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"The answers for your questions are often found from within."
-Unknown
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by Samuel Musungayi.
Captured with a Canon A-1 [+ Canon Lens 50mm f/1.4 S.S.C.] and a roll of Rollei RPX 100.
CanoScan 8800F.
Note:
- Box speed : ISO 100
- Shot speed : ISO 100
It's so hard to believe that I'm already this far into this project. This year has flown by way faster than I thought it would.
This is the type of photo I've wanted to take for a long time; meditatively looking out into the distance is kind of my thing, and I've been extremely proud of my long hair recently and I love the fall.
“Hamlet has to die”, the Alchemist said. “Hamlet is your self-reflection.”
He took the hammer with a strong grip.
“When deep and dark thoughts turned into wisdom there is no longer need for them.”
“I think I am not wise enough”, I said.
The Alchemist laughed and put the hammer back.
“Take the skull and the hammer and use it, whenever the time has come…”
HKD
From meditation point of view the hammer is the power of now.
HKD
Falls Psychologie von Interesse ist.
Der „Hamlet-Komplex“ (B3) motiviert Menschen zu Tiefsinnigkeit, Gefühlen von Neid, Eifersucht, Zweifel und heimlicher Rache. All diese Emotionen begleiten Menschen´, die sich auf dem Pfad philosophischer und tiefsinniger Selbsterkenntnis befinden.
Der lange Pfad der Selbsterforschung führt über Selbstanklage und diversen Formen von Autoaggression schließlich zu erhöhter und sensibler Selbstwahrnehmung und Selbsterkenntnis. Das alles sind die philosophischen Früchte der Tiefsinnigkeit oder die Geschenke, die der Hamlet-Faktor mit sich bringt.
Doch es gilt, von der Introversion (die Hamlet und auch Ophelia verkörpern) Abschied zu nehmen. Die Energie der Aufmerksamkeit muss zu 50% wieder in die Außenwelt (Samsara oder Egoaktivitäten) fließen. Das kann sie aber nur, wenn Hamlet in seiner absoluten Form zerstört wird. Ein Gleichgewicht von Eros und Thanatos ist dem inneren Frieden sehr förderlich… ;-)
Im oben gezeigten Bild ist der Schädel eine Metapher für Thanatos und der Hammer repräsentiert den Lebenswillen, mithin Eros.
Die Ratte steht für die Schattenwelt und ihre Gedanken und der Esel für das geduldige Tragen vorn schweren Lasten und Leiden des Lebens. Beide Tiere gehören in die Zeiten des Leidens und der Depression.
Das Bild aber zeigt den Lebenswillen (Eros) der sich in einer klaren Entscheidung gegen Thanatos wendet. Ein harmonischer Tanz der beiden Kräfte von Eros und Thanatos kann sich erst ergeben, wenn beide Seiten im Gleichgewicht schwingen. Wo dunkle Energien noch überwiegen, muss der Lebenswille und mit ihm der Ego-Wille gestärkt werden.
„Also… Wer braucht einen Hammer?”
HKD
Natürlich kann man dieses Bild auch als eine Botschaft ansehen, ähnlich wie ein Traumbild eine Botschaft an das Ich-Bewusstsein sendet. Das Bild spricht ohne Worte an den Wesenskern eines Menschen und hat daher eine symbolische Wirkung. Ich spreche nicht von einer Bedeutung, das wäre intellektuell. Ich sage bewusst Wirkung, da es sich um einen emotionalen Wert handelt. Eine Emotion also im Gegensatz zu einem rationalen Wert.
Bewusster Umgang mit Bildern
Hier bei Flickr gibt es zwei große Kategorien von Bildern: Jene, die auf den Kopf abzielen und jene die es auf den Bauch abgesehen haben. Verstand und Gefühl.
Ich halte es für eine lohnende Aufgabe, sich ein Beispiel dafür zu suchen und sich diesen Gegenasatz einmal zu verdeutlichen.
HKD
Herengracht 20/01/2024 17h23
Smartphones and people. A moment of self-reflection during the walk past all the light artworks. Corner with the Leidsegracht (in the background).
ABSORBED BY THE LIGHT
Gali May Lucas (UK)
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in Amsterdam. Artists, architects and (light) designers from all over the world bring their light artworks and installations alive during the festival every winter.
Edition #12 is from 30 November 2023 till 21 January 2024. More than twenty light artworks will illuminate the iconic canals of Amsterdam. For Amsterdam Light Festival 2023-2024 we have asked artists to consider the effects of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) on our everyday lives. The ways in which we communicate, engage and create are all impacted by technology and AI. What is the impact on the human condition? How does society change because of this digital evolution? And where are the boundaries? The different perspectives will be highlighted during Edition 12, with the theme: LOADING… Revealing Art, AI and Tech.
The route consists of more than twenty light artworks by the hand of international artists. From renowned names to surprising newcomers and everything in between. We dive deeper into our relationship with personal tech, the mobile phone being at the forefront – we cannot live without it, but sometimes you wish you could throw it in the canal. Subjects such as swarm intelligence, self learning algorithms, facial recognition and motion capture are also explored. What will be next? That is still loading…
Self Reflections during the 2017 Victorian Christmas in Nevada City, Calif. Taking a moment to reflect on what's important in one's life.
