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In this case, I literally took this photo underwater. : ) The water distorts the sky, giving it a water color effect.
"Every force, evolves a form, every word leads to something you can sit on ... watch those words, those old words, they all make tracks that your feet just have to follow."
"Every Force Evolves a Form" - Shriekback
from their album, "Sacred City"
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Photographie surréaliste 30 x 45 cm - Surreal photography 45 x 30 cm.
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Taking the "TumbleWorld" overturn of rational structure and pushing it a bit further away from conventional reality yet keeping enough of a tether to enhance the disorientation. This shot is taken in one of the biggest and most visited malls in the entire city. Billions of dollars are made here every year ... Billions !!! ... Incandescent.
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2014. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
Getting back to the original "TumbleWorld" motif - a RE-viewing of the everyday world, for the most part that of buildings, streets and parks.
Here with a feeling of nostalgia in the Autumn air, when this was taken, the fallibility or inexact nature of memory is reflected on. Very little detail is retained in memory it seems, at least in terms of our visual recall. Yet from an immediately appearing of a remembrance whole events can be recollected by some. Why do some have such detailed and full powers of memory and some can't keep very many impressions of events longer than a few hours?
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Music Link: "Their Memories", Brian Eno & Harold Budd, from their album "The Pearl".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmsQnzEnSus
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After the David Bowie / Brian Eno song of the same name. The title seems to fit nicely.
Getting back into the mannequins again after giving them a rest for a bit.
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Song Link: Hallo Spaceboy - David Bowie
Music Link: Steve Roach and Robert Rich - "Soma" from their album of the same name.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcRcI7iaDIM
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An homage to early Surrealist painter, Giorgio de Chirico, whose faceless artist's mannequins adorned scenes of rounded arches, long cast shadows and mysterious emerald skies.
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Music Link: TUU - "One Thousand Years" from their album "One Thousand Years". Beautiful, chill music to get lost in and release the imagination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20bbng9aVs0&list=PL1942511AC0...
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This title is from The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows", off "Revolver" - about as psychedelic a song as you can possibly imagine. It is worth checking out Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno's version on "801 Live".
Post Note ( 2024 ): This was the first 'photo-manipulation' image I posted to Flickr, 12 years ago. I accidentally discovered a way to create surreal or "non-SOTC" pictures without manipulation software ... and I was off to the races ...
Music Link: 801 ( Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno et al ) from their album "801 Live". This is an exceptional and very powerful version of the John Lennon song. Originally he envisioned it being sung totally a capella, Gregorian chant style, by a monks' choir. So far no one has attempted that interpretation of the song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3UziR_Mr2A
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Number 2 in a series of images manipulated from photographs taken in my favourite public greenhouse / hothouse. As science becomes more familiar and open to the fractal realm and the quantum laws of physics, we begin to see the transformation of form, perhaps, away from the strictly Euclidean. Can't come soon enough for me !
Showing in the Shock of the New group's latest challenge - "Blue Variants".
June 18, 2013. ToR.
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Further Black & White studies in Surrealist imagery. Simultaneity of dimensions remains a theme. A construction of entirely human-fashioned elements.
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Riffing on the Dada concept of an old Talking Heads song, "I Zimbra". Nonsense syllables assembled at random to produce a final result. That's pretty much how I assemble my images.
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EXPLORE: Jan 3, 2025.
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In keeping with the final countdown marking the last few days of the 5,125 year old Mayan calendar, which ends, then flips over into a new cycle on Dec. 21st, this image of a new vision sparking to life is offered.
This new vision is not a legislative one, a religious one, institutional or political. It is not scientific or even cultural, although those both play an important part in its expression. Any new vision we may have starts within each one of us and from there it ripples out in a "butterfly effect" of conscious.
All is on schedule and I say, "bring it on"!
