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And a comment on Facebook:
The events in Paris last night are made all the more shocking by the fact that these murderers deliberately targeted people who were socialising on a Friday night. The language of the communique issued by ISIS, seeking to portray those at the Bataclan concert as "idolaters" attending "a party of perversity" gives us a chilling insight into the mind of these killers. This was an abhorrent attack on anyone who goes to a bar, or to a restaurant, to a gig or to a game. The fundamentalists would kill us all for enjoying ourselves. ISIS is a death cult and we who believe in life must go on enjoying ourselves in defiance of their provocations. (Billy Bragg)
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🍦 Summer Melts & Wicked Drips 🍦
The sun is merciless, my popsicle even more so. It’s melting faster than I can keep up, dripping down across my chest, sending shivers as the chill collides with the heat of my skin. Each drop teases, lingering in places far too sensitive to ignore. Suddenly, this isn’t just ice cream—it’s temptation in its sweetest form.
That’s the mood of the Gioia Outfit by Cosmos Apparel—an ensemble designed for indulgence, play, and those deliciously messy little moments that blur the line between innocence and provocation.
✨ Styling & Intimate Details
The Gioia makes even a melting popsicle look like couture:
* bikini-style top cut daringly to frame every drip-worthy curve
* barely-there panties with sultry strap detail
* ️ flirty skirt that dances with the breeze, whispering secrets with every step
* each piece wearable separately, letting you decide how much of the fantasy to reveal
🎨 HUD Indulgences (for Outfit and Popsicle)
With the 20-color Fatpack HUD, I can match every mood to every melt:
* Cherry Temptation – bright and playful
* Lick Me Lime – tangy, bold, impossible to resist
* Midnight Chocolate Sin – rich, slow, and sinful
* Blueberry Bite – cool and unexpected
* Strawberry Seduction – sweetly dangerous
The outfit shifts with me, the popsicle too—because sometimes the flavor of the tease is just as important as the tease itself.
👗 Compatible Mesh Bodies
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* Reborn / Reborn Waifu
* Erika / Kupra
* Legacy / Legacy Perky / Legacy Bombshell
🌴 The Pleasure of the Drip
Because summer isn’t really about staying clean—it’s about giving in to the heat, savoring the melt, and deciding who gets to enjoy the drips when they fall.
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✨ Go on… it’s melting. Don’t you want a taste?
God really loves us and wants us to turn away from our sins. If He passed final judgment now, we would have no such opportunity; that would be the end of time for us. He has sufficient provocation to do so; that we recognize. We have sinned enough to deserve His infinite wrath at any moment, but we do not receive it. We have an opportunity, therefore, to turn away from our sin and to turn to God. Instead of continuing to offend Him, we can plead for forgiveness and seek to please Him. While there is yet life, that is possible. - John Gertsner
This sculpture of Maurizio Cattelan had to go to the Centre Pompidou Metz because the other museums didn't have enough height to display it ;-) ...
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Friday 23rd May, 2025.
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The Lighting Of The Sails: The Kiss Of Light.
By artist David McDiarmid.
This is one of many artworks projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Sydney 2025.
Photographed from the northern end of the Overseas Passenger Terminal, near Campbells Cove.
The artist, the late David McDiarmid, was a defining voice of late 20th century's radical counterculture. He fused art, fashion, nightlife with bold activism and unapologetic self-expression.
On the 30th anniversary of the artist’s death, 'Lighting of the Sails: Kiss of Light' transforms his life’s work, rooted in activism and provocation, into a new animation projected onto the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Sydney, 2025.
Organised by mood and feeling, 'Kiss of Light' is a slow dance of texture, colour, feeling and idea, tracing the artist’s punk origins. Featuring four key bodies of work - the Bedsheet Paintings, Disco Kwilts, and the Kiss of Light and Rainbow Aphorisms - the animation draws forward McDiarmid’s practice to the present day, broadcasting the experiences of a repressed minority while embodying complex truths, absorbing fear and preserving memory.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.
