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It is a very big mural and it is not my best shot, but I still wanted to show it to you. It is very impressive to see it and also very applicable to the world situation of today.
Found some background information on the internet:
""This eye-catching 30m long mural depicts the tragic explosion of an atomic bomb. In the center, a skeleton erupts into flames, trailed by a train of ghosts and others humans running from the fire. The artwork’s history is just as captivating as the images it portrays.
Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto started this work in 1967, when he was asked to paint a mural for a new hotel in Mexico City. He completed the giant mural in September 1969, but the finished work was never on display—his client had gone bankrupt before the hotel’s completion. The mural then went missing for decades.
Tarō’s secretary and life partner, Toshiko Okamoto, kept looking for the masterpiece even after the artist’s death. She finally discovered it in 2003 in a Mexican suburb. Due to decades of negligent storage, the work was heavily damaged. Toshiko and her supporters decided to transport the artwork back to Japan and restore it there.
The restoration was a huge project that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The mural was separated into several parts then shipped to Japan in a container in 2005. Sadly, Toshiko died just before its arrival. The mural was restored by Emile Yoshimura, who worked with other pieces made by Tarō.
After a few temporary exhibitions, those in charge of the painting started looking for a place to permanently display the work. Several cities participated in the bid, and it was decided it would be put in a passageway in Tokyo’s Shibuya Station, so the maximum number of people can see the mural as a public art. It has been on display since November 2008. Since then, billions of people have passed by this giant masterpiece, many completely unaware of its history.""
View of the mansion at Nymans Gardens, West Sussex. You will have noticed that the frontal part of the building has been preserved as a ruin and that only one of the side wings is still occupied. This is a result of a fire in 1947, a calamity the owners, the Messel family, never really recovered from. In the early 1950s, the whole estate was acquired by the National Trust. The point of the estate had always been to create an alternative world of beauty - far away from noisy cities and dirty industries. The building may look medieval, but it was built in the first half of the 19th century. When the Messels (stock brokers from Germany who had made their fortune in Britain and, later, liaised with nobility) purchased the place in the 1890s, they followed this trajectory and turned the gardens into a horticultural paradise. Consequently, when the National Trust preserves the estate, it also preserves a dream.
I thought this was a Daddy Long Legs but Dougie Ritchie tells me it is a Harvestman, an Arachnid.
The daddy longlegs is actually a large type of cranefly, of which there are 94 species in the UK. The urban myth that daddy longlegs are venomous is just that - a myth! It's true that they cannot bite, but the venomous rumour is likely to have been due to its confusion with certain species of spiders.
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井の頭線渋谷駅は盛りだくさんです。スクランブル交差点を見ることもできれば岡本太郎の傑作を見ることもできます。
Shibuya Station on the Inokashira Line has many viewpoints. You can see the Shibuya Scramble Crossing or see Taro Okamoto's masterpiece.
"Que le meilleur gagne" est non seulement une piètre interprétation de la théorie de l'évolution, mais surtout une très mauvaise idéologie pour maintenir la cohésion d'un groupe, et a fortiori la vie sur terre.
Pourquoi vouloir écraser l'autre ? Pourquoi chercher à ce point la solitude, la division et l'aliénation ? Ce mythe ne serait-il pas en réalité un puissant instrument de domination ?
La victoire culturelle de cette idéologie ne s'est pas faite en un claquement de doigts; elle a mobilisé pendant des décennies des forces et des sommes d'argent considérables.
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Texte : Pablo Servigne & Gauthier Chapelle.
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Pour qui se sent solidaire du destin de ce monde, le choc des civilisations a quelque chose d’angoissant.
Le Mythe de Sisyphe - Albert Camus
Many myths and legends turn out to have some truth in them, but I think the one thing we can be sure of is that King Arthur (if he existed - and I like to think he did) certainly had nothing to do with Tintagel Castle, the remnants of which are on the north coast of Cornwall. Arthur would surely have lived in the Dark Ages, after the Roman Empire had started to fall apart, while Tintagel Castle wasn't built until the 13th century, some 600 or more years later. However, there are indications of an earlier settlement at Tintagel and various archaeological finds have been made. For details please see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintagel_Castle.
The castle, of which very little remains, stretches across from the mainland to "The Island" - the peninsula just left of centre. This is all owned by Prince Charles as part of the estate of the Duchy of Cornwall, and it is managed by English Heritage. A footbridge has recently been installed to enable easier access from the mainland.
