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Daffodils are not my favorite flower. They are not as showy, not as delicate, not as layered as other flowers. They are not as colorful, and the yellow ones are really hard to capture well... the balance of light and exposure a fine line to walk without washing out or muting the colors. Yet every spring they bloom, when the trees are bare and the ground covered in brown leaves and the threat of snow and ice very real. They pop their brave heads out of the hard ground and pepper my yard with bits of sun in an otherwise bleak landscape. When the cold front blows in today, I can look out my window and have hope: summer is right around the corner!
chonburi, thailand. this shot was taken at the stroke of 12 and captures over 8 firework displays throughout the entire city at 12 midnite. have a very photographic newyear....
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
Jumping spider stalking a rather large bluebottle fly on a windowsill. It got a bit closer before sensibly deciding that perhaps it was a bit large
Derek Jarman was a good director who died in 1994 from HIV. He wanted to direct his last movie before dying but the disease was so advanced that he was already 100% blind. He decided to make the movie anyway. It's called "Blue", and all you see for its entire length it's just a blue screen. I watched it once, when I was a teenager, and I still remember it as a good movie!
Otto Road
Vilonia, Arkansas
Faulkner County
Anyone that doesn't find this funny probably shouldn't be one of my contacts. I've had a bad week. The topper was my A/C going out. I went to my hometown after the A/C was fixed. I was driving around looking for things to shoot, and I saw this.
It occurred to me....
Shit happens but life goes on!!
I love making the most of the bad weather, and when other people are tucked up warm or muscles clenched cowaring under an umbrella I'm dancing in the rain and jumping in puddles. I guess you could call it optimism
27 tomorrow and still an idiot :)
Springtime............comes every year without fail, no matter how long winter tries to hold on.
May 1 is May Day. Enjoy they day everyone :-)
Extract from Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poem 'Optimism' inscribed on a paving slab in Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, CA (located next to City Lights Bookstore).
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woes. No path is wholly rough;
Look for the places that are smooth and clear,
And speak of those, to rest the weary ear
Of Earth, so hurt by one continuous strain
Of human discontent and grief and pain.
Talk faith. The world is better off without
Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
If you have faith in God, or man, or self,
Say so. If not, push back upon the shelf
Of silence all your thoughts, till faith shall come;
No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.
Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.
You cannot charm, or interest, or please
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.
from 'Poems of Pleasure' (1902)
For more information about Ella Wheeler Wilcox, go here: www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/
Outside a cafe in Wimbledon, 7pm on a cold, rainy, dark evening in January. I like the flowers: nice touch!
Marine Protected Area (MPA) Glam Shots is a project by artist, Jessica Ling Findley, combining retro glamour portraits with sea creatures thriving in Marine Protected Areas (MPA) to highlight successful human actions to help heal our oceans.
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. Local 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.
About the Model:
Lauren is a sustainable lifestyle blogger and marine tour guide who travels around the world to take guests out on whale and dolphin tours. Having spent so many hours out on the water, she has seen firsthand how climate change is disrupting the behavior and migration patterns of many different species of marine mammals. However, she loves getting people excited about the ocean through her work and believes that as long as we are taking the time to pay attention to the changes around us and following our passions, we will find a flow that puts us back in alignment with the planet.
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
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.
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
friendsoflajollashores.com/marinelife/blacksmith/#
www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/bl...
Ed Parnell, Associate Research Oceanographer, Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Nothing on reverse.
Clearly a posed photograph, but you have to admire the optimism of the chaps pointing the Lugers skywards.
A Maschinengewehr 08 crew using the gun in an anti-aircraft role, in the same configuration as if this were a genuine response to an aerial threat.
Alb. XIII
Αν η ανοχή γεννιέται από την αμφιβολία, ας διδάξουμε τους πάντες να αμφιβάλλουν για όλα τα μοντέλα και τις ουτοπίες, να αμφισβητούν όλους τους προφήτες της λύτρωσης και τους «αγγέλους κακών».
Εάν είναι να καταργήσουν τον φανατισμό, ας προσευχηθούμε για την έλευση των σκεπτικιστών."
Raymond Aron, The Opium of the Intellectuals
The Swedish windows are located in the area immediately to the left of the great tapestry by the stairwell leading to the undercroft (and nowadays the main visitor route into the cathedral). They were the gift of the people of Sweden and made in the country by artist Einar Forseth (who also designed the mosaic floor of the Chapel of Unity).
The theme of the windows is the work of British missionaries in bringing the faith to Scandinavia, represented in the first three figurative windows, whilst the remaining two feature national and Christian symbols. The bright colouring and style set them apart from the other, more painterly windows in the Cathedral.
Coventry's Cathedral is a unique synthesis of old a new, born of wartime suffering and forged in the spirit of post-war 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.
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Poster responding to the theme of 'Optimism' this year's Brisbane Design Week.
For more details see the Eye Events page: blog.eyemagazine.com/?page_id=158