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"Before you stands a sports car of flesh and blood. Boasting a voluminous 4.0-litre six-cylinder horizontally opposed and naturally aspirated engine packing 383 kW (520 hp), mounted in the rear.
Its race track chassis will show you what it means to confront the tarmac head on. Eye for an eye. Lap after lap. The fixed rear wing is a flagrant provocation to do battle. To the opponent. And to the opposing headwind. The rear silencer as well as the tailpipes in titanium are a visible sign of what the new 911 GT3 RS is promising: unadulterated sound, pure performance, and a challenge that nobody whose heart beats for sports cars can shy away from..."
Source: Porsche
Photographed at TT Circuit Assen during 402automotive Supercar Sunday.
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Yesterday, took place the Tel-Aviv's Pride Parade.
I am not sure every member of the LGBT community would feel comfortable with this way of expressing the liberation of the community; but, I can, also, understand why a few members of it need these provocations and exhibitionism.
Photographer could certainly find their (spiritual) satisfaction there…
Pride and Prejudice... Turn the other cheek?
I haven't seen Myles around much in the last weeks, but I’ll use one of his catchphrases 'brain fart' to describe the following, I’m sure he’d approve, and it's perfect to describe this bit of warm air that I would rather not have smelt in the first place.
So..... Someone farted in my general direction, and I feel the need to respond, and sticking with the windy / arse metaphors I know that by taking the bait, you run the risk of ending up sounding worse than the provocation that got to you in the first place. And I've had a laugh with and at any of my flickr contacts caught throwing hissy-fits in the past, so i'm also aware i'm setting myself up here by rambling on about it.
But I don't rant much, and for reasons that will become clear, I’m going to say my piece anyway. I’ve ignored most of the annoying provocations that come from sharing yourself via you art to a global audience (Including actual photo-theft where I found someone blatantly downloading and re-posting my pictures, and being told that i shouldn't use a lensbaby or photoshop to have fun with my work) usually preferring to let my pictures do the talking, and realising that they are only pictures, meant to be enjoyed and any negative energy created is missing the point.
So rather than wasting an hour of my life here just expressing annoyance, I thought I’d try and turn it into a positive discussion and maybe learn something from it, I always enjoy hearing the thoughts that these sort of 'brain farts' provoke, and I’ve come to respect the opinions of many of you who provide them.
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So what p*ssed me off?
Finding a comment on a photo i posted last week, that led me to a discussion thread, where someone was implying my shot was artistic theft because he had posted a shot with the same subject and composition days before, and that after seeing his photo I had deliberately rushed out to copy him.
You can probably tell by now that it did annoy me, but many things in life annoy me and I let them go, life’s too short and I’ve had painful reminders of that fact this year.
But I read on (of course you would too, it's only natural to be curious) and got even more irked when I read that 'I see it all the time from people with 'their digi-cams' , OK, so now I’m a thief and it's only to be expected because I use a digital camera (for the record, I use both, and sometimes a pencil if we want to get really Luddite about it)
And the final straw was reading that he said "I’m trying to capture the island I live on in a unique way. I'm looking for shots that help me stand out from the crowd and let people see the island in a different way away from all of the touristy type pictures.". So now I’m a thief, not a proper photographer because it wasn't using film, and I’m taking tourist snapshots in an un-unique way :)
All this about a *subject and composition I’ve already shot many times before, in a photo that i had publicly expressed admiration for.
That's a lot of cheeks to turn, and my inner kick-boxer pushed my inner Gandhi aside and decided to respond. I'll probably link to this from the thread (if I’m allowed in the group) and mail the person in question inviting him to read this, I’ll let you know if the response gets all Medieval and we end up duelling with pistols at dawn, some of you can come and take photos, now that would be artistic!
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Pride or Prejudice?
The bible says it’s a sin, a popular expression has it 'coming before a fall', but I think there can be also be a positive side to it, and as an artist I believe it’s good to have pride in your work.
