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Catatonia
is a syndrome of psychological and motorological disturbances. In the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV) it is not recognized as a separate disorder, but is associated with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia (catatonic type), bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental disorders, as well as drug abuse or overdose (or both). It may also be seen in many medical disorders including infections (such as encephalitis), autoimmune disorders, focal neurologic lesions (including strokes), metabolic disturbances and abrupt or overly rapid benzodiazepine withdrawal.
Patients with catatonia may experience an extreme loss of motor skills or even constant hyperactive motor activity. Catatonic patients will sometimes hold rigid poses for hours and will ignore any external stimuli. Patients with catatonic excitement can die of exhaustion if not treated. Patients may also show stereotyped, repetitive movements. They may show specific types of movement such as waxy flexibility, in which they maintain positions after being placed in them by someone else, or gegenhalten (lit. "counterhold"), in which they resist movement in proportion to the force applied by the examiner. They may repeat meaningless phrases or speak only to repeat what the examiner says.
Bad day. Bad bad day.
My friends went to Chicago today to go see the Lion King and eat at the Cheesecake Factory. Where am I at? Sitting on my butt in my room. Why? Because I'm too effing poor to do crap.
Then Garry calls this morning on his way home from work and tells me that he had been asked to go into work tonight. We were supposed to take tonight and tomorrow night and celebrate our anniversary. Is that going to happen now? No. Did he even bother to call me any time in the last seven hours? No.
Haven't eaten anything yet today because the spot doesn't open until 6. Thankfully that's only a half hour away...then I can finally eat something. Will probably be crap because this school could care less about those of us stuck on campus during the weekend...but it's something.
However, I do like this picture. I have high expectations for how it'll do...which sucks cause, with the way my day is going, this thing will be totally ignored by everyone. *sigh* but I still like it...so that's good at least.
Mr. Terence Portelli published the book in which my works are used.
title: Stoppini u Suffarelli / Sparklers and Whistles
author: Terence Portelli
photos: Masahiro Makino
softcover: 194 pages
publisher: Klabb Kotba Maltin (2008)
Langage: Maltese and English
ISBN: 9789993271741
description
Sparklers and Whistles is a melange of traditional haiku with reference to nature and seasonal change, and the more critical senryu related to human foibles, written by Terence Portelli. This collection of poetry is enhanced by a selection of photos by the contemporary Japanese photographer Masahiro Makino.
about the author (from the book description)
Terence Portelli was born in 1972 and lives in Birkirkara, Malta. He is an assistant lecturer in Maltese pedagogy within the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. He published a number of books and chapters on education, mainly on the teaching of Maltese. From an early age he observed his father manufacturing fireworks and these early experiences ignited his passion for the art of pyrotechnics. This is his first collection of poems.
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Because I drank until the middle of the night on that day, the last train disappeared. I took the taxi of the large van for the first time, but do not remember ride comfort because I slept to my home.
On July 19, 2014 in Harumi floor 40.
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この日は深夜まで呑んだので、終電車がなくなりました。 大型バンのタクシーに初めて乗りましたが、家まで寝ていたので、乗り心地をおぼえていません。
2014年7月19日、晴海フロア40にて。
Lately I have published images of the work I have been developing with Livio Korobase and Venus Adored.
This is a performance designed for a collaborative virtual environment, a three-dimensional online space where you can be present with others using avatars.
Together, using these three avatars and interactive digital artifacts, we designed a digital performance with sound from Gianni Maroccolo.
On September 25th, this work will be presented at Maus Hábitos, Porto, Portugal, as part of the Performances Show | Acesso Vertigem # 2 and integrated in The Avatar as Performer - Gamebox session, as a screen capture video.
This kind of video looks like 3D animations, but in this case it's about capturing a performative moment of three artists in different countries (Portugal, Italy and the Netherlands) together in telepresence. Recently more popularised through video games, we call these video captures machinimas.
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My first paying gig! Like a lot of us I've allowed a few of my photos to be used in everything from online travel sites to small magazines to album covers. However, it wasn't until SKI magazine contacted me about using my photo of Dome Peak that I was actually offered cold cash for any of my work. In the Feb '09 issue they are running a short blurb on the Ptarmigan Traverse, a legendary alpine traverse in the Washington Cascades. If you've ever wanted to get out there, off trail, crossing glaciers and rambling over all sorts of mountain terrain, I highly urge you to put the traverse way up there on your list! This photo was taken in '05 from White Rock Lakes, probably the most visually stunning, not to mention difficult to access, campsite along the traverse. In the background is Dome peak and our next day's route took us through the glaciated col just right of center. Another interesting note is the photo was taken with an old 3.2 MP Canon A300!
