
Covent Garden 7th Sept 2015. A lot of mumbo jumbo was written about the symbolic meanings of the ballons but it was rather startling to see the display as you turned the corner and I did get the cloud bit. However the text could be saying "I've ordered the ballons for the party!"
The Black Swan is a large member of the swan family, native to Australia. It was hunted to extinction in New Zealand, where it was later reintroduced. Captive populations have been established in places like Florida and England. Their plumage is almost exclusively black with white flight feathers. The majority form long term monogamous relationships. The term "Black Swan" became a metaphor that could be used to symbolize any event of great magnitude that was thereafter rationalized extensively with the benefit of hindsight. There are many events, even over the last decade or so, that could be referred to as black swan events. The reference to this bird, metaphorically, was probably initially made by some who were not even really aware that the bird existed. That is, in and of itself, a bit of a dark metaphor. #BlackSwan