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After weeks of living from my archive I own finally a new camera.
Hello world, I'm back to catch you !
Over the course of several months, I watched this parking garage be demolished. I took this picture on 12 July 2005. (Hence the added note.)
"Garage Closed During Construction!!
All Daily & Monthly
Customers are welcome
at our other convenient
facilities located just
south on Wabash.
We will reopen on
May 15, 2005
Park One, Inc. Apologizes
for any inconvenience
this may cause.
Tú eres el optimismo.
Dedicada a mi queridísima sobrina Jackeline Aristy.
"Vamos a salir, juntos, pronto y bien"
Dios te bendiga. Besos
Tía
Cielito Lindo
Reid Seifer designed limited edition metrocards for the MTA last year. I had never happened upon one of the cards in person until today, when I was surprised to see one, abandoned, lying on a step as I came up from the subway. I went home, grabbed my camera, and went back to take a picture of it.
that life is all about. No matter how long a period of darkness you have been through, never feel down, and wait till the end with hope alive. Who knows there might be a mystic light waiting to welcome you. If you are dying every moment before you are actually dead, life does not make any sense.
McEwan Hall, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, UK.
August 28, 2022: Saw the Fringe 2022 "Boom!" event held inside historic McEwan Hall, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, UK. I enjoyed the show very much--the youthful energy of the performers was an inspiration. To be inside McEwan Hall was an honor.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ctsvc
#mcewanhall #mcewanhalledinburgh #fringe2022
"Performers from both Kyiv, Ukraine and throughout Czech Republic celebrate resilience, togetherness and the art of Circus performance Boom! brings together performers from Cirk La Putyka and Kyiv Municipal Academy of Variety and Circus Art to collaborate on a new show about family, freedom and borders. Accompanied by enchanting music, their production is a display of incredible circus talent and mesmerising dance, as well as resilience and optimism in the face of adversity." -- online review.
The Stellar Octopus cyanea from Madagascar
Over 3 billion people’s livelihoods depend on marine and coastal biodiversity around the world. Fishery management provides economic benefits of conservation and community engagement with broader marine management. Madagascar has incredible biodiversity, but due to climate change, as well as over exploitation, it’s delicate marine ecosystem is at high risk. It’s fisheries engage with the community to practice “no-take” conservation periods which allows the octopus time to become old enough to reproduce and increases the catch for those who depend on it.
Octopus cyanea moves along the seafloor camouflaging itself not only with color but with texture. Although octopuses are normally nocturnal, Octopus cyanea prefers twilight. Yet it is also known as the Day Octopus, because it can be found hunting in cooperation with a roving coral grouper fish who often points out hiding prey when the octopus seeks shelter in the coral. It’s lifespan is about 12-14 months from its planktonic larval state.
The Baby Green Sea Turtle Superstar (Chelonia mydas)
Who loves a marine protected area? Sea turtles do! Research shows snow birds aren’t the only one’s nesting in Florida. Scientists observed sea turtles spend most of their time breeding and feeding at the protected Dry Tortugas Beach and the protected areas of the Florida Keys. Sea turtles help maintain healthy seagrass beds and coral reefs, the key habitats for marine life. By supporting the balance of the marine food web, sea turtles facilitate nutrient cycling from water to land.
The biggest threat to sea turtles is injury from fisheries and habitat degradation. To protect the sea turtles we need to 1) Reduce sea turtle interactions and mortalities in commercial fisheries, 2) Protect key habitat areas on land and in the water 3) Pass comprehensive legislation that establishes a system to protect and restore sea turtle populations
About the Project Marine Protected Animal (MPA) Glam Shots
Come get your Glam on for the Ocean! Artist, Jessica Ling Findley, combines retro glamour portraits with sea creatures thriving in Marine Protected Areas. These portraits highlight successful human actions to heal our oceans. Want to help spread the word about Marine Protected Areas and ocean optimism? Sign up to be a model for the ocean at bit.ly/38dykjn
Project Origins:
Inspired by the world’s premier Ocean Sciences Meeting in February 2020, Seaport Village and The Port of San Diego have invited artist Jessica Ling Findley to produce a series of art experiences. She will help bring science to life through art at Seaport Village from December 2019 to February 2020. As ocean vitality becomes more critical with changing climate, these works, produced with input and data from scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Birch Aquarium, explore how stories of Ocean Optimism can inspire us all to work together for a sustainable future. These immersive experiences invite audiences to think about the future of our oceans in new and creative ways.
About the Artist:
Jessica Ling Findley is an Encinitas based artist with a focus on social practice and environmental advocacy. Her work playfully blurs spectator and participant, engaging the audience to explore. Her public participatory work, Aeolian Ride, inflated people on bicycles in 20 cities around the world. Exhibitions and awards include: Dublin Museum of Science, New Museum, Deitch Art Parade in NY, and SDAI, Tokyo Wondersite Residency, Brooklyn Arts Council Grant and Black Rock Arts Grant Foundation and Port of San Diego public art commission. www.jessicalingfindley.com
References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_cyanea
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone...
news.mongabay.com/2017/11/fish-vs-forests-madagascars-mar...
cases.open.ubc.ca/octopus-fishery-management-in-madagascar/
www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/oceans/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlm-Pp6g64
oceana.org/sites/default/files/reports/Why_Healthy_Oceans...
californiampas.org/archives/portfolio-item/threatened-gre...
"But since he loves me so much he told me I could do this outfit instead! Do you have any hot chocolate?"
Nikola is the happiest fucker I know and I'm goddamned jealous.
"Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea"
"June 28–September 20, 2009
LACMA and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) will present the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on contemporary art from South Korea. The exhibition features work by a generation of artists who have emerged since the mid-1980s—some well-known and others on the brink of recognition—working on the cutting edge of international art trends and within a distinctly Korean context."
I do not think this was part of the show or intentional.
Optimism (from lat .: optimum, "the best") is a way of life in which the world or a thing is viewed at the best; it generally denotes a cheerful, confident and life-affirming foundation, as well as a confident attitude, determined by positive expectation, in the face of a matter of the future.
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Optimismus (von lat.: optimum, „das Beste“) ist eine Lebensauffassung, in der die Welt oder eine Sache von der besten Seite betrachtet wird; er bezeichnet allgemein eine heitere, zuversichtliche und lebensbejahendeGrundhaltung
sowie eine zuversichtliche, durch positive Erwartung bestimmte Haltung angesichts einer Sache hinsichtlich der Zukunft.
At the Birmingham Social Media Cafe on October 29th 2010, we asked people what they were optimistic about.
It's a spin-off from newoptimists.com. We asked scientists 'what are you optimistic about?' — and their answers are now in a brilliant book.
amzn.to/thenewoptimists
With the wirst behind them, people in Myanmar are now hoping that nature will be less ferocious the next time a cyclone strikes. Photo: Myanmar Red Cross Society (p18465).
To find out more, go to www.ifrc.org/myanmar.
Detail of one of the second pair of nave windows, predominantly red in colour and designed by Lawrence Lee. The red windows symbolise the soul's journey into maturity..
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of postwar optimism, famous for it's history and for being the most radically modern of Anglican cathedrals. Two cathedral's stand side by side, the ruins of the medieval building, destroyed by incendiary bombs in 1940 and the bold new building designed by Basil Spence and opened in 1962.
It is a common misconception that Coventry lost it's first cathedral in the wartime blitz, but the bombs actually destroyed it's second; the original medieval cathedral was the monastic St Mary's, a large cruciform building believed to have been similar in appearance to Lichfield Cathedral (whose diocese it shared). Tragically it became the only English cathedral to be destroyed during the Reformation, after which it was quickly quarried away, leaving only scant fragments, but enough evidence survives to indicate it's rich decoration (some pieces displayed nearby in the Priory Visitors Centre). Foundations of it's apse were found during the building of the new cathedral in the 1950s, thus technically three cathedrals share the same site.
The mainly 15th century St Michael's parish church became the seat of the new diocese of Coventry in 1918, and being one of the largest parish churches in the country it was upgraded to cathedral status without structural changes (unlike most 'parish church' cathedrals created in the early 20th century). It lasted in this role a mere 22 years before being burned to the ground in the 1940 Coventry Blitz, leaving only the outer walls and the magnificent tapering tower and spire (the extensive arcades and clerestoreys collapsed completely in the fire, precipitated by the roof reinforcement girders, installed in the Victorian restoration, that buckled in the intense heat).
The determination to rebuild the cathedral in some form was born on the day of the bombing, however it wasn't until the mid 1950s that a competition was held and Sir Basil Spence's design was chosen. Spence had been so moved by experiencing the ruined church he resolved to retain it entirely to serve as a forecourt to the new church. He envisaged the two being linked by a glass screen wall so that the old church would be visible from within the new.
Built between 1957-62 at a right-angle to the ruins, the new cathedral attracted controversy for it's modern form, and yet some modernists argued that it didn't go far enough, afterall there are echoes of the gothic style in the great stone-mullioned windows of the nave and the net vaulting (actually a free-standing canopy) within. What is exceptional is the way art has been used as such an integral part of the building, a watershed moment, revolutionising the concept of religious art in Britain.
Spence employed some of the biggest names in contemporary art to contribute their vision to his; the exterior is adorned with Jacob Epstein's triumphant bronze figures of Archangel Michael (patron of the cathedral) vanquishing the Devil. At the entrance is the remarkable glass wall, engraved by John Hutton with strikingly stylised figures of saints and angels, and allowing the interior of the new to communicate with the ruin. Inside, the great tapestry of Christ in majesty surrounded by the evangelistic creatures, draws the eye beyond the high altar; it was designed by Graham Sutherland and was the largest tapestry ever made.
However one of the greatest features of Coventry is it's wealth of modern stained glass, something Spence resolved to include having witnessed the bleakness of Chartres Cathedral in wartime, when all it's stained glass had been removed. The first window encountered on entering is the enormous 'chess-board' baptistry window filled with stunning abstract glass by John Piper & Patrick Reyntiens, a symphony of glowing colour. The staggered nave walls are illuminated by ten narrow floor to ceiling windows filled with semi-abstract symbolic designs arranged in pairs of dominant colours (green, red, multi-coloured, purple/blue and gold) representing the souls journey to maturity, and revealed gradually as one approaches the altar. This amazing project was the work of three designers lead by master glass artist Lawrence Lee of the Royal College of Art along with Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke (each artist designed three of the windows individually and all collaborated on the last).
The cathedral still dazzles the visitor with the boldness of it's vision, but alas, half a century on, it was not a vision to be repeated and few of the churches and cathedrals built since can claim to have embraced the synthesis of art and architecture in the way Basil Spence did at Coventry.
The cathedral is generally open to visitors most days, but now charges an entry fee (a fix for recent financial worries; gone are the frequent days I used to wander around it in search of inspiration!)and sadly visitors are also encouraged to enter by the far end of the building, contrary to Spence's intentions.
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