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Boracay is a small island in the Philippines located approximately 315 km (196 mi) south of Manila and 2 km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Boracay Island and its beaches have received awards from numerous travel publications and agencies. The island is administered by the Philippine Tourism Authority and the provincial government of Aklan. Apart from its white sand beaches, Boracay is also famous for being one of the world's top destinations for relaxation. It is also emerging among the top destinations for tranquility and nightlife.
White Beach, the main tourism beach, is about four kilometres long and is lined with resorts, hotels, lodging houses, restaurants, and other tourism-related businesses. In the central portion, for about two kilometres, there is a footpath known as the Beachfront Path separating the beach itself from the establishments located along it. North and south of the Beachfront Path, beachfront establishments do literally front along the beach itself.
Boracay was awarded as the 2012 best island in the world from the international travel magazine Travel + Leisure. In 2016, the resort island was at the top of the Best Islands in the World list published by the international magazine Condé Nast Traveler
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Found three oldies stashed away in my basement - full disclosure, there are many more down there...
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, first published in 1877...
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney first published in 1881...
and
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery first published in 1908...
Thanks to Kim Klassen and Distressed Textures for the textures used; and to Fuzzimo.com for the Polaroid frame.
121 in 2021
#12 - Book first published in 1921 or earlier
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Wheatfield.
Midsummer:
the blue of the sky stretches
from horizon to horizon,
fading from intense cerulean overhead,
to a gentle haze closest to the plain’s edge.
The wheat field gleams
golden in the noon light,
vast as a prairie,
the ears heavy,
bending
under their own productivity.
That was then.
Now,
in early spring, there is still snow in the north,
the pristine whiteness mired in mud,
and blood,
churned by tanks, craters, artillery,
pits blown apparently randomly,
deep and water-logged,
recalling the almost forgotten horrors
of Ypres and Passchendaele.
The woodlands give little cover,
the trees split, twigs scattered.
No birds sing.
No seeds have been planted.
The only yield will be that of death
and destruction…
yet still the flag flutters
optimistically,
hopefully,
heroically,
echoing the blue and yellow,
of sky and land:
the colours of peace.
Published in reach poetry 284 June 2022
Voted 2nd of the month by readers.
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Autoportret z owocami persymony
(Eng. Self-portrait With Persimmon Fruits)
(December 9th, 2018)
Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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CRISIS: a 52 Week Self-portrait Project
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I decided to put out a challenge to myself; to my lazy "self": shooting a portrait of me each week. I was considering this project last year, as I noticed a decreased motivation to photograph myself regularly, but felt too weak to start it at that time.
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I know that the project is completed, but I am little behind with the publication here on flickr.
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The Blue mountains at their broody best.
A major inversion event. Rain and mist fills the valley and shrouds the cliffs.
The Three Sisters peeking through from Sublime Point
My friends in neighboring Clark's Beach Newfoundland were shocked to see this image on the front of the Tourist Guide. This was taken last summer during a photopaddle of Juggler's Cove at Bay Roberts. Known for it's incredibly beautiful shore walk, Madd Rock trail has been the subject of much photography, but very few images have been taken from the water. My pic was seen on flickr and the rest is history.
This photograph of mine is in a new book about New York City called
"New York: Portrait of a City" by Reuel Golden, published by Taschen.
www.amazon.com/New-York-Portrait-Reuel-Golden/dp/3836505142
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My first published photos! Printed for an article on artisans in the Eastern Cape, South Africa- in HAND/EYE Spring 2008, an Aid to Artisans Magazine. I went on an assessment of the craft sector in the area for Aid to Artisans and took a number of photos- these were used to illustrate the article.
Please view on large to read the article and see the photos. flickr.com/photos/14781202@N04/2248588547/sizes/o/
You can learn more about Aid to Artisans here: www.aidtoartisans.org
HSS!!
I love playing with post processing, to see what can emerge. And I love to see what everyone else has done, as Sundays are the day for sliding! I also long to see how an image looked at the beginning of the process, and how it got to where it is today - posted to the Sliders Sunday group. So I took the plunge, and followed this image from start to finish - hoping that you get curious too;o)
Failure Revisited My new site Talking Digital Photography where I am collecting together all the articles I have published online together with smaller blog posts of images not always posted here on Flickr.
