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"The language of modern painting is thus far a secret language, and it must be learned anew for each painter."
Robertson Davies; Painting, Fiction, and Faking
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"La couleur est par excellence la partie de l’art qui détient le don magique. Alors que le sujet, la forme, la ligne s’adressent d’abord à la pensée, la couleur n’a aucun sens pour l’intelligence, mais elle a tous les pouvoirs sur la sensibilité."
Eugène Delacroix
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“To the very young child any block of time seems infinite. Tell her that supper will be ready in three minutes: desperate wailing will signal her conviction that you have sentenced her to starvation. Tell her to hurry because time is running out, and she will not know what you are talking about. How can infinity run out? Only two units of time exist for the small child: the now and the not-now. The not-now is infinity.”
Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds
I’m rather fond of this concept, and have included the more of the passage for context. In the course of my personal research on mental wellness, I’ve been exploring Maté’s writings, and appreciate the beauty, simplicity, and depth of: the now, and the not-now. I honour my present, and take joy in all.
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This picture was recently selected as Open File’s Photo of the Day, and is making the rounds on tumblr thanks to Zoey and Gabrielle.
I’m grateful for everyone’s kindness in visiting and sharing. Let there be love and good vibes to grow and inspire your dreams on this plane and beyond.
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"The magic of photography is that it is the object which does all the work. Photographers will never admit this and will argue that all the originality lies in their inspiration and their photographic interpretation of the world. As a result they take photographs which are either bad or too good, confusing their subjective vision with the reflex miracle of the photographic act."
Jean Baudrillard
(Source: egs.edu)
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What is the Gateway to Astronaut Photography?
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth. Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the 1,155,810 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website.These images include 675,262 from the International Space Station. These numbers were determined 11/1/2011.
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Bread as nutrition, craft, and culture. From the land mark Sample Lesson for a Hypothetical Course. Charles and Ray Eames, 1953.
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via Manufacturing Consent, the NFB’s 1992 documentary with Noam Chomsky.
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"Eisen follows the radiation trail (metaphorically speaking) left behind by digital imaging, creating photo-based works that resemble the Northern Lights, brainwaves, and the glassy interiors of icebergs."
R.M. Vaughan, Globe and Mail (yay!!!)
(Source: barph)
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As Occupy Together nears week three, here’s a birds eye view of the movement in Toronto.
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omfg, this is way way cool and too cute!
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Last night, my good friend and fellow photographer Ryan Faubert, introduced me to some stunning work by Brian Oglesbee, whose fractaline matrices encapsulate and reflect the endless beauty of the self-organizing universe. Created in a single moment with no contrivances of the darkroom or Photoshop, Oglesbee reveals an enlightened mind “too rare in today’s dryly observational art photography” (Jeff Wignall, American Photo, March 2007, p77).
An inspiration to many, he recently was asked by Julie Taymor to collaborate on the making of The Tempest,
a film I know I’ll be watching soon!Edit: We skipped through scenes of the film today, and felt that Oglesbee’s influence on the film was nowhere near as striking as that of his solo work. Save for a few literal allusions to Aquatics, the heavy use of CGI made it rather unclear where he was asked to leave his mark.
(Source: fotoritim.com)
