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Always see beyond the Boundaries... Life doesnt prevent you from doing anything.. Always Seek what you want and work towards it...
D3X/Mamiya 645 45mm 2.8 N/extension tube/SU800/Metz 52 AF-1 (2x)
Got it cheap from a used store, unfortunately it's a dud. Returned for a refund. Before it was returned, took some naked images of the mic to capture the mechanical art inside. :)
Macro Mondays: Ugliness - a personal viewpoint.
Ugliness is society's pressure to be a certain standard of beauty, causing people to see their own selves in a distorted manner.
"When we look at a rock, what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us."
~Bertrand Russell
I borrowed this quote from Vision-Revision's comment on a photo from last winter.
It seemed appropriate.
My husband calls it the Floaty Rock.
It isn't in perfect focus, but I like it anyway.
That weed reflection makes it feel absolutely strange.
D3X/Mamiya 645 45mm 2.8 N/extension tube/SU800/Metz 52 AF-1 (2x)
Got it cheap from a used store, unfortunately it's a dud. Returned for a refund. Before it was returned, took some naked images of the mic to capture the mechanical art inside. :)
February 4, 2013. This sculpture is located on the main floor of the CISTI building (M-55) in Ottawa and is called Perceptions of Reality, and is by David Makow. I saw a nearly identical sculpture a few hours later in the lobby of M-50, so I wonder whether it isn't a set. The very large wall hanging behind the sculpture says "Defend the Earth", and now is an almost ironic twist in this building that is nearly empty of staff these days. As you may have guessed, today was another training day in Ottawa; so is tomorrow.
Perception goes beyond the obvious and what the eye can see.
Eventhough we mostly perceive the world through our senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste & touch - the mind and the heart are responsible for much further input analysis.
Sometimes we call it intuition or a "feeling of"....it is this which brings butterflies in our stomach when we are in love, but also this voice that insists on telling us to be cautious of a situation despite what apparent facts might be.
Should we be a little bit clear with ourselves, then we can most probably trust this voice/ emotion/feeling and dive into a situation with all our heart, despite the risks involved or simply deny to trust, eventhough our ears are being pet.
How many boats are displayed here?...four can be counted, but maybe there are as many more not caputred in the picture....
Always see beyond the horizon.....
...perception is endless and eternal.
Tricky things are eyes and brains. Sometimes, they don't quite tell it as it is. Like here.
We're at Llandudno, it's early evening, the weather is all over the place and so is this picture. But, hang on, look again. The shot is actually perfectly straight. Never mind the half-cock platform lighting or the PIS screen that looks like it might succumb to gravity any second. Go stand in that spot, that exact spot that I stood on. This is what you'll see.
There's every chance that your train wont be 67022 with the Manwag set on 1K96 of course, you have barely 30 minutes 5 days a week for that one. But time it right and it just might be...
1 July 2015
It is the function of art to renew our perception.
What we are familiar with we cease to see. The
writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if
by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
- Anais Nin
August Macke (1887 à Meschede – 1914 près de Perthes-lès-Hurlus, Champagne, FR) illustre par son œuvre la curiosité d'une jeune génération d'artistes qui, en divers lieux d'Europe, puis d'Amérique, s'engagent dans l'établissement d'une nouvelle perception du monde et d'un nouveau sens de la vie – voire, dans bien des cas, dans la provocation par des scandales délibérément mis en scène :
« Tout cela », écrit Macke en 1913 dans une lettre à un ami, « le cubisme, le futurisme, l'expressionnisme et la peinture abstraite ne sont que les termes d'un changement de direction que notre pensée picturale veut opérer et opère.»
Ses œuvres se caractérisent par la vitalité et la sensualité de la vie.
Cela se reflète dans la force et la beauté des couleurs, qui dépassent souvent les formes picturales individuelles et intérieures pour envahir l'ensemble du tableau. Sans adhérer rigidement à un manifeste artistique ni radicaliser unilatéralement son langage visuel, August Macke reste ouvert à de nombreuses influences et stimulations dans sa pensée artistique, tout en créant une œuvre indépendante qui offre une synthèse exemplaire des caractéristiques spécifiques de l'expressionnisme rhénan. Son regard se tourne ainsi vers l'Occident : vers la France, vers Paris où, dans les œuvres de Robert Delaunay, il estime avoir trouvé une âme sœur.
