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The natural art of the reflective mirror river as landscape photoart: Landscape photography also known as landscape photoart, is the depiction of landscapes in photos– natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view – with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
All engines running, windchannel check orange, armory updated, weapons online...
...some oldschool for those who remember. (Reference Flix by David Walter)
My longest project ever and largest Mech so far.
Sorry for the blurry images, my cam frakked up again >:-[
Actually, just like yesterday's image (see below) this has a title. But I've been thinking about titles and stuff and some of the words we use in them, and pondering it all.
Part, a large part, maybe most, of what I'm thinking has to do with some comments I've received, comments in which people can't find a connection between the work and what I've called it. Now, if I call it Nude on a flag pole, regardless of what the image shows, I will get more views for the one than I'll get all week. Where's the Nude Descending the Staircase?
Or the title might be more obscure than Jude. One thought for this, which is accurate, was "Assemblage of brass appearing colors breaching the brazen chamber; it wasn't really gold, after all."
The image, the art is, first and foremost, about itself--by extension, it might be considered meta-art. It's about its creation, the how of it. It is whatever you see: There are anal idiots among us who think a woman's nipples are something that shouldn't be seen in our photos and if they are we have to label them Moderate or Restricted--which also brings extra views, but no more coherent input.
All of which, all these words, are nothing more than meta-criticism. And they don't mean any more or less than the image.
I look at your work because it attracts my eyes and then holds me. It might be a shape, form, a pretty face...colors. I don't much care what you call it, it isn't that which attracts.
As Lisa pointed out when we were discussing this last night, you walk into a gallery; there are images, sculpture, whatever, here, there, the other place. You can't see any titles or labels, you see only the work and that is what counts.
And now that you've been drawn to the wall and can see the label, it reads Danae.
I hope you like it as much as I do.
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas
Everyone who spends time in wild country must surely have had at least one of these transcendent experiences where the extravagant beauty of a place so overloads your senses that you actually enter an altered state of consciousness.
This structure dates from the time of the creation of the Rocky Mountains, when the entire Southwest underwent enormous compression from the west; the limestone came from somewhere to the west and was pushed over the top of the sandstone.
The limestone is about 150 million years older than the sandstone of Red Rocks. We are talking here of many cubic miles of rock essentially, a whole mountain range - being torn from its roots and being shoved as a coherent unit miles to the east until it rode up and over the back of the sandstone mountains.
A familiar thought for Barbara...
I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for places, but seldom of how the places love us back, of what they give us. They give us continuity, something to return to, and offer a familiarity that allows some portion of our lives to remain connected and coherent... And distant places give us refuge in territories where our own histories aren't so deeply entrenched and we can imagine other stories, other selves, or just drink up quiet and respite.
-- Rebecca Solnit
I am finally done working on London images, at least done enough. I figured I had better get on the ball and get them posted before I head back in that direction. Plus, today is the St. Johns Parade. And while I don't have any good parade images from that, I do have a pair of interesting crowd images from London to share today. Where we go in London from there will probably be in fits and spurts. I don't think I will present them in the same fashion as I did Paris and Edinburgh. But then again, I have only ever spent two days in London. It is a bit harder to build anything coherent in such a big and busy city in such a short time.
All the more reason to get back there at some point.
"Emergence is the arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and
properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems"
Jeff Goldstein
La Défense, en région parisienne, est le premier quartier d'affaires européen par l'étendue de son parc de bureaux1. Il est situé dans les Hauts-de-Seine sur les territoires de Puteaux, Courbevoie et de Nanterre dans le prolongement de l'axe historique parisien qui commence au musée du Louvre et se poursuit par l'avenue des Champs-Élysées, l'Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, et au-delà jusqu'au pont de Neuilly et l'Arche de la Défense2.
Érigée dans les années 1960, la Défense est majoritairement constituée d'immeubles de grande hauteur, regroupant principalement des bureaux (environ 3 millions de m2). La Défense est cependant un quartier mixte : elle accueille 600 000 m2 de logements et l'ouverture du centre commercial des Quatre-Temps en 1981 en a fait un pôle commercial majeur en région Île-de-France. En 2009, le quartier compte 2 500 entreprises, environ 180 000 salariés et 20 000 habitants3 répartis dans 71 tours.
Le quartier s'étire à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur d'un boulevard circulaire à sens unique. Il s'étend sur 160 hectares et a été divisé en 2011 en quatre grands secteurs (Arche Nord, Arche Sud, Esplanade Nord et Esplanade Sud) qui remplacent les 12 anciens secteurs numérotés. Le quartier s'étend sur une vaste dalle piétonne de 31 hectares3 surélevée par rapport au sol naturel. L'espace public de la dalle, essentiellement minéral, est également composé de jardins suspendus et de bassins. Sur la dalle, une soixantaine d'œuvres d'art font de la Défense un musée en plein air.
La Défense n'est pas un centre d'affaires isolé, mais se situe dans une vaste zone de l'ouest parisien où l'activité tertiaire est particulièrement puissante4. Malgré son dynamisme, le lieu peine à séduire les investisseurs. L'opération de reconquête a été lancée: rénovation, construction, et surtout regroupement des pôles financiers de la capitale.
L'aménagement du quartier de la Défense a été confié par l'État en 1958 à l'établissement public pour l'aménagement de la région de la Défense (EPAD), dont le périmètre d'intervention a été réduit en 2000, puis élargi en 2010, devenant l'Établissement public d'aménagement de la Défense Seine Arche (EPADESA) afin de mettre en œuvre un projet cohérent de la Seine à la Seine, sur l'un des territoires majeurs du Grand Paris5. Le périmètre d'action de cette entité créée en 2010 dépasse largement le boulevard circulaire de la Défense et s'étend désormais sur les communes de Puteaux, Courbevoie, Nanterre et La Garenne-Colombes. Depuis 2009, le quartier d'affaires est exploité par Defacto, qui entretient les espaces publics, et qui s'occupe de la promotion et de l'animation de la Défense (mission conduite jusqu'alors par l'EPAD).
