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Hautes-Alpes, France
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This curved line in the foreground is actually a mushrooms.
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La catena alpina in un limpido tramonto, così come la posso solo ammirare dai pressi di casa al tempo del coronavirus, sperando che tutto questo possa diventare presto solo un brutto ricordo.
ancora siamo in emergenza, ma pensiamo positivo e soprattutto agiamo con saggezza evitando uscite e contatti inutili.
Questa scultura rappresenta una delle benefattrici savonesi che nel XVI secolo lasciarono fondi da dedicare a opere sociali; si trova in piazza Santuario, davanti alla struttura che fa ala alla chiesa e che ancora oggi ospita reparti di riabilitazione e una casa di riposo.
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Beach grass must be tough to survive in a hostile environment with few nutrients! I found this clump on Pacific Beach in Washington State.
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Akihabara is that part of Tokyo probably most famous for attracting anyone interest in both electronics and anime and manga - and video games. And the shops there are quick to pick up on that, like this convenience store (in Tokyo something you come across absolutely everywhere - they are locally known as コンビニ / konbini) with a Dragon quest theme. That means you here can buy your noodles, your onigiri, your coffee in a can (Japanese canned coffee is really good!), your band-aids and your plush monster. The last one is not typical of a konbini. I left the store with a package of band-aids though...
The Quest has begun @ Fantasy Faire 2022. Will you be successful and receive honors and treasures galore?
Info & links on my Blog ~ aznanasfandangles.blogspot.com/2022/04/ff04252205.html
Te lo prometto: tu molto presto non sarai nemmeno più un ricordo. Fossi stato più intelligente avrei potuto comprendere molto più facilmente, ma questo sono e forse neanche adesso posso davvero capire.
Ma aspetta ancora poco e io non starò più qui a guardarti, riuscirò a cancellarti come segno di matita sul foglio. Tutto sparirà, sparirai tu e sparirà questo mare che, forse, grazie allo iodio mi ha aperto il cervello; sparirà questo sasso enorme che esce dall'acqua, sparirà tutto ma soprattutto sparirai tu.
Se solo potessi essere migliore! Sarei migliore solo per te. Anche se adesso lo so che non potrai esistere più: troppo tardi, è sempre troppo tardi. Non sono mai riuscito a fare i conti con la realtà e infatti gli eventi mi sono finiti addosso come se questi scogli mi fossero franati sopra.
Pensavo di essere davvero felice, perché percepivo l'ombra della gioia, o almeno così credevo. Invece era l'ombra dei massi che mi franavano addosso.
No: di te, non dovrà rimanere neanche il ricordo.
Looking for magic? You'll find it @ Midsummer Enchantment till July 8. Favorite fantasy designers from across the grid gather for this special event.
Info & links on my Dark Blog ~ aznanasaccouterments.blogspot.com/2023/07/062423me04.html
Looking for magic? You'll find it @ Midsummer Enchantment till July 8. Favorite fantasy designers from across the grid gather for this special event.
Info & links on my Dark Blog ~ aznanasaccouterments.blogspot.com/2023/07/062423me04.html
Ogni piccolo paese
cambia nome
al falò dell' Epifania.
Ma il significato
non cambia :
la gente si ritrova
in questo tradizionale appuntamento
aspettando il responso
per il raccolto
del nuovo anno.
Anche se al giorno d' oggi
la cultura agricola
è molto diversa...
almeno questo antico rito
fa riunire ancora intere comunità : ))))
Questa foto la ritengo una rarità: difficilmente si riesce a fare l'ultima tradotta del giorno su Verzuolo, con la Neve per terra, ma grazie alla fresca nevicata del giorno precedente, questo è stato possibile. La D146 2005 transita presso Tarantasca in direzione di Verzuolo con i carri della Carta portati precedentemente dal Treno da Savona. Sullo sfondo il maestoso massiccio della Bisalta ed il Marguareis. Un saluto a Paolo per l'ottima Compagnia.
It's unusual to have such snow at March. So it has been possible to see the last train to Verzuolo of the day with snow in the foreground. the D146 2005 is hauling paper train cars from Cuneo to Verzuolo. On the Background the Bisalta and Marguareis Mountains.