My Sliders Sunday set is here: Elisa Sliders Sunday
My Post-processing set is here: Elisa Post-processing
My Textured set here: Elisa Textured set
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Published a few times, most recently this year in a magazine in Slovenia.
I've been away far too long. I hope you haven't forgotten me. I've kept up with your images, although I haven't been commenting. I've missed the interaction with so many wonderful photographers and more importantly friends on flickr. I will post as often as time allows :)
I was posting the odd picture and adding to groups, but it's not the same.
This was Eleanor shortly after she woke up following the long winter. She actually woke up to snow and she was not impressed. She had babies this year and since they left their burrow we have not seen Eleanor. I'm hoping she returns, but she lived quite a long life for a wild chipmunk so I have to be prepared if she doesn't. Looks like I may have to visit Corinne (1Ladybug) to capture chipmunks as she has chipmunks to spare :)
I will attempt to catch up on your latest images today. I just figured out how to fave something right now - may take me a while to get used to the changes!!
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Mens Hut is one of the best known of the makeshift huts at Crater Cove.
Occupancy of Crater Cove started around 60 years ago when weekend fishermen built the first huts from available materials.
During the depression of the 1930s, some of the huts may have been occupied full time.
Nowdays Crater Cove is managed by National Parks and Wildlife Service and cared for by volunteers since 1987.
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July 6, 2024 - North of Funk Nebraska
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Dark supercell storm clouds gather ominously over a vast, open field, creating a dramatic contrast with the green landscape. In the distance, a tractor is visible, adding a sense of scale and human presence to the expansive rural scene.
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The imposing sandstone cliffs of Cape Solander.
There are just so many colours and textures here.
Cape Solander is the South Head of Botany Bay, the site of the first European landing.
One of my shots from The Residents gig at the Forum was published in Plan B magazine in January. Double page spread!
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A passenger arriving at Girona Station, Spain.
I am very pleased that this photo also appears in the Winter 2025 edition of fLIP magazine, published in January 2026. The theme was 'Elsewhere'.
fLIP magazine is produced by London Independent Photography (LIP). You can purchase a copy on their website, www.londonphotography.org.uk. The magazine is also available to buy in the bookshop at the Photographer's Gallery in Central London.
LIP has members worldwide.
Photo taken in June 2025.
Hi Folks,
I just published a new imaging project on my website.
Messier 101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy with the recently discovered supernova - SN2023ixf!
This target is located 21 Million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major.
This was about a 3-hour exposure in LRGB using my widefield Askar FRA400 Platform.
Everybody and their brother seems out there shooting images of this galaxy with its supernova.
And who's to blame them? Supernovae are amazing events. At the end of its life, a star explodes, releasing as much energy in one second as our Sun will emit in its entire lifetime!
This does not happen every day, and to have one in a galaxy as beautiful as the Pinwheel is worth shooting.
But with so many images of this out there - why should I shoot it tool. Do I think I can do better than everyone else? Hardly!
This is such a cool event that I did want to have one captured in my portfolio.
But during my last imaging session, my widefield Askar FRA400 Platform was the only scope that was untasked. During galaxy season, there are relatively few large targets to shoot. So I pointed it at M101 and decided to go for it!
My expectations were very low, though:
- A widefield scope shooting a galaxy - that will be a problem!
- I was only able to get 3 hours of integration - my last shot of M101 had 11 hours - so that's going to be a problem
- I am shooting with some thin smoke from the Alberta Wildfires in the air - that IS a problem.
So why shoot it at all?
- Supernovae are one the coolest events in our night sky - I wanted to capture an image of that - even a poor one!
- I saw this as an opportunity to dive into what supernovae were all about and describe that in my web write-up
- I have the twisted part of my personality that likes the challenge of getting a better image out of compromised data
I drizzle processed, then cropped like mad, and took advantage of BlurXTerminator and NoiseXTerninaor to help improve a dicey image.
The final result is not wonderful, but it is not horrible either!
The full story of this imaging project, and some cool info on supernovae, can be found here:
cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m101-sn2023xif
Thanks,
Pat
Continuing yesterday's walk...and enjoying every aspect of nature.
(David & Goliath LOL, the little toadstool and the big one)
This photo is published in "The Many Faces of the mysterious Mushroom" in Japan!