So, the suggestion of 'artistic theft' is enough to get my back up (and its probably slanderous too, I make my living as a creative and I’m thinking that might qualify as professional defamation of character or something similar, I’ll have my lawyers look into it :)
But the main reason for writing all this is to recognise the annoyance and anger that made me have dark thoughts of retribution when i thought he was talking about me (there's a small primeval part of me that is still favouring this route as I know and enjoy the honesty and satisfaction that you get from a good fight from studying Kick-boxing, but that’s only cool when equally matched, consenting people do it in a dojo/boxing ring) so having a brain-fart to stop it taking up space in my head seems like a good choice, life is too short to hang onto negative vibes like this. And of course I know that 'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent' and I should adopt the hippy / Gandhi / Kenny Rogers approach of turning the other cheek, because I’m also a father, and I need to lead by example, and what kind of example is it to react with anger to the words of a stranger, especially in the climate we have here in the UK right now where people are stabbed every day because they 'disrespected' someone.
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Some background
For about the last 15 years I’ve been 'documenting' life on the cliffs in the west wight, in pencil, oil, acrylic, water-colour, gouache, mosaic, and with both film and digital photography. I'd guess more than a third of the 1,099 shots I’ve posted to flickr in the last few years have in some way been part of that process and exploring that theme, but as flickr only amounts to less than 1% of the shots I keep it would be a conservative guess to say I have hundreds of shots on the theme already.
Subjects include the geography and geology of the cliffs, the relationship with the waves that pound against them, everything that happens up there, the people, the things they do there (from para-gliding to sitting, thinking, watching sailing, checking the surf) the signs and monuments, lighthouses and buildings they erect, the plants that grow wild there and the animals that also call it home (cows being a favourite and very popular subject)
Last week I posted a picture of cows on the edge of the cliff at Compton Farm,
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2633778922/
to my mind a not particularly good or noteworthy shot ( I quite liked the dramatic sky in the background but wasn’t really happy with the position of the cows themselves, but they don't really co-operate and stand where you might like.) But it was ok in the context of previous shots, particularly 'take care cliff edges are dangerous' and in the midst of life we are in death'
www.flickr.com/search/?w=24424426@N00&q=take+care.+cl...
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2293827778/
or maybe even as an update of the many I’ve taken of the same cows in the same field.
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/289690355/
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2324964692/
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/514427794/
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/517460396/
This one with the same compositional idea
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2323807106/
or sheep in the same composition
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/493415465/
or a human silhouette in the same spot
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/510539952/
or a para-glider above the same spot
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2610230368/
or the way they're falling into the sea
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/2428671420/
or the wildflowers that grow upon them
www.flickr.com/photos/s0ulsurfing/874461347/
I could literally do this for hours......
This might be getting boring now, bit I’m also discovering just how much of a recurring theme it has been as I write this (this is the worthwhile bit for me, I’m seeing my own motivations more clearly as a result of saying all this crap) and how no matter how hard you try, you can't avoid clichés and re-treading common ground.
To many, including myself, we delight in working our way through all the photographic clichés, and having seen this as a subject from all over the world and MANY times on the island and in my own stream already, I think it’s almost up there with the puppies and kittens in shoes and the classic spiral staircase shot, not really that unique or thought provoking, but interesting in the small details of the way you choose to present the familiar.
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Owning ideas?
If you had an idea to document the cows living near the edge, a good idea, would you think it was exclusively yours, or you were the first, and deserved to be the last to explore that theme, as I’ve said above, I’ve been doing it for 15 years, and I think there were hundreds if not thousands doing it before me, no doubt there will be many after. Do you think a person can own an idea? or that your attempts are more valid because you're shooting film* in B&W (yep, the snide comments about digi-camera users definitely haven't gone unnoticed this time :)
*btw, and its a slight digression, what I’ve seen many times is how some (and only a certain special few) people with film cameras seem to think it makes their pov and photographic work somehow more worthy and important than a shot taken with a digital camera, why is that? I find that pretty funny. It's not the cameras or type of people, it's just a mindset that can exist, and its not a reverse prejudice or envy on my part (it's great to use a cliche like this :) because some of my best friends are film photographers :) and if anything i have a great respect for those that work that way, and the skills and techniques required
Anyway, the discussion thread contains many brilliant and funny responses, puncturing the main argument far better than I could, and even some supporting it, including some telling him he's brilliant and I’m just trying to be like him (emulation) so there's no need to repeat them all again here, and opinions are like *ssholes, everyone's got one, I just thought it fair to have my say too seeing as so many strangers were passing judgement on me and the accuser hadn't felt like including me in the discussion up to now.