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✨ JUMO CRYSTAL Dress Outfit ✨
There are nights when I slip into something that doesn’t just embrace my curves—it commands the room. The JUMO Crystal Dress Outfit is that moment, that slow heartbeat before every gaze turns toward me beneath the shifting lights of a velvet-lined nightclub. The silhouette is sculpted to perfection: a serpentine hourglass cut that glides along the body, with deep side-swept contours and daring negative space revealing just enough skin to whisper dangerously close to desire. Its fabric—an iridescent mosaic alive with metallic threads—seems to shimmer between sapphire, rose, and onyx, responding to every movement like liquid light.
The PBR-enhanced HUD is a treasure chest of brilliance—each texture option refracts under the dance-floor glow, giving me 14 color choices that transform the mood from decadent midnight to glittering champagne dawn. Whether in the deep crimson of passion or the glacial sheen of moonlit silver, it’s as if each selection carries its own rhythm, its own pulse.
️ Inspired by the gilded glamour of 1970s Paris nightlife and the structured sensuality of Thierry Mugler’s early couture, the Crystal Dress celebrates the body as sculpture—part art, part provocation.
And beneath that dazzling hem, my legs are wrapped in the timeless seduction of VV Paris’s Liz Taylor Stockings—a delicate veil of sheer stretch lace from Calais, soft as whispered secrets. These stockings trace the leg with a vintage sensuality reminiscent of Hollywood’s silver-screen sirens. Available in twelve sumptuous hues, from porcelain ivory to deep rosewood, they shimmer like silk beneath the nightclub’s glow, evoking that ineffable "je ne sais quoi" of old-world Paris romance.
💗 Completing the vision are the Vesta Kila Heels, sky-high sculptural stilettos adorned with crystalline studs that catch every flicker of light. Their 100 % original mesh design, crafted for Legacy, eBody Reborn, and Lara X, offers fourteen brilliant tones—from coral to turquoise—each as irresistible as the woman who wears them. Every step in them becomes a dance, a statement, a surrender to rhythm.
In this look I become more than a woman—I become a story written in glass and lace, a reflection of beauty’s eternal rebellion.
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💎 “Fashion is the art of turning light, fabric, and form into emotion—and in that glow, we discover ourselves anew.”
William Eggleston Mystery of the Ordinary In the twilight, the shadows of the plants grow mysteriously along the wall of the house. In front of this shadow theater stands a metallic-lilac Cadillac, on whose lustrous paint the last rays of the sun dance. The brick-lined flowerbed, the shrubs planted in it, and the straw-woven blinds in the window front with their rusty colors complement this image composition, which at the same time radiates an eerie calm.
In a career spanning over five decades, William Eggleston has come to be recognized for almost single-handedly elevating color photography to the status of fine art. Along with Stephen Shore and Evelyn Hofer, Eggleston was one of the first photographers to recognize the distinctive power of color and its unique capacity to create pictures that continuously challenge the everyday. A blue bouquet on the door of a house, a colorfully tiled building façade, a ceiling painted glossy blood red: the intensity of the color alone, and Eggleston’s abiding sensitivity to it, was a formal and analytical provocation. Source: www.co-berlin.org/de/programm/ausstellungen/william-eggle...
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(2023) The Palestinian Ambassador To The UK Blasted A BBC Presenter For Biased Coverage Of Israel On Live TV.
The truth they want to bury : October 7 BBC transcript - the complicit interviewer.
"Louis Goodall: Do you support what Hamas launched on Saturday morning?
Husam Zomlot: Well, this is not the right question, Louis. Really, the right question-Louis Goodall: It's an important question.
Husam Zomlot: No, no, it is not an important question.
Louis Goodall: Do you - Husam Zomlot: Because - whether you support their action or not is not an important question. Because -
Louis Goodall: Why not?