"The Many Faces of the Mysterious Mushroom" Exhibition Venue: INAX Gallery 1 & 2 Schedule: From 2009-06-04 To 2009-08-08 Address: INAX Ginza 2F, 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo/JAPAN
"A mushroom cannot be classified as either a plant or an animal. It is a fungus. There are 20,000 to 30,000 kinds of mushrooms which have scientific names, and in many cases, their biological nature is not fully understood. Because of their mysterious nature, mushrooms are used as a metaphorical reference in philosophy and in expressing one's worldview. This exhibition introduces you to the mysterious world of mushrooms."
このイベントは終了しました。
INAX ギャラリー1 & 2にて
メディア: イラスト ・ 写真
キノコは植物でも動物でもない、菌類という微生物です。学名があるキノコだけで世界に2〜3万種もあり、科学的に解明されていないことも多いのです。人間界にも通じる哲学や世界観など、様々な表情と可能性を秘めたキノコ。
その不思議と魅力に満ちた世界をご紹介します。
by Remigius Hogenbergh,print,published 1572
Matthew Parker (6 August 1504 – 17 May 1575) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575. He was also an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker) of Anglican theological thought.
Parker was one of the primary architects of the Thirty-Nine Articles, the defining statements of Anglican doctrine. The Parker collection of early English manuscripts, including the book of St. Augustine Gospels and Version A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, was created as part of his efforts to demonstrate that the English Church was historically independent from Rome, creating one of the world's most important collections of ancient manuscripts.
The eldest son of William Parker, he was born in Norwich, in St. Saviour's parish. His mother's maiden name was Alice Monins, and she may have been related by marriage to Thomas Cranmer. When William Parker died, in about 1516, his widow married John Baker. Matthew was sent in 1522 to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge,[1] where he is said to have been contemporary with William Cecil, but Cecil was only two years old at the time. Parker graduated BA in 1525, was ordained deacon in April and priest in June 1527, and was elected fellow of Corpus in the following September. He commenced MA in 1528, and was one of the Cambridge scholars whom Thomas Wolsey wished to transplant to his newly founded "Cardinal College" at Oxford.
Parker, like Cranmer, declined the invitation. He had come under the influence of the Cambridge reformers, and after Anne Boleyn's recognition as queen he was made her chaplain. Through her, he was appointed dean of the college of secular canons at Stoke-by-Clare in 1535. Hugh Latimer wrote to him in that year urging him not to fall short of the expectations which had been formed of his ability. In 1537 he was appointed chaplain to King Henry VIII. In 1538 he was threatened with prosecution, but the Bishop of Dover, however, reported to Thomas Cromwell that Parker "hath ever been of a good judgment and set forth the Word of God after a good manner. For this he suffers some grudge." He graduated DD in that year, and in 1541 was appointed to the second prebend in the reconstituted cathedral church of Ely. In 1544, on Henry VIII's recommendation, he was elected master of Corpus Christi College, and in 1545 vice-chancellor of the university. He got into some trouble with the chancellor, Stephen Gardiner, over a ribald play, Pammachius, performed by the students, which derided the old ecclesiastical system.
On the passing of the act of parliament in 1545 enabling the king to dissolve chantries and colleges, Parker was appointed one of the commissioners for Cambridge, and their report may have saved its colleges from destruction. Stoke, however, was dissolved in the following reign, and Parker received a generous pension. He took advantage of the new reign to marry in June, 1547, before clerical marriages had been legalized by parliament and convocation, Margaret, daughter of Robert Harlestone, a Norfolk squire. During Kett's Rebellion, he preached in the rebels' camp on Mousehold Hill, without much effect, and later encouraged his secretary, Alexander Neville, to write his history of the rising.
Parker's association with Protestantism advanced with the times, and he received higher promotion under John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland than under the moderate Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset. At Cambridge, he was a friend of Martin Bucer and preached Bucer's funeral sermon in 1551. In 1552 he was promoted to the rich deanery of Lincoln, and in July 1553 he supped with Northumberland at Cambridge, when the duke marched north on his hopeless campaign against the accession of Mary Tudor. As a supporter of Northumberland and a married man, under the new regime Parker was deprived of his deanery, his mastership of Corpus Christi, and his other preferments. However, he survived Mary's reign without leaving the country – a fact that probably aggravated more ardent Protestants who went into exile and idealized their fellows who were martyred by Queen Mary. Parker respected authority, and when his time came he could consistently impose authority on others. He was not eager to assume this task, and made great efforts to avoid promotion to the archbishopric of Canterbury, which Elizabeth designed for him as soon as she had succeeded to the throne.
