Open Thread WE 8 JUN 22 ~ almost summer time
“I am interested in techniques which translate the photographic image into something more interesting and exciting. I like mistakes, blur, brushstrokes, loss of definition, spontaneity."
Rosalind Hobley
Happy hump day! I can relate to the concept of blurred visions and spontaneity. It pretty much defines my life.
One of the gifts of getting 'beyond prime' is the weakening of vision and hearing. Just let that one pass.
Mostly concerned about our prospects to weave together the potentials of a better future. If not for us, then maybe
the next generation. The kids deserve more than a dead planet and continuous war to achieve something useful.
Have not the solution for this. Any thoughts?
Transcends , elevates, masters being masterful , layered, timeless, a gift, and a legacy.
Souls gifted at the absolute peak of their shared experience.
They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a 1937 song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.
Ella and Louis is a 1956 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Quartet. Having previously collaborated in the late 1940s for the Decca label, this was the first of three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Verve Records, later followed by 1957's Ella and Louis Again and 1959's Porgy and Bess.
Per normal, this is a place to stick your thoughts and wisdoms, no matter the theme.
Please share generously with us your words of weight and presence.
Credits ~
Blue flower by Rosalind Hobley ..
Cyanotype is an early form of photography, first invented in 1842 and named for the rich monochromatic hue of its prints..
“I aim for my prints to have the weight and presence of a piece of sculpture,”
https://www.rosalindhobley.com
Comments
Good morning...
A wet one here...got about an inch of much needed rain yesterday. You can almost hear the forest sigh with relief. The garden is doing well and keeping us busy.
Wish I had some answers to your question:
All I can do is take care of my little corner, and speak of peace when opportunity arises.
Well, have a good day. More rain this pm, so better get on with my chores.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
On this date in history
1783 - Laki volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption, killing 10,000 and causing widespread famines throughout Asia and Europe
1789 - James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the US House of Representatives
1918 - Nova Aquila, brightest nova since Kepler's nova of 1604, discovered
1987 - New Zealand's Labour government legislates against nuclear weapons and nuclear powered vessels in NZ. Only nation to legislate against nuclear power
1949 - Secker & Warburg publishes George Orwell's seminal novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", set in the totalitarian state of Oceania
1953 - Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court
1968 - The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1988 - Nippon Airways announces that painting eyeballs on Jets cut bird collisions by 20%
Good morning, one and all!
I paid $5.00 per gallon to fuel up my car. Infuriating, impoverishing.
Food is on my mind. Factoids bother me. Gates buying up US farms. Gates starting companies to produce strange food. Food price inflation. Talk of food shortages. THEN, Ukraine invasion. THEN, it is Russia's fault.
As for ideas about the future...teach your children how to grow a garden and teach them to care about others. Other than that, I got nothin'.
Art is that part of our lives that transcend the daily grind of getting through life daily.
QMS, thanks for lifting us up for a few moments.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning QMS, thanks for the OT.
A global shift to regenerative agriculture, indoors and out would be a big help, but it is really unlikely to happen and very likely to be blocked.
Hence, the cynical part of me says to invoke Diderot. First, take his most famous aphorism, replace the word "Men" with the word "people" and replace the word "king" with the phrase "member of the ruling elite":
This can be greatly facilitated by fostering global adherence to one of his less famous aphorisms:
sorry, that's all I've got at the moment
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Tucker
Bring back shop classes in high school
Back in day at the high school I attended there were shop classes for the guys and business/home economics classes for the ladies. All of these classes taught practical skills. When my stepson was in high school, it still had shop classes but allowed boys and girls to choose which ones. My stepson took a basic home econ/cooking course. He and other guys in the course absolutely thrilled to learn the basic skills of cooking and shopping for food. But from what I can tell, shop courses no longer exist for anybody. Oh, I took a typing course which was meant to develop secretarial skills but in college basic survival skill.
Bring back skills training and include things like gardens, building sustainable housing, etc. so the kids can have the background to create a better world.
Many potential flash points to inflame the world, but by the end of the year one will be that NATO/US will be outfitting trained soldiers and pilots with Ukrainian military uniforms and throwing them into the war. By all appearances the Ukraine military is in bad shape. Major western powers will keep escalating. Not sure how Russia will react. Reminds me of US sending military advisors to VietNam early on in that war.
It was a sad day for me when I moved up to high school
There was a single curriculum in middle school that included “shop class” for all boys, and “home economics” for girls. Leaving the sexism aside for the moment, this was a big plus for me. Anything with moving parts, especially if it had wheels, was fertile ground for disassembly exploration and reassembly. Thursday shop classes (wood or metal) were the highlight of my middle school experience.
Upon entering high school there was a fork in the road, a bifurcation that sorted us all into an “academic” or a “vocational” stream. Shop classes were only offered to those who did not test out as college material. I eventually fled from the college engineering program that I had been guided to pursue a liberal arts education, and a working lifetime of carpentry, wood working and instrument making. Good, physical hands-on work: good for my body and good for my mind.
Sometimes turning down a higher paying career path is the best thing you can do for yourself if you can find a path more resonant with your innate interests and curiosity, even if you’re just barely making ends meet!
Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all."
- John Maynard Keynes
yup
At my high school had same system. Either you were college track or vocational track. But they did require the boys at least to take 2 shop courses regardless. I took wood shop and drafting. Was amazing the art the upper classmen were producing. In drafting, just beautiful renderings of architectural drawings.
This explains A LOT.
Consider showing this even to the estranged Blue-Aid drinkers in your life:
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Maine Coon defects to the Russian side
Vanessa Beeley interviews
British journalist who recently came back from Ukraine says Lviv is full of Nazis, Fascists, Mercs (Watch)
Thanks to one and all for commenting
Life here is hectic, therefore my excuse for not properly hosting this OT. The siren songs of the
yachts are extinguishing all available hands on deck.
Namaste
A good choice
May need to hitch a ride on a yacht to get the hell out of Dodge.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato