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the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness :-)
John Kenneth Galbraith
HBW!! RESIST!!
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Today, the third Thursday in November, World Philosophy Day is celebrated. I will wear the same shirt in RL with the image of Betrand Russell. The pic is taken in the Library of Alexandria, where Hypatia researched, wrote and taught her classes.
SAPERE AUDE!
Tracks vanishing in the mist have a strange symbolism. Like to never take a train to some other world as master Miyazaki had portayed. The train would be full of spooky strangers anyway. Only ghosts could travel to such a mist. And yet, the hope lingers. Or is it a fear of that actually happening one day? To fly away or to become a ghost, there is no difference...
Approaching the philosophy where "less is more", this shot puts a young man completely dressed in black at the centre of the scene, perfectly perpendicular to the black and white lines of the wall behind him. The young man walks with a confident and slow step, with a well-upright posture, as if to underline his confident presence, immersed in probably listening to his favourite music, as can be seen from the headphones on his ears, and intent on continuing his walk towards a destination unknown to the observer. A minimalist scene that nevertheless seeks strength in the contrast of lines, the horizontal ones of the wall and the vertical ideological one represented by the young man.
As every year, on the third Thursday of November, we celebrate World Philosophy Day. We are few philosophers and not very well known, but our activity of reflection and teaching of this wonderful discipline is increasingly important in these complicated times we live in.
I personally teach philosophy to young people and it is the most exciting activity I have ever done.
Socrates, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant are the great minds that will help us to understand ourselves. Sapere Aude!
Happy World Philosophy Day
Into the Wild festival 2022
Preston band Mobius Loop are bringing their Spring Tour to The Ferret this Friday.
A spokesperson for the band said it will be ‘an evening of ecstatic mayhem full of stomping rebel songs and whirling orgasmic waltzes’.
Describing themselves as creating eccentric and philosophical folk stories, Mobius Loop fuses world music and conscious rap.
The group’s mission is to raise positive vibrations, projecting an organic cooperative voice for humanist spirituality, vegan philosophy, grassroots philanthropy, true democracy, and alchemical magic.
The popular band kicked off their Spring Tour on Wednesday in West Malvern near Worcester and will go on to play cities including Bristol, Liverpool, and Manchester.
(Preston news)
It's a fantastic band to watch if you have the opportunity.
Katie Rose is a great singer and an excellent violinist player too.
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“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Paul Russell is a professor in philosophy at Lund University, where he is Director of the Lund/Gothenburg Responsibility Project [LGRP]. Paul Russell is also a professor in philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he has been teaching since 1987.
It's all here, the light and dark side of life, of us. The bud, stands for potential. The petals, protection or a cage? Tell me more little flower.
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The way of blue philosophy in a mind district.
From scene to scene the view will be increasingly restricted,
up to a deep minimum focus.
One week left to register for my Artist Talk associated with my exhibition at the John Wesley Powell River History Museum. You can sign up with the link below. The talk will include poetry, a little bit of history, a little bit of science, a little bit of philosophy, and my personal experiences with water's footprints and how they all inform my artistic practice. Hope you can join us next Tuesday, February 22, 2022 at 6 pm MST.
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Humility, Restraint, Simplicity,
Worn, Weathered, Imperfect,
Softened and transcended by tea to a simpler philosophy :-)
Same place, another time: Barcelona, view out from the gate of the CCC Barcelona (Centro de Cultura Contemporania) to the Entrance of the Faculty of Philosophy
In quarantine, you only companion is yourself and it's a wonderful opportunity to find out what is essential in your life. We have also time to practice cheap philosophy about time. Enjoy it!
"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are." -- Theodore Roosevelt
I really take this quote to heart with my photography. My images with snails are my equivalent of "when life gives you lemons". Today I have combined the lemons and a snail and now have added text which adds extra difficulty to shooting the image. Fortunately I was patient and the snail cooperative so it came together.
