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Me looking south from the summit of Bidean nam Bian across Glen Etive and Loch Etive to the Cruachan hills.
Australia has gone lockdown mad, the world is on the verge of something big, and I'm going to take a few days off to process things.
In 1955 Allen Ginsberg wrote one of the most powerful and controversial poems of the 20th century, "Howl". In it he raged against forces that conspired to destroy human creativity and authenticity. It was prophetic. His opening line is the perfect description of our current era.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness..."
Then it got even darker!
"What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money!"
And on he went. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
In 2016, barely two months before his death, the great musical prophet Leonard Cohen (may his memory be blessed), left us with a powerful series of songs that seem to foreshadow changes that at the time we had no idea were about to hit the world. The title track was dark enough:
"If you are the dealer, I'm out of the game
If you are the healer, it means I'm broken and lame
If thine is the glory, then mine must be the shame
You want it darker
We kill the flame
Magnified, sanctified
Be the holy name
Vilified, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, my Lord"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y
And then he got darker again with "Puppets".
Early in the 20th century T.S Eliot wrote the poem that summed up the impasse that humanity had come to in "The Waste Land". That was powerfully obscure, but when I first studied it in high school, I was even more impressed by the relative simplicity of another poem of his that got to the nub of modern humanity. It is clearly echoed in the very different work of Allen Ginsberg. His 1925 poem “The Hollow Men” describes 'a desolate world, populated by empty, defeated people.' It begins:
"We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion..."
And it ends with these prophetic words:
"This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
To use an old obscure Hebrew word:
SELAH
Here's a video everyone should watch. It explains a lot of what's going on right now all around the world:
"MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes Mentally Ill" www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
Still not convinced something is going on to erase our true humanity? Well check out this official World Economic Forum video:
"When Humans Become Cyborgs | DAVOS 2020"
"It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry....Bob Dylan.
In my younger days I built bridges for the Rock Island Lines (now defunct) so I have a soft spot for trains. This one was winding its way through the hills of Utah when I spotted it. I just had to get a quick shot.
With St. Botolph's Church toward the distance on the left, & St. James Passage, formerly Church Passage, on the right.
At 1:35 AM on the 30th of September 1888, Joseph Levy, Joseph Lawende, & Harry Harris were leaving the Jewish Imperial Club on Duke Street (which was up the street behind me) when they noticed a man standing with a woman at the entrance to Church Passage (probably about where the squared cover on the ground is). The woman had her back to the men.
Catherine Eddowes was found horribly mutilated in the south west corner of Mitre Square at 1:45 AM.
Lawende was shown some of Eddowes's clothes & thought they were the same as what the woman he saw was wearing. He doubted whether he would recognise this man again if he saw him.
Harris didn't pay particular attention to the couple, & Levy pointed the couple out & said ""Look there, I don't like going home by myself when I see those characters about."
Nikon F4. AF Nikkor 14mm F2.8D lens. DubbleFilm Stereo 200 35mm C41 film.
I thought this photo was a failure since during the exposure I moved the camera. Yet, looking at the result a second time, I somehow started to like it.
She'll let you in her house
If you come knockin' late at night
She'll let you in her mouth if the
Words you say are right.
If you pay the price
She'll let you deep inside--
But there's a secret garden she hides.
She'll let you in her car,
To go drivin' round
She'll let you into the parts of herself
That'll bring you down
She'll let you in her heart
If you got a hammer and a vise
But into her secret garden, don't think twice
You've gone a million miles
How far'd you get? to that place where
You can't remember and you can't forget
She'll lead you down a path
There'll be tenderness in the air
She'll let you come just far enough
So you know she's really there
She'll look at you and smile
And her eyes will say
She's got a secret garden
Where everything you want...
Where everything you need...
Will always stay a million miles away...
(...one of Bruce's best.)
A man in an advanced age seems to be seized by a sudden thought of someone or something while passing off time in late afternoon near a small convenience store by the national road at a village in Subic. Zambales, Philippines.
Thoughts I feel inspired by this photo I found on line that I LOVE!!
Take me away in a candyfloss tornado!
The fact that they're making Roy from arrow could mean that they'll be making Arrow figs with the new Dimensions game or even arrow sets. I wouldn't be too mad about this because a third party customizer will surly pump out an exact copy in a few months. And hey, atleast it's not The Arrow right?
SPOILERS FOR ARROW
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the fact that this is Roy and not The Arrow or Diggle or Speedy probably means this is a figure that didn't make it into the set or as a pack for dimensions because he was replaced by speedy.
what do you guys think?
"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do." -Brian Andreas
model: Rachel Krafton
location: Boston, MA Rose Garden
happy monday and hello october! september was incredibly tiring and long...a lot of adjusting and changes happening, but yesterday was an amazing day shooting with some great friends of mine. It's wonderful being able to collaborate with other creative people and create something amazing in the end. although my horrible forgetfulness and some weather issues put a hold on the day at some moments, it didn't even matter because I just loved what I came out with. I shot mainly film, which is DIFFERENT for me, but I'm stoked on this new medium I'm going into. working with the 4x5 has been a huge lesson on time so far--clearly far more planning has to go into each shot than what I'm use to, and it's definitely opened up a whole new area of creativity in my mind. yeah, it takes awhile for a single picture sometimes but it's totally worth it in the end...instead of photo manipulating images to appear a different way in photoshop, it all has to be done within the shot, and it's a great way to think out of the box a bit and figure out how you can make something appear abnormal.
regardless! here I am going off about film and I'm posting one of the few digital images I shot on the end of the day. this is my beautiful roommate, and new weekly model, Rachel. this is personally one of my favorite portraits I've shot. I completely altered the colors to compliment fall/the beginning of october. I absolutely love how it came out and would love to hear your lovely feedback as well...I'll post a before/after soon enough.
for a few more shots, head over to the blog I need to update more often:
This is a very powerful message to all of us. I hope that this will touch some of you as it touched me.
The "garbage-killed bear" is more than a cute turn of phrase. Rather it's an accurate description of a tragedy that plays itself out more and more frequently as people move into bear country and bears learn that people carry tasty - if not very nutritious - food.
Another photo from our trip to Palm Springs. I took this one on one of my last nights there. My parents were watching Owen and Zeb had already returned home to work, so I spent the evening by myself watching the cloudless skies transform from light to dark. It was one of those times where you think that you will have time to really sit and "think about things", sort things out, come to conclusions and find answers, but instead you find yourself simply drifting with the night's air and thinking about nothing of importance, and in the best moments thinking about nothing at all. And even though you don't come away with any answers you feel better for having spent the evening that way.
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...to all families where Santa's sleigh will not stay.
@Fotosöndag: Veckans bidrag på tredje advent får bli en metafor som är tänkt som en liten påminnelse om att skicka en tanke till alla familjer där det inte är självklart att tomtens släde kommer att stanna i år. Hoppas den stannar hos dig! Ha en riktigt god jul!