Avec des peintures, des sculptures et des gravures, la vaste collection Macke du Kunstmuseum Bonn comprend des œuvres de toutes les phases de la création de l'artiste.
August Macke (1887 in Meschede – 1914 near Perthes-lès-Hurlus, Champagne, FR) illustrates through his work the curiosity of a young generation of artists who, in various parts of Europe and later America, were committed to establishing a new perception of the world and a new meaning of life—in many cases, even to provocation through deliberately staged scandals:
"All this," Macke wrote in a 1913 letter to a friend, "Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, and abstract painting are merely the terms of a change of direction that our pictorial thinking seeks to bring about and does bring about."
His works are characterized by the vitality and sensuality of life.
This is reflected in the strength and beauty of the colors, which often transcend individual, inner pictorial forms to invade the entire picture. Without rigidly adhering to an artistic manifesto or unilaterally radicalizing his visual language, August Macke remained open to numerous influences and stimuli in his artistic thinking, while creating an independent body of work that offers an exemplary synthesis of the specific characteristics of Rhenish Expressionism. His gaze thus turned toward the West: toward France, toward Paris, where, in the works of Robert Delaunay, he felt he had found a kindred spirit.
With paintings, sculptures, and prints, the Kunstmuseum Bonn's extensive Macke Collection includes works from all phases of the artist's creative process.
CONSCIOUSNESS IS QUANTIZED: Consciousness occurs in ‘time slices’ lasting only milliseconds, study suggests.
According to Herzog and fellow researcher Frank Scharnowski from the University of Zurich, neither the ‘continuous’ nor ‘discrete’ hypotheses can by themselves aptly describe how we process the world around us, as numerous studies testing people’s visual awareness seem to disprove both notions.
But what if elements of both hypotheses were taking place at the same time in a continuous interplay between conscious and unconscious thought?
“According to our model, the elements of a visual scene are first unconsciously analysed. This period can last up to 400 ms and involves, amongst other processes, the analysis of stimulus features such as the orientation or colour of elements and temporal features such as object duration and object simultaneity,” the authors write in PLOS Biology.
After this analysis is complete, the researchers say the features we’ve detected are integrated into our conscious perception, compressing all the unconscious recording into something we’re actually aware of.
In other words, while we’re taking the world in, we’re not actually consciously perceiving it. Instead, we’re just mutely using our senses to record data for up to 400 ms at a time. Then, in what could be called a moment of clarity, we consciously perceive the stimuli that our senses have detected.
The team thinks this presentation of information to our consciousness lasts for about 50 milliseconds, during which we also stop taking new sensory information in. And then repeat.
Hmm. Or maybe this is evidence that we’re living in a computer simulation. Also see this.
“Objective perception means perceiving reality, all that confronts our awareness, as it is. It is a matter of seeing things as they are, rather than seeing them from a certain point of view or position. So by objective we do not mean the scientific positivist sense, in which objective means what exists physically outside us rather than in the mind. We also do not mean objective in the sense of not being emotional, or not being experiential. We mean seeing things, seeing internal or external things as they are, instead of subjectively. Subjective is the antithesis; it means according to our positions, feelings, filters, beliefs and attitudes. So objective perception means pure perception, free from all positions, bias, filters, conflicts, intentions etc. It is perceiving whatever it is without any obscuration or intermediacy, so we see it just the way it is in itself.” - A. Hameed Ali
How many passers-by actually perceived 4 and 5-year old Fabrício and Guilherme living on the streets of São Paulo?
Objectively or subjectively......?
I'll be telling their story in a new group later on..................and asking for your help too!
Flash Set-up:
Canon Speedlite 580EXII @ 1/8 power, 50mm zoom, fired through softbox 0.5m above/behind subject.
White paper reflectors positioned in front of subject on both sides.
triggered by Yongnuo RF-602 Tx/Rx.
EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro USM @ f/5.0, 1/160s
I posted this picture a few weeks back as a composite/weird edit. See link below
www.flickr.com/photos/44449030@N07/5463450335/in/photostr...
Its an instant favorite of mine, however, it did not get much attention. So I took out the edit I did and went bare bones here....minus some retouching. So maybe this one will go over better. Constructive criticism encouraged... cheers