Husam Zomlot: No, no, no, no, it is not an important question. Hamas is a group, a militant group. You're talking to the Palestinian representative. I am here to represent my people - the Palestinian people - what they are going through. I'm not here to condemn anybody. And if anybody needs to be condemned, it's what you call the only democracy in the Middle East, that is Israel, between parentheses, that is doing what you have just reported: targeting civilians. And this has not just happened in the last 48 hours. How many times have you interviewed Israeli officials, Louis? Hundreds of times. How many times has Israel committed war crimes live on your own cameras? Do you start by asking them to condemn themselves? Have you? You don't. You don't. No, no, I'll answer that question. You don't. You know why I refuse to answer it? Because I refuse the premise of it-because at the very heart of it is misrepresentation. It's always the Palestinians who are expected to condemn themselves.
This is a political conflict. We have been denied our rights for a long time. So this is the wrong starting point. The right starting point is to focus on the root causes - to try and get out of this extreme dark tunnel—as opposed to this business by the BBC and the mainstream media for 75 years, bringing us here only when there are Israelis who are killed.
Did you bring me here when many Palestinians in the West Bank - more than 200 over the last few months - were killed? Do you invite me when there are Israeli provocations in Jerusalem and elsewhere? Because Israel - what Israelis have seen, which we started by saying is tragic, these last 48 hours - the Palestinians see every day, for the last 75 years.
You know the situation in Gaza. You've just described it. This is the biggest open-air prison.
Two million people have been taken hostage by Israel for the last 16 years.
So I'm saying this, Louis, to say perhaps it's about time we abandon this dangerous rhetoric - this framework - and start giving people the real, ugly truth. Israel is an occupying force. It is responsible for providing protection to the people under its occupation.
And should they commit crimes and crimes against humanity in the coming hours and weeks, it must be held accountable by the international community and the international judicial system." --- youtu.be/tjO_MNh-L1E?si=8flYfprcTUvjI1Lu
San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexique) - Cette photo de ce guitariste a été volée sans vergogne. J’étais passé devant lui une heure auparavant. Le trouvant talentueux, j’avais déposé quelques pesos dans sa sébile et lui avais demandé l’autorisation de le photographier. Refus catégorique. Je n’avais pas insisté. Ce n’était pas la première fois que j’essuyais un tel refus depuis mon arrivée au Mexique. Plus tard, je suis repassé devant lui, un peu par provocation je dois l’avouer, et pris cette photo tout en marchand, sans le regarder. Retour sur investissement.
En photographiant dans ces conditions, j’avais de grandes chances de rater ma photo, même en ayant pris soin d’affiner mes réglages préalablement. Mon geste était prémédité.
A premeditated photo
San Cristobal de las Casas (Mexico) - This photo of this guitarist was shamelessly stolen. I had passed in front of him an hour before. Finding him talented, I put a few pesos in his bowl and asked him for permission to photograph him. Categorical refusal. I didn't insist. It was not the first time that I had received such a refusal since my arrival in Mexico. Later, I walked past him again, a little out of provocation I must admit, and took this photo while haggling, without looking at him. Return on investment.
When photographing in these conditions, I had a good chance of failing my photo, even if I had taken care to refine my settings beforehand. My action was premeditated.
✨ Ginette by Oh! ✨
I slip into Ginette and immediately feel its spell binding my body and soul. This lingerie is not merely worn — it is lived, breathed, and savored. Its silhouette drapes over my curves with liquid ease, the micro-cut clinging where I ache to be held and fluttering away where mystery longs to remain. The neckline dips in a luscious plunge, daring eyes to wander deeper, while the hem teases the upper thighs, brushing against my flesh in the most decadent invitation.
The surface shimmers under light with its high PBR brilliance, each tiny perforation in the mesh a sensual constellation across my skin, framing the swell of my breasts and tracing the line of my hips like a whispered caress. When I arch back, Ginette glistens as if spun from wet silk — soft, glossy, impossibly seductive.
