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Very nice camera and lens for this tourist, however...
Apologies for the camera shake.
Circular Quay, Sydney (Friday 11 Apr 2008 @ 1:45pm).
ISO100 | f/6.3 | 1/500sec | 200mm | eval.metering | AWB | raw
Manic Coffee
for Eric and Avo's show opening on May 6, 2015
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
Mr Børge Brende, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway (host and co-organiser) held the opening statement on 24 February.
Photo: MFA/Oslo / Ken Opprann
A model seen in the Steampunk Fashion Show at Phoenix Comicon. If anyone knows the name of the designer or model, please tag or comment so I can give the proper credit. This image was shot handheld from across the room with a telephoto lens.
What is Steampunk fashion? Check here for one of many websites featuring clothing and costumes of the combination of sci-fi, fantasy and even Victorian styles.
Mission Statement is a sweet hardcore band from Virginia Beach, this is a new t-shirt that they had printed. Check them out here: www.myspace.com/mission757statement
A building that makes the grandest of imperial statements, this is officially part of the Government Offices Great George Street (GOGGS) complex, viewed from Parliament Street, London SW1. This segment is also known as 100 Parliament Street (100PS).
GOGGS was designed in 1898 by John Brydon, who drew inspiration from Inigo Jones’ unfulfilled design for a new Westminster Palace of the 1630s. After Brydon’s death, John Tanner completed the work in 1917, albeit diluting some of his predecessor’s original vision. The main 100PS occupants are HM Revenue & Customs, relocating there from Somerset House in 2004. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is also based here.
GOGGS is Grade II Listed, having been praised by the Victorian Society as “an early monument of the Edwardian Baroque Revival”.
Artist Statement
These images are works in the process being refined for eventual showing..
The images in this Flickr set will be part of a NoMa photo group project I'm involved in. The NoMa (North Manhattan) Photo Group is a dynamic group of talented community minded artists who support each other and promote the work they are doing. For images of the NoMa Photo Group please check out this exciting Flickr group. See: www.flickr.com/groups/manhattanville/pool/
We are documenting the Manhattanville area (Broadway between 125th St. and 137th St. in Manhattan) that will be razed to make way for the octopus expansion of Columbia University. There are of course issues relating to the displacement of a poor and working class neighborhood that may be priced-out of the existing rental housing market through the use of QUESTIONABLE (unconstitutional) eminent domain maneuvers.
The legal concept of eminent domain allows the government and municipalities to take over and raze properties that are partially “blighted”, in order to transfer their sites to private institutions such as Columbia University. Community advocates and protesters argue that this approach to urban redevelopment favors wealthy redevelopers and private institutions at the expense of poor and working class residents, and encourages profligate municipal expenditures and tax variances in support of dubious or marginal benefit to the existing community.
“Terrain Vague” is a French term used by Spanish architect and critic Ignasi de Solà-Morales to describe ambiguous, unresolved, and marginalized spaces in the urban landscape. Terrain vague refers to sites that are often ignored in the mainstream discourse on architecture and design, such as industrial wastelands and monotonous suburban developments.
Solà-Morales notes that photographers and architects address terrain vague in differing ways. The photographer sees these spaces as places that are imbued with a storied past. Architects, however, approach these spaces as problems to be solved through design. Solà-Morales asks:
What is to be done with these enormous voids, with their imprecise limits and vague definition? Art's reaction . . . is to preserve these alternative, strange spaces. . . . Architecture's destiny [by contrast] has always been colonization, the imposing of limits, order, and form, the introduction into strange space of the elements of identity necessary to make it recognizable, identical, universal. The voids, imprecise limits and ambiguities typical of “vague terraine” conjure visions of a species of twilight zone. Rather than being submitted for entertainment and approval by Rod Serling, the haphazard spaces of discontinuous improbabilty of Manhattanville are being submitted for exploitative redevelopment.
True to Solà-Moraleshas' observation, as a group of photographers, we have chosen to address “terrain vague” by documenting aspects of a neighborhood community that will soon disappear into the mist of NYC history. The Manhattanville community has historically given sustenance and a sense of place to a succession of working-class poor but soon will give way to trendy gentrification. The proposed draconian development project is occurring in the context of an insular university institution that has continually expanded at the expense of its surrounding minority neighbors. Understandably, this has resulted in a significant amount of conflict dating back to at least the 1960's.
I found the proliferation of advertising signs in the ManhatanviIle community to be visually oppressive and amplified my own sensation of “terraine vague.” On some level I felt the huge advertising signs were selling “solutions” and “fixes” for manufactured needs that could not be openly discussed.
The intrusive messages seemed to overwhelm\ and diminish the legitimacy of signs calling for urgent action such as: “Halt Columbia University's abuses of eminent domain!”
Some billboards pictured self indulgent, self-satisfied role models enticing as they flaunt their wealth, fame, lifestyle and accomplishments. As if to say….I got mine,….and you? They insinuate to pedestrians what cannot legitimately be articulated or promised in words.
These corporate mercenaries of popular culture model poses and attitudes, that dangle an antidote to the toxic powerlessness and soul sickness of poverty.....quickly, effortlessly, magically….. Without the bother of self-awareness or struggle for social justice.
