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Award of Merit | High School Division | Issaquah High School PTSA, Washington
Only a fraction of this photograph portrays the real woman as most of it is her reflection. All sides of her are present yet a complete image of her is absent. She is submerged so deep within her own reality it is impossible for her to see outside of it. Sometimes we look too deeply within ourselves as we block out the big picture because excessive introspection prohibits us from looking at the situation as a whole and, it turn, worsens it. The image melts reality and fiction together, preventing one from distinguishing the real imagery from the reflection.
On the far end wall of the refurbished building there is a painting on GUM from the Soviet times, when inital G was standing for "state", not for "main". - EXIF data are correct: this was taken at 10:45 a.m. CET, as the clock in the middle in its own time zone says. - See some other indoor pictures of GUM/Главный Универсальный Магазин.
Another day,
Dull like a rounded pencil point.
Sequestered to a foggy existence.
Today.
What is wrong with me?
Maybe nothing. Maybe,
Something is just going on,
With no name…
Yet.
Maybe it just Is,
The bottom of a cycle
Winter instead of Spring.
So that we can remember
To appreciate,
The times when it is so easy,
We just reach out our hand
And catch whatever the Universe wants to express.
And then we do it,
On behalf of the Universe.
But today, hibernating.
Hanging out in a funk
But I show up still
Do my routine
Make peace with my state
Let it run its course.
And take comfort in knowing
It will End. It All Will End.
To see the original post: kneverkneverland.com/2013/03/27/peace-in-the-storm/
Well this is a rather empty window display for Shoot Thru Glass but I liked the pipes and the reflection.
"The apocalypse is finished, today it is the precession of the neutral, of forms of the neutral and of indifference...all that remains, is the fascination for desertlike and indifferent forms, for the very operation of the system that annihilates us. Now, fascination (in contrast to seduction, which was attached to appearances, and to dialectical reason, which was attached to meaning) is a nihilistic passion par excellence, it is the passion proper to the mode of disappearance. We are fascinated by all forms of disappearance, of our disappearance. Melancholic and fascinated, such is our general situation in an era of involuntary transparency." (Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation, On Nihilism trans. 1995)
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"praise, I do not reproach, [nihilism's] arrival. I believe it is one of the greatest crises, a moment of the deepest self-reflection of humanity. Whether man recovers from it, whether he becomes master of this crisis, is a question of his strength!"
(Friedrich Nietzsche, Complete Works Vol. 13)
I have been in Minneapolis for almost a week, attending a conference, along with a visit with a few old friends, plus taking photos for the event. This guy was amazing - 84 years old and going strong! Son if a shaercropper; what a history he must have. Dr. John Perkins
When you pause and think about yourself, what do you actually think about?
Is it how you look right now, your health, or your recent achievements? Is it usually about all the bad, or all the good?
The only real times I really think about myself is when things are going really badly. It's kind of a quick check to see if you're OK even though what's going around you is so bad and a search for something that's still awesome to look forward to.
Self Reflection - who do you see when you look in the mirror? Who are you looking at? Who is looking back at you? Who are you looking for?
Here's a selfie from earlier this year in a hotel room in Sydney.
Camera news - after a bit of a mix up on their end, the restaurant posted the camera two days ago, so hopefully it will arrive today! Fingers crossed :-)