La Défense est souvent présentée comme étant « aux portes de Paris », mais la Grande Arche est aussi proche des Yvelines que de la ville de Paris6.
long stories shortened... (discarded and abandoned and intertwined short stories) well..actually they are chunks and fragmets and notes of stories that never made it
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a young PhD math candidate writing his dissertation on an obscure arab mathematician from the middle ages who specialized in cycles and periods in infinite series and develops a process to determine prime number density in a large number space. (which is all and good) except this makes it an excellent tool to decrypting military grade encryption, which is based on the computational difficulty of factoring large numbers into their prime components
the arab mathematician was ultimately censured by the religious mullahs for developing tools to rationalize the infinite, which is of course the nature of Allah and for man to attempt to place Allah into a human scale is blasphemy
so the arab mathematician disappears and the young phd candidate finds that his dissertation has been suspended pending review but cant get any information on who is reviewing it
finally another young mathematician approaches him and starts a long discussion on math and the nature of numbers and the mathematicians love of the underlying structure of reality that math represents. the phd candidate is leary of this mathematician cause he wont answer what he does or where he went to school or how he knows so many cutting edge fields in math
eventually, the young mathematician offers the phd candidate a position with the NSA, National Security Agency, (where all the big crypto and high math goes on) but explains that if he accepts that he will essentially disappear from his current world. his work will be classified, he will not be able to publish in academic journals or speak in public, or talk about his work to his friends on the outside, but the compensation is that he
would be able to work unfettered with the greatest math minds in the country, totally funded, free to explore any field or fancy he thought. after a few moments of thought, the phd accepts.
then the story will go back to the arab mathematician who is also approached my a young beared mullah, who offers him a position within his group of thinkers who do ponder and explore the nature of nature reality and Allah through mathematics, but that by joining them he would need to disappear from the world, after a few minutes of thought, he too accepts...
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Daniel sipped his 6th coffee (colloidal suspension for caffeine transport) while his batch jobs on ramanet, the Indian supergrid, finished their checksum verification. His chin, a bit stubbly, itched. His eyes, a bit red, were sore. The goa trance shoutcast feed had mushed into a fast cadence drone. The flat screen monitor warped and bulged with the oscillating fan blowing on Daniel's face
'O' glamorous larval life of a PhD student...' he jotted and doodle-circled on his notepad.
Daniel cracked his neck and jutted his jaw, stretching out the accumulation of kinks, as RamaNet finished the final integrity check on his dataset. this two hour round of processing on the Indian supergrid would cost about $130 out of his precious grant fund, but you couldnt beat the bargain. 120 minutes times 150,000 PCs in the RamaNet processing collective = 1,080,000,000 seconds or 18,000,000 minutes or 300,000 hours or 12500 days or 34.25 years of processing time for the price of a video game. Calculation was commoditized now. You uploaded your pre-fromatted dataset to RamaNet. the data was packeted and sent to out to 150,000 Indians who lent a few percents of never-to-be missed CPU cycles off their systems for background processing. when their alotted package was completed it was sent back to RamaNet for re-assembly into something coherent for the buyer. in return the Indians got a rebate on their net access charges or access to premier bollywood galleries or credit towards their own processing charges. a good deal all the way around. Daniel's dataset, an anthology of complex proofs from a long-dead arab mathematician, was queued with amateur weather forecast modeling, home-brewed digital CGI for indie movies, chaos theory-based currency trading algorithms, etc. the really high end, confidential jobs, like protein folding analysis or big pharm drug trials were more likely handled by the huge western collectives of several million collaborative systems, usually high-performance machines in dedicated corporate server farms. the cost there was out of Daniel's range, but you got a faster return and better promises of encryption for your buck.
Daniel scratched his scalp and flexed his fingers. 'two months from today i will be a doctor of mathematics...and no job. damnit. i need to find something fast.' Daniel calculated in his mind how quickly the student loans repayments would kick in and completely wipe him out. RamaNet would have done it in nanoseconds, ha! he laughed to himself. Daniel had avoided the rounds of job interviews and recommendations that passed his way. he was too absorbed in his research to look ahead, and perhaps a bit intimidated by the idea of the job hunt flea market. flexing his CV, getting a monkey suit, trying to explain his research to recruiters, who were often the same finger-counting business majors in college that made his skin crawl. Daniel always felt a bit embarrassed when he announced he was math PhD candidate. folks would immediately glaze over,
tsk tsk out a 'that's interesting', and swiftly change the subject. something will come up, he mantra'd to himself over and over, something will come up. stick with ali, there is something real in there, just a bit deeper. the real problem was his thesis advisor. dr. fuentes was not returning his calls, his secretary was not taking appointments from Daniel. he had submitted his finished draft of his thesis two weeks ago, but hadnt heard back since, except for a cryptic email saying that the review committee was having some issues with his paper and that Daniel would be hearing from him shortly. Daniel was rerunning his calculations on RamaNet to assuage the gnawing doubt that he completely botched some component of his argument and that the review committee was debating some manner of telling him to redo the entire effort. no PhD and no job. that would ice the cake. Daniel started calculating his body mass and general aerodynamic resistance relative to the height of the school cathedral to figure out if he had time to reach a terminal velocity before impact...only a failed math PhD would attempt to determine at what speed his body would smack concrete, he morbidly thought to himself.
ali ja'far muhammed ibn abdullah al-farisi slipped meditatively on his cup of water, thinking about his proof. he dipped a finger in the cup and held up a droplet of water under his fingertip, watching the sunlight prisimatically splay out on the mouth of the cup. 'praise be Allah and his wonderous bounty' he mumured to himself.
the elders had been in conference all day over his proof. though the heavy doors to their chamber were closed, he would occasionally hear muffled but distinctly angry shouts. ali sat on a divan in the anteroom, served numerous cups of tea by an obviously nervous secretary. ali knew there was deep resistance to his research, but for the life of him he couldnt figure out why. he was a simple mathematician. he came up with some unique observations. he wanted to share them with his peers...
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Overview: biotech researcher discovers a new life-extension technology and is murdered. He is cryogenically frozen for 150 years. When he is
revived he must stop a dark corporate conspiracy – and find his murderer.
Summer 2015 - Hot genius free-lance biotech researcher unravels the key component of a radical life-extension gene therapy that will ensure 300 years of robust life to its recipients. The researcher is murdered shortly after he hides the critical component. His distraught friend has him cryogenically frozen. 150 years later, the researcher is revived by the same major bio-med corporation for which he had originally been working.