From a historical gaze, Ginette is the modern heir to the boudoir chemise of the Belle Époque, when women shed rigid corsetry to embrace freedom, satin, and allure. Yet here, it evolves into a futuristic piece — designed with precision mesh, responsive textures, and body-specific fits — proof that lingerie remains the eternal language of desire.
🌹 Compatible mesh bodies:
• Petitex
• Larax
• Lega
• Perky
• Bombshell
• Reborn
• Reborn Squish
• Waifu
• Nhuuma
• Lively
🎨 HUD & PBR finish:
Ginette’s HUD unlocks Blinn, Soft, and High PBR finishes, letting me shift from a luminous midnight sheen to a velvety softness or a radiant high-shine luster. Each look refracts light differently, ensuring I am never the same woman twice — sometimes a sultry goddess of shadows, sometimes a radiant muse untouchable in her glow.
I adore how the colors flirt between timeless black, romantic blush, and luminous white — each shade sculpting my presence into a new fantasy.
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Ginette is not just lingerie — it is a delicious act of surrender and a daring provocation. When I wear it, I am poetry in lace and light, a fantasy incarnate, and an unspoken promise that my body is the art, and Ginette is its frame.
The European robin (Erithacus rubecula), known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in the British Isles, is a small insectivorous passerine bird, specifically a chat, that was formerly classified as a member of the thrush family (Turdidae) but is now considered to be an Old World flycatcher. About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inches) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upperparts and a whitish belly. It is found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa; it is sedentary in most of its range except the far north.
The robin is diurnal, although has been reported to be active hunting insects on moonlit nights or near artificial light at night. Well known to British and Irish gardeners, it is relatively unafraid of people and drawn to human activities involving the digging of soil, in order to look out for earthworms and other food freshly turned up. Indeed, the robin is considered to be a gardener's friend and for various folklore reasons the robin would never be harmed. In continental Europe on the other hand, robins were hunted and killed as with most other small birds, and are more wary. Robins also approach large wild animals, such as wild boar and other animals which disturb the ground, to look for any food that might be brought to the surface. In autumn and winter, robins will supplement their usual diet of terrestrial invertebrates, such as spiders, worms and insects, with berries and fruit. They will also eat seed mixtures placed on bird-tables.
Male robins are noted for their highly aggressive territorial behaviour. They will fiercely attack other males and competitors that stray into their territories and have been observed attacking other small birds without apparent provocation. Such attacks sometimes lead to fatalities, accounting for up to 10% of adult robin deaths in some areas.
Because of high mortality in the first year of life, a robin has an average life expectancy of 1.1 years; however, once past its first year it can expect to live longer and one robin has been recorded as reaching 19 years of age. A spell of very low temperatures in winter may also result in significant mortality.
For more information, please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_robin
You don't think of anything bad and watch the new season of Mandalorian on Disney and suddenly the boy drops a coin right between my legs - of course he had to look very carefully with all the plush. I hope he doesn't use the coin slot!♥
Still Kinky loves! Thank you so much to the Kinky Event and all the amazing sponsors with their lovely and naugty stuff. Its always so much fun to show it to your cuties♥ here is the taxi to the Kinky
Items on Event in pic:
♥ [Provocation] Emma dress-Fatpack
♥ [Provocation] Emma Boots-Fatpack
♥ [Provocation] Emma gloves
... i am wearing it for legacy classic but its also made for: Reborn (juicy boobs) and Maitreya Lara cuties. love this dress ♥ take a look on event or here at the [Provocation]-Mainstore ♥
♥ moonwaii . boopy tape
♥ in use: moonwaii . booby tape #mine mine mine
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... comes of course mirrored, with face expressions and with props!
