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Call me Snake offers an optimistic provocation – ‘imagine what could be here’ by Judy Millar. On a walk into the city October 3, 2015 Christchurch New Zealand.
The work is comprised of vibrant graphics of Millar’s looped paintings, which are adhered to five intersecting flat planes, and draws inspiration from the forms found in pop-up books. The colourful piece will add a dramatic and rhythmic counterpoint to the city’s current urban landscape — a mix of flattened sites, construction zones and defiant buildings that have stood through the quakes. The work employs theatricality, playfulness and visual trickery, whereby the viewer is unsure about the work’s flatness or three-dimensionality; and it has been designed to offer a different perspective from each angle. The bright colours interrupt the grey of the work’s surrounds, and as buildings pop up around it,
SCAPE 8, New Intimacies curated by Rob Garrett was a contemporary art event which mixed new artworks with existing legacy pieces, an education programme, and a public programme of events. The SCAPE 8 artworks were located around central Christchurch and linked via a public art walkway. All aspects of SCAPE 8 were free-to-view.
The title for the 2015 Biennial – New Intimacies – came from the idea that visually striking and emotionally engaging public art works can create new connections between people and places. Under the main theme of New Intimacies there are three other themes that artists responded to: Sight-Lines, Inner Depths and Shared Strengths.
For more Info: www.scapepublicart.org.nz/scape-8-judy-millar
I spent a day in Malmo, Sweden, visiting a friend there. A lovely city with interesting artwork and architecture.
Disc One:
Optimistic
Morning Bell
Karma Police
The National Anthem
In Limbo
No Surprises
My Iron Lung
Dollars and Cents
Bishop's Robes
Talk Show Host
Kid A
Disc Two:
You And Whose Army
Airbag
Lucky
How To Disappear Completely
Paranoid Android
Everything In Its Right Place
Pyramid Song
Exit Music
Knives Out
Big Ideas
Nice Dream
needing a haircut, something spilled down his shirt, off to tennis in the cold
how, in one fail swoop, can a single person give you all the optimism in mankind and worry for the world that you can possibly muster ... i think it's called parenthood :)
But still try, for who knows what is possible. - Faraday
The chairs were probably taken out to enjoy a smoke, then forgotten. They seem to invite onlookers to view the world from this perspective.
Eva 00 using a bell to tempt Toro and Kuro out from hiding (to do the unfinished weekend vaccum). Optimistic way to get kitties to do work
Kitties are suckers for toys.
Sometimes I shoot self portraits when I can't put my feelings into words. I found out yesterday that my grandmother has breast cancer. I didn't know how to feel or explain, as I really didn't know how bad it was or how it was going to be treated. After calling her and finding out the logistics, I felt a sense of relief because there seems to be more hope in it all than I originally thought.
I love my grandmother. She, with my mother and grandfather, were the three most influential adults in my life until I was 14. They each took equal parts in raising me and changing my life in the deepest ways. They were my three parents.
My grandfather died when I was a freshman in high school and I was a mess after his death. For a writing class recently, I had to unearth all of those buried feelings of loss and sorrow and write about the day he died and the events that followed. Needless to say it was a chance to experience healing. So, the timing of my grandmother's condition is kind of ironic, in a sick way. After dealing with the pain of losing my grandfather, I was now experiencing this new possibility of losing my grandmother.
It's been a ride, to say the least.
These images are meant to be viewed in numerical order, but they were uploaded backwards to Flickr. Just a heads up.
This image (#3) is meant to illustrate how I felt after speaking to my grandmother on the phone. Brighter, more hopeful and optimistic. Everything is looking up, though it's all still terribly unfortunate and there's a long road ahead for my grandmother.
I love her dearly, and I hope that you can keep her in your prayers.
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I love my friends. It's thanks to them that I still feel optimistic and generally in good mood even when I am 27. Thank you!
Our thoughts have turned (optimistically) to springtime and this photograph takes us back around 75 years to a field at Balcathie Farm where farm workers are seen thinning sugar beet - the traditional way. The picture, from 1959, was taken by John Henderson, the farmer's son, who was a biology teacher at Arbroath High School and was well known for his interest in singing and rugby. The toiling locals were, from left, Charles Jorgensen, George Finlay, Ian Cummings, Jimmy Robbie, Tom Wilson, Edwin Johnston, Bob Boehm - a former German prisoner of war who elected to stay in Angus after the Second World War - Alistair Reid and James Milne.
I was walking on a nature trail in Tampa, Florida.
The trail ended at an elementary school back lot. It was a Sunday, so I poked around.
There was a dumpster behind the school, and this guy was sitting on top of the dumpster in exactly the pose I show here.
I like his optimism. He's in a dumpster, but he's definitely on top of the situation.
Cool.
adesso salta la luce.
me lo sento. fuori nevica ed io ho tutto acceso, come se l'elettronica mi facesse sentire meno il peso del tempo, e del sole che non c'è.
il deodorante al bambù che mi sono messa stamani mi nausea.
sento l'umidità come i vecchi, oggi alle spalle.
e la canzone di lenny kravitz che scorre sull'altro pc da circa un'ora mi avrebbe davvero rotto i coglioni,
bella si, ma adesso mi alzo e la cambio.
ho bisogno di fare foto.
adesso salta la luce.
me lo sento.
ma poi,
che freddo fa?