He was elected on 1 August 1559 but, given the turbulence and executions that had preceded Elizabeth's accession, it was difficult to find the requisite four bishops willing and qualified to consecrate Parker, and not until December 19 was that ceremony performed at Lambeth by William Barlow, formerly Bishop of Bath and Wells, John Scory, formerly Bishop of Chichester, Miles Coverdale, formerly Bishop of Exeter, and John Hodgkins, Bishop of Bedford. The allegation of an indecent consecration in the Nag's Head Fable seems first to have been made by the Jesuit, Christopher Holywood, in 1604, and has since been discredited. Parker's consecration was, however, legally valid only by the plentitude of the royal supremacy; the Edwardine Ordinal, which was used, had been repealed by Mary Tudor and not re-enacted by the parliament of 1559. The Roman Catholic Church asserted that the form of consecration used was insufficient to make a bishop, and therefore represented a break in the Apostolic Succession, but the Church of England has rejected this, arguing that the form of words used made no difference to the substance or validity of the act.
Elizabeth wanted a moderate man, so she chose Parker. There was also an emotional attachment. Parker had been the favourite chaplain of Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn. Before Anne was arrested in 1536, she had entrusted Elizabeth's spiritual well-being to Parker. A few days after this, Anne had been executed following charges of adultery, incest and treason. Parker also possessed all the qualifications Elizabeth expected from an archbishop except celibacy. He mistrusted popular enthusiasm, and he wrote in horror of the idea that "the people" should be the reformers of the Church. He was not an inspiring leader, and no dogma, no prayer-book, not even a tract or a hymn is associated with his name. The 56 volumes published by the Parker Society include only one by its eponymous hero, and that is a volume of correspondence. He was a disciplinarian, a scholar, a modest and moderate man of genuine piety and irreproachable morals. His historical research was exemplified in his De antiquitate ecclesiae, and his editions of Asser, Matthew Paris, Thomas Walsingham, and the compiler known as Matthew of Westminster; his liturgical skill was shown in his version of the psalter and in the occasional prayers and thanksgivings which he was called upon to compose. He left a priceless collection of manuscripts, largely collected from former monastic libraries, to his college at Cambridge. The Parker Library at Corpus Christi bears his name and houses his collection.
Parker avoided involvement in secular politics and was never admitted to Elizabeth's privy council. Ecclesiastical politics gave him considerable trouble. Some of the evangelical reformers wanted liturgical changes and at least the option not to wear certain clerical vestments, if not their complete prohibition. Early presbyterians wanted no bishops, and the conservatives opposed all these changes, often preferring to move in the opposite direction toward the practices of the Henrician church. The queen herself begrudged episcopal privilege until she eventually recognised it as one of the chief bulwarks of the royal supremacy. To Parker's consternation, the queen refused to add her imprimatur to his attempts to secure conformity, though she insisted that he achieve this goal. Thus Parker was left to stem the rising tide of Puritan feeling with little support from parliament, convocation or the Crown. The bishops' Interpretations and Further Considerations, issued in 1560, tolerated a lower vestiarian standard than was prescribed by the rubric of 1559, but it fell short of the desires of the anti-vestiarian clergy like Coverdale (one of the bishops who had consecrated Parker) who made a public display of their nonconformity in London.
The Book of Advertisements, which Parker published in 1566, to check the anti-vestiarian faction, had to appear without specific royal sanction; and the Reformatio legum ecclesiasticarum, which John Foxe published with Parker's approval, received neither royal, parliamentary nor synodical authorization. Parliament even contested the claim of the bishops to determine matters of faith. "Surely," said Parker to Peter Wentworth, "you will refer yourselves wholly to us therein." "No, by the faith I bear to God," retorted Wentworth, "we will pass nothing before we understand what it is; for that were but to make you popes. Make you popes who list, for we will make you none." Disputes about vestments had expanded into a controversy over the whole field of Church government and authority, and Parker died on May 17, 1575, lamenting that Puritan ideas of "governance" would "in conclusion undo the queen and all others that depended upon her." By his personal conduct he had set an ideal example for Anglican priests, and it was not his fault that national authority failed to crush the individualistic tendencies of the Protestant Reformation.
The legendary Isle of Avalon, a place of wonder, magic, and peace in Arthurian legend, a place of technological dreams this morning!
Avalon pool this morning with Focus and the Canon Collective.
Thanks to the Canon Collective, this shot was taken with a loan 5DSR and 11-24mm Lens, both several steps above my regular equipment.
Unfortunately I had to wake up and hand them back before breakfast!