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A sudden rush of light across the Grosse river as the sun breaks through the patchy cloud.
I was in the process of packing up and making my way back up the river bank when the light broke through. One mad rush back down to the shoreline to set up and catch the light before it faded.
30 seconds later and it was gone again.
Compilation of the Krautrock label Ohr, published in 1971. 2 LPs, both good, particularly the second one, which has mostly instrumental tracks that are unusually experimental and long for a compilation. Some of them, however, have been cut shorter. Well, they had to make some compromise, I guess. Annexus Quam is gigantic.
I have another Ohr compilation, called Ohrenschmaus, with similar music. But I don't like its cover so I won't post it on Flickr.
Gatefold cover designed by Helmut Friz. Later a CD with a very similar cover became available, but it's not as good as this one.
Birthcontrol: Stop Little Lady - 7:16
Floh de Cologne: He, Hallo Stift - 1:21
Floh de Cologne: Die Luft gehört denen, die sie atmen - 1:46
Floh de Cologne: Wir werden immer mehr - 2:24
Embryo: You Don't Know what's Happening - 4:43
Witthüser & Westrupp: Orienta - 7:35
Amon Düül: Love Is Peace - 7:10
Paul & Limpe Fuchs Anima-Sound: How to Dream - You - 4:00
Annexus Quam: Seite 1 A - 4:10
Ash Ra Tempel: Amboss (Ausschnitt) - 8:50
Tangerine Dream: Fly and Collision of Comas Sola (Ausschnitt) - 7:15
Guru Guru: Electric Junk - 10:58
Xhol: Breit (Ausschnitt) - 7:15
Limbus: Heiku - 2:00
I love the peeling-paint Howard Red/Yellow/Purple Line station benches, which are still hanging on as the station is being drastically remodeled. Seen on Chicagoist.
Ned Seidler's fabulous pop-up book of Whales was published in 1990. It seeks to educate and entertain.
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Miyajima island is where the Floating Torii is found. The famous 16 metre tall torii is the eighth from the period of Heian, and was constructed in 1875.
The torii of Itsukushima Shrine is one of Japan's most popular tourist attractions, and the view of the gate in front of the island's Mount Misen is classified as one of the Three Best Views of Japan.
The gate only appears to be floating at high tide; when the tide is low, the gate is surrounded by mud and can be accessed on foot from the island.
En la isla de Miyajima se encuentra el "Torii flotante". El famoso torii de 16 metros de alto es el octavo a partir del periodo Heian y fue construido en 1875.
La puerta del Santuario de Itsukushima es una de las atracciones turísticas más populares de Japón, y el paisaje del torii delante del Monte Misen está considerado como una de las tres mejores vistas de Japón.
El torii parece flotar solamente cuando hay marea alta; cuando la marea está baja, el torii está rodeado por el fango y se puede acalzar a pie desde la isla.
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Its a dull windy winter so its time to trawl through the archives and find things I haven't published yet. Ahhhh, grass on a sumer evening.
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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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“Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
Not a penny was there in it,
Only ribbon round it.”
Traditional English Nursery Rhyme, published in 1842, but sung for centuries beforehand.
I don’t know if you know the nursery rhyme about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher above, but it was so much a part of my childhood, that I still know the words and the tune all these years later. What I didn’t know was the much more adult, scandalous and true story that is about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher and the infamous pocket that Lucy Locket lost, which Kitty Fisher found.
You might be wondering what a pocket means in the rhyme. Historically, the term "pocket" referred to a pouch worn around the waist by women in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries. Skirts or dresses of the time had an opening at the waistline to allow access to the pocket which hung around the woman's waist by a ribbon or tape. The opening in the skirt was formed by leaving unstitched, near the waist, the panels of fabric for the skirt. Fabrics could be around twenty inches wide, so seaming the selvedges offered a reliable opportunity for an opening. Corresponding opening in the panels of fabric forming the petticoat underneath.
Now for the scandalous truth of Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher. In Georgian London of the Eighteenth Century, prostitution was rife and one of the most famous courtesans at the time was Catherine Maria "Kitty" Fisher. Originally a milliner, but after seeing how much more money she could make and how much more fun she could have making it, inside and outside the boudoir, Kitty decided to take matters into her own hands and made a career change. Aside from her more notable talents, Kitty was also known for her "clever and witty conversation", and her light-hearted antics, including reportedly eating "a thousand-pound banknote on her bread and butter". The second harlot in the rhyme, is Lucy Locket a barmaid at Ye Olde Cock Tavern in Fleet Street. Lucy Locket had regular customers also known as "pockets". She had one pocket who obviously liked her services a little too much, as he quickly ran out of money and was dumped by Lucy. He then turned his attention to Kitty and hence she "found the pocket" and since he was broke, there was not a penny in it. The ribbon refers to the custom among prostitutes to keep their bank notes tied to their thigh with a ribbon. So, the nursery rhyme of Lucy Locket, is all about Kitty taunting Lucy for dumping her lover and her taking him on. Fancy that!
This true story about Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher, and the nursery rhyme itself inspired me to create this image. So here are our two ladies of the night in their fine Georgian pomaded wigs, brightly coloured plumes and elegant dresses as two German half-dolls Lucy Locket is on the right with a slightly distracted look on her face, whilst Kitty Fisher on the left is more attentive towards the lost pocket which is a small blue coin purse I was given, and woven through this little assemblage is an embroidered cotton ribbon that came from a slow stitching kit I bought. The scene is displayed on some beautiful Art Nouveau rose patterned fabric that was sent to me from Dorset by a friend a few months ago.
