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Before the pandamnit, Menega seafood restaurant is always crowded. A popular restaurant for good taste, value for money and beachfront seatings with views to the airplanes take off / landing.
Picture taken from the Menega seafood restaurant, Jimbaran beachfront, South Bali, Indonesia.
I remember those cute little troll dolls from when I was a kid. I hacked mine, cut it's hair, and made it evil. I had no idea they are still around in 2021, until one showed up in a garbage bag of dead, broken, discarded toys for my project. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Evil has a way of Looking Cute.
The movie was fun, sexy, slightly erotic, there's nothing like swimming naked in tropical waters! We can do just that any day of the week here in Zipolite. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Swimming Naked in the Sea
We caught a mouse (raton) last night. Here in Mexico all we could find was the sticky paper, so I had to actually kill it myself. It was huge, carried away one of those little bananas, and ruined three tomatoes, before finally stepping in the glue. But that made me think of those so-called 'humane' live traps, where the mouse poos and pisses all over itself out of fear, before suffering an agonizing death due to dehydration. Live traps are nothing more than mouse coffins, they die buried alive. Like so many other 'green' initiatives, ignorant of the unintended consequences reality presents. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Instant Death in a Snap Trap is the Most Humane way to Go
Protection from what? Environmental greenwashing? Truth? When the Exxon Valdez grounded on a reef in 1989 hundreds of enlightened, benevolent, green activists descended on Prince William Sound to "save the wildlife", wading knee deep in spilled crude oil without any protection, absolutely no self preservation instinct or awareness. Mother Nature cleaned up her natural, organic, free-range substance faster than any Greenpeace environmentalist could predict. Within two years everything was back to normal, of course, because oil spills and seeps have been occurring naturally for millions of years, so what else would one expect, logically? But 20 years on those activists started suffering terminal ill health from their exposure. They should have been wearing HazMat suits! Or simply faced the truth and let it be... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Truth protection from environmental greenwashing...
For my darling, sweet, beautiful, hard working wife Lizzy – Happy Birthday – Love of my life… The second thing I most want to do with you today is walk along the beach, dip our toes in the ocean, maybe get sand up our bums. Hit a taco stand for lunch, buy some fresh Octopus to grill on the charcoal BBQ, what more do we really need? Love you more than anything! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Happy Birthday To You...
An LGBTQ thing. The Gay Pride parade in Madrid a few years ago was quite the show! Even the police had an entry! Another thing I love about Zipolite, Mexico, is the freedom, tolerance, and acceptance - nobody gives a second glance at men and women holding hands. Long before the flag became a thing I decorated my camping teepee with exactly the same rainbow! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Rainbow Bridge...
To a Mexican lifestyle. For us it’s simpler: less government interference; lower taxes; we walk every day to shop for food, wine, and Tequila; lower cost-of-living. It’s friendlier: especially if we try our best to speak Spanish; eat at the taco stands; and shop at the local markets. Warmer is enticing: no shovelling snow; no long-johns or heavy winter jackets; fewer, lighter clothes; walks along the beach; swim in the ocean. Retirement is imminent, eventually no more engineering, I can focus on my photography career, maybe open a bricks-and-mortar gallery, escape from the hypocrisy of useless social media. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
I'll be able to focus on my photography career
We are now in Southern Mexico, Oaxaca State, Huatulco Riviera, in the little hippy dippy town of Zipolite. This is our second reconnaissance trip to Mexico as we plan for retirement. We certainly can’t afford to live in Canada on our pensions, anymore. Disappointing, actually, I didn’t plan on working a 45-year career, helping to improve civilization, just to live out my senior life in energy and tax poverty. So, we’re looking for someplace where the climate suits our clothes, and the cost-of-living suits our pensions. Then we can just “Let It Be” (Beatles). #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Burning Desire to Just Leave Y'all to It, Escape to a Different Reality
Happy, happy we are, hanging out in the hippy dippy town of Zipolite, Oaxaca. On the southern Pacific Ocean coast of Mexico. The temperature never drops below 20 C, every day is around 30 C. The sea is bathtub warm to swim in. The food is amazingly fresh and sweet. Life is simple, free. This will be a great place to retire to... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Tell my Again, what's going on in Canada, I seem to have forgotten...