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So what started out as me liking a shot from someone else on flickr, taking the time to comment and say so (before the photo was deleted and then re-posted) and then having the good fortune to finally have an interesting sky as a backdrop when exploring my familiar theme during my regular walk on the cliffs, ends up in me being labelled a thief.
But, the interesting part for me is the idea of inspirations and how they evolve, and because of this I got to read many funny and Illuminating responses (my favourite was.... ideas are the spermatozoa of cultural evolution, breeding in the minds of others. )
Isn’t that one of the reasons we all take part in the social network, and put our pictures on flickr open to the preying photo-thieves and commercial bloggers who do it for the adsense revenue. To be inspired by the other work we see and to grow our own understanding of the medium, composition and techniques (I started a set a few months back especially for that exact purpose, recognising those on flickr who have genuinely been an inspiration to me, funnily enough, the first one was a film photographer)
I think it's easy to take yourself too seriously as an artist? and I’m pretty sure I’m taking myself too seriously by getting involved in replying with this brain fart....doh!
Who knows, maybe this will be read, taken in the right spirit, apologies will be made and we'll become best of friends, or maybe a load of film photographers will try and beat me up for shooting on their turf, it’s a funny old world; I wonder what the cows would make of it all, probably just keep on chewing the cud and enjoying the view.
Love peace and bananas
J.
In the stillness of the night
Whispers of desire take flight
Silken words, a tempting sight
Sensual provocation, burning bright
In the whispers of the night, we find our release
Sensual provocation, our eternal peace
In her eyes, a sultry fire burns,
A seductive dance, her body yearns.
The very essence of desire,
In her touch, a burning fire.
In every move, a playful tease,
Her lips, a hint of sweet release.
She whispers secrets in the night,
A symphony of passion, taking flight.
Amstelveen - Cobra Museum.
Exposition: We Kiss the Earth - Danish Modern Art 1934-1948.
Artist: Henry Heerup.
The Danish artists who started Cobra in 1948 had a lot of influence on the much younger Dutch and Belgian Cobra members. The focus is on developments in Danish modern art from the 1930s and 1940s, with important themes such as sexual freedom, politics, provocation, experimentation and spontaneity. Themes that would later have such a great influence on Cobra.
1/ Yusupov’s Magnificent Soirée was dominated by the return of the Empress’ recently replaced ex-favourite (and rumoured secret husband) Knyaz Potemkin. Dashkova, who has publicly expressed discontent with the Empress’ choice of favourites, employed several non-verbal provocation strategies to seem superior.
Potemkin did not seem to mind or respond to said provocation, except for apparent loss of appetite which was quickly recovered after Dashkova left the dining table!
Learn more about our "Royal Treatment" plotline (#21): docs.google.com/presentation/d/11w07wRtM64aT-slNCqxzs_0p8...
Learn more about our "Sheremetev in Love" plotline (#15): docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S1L8JesWESwnS1_1ehXmTyc3k...
Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheatpasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art. Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.
The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts.[1] Traditional spray-painted graffiti artwork itself is often included in this category, excluding territorial graffiti or pure vandalism.
Street art is often motivated by a preference on the part of the artist to communicate directly with the public at large, free from perceived confines of the formal art world.[2] Street artists sometimes present socially relevant content infused with esthetic value, to attract attention to a cause or as a form of "art provocation".[3]
Street artists often travel between countries to spread their designs. Some artists have gained cult-followings, media and art world attention, and have gone on to work commercially in the styles which made their work known on the streets.
Le Grand assistant (La grande grenouille). [1967/1976]
Bronze sculpture by German artist Max Ernst (1891-1976).
Max Ernst is one of the most prominent figures from the Dada and Surrealist movements of the 20th Century, and known for being a master of provocation. Ernst’s body of work demonstrates his persistent engagement with culture, especially in terms of the social and political climate. His subjects range from ancient mythology to literature to theory, often imbued with undertones of the artist’s biting humor. While varied, Ernst’s work also exhibits consistency in the recurring scenes of highly incongruent and disorienting groups of figures and objects that often display striking disruptions of scale, invoking an overwhelming sense of anxiety. For Ernst, art was a device by which the nightmarish realities of the world could be reflected.
Source: Kasmin Gallery
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, also known as the Louisiana, is an art museum located north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Attracting over 700,000 guests annually, the Louisiana is Scandinavia's most visited museum for modern and contemporary art, hosting 6 to 10 exhibitions each year alongside a permanent display of Yayoi Kusama's Gleaming Lights of the Souls. The museum is recognized as a modernist landmark in Danish architecture, and is noted for its synthesis of art, architecture and landscape, boasting a sculpture park with works by Alexander Calder, Henry Moore and Richard Serra. In addition to its permanent and temporary exhibitions, the museum has a shop featuring Danish design items, a restaurant with a view of the Øresund, and a three-storey Children's Wing hosting daily workshops. The museum is included in Patricia Schultz's book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.
Source: Wikipedia
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photo by Jessica Stewart - www.romephotoblog.com Public Provocation: www.colab-gallery.com/ June - October
photo by Jessica Stewart - www.romephotoblog.com Public Provocation: www.colab-gallery.com/ June - October
An American Pika (Ochotona princeps) pauses for a moment in a scree field beside Cascade Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.
This is the first pika I’ve ever managed to photograph at all reasonably, as most times they are frantically moving and skittering amongst the rocks, and don’t take too kindly to two-legged invasion of their space - they will dash for cover at the slightest provocation. This particular species lives in holes and crannies in the rocks at high elevation in North America and does not hibernate. To make it through the winter, it collects vegetation into ‘hay piles’ that it then eats once the fresh food sources die and the temperatures drop. We now know that the composition of these hay piles is not random, and that pika will intersperse tannin-rich plants throughout the piles, likely to help preserve their fodder and stave off molding and decomposition.
Pika are lagomorphs, related to hares and rabbits, and all lagomorphs differ from rodents in that they have twice as many incisors, and these incisors sport enamel on both sides (rodents only have iron-rich enamel on one side, which causes rodent teeth to appear orange and wear unevenly). Moreover, lagomorphs are vegetarians and obligate caecotrophes, meaning they produce two different types of faeces - normal faeces that are eliminated and hopefully forgotten about, and ’night faeces’ which require immediate attention. These latter faeces must be re-ingested and passed through the digestive system a second time. Similar to other vegetarian mammals, lagomorphs lack the enzymes necessary to digest cellulose and so miss out on most of the energetic value of the food they eat the first time it passes through the gut. To deal with this problem, on its first trip through food is fermented in the hindgut by a suite of microorganisms that convert the cellulose to sugar. After the primary elimination, this fermented mixture is then eaten again so that the animal can extract the newly released sugars that were inaccessible the first time through. A digestive kludge, to be sure...
Mural entitled “Navi Waiting in the Shadows” by Ivan Roque aka @ivanjroque for Wynwood Mural Fest, seen in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami, Florida.
The artist states: (this) "depicts my inner faults and flaws depicted in the form of a hyena with glowing yellow eyes and a mandrake flower which represent evil. The piece is meant to evoke a feeling of provocation as you get lost and challenged by Navi or otherwise the demon that lurks within me."
Photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.
Edit by Teee.
Gleiwitzer Radiosender, Ort der Naziprovokation am 31 August 1939.
Gleiwitzer broadcasting station, place of nazi provocation on 31th August 1939;
On 22nd Sep. 2013, heavy clashes took place across Hebron (clashes started on 20th Sep. and lasted seven days), leading to the injury and arrest of numerous Palestinians as well as the death of an Israeli soldier. As part of Sukkot celebrations, the street outside checkpoint 56 leading to Yatta was closed by Israeli military and border police. The army announced by military order that all shops on the street would have be closed and cars would have to be moved between 11am and 3pm, to ensure safe passage for settlers and Jewish visitors for a pilgrimage to the cave of Otniel ben Knaz, located on said road (what was clear provocation). Crowds of Palestinians, internationals and journalists gathered to witness and protest against this breaking of the Hebron agreement, signed in 1997 between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government and dividing the city into zones H1 and H2 under PA and Israeli military control respectively. The road to Yatta falls under Palestinian Authority control and is therefore illegal for Israelis to access. The clashes in Bab Al-Zawiyeh began around 11.30 am when Palestinian youths began to throw stones at the invading Israeli army and border police. The occupation forces responded with tear gas canisters, stunt grenades and plastic-coated steel bullets. Live ammunition was eventually used against resisting protestors and there are reports of several Palestinian men being treated for gunshot wounds.