Happy New Year!
... now read!
Some of you will read this buried up to your nuts in snow, some of you reading this will be sat looking at miserable wet weather outside whilst tucking down under the blankets, some of you reading this, will still be in smog riddled cities that never really get cold. New Zealand has had a slight downturn weather-wise over the last few days, but nevertheless, on New Year's Day at three minutes and thirty-seven seconds past midnight (watch in my pocket) it was warm enough to take this.
Everyone I know here in Wellington has either gone away for the Xmas break, or has been working. So no wild parties, no days of eating Xmas turkey, no socialising whilst under the influence, just fleeting grasps of the time I could snatch with friends here. So what do you do when you're home alone on NYE and bored out of your head? You go and take photos...
2008 brought a lot of things for me. This time last year I was unemployed and staring down the barrel of having to sell off all my camera gear in order to stay afloat. Who knew that those horrible banks in Britain still want your money, even after you've emigrated!? I was a home owner, but didn't live there. I was enjoying living life in New Zealand and thanking my lucky stars for being so bloody lucky to have been allowed into this country. (Thankfully that hasn't subsided.) I had totally, and utterly fallen completely out of love with taking photographs, and it would be nearly four months before it bit me on the ankles and started getting under my skin again. Those banks could have taken it all really, as I didn't care less if the cameras went. Fortunately I found work, and combined with growth in the idea that I can take photos here, I'm still sat with cameras in my cupboard.
Not a day goes past without me seeing the sea, every single time I crest the brow of the hill beside the airport runway and see the harbour of Wellington in front of me, whether sunny, water like glass, or torrential rain and steely clouds, I smile to myself. Not a day goes past without me thinking about the people I left behind in Britain, very often those who either struggle or can't be bothered to get in touch prey on my mind more. Not a day goes past without me realising that coming here was a gift of monumental proportions. Not a day goes past without me realising the people who are here with me that I knew from back home, are key and integral to every single thing I do.
I've learned to appreciate. To recognise that Wellington being so small isn't a bad thing, and that by walking through town, a member of this city for just over a year, and seeing and recognising a face every day, is a very cool thing. The place is like one little social hub, and it beams because of it. To appreciate the food, the drink, the culture. To appreciate the sun on your face as you walk down Oriental Bay with a Kaffee Eis ice cream in your hand, and to see that look of feint disbelief when the latest cruise ship rolls into town, and the tourists are totally bowled over by the place. I've learned to appreciate the people I met on the interweb, that turned out to be real and not just avatars on a forum, and who have made me most welcome here. Step forward Kirstine, Brent and Bruce Barton and his frankly amazing family. I'm learning to appreciate the wealth of artistic and model-tastic talent here, and to try and find my way and where I fit into it all. And I've been learning to appreciate and how to best soak in and exploit the myriad of Flickr-ites on here who I see or speak to (at least in some way shape or form) on an almost daily basis.
You know when you look back at things, you could never see what was coming. If you'd told me at aged 19, working my ass off in an engineering firm, struggling with personal changes in my life, and trying to break away from the upbringing I had, that ten years later I'd be living the other side of the world and trying to make it as a photographer, several pounds heavier, but with a really fucking cool hair cut, I'd never have believed you. If you'd have told me last year I'd be typing this after an immensely progressive photographic year for me, I'd have told you to balls...
So people, plan your year. But expect nothing. Things come, things go, but life is sure as hell to hit you with some stuff square in the eyes. It's yours to take, live it.
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Tomorrow is the last day in my summer 100! I think I have come far with my pictures and grew a lot with this project, not so much in pictures but I learned so much and I know how to take new pictures in different ways.
Today is also our last day on vacation, tomorrow I will spend the day driving home and packing for school the next morning :///////
99/100
American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) in winter plumage at LaRiviere Marsh, Don Edwards SF Bay NWR.
Well theirs not much to say, I was walking down the river side in Ubud, Bali, and the sky was too bright to take a nice landscape view, so, maybe this will work xD
I hope you will like this HDR self portrait ;)
Have a great year...
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“Self-reflection is a much kinder teacher than regret is. Prioritize yourself by making a habit of it.” – Andrena Sawyer
I love who I am ❤
Only when you love yourself, you can love another person well.
The Science of Self Reflection - Desktop wallpaper series No. 20 - 1920 x 1200 px - Digital Collage/Drawing
This piece is also available as a 28"x19" gallery quality Giclée print via Society6 - www.society6.com/studio/marksearcy/The_Science_Of_Self_Re...
The word "swan" is derived from Old English swan, akin to the German Schwan and Dutch zwaan, in turn derived from Indo-European root swen (to sound, to sing), whence Latin derives sonus (sound). Young swans are known as cygnets, from the Latin word for swan, cygnus. An adult male is a cob, from Middle English cobbe (leader of a group); an adult female is a pen from the Welsh word for loud, pynne.