Abstract fine art exhibitions have included ionH2O (water), Corrosion (rust), Dereliction (abandonment), and my best seller Juxtaposition (architecture). I've finished the last of the Consumption panels, and will be photographing all of next week to wrap up this project. I did submit a grant proposal to Canada Council for the Arts, but was rejected. My next project is The Mexican Conundrum, started in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco State, in February, to be continued in Zipolite, Oaxaca State, from November to April. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Sacrilege to be melting Lego - my all-time favourite toy!
Our first per-retirement reconnaissance was to Spain. We loved the lifestyle there, swimming in the Mediterranean sea, shopping at the markets, new places to explore, friendly people, and - at that time - the cost-of-living was affordable. A good bottle of wine could be had for three Euros. We planned a second trip, to the south of France, Spain, and over into Portugal. But some virus got in the way and our trip was cancelled. After a year it was still too hard - and getting too expensive. So we made a u-turn and used our credits to explore Mexico. We loved it, so now we are on our second per-retirement reconnaissance in Zipolite, Oaxaca state, and we think we have found our calling. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Heading South Into the Sun
That's it folks. My Consumption project, my social commentary mission, formally comes to an end. From now on it's back to art for arts sake. Moving forward I'm going to recap Juxtaposition, my favourite fine art journey, which I'd been shooting around the globe for several year - before government imposed lockdowns interfered and cancelled Paris and Leon; then Mexico City and Guadalajara... Our next adventure is to retire from engineering and relocate to tropical Zipolite on the Oaxaca coast, where the weather suits my clothes, and the cost-of-living suits my pension. Once there I'll start posting on life here, the Mexican Conundrum, and open a little fine art gallery... Wish us luck, and a wheel of fortune! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Moving to the Beach
Here on the Zipolite beach, Oaxaca state, Mexico, you certainly do see some pierced privates! Some look quite painful, or like the 'tin can man' uncomfortable to say the least. And the tattoos, man, I don't want one of those, either. Keep your ink, not for me! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
No thanks...
Oaxaca State, Mexico offers a magnificent Pacific shoreline. We walk the Zipolite beach back-and-forth almost every day, paying homage to the beautiful sunsets. The climate never drops below twenty degrees Celsius, perfect for my clothes. And sea level changes are obviously imperceptible, not a worry. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
I Could Easily Live by the Sea.
It's time. I've come to terms with early retirement. Our corporate financial year-end is August 31st. That means my first day of retirement will be September 1st, 2022 - exactly 45 years to-the-day from when I started petroleum reservoir engineering. The first day in my career was spent supervising a welltest. I didn't have a clue about what was happening! But I had a white hat and thousands of questions. 85 % of our knowledge is acquired on-the-job. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
2022: Retire, Move to Zipolite, Mexico, Open a Fine Art Photography Gallery...
Disconnected from reality - just like all three levels of government in Canada these days. I just want to retire now, and get out, go some place where the climate suits my clothes, and the cost-of-living suits my pension. Loving our current reconnaissance to Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico for the simple, laid back lifestyle. Minus 30 back 'home' plus 30 every day here, what's not to love? Solving a mouse problem, shooing away a scorpion, and letting the water clear keep us very connected with the reality of moving down for good. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Planned Obsolescence, do we need the Right to Repair?
Thinking about nothing, nowhere to go, nothing to do, woulda, shoulda, coulda done something commemorative with my life. Instead I've wasted 45 years contributing ethically, responsibly, safely, to the oil and gas energy requirements of civilization, helping to improve our standard of living and eliminate poverty. To make real money, become wealthy, one must produce something fashionably worthless...like fidget spinners... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Wasting My Life Away in Zipolite...