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Some fun information "outside the contest" :
In Sweden and Finland, Midsummer is celebrated around 20–26 June
"The Summer Solstice" (the longest day and shortest night of the year.) Where I come from (Dalarna) the sun only goes down for an hour, but it is bright as in the middle of the day - all night.
This night has been magical since pagan times, and there are many myths about it. Among other things, you should be able to talk to the animals, girls and young women are supposed to pick seven different species of flowers and lay them under their pillows. At night, their future husbands appear to them in a dream. There is more about this night - and I will tell you in my next Entry ❤
Enchantment's A Midsummer Night's Dream Photo Contest
Midsommarnatt / Midsummer Night (Traditional Swedish folk music)
Golden Myths - Twin Souls by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)
With the music : Audiomachine - Reaching
A creative dual toned classic/mythic composition with a vintage edition.
Stock images and images of mine. Art collage, textured layered techniques, color saturations techniques and digital painting processes.
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L'ultimo raggio di sole illumina le cime dei Cadini di Misurina, prima di una notte stellata
Foto dell'inverno scorso
Buona giornata
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K-Pax | Man Of No Ego
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But we have this hostility to the external world
Because of the superstition, the myth
The absolutely unfounded theory
That you yourself exist only inside your skin
Now I wanna propose another idea
You're not something that is the result of the Big Bang
Or the end of the process
You are still the process
You are the Big Bang
The original force of the Universe
Coming on as whoever you are
See when I meet you
I see not just what you define yourself as
This is so and so and this is so and so and this is so and so
I see everyone of you as the primordial energy of the Universe
Coming on at me in this particular way
And I know I'm that too.
iPhoneography on iPhone 7 Plus; Prescott, Arizona; January 26, 2018. Two PANO images blended in Superimpose app.
Happy Fantasy Friday!
A Satyr, a Centaur, and a Siren.
Let me know what you think of them, and who your favorite is!
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They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.
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Scollis mountain is located southwest of Patras and west of Mount Erymanthos. It is also referred to as "Portovuni". "Portiano" or "Santamerianiko" from the villages located on its slopes (Portes and Santameri respectively), while in the Iliad it is found as "Olenia stone". "Neraidotropa" is also located here, a deep cave chasm on the rocky slope above the village of Portes, below the ridge, which has fueled the popular imagination with many myths and legends.
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some cars are famous, some cars are legendary, and then there are those rare few that become mythical to us gear heads
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Les Deux Frères face au Cap Sicié - Les Deux Frères sont deux rochers émergeant à la pointe du Cap Sicié (Var, France) et visibles depuis la plage des Sablettes à La Seyne-sur-Mer. C'est un lieu qui accueille de nombreux plaisanciers ainsi que des clubs de plongée dont l'objectif est la visite d'une épave située à proximité immédiate.
La légende locale raconte que deux frères trouvèrent un soir une sirène blessée sur la plage. Ils la soignèrent et tombèrent éperdument amoureux et dans leur folie, ils s’entre-tuèrent. La sirène, avant de regagner les flots, supplia Poséidon de leur laisser une forme apparente en souvenir de leur passion. Le dieu de la mer y dressa les deux rocs.
Le mythe des Deux Frères a donné lieu à d’autres interprétations. L’une d’entre elles, parle de deux frères pêcheurs inséparables, jusqu’à ce qu’une sirène ne séduise le plus jeune des deux et l’attire au fond de l’eau. L’aîné, tentant de le sauver, trouva lui aussi la mort ne pouvant résister au charme de la créature marine. Pendant son agonie, il supplia Apollon (pourquoi Apollon ?) de leur laisser la vie sauve et de les rendre à jamais inséparables. C’est ainsi qu’ils se virent transformés en deux roches jumelles au large du Cap Sicié.
La légende raconte aussi qu’une pieuvre géante dévore les visiteurs imprudents ! Dans les années 60, il se disait même que les autorités avaient érigé un grillage autour de l’îlot afin d’éviter la mort aux plongeurs trop curieux.
Les deux Frères (The Two Brothers) facing Cap Sicié - The Two Brothers are two rocks emerging at the tip of Cap Sicié (Var, France) and visible from the Sablettes beach in La Seyne-sur-Mer. It is a place that welcomes many boaters as well as diving clubs whose objective is to visit a wreck located in the immediate vicinity.