Music link: Laurie Anderson: "Another Day in America" - from her album "Homeland". While this song is looking directly at American culture, and is spoken by an American artist, the profound message of this incredible piece of narration could also be seen as relating to the whole of the Western world. It is long, 11 minutes plus, but if you have the time it is well worth listening to the entirety of it. Probably one of the most profound things this very profound artist has ever written.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbSGGEYWOPQ
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A third moment of an intersection in time and space. How much does memory of that time and space serve? From which orientation do we see reality? Which is the true vertical, which the right horizontal? Which way, ultimately, is up? We live on a sphere. Up is a series of lines radiating out from billions of points on that sphere. They fan out in widening relationships into infinity. Which one is 'right'? Which is the true 'up' ?
You, standing next to me, even shoulder to shoulder, touching, will create a line that fans out in increasing degrees of distance into the universe ... different from mine. Your "up" is not mine, nor anyone else's. Our heads are so much further apart than our feet, which touch the earth.
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Music Link: "City as Memory", John Foxx, from his album, "Cathedral Oceans".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-vFYi6hOug
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© Richard S Warner ( Visionheart ) - 2014. All Rights Reserved. This image is not for use in any form without explicit, express, written permission.
Titled after a song by The Crystal Method, a powerful, UK techno group. It seemed to suit the image although the video link below has nada to do with the imagery I get from the song or what I've done here. The other videos were too juvenile to use as links, so I chose the current one.
The song seems to re-inforce an image of a high-tech, dazzling and faceless future based on endless self-satisfaction. June 2, 2013.
Song Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLMBxbQlv0M
Standing back from the living world, the participation in the gestalt of being in the world, of the world, the very world, in favour of an arbitrary objectivity, just as much a dogma as any other belief, has sent us out of paradise. We can start to see again if we begin to let our imaginations animate that objectivity. In contradistinction to "Aristotle" Albert Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge".
Music Link: TUU w/ Nick Parkin - "Djinn" from their album "Terma". "Terma" refers to an esoteric Tibetan Buddhist practice of Bon and Nyingma origin where sacred relics and texts were hidden in such a way that only those with great spiritual development and skills could find them in the future. A person of such skill was called a "Terton".
I chose the music of TUU for this and the next two images in this series for it's subdued and exotic atmosphere, mixing modern instruments with ancient hand made ones.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtyfVwOPeXM&list=PL8A8E3BD8C2...
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Music Link: Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman - "Taking Flight" from their "Trance Spirits" album w/ Robert Fripp and Momodu Kah.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSZ2I-vQUGs&list=AL94UKMTqg-9...
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Music Link: Paul Schutze - "The Rapture of Concealment" from his album "The Rapture of Metals".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOV4xyCNXO8
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A bit of lyric from "Moonchild" by King Crimson. The music was by the entire band and the lyrics were by the illustrious Pete Sinfield. View Large on Black.
The hot, flowing energy of thought, generated inside of each of 'us' crystallizes on the outside of ourselves as our worlds. This was said incredibly well in a song by Shriekback called "Every Force Evolves a Form". If we take the quantum principle that consciousness collapses the energy of wave forms into particles this notion of literally creating our worlds out of thought may not be so wild after all. Physicist, Amit Goswami is particularly eloquent about this.
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For the "Hypothetical Awards" "Talk a Walk on the Dark Side" Challenge.
The night. It has two aspects, as does most of the manifest world. One, as a time of respite and peace, a turning inward for renewal. The other, a time of nocturnal predation and hunted death in the dark. Human or animal - there is always a certain element of predation that particularly comes out at night, even our "civilized" species.
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Lines of movement, revealing the human hand, writing on the wall. Illuminated snow on winter branches, the solstice turning point.
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Further mannequin studies. I find it amazing just how much I get out of working with mannequins. There's so much loaded psychology behind these 'graven' images, their common, everyday use and their enormous power to hold our attention. I'll finally be introducing a fair number of male figures which should change the energy of the images up a bit.
Music Link: Brian Eno and Rick Holland "Dow". www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrC3DDNEZ_s
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Thinking of Jules Olitski abstracts ( again ) and acknowledging his powerful influence on my work as a painter. Now, even as a photographer, his work exerts a inspiring presence. The titling is done with a nod to his style of putting names to his work.