We captured this while on a quest for a hat... Wolf Saga's new hat.
One of my favorite local photogs and partners in crime, Shawn Tron is filming a promo for the release of a new and beautiful 5 panel hat made by London's own DPMS who's partnered with musician Wolf Saga.
Links to the hat will be posted shortly after its release this week.
Well the Big Brother is Watching!!! A Wood sandpiper (Tringa glareola) was searching for the foraging opportunities with the typical pose while a Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa) was also doing the same in the backdrop. The parallel postures of the differently sized waders with their beaks made this one a Unique composition here. Pics was taken from Purbasthali wetland, West Bengal, India.
Questo albero si trova in un giardino pubblico a Orta sul lago, l’ho chiamato “Equilibrio” perché ogni volta che lo vado a trovare è come se mi dicesse: “non importa se tutto ti sembra storto, non importa quanto si faccia pesante il carico dei rami quando si riempiono di foglie, ma basta che tu abbia sane radici e un sincero entusiasmo e ti stupirai di quanto sia piacevole restare in Equilibrio" :-)
Questo silenzio avvolto di umida nebbia si spalma sui rami dei gelsi ... volersi ammantare nel sopore ovattato dell'atmosfera creata, per sfuggire al tempo (G. Armano)
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This silence wrapped in wet fog spreads on the branches of the mulberry trees ... wanting to cloak in slumber muffled atmosphere created, to escape the time (G. Armano)
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I was second shooter at a wedding recently. The bride's father kept ranting about the covered bridge where the engagement photo was taken. My quest for the week was to find that bridge. Now that I've found it, I think it is a great place for some future photosessions.
Dear Bill Major,
As I wrote earlier today: I re-listened, this time to some of the FIM (Frankfurt’s Indeterminables Musiqwesen) CDRs. This out-put of CDRs on the print-on-demand-label recout (here a remained selection) were launched in 1995 through my production of the CD "Endlos / Endless" – a memento "50 years after WWII" for an exhibition in Poland, for which I invited the FIM trio Parallelaktion, plus singer Corinna Mayer.
What I auditioned today was "Hot Deals" by "Imperial Hot" (Christoph Korn – gt, Bertram Ritter – dr, A23H – reeds, tp, and Casio). I do not want to describe the music. I just love the feel of these 15 year old recordings. There is also "Rent Art Quest" by the "Stern4et" (Daniel Franke – as, cl, comp, Micha Daniels – kb, Bertram Ritter – dr, A23H on bari sax, bcl and ts, comp) from some years later – a lovely birthday present those talented younger musicians gave me. It was recorded during a "Jazzferien" session I had set up at a castle in the Spessart mountains in 1999. With Micha Daniels – kb, Bertram Ritter – dr, and A23H – ts there is another beautiful session made in a Frankfurt bunker in 2000, "House of Thee". Together with Christoph Korn I had a duo "Canada dry & 20" recorded in 1992-1994 with drummer Vladimir Tarasov as a guest. Of course there is more from that period I could tell you about. For today I'll finish by mentioning "Cassini", a nine-piece band which I assembled in 1998 with members from my bands "Hale Peat", "Imperial Hoot" and the theater ensemble I put together for my Frankfurt-am-Main production of West Side Story (Harry Petersen- as, cl, Stefan Lottermann – tb, Martin Lejeune – gt, Christoph Korn – gt, Marcel Daemgen – sound system, Peter Antony – kb, Bülent Ates – dr, Günter Bozem – dr, and A23H – ts, bcl, arr). This recording sounds to me like an early version of Otomo Yoshihide’s orchestra ONJO, in which I was a member, as you know, during 2005-2007.