Wouldn't Star Trek make a great prophecy? Instead we have 1984 coming true. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Cosmic Intuition.
Magic pixie dust, that's what will save the planet from all of our garbage, junk, detritus, trash, rubbish, our throw away society, and planned obsolescence. Not to mention 'fix' the climate and keep us 'safe' from disease... When Cortez rode into Mexico City there was nobody left to fight, tens-of-thousands of natives were strewn everywhere, dead from the diseases his troops brought over. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Magic Pixie Dust Will Save the Planet...
Not a fan of electric cars for kids, they need to stand up and give their arses a rest, get out and walk, get some exercise. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Escaping from Reality
My wife Lizzy is a real princess, not just my princess, as she is actually descended from Maori royalty. Fortunately for me she is not Pius! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Fall From Grace.
Lost and forgotten, left behind, disregarded, disenchanted, out grown, abandoned, forsaken, another unintended consequence of pathological consumerism - junk - the scourge of modern civilization. On average 90 days from new to blue (cart), where the fallacy of recycling helps maintain the status quo. Coming up Christmas, when 80% of material gifts are returned on Boxing Day. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
In a Pile of Junk
Panini Pan Aberration 1, Ghost Busters 0. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Sucked into the Vortex of Panini Pan.
Police in Mexico, municipal, state, national, all look like they are prepared for war. Perhaps they are, we've heard horror stories about the Cartels. But as average folk on the street minding our own business we don't see it, nor feel we are in any danger. Most people are very friendly and helpful, especially when we shop around for longer than a week-or-two. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
I Remember Playing 'Cops & Robbers' as a Kid.
Yes, it was just my birthday, and for the very first time I celebrated with my older brother! My kids were always awakened on their birthdays with the White Album on the turntable at full attenuation "They say it's your birthday - We're gonna have a good time - I'm glad it's your birthday - Happy birthday to you! (The Beatles) Let's twist the day away... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Twisting by the Pool
Like sustainability, a perpetual motion machine, or greenhouse gasses generating energy from nothing, purely science fiction, theoretically improbable. Especially considering planned obsolescence, nothing is built to last anymore, there's no reliability, no longevity, nothing can be fixed or repaired any more. On average the life of stuff we don't really need (pathological consumption) is only 90 days from new to blue (cart). Cheap is not really a very good consumer business model, sucking away our hard-earned money buying essentially the same thing over-and-over again . #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Single Use Plastic Models
Once, in Junior High school, I walked out of last class into the arms of 'protective police custody.' The upper class white greasers didn't like a long-haired hippy. Their first attack on the stairs failed - the gang leader sent his entire entourage in front of me. The plan was for them to stop mid-flight, forcing me to stop, and the leader would cut my hair. I heard the scissors open, turned around, and laid him down with my first punch. He had no protection. I got suspended for 'starting' a fight and he threatened to kill me. Hence the police report. The second attack was a different story... Police were useless. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Never Much Use to Me!
Mega melting mini bricks. Lego is such a high quality, durable, timeless toy I hardly saw any of it come in the bags of discarded toys. I did see an assortment of other brands, though... I still have Lego from when I was a kid - plus my adult Technic robotics - thousands of pieces. Not sure what to do with the collection once I retire... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
No Lego Was Harmed Making This Picture...
Like Where's Waldo, there's Mario and Minions and Trolls, lions and tigers and caterpillars, pretty ponies and squeaky ducks and monkeys, all to be found somewhere in my Consumption panels. I've set up one installation of 24 panels for an art show, it was fun for both adults and kids picking out disfigured but recognizable images. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Let's Play Where's Mario...
'Cause I'm a man of the past. And I'm living in the present. And I'm walking in the future. Peter Tosh, 1979. Does clairvoyant count? That I am. Mostly I just see death. Except when my granddaughter Marley was conceived, then I saw a baby girl! Yes, she's named after Bob. My kids grew up listening to Reggae. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Walking into the Future...