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in use: TEAR - P*ssy Moist! Set1 - my personal fav♥
also worn:
Head:
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[Heaux] Jurin - Browless - Blush *VE
identity faces - scars 9 //light// left
Stealthic - Riot (S Head/M Breast)
Body:
[BODY] Legacy (f)(1.6)
VELOUR x VENUS for LEGACY (BLUSH/ATHLETIC)
*KUNDALA* Abdominal Muscles BOM A19 (Legacy)
[theSkinnery] BodyScars Addon 7 light 50%
.STOIC. [ Legacy ] . GEL HEART NAILS [L]
Scene/ Decor:
FOXCITY. Photo Booth - Restored Loft (Backdrop + Trees) (Rez)
tarte. draped curtain (black & white)
:::ChicChica::: Pearl Chammy Dispenser
dust bunny . woodland dreams . head planter
dust bunny . folding fur chair
dust bunny . folding side table
Beware: Axis-HUD in use!
Happy weekend to all, a collage of photos from my garden taken last week, I was inspired to do this because of so many signs of spring such as perennial shoots, blooming snowdrops and crocuses, I painted the tool shed to bring out the blue trims, and everything coming back to life......then it snowed again, and again, and then...... world politics got fucking surreal, Politics aside, how can someone be so EVIL to threaten the entire world with a world war with no provocation?????????
Hair: ~Tableau Vivant~ Dreadlow Hair
Skin: ~Tableau Vivant~ Nathan skin - Tone 03
Jacket: [Deadwool]Durden Shirt
Piercing: - .HoD. - Provocation Piercing
Portlanders show remarkable poise, strength and character in face of government sponsored provocations, propaganda and extreme abuse of power.
We are caring people. We care about the rule of law, we care about due process, we care about freedom of speech and the right to assemble, we care about the constitution. We care about women's rights, we care about minority rights, we care about the rights of immigrants.
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Gawn by small @ FaMESHed
The Gawn Dress by small exists at the edge of art and desire, where fashion history and modern provocation entwine. Its styling is unapologetically body-conscious, draping like liquid flame yet revealing with the audacity of lingerie. The cut is precise and architectural — sheer panels frame the body as though carved from shadow and light, while the high, merciless slit elongates the leg with an elegance both dangerous and divine.
Historically, Gawn borrows from the 1920s flapper revolution, when hems rose in defiance and women claimed their freedom in movement and flesh. It recalls the Dior New Look of the late 1940s, cinching and shaping with sculptural precision, then strips that propriety away with transparency more akin to the 1990s slip-dress revival, when satin clung to supermodels like a second skin. Gawn distills all of these legacies — the rebellion, the elegance, the eroticism — into one modern silhouette that feels both timeless and transgressive.
The BLINN & Soft PBR shimmer ensures every step is painted in light, as though my body were being spotlighted by desire itself. Each shift of fabric is a tease, a breath away from baring everything. In this dress, I am not waiting — I am anticipating, trembling on the edge of being undone, as if Gawn were cut not to be worn, but to be peeled away in fevered urgency.
✨ Compatible Mesh Bodies: LaraX • Petitex • Legacy • Perky • Bombshell • Reborn • Waifu • Numina • Nuhuma Lively
💋 Special Feature: Reborn Squish + Kuromori realism—every curve, every press, every ache revealed
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Yes ,I agree that one can find beauty even in the ugliest things but this doesn't mean that we need to focus only on them. Many "fellow photographers and artists" prefer to show only this ugly kind of beauty and they call it a style . Some others are using "artistic" ways to kill innocence and joy just because they have been taught that making everything to appear meaningless and dirty is "cool." Art is not only to provoke. Propaganda art has very often served the dark side. Provocation always serves a purpose and spreading negativity with the excuse of making art seems very suspicious. I am not able to judge the photographic skills of a person but I can tell if a photo causes me heavy feelings and if it helps evil to be spread. We need to be very carefull with what we post and what we fav, always taking in consideration the impact that they may have on a fresh untouched soul...
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Sunday afternoon at the Kunstmuseum. “It’s a madhouse,” sighs the lady at the ticket check. Compared to the cheerful crowd she has to check in, her grey-blue uniform looks tired. Young and old have dressed up fashionably for the exhibition about Dior.