How are you applying these philosophies to your life?
When you enlarge this sunset photograph you'll be able to see the ebb and flow of the water around these old wooden pylons.
Unlike BURIDAN'S DONKEY, this donkey is not a donkey... He chose to have a drink! ;)
BURIDAN'S DONKEY is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy concerning the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein a donkey is placed equidistant to a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the donkey will always go to whichever is closer, he will stupidly die of both hunger and thirst since he cannot make any rational decision to choose one over the other. The paradox is named after the 14th century French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirises. (from Wikipedia, slightly modifyed)
About BURIDAN'S DONKEY: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan's_ass
About FREE WILL as LIBERTY OF INDIFFERENCE: www.informationphilosopher.com/freedom/indifference.html
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This is when I like it most. That moment when the final pink rays of sunlight gently caress the clouds and the sky takes on a deep blue. The birds in the trees are silent now, and their calls won't be heard again until dawn. It is night, and this part of the world rests and recharges for the day ahead.
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place
When they can fly anywhere on the earth
Then I ask myself the same question
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One of my favorite movie series :)
Red pill or blue pill? Wake up, or go back to the dream?
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Palm Silhouette while the mild spring arrives in Turkey
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to hear with the ears of the other,
to feel with the heart of the other."
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Well at least it is the Tamar Wetlands. Not a lake, but technically part of the Tamar estuary system. Plenty of Australian Shovelers here too.
Paper, Pastel 2023
This painting is one of the series "Their secret..."
The series "Their secret...", is dedicated to the flowers, their soul... Specifically, this picture is my impression from looking at one of Lilies.
Sol LeWitt was one of the main figures of his time; he transformed the process of art-making by questioning the fundamental relationship between an idea, the subjectivity of the artist, and the artwork a given idea might produce. While many artists were challenging modern conceptions of originality, authorship, and artistic genius in the 1960s, LeWitt denied that approaches such as Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Process Art were merely technical or illustrative of philosophy.
In his Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, LeWitt asserted that Conceptual art was neither mathematical nor intellectual but intuitive, given that the complexity inherent to transforming an idea into a work of art was fraught with contingencies.
LeWitt's art is not about the singular hand of the artist; it is the idea behind each work that surpasses the work itself. In the early 21st century, LeWitt's work, especially the wall drawings, has been critically acclaimed for its economic perspicacity.
Though modest—most exist as simple instructions on a sheet of paper—the drawings can be made again and again and again, anywhere in the world, without the artist needing to be involved in their production.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_LeWitt
Sol LeWitt was seminal in establishing the notion of ‘conceptual art’ during the 1960s. Wall Drawing #1136 Curved and straight color bands 2004 is one of a number of highly coloured wall pieces he made. It includes seven vibrant colours to create an overwhelming chromatic environment that envelopes the viewer. The curve, snakes along the wall. Every band in the wall drawing is of the same width and there is no area left empty of colour.
It has been produced for Tate St Ives by a team of draftspersons, guided by an assistant from the artist’s estate.
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matthew 7:13-14)
The path narrows significantly. Can you trust that rock not to fall? I suppose it's been there for many millennia. This section of the Cataract Gorge reminds me of many scenes described in Lord of the Rings.
Philosophy from a street artist expressed on a wall at an abandoned water park in the Mojave Desert. Sometimes well known mural artists come to this place, paint over a section of wall and create their own masterpieces.
Roshi is a black woman artist based in Austin, TX. For more information about Roshi: www.colormeroshi.com/walls
Happy Saturated Saturday!
The crystal wave, which, imperceptible to the ordinary sense, springs in the dark bosom of the mound against whose foot breaks the flood of the world, he who has tasted it, he who has stood on the mountain frontier of the world, and looked across into the new land, into the abode of the Night -- truly he turns not again into the tumult of the world, into the land where dwells the Light in ceaseless unrest.