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.” ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
It is no wonder to me that the mixed messaging of political advertising and policy makers, etc., keep voters confused and easily misdirected, by so-called "wedge issuues", that appeal on the basis of low self esteem driven uncertainty and fear. Induced mass low self esteem is an interesting phenomenon that drives passive consumption of ideas, values, decision-making......and, yes, let's not forget.....material consumption!
Check out “Happiness: Lessons From a New Science”, by Richard Layard who exposes a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most of us want more income so we can consume more.
Mind control, anyone?
For me, the ideas that drive this photographic essay are connected to the vagaries of urban space usage and how the meaning of community is distorted, misdirected and shaped to fit the purposes of the power elite.
This art project hopes to bring attention to these ideas and inequities. It is expected that this work will result in an exhibition at sometime at the begining of 2008.
Judaica ・/jü-ˈdā-ə-kə/ plural noun
things pertaining to Jewish life and customs, especially when of a historical, literary, or artistic nature.
Judaica is a space for work by Jewish creators to be considered within a Jewish lens. The term ‘Jewish creators’ acknowledges the vast diversity of Jewish backgrounds and experiences and is open to anyone who identifies as Jewish regardless of their personal practices and belief systems. Judaica is a space for both overtly and covertly Jewish art. That is, both art that codes itself as Jewish through the use of easily recognizable imagery and symbols, and art that is not explicitly recognizable as Jewish but contains ideas or themes that relate to the creator’s Jewish identity. Judaica aims to combat the room-of-silence phenomena by creating a space explicitly for creators to have their work talked about within a Jewish context. Without any preconceived notions of what the self-identified Jewish artist has to be or look like, Judaica aims to amplify the voices of Jewish artists and to be the first step in a larger conversation connecting Jewish art-makers in the RISD and Brown communities.
New Zealand families should not have to live with violence and fear. We’re taking practical steps to address this. www.national.org.nz/news/features/protecting-families
Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe has issued a public statement concerning the upcoming inquest into the mill explosion at Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake.
More information: www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2014/03/statement-by-the-chief-cor...
Press Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore: State Visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae and Lady Janine Mateparae, 6 to 8 July 2015
The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae will make a State Visit to Singapore from 6 to 8 July 2015 at the invitation of President Tony Tan Keng Yam. Governor-General Mataparae will be accompanied by his wife Lady Janine Mateparae and officials from the New Zealand Government House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
An official welcome ceremony will be held for Governor-General Mateparae on 7 July, following which he will have separate meetings with President Tan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. President Tan and Mrs Tan will host a State Banquet in honour of Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine that evening.
During the course of Governor-General Mateparae’s visit to Singapore, he will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on a tour of the Treelodge@Punggol, HDB’s first Eco-Precinct. Deputy Prime Minister Teo will host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch after the tour. Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen will also host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch to reaffirm the close and long-standing defence ties between Singapore and New Zealand. Governor-General Mateparae will be accompanied by Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong to the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) to view ongoing collaboration between Singapore and New Zealand at the Neurodevelopment Research Centre under A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.
Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine will attend an orchid-naming and tree-planting ceremony at the Singapore Botanic Gardens on 7 July.
Governor-General Mateparae’s visit underscores the excellent ties between Singapore and New Zealand as both countries commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year. There is close cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, defence, and the people-to-people sectors.
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MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SINGAPORE
5 JULY 2015
A lovely young lady seen wearing a unique set of bangles... edible ones. In Goa, they are called "kanknna" in Konkani. The occasion was the launch of O'Luv's audio CD "Love You, Goa" recently.
One of my most awesome pieces ever: my Diversity Necklace!
While creating this AMAZING piece of wearable true art, I closed my eyes and let my inner intuition artistic spirit guide me. The result was this fully functioning expression of artistry, wearable AND also stands up by itself, thus serving as a thought-provoking necklace/art piece, and a movable mixed media sculpture.
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Lisa Beare, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture issued the following statement after receiving the National Association of Japanese Canadians’ report, Recommendations for Redressing Historical Wrongs Against Japanese Canadians in BC: Community Consultation: (see link)
Shooting the Square Mile (15/24)
At a personal level I like the simplicity of this almost abstract statement. I read into it a step change in the way architects work. The older building, the one on the right, comes from the age of the orthogonal age of the manual drawing board; the Gherkin on the left is from the curvaceous age of computer aided design. The older building deserves a name check, it is now known as St, Helen's Skyscraper (formerly known as the Commercial Union Building) designed by Gollins Melville and Ward and completed in 1969. The City is a restless place.
Jonathan hanging out in Fullerton on a Saturday night.
This is the first photo that I have uploaded to Flickr directly from my cellphone. The image was also shot and processed using the on-board HTC software which has a number of features that my last phone did not have.
Additionally, I finally downloaded Flickr's mobile app for the Droid OS and it is not that bad - there is a bit of a learning curve, but it is mostly due to finding the right menus to pull down and what buttons to select..
San Bernardino Subdivision at the Fullerton Train Station - MP 165.2.
Orange County, Fullerton California.
(September 7, 2014)
8 MP cellphone picture using on-board HTC software.