Uniforms should express authority, but how neutral do they have to be? “High time to put a good, preferably younger fashion designer in charge,” says an inner voice. A museum that - after many shows of famous designers - has developed into an epicenter of haute couture should surely have more courage. How else do you express the bond with ‘fashion’? A word that unites such a myriad of meanings – from cut to shape, from mannerism to creation – that everyone can identify with it.
LEFT OR RIGHT
In any case, at the top of the central stairs, a choice has to be made. Right to the ‘New Look’ by Dior – left to the ‘Night Animals’ by Spilliaert and Braeckman. We go left because that's why we came. In the dim silence that falls on us like a downy blanket, we focus our eyes on the introductory text. And on the image of a man descending a staircase in the semi-darkness. To be precise, we only see half a man. His face is barely visible, and his clothing reveals nothing special. Could that be a harbinger of what awaits us? Certainly.
Stairs are powerful metaphors. Up, down: life has its peaks and valleys. Platinum-blonde Hollywood stars made a great show of descending a staircase. A practice that Marcel Duchamp slyly commented on with 'Nu descendant un escalier'. In this sensational painting from 1912, a character strides down like an avalanche of cubist fragments. Naked? Down the stairs? The audience was stunned, moved by laughter and anger.
Admittedly, there was movement in the image. Or rather, that was suggested very nicely. Or was it a pile of firewood that came crashing down? The cartoons in the newspaper did not mince their words. The term ‘anti-art’ was used. Isn’t Braeckman’s intensification of the unfathomable also just a provocation? Yes, there is something in that… some photos are so black that you can only guess what you see.
(part of my review in Den Haag Centraal, October 31, 2024)
"ce que les hommes parle sur les femmes".
"lo que dicen los hombres de las mujeres".
"what men speak about women"
A provocation !!! Forgive me, everybody ||||
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Πάμε παρέα,
αδερφέ μου, μη κάνεις κράτη.
Το έχω άχτι να περάσω απ' τον συρμάτινο φράκτη
και τον ήλιο να θαμπώσω για λίγο,
να μη μας πάρουν χαμπάρι όσο θ' ανοίγω και θα πνίγω
στης γης τα ρήγματα, τα πιο όμορφα κρίματα,
ζωής θελήματα, της φτώχειας γεννήματα,
μονάκριβα ποιήματα και δίπλα στα θύματα
η παρέα μου ίχνη αφήνει, και πατήματα
Πάμε...
Υο! Noi non vogliamo Bush, il figlio di papa.
Non vogliamo questa guerra che ι contro l'umanita.
Noi prenderemo il sole, il sole e la liberta,
sulla spiaggia di Guantanamo il vento ci portera.
Τρομάξτε τους ήδη φοβισμένους δεσμώτες
με λόγια και νότες κι οι ατσάλινες πόρτες
ραγίζουν κι οι ταπεινοί τα ουράνια αγγίζουν,
δυο πύρινα μάτια και πύργους γκρεμίζουν.
Πάμε...
A Guantanamo in gabbia c' ι anche gente innocente,
gente presa a caso che non c' entra niente.
Dove sono i processi? Le prove? I diritti?
Noi non stiamo zitti, non stiamo zitti.
Falso, falso, falso, falso grande capo,
sei un capo solo col fucile puntato.
Non ti rispetta piϊ nessuno ormai nel mondo.
Guantanamo e la guerra non nascondono il tramonto.
Noi non vogliamo Bush e faraoni predatori,
petrolieri ricoperti di rubini e ori.
Noi non vogliamo Bush che coltiva il terrore -
ultima spiaggia e speranza per restare al potere.
Schiacciati in fondo al mondo come sardine
eppure ancora vedi che l'umanita combatte e vive.
Questo canto vola, oltre oceani e colline
dove un nuovo mondo sorge e per voi c' ι scritto: "Fine".
Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us
in Guantanamo and free the fire.
Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά
μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο
να πάρουμε τη φωτιά
How can we free the prisoners of war,
from indefinite detention down in Cuba?
I feel sorry for the innocent ones who suffer,
so we dedicate this one to all world leader.
If you live in a glass house, don't throw stones.
What gives you the right to invade people's homes?
Terrorism is something that we can't condone,
but there is more than one reason why the towers came down.
Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά
μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο
να πάρουμε τη φωτιά
Vamos aser lo imposible
por una vez mas como embieja saga
con un tripulacion puro la roja armada
que viene de los sinquo orizontes del mundo.
Curagaro deada da aqua
y ensima las barreras enredal istorias
nosostros quon allas de barro y las palabras ammos
libertaremos el fuego en Guantanamo.
Je repense aux images des prisons de Guantanamo
Des hommes dans des cages, traitιs comme des animaux
En dιtention ' loin de Genθve et ses conventions
Certains sont innocents de toutes ces accusations
Faire subir aux autres ce qu'on n'aime pas subir
C'est comme ηa qu'ils poussent les terroristes ΰ agir
Je dis Attention !!! Car je sens monter la tension
Ces provocations auront de graves rιpercussions
Nos dirigeants passent leur temps ΰ semer le vent
Quand vient la tempκte, les tours tombent en miettes
Et qui ramassent les pots cassιs? C'est malheureusement
Nous toujours nous encore nous les innocents
Πάμε, φώναξε σ' όλους πως πάμε,
μιλάμε, αγαπάμε, νοιώθουμε και τα δεσμά τους σπάμε.
Ανταμώνουμε και σ' άλλη γλώσσα μιλάμε,
στου ονείρου την άκρη περνάμε.
Noi non vogliamo Bush, il figlio di papa.
Non vogliamo questa guerra che ι contro l'umanita.
Noi prenderemo il sole, il sole e la liberta,
sulla spiaggia di Guantanamo il vento ci portera.
Non stiamo zitti...
Noi non vogliamo Bush...
Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us
in Guantanamo and free the fire.
Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά
μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο
να πάρουμε τη φωτιά.
Vamos como pajaros del fuego
en Guantanamo,
libertaramos el fuego
Des oiseaux volent vers les terres
De Guantanamo l'ξle de l'enfer
Πάμε σαν διψασμένα πουλιά
μέχρι το Γκουαντανάμο
να πάρουμε τη φωτιά.
Lets wonder, lets fly, lets find us
in Guantanamo and free the fire.
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In a time of rapid online stimulation, being cute is not only attractive but also a powerful tool for manipulation, comfort, or provocation.
In een tijd vol snelle online prikkels is Cute zijn niet alleen aantrekkelijk, maar ook een krachtig middel om te manipuleren, troosten of uitdagen
In a time of rapid online stimulation, being cute is not only attractive but also a powerful tool for manipulation, comfort, or provocation.
In een tijd vol snelle online prikkels is Cute zijn niet alleen aantrekkelijk, maar ook een krachtig middel om te manipuleren, troosten of uitdagen
Strange wall formations take hold but seem frozen in time.
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One of many ongoing approaches, where I move through the world as a harvester of images stumbling, strolling, lurching, equal parts accidental, and intentional. My concerns circumnavigate around questions that resist easy answers: time as texture, presence as performance, possibility as glitch. I trace the contours of decay and growth, hope and entropy, searching for the quiet collisions where meaning might emerge. Each image is less a document than a provocation an invitation to reconsider what we 'see', and what we ignore.
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In a time of rapid online stimulation, being cute is not only attractive but also a powerful tool for manipulation, comfort, or provocation.