That one significant morning, when we least expect it, we wake and the full impact of the benign incomprehensibility of the universe floods us and our experience of life becomes non-local and omnipresent. One of these days ....
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A continuing theme for me ... the taking stock of where we are right now and seeing the necessity of a re-thinking. There isn't much lately that would challenge that notion. Recent events even underscore it even more urgently.
Maybe the Maya were right after all, that we would be entering a new period of growth where the old ways would die. Who would argue that things need to stay the same? Those that would definitely see 'the end of the world' coming. To that end I say "amen".
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Kepler once theorized that the planets not only orbited around the sun but they each had a fundamental musical tone or note at which they vibrated. Each of these planetary notes combined, he taught, with the others to create what is now famously known as "the music of the spheres".
This symphony also followed Euclidean geometrical prinicipals of proportion and harmony, an heirloom from Socrates and Plato.
This image is an oblique nod to Kepler and an artistic take on this symphony of the cosmos.
Music Link: Klaus Schulze - "Crystal Lake" from his 1977 album, "Mirage". How do you choose the perfect music to hint at the Music of the Spheres"? For me Schulze has an otherworldly and breathtaking talent for evoking vast, unimaginable stretches of space and time. His music, particularly here on "Crystal Lake", really comes close to what I would at least like to suggest as an approximation of Kepler's symphony. Created entirely on analogue synthesizers in the 70's this masterpiece stands as one of his greatest achievements. Skip the ad when viewing, turn up the volume and lay back for one of the most amazing 30 minutes you'll ever spend listening to music.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZYPzLTuQx0&list=AL94UKMTqg-9...
Sept 2/2012
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Lines like neuronal dendrites, like lightening and the waving curve of dragons, blossoming with thought, ignite with the light of suddenly marvellous inspiration. As within so without?
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Music Link: Faydeaudeau-System 7
Talking about anger the Buddha described it like this, "If you are angry with me, you want to harm me, to hurt me so you reach into a fire and pull out a burning coal that you want to give me. Anger is like that, you want to give someone a hot, burning coal, to hurt them. But what if I see your anger and I do not want to participate - I don't take your burning coal, I don't accept it? Who is left with that coal? And now who is being harmed?" ( Paraphrased ).
Music Link: Brian Eno - "Distributed Being" from his album "Nerve Net". Features Robert Fripp on characteristically blistering, searing guitar, beautifully evoking the emotional intensity and insanity of rage. Who else but Fripp to portray this? Not for the faint of heart !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgG_vblhleU
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Further mannequin studies. I find it amazing just how much I get out of working with mannequins. There's so much loaded psychology behind these 'graven' images, their common, everyday use and their enormous power to hold our attention. I'll finally be introducing a fair number of male figures which should change the energy of the images up a bit.
Music Link: David Byrne ( & Brian Eno ): "I Feel My Stuff". www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PiRAIwXfrU&playnext=1&li... From their album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today".
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12+12+12=36. Broken down numerologically, this gives you 9 ( 3+6 ). 9 stands for completion. Today ( 12-12-12 ) is not about apocalypse but a noting of completion of one phase and the beginning of another. So it's a kind of celebration today! I offer this abstraction of intersections and multi-dimensional simultaneity as we move into the quantum age. Cheers!
Music Link: System 7 - "Song For the Phoenix", from their album "Phoenix". www.youtube.com/watch?v=m94N7oAdv0o&playnext=1&li...
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A running theme - the future overturning of the tyranny of the right angle. We love our 90 degree angles and we build our lives around them, internally, externally. Why is that? Purely straight lines don't even exist in nature. In some esoteric circles the right angle is seen as an expression of "male" energy, while the curve or the spiral connotes the "feminine".
With the coming quantum paradigm and it's interconnectedness of all things, of everything affecting everything else, immediately, and that all things proceed from consciousness and not the opposite, we find ourselves moving into a more 'feminine" energy.
This balancing will be the recovery of the planet and what Morris Berman called, "the reenchantment of the world".
Music Link: Talking Heads - "The Great Curve" from their iconic album, "Remain in Light".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHZua9rdFvQ
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