Quickly he realizes that their motives are less than altruistic: his modification of the gene therapy is needed to resolve an unforeseen debilitation now creeping up in the recipients of the life-extension process. The recipients, now nearing 125 years off added life, are decompensating into psychotics. The researcher at first tries to remember and reconstruct what he did with the hidden critical component, but stops in disgust when he learns that in the past 150 years the life-extension therapy has been reserved solely for the ultra-affluent and has created an extreme and cruel global gerontocratic elite. He voices his disgust to his corporate minders, who cease being beneficent and show their true colors as trying to gain control of this critical technology in order to control the elites.
In the process of dealing with the corporation, he learns about his murder and begins investigating.As he comes closer to the identity of his murderer, he uncovers a wider conspiracy and is the target of more murder attempts.
He was killed by a friend in 2015. The friend was the CEO of a small bio-gen firm that the researcher was doing the LET work for. The CEO, a biz-head with a genetics academic background, took the researcher’s work and exploited it as his own, in the process growing his small firm into a bio-med powerhouse and him into one of the world’s wealthiest individuals.
The CEO also was the first recipient of the LET and is now 190 years old, but doesn’t look a day over 45. Smart, urbane, ruthless, the CEO used his wealth and position to start the cabal of Ultras. It is a faction of the top 50 smartest and wealthiest people in the world who have ‘ascended from the world’ (faked their demise) and control the global economy with their vast coordinated wealth. Perhaps they will call themselves ‘The Ascended’. We need to decide how the cabal lives. Are they sequestered on a luxurious island compound, or do they live in the open, surgically re-sculpted after each faked death, or do they live in the open.
Also we need to figure out what the world will look and feel like in 150 years.
As the ultras decompensate into psychosis, the CEO orders the researcher to be revived in order to find a cure. The CEO had the researcher’s lab notes decrypted and figured that the he was close if not successful in finding the missing component to stabilize the LET.
Tiberius Syndrome: the decline into cruel psychosis experienced by the ultras, named after the roman emperor Tiberius’ degenerate behavior after he sequestered himself on Capri.
The ironic twist might be that there is no cure, no stabilization. The psychosis is not the result of the LET alone, but also due in part to the unfettered ego/wills of the ultras. Absolute power corrupts…
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a brazilian hacking syndicate was subcontracted by a st petersberg crew to run interference on a hit on SWIFT, the global currency clearinghouse notification network. The UniFavela clan was going to run a multi-flank raid. They specialized in fast propagating virii and had created a custom mail-in virus that exploited a few microsoft vulnerabilities that they had discovered and kept mum. Their target was a Latin American PR spokesman listed on the corporate web site for press queries. The PR flak would be just the sleepy guard on the wall for their virus to slip past. 30 minutes after opening an inocuous spoofed email from a French e-trade publication requesting clarification on the SWIFT-Indentrus partnership. the virus would port scan and map its entire site LAN, salmoning its way up the router paths till it found the deep waters of the main corporate campus network in Brussels. Shortly, the internal LAN at Brussels would be suffering switch and router buffer overflows and traffic would gasp, ack, and sputter. UniFavela would then towel whip out a vanilla DDOS on the main company web site, any INTERNIC-registered addresses, and any other system in the IP block reserved for SWIFT that had previously port scanned as interesting, or ,even, as nothing. Mongols charging the village gates and tossing flaming torches on thatched roofs. IT Operations would be running to and fro, trying to figure out the internal bandwidth crunch and if there was a bleedout causing the external net problems.
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The Post-Human Story of Minos:
the CEO of a powerful commercial combine is bore an illegitimate son by his indiscreet wife in retaliation for his own dalliances. the son has a hideous deformity but is fantastically brilliant - brilliant enough for the father overcome his own repulsion of the child - as a bastard and a freak. the father sequesters the child in an elaborate virtual domain. the child, a hacker savant, is used to breach competitor nets. but as his power in the digital realm expands, the child transforms into the tyrant-monster. using the nets, he lashes out at people who have caused him pain, then evolves into enjoying the taste of terror and fear. He becomes the Minotaur.
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'there was a mad scramble amongst all the big spook governments, dark side corporations, and the privacy maccabees once it was determined that quantum computation had left the tidal pool of academia, grown legs and air-breathing lungs, and was headed for the nat sec intel highlands. all previous encryption models were rendered obsolete, and worse, exposed. QC became an undefiable xray spotlight, laying bare any encrypted secret with a ease of opening a mathematical candy wrapper. And for a while it swung the advantage back to the state in the digital Boer War against the freecon partisans.'
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The Oort, to the Intras, looked as one people. Extra-stellar hillbillies, ekeing out a subsistance existence on extracted organics from the frozen crud comets and other planetesimals of the Oort Cloud that slung around the solar system in a 1K AU circuit. To the Oort there was no Oort. Each station, each kampong was distinct and seperate. Seperate dialects, traditions, norms, goals. Some were scientific collectives, some were tired mining operations, some were intense sectarian cults - they shared little between themselves beyond necessary trade links for scarce commodities.
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A young prince is disgraced in an internal court scandal and sent into a quasi-exile on a worthless mission. On his travels he builds the wisdom and learns the skills necessary to be a just and effective leader.
His exile was a gambit by his patriarch to remove Genji from the arena of pointless court intrigues and develop him as a real leader. The patriarch dispatched a team of loyal praetorians to discreetly follow and protect Genji on his odyssey.
Genji was sent as an emissary to the Oort system. He must pass through the Martian-Saturnine corridor, populated with industrial trading guilds and their private militias.
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Genealogy becomes paramount in a closed culture; hierarchy by heredity. Reference the roman patrician class’ death-grip obsession with lineage, or the medieval Japanese imperial court’s strict intra-elite caste system.
But in an era of extreme genetic engineering, how can bloodlines retain their importance? Perhaps this is the wrong question. Perhaps in an era of extreme genetic engineering, authentic bloodlines can only retain their importance. The longevity of an unchanged gene line demonstrates success in evolutionary competition. Over time however, the fitness of a rigidly enforced and ‘sequestered’ gene line will degrade. Consider the hemophilia of the European royal strata.
