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National Taiwan University student Lin Fei-fan (林飛帆), leader of the “Occupy Legislative Yuan” movement, occupied the Assembly Hall of the Legislative Yuan, to protest against the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement. The student activists also called the demonstration the “Sunflower Student Movement,” a metaphor emphasizing light and sunshine in contrast to the “non-transparent” cross-strait service pact. Some flower shops sent thousands of sunflowers to the activists to support the demonstration. According to media reports, students from over 62 universities cross Taiwan have participated in the demonstration.
Taipei, Taiwan,
2014/3/24
Peeling Paint textures from: www.flickr.com/photos/patchworkbunny/3319483734/in/pool-t...
Seeds and pods-- compliments of my garden!
Never in all my years of living here have I ever witnessed such a weather scenario like this... Certainly, this year's wildfire season is a historic one... (Footage filmed Wednesday afternoon, September 9, 2020)
*Weather scenario: A historic outbreak of wildfires across NorCal left a massive layer of smoke draped over the SF Bay Area, turning skies Wednesday into an eerie dark orange haze & covering cars, yards & homes with layers of ash. Climate experts believe this is part of California’s ‘new normal.’ 2 million+ acres have burned so far in a series of wildfires with the Bear & Creek fires currently raging to the east of the Bay Area. Smoke from the blazes had covered Wednesday morning with a layer of darkness. While it may look like the world is coming to an end, the orange & dark skies maybe an ominous sign of what maybe in our future... The apocalyptic skies come after a record-breaking streak of Spare the Air alerts for the region, with Wednesday being a record 23rd consecutive day. People said it was like a solar eclipse, but longer, or the apocalypse, but less biblical. Some others called the darkness a metaphor for life in the days of global warming, of COVID-19, of social unrest, & of endless electioneering. Strange & foreboding it was & how long this would last was, like the sky, was unclear. For the 1st time ever, it felt like tomorrow’s sunrise no longer seemed a guarantee…
The Metaphor:
The Metaphor is a Malaysia-based band that plays brands of instrumental rock music. They are often compared and categorised under the sub-genre of “post-rock”. However, the band has managed to sound different from what has been commonly thought about of the band’s playing. Their progressive flow along with the balance of each instrument having to play its role perfectly has caught the attention of many who witnessed their performances or listened to their 5-track EP named ‘Preface’ which is published on May 2011.
Consisting Tomas, Ling, Sze Yee, Kelvin and Izzy, the band started out with the interest to do music in hopes of engaging listeners without having to convey stories using words, translating the band’s feelings from the first note until the final to an assortment of inventive tales. The band has forged an unbreakable bond among each other and also performed alongside with renowned bands in their local music scene like SevenCollar T-Shirt, This Will Kill Us All, Furniture, Deepset, and many others.
Apart from that, the band was also invited for radio interviews and magazine features. Traxx FM commented that “it (Rebirth) contains the element of provoking one’s emotion”. Junk magazine took note of how “labels are for anal music journos and the unimaginative. The Metaphor checks all the post-rock boxes—no vocalist, sweeping soundscapes, intrinsic harmoniousness and a minimalist approach to their own star persona who can be that good without resting on the strength of references alone”. — at Laundry X An Honest Mistake Records Present: The Rock Show.
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
I've become fond of thinking in metaphors. It stands out so strong when it's done right. For instance, this advertisement at the Dehli International Airport: a banking advertisement applying the analogy of different fruits adding up to some kind of apple. Brilliant.
jaw bones, 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
...for the unfinished house. My laundry. I originally made that basket of laundry as a cat bed, for my alt, the crazy cat lady. We have managed to control the cat population, but that laundry basket sitting there is, aside from the decor clutter I mentioned, a reminder no build is ever really finished.
The hands of two sisters, aged 9 and 11 with their father's dog tags entwined and dangling. This image has come to be a bit of a metaphor, to me, for all the military families I meet. I thought maybe it was time for me to share it.
May all these childrens' fathers and mothers return home to them safely.
I took this photo of the double rainbow (my second in a week!) while driving in Pelham Manor, NY onto the Hutchingson River Parkway South. It is one of a dozen taken with my Verizon PC camera phone.
June 29, 2006.
The second photo of my set for my visual metaphor project for Visual Studies (MPC 25) @ Ryerson
Thanks Jaclyn Thompson and Emily Land for help :)
De la exhibición 5x5 Pluralismo. San Francisco '09
From the 5x5 Pluralism exhibition. San Francisco '09
The Times recently had an article on a 'rare' sighting of one of these in Shropshire, but they have been resident in the New Forest for a while. Two pairs were brightening up a dull day yesterday and are a draw for the camera.
Wikipedia states:-
'In China Mandarin Ducks are regarded as a symbol of conjugal affection and fidelity.
A Chinese proverb for loving couples uses the Mandarin Duck as a metaphor: "Two mandarin ducks playing in water" .
The Mandarin Duck symbol is also used in Chinese weddings, because in traditional Chinese lore they symbolize wedded bliss and fidelity. The reason for this metaphor is because unlike other species of ducks, most Mandarin drakes reunite with the hens they mated with along with their offsprings after the eggs have hatched and even share scout duties in watching the ducklings closely.'
Maybe there are some cultural diffences judging by the way the thismale treated his female. He certainly showed who's boss in the pecking order, grabbing the best seat for himself and shooing away his mate to get first dabs on the grub. Doesn't tolerate any messing fom the Mallrards either. Although smaller he's certainly the daddy of the flock.
-Jaw bones, map
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
Jiayuguan Fortress, now a popular Chinese tourist destination, was the 'end of China', the outermost bit of the Great Wall, the place which was a metaphor for exile and foreignness, the bordertown.