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I had been 'playing' with this concept for a while in my head. I called it (instead of the Silence of the Lambs) the Silence of the Bird. When I had the final result, it came to me immediately: VISUAL SILENCE.
I don't often 'dive' into the digital 'magical' darkroom that photoshop can be, but for certain projects it is a great creative tool!
Here, in the case of visual silence, what is being absorbed is not sound but gaze.
If silence is the absence of noise, then this visual silence is defined as the gradual absence, the vanishing, of what surrounds it, where we burrow from the visible surface to the invisible core.
Our focus on the image involves a diminution of the optic field:
in this sense, visual silence is like a poem, its power arising from its sheer vulnerability.
The image cannot be penetrated even by the most powerful of gazes because it is already open, in full view... and yet the transparency of the image, one that does not attempt to hide anything, is still capable of mystery.
Visual silence arrests us because it is the interface between two realms of partial knowledge: between he who does not know he is being watched and those who do not know what they are watching.
Some images leave us speechless, we watch them in silent awe.
Ultimately the camera is merely an extension of the human eye, it only sees and cannot wholly know what it is seeing.
Each time I think... that's it, there's only so much you can do with flowers... and yet again and again, I'll see something new.
Being creative is not a choice... it is an urge in me.
May PEACE be with you and thanx for everything, M, (*_*)
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Vigil for Jayson Negron, shot and killed by Bridgeport City Police, 1000 Park Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Wednesday, May 10, 2017.
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El Cuerpo. Nuestros cuerpos,
enredados dándole al movimiento,
danzantes, danzan en caricias y besos, enredados el uno contra el otro.
Mientras nuestras lenguas hablando, hablantes, hablan el mismo lenguaje.
Para después entre besos besarse, gozarse.
Mezclando nuestras salivas y entre besos ellas dos gozando, gozan.
El Cuerpo, el cuerpo se agita,
se convulsiona va adoptando la forma amorosa de la pasión acelerada hasta
que llega la sudoración corporal y la paz invade los cuerpos, al final del alma.
Autora autodidacta Jade Bueno Morales poesía echa a partir de un sentimiento
Autora autodidacta Jade Bueno Morales Fotógrafa
I'm entering this in a call for visual journals by the Brooklyn Sketchbook Library to be put in a time capsule for 50 years (!). I've decided the theme will be birds, with the Emily Dickinson quote in mind, "I hope you love birds too. It's economical. It saves going to heaven."
Obituary of another 60s Housing Scheme.
Kidbrooke Housing Scheme (later known as Ferrier Estate).
Architects: GLC Architects Department, 1967-72.
It saddens me to write the first chapter of this mostly visual obituary of a failed scheme now facing demolition. I feel honour bound to say some words to defend some very hardworking architects, with whom I had the honour to work with as a young student. These people, most of them no longer with us, were hard working, sincere and conscientious and gave their best to a scheme they seriously believed would house generations of happy and satisfied residents.
The subject of disastrous housing schemes of this period has been endlessly discussed and dissected by some very able writers and critics and I don’t feel this is right place to repeat various views which are already well known.
However, I would like to address a few words to Flickr viewers who often write vitriolic comments about this and similar estates, when they see some sad and depressing photographs of these decaying estates facing demolition and immediately start attacking ‘Planners and Architects’ for committing these atrocities against the human race.
Again, this is an understandable first reaction and with the benefit of the hindsight it is easy to say and admit that some very serious mistakes were made in the housing development of this period.
If you were living in the middle of ‘Jerusalem’ when it was being built and the new, spacious houses were being occupied by happy people delighted by these new estates, you would have found it difficult to believe that in not so distant a future such a sad outcome could have been remotely possible.
All I would like to say here is that there are a huge number of factors which influenced the outcome of these large housing schemes, a very dubious concept in its own right. The factors like political and social environment at the time of inception and occupation, financial controls with ‘sticks’ and ‘carrots’, the importance of choosing the appropriate residents, day to day management and maintenance, sufficient finances for maintaining and if necessary, eliminating the ‘failure’ as they become apparent and encouraging residents to actively take over the management of their own environments, were hardly understood by most of the bureaucracies involved in the whole process.
The examples exist of identical or near identical schemes where one has turned out to be a winner in most respects and the ‘identical twin’ had to be demolished because it was considered to be a complete failure and intensely hated by the occupants.
It would be nice to think that some understanding of these issues is available and grasped before ‘off the cuff’ insults are scattered at only one or two parties concerned.
The photographs I have shown above were taken during construction and early occupation period. The current state of this scheme is well illustrated by Flickr member ‘Waterford Man’. Please see his set on the following link for the current situation;
www.flickr.com/photos/waterford_man/sets/72157604073276791/
There is another very informative site covering the background of this scheme at this link:
www.jacobcarter.co.uk/Ferrier Estate Project 2.htm
Demolition started;
www.flickr.com/photos/waterford_man/3390406178/in/photost...
Timnit Gebru wants to replace the U.S. Census (which costs $1B/year to implement) by simply analyzing the cars seen in Google Street View images.
