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德曼一直對文化中所詮釋的「自然」抱有濃厚興趣。許多德曼的影像都在探討同一個問題：「在一個充滿人造加工的世界裡，什麼才是自然？」例如《石窟》（2006），德曼以很注目的方式試圖提出這個問題，藉此引起我們去關注自然中「崇高美學理論」產生的影響，以及攝影能夠塑造（或扭曲）個人經驗和記憶的力量。這件作品德曼用了36噸紙板建造了一個等比例的地下洞窟，然後以攝影把影像保留下來。

這件作品所描繪的鐘乳石和石筍，地質上需要數千年的時間，由水滴中的礦物質逐層堆積而成。而德曼的創作亦以紙板一層層累積完成。這個影像是我們在世界各地紀念品商店中，數以千計的洞穴明信片中都可能見過的景象。德曼收集了數百張這樣的明信片，最終的《石窟》攝影作品是將我們對洞穴的集體印象，凝聚成一體的理想化產物，儘管洞穴的典型模樣在漫長的攝影歷史中，有過多次轉變與修正。

十八世紀哲學崇高美學所說的氣勢震攝，在這件作品中變成了Instagram世代的拍照熱點，而自然的壯麗景象被簡化為日常社交媒體的po圖。德曼為了進一步證明所謂的崇高與Instagram照片都一樣是被製造出來的觀點，他破例保留了這件作品的模型（這是他唯一一次），目前它在米蘭普拉達基金會的地下畫廊中，與作品的研究資料一起展出。

或許正是作品巨大的實體存在及德曼對記憶與攝影交織關係的案例研究，讓他願意將《石窟》的實際模型與其影像攝影的對照並存：一種對物體、記憶與攝影過程之間相互交疊的紀念形式。

Throughout his career, Demand has been interested in our culture's production of "nature." In the end many of Demand's images ask, in a world so fully suffused with artifice, "what is the natural?" In Grotto (2006), for example, Demand famously attempted to ask this question by calling our attention to the legacy of the aesthetic theory of the Sublime in nature in relation to the power of photography to form (or deform) experience and personal memory. To produce this image Demand used thirty-six tons of cardboard to construct a life-size underground cavern before preserving its image photographically.

Like the stalagmites and stalactites it depicts, which have been built up geologically over millennia out of the mineral content of dripping water, Demand constructed this work out of layer after layer of card-board. The image it re-creates is one that we might have seen many times before in the thousands of postcard images of caves sold in gift shops around the world. The artist gathered hundreds of these post-cards, and the final photographic version of Grotto becomes an ideal condensation of our collective image of a cave that has itself been mediated by the long history of photography.

In this work, the terrifying grandeur of the eighteenth-century philosophical Sublime becomes the Instagram generation's idea of a photo-op, and the spectacle of nature is reduced to a daily post. As if to accentuate the point that neither the Sublime nor the Instagram photo are any less constructed than one another, Demand allowed the model for this work to be preserved (just this one time, unlike all of his previous or subsequent models), and it currently sits on view in Milan in a basement gallery at the Prada Foundation along with vitrines full of his research.

Perhaps the sheer weight of its factual material existence and its case-study approach to the concatenations of memory and photography led Demand to allow for Grotto's continued physical existence alongside its photographic counterpart: a kind of memorial to the mutual imbri-cation of objects, memory, and the process of photography.

stuttering layers by tracyshaun

Velvet Garden by Velvet Garden

My Nike Stutter Step 2, somewhat broken in by name_m82

Many of the photos here were posted on my Instagram page shortly after they were taken. However it always has been my intent to also put them up here for several reasons.

There are any number of Flickr visitors who are not on Instagram or are unlikely to find my pages there. And photographs here are of much better quality, and not limited to 10 photos per post.

I have recently decided not to post new content on Instagram. While I don't intend to take down what is already there (at least as of now), I've become increasingly unhappy with the way it operates. Far too many advertisements and "You might be interested in" posts. Too many "private" members. Some members who have gone down the "AI photo composing" rabbit hole. Their right, but after a little while, their artwork becomes boringly repetitive. And Instagram's annoying ways of attempting you to get more "screen time" and see more of their ads. by posting entries out of chronological order, six day old photos you've seen too many times before new content you might enjoy.

The final straw there was that several of my Instagram entries were taken down for supposed "trademark infringement" I've been around photography intellectual property policy for a long time, and trademark infringement can only occur for commercial use, like advertising or selling a product. So, goodbye Instagram, to see my new photos, keep an eye out here.

I realize I'm way behind in posting here, this batch is a year and 1/2 old. But, I'll try to catch up soon. Thank you.

Another set of photos that never made it to Instagram. I think because it mixed landscape and portrait orientations, an Instagram no-no. I think the shoes were new to me back then. I see I eventually wore them again and posted some Instagram photos, but then they got stashed away in a storage bin, for no good reason.

These Nike Stutter Step 2 sneakers are becoming broken in as the uppers are torn from the soles in places, but the soles themselves need help, as they show almost no wear.

Having dug them out of storage now in late 2024, I'm going to wear them more often.

TIMA-4GB-1-185 by WLR Photography - wlr

Senator Biden by Angie in Denver

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Senator Biden spoke about overcoming a severe stutter. He spoke about

overcoming the loss of his wife and daughter. He talked about the

values and honor his parents instilled in him. His mom was there

wiping away tears. He talked about the need for all of us to fight

this fight for the middle class, the soldiers, the veterens and the

rest of us. He was inspiring and you just know he is up to the battle

yet to come. He was the right pick! Oh and he accepted our

nomination! In the end Senator Obama came out and joined him on

stage. It was pretty incredible to have Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea

Clinton .. All the Biden family and the Obama family in the same

place. It was a great show of unity. And did you see Senator Biden's

tiny grandson holding his hand? All in all it was pretty amazing.

253/365 2010.9.10 by Meg

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Stuttering

Cold and damp

Steal the warm wind

Tired friend

Times are gone

For honest men

And sometimes
Far too long
For snakes
In my shoes
A-walking sleep
And my youth
I pray to keep
Heaven send, Hell away
No one sings
Like you anymore

Black hole sun
Won't you come

And wash away the rain

Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun

I kind of cheated for todays song. The last 24 hours have been a total disaster in my world and I just didn't have it in me to do Magical Mystery Tour. So, here is a shot I took with my iPhone on my drive home (totally SOOP--straight out of the camera!). I was trying to get the funky cloud formations but ended up with this.

I hope everyone has a better Friday than I am having!

Stutter by jamonation

Northern Stuttering Frog (Mixophyes balbus) by Will Date

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IMG_1326 by Blank Center for Stuttering

stutter by covs97

and the stutter of this one

Stutter by Sol Reynolds

no photos! by L o r a English