I would not want the imperial court of the inner system to be pure blue bloods, eschewing genetic manipulation. Rather I would have them take the opposite tack – and embrace genetic engineering in the pursuit of perfecting particular socially valued or distinctive attributes; a roman nose, elongated refined fingers, even the possession of certain ‘noble’ afflictions (for ex., the aforementioned hemophilia as a sign of noble lineage).
The elites should pursue genealogy with the same passion and gusto as horse breeders; studs and mares and percentages of bloodlines, enforced and suppressed gene expressions, surrogates, and gene modes des saisons.
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a bum finds a the wallet and keys of a man who jumped from a bridge
he goes to his townhouse to find something to eat or steal
is impressed and overwhelmed with the man's townhouse
showers, eats, gets cleaned up, finds some clothes
is ready to leave when he helps a woman wrestling with groceries at her door
she thanks him, but looks stunned.
‘are you the man in #560? umm..i have lived here for 3 years and have never actually seen you. you seem to leave so early in the morning and get
home so late and keep to yourself.’
they spend 30 minutes talking, having a generally warm friendly encounter.
‘well, I am so glad to have finally met you. Hope to see you soon.’ As she closes her door, the bum turns to leave but pauses and thinks for a moment, then goes back into the man's townhouse
he pours through the man's papers and keepsakes and learns that the man has no family that he speaks with, no friends, lives off a well-endowed trust fund
and
the bum moves in and takes over the mans identity
he brings warmth and sincerity to the man's identity
what makes a hermit tick? what lengths do they go to to remove themselves from society? does it become a game to avoid contact, trying to become a shadow, a phantom? does society dissolve away as a mental force in their thoughts, atrophy away or does it become an amputated impression?
what divsion line stands between a hermit and convict in solitary? the hermit, by and large, chooses their isolation, the convict has it enforced upon them. at what point does the human need for society or socialization collapse? is there anything left that we can inspect and evaluate? a hermit, however, is able to maintain walls against the Great Other, which would imply that they are seeking refuge from the world. a schizo or an autistic will be physically surrounded by others but unable or incapable of making contact.
when does the will to contact die? what is left over? do humans require contact to retain our humanity? can you love and sacrifice in a vacuum?
what defines humanity? oooh, a big question...
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genetic engineering will continue to deconstruct the human species
there will be catastrophic disasters: gene sequence specific viruses engineered to attack 'types' of people. Der Genkampf
petroleum will be replaced- hydrogen-powered locomotion and green power (in the wealthy states). the poor states will continue to be held hostage to oil politics
(cultures and civilizations do not move forward uneringly. they spasticly jerk forward and fro, in clumps andgrains, never ever as a lemming death drive.)
developed economies will be netized. a new state structure will be needed to manage and dsitribute resources. the corporate structure, the commercial backbone of the capitalist democracy, will replace the republic. it is flexible to markets and political forces, insistent on accountability, it provides a sufficient compromise between individual representation and republican government. they will begin their political evolution as projects in community development. assurances of an educated workforce by charter education. assurances of uninterrupted utilities by running their own power/water etc. net-based marketplaces create corporate agoras. employees are in fact de facto citizens of the corporation. citizenship, or regular employment, will be a reward for merit, stock shares will count towards suffrage.
great corporate collectives will arise. housing, education, security...all the needs of the middle class will be absorbed in the corporate state. the tradtional state will cede roles and responsibilities to the corporate state as their resources dwindle. a few isolated violent reactions (military or legal)by the republics against the corporate states, but they will fail over time. against, or more so, in conjunction with the homogenized corporatsists wil be the diasporae, non-corporates will glom to other modes of networked alignment, ethnic allegiance will become stronger over time - as the chinese, indian, and jewish disporaestrengthen as a formula for a successful competition against/with the corporates.
the american state, succored by its overwhelming techo-military supremancy, loses its mission, its vision - substitutes will to dominate for will to excel - and falls into the deep narcotic, insulated slumber of the unassailable. GE, nano, and the banknote net weaken the mythic cohesion of the american spirit. we are no longer united by common experience (mass-mediated or otherwise) the promise of science to make us stronger, smarter, near immortal is held like a manifest destiny or a divine IOU for services rendered to humanity.
Nature is so coherent...
Wednesdays photo 05/07/17
#duck #duckling #coherent #nature #clever #water #fluff #young #wildlife #telephoto #nikon #d5200 #ilovephotography #photography
Merriman, Nebraska
I spotted this bus in the distance as I drove along Highway 20. Naturally I had to know what it was for. It required walking though about a quarter mile of grass/weeds. What I discovered was a bit difficult to describe or photograph in a coherent manner. I climbed up into the bus and took a number of photos, but nothing presented itself in a manner that would show the viewer what this was. Under the bus in the middle, a platform can be seen, so I disembarked the bus and went to the platform. The platform overlooked some broken up pavement, but it seemed to small for racing, unless for horses. As I was standing on the platform, two horses did come passing beneath me. There were some bleachers, mostly rotted. So it was a mystery to me, and still is to a certain extent. The only reference to this place I could find on the internet stated: "A former quarter-mile asphalt track located west of Merriman, Nebraska. Track was open for 20 years last racing in 1985."
More images will follow, but there is no way to really show the entire lay of the land.
......is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects. The two main traditions spring from Western painting and Chinese art, going back well over a thousand years in both cases. Landscape photography has been very important since the 19th century.
The word landscape is from the Dutch, landschap originally meaning a patch of cultivated ground, and then an image. The word entered the English language at the start of the 17th century, purely as a term for works of art; it was not used to describe real vistas before 1725. If the primary purpose of a picture is to depict an actual, specific place, especially including buildings prominently, it is called a topographical view. Such views, extremely common as prints, are often seen as inferior to fine art landscapes, although the distinction is not always meaningful.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_art
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* While Hull has a great many historic buildings it does not have an architectural masterpiece . Fortunately the town of Beverley which is only six miles from Hull does have one , Beverley Minster is considered one of the finest church buildings in England . I took this shot of its West front and towers during the blue hour
A little history of the Minster
The Minster owes its origin and much of its subsequent importance to Saint John of Beverley, who founded a monastery locally around 700 AD and whose bones still lie beneath a plaque in the nave. The institution grew after his death and underwent several rebuildings. After a serious fire in 1188, the subsequent reconstruction was overambitious; the newly heightened central tower collapsed c. 1213 bringing down much of the surrounding church. Work on the present structure began around 1220.
