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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.
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.
Pink,orange,red,yellow printed polyester knit. Appliqued crocheted daisy with a button center. Crochet pattern of squares and flowers.
If there is no time and no space
Then we unravel into each other
If the sun and moon are but a dream
Then you and I play a game
Of hide and seek within ourselves
God crashing into earth…You
God crashing into earth… Me
Out of and into One
We merge in Heaven and flesh
Only to run in opposite directions
In that moment the illusion begins
Grasping at bits of freedom
We ache to find power and strength
We reach for Unity beyond distances
Then another crashing comes
A giant faith flows through us
The same glorious feeling elates us
The same urge for freedom grips us
Then we know why we are
Mother- Daughter- Sister- Friend
Then we see why perhaps
The Seed of Life germinates
In an old familiar womb
We feel ourselves moving closer
Out of earth
Out of flesh
Back Home
In Love
© Ganga Fondan, 2011
…”I finally really see her”. She’s more beautiful than my eyes ever knew before or my ears would hear. We have given each other so much freedom to grow over the years; We now have so much to give each other. I love her with all my heart. I feel grateful to feel this. It is a great, great gift.
(*This image is a layering of a recent photo shoot we did where she reveals her former modeling days and I the love for taking pictures and then playing with them.)
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
Johnburg.
The Hundred of Oladdie was proclaimed in 1876 and wheat growers started to move into this semi desert area soon after. Three years later in 1879 the town of Johnburg was surveyed with 144 town blocks. What optimism! Few blocks were ever sold and even fewer were ever built upon but nevertheless a small town did develop. Another further 30 kilometres northwards another town developed named Belton so perhaps the Johnburg farmers were less marginal than some. But this was a long way beyond Goyder’s Line. According to Goyder, and the government ignored him on this, these areas were not suitable for farming only pastoralism. Higher than average rainfalls in the late 1870s would not continue and Goyder was correct. Drought returned in the early 1880s yet the town developed and farmers attempted to grow crops here for another 20 to 30 years in association with some sheep grazing as well. Today Johnburg is very much a ghost town with only a handful of permanent residents and a couple of occasional weekend residents.
Johnburg was a government town and it was named after Captain John Jervois the son of the South Australian Governor. Even before the first town blocks were sold in 1879 a general store had opened at this junction of five roads. The Wesleyan Methodists moved into the town early and services were held from 1882, probably in the hotel. Their first church was built in 1889. Also in that year the impressive stone Johnburg Hotel was built ready to cash in on the travellers going further out to Belton and Brendleby settlements. The nearest town to Johnburg was Carrieton across the Oladdie Ranges. A Post Office and blacksmith opened in the town to complement the general store. A saddler also opened for business. The settlers needed a school for their children and a weatherboard temporary school was erected in 1891 with a teacher. Just a few years later enrolment was high enough to warrant a fine Gothic style stone school with attached residence for the headmaster. It opened in 1897 with the highest enrolment recorded in 1899 when 85 children attended this school. Amazingly it remained open as a school until 1967. Today it is a quite well maintained private residence with a lush green lawn. The public hall, a galvanised iron structure is still standing at the crossroads in the town but looks little used, if at all. Until recent decades it was used for all state and federal elections as a polling place. Almost next to it is the former stone Methodist Church. The first Methodist church was demolished mainly by white ants and then it replaced by this stone building in 1924. A local farmer Carl Hombsch donated the land and so fittingly his name is on the foundation stone and he along with four other local men became the trustees of the land and church. With the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia in 1977 this church closed and was sold as a private weekender residence. The Methodist Church in Johnburg also had a manse and that stands behind the old store and post office. It was sold in 1924 to the storekeeper to raise funds for the stone church. In that same year the storekeeper Robert Gibb built a new stone store in front of the old Methodist manse. The Gibb family were farmers around Johnburg for around 100 years and one branch or other of the Gibb family ran the Post Office, telephone office and general store from 1900 until it closed in 1966. A sign outside the former store says population of Johnburg two. It is probably more like seven. It is not clear when the hotel closed but it was certainly closed by 1948. Only the ghosts remain in this sadly crumbling and vandalised ruin today.
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.
"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.
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
I previously found and photographed the stone on the right intact a few days ago, and then saw it in two pieces the next day. Apparently someone needed to destroy something. Tonight I found it again on a park bench near the start of my walk with a new stone I had not seen before. The cracked stone with the other one with the CF Strong message seems so appropriate in these trying times. If you see art, or something nice, try to leave it alone and let others enjoy it.