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Harmony...

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 04:56:00 +0000

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

― Alan Wilson Watts

September 2017 Theme Day: Photographing The Photographer

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 05:22:00 +0000

Due to lack of time I don’t post in a daily basis, I try to do it at least once a month, on the occasion of the theme day issue.

“A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming.”
― Munia Khan

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July 2017 Theme Day: Motion

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 05:36:00 +0000

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.” ― Carl Sagan

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June 2017 Theme Day: Nature

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 06:21:00 +0000

“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea.

Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves

and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.”
― Paul Tillich

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Urban Flower

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 12 May 2017 05:49:00 +0000

“Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.'

Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.”
― Erich Fromm

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April 2017 Theme Day - Wet

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 08:21:00 +0000

"Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible." - Rene Magritte

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March 2017 Theme: Black and White in Color

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 07:12:00 +0000

“The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― Erich Fromm, The Sane Society

Make The World Wise Again

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February 2017 Theme Day - Loving Life

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 07:14:00 +0000

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

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Motion

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 20 Jan 2017 07:16:00 +0000

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents,

Not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”  

~ Abbie Hoffman

PHOTO FRIDAY

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Fri Jan 20, 2017

This week’s challenge:

“Motion”.

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Happy New Year

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 07:55:00 +0000

Feliz Año!

Happy New Year!

2017. Hopefully better than 2016…

“In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!”

“Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

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December 2016 Theme Day - Transitions

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 22:50:00 +0000

Remedios Varo Exhibition (Spanish-Mexican Surrealist Painter)

“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”

― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

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Sunday in The Park

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 07:23:00 +0000

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz

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The Eye

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 08:23:00 +0000

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents,

Not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”  

~ Abbie Hoffman

PHOTO FRIDAY

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Nov 11, 2016

This week’s challenge:

"Texture".

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Donald Trump Cannot Be President of the United States

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 06:16:00 +0000

Illustration by Victor Juhasz. RS

Donald Trump Cannot Be President of the United States

The "grab 'em by the pussy" moment was disastrous for Trump's campaign; it reinforced the defining narrative of his sexism. But it drew his strongest supporters even closer to him, because it reminded them of the world they're losing. They want to live in an America where they can grab women by the pussy and brag about it to their friends. They want to casually use the n-word – just for the bad ones; they're not racist! – without being set upon by the PC police. They want what's coming to them, what's owed them.

And they are willing to burn down the world to get it.

What you cannot do is vote for Donald Trump and pretend that this is just another election, and he is just another candidate. It is your minimum duty as a citizen not to support a racist, sexist, unqualified, dishonest, corrupt manchild who celebrates everything that's ugly about America and not a single thing that's great about it.

No matter how left out or left behind you feel, voting for Trump is nothing short of a moral failure. It's a vicious act against the human beings, mostly women and people of color, who would suffer miserably under his presidency.

It's an act of violence against America itself, whose greatness has always been about progressing from more oppression to less – slowly, sometimes haltingly, but forward.

The promise on those red hats is to turn back in the other direction. The greatness they sell is a lie.

By Jesse Berney. Rolling Stone

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November 2016 Theme Day - Out of Focus

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:10:00 +0000

La Catrina Fest Parade

La Catrina was originally created by José Guadalupe Posada and later named and painted dressed up by Diego Rivera in one of his murals. It became an iconic figure in Mexican culture representing death and the way Mexicans face it.

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Remedios Varo Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 22:06:00 +0000

The Pied Piper

Detail

Vagabond

This lady leaves the psychoanalyst throwing to a well the head of his father (as is right to do when leaving the psychoanalyst). In the basket carries other psychological waste: a watch, symbol of fear of being late, and so on. The doctor is called MD FJA (Freud, Jung, Adler). Remedios Varo

“I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.”
― Remedios Varo

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Independence Angel

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 05:44:00 +0000

"I am at war with the obvious."

William Eggleston

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Galleries - Zona MACO

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 04:24:00 +0000

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
― Erich Fromm

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Dream Cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 06:20:00 +0000

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore

PHOTO FRIDAY

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Fri Sep 23, 2016

This week’s challenge:

"Downtown".

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Autumn Walk

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:18:00 +0000

"A landscape image cuts across all political and national boundaries, it transcends the constraints of language and culture." - Charlie Waite

PHOTO FRIDAY

THE CURRENT CHALLENGE

Fri Sep 16, 2016

This week’s challenge:

‘Autumn 2016’.

Welcome to the ALL-NEW Photo Friday!

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Lost

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 06:10:00 +0000

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

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Bruno Traven Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 05:52:00 +0000

“The creative person should have no other biography than his works.”

“Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.”

“I wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”
― B. Traven, The Death Ship

B. Traven was the pen name of a presumably German novelist, whose real name, nationality, date and place of birth and details of biography are all subject to dispute. One of the few certainties about Traven's life is that he lived for years in Mexico, where the majority of his fiction is also set—including The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), which was adapted for the Academy Award winning film of the same name in 1948.

Virtually every detail of Traven's life has been disputed and hotly debated. There were many hypotheses on the true identity of B. Traven, some of them wildly fantastic. Most agree that Traven was Ret Marut, a German stage actor and anarchist, who supposedly left Europe for Mexico around 1924. There are many good reasons (see below) to believe that Marut/Traven's real name was Otto Feige and that he was born in Schwiebus in Brandenburg, modern day Świebodzin in Poland.

B. Traven is the author of twelve novels, one book of reportage and several short stories, in which the sensational and adventure subjects combine with a critical attitude towards capitalism, reflecting the socialist and anarchist sympathies of the writer. B. Traven's best known works include the novels The Death Ship from 1926,The Treasure of the Sierra Madre from 1927 (filmed in 1948 by John Huston), and the so-called "Jungle Novels," also known as the Caoba cyclus (from the Spanish word caoba, meaning mahogany).

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September 2016 Theme Day - Library

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 05:01:00 +0000

Vasconcelos Library labeled by the press as “megalibrary”, is a library in the north area of Mexico City.

It was dedicated to José Vasconcelos, the philosopher and former presidential candidate and former president of the National Library of Mexico.

The library is spread across 38,000 square metres (409,000 sq ft). [Wiki]

Alexander Pushkin Park Library

“If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, but always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.”

― Henry Miller, Plexus

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Freedom

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 06:20:00 +0000

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

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Elements of Life

noreply@blogger.com (Carraol) — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:24:00 +0000

“Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.”

Henri Bergson

PHOTO FRIDAY

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Fri Aug 26, 2016

This week’s challenge:

