Entered also to VIVID Open Theme Art challenge.

Created for Mixmaster Challenge 38 - Chef Jaci XIV

CHEF Jaci XIV wants us to enter the world of Baroque master Caravaggio ... sort of ;-).

➤ The basis of your image must be a painting by Caravaggio** (Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio).

➤ Your manipulated image must contain a modern object that did not exist in Caravaggio’s time.

➤ There must be wine in your image whether in a transparent glass or bottle or spilled.

➤ Part or all of the background should show the night sky.

➤ No abstraction or abstract elements. (In other words, your final image – no matter how surreal in content – should have a realistic presentation.)

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Painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, courtesy of Wiki.

Metal bird, Steampunk elements & BGs, purchased from Renderosity.

Bottle, wine glasses & fruit, purchased from DS.

Flower purchased from Dover.

Moon, courtesy of NASA.

Sky Texture, my own (not published)

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© All rights reserved. This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying & recording without my written permission. Thanks.

~ Thank you for visiting my photostream, for the invites, faves, awards and kind words. It's all much appreciated. ~

...called the ramp where the trains with the Jews were coming in. They were coming in day and night, sometimes one per day and sometimes five per day…” - Survivor, Auschwitz.

...chiamato la rampa dove arrivavano i treni con gli ebrei. Arrivavano di giorno e di notte, a volte uno al giorno e talvolta cinque al giorno…” - Superstite, Auschwitz.

digital art

She is gone

(Explored)

"Das 11. Gebot: Du sollst nicht gleichgültig sein. Gleichgültigkeit tötet."

Eine Plakat-Kampagne zum 75. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Auschwitz.

Dieses Bild berührt mich besonders, denn ich habe die heute 94jährige Eva Fahidi 2015 selbst kennengelernt. Die alte Dame hatte es sich nicht nehmen lassen, nach Lüneburg zu reisen, um im Prozess gegen den SS-Buchhalter Oskar Gröning auszusagen.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAoC5hUbYOs

Bitte schaut nicht weg. Nie wieder.

A lesson from the Holocaust that a series of billboards around Berlin reminds us of is "The 11th Commandment: Don't be indifferent. Indifference kills."

Here, we see all that Eva Fahidi (see photo below) was left with after surviving Auschwitz: a family photo showing her with her parents and younger sister Gilike. Only Eva survived. Faced with her huge loss she did not feel liberated. She had to endure the past 75 years without her family.

Out stomping it off now!

Parliament Buildings lit up for Armistice Day

After spending most of the week in D.C on business (I returned home Thursday night) and experiencing the snow storm on Wednesday, I decided to drive back on Saturday to participate in the March For Our Lives rally.

First off, notice all the snow is gone.

Second, I have never seen so many people in one place (I saw a shot from space and the estimate was at 800,000 people) and so many porta-johns (but I digress). The passion in these students restored my belief that maybe, just maybe we can return our Gov't back to the people and out of the hands of the special interest groups (read that as NRA). Time will tell...

Some of these pics and a few others will get posted so you can read the small print. anyone care to guess what I've been working on today.

Stój!

Luftbild von der Kunstinstallation "Niemals Wieder" von Walter Kuhn am Königsplatz in München mit 3200 Mohnblumen zur Erinnerung an den ersten Weltkrieg

("thank you for your visit ")

کاتێک ملی کتێب چوو بەرەو پەتی سێدارە بێ مێشکەکان بە خێرایی بەناو بانگ دەبن

-You're back! I never thought I'd see you again.

-I'm sorry I got lost following a butterfly. Never again.

(Quote by Laura Gee)

My Facebook page (To see behind the scenes, before & after etc.)

My Blog (in swedish)

Instagram: victoria_soderstrom

a vistin at gefangenlager sandbostel

"History repeats itself. That's what's wrong with history." So said the famous defense attorney Clarence Darrow. He was one of the great Americans who both witnessed history and made history.

It is uncertain that cavalry soldiers said "I was just following orders," unless they were facing serious charges in a court martial for slaughtering the Native Americans, and then it was probably something where they had to take the fall for an officer. Those who served in Custer's 7th Cavalry probably would have had more choice things to say about following the orders of their general, but we'll never know that.

The ICE people have probably said this, in a matter-of-fact way to the people arresting them (provided they spoke it in English, or perhaps in a Spanish translation).

However, we know the Germans said it, they said it repeatedly during the Nuremberg Trials. High ranking officers used that "defense" a lot. It didn't work. The vast majority were executed. However, Hermann Goering pulled a fast one on his captors. Thinking he had outsmarted them, he bit down on a cyanide capsule before the guards could escort him to the gallows. That's showing them, right, Hermann?

I don't know if our court system will survive this administration, but I hope I live long enough to hear what the excuse -- I mean, defense -- the ICE people and the ones who actually gave the orders, have to say, even if it is at the Hague.

Poland

Israel began marking its annual Holocaust Remembrance Day at sundown on Wednesday.

- from the book, Night by Elie Wiesel

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ڕێزگرتن لە گەورە، هەم ئەرکە، هەمیش فەزیلەت...!

View On Black

Bergen-Belsen

Explore: 38 on Sunday, January 11, 2009

🚭Ho smesso di fumare. Vivrò una settimana in più e in quella settimana pioverà a dirotto🚭

On January 27th 1945 concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland was liberated, where at least 1.1 million people were killed. And I remember summer of 2019, when I found a dead swallow in the women's barracks at these death camp.

In many cultures, a swallow is a symbol of hope. What if the bird is dead? Perhaps it symbolizes the dead hope of the victims? Or maybe it was the soul of the dead, as dead swallows were called in ancient Greece?