It took 200 years to complete building work but, despite the time scale involved, the whole building has coherent form and detail and is regarded as one of the finest examples of Perpendicular design, the twin towers of the west front being a superlative example. These formed the inspiration for the design of the present Westminster Abbey.
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via real-photos ift.tt/2KXafAY NXPI itself had always been more a collection of parts than a coherent whole. It was born from the semiconductor unit of Koninklijke Philips N.V. (NYSE:PHG), the Dutch consumer electronics company, and later added the chip operations formerly known as Motorola, doing business as Freescale Semiconductor. Broadcom was forced to drop its bid for Qualcomm, despite moving its main office to California, during the summer, as trade tensions increased. The Administration saw the Malaysian-run company as weak in the face of Chinese demands that it should “share” (give away) its trade secrets and designs. The deal, which seemed certain in June, collapsed in July, Qualcomm spitting NXPI out like a pit from a prune. Since then, the delivery date for mass-producing self-driving cars has gone off into the future, and NXPI doesn’t have any firm commitments anyway. The company said in September it would hand out cash to shareholders but would not change its strategy. Its cash pile has been dwindling and fell below $2 billion by September. If the market does turn down it may be looking for a buyer again, but from a position of weakness rather than strength. bit.ly/2QI0cTC
(I have discovered tonight that it's really hard leaving coherent comments after a few glasses of wine!!!)
a little garden on the prairie.
couldn't decide on which title to use so theres both! Changed the title last minute!- As I was to post the photo, I started to look deeper into what the title could suggest to the photo, and linked whats inside the character to what she is capable of producing!
When I look at this photo, all I think about is how excited I got when explaining the concept and the pose to the model Ruth and the expression on her face whilst explaining it! I ended up really liking the process to getting the end result: from the photos of flowers I took at different garden nurseries to the long editing process. This was one of my first obvious considerations of giving something beautiful a darker meaning. (Part way through editing I showed my mom and she said it looked very different because of how 'pretty' it was, but at the end i found it to be very coherent with my style!) Its this kind of constant organic inspiration that motivates me to create what I do.
The world is full of beautiful colors and patterns and my challenge as a photographer is to find them. Of course arranging them in a coherent way that works for a two dimensional image is like making a puzzle.
I try to compose in layers so that there is an implied third dimension. In this example it was easier than usual simply because the background elements faded more and more, the greater the distance.
Photography for me is all about questions and answers. Is this good here? Try moving it slightly to the right...now it's perfect.
Recipe:
1. iPhone 4s
2. Foggy morning light
3. Hipstamatic app
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This is a sort of revisited version of this shot from last year. The My Face Is My Canvas group had selected Dr.Seuss characters as this week's emulation challenge and man was it ever a challenge! Those characters are all so iconic and not the easiest to incorporate into face paint (aside from the grinch which I've done too). I did try to do some fish for One Fish Two Fish, but they didn't turn out too well so you get The Lorax. pt 2!
I had my interview this morning for the Otesha article and I hope I was coherent enough, it was pretty early when they called since they're a few hours ahead and I wasn't totally prepared. It was pretty laid back and she asked some interesting questions and said that it should be out in the next week so I'll post a link when it pops up!
Hope you all have a great weekend!
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My Face Is My Canvas: Emulation #29
This was taken at a local beauty spot, Whitemere, in a kinda celebration of the end of the first stage of my Journey through University. My first project draws to a close, my Dissertation is practically finished......well it was finished, all neatly set, all lovely and coherent, and flowing right up to 7,500 words.....it needed to be 6000. Bummer...so a serious re-editing is required.
Ah well...
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I won't be posting for about a week or two - I have become overwhelmed with catching up on things that were supposed to be completed weeks ago, and that's not including the pressure/preperation for a short film that I will be working on this week and into the next.
I'm here in body, but only half here in mind.
when I've found my other coherent half of myself that's wandered off , I'll be back soon to post and comment on your photos.
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My good mate Don and I decided a while ago on a shoot to The Lost City about 2 hours west of Sydney. We got there at 4am raining so we lit a fire, made some coffee and waited and hoped.
The rains stopped and so we went for it. I found it difficult to get my exposures right and then it fell into place - FAR OUT. An amazing place but slightly dangerous due to the cliff and you need an all terrain vehicle to drive in. I'm reasonably happy with this mage and hope you enjoy - the rainbow only lasted for 2 min so I was shooting fast - it also started to rain heavily and I was desperately trying to maintain a coherent shooting strategy while wiping my filters shouting to Don. My tripod was also delicately balanced on a rock ledge and I gave a silent prayer ofthanks that my gear is ensured.
I am an amateur photographer based in Sydney who loves, exploring and shooting sea and landscapes in different areas in the company of good mates.
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En raison de son grand intérêt architectural, historique et paysager, le hameau du Monal est un site classé (au titre de la loi du 2 mai 1930). Il occupe une position privilégiée en balcon face au massif du Mont Pourri. Encadré par la forêt de mélèze au débouché du Vallon du Clou, le replat du Monal accueille trois groupes de chalets et trois étangs. L’organisation paysagère des composantes minérales, végétales et architecturales en fait un site de grande qualité.
Les constructions s’organisent en trois groupements autour de la chapelle Saint Clair, près des chemins et des ruisseaux. Quelques bâtisses ont été construites au XIX siècle, mais la plupart des chalets datent du milieu du XVII siècle et d’autres, près de la chapelle, sont encore plus anciens.
On peut encore y voir des anciennes caves à lait, ce sont des constructions de pierre, à cheval sur le ruisseau, qui permettaient à l’époque de réfrigérer et donc de conserver le lait.
Au cours du XXème siècle, la dépopulation de la Haute Tarentaise a entraîné l’abandon progressif des chalets du Monal. L’ensemble appelait préservation et restauration.
Le classement du site s’est accompagné d’un cahier de prescriptions et de recommandations architecturales et paysagères afin que la restauration se fasse de manière cohérente et dans le respect des traditions locales.
Bit of a ramble! For those in a rush, it's enough to know the first attempt for North American viewers sits in the comments below.
Update: just a quick one further to some questions/notes below, light painting is basically waving a torch (or other lightsource) around in front of the camera during a long exposure. This leaves the trails of light you see above! The deer were created in camera this way - not an edit!