I love Shakespeare. One summer when I was a kid our Mom took us to a festival somewhere in Oregon. I was fascinated. In High School Stage Craft we had a blast doing the set for A Midsummer Night's Dream. My first date was to the movie Romeo and Juliette. Now, I suppose, the Woke New Speak movement will have him banned. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Cool it with a baboon's blood.
I read to my kids every night before bed. Norbert Nipkin was their favourite story. It's about a fearsome young giant Zlog named Grog who makes friends with Norbert, rather than eating the tasty little Nipkin. The moral of the story is that anybody, everybody, can become friends, no matter their stature or food preferences. I also read plenty of joyous, fun, nonsensical Dr. Seuss. I read Fox in Sox as fast as I could, One Fish Two Fish backwards, and if it was late I'd just skip through reading random words, done in a minute, but the giggles didn't necessarily help them get to sleep any sooner. The Woke movement is completely misguided banning Dr. Seuss while leaving Hitler's Mein Kampf on the shelf. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Try reading it backwards...
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Woke up this moming with an ache in my head. Splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed. Opened the window to listen to the news. But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues. Adultery plays the kitchen, bigot cops non-fiction. The little man gets shafted, sons and monies drafted. Living by a time piece, new war in the far east. Can you pass the Rorschach test? Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Cold Fact, 1970, “This Is Not A Song, Its An Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues”… #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Can you pass the Rorschach test?
How about a sunset walk down the beach, warm enough to suit our clothes? Tequila o’clock, maybe we should take a flask… Watch the stars come out, celebrate our heavenly companionship, happy to be alive, healthy, hungry. What a beautiful place to spend your birthday! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Celebrating our Heavenly Companionship
Plastic itself isn't the problem. Plastic is an amazing product with countless benefits to humanity. Pathological consumption is the problem. That impulsive, compulsive, socially expectant spending on gifts, presents, souvenirs, toys, happy meals, kinder eggs, whatever the desire or occasion. Junk drawers, overflowing toy chests, bedroom closets threatening to avalanche, basement pathways zigzagging through storage boxes, garages piled full of stuff, no room for cars. On average 90 days from new to blue (cart). 80% of Christmas presents are returned on Boxing Day. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Pathological Consumption is Humanities Real Problem!
My brother Zack wrote a kid's book once, something about the land of purple. There's Deep Purple, and Purple Rain by Prince. The $10 bill used to be purple. A Royal colour, our Mayor used to wear it, signifying his interpretation of power and prestige. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Power & Prestige.
Police have their own skeletons-in-the closet and checkered history - just like so many other bureaucratic and religious institutions. Colonialism; Catholicism; Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond). Isn't that what the new holiday is for - Truth and Reconciliation? Or was it just for a surfing holiday? My ancestors left Ireland and France to escape tyranny - over 100 years ago. We don't need a new Woke Liberal Left Wing Tyranny: Socialism, Fascism, or Communism, to tell us how to live our lives righteously, benevolently. We just need to get back to 1970 Hippy basics and to love everybody: Give Peace a Chance, Love is all You Need (Beatles). That's how I was brought up! (Including a love of Jazz.) #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Give Peace a Chance
First World governments have woven it so tight it will take several generations to unravel, to climb out of debt, return a viable middle class. Wealthy elites in power, flying their private planes to holiday in the sun, floating their private yachts to vacation in the surf, while the working class struggle with excessive taxation to pay for it all. Not me, I'm going for a walk on the beach. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Boris the Spider
But I'm kinda fonda Wanda, kinda fonda Wanda. Yeah, I'm kinda fonda Wanda, 'cause Wanda always wanna, wanna, wanna. Neil Young and the Shocking Pinks, Everybody's Rockin', 1983. On vinyl. My girl sure wanna go adventuring! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Got the Hots for them Pinks...
