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One of the problems with this "showcase" location is the veritable minefield of splinters it presents. One is so busy trying not to get snagged, there is a tendency to forget certain...proprieties. 😘
More tomorrow. If you want to see.....ask to be a friend. I'll be happy to oblige. 💕
There are numerous little towns all throughout the Texas panhandle region that are all but completely deserted....many, never recovering from the "dust bowl" era of the 1930's. This swing set was found along the side of a little abandoned stucco house.
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Went for a drive this afternoon to find a few good scenes for the Big-Stopper. Happened to turn the corner and noticed the remains of an old pier.
Shot with the Lee Big Stopper and 0.6GND soft.
USAF Aggressor F-16C AF 85-418/WA comes in to land at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada during Red Flag 20-1.
Hawker Hunter Aviation's 'splinter' camo looks splendid on ZZ191 as she begins her runway overshoot on arrival at RAF Fairford.
The heat played havoc with trying to get sharp images, but I'm relatively happy with this one. Relatively...
I've been a bit ill this week so out of boredom I am posting something from a little while ago that didn't quite make it onto Flickr.
Castle Crag in Cumbria is a small hill by Lakeland fell standards but an interesting one nonetheless. At it's top there is a disused slate quarry and there a large piles of slate just itching to be stacked on top of each other.
The outing was more for the walk and to appreciate the countryside but I still lugged my tripod and camera stuff up there just in case.
There are already a lot of rock sculptures up there although they are all the same size and style. Nothing very precarious, just pinnacles stood upright with a few smaller stones around the tallest. Their existence drew me like a moth to a flame and with slate being the primary material I thought that it would be straightforward to make shapely stacks. But it wasn't as easy as I anticipated and it was all the better for it too.
Land Art, as I regularly say, is not really about the final sculpture but the path leading up to it and what you discover on the way. A rock stack such as this one and my style of making them requires that the stones are flat and symmetrical, square edged and in matched pairs. Regardless of whether there are all the right-shaped rocks I need right by my feet (not that that ever happens) or if I have to look far and wide for them the effect I want is the same.
So I turned up at the top of Castle Crag with the attitude that the rocks would be perfect and with very little effort the stack would erect itself (or something).
Well all I can say to you is 'rombus'.
Very few of the splinters of rock were indeed flat or square-edged and the place from where I could view the stack was a short jog down from it's perch so I spend much of the time jogging to and from the sculpture, checking it's shapeliness and removing many wrong shaped stones, and the rest hunched over looking for some better ones.
Finding matched pairs was the problem. And with one of the layers I just couldn't find a matched pair no matter how much I looked.
So once again I learnt many Land Art lessons. I learnt all about the shape of this variety of slate and how many of each you could find in that place. Through having to search for just the right stones I sifted through a great number and immersed my senses into studying those that I found.
That is the point of Land Art, to discover all about what is there, what is possible to make with what you find and to peel back the layers of what the fleeting eye might miss.
As I finished up taking pictures a group of walkers came up the path and proceeded to noisily stomp past us. Regaled in day-glo head-bands, double walking poles and not much sense of how loud they were speaking, our silent idyll was broken.
"Wow, what's with all the rock sculptures here?" One said to another in the group. They hadn't noticed mine but were taken aback by the dozens already there.
"No-one knows how they got here" another replied, "it's a mystery as to what they mean."
"But why are they here?" she responded.
"No-one knows" came the second reply "maybe druids in ancient times placed them here as some sort of symbol of worship?"
The to and fro of question and answer went on for quite a bit and I tried to hide my smirk. It's funny how we always tag on a mystical and complex explanation to something we do not understand when a much simpler explanation would do. I know very well that people make stuff just for the hell of it.
A friend asked me recently why I made Land Art sculptures and his question was insightful and amusing: "do you make your Land Art to express some deep and meaningful connection with the earth? Or are you just having a laugh like the people who made Stonehenge?"
In my opinion the people who made Stonehenge got it just right. What's the point of deep and meaningful if you aren't having any fun?
I had this idea a while ago, and just got my first Minifig.cat order the other day with some night vision goggles, which are "attached" to the head with a tiny bit of blue tack.
I had to tone down the contrast and colors quite abit (so lost alot of the little details) but wanted to goggles to really pop out.
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Splinters. Looks better in HQ!
Thank you Katanaz for the stock!
No one knows what he is capable of until things are at their darkest.
edited quote from
A.G. Howard, Splintered
International Bestselling author of gothic, fantasy, and paranormal books.
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HMBT all~ I'm gearing up for a long work weekend and then 2 days in the Catskills for a music festival, and then another two in Boston at Mass General with Mom and her oncologist. See you all tomorrow, and then
Leaving you with Woodstock thoughts and {{{{{GOOD}}}}}
Look out of any window, any morning, any evening, any day.
Maybe the sun is shining, birds are winging or rain is falling from a heavy sky
What do you want me to do...
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago
Walk out of any doorway, feel your way,like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you
What do you want me to do,
To watch for you while you're sleeping?
Then please don't be surprised when you find me dreaming too
Look into any eyes you find by you, you can see clear through to another day
Maybe it's been seen before through other eyes on other days while going home
What do you want me to do,
To do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed one afternoon long ago
Walk into splintered sunlight inch your way through dead dreams to another land
Maybe you're tired and broken, your tongue is twisted with words half spoken and thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do to do for you to see you through?
A box of rain will ease the pain and love will see you through
Just a box of rain
Wind and water
Believe it if you need it,If you don't just pass it on
Sun and shower, wind and rain,
In and out the window like a moth before a flame
And it's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it or need it if you dare
But it's just a box of rain or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone
And a short time to be there