Alfred 23 Harth / Lindsay Cooper / Phil Minton – the three musicians on "Trio Trabant a Roma" – appeared at festivals in Moscow & Volgograd prior to this recording as members of Lindsay’s "Oh Moscow" (we hope to do a new recording in 2010). Especially for Lindsay and me, the impressions from this journey were so deeply strange that even after returning to "the West", we felt like we were still in another mental state – the "State of Volgograd." I formed this trio at the invitation of the Budapest Festival in 1990, so there is that title "et all ways Budapest." It's been twenty years now since The Wall came down. In those days, we were just beginning to see the odd spectacle of cars coming from the East mixing into traffic in Western cities. One East German car was called the "Trabant". I liked that name, since trabant also means a planet orbiting a star, so I called the new trio "Trabant A Roma". Earth was under a new "orbital tent" after the Iron Curtain had come down. It was funny to see those strange cars from the East making long distance journeys through Western Europe – finally "all ways lead to Rome!" The fourth title refers to a festival in Strasbourg where we performed (see CDR Le Cadran Bleu). At that time I also played the Farfisa organ, Casio keyboard, and other miscellaneous stuff, all part of the search to express with the strange by-products of technology emerging at that time. The trio didn't last long (until 1993), same with "Oh Moscow" which played its final concert at the London Jazz festival in 1993 due to Lindsay’s worsening illness (which I didn't know of until 1998, when Sally Potter confirmed the facts concerning Lindsay’s declining health).
It was the brief period of time after the Sovjet Union collapsed in 1991, when all of us were curious about Eastern cultures – the curiosity was mutual among those in the former Soviet bloc. Moscow TV offered to produce a filmed portrait about me in February 1992; this led to my appearance at the "Open Music" festival in St. Petersburg alongside members of the Russian musical avant-garde. The film's title "Balance Action" is taken from the name of a famous saxophone from the early Cold War years. It also refers to the "balance action" that finally led to the breakdown of the Communist regimes. In old Leningrad (freshly rechristened St. Petersburg again) I met Vladimir Tarasov. He told me that before the Wall fell, he and his compatriots were forced to smuggle my records through a narrow, secret tunnel. He also claimed that, in the old CCCP avant-garde circles, I was a celebrity on the order of Michael Jackson (probably a Russian exaggeration). In fact, I did receive one of my very first fan letters from Moscow, in 1970 – somebody who loved the "Just Music" LP (ECM 1002). With Tarasov I formed the Quasar Quartet in 1992 with Simon Nabatov (Russia) and Vitold Rek (Poland); we performed together with Dmitri Prigov. But, just as fast as it arose, this cultural exchange period ended – astonishingly quickly, compared to the decades-long span of the Cold War, which had threatened the entire globe with doom.
Because my group "Just Music" played in Prague in 1970 I knew how serious audiences loved what we brought to our music from the West – they had witnessed the disappointing Prague Spring revolution two years before and heard reflections of those heady times in our music. Since 1971 I had numerous opportunities to reach audiences throughout Eastern Europe – Dresden, Leipzig, East Berlin, Krakow, etc. Last year another listener from Prague told me how important it was for them to hear "Cassiber" in 1984. With that in mind, it is a bit sad that 7K Oaks cancelled its October tour which would have brought us to the Wroclaw festival (where I had played with "Just Music" in 1972 and with "Gestalt et Jive" in 1987).
Now I am patiently waiting at the border of Stalinist North Korea to play my music beyond the split – my heart is already there. Who knows what the ongoing imperialist wars within the holy Sufi countries will bring in context of the metastasis of capitalistic asymmetries and Western weapons mass-production…
Alfred 23 Harth, in September 2009
In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth
When the land was swamp and caves were home
In an age when prize possession was fire
To search for landscapes men would roam...
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Metal artist Ricardo Breceda has amassed over 130 life sized metal sculptures and placed them along several roads in the Anza-Borrego Desert State park…
Special thanks to the plane that produced the jetstream...
I'm on a quest to finish my Sudoku puzzle book.
Better viewed large, and thank you for your favourites. :)
Jerry Seinfeld once likened a breakup to tipping over a coke machine. He said it couldn't be done on the first try and that you had to get it rocking back and forth in order to topple it.
The forecasters are threatening snow today in Northern Michigan. There is no chance it would stick if it does drop but it seems as though the seasonal sea-sawing may have begun. Time to batten down the hatches anyway.