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Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
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Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/In-Scripture/13351631001153
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Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
Class rolls for scripture and ethics classes at the public school where I volunteer to teach Primary Ethics classes. Ethics started with 3 classes when I began 2.5 years ago. Now we have seven Ethics classes, the same number as both Anglican and Catholic scripture.
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
I found a site that had gathered together many of the Scriptures on Hope. So, I copied and pasted them all into Wordle.net and these are some of the results.
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/In-Scripture/13351631001153
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Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
Monks and lamas bring scriptures to people's homes when invited. The officiating lama or monk reads from these scriptures. His attendants chant and read other scriptures.
I am the last advocate for reducing texts, scriptures and languages to mere graphic forms. The whole dimension of the text's meaning, histories, combinations, connotations, sound and craft is disregarded. What is more problematic is that I am ignoring the power of words to move and persuade people.
After first year and my first internship, I felt slightly disillusioned and confused by what Architecture meant to me. I took a trip to Myanmar and the trip recalibrated a lot things. I found it particularly grounding and inspiring for some of the things that I want to achieve in the future.
The spatial and formal organisation of the Burmese language in signage was something I found very compelling. At least with the handwritten texts, so much thought and effort was put into crafting every character. You see pencil marks, underlays, brush strokes and outlines. There is a combination of type faces and textures to create visual impact in different programmatic contexts that I find fascinating.
The Burmese name for the round script is "ca-lonh", literally translating to "round text". There are 33 main characters in the Myanmar language. Instead of words that are formed by a combination of alphabets (like in English), this language makes use of additional vowel shift symbols, tonal change symbols and consonant modification symbols. The rounded form of the characters is a result of the use of palm laves a the traditional writing material. Straight lines and forms would tear the leaves.
By compiling this, I am exposing my status as alien and an outsider. However, the focus on the visuals may have the inverse effect of celebrating the text, for text's sake, specifically, it is celebrated as visual form and not just a sign that says "eggs", or something.
Regardless, I tried to interpret the scope of "text" in a broad but focused way - text, in its literal form, text in prayer, text in recitation, text in architectural program (the stupas of Kuthodaw Pagoda). Photos are arranged in chronological order. The journey started in Yangon, then upstream along the Ayarwaddy river, to Mandalay and Bagan, then back again to Yangon.
These photos aren't really anything special in terms of photography, and I am not going to attempt to make sweeping claims about directing a new visual order, but as a composite they attempt to represent my yearning to celebrate a culture of appreciation for the process driven intensity in text making and in the creation of form.
Changing Your Lenses – sermon by Rev. Dana Brady at Marlow UMC on Sept 5 of 2010
Scripture: The Parable of the Barren Fig Tree · Luke 13:1-9 (ESV)
"But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, andbringeth forth, some an hundred-fold, some sixty, some thirty." Matthew 13:23 KJV
One of the four panes in the "Come to Me" window. This one shows a woman leading a blind man to see Jesus
Middle finger Promotions - Metal/Rock show at Meze 12th August 2010.
Still find it difficult to shoot in Meze due to the dim lights.
Strobist - YN-460 II at various power levels.
The bible stands on the wings of a great brass eagle which stands on a globe symbolising the word of God being carried throughout the world. It stands in St Hugh's Choir.
In the Anglican church interior the brass bookstand with a reading desk in the shape of an eagle is part of the standard fittings. The freestanding bookrest is used for supporting the Bible, for readings from the scriptures or as a minor pulpit. Most are creations of the Victorian age, output from a serial production of ecclesiastical furnishings on an industrial scale.
Inspiration for these Victorian bookstands came from the eagle lecterns of the late 15th and early 16th century, many of which had vanished during the "Reformation’s" (western Iconoclasm) great purge of ecclesiastical ornament. The revival was prompted by a series of discoveries. At Oundle, Northamptonshire, the eagle lectern reappeared from the river Nene when it was dredged in the early 19th century. Around the same time a lectern was found in the marshes outside Isleham, Cambridgeshire, and another was dug up in the churchyard of Snettisham, Norfolk.