The myth of “Les Deux Frères” has given rise to various interpretations. One of them speaks of two fishermen brothers who were inseparable until a mermaid seduced the youngest and lured him down into the depths of the sea. In an attempt to save him, his elder was also dragged to his death, unable to resist the charm of the sea creature. During his agonising final minutes, he begged the god Apollo to save them and ensure they were forever together. And that is how they came to be transformed into two rocks located offshore of Cape Sicié.
The second myth evokes an injured mermaid washed up on the beach, whom the two sailors tried to save. But as misfortune would have it, they both fell madly in love with her and fought to the death. When the mermaid swam back out to sea, she begged Poseidon to bless them with a visible and immutable form in memory of their shared passion. The god of seas and oceans answered her wish by transforming the two unfortunate sailors into two rocks.
Legend tells also that a giant octopus devours careless visitors… In the Sixties, it was even said that the authorities erected a fence around the little island to avoid overly-curious divers meeting their demise.
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Ozzy. À l’homme derrière le mythe.
Celui qui a bercé mon adolescence.
J’ai choisi cette chanson, Mama I’m Coming Home,
Parce que pour moi, elle ne crie pas,
elle avoue.
C’était sa voix, mais c’est son cœur qu’on entend.
Celui qui a aimé malgré le rejet.
Celui qui a pardonné sans qu’on lui demande.
Celui qui est resté debout, même tordu, même flingué.
Je me revois adolescente.
Mes parents me poussaient, encourageaient, protégeaient.
Ils ne comprenaient pas pourquoi je t’aimais toi, Ozzy,
ce “fou”, ce “toxico”, ce “dingue à lunettes noires”,
comme ils disaient à l’époque.
Mais moi, je voyais clair.
Je voyais un homme sincère dans un monde maquillé.
Quelques années plus tard,
même mon père l’a compris. ❤️
Parce que la vérité, quand elle est dite comme il la disait,
finit toujours par percer.
Certains diront peut-être :
Pourquoi cette chanson ? Elle ne le mérite pas.
Mais je ne l’ai pas choisie pour elle.
Je l’ai choisie pour lui.
Parce que cette chanson parle du pardon qu’on donne sans condition.
Du retour vers ce qui nous a blessés,
mais qu’on n’a jamais cessé d’aimer.
Et c’était ça, Ozzy.
C’est ça, l’homme que j’admirais.
Ce portrait, c’est le sien. Pour lui.
Ce cri retenu, c’est le mien.
Et cette chanson,
c’est ce qu’il aurait chanté à nous tous en partant,
sans hurler, sans grimace,
juste… humain.
Hommage à un homme vrai. ❤️💔🙏
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Ozzy. To the man behind the myth.
The one who carried my teenage years.
I chose this song, Mama I’m Coming Home,
because to me it doesn’t scream,
it confesses.
It was his voice, but it’s his heart we hear.
The heart that loved despite rejection.
The heart that forgave without being asked.
The heart that stayed standing, even twisted, even broken.
I see myself as a teenager again.
My parents supported me, pushed me, protected me.
They couldn’t understand why I loved you, Ozzy.
That “crazy one”, that “junkie”, that “madman with black sunglasses”,
as they used to say back then.
But I saw clearly.
I saw a sincere man in a world full of masks.
Years later, even my father understood. ❤️
Because truth, when spoken the way he did,
always finds its way through.
Some might say.
“Why this song? She doesn’t deserve it.”
But I didn’t choose it for her.
I chose it for him.
Because this song speaks of unconditional forgiveness.
Of coming back to what hurt us,
but that we never stopped loving.
And that was Ozzy.
That’s the man I admired.
This portrait is his. For him.
This silent cry is mine.
And this song,
is what he would have sung to all of us, as he left.
No screams. No show.
Just… human.
A tribute to a true man. ❤️💔🙏
Assos, in the Canakkale Province of Turkey, is said to have been founded by immigrants from the nearby island of Lesbos in the 7th Century BC. The Temple of Athena, dedicated to the Goddess Athena, the protector of the city, has been dated to the 6th Century BC. It is the only example of Doric-style architecture from the Archaic period in Anatolia, and originally featured 34 columns and a statue of Athena. What remains is beautifully atmospheric, and its elevated position offers stunning views of Lesbos and the Aegean Sea.