- Novalis (1800)
Chasing here, there and everywhere seeking more of the same.
When all you need to find you have already.
Fine Art Photography. Yin & Yang. Contrast. Dualismus. Balance. Black & White.
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Wool was the largest export from Woolmers farm. They regularly stocked more than 10,000 Merino sheep, and Thomas Archer I was a true pioneer of the Australian wool industry. This is one of the grandest and oldest woolsheds in the country and built in the earliest days of the estate (1820). On the top floor of this shed many of the young male farm workers also slept.
For those who are new to this series, here is some context.
I was in Messina, Sicily, for a convention - Messina, the city of the Strait. The city of the two seas, the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian - not two whichever seas, but the very stuff of myths and epics. Scylla and Charybdis haunted these narrow, deep, perilous waters.
As you would expect, I had tried to leave my camera at home (it was work, after all...), but it sneaked into my backpack anyway, along with my Samyang wide angle lens and my tripod. Unfortunately neither of them told the remote shutter, so it stayed safe and cozy within my gear bag at home. Oh my gosh! What was the use of having a tripod while lacking a remote shutter? I just hoped that enabling the Delay exposure Mode would be sufficient to compensate for my awkward finger actually pressing the shutter release button.
So I began my Sicilian days with just as many sunrise sessions. Wow.
The weather was consistently unstable - an ever changing sky enlivened by an endless turmoil of clouds (sometimes benign, sometimes threatening and ominous), sudden showers followed by warm sun, and then again. There was at first a peculiar ambiance - a stormy mood, I would say - an epic character reminiscent of remote ages, when the gods and Cyclops trod these lands and monsters haunted these waters. I could understand the sense of awe the ancient dwellers of these places felt while contemplating such views. I could feel the presence of the gods of old just before me. Just all around me.
Siciliy and the coastal regions of Southern Italy were not just a land of myths and legends, and of epic deeds: they were also a land of philosophy. Pythagoras emigrated to Croton, in Calabria, and the first community of Pythagoreans were founded in that city. The whole Magna Graecia was imbued with Greek art, culture, and philosophy - not least because people who had troubles in their homeland often found useful to settle in the Italian colonies, as things often go.
Plato travelled three times to Sicily, more specifically to Syracuse (yes, that in the USA is not the only one - the Sicilian city is the original!), apparently considering Sicily the best setting to try and make his idealized Republic real (there is an enormous amount of information in the web, but if you are intrigued by the subject you could enjoy reading part of a book I have found freely available in Jstor, Politics and Performance in Western Greece: Essays on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy, ed. by Christos C. Evangeliou: part VI). Scholars believe that Plato might have developed the well-known Allegory of the Cave thinking of the 7,000 Athenians imprisoned and chained in the quarry Grottoes of Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War.
It was my last morning in Sicily and I was gifted with what I previously described as the "Apollo sunrise" (have a look at my Apollo's Fiery Chariot on the Horizon, even though I do not love it too much). It was a crystal clear windy morning and the world was so sharp and crisp that it felt like it had just been created. When the chariot of Apollo rode above the horizon everything was flooded with a powerful warm light that sculpted everything just like it was the perfect model from which our human perceptions derive. Yes, in that magic place, the very horn of the island, for some minutes I felt like the freed slave that was allowed/forced to leave the cave in Plato's allegory, the man who was blinded by the glare of the Real world whose confused shadows he was able to see while dwelling in the cave. A painful, yet revealing experience. I kept shooting as my camera was struggling to capture the real essence of reality, knowing that such shots would testify that fleeting, dizzling epiphany to my fellow photographers much better than any words.
All that said, I do not love the sky of that morning, and it keeps coming out accordingly (maybe it resents my feelings) - however this is my image, with its limits and its beauties, and I hope you enjoy it. Have a nice Sunday!
Explored on 2023/01/16 nr. 63
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene, absolutely excluding the sky.
As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and played a bit with dodging and burning.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
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