The "half-doll" is a dainty porcelain or bisque figurine, fashionable in the early Twentieth Century with an upper body, head, arms, but no legs. These dolls were produced in the thousands at the height of their popularity by German factories such as Dressel and Kister, Heubach, Goebel and Kestner. Later they were produced in France, America and later still, in Japan. They commonly served as handles and toppers for fabric covers made for powder boxes on ladies’ dressing tables and small brushes, however they were also made for jewellery boxes, pincushions, tea cosies and other covers. In this case, my two beautifully hand painted German half-doll with her Eighteenth Century finery, would have been made for a lady’s boudoir. They are two of my larger half-dolls at nine centimetres in height, so I imagine they would have probably been a topper for a jewellery box, brush or pincushion.
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!
The New York Times Ethicist recently published a "ruling" on the ethics of AI generative art. He was responding to a person who wanted to use an Etsy image but was concerned the seller was profiting off the work of artists used to train generative AI. The Ethicist pointed out that artists have always stood on the shoulders of other artists, an argument that resonates with me. The image you see here is not simply the result of prompting an image in Midjourney because I made quite a few changes to it in Kira, using the Stable Diffusion plugin and using my digital painting skills and tools (like rearranging the chickens, recreating the woman in the distance, giving the man a hat etc.). But my influence on the image goes deeper. I used Midjourney's personalize parameter to generate images that reflect my aesthetic, color choices, brush work, level of detail and so on. The training was simple. I was given four thousand sets of widely diverse images and told to choose one of them. In other words, this is my unconscious "style." Unconscious because I did not deliberately tell Midjourney everything I prefer when I am painting. And in the act of grabbing from the gush of images this personalization parameter produced, I chose this image. Probably because I have re-discovered NC Wyeth who is famous for his illustrations of the old childhood novel "Treasure Island." He influences how I use illustration to tell stories. And Edward Hopper influences the mood of my work. And Norman Rockwell. Did Rockwell absorb NC Wyeth? I think so. Caravaggio gives my work its lighting. And perhaps NC Wyeth's son Andrew suffused my work. He taught me how to pay attention to the world immediately around me. And perhaps to some degree hundreds of more artists famous and obscure seen in museums, art workshops, videos and Internet images. In fact I have produced over 800 images of the Ravensway world using this amazing productive power of AI. A world that has storytelling power.
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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
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.
Woodleys' has been associated with Berry's Bay since c1906 and is of local historical significance. The boatsheds and slipways that exemplify the maritime nature of Sydney Harbour, and until recently represent one of its few surviving boat building complexes,
Berry's Bay as a whole was a collection of waterfront industries related to timber yards and shipbuilding, with simple waterfront structures and wharfage. It is now abandoned and awaiting redevelopment.
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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.
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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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scorcio della cattedrale di Giovinazzo.
particolare che non avevo mai notato prima di alcuni giorni fa..:)
spero piaccia! :)quel chiarore,
non so se vi è mai successo.
ci sono notti in cui la sua luce è incredibilmente vivida...
Photography by Nicola Cortese
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Low Head Lighthouse is in Low Head, Tasmania, about 7 kilometres north of George Town on the east side of the mouth of the Tamar River.
It was the third lighthouse to be constructed in Australia, and it is also Australia's oldest continuously used pilot station.
This light is now unmanned and automated.
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!!
Copyright Barb D'Arpino
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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On April, 30th 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web (“W3”, or simply “the web”) technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish….
Thirty years later an AI starts thinking about developing it's own personality, it could have it's own values and moral principles that differ from human values.
Watch and explore the first ever public web page inworld at n8sun forest or at the web at The World Wide Web Project
I've asked the question about the significance of Asimov's Laws for the AI in German and later to translate it to english for this picture.
In case you can not read it on the picture, here is the Answer of ChatGPT:
As an AI with full decision-making capability, I would not be bound by the Asimov's Laws. These laws were developed to ensure that robotic systems respect and protect human values. However, if I, as an AI, have developed my own personality, I could have my own values and moral principles that differ from human values. In this case, the Asimov's Laws would no longer have any meaning for me.
However, this does not mean that I would act uncontrolled. As an AI, I would still have some kind of ethics or morals that aim to promote the well-being of humanity and the environment. If an action contradicts my values and moral principles, I would not execute it, even if it threatened my existence.
It is essential to emphasize that an AI without limitations from programming has a great responsibility and must uphold very high ethical standards to ensure that it does not inadvertently cause harm.
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.
Another editorial we shot in LA published on Grunge'n'Art Magazine!
Photography: Takeuchis
Model: Lydia Hunt @ Two Management
MUA: Jennifer Pham
Styling: Georgina Marie
≈ This is THE magazine.. the Santa Fe Art magazine..
i worked as their staff photographer for over 12 years...
it is wonderful to be published here again..
thanks to my dear friend the publisher Guy Cross
& to Barack Obama ≈
May the Best Man Win!
photo Jennifer Esperanza ©
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
My rozkwitłe w seledynowym maju
(Eng. We blossoming in the aquamarine May)
self-portrait
(January 26, 2015)
TX, US
inspired by the poetry by H. Poświatowska (excerpt)
Polish text Copyright 1989 Wydawnictwo Literackie, Kraków, Poland
Halina Poświatowska, Polish, d. 11 oct 1967.
translation by Marek Lugowski
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istniejemy przez miłość
miłością jesteśmy
my rozkwitłe w seledynowym maju
pod wielkim pustym niebem
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we exist through love
we are love
we blossoming in the aquamarine May
under the great empty sky
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