Since delighting myself with my first light painting Love At First Light, I've lined up a number of other light paintings I'd like to try. A few weeks back I got the chance for a second session, but having invested in an overpowered Halfords torch (the torch I used first time round was borrowed) couldn't tame the light and just got flare. A visit to a £1 shop later and this is my third light painting session, the second shot I'm happy enough to post.
I've had this in mind for a few weeks, but not seen the right place for it. This evening I was out in the heavy fog shooting some Mars like images (to follow) when I found the fallen leaves had made the setting I was after. So with Christmas closing in all too quickly, I gave it a go! I took a few images to work out the reindeer (the first attempt ended up as a moose, posted in the comments for North American viewers), and then added the second reindeer at first take.
By way of side note, the moose is around a 2/3 stop shorter exposure, and the colour isn't quite as cool as a result.
Normally I shoot night time long exposures at ISO 100 to tame the noise on the 300D, but it was so dark in the forest that this needed a twelve minute exposure (729 seconds ¦ f/8) at ISO 200. With each exposure something of a dice roll due to the reindeer, I felt the noise was an acceptable trade off to avoid 25 minute shots! It's a very similar colour to the sodium cloud in www.flickr.com/photos/flatworldsedge/5182134181/, and the fog does a similar job with the street lighting. The introduction of the forest and the lack of any moon, however, mean that shooting at the same settings (f/11 ¦ ISO100) last night's shot would have needed just shy of 50 minutes to get to the same place.
Kind of interesting, to me at least, sorry!
Few other things. It was raining quite hard by the end, and the mist stayed very dense, so I've amazed the torch didn't pick up droplets or flare more - it is very cheap (and dim) and I guess 12 minutes gives a lot of tolerance. I used an A4 sheet of bubble wrap I keep as padding in the end of my bag as a makeshift camera cover; an innovation I can recommend.
I just need a red light to add the festive nose next time round. For now, I'm afraid you'll have to imagine it. Hope you're all having a great weekend and you like the image. Thanks for looking and indulging my ramble!
Gamla Stan is the central part of Stockholm. Located on an island, historically a "lock" to Lake Mälaren, to prevent enemies from defeating the important parts of Sweden.
The city was founded in the 13th century. There is the Royal Palace,, Church, and Nobelmuseum .
The streets are mostly narrow alleys, the light have difficult to reach down to the streets between the houses, and only a few streets are allowed for traffic.
Many houses are preserved and you can find walls and arches from the Middle Ages.
I have used Topaz Impressions for painting effect, a Marezia57 texture to get a coherent gold tone. and use lens flare on all three.
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(This quote is a little long, but I wanted to write this down somewhere. The message, I think, resonates with many of us boomers who are finally learning how to relax and indulge in nature and what really counts.)
“I remember one afternoon when I tied my boat to a snag in the middle of the river…. It was a warm sunny afternoon, quiet all around, and I had the river to myself. There is some nearly mystical charm about a boat that I have always been keenly aware of, and tied there that afternoon in midstream, a sort of island, it made me intensely alive to the charm of it. It seemed so intact and dry in its boatness, and I so coherent and satisfied in my humanness.
I was happy for some time, until I became conscious of what a fine thing I was doing. It came to me that this was one of the grand possibilities of my life. And suddenly I became deeply uneasy, even distressed. What I had been at ease with, in fact and without thinking, had become, as a possibility, too large. I hadn’t the thoughts for it. I hadn’t the background for it. My cultural inheritance had prepared me to exert myself, work, move, “get someplace”. To be idle, simply to live there in the sunlight in the middle of the river, was something I was not prepared to do deliberately. I tried to stay on, forcing myself to do what I now thought I ought to be doing, but the spell was broken. That I had nothing to do but what I wanted to do, and what I was in fact doing, had become utterly impotent as an idea. I had to leave.
I would have to live to twice that age before I could do consciously what I wanted so much then to do. And even now I can do it only occasionally.”
Wendell Berry, The Long Legged House, 1969
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La Défense, en région parisienne, est le premier quartier d'affaires européen par l'étendue de son parc de bureaux1. Il est situé dans les Hauts-de-Seine sur les territoires de Puteaux, Courbevoie et de Nanterre dans le prolongement de l'axe historique parisien qui commence au musée du Louvre et se poursuit par l'avenue des Champs-Élysées, l'Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, et au-delà jusqu'au pont de Neuilly et l'Arche de la Défense2.
Érigée dans les années 1960, la Défense est majoritairement constituée d'immeubles de grande hauteur, regroupant principalement des bureaux (environ 3 millions de m2). La Défense est cependant un quartier mixte : elle accueille 600 000 m2 de logements et l'ouverture du centre commercial des Quatre-Temps en 1981 en a fait un pôle commercial majeur en région Île-de-France. En 2009, le quartier compte 2 500 entreprises, environ 180 000 salariés et 20 000 habitants3 répartis dans 71 tours.
Le quartier s'étire à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur d'un boulevard circulaire à sens unique. Il s'étend sur 160 hectares et a été divisé en 2011 en quatre grands secteurs (Arche Nord, Arche Sud, Esplanade Nord et Esplanade Sud) qui remplacent les 12 anciens secteurs numérotés. Le quartier s'étend sur une vaste dalle piétonne de 31 hectares3 surélevée par rapport au sol naturel. L'espace public de la dalle, essentiellement minéral, est également composé de jardins suspendus et de bassins. Sur la dalle, une soixantaine d'œuvres d'art font de la Défense un musée en plein air.
La Défense n'est pas un centre d'affaires isolé, mais se situe dans une vaste zone de l'ouest parisien où l'activité tertiaire est particulièrement puissante4. Malgré son dynamisme, le lieu peine à séduire les investisseurs. L'opération de reconquête a été lancée: rénovation, construction, et surtout regroupement des pôles financiers de la capitale.