When you wake up in the morning, it's a quarter to two. And you want to find, something to do. You brush your teeth, ch ch ch ch, ch ch ch ch. You brush your teeth, ch ch ch ch, ch ch ch ch. Raffi, Singable Songs for the Very Young, 1976. That would have been my kids back then, the year I finished Tech school (NAIT), and qualified as a naturalist, park warden, fish & wildlife officer, or environmental management technologist. Never happened, but I found a fascinating O&G career analyzing welltests. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Need something to do?
Not yet! What springs to mind is my Pop playing 78's, then mono LP's. I started my music collection with 45's, and my first LP was the Rolling Stones 'Now', before the Beatles. I still have a turntable and regularly play from my 750 vinyl album collection, mostly in stereo. Then there were reel-to-reel, 8 track, and cassette tapes. I've digitized my 250 tapes, and can play them on my smartphone. I have 750 CD's and my MP3 collection tops 25,000 songs. There were two sizes of Floppy disks, Zip drives, hard drives, thumb drives, SSID cards, and SD chips. So please don't accuse me of being afraid of change... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Floppy drives, CD's, and a cassette tape spring to mind
Hospital green, white sheets, the smell of disinfectant, a waft of chemotherapy, help me get my boots on, I'd rather die doing something I love. Like photography. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Peek into the Future...
If you're going to San Francisco. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. There's a whole generation. With a new explanation. If you come to San Francisco. Summertime will be a love-in there… Scott McKenzie, 1967, “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)”… Too bad we’ve completely lost the ‘love is All You Need’ philosophy us hippies thought would provide a new explanation…like a ‘White Bird Must Fly’…it’s disappeared out the window into a fog of socialist propaganda. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
War, What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing!
Sacrilege, melting Lego! But most of this is Space Lego from the early 1970's, brittle and broken. Most curious how grey Lego turns burnt orange when heated up... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Space Lego in the Void...
We're not going to take it. Never did and never will. Don't want no religion. And as far as we can tell. We ain't gonna take you. Never did and never will. We're not gonna take you. We forsake you. Gonna rape you. Let's forget you better still. The Who, Tommy, 1969. Don't want nothin' to with the Tyranny in Canada any more, either. Time to leave, walk the talk, put my money where my mouth is... #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball...
I've never been physically lost - just temporarily misplaced - or maybe on a scenic detour... I can triangulate my position on a topographical map and navigate using aerial photographs. And then I have several stories about dysfunctional artificial intelligence built into modern GPS units: roads that don't exist, destinations in the wrong place, leading my the wrong way down one-way streets... Once the GPS took us through a toll booth, made a U-turn at the next exit, back through the toll booth - less than two minutes later - and I couldn't get a refund from the same person! I have no faith that AI or driver-less cars will actually work in the near future...it's all hype and propaganda. Just like the Seattle World's Fair, which closed on my birthday in 1962 - we still don't have flying cars! #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Please Return me to my Master...
Birthday grab bags, this is what they look like within a week. Opulent junk. Pathological consumerism. Imagine how little garbage we'd have if we just stuck to what we really need, and kept affluence to a minimum, what we really like? We've had the same small little box of toys and Duplo for 10 years now, and the grandchildren never tire of them. They are cool with rubber band wars and balloons. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Re-imagining Plastic Junk.
Just makes me think of bullying... Such a tragedy of humanity. Been a victim myself. Too bad we can't just live in peace. Western civilization has crumbled into a nasty playground of fear, coercion, and terror. And social media is at the heart of violations, censoring discourse, disregarding freedom of speech, trampling on free will. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Minion Mashing
If you ever plan to motor west. Travel my way. Take the highway that's the best. Get your kicks on Route 66. It winds from Chicago to LA. More than two thousand miles all the way. Get your kicks on Route 66. (Written by Nat King Cole, also performed by Asleep at the Wheel). But today this iconic road trip is bisected, dissected, intersected, by "progress" with no interest in preserving anything of historical significance or interest. History is bunk (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, a good read even today). #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond (Pink Floyd)