Place: Bab al Zawiye, Hebron, Palestine.
C'E' CHI PASSEGGIA E CHI PEDALA.
Questa seconda versione evidenzia maggiormente le due figure in silhouette, tralasciando la geometria dettata dalle striscie pedonali in primo piano.
Questa mia provocazione estetica vuol mettere in evidenza come un aspetto assolutamente banale e quotidiano, può avere più interpretazioni se vengono elaborate successivamente dall'immagine originaria.
il nostro occhio ci trasferisce quello che vede ma poi noi siamo liberi a modificare la realtà a nostro piacimento.
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THERE ARE THOSE WHO WALK AND THOSE WHO RYDE.
This second version highlights the two figures in silhouette more, leaving out the geometry dictated by the pedestrian crossings in the foreground.
This aesthetic provocation of mine aims to highlight how an absolutely banal and everyday aspect can have multiple interpretations if they are subsequently elaborated from the original image.
our eye transfers to us what it sees but then we are free to modify reality as we wish.
Immagine realizzata con lo smartphone HUAWEI MATE 20 PRO
(Ardea herodius) Thomson Marsh, Kelowna, BC.
Each of the various herons in the various areas I monitor has a unique "heronality." Ralphie of Belmont and Michaelbrook, is very docile, accustomed to people, and willing to stand by while photographers snap away.
Others, like Hider of Thomson, are much more guarding of their privacy. He loves to settle into restricted spaces and will take flight at the slightest "provocation" (his word, not mine....) In this sequence, I spotted him first trying to imheronate a cattail, then huffing a way a few meters in search of a better lair, then finally, throwing a complete hissy fit, flying off, intimidating whatever ducks or Hooded Mergansers got in his way before settling back into the reeds where I saw him last week.... The next several images portray what went down....
C. W. Eckersberg (1783-1853) - Utsigt gennem en dør til løbende figurer [View of running figures through a door] (1845). In the collection of the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen.
The inevitable question is also the wrong question to ask - the point of the picture - an intelligent joke or a subtle provocation by the artist - is precisely to deny the the viewer the answer to that question. The picture thus creates a fascinating antagonism between artist and viewer, by placing the emotional focus of the picture (the event that people are running to) outside the scope of the viewer. To complete the joke, the viewer cannot even complain - the picture is indeed what its precisely objective title says it is...
The Wire Fox Terrier breed standard says they should be 'on the tip-toe of expectation at the slightest provocation.' Once a mainstay of traditional British foxhunts, today's Wire is a handsome and amusing companion and master show dog.
Un piccolo omaggio per il 4 luglio: ma questo è orgoglio newyorkese o provocazione francese?
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A little homage for the Independence Day: Pride of New York or French provocation?
Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations. Stencil graffiti, wheatpasted poster art or sticker art, and street installation or sculpture are common forms of modern street art. Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.
The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts.[1] Traditional spray-painted graffiti artwork itself is often included in this category, excluding territorial graffiti or pure vandalism.
Street art is often motivated by a preference on the part of the artist to communicate directly with the public at large, free from perceived confines of the formal art world.[2] Street artists sometimes present socially relevant content infused with esthetic value, to attract attention to a cause or as a form of "art provocation".[3]
Street artists often travel between countries to spread their designs. Some artists have gained cult-followings, media and art world attention, and have gone on to work commercially in the styles which made their work known on the streets.
"Before you stands a sports car of flesh and blood. Boasting a voluminous 4.0-litre six-cylinder horizontally opposed and naturally aspirated engine packing 383 kW (520 hp), mounted in the rear.
Its race track chassis will show you what it means to confront the tarmac head on. Eye for an eye. Lap after lap. The fixed rear wing is a flagrant provocation to do battle. To the opponent. And to the opposing headwind. The rear silencer as well as the tailpipes in titanium are a visible sign of what the new 911 GT3 RS is promising: unadulterated sound, pure performance, and a challenge that nobody whose heart beats for sports cars can shy away from..."
Source: Porsche
Photographed at Mondello Racetrack during Fundracer - event returned to Mondello Park for fifth time to raise funds for The Jay & Ellie Foundation and supporting Autism.
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