L'aménagement du quartier de la Défense a été confié par l'État en 1958 à l'établissement public pour l'aménagement de la région de la Défense (EPAD), dont le périmètre d'intervention a été réduit en 2000, puis élargi en 2010, devenant l'Établissement public d'aménagement de la Défense Seine Arche (EPADESA) afin de mettre en œuvre un projet cohérent de la Seine à la Seine, sur l'un des territoires majeurs du Grand Paris5. Le périmètre d'action de cette entité créée en 2010 dépasse largement le boulevard circulaire de la Défense et s'étend désormais sur les communes de Puteaux, Courbevoie, Nanterre et La Garenne-Colombes. Depuis 2009, le quartier d'affaires est exploité par Defacto, qui entretient les espaces publics, et qui s'occupe de la promotion et de l'animation de la Défense (mission conduite jusqu'alors par l'EPAD).
La Défense est souvent présentée comme étant « aux portes de Paris », mais la Grande Arche est aussi proche des Yvelines que de la ville de Paris6.
Another photo in a series that I've taken recently of the Corus limestone works in Shap, Cumbria.
From this location at the front of the factory the place is a visual and literal mess with broken down fencing, heaps of limestone and overhead power cables everywhere - how do you link that lot into a coherent photographic composition?
At one point I put my camera bag down on the grass to change lenses - I chose a spot that didn't have much snow but when I picked the bag up it was covered instead in a fine grey ash.
Interference patterns of street lights seen through a tulle curtain. Narrow openings (slits) in the curtain cause the light to be bent and interfere on the camera sensor. The constructive and destructive interference cause high and low intensity bands. Also the white light is resolved into its constituent colors through interference.
From Wikipedia:
Interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of greater or lower amplitude. Interference usually refers to the interaction of waves that are correlated or coherent with each other, either because they come from the same source or because they have the same or nearly the same frequency. Interference effects can be observed with all types of waves, for example, light, radio, acoustic, surface water waves or matter waves.
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[this is part of a new and challenging ongoing project, focusing on male portraiture / psychology, seen as a symbiosis of power and vulnerability, discovery, unknown and mystery in the Man. I have never done something like this before that's why your opinion counts. thanks.]
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*although I have done a few tests, I think this particular photo will be the first in the series because it illustrates best the idea of the project. I will develop more on this soon. at the moment, I am more interested in the photos in themselves and how they can relate to each other to create a coherent visual sequence.
The mummy in the back is a Crusader who fought in the Crusades. This Crusader was about 6'6" tall. The average in that time was about 5'7" for a male. According to Wiki - The Crusades were military campaigns sanctioned by the Latin Roman Catholic Church during the High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages. In 1095, Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade with the stated goal of restoring Christian access to holy places in and near Jerusalem. Following the First Crusade there was an intermittent 200-year struggle for control of the Holy Land, with seven more major crusades and numerous minor ones. In 1291, the conflict ended in failure with the fall of the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land at Acre, after which Roman Catholic Europe mounted no further coherent response in the east.
be your own beloved. day 10. getting creative with mirror self-portraits
facets, dimensions, levels
masks, aspects, faces
archetypes, stereotypes, roles
shadows, sub-personalities
obverse and reverse
coherent contradictions
contradictory coherence
earth and air
reliable
unpredictable
... a thousand of lives are not enough in order to explore the territory of self
Sultan Qaboos commissioned a grand mosque, marking his 30th year of reign, as a gift to the people of Oman. Construction began in 1995 and was completed in 2001 and the complex is a coherent amalgam of contemporary Omani, Egyptian and Iranian architecture. The mosque is one of the largest in the Gulf area and can hold 20,000 worshippers in its halls and courtyards. The mosque is made entirely of pristine white Indian sandstone and its interior is notable for the second largest Iranian carpet (70 m by 60 m) and second largest chandelier (14m tall by 8 m wide with 1100 bulbs and 600,00 crystals) in the world.
Muscat, Oman
Six-year-old Finley was jolted violently from his sleep by screams coming from the recesses of his parent’s two-story flat. His eyes adjusted to the darkness as he surveyed his room filled with spaceships, pirates and ninjas. With a mixture of reluctance and fear, he slowly got out of his warm bed and cracked the door to his room, listening to what seemed to be a loud banging outside. Wearing his favorite one-piece Mr. Raccoon pajamas, he took a deep breath and began to creep silently down the narrow hall to the top of the stairs. He began descending one step at a time.
Fingertips brushing along the wooden railing, he stopped frequently to listen, but too scared to look as he half-covered his eyes, to the loud banging sounds from outside. It was then that he felt a wet sensation on the bottom of his pajama-covered feet and looked down. Inquisitively, Finley squinted his small green eyes at the pool of blood he was standing in and the trail which led directly to the screen door. Stepping off of the last step, he approached the door and tiptoed to peer outside. Horrified by what he saw, young Finley began to scream and cry. He was then gruesomely sucked outside by some unseen force.
Distantly in the living room, the sound of a television playing with a low volume omitted the occasional flicker of light and off on an adjacent wall. A visibly shaken news reporter, clad in a disheveled suit and tie, sat with a pale face. Almost as if in non-coherent shock, he occasionally communicated a few silent words in relation to “beings touching down, traveling by sound waves, hologram in nature, gruesome carnage, the ripping off of limbs and absolute annihilation.” Suddenly, the television screen filled with static and clicked off.
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Helmet: Kojima Industries - A-46 arctis helmet
Vest: EPIA - SWAT combat vest (SWAT logo removed)
Pants: VRSION - UN
Hoodie: VRSION - UN
hologram waves: drawn
claws: (centre figure) - drawn
scythe (left figure weapon): drawn
screen/screen door perspective: drawn
Sim: Neva River
Poses: made by Kyhiro
This is a shot of Discoveryland, the Jules Verne future-past version of Tomorrowland found at Disneyland Paris. I dig that this Tomorrowland at least has a coherent thematic thread in it unlike many, and TBax finally got his Discovery Bay airship in somewhere. Like most Tomorrowland-type places, it looks best at night.
Videopolis itself mirrored that from Disneyland and Anaheim in that was basically a disco/dance party, but the concept’s appeal faded with time and now it primarily serves as the eatery Cafe Hyperion. To the right is Space Mountain, which was added a few years after the park opened.
“A Lakota woman named Elaine Jahner once wrote that what lies at the heart of the religion of hunting peoples is the notion that a spiritual landscape exists within the physical landscape. To put it another way, occasionally one sees something fleeting in the land, a moment when line, color, and movement intensify and something sacred is revealed, leading one to believe that there is another realm of reality corresponding to the physical one but different.