⎾ꜱᴘᴏɴꜱᴏʀ⏌

Sadgirl・Sprouted

⎾ᴀɴᴀᴛᴏᴍʏ⏌

・Lelutka - Avalon

・Ebody - Reborn

・Doux - Meghan

・Avi-Glam - Destiny

・Swallow - Gauged

⎾ᴀᴛᴛɪʀᴇ⏌

・Sprouted - Shroom Outfit @ Dollholic on 7/18

・#SadGirl & Sprouted - Louise Socks @ The Kawaii Project on 7/18

・#Sadgirl - Fuzzy Horns @ Dollholic on 7/18

・Gorsimi - Frumpy Frog buddy

⎾ᴄᴏꜱᴇᴍᴛɪᴄꜱ⏌

・Voguel - Izzy

・itGirls & Velour - Picasso Babe "Curvy Muse"

・Void+minttea - Demure

・Nuve - Ashley

・Filthy Banger - Pretty little liar

・Mjolk - Pouty lip

・Cry bb - mushroom baby

⎾ɢᴜᴇꜱᴛ ɪɴꜰᴏ⏌

・Lelutka - Erin

・Legacy - Perky

・Infulence - Charmant eyelashes

・E.marie - Samantha earrings

・Michan - forever earrings

・Michan - haruna armlets

・NaaNaa's - NeverAgain Choker

・CryBunBun - Big Sister Bodysuit

・CryBunBun - Clingy Cutie Top

・The Secret Store - Juicy Spooky Heels

⎾ꜱᴄᴇɴᴇʀʏ⏌

・Waifu - Lamb plush pink & white

・Waifu - Shroom plush

・Elm - Maia mushroom set

・Elm - mushroom harvest

・Dust bunny - dreamy outing - picnic blanket

・Dust bunny - dreamy outing - cooler

・Dust bunny - dreamy outing - essentials bag

・Dust bunny - dreamy outing - Croissant sandwiches

・Dust bunny - dreamy outing - fruit board

・Dust bunny - sweetheart lunch - grilled cheese prep board

・Dust bunny - sweetheart lunch - churro hearts

・Dust bunny - wanderlust - bread basket

・Nappa & Arya - Mushroom sugar cookie jar

・Dust bunny - plant pillows - succulent

・BunBun - Sugar sweet - pink mushroom lamp

・Ringo Hana - Starlight grass

・HPMD - Rabbit in forest

⎾ʟɪɴᴋꜱ⏌

・Sadgirl Mainstore

・Sadgirl facebook

・Sadgirl Flickr

・Sprouted Mainstore

・Sprouted Flickr

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("thank you for your visit ")

وشەکان زۆر هەژارن

گەر بیانەوێت وەسفی ئازارێک بکەن

This photo was taken by my father during the Second World War. He was flying supply lines in North Africa. I'm not sure which of the many planes that he flew this is, though it's most likely a Dakota. I'm sure someone out there knows.

Never Forget. Never again.

#neveragain was on January 27. If he had lived in Germany today, what would little Albert say, who perhaps collected acorns under this tree to make coffee? What about Joseph, who always came by there after school? The many summer evenings were filled with hours of conversation. Else was often there, playing her violin. What happened to Helene, who loved to sit by the lake, covered in the gold of the evening sun? Why Erich, who collected flowers in the meadow, never came back? Only the trees were already there when forced laborers built a farm less than an hour and a half from here. Less than an hour and a half from here, in the other direction, there is now a memorial to a concentration camp. An empty house, an abandoned farm and nobody talks about them. #neveragain is every day. Maybe they had other names. But they were right here.

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Many many thanks for your favs and views!! It's a great honor for me to find this statement on Explore, carried by your support. To share his picture and this message with so many of you means a lot to me

bel sur de la champ dentcrochet

a vistin at gefangenlager sandbostel

Silence in front of the White House in memory of Parkland, on National School Walkout Day, 3/14/19

A very moving memorial to the 240 French soldiers who died in captivity in Darmstadt during WW1. It shows a mortally wounded soldier looking back to a relief of his family and the female figure of France. May it never happen again.

Please view in full size for the best effect.

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("thank you for your visit ")

Taking acid while coming to terms with a hangover was never going to work out well.

("thank you for your visit ")

ئەگەر پیاوەتی بە دەنگ بەرزکردنەوە بوایە

ئەوا کەر لە هەموومان پیاوتر ئەبوو ..!

" چی گیڤارا "

("thank you for your visit ")

@Washington d.c.

D.C., March 14th

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بێدەنگیت لە کاتی سەرکەوتن، نیشانەی متمانە بەخۆبوونتە.

بێدەنگیت لە کاتی تووڕەیی، نیشانەی بەهێزیتە.

بێدەنگیت لە کاتی کارکردن، نیشانەی داهێنانتە.

بێدەنگیت لەو کاتەی خراپەت بەرامبەر دەکرێت، نیشانەی حەکیمیتە.

بێدەنگیت لەو کاتەی تڕانەت پێ دەکرێت، نیشانەی سەرکەوتنتە.

بێدەنگیت لەو کاتەی خەڵک ئامۆژگاریت دەکات، نیشانەی ئەدەبتە.

بێدەنگیت لە کاتی هەژاری، نیشانەی

عیزەتنەفستە.

("thank you for your visit ")

("thank you for your visit ")

Kunstinstallation "Niemals Wieder" von Walter Kuhn am Königsplatz in München mit 3200 Mohnblumen im November 2018 zur Erinnerung an den ersten Weltkrieg

This is the crowd starting 3 blocks from the stage and going back 6 blocks more.