In een tijd vol snelle online prikkels is Cute zijn niet alleen aantrekkelijk, maar ook een krachtig middel om te manipuleren, troosten of uitdagen
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In 2018, on our way to the Big Bend National Park from San Antonio, we drove through a small Texan town, which felt like a well-wrapped memento from another era that had somehow survived more centuries than it was designed for. Brick-buff buildings along the main street gave the town a rugged western look, which fitted in well with all the big trucks and SUVs on the road, a typical Texan arrogance about having nothing but the biggest. I recall slowing down to absorb the curious town a little more. People were unhurried and the place had a tidy charm. The town's name was prominently displayed on multiple banners and buildings, including the city hall and the municipal courthouse… “City of Uvalde”. ‘What a pretty name!’, I thought then.
There is nothing pretty about that name today. Uvalde is now a town of inept and cowardly cops, a profanity-spewing mayor, a bestial teenage gunman, and 78 stygian minutes of hell where 19 innocent children lost their right to live (which is not exactly a constitutional right but is granted to everyone nonetheless, at least in developed countries). But don’t guilt Uvalde, Texas. This scenario could have played out –and for hell’s sake, will again play out– in any American city or town, including the one you or I live in. There are mentally unstable people in most streets of every town, and in the USA –to rest of the world’s utter horror and pity– so are assault rifles. These rifles, if you didn’t know, spew high velocity bullets which pierce a human body so violently that they instantaneously shatter and mince up to six inches of tissue around their path. Guess how many such assault rifles are out there today? About 20 million. I will let you do the math of figuring out the odds of one of those assault rifles making its way into the classroom (or the mall, playground, park, cinema, or church) where your kid/grandkid(s) go(es) every day. Even with rudimentary math skills, one will know that the odds are not in favor of our little ones.
Now the question is, what are we doing about it? May I answer that question bluntly? We are doing N-O-T-H-I-N-G about it. Nothing! We march on the streets of Washington D.C. for every big and small reason, including our bodies and our wars, but no crowd has marched with similar urgency demanding our kids’ right to safety. Against gun violence, no one has crossed a Selma bridge yet. Not one parent has stood up on the mighty stairs of the Lincoln memorial and stirred the nation with a speech that may have begun with words like, “I have a dream…’. We have done nothing worth a mention. We are angry, but are squarely happy to put the blame on our politicians. While the politicians deserve every bit of the blame they get, but the important point is, they know how toothless we the public are. We let them gerrymander us. We let them provoke us in any way they see fit. And worst of all, they have somehow managed to make all of us care for our second amendment rights more than our beautiful kids. The shame is not on them. We –you and I– carry the shame! Columbine, Sandy Hook, and many hollow promises later, we have now shamelessly failed those Uvalde kids. Again. And we will fail more kids in days to come. We are a bunch of milksops. To stir our flaccid souls, perhaps we need live video streams of our kids slowly succumbing to bullet wounds. I worry, even such George Floydian provocation may not be enough to counter our apathy towards causing a change.
Where is your heart? Where are your tears? Where the hell is your anger? I do not give a damn about your political color if you do not care about our kids. Yes, we cannot rid every town of madmen in a hurry, nor should we take guns back from responsible owners, but there is room and means to completely disconnect madmen from assault rifles. Now, before one of those 20 million assault rifles –just one– makes it into the hands of a maniac in your town near your child’s school, will you PLEASE take a steely stance as a parent/grandparent so that none of our kids have to whisper and plead a 911 dispatcher from their school ever again? I don’t have to tell you what to do. Other than calling up your lawmakers and donating to organizations of youth mental health, you could also decide to go march in DC. If you so do, please drop me a line. I will come with you.
PS: The photo… if you are still reading and are interested… was shot on a morning when the sea-fog rolled in into the shy rays of a new sun at dawn creating this colorful brume.
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A soft silhouette against a chaotic wall 🎨
where innocence flirts with provocation ✨
Pastel tones collide with graphic noise
turning sweetness into quiet power 🎀
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attitude wrapped in softness
and fashion that speaks without sound
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Thank (in advance) to you all, very much my friends!
(Do not use this image on any media, without my permission!)
From the series "Twisted horizon."