In the face of a rational, scientific approach to the land, which is more widely sanctioned, esoteric insights and speculations are frequently overshadowed and what is lost is profound. The land is like poetry; it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life. “
Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams, 1986
The challenge:
To tell a story, one image at a time over four theme weeks spread throughout the year with each image forming a chapter of the story. When viewed in chronological order the images should form a coherent plot or storyline.
P.S. I will be away for a week or two so I'd like to wish you an early Happy Valentine's Day! Go ahead, help yourself to one of these incredible artisanal raw cacao indulgences. :)
Nadalia, Bride of Ash, turned Raime into her dark champion and gave him a new purpose after he was being expelled from Drangleic by Velstadt and the King.
His loyalty to her never faded and even now, when only ash remains, he is still guarding her...
Hooray for souls lore - I wanted to took another lore coherent shot and I thought 'why not Raime and Nadalia'. :)
Game: Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
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This is one of the many times I love having a camera with a waistlevel finder. The walkway that goes around the pool sits about four inches above the water, much too high to get down to with an eye level prism and still be able to see what the heck you are doing. Of course, live view and articulated screens are equally handy in these cases, but who needs live view when you have a 6cm square screen that can be looked straight down on?
Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone is pretty incredible by the way. It is one of those sights that just makes you want to make photo after photo without any real coherent thought put into the effort, you just react. I tried to ignore that urge but was a bit confined by the limited space the walkway gives you. I spied a trail across the way that led up to a hill overlooking the pool that I would like to explore at some point and it would also be neat to see this pool under a full moon. But those are ideas for future trips. The most interesting way I saw this pool on this encounter was with the camera at almost no angle and catching the colors in the mist rising above the iridescent waters of the main pool.
leaning over the banisters and looking downstairs into the staircase.
banister, the structure formed by the uprights and handrail at the side of a staircase. Origin: 17th cent. alteration of baluster. from greek: balaustion = curving calyx tube of a wild pomegranate flower.
gradient, the vector formed by the nabla-operator on a scalar function at a given point in a scalar field. color gradient.
gradience between stairwell and staircase.
slink verb: move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner. noun: an act of moving in this way
ORIGIN: Old English slincan 'crawl,creep'; compare with Old German slinken 'subside, sink, wind' and (far)slintan 'devour ' slinky informal graceful or sinuous in movement, line or figure
whirl Old Norse hvirfla 'turn about' or hvirfill circle, Middle Low German wervel 'spindle' or Quirl
helix an object having a three-dimensional shape like that of a wire wound uniformly in single layer around a cylinder or cone, as in a corkscrew or staircase geometry a curve on a conical or cylindrical surface which would become a straight line if the surface were unrolled into a plane Architecture a spiral ornament Biochemistry an extended spiral chain of atoms in a protein, nucleic acid, or other polymeric molecule anatomy the rim of the external ear (-->Dionysos & Ariadne / FN & CW) [_NODE_p852_]
Raoul Francé has distinguished seven biotechnical constructional elements: crystal, sphere, cone, plate, strip, rod and spiral (screw); he says that these are the basic technical elements of the whole world (Fig.27). They suffice for all processes, and are sufficient to bring them to their optimum. The constructive application of these elements, in particular the spiral (screw) has led to solutions that are astonishing in their relation to earlier (baroque) aesthetic principles.
Today we consciously employ the whole stock of biotechnical elements, and the outcome is new conception of beauty - exemplified by radio towers, chemical plants etc.
Quotation from 'The New Vision' 1928 fourth revised edition 1947 (translated from the German by Daphne M. Hoffman), page 46. Written by László Moholy-Nagy. Copyright, 1947, by Wittenborn-Schulz, Inc. 38 East 57th street, New York 22, N.Y. Manufactured in the USA by E.L. Hildreth and Co., Brattleboro, Vermont. Reprinted 1949.
It seems that we like the emergent constructs, fractal and nested, that arise from iterative computations (evolution, organic growth...).
In other words, we appreciate the accumulated computational complexity produced by evolutionary dynamics (genetic and memetic). Henry Markram from EPFL showed videos of the morphologically complex dendritic maps from the 10K neurons in one human cortical column. An IBM BlueGene computer runs at 22 Tera FLOPS to model 10 million dynamic synapses for those 10K neurons. Art imitates life
This DNA could be read because of new genome sequencing technology that has become available only in the past few years. The sequencing was conducted by 454 Life Sciences, which recently mapped the genetic code of James Watson, who with Francis Crick identified the double-helix structure of DNA.
Preliminary analysis of the Neanderthal genome has identified several critical genes that are similar or different to modern humans. Neanderthals do not appear to have the gene for lactase, which allows adults to digest milk and is common among Europeans and some Africans, but rare elsewhere in the world. 'Neanderthal genome will unlock secrets of human evolution', From The Times Online on February 12, 2009 written by Science Editor Mark Henderson, Chicago.
Notes on the Labyrinth, DNA and Planetary Alignment The labyrinth is an example of what Gurdjieff called objective magick, a coherent symbol construct capable of working directly on the unconscious mind. Its origins are mysterious, although the maze family of symbols have been traced back over 3500 years in places as diverse as Peru, Arizona, Iceland, Crete, India, Egypt and Sumatra. This symbolic continuity is perhaps our strongest proof of its spiritual coherence and magickal effectiveness. by Vincent Bridges. Copyright: Sangraal - Sacred Geometry and Alchemy, Grassy Branch Loop Sevierville, Tennessee 37876
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@Yet again, another blog about recursion @recursively recursive.wordpress, 14 October 2010, post by tony ricochet : This image of recursion is not done in software – it’s an amazing achievement in bricks and mortar (and a beautiful photograph): ▌▌Thanks to quapan. It’s presumably his or her foot that can be seen at the bottom of the photo. Nice to see the maker’s mark in the artefact itself.
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The difference to WD I is quite subtle, but I think this approach still has its place. This point of view shows the trees in more random order and hides the vanishing points making it less dynamic, but more coherent. No toning either.
Just an almost desesperate attempt to share the mysterious and overwhelming vitality of the forest in this time of the year at my latitude ... : www.lesfilles.org/PERSO/0105_forest/ ...
I want you to feel that energy, that unmeasurable beauty of life in its cycle, in its inarrestable process ...