After processing 22 million observed cars, she found some fascinating things, like the predictive power of "the sedan/truck ratio" for political party. Republicans sure like trucks! More findings in the comments below.
From the AI in Fintech Forum today at Stanford ICME.
Fireworks over the 2021 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, to celebrate the Christmas lights switch-on.
Taken over the China Sea (or around the area of Subic/Olongapo) in Maynard Halili's Beechcraft Baron. Shot through a dirty aircraft window.
© 2002 Bong Manayon | FB: Bong Manayon Photography
Pentax MX + SMCP A 35-70/4 + Fuji Reala 400
05.04.08 22.11.29
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This photo has made it to explore! Rank #146 on 2008-06-24 .
Cliente: Visual Wave
Foto: Diego Castanha
Model: Leonardo Agra
Beauty: Joaquim Júnior
Produção: Patricia Cox
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Set Visuales realizadas para el ciclo KOÑÜWE
de Caro Pacheco/Señorita Carolina
KOÑÜWE. Un espacio para celebrar la fertilidad, la creatividad, la furia, el placer y el poder de la mujer.
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Koñüwe significa útero en mapuche.
El útero es donde se gesta, pero también es donde se sienten los espasmos orgásmicos.
Es símbolo de creación y también el canal que une a una generación con otra a través de las centurias.
Portar uno de una manera no tradicional o de una forma socialmente incorrecta ha sido motivo de persecución en épocas de la inquisición pero también motivo de trata y tráfico de bebés hasta la actualidad.
Pero no hace falta tenerlo para ser mujer.
Todos estos temas se exponen y enlazan en este ciclo en forma de canciones, poesía, visuales y DJ.
A ver, me puedo creer que lo que lleva en su mano derecha es lo que todos nos imaginamos cuando miramos con atencion a la estatua, pero lo que no me trago es... que lo que tiene en su mano izquierda, sea la otra parte que le falta! Eran grandes guerreros, y muchas cosas mas pero hasta ahí.
This is a set of 5 over-sized postcards of some of my visual journal pages. Each glossy postcard represents a journal spread, and is 8.5" x 5.5". The printing quality is so good, you can read my writing and feel what I was feeling when I created the journal page. Keep it for yourself for art inspiration, or mail it. The back is blank, except for my information, so you can write a note and address it.
from the visual journal that I've been working on, started on '09 and now continued. Most of the images in the 2022 section come from a French children's book on zoology, "Pour les tout Petits,Lectures sur les Animaux."
London Stands Up to Racism, London, March 19, 2016.
"ALL OUT FOR UN ANTI-RACISM DAY!
#M19
#RefugeesWelcome
#BlackLivesMatter
Speakers:
Diane Abbott MP
Claude Moraes MEP
Jean Lambert MEP
Jeremy Hardy, Comedian
Michael Rosen Children's novelist and poet
Gary Younge Journalist
Dave Ward CWU General Secretary
Christine Blower NUT General Secretary
Sally Hunt UCU General Secretary
Maurice Wren Chief Executive, The Refugee Council
Harish Patel National Equalities Officer, Unite The Union
Gloria Mills, Chair - TUC Race Relations Committee
Zita Holbourne Co-Chair, Black Activists Rising Against Cuts
Marilyn Reed Sarah Reed Campaign for Justice / Blaksox
Lee Jasper Movement Against Xenophobia
Malia Bouattia NUS Black Students Officer
Shakira Martin NUS VP Further Education
Shahrar Ali Deputy Leader, The Green Party
Yusuf Hassan VP Federation of Student Islamic Societies
Mohammed Kozbar Spokesperson,
Muslim Association of Britain
Maz Saleem Daughter of the Late Mohammed Saleem
Stephanie Lightfoot Bennett Co-Chair,
United Friends and Families
Gerry Gable Editor, Searchlight
Sam Fairbarn Secretary, People's Assembly Against Austerity
Lindsey German Convenor, Stop the War Coalition
Sabby Dhalu and Weyman Bennett, Organisers -
Stand up to racism
A racist offensive against refugees, migrants and Muslims is being pushed by some politicians and press. It is crucial we
respond to this by standing in solidarity against attempts to divide our communities. The appalling treatment of refugees across Europe and the staggering rise in anti-Muslim hate crimes must be challenged.
Let’s send a message that drives back the tide of racism, fascism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and the scapegoating of migrants and refugees – we say refugees welcome here and yes to diversity!
Join the Europe-wide UN Anti-Racism Day Demonstration when tens of thousands march across Britain, with major mobilisations in London, Scotland and Wales joining thousands in cities across Europe and around the world to say no to racism.
Stand Up To Racism has led some of the biggest anti-racist
mobilisations in Britain of the last decade, including the UN Anti-racism day demonstrations of 2014 and 2015 and the 100,000 strong Refugees Welcome demonstration on 12th September 2015."
Source:
www.standuptoracism.org.uk/2016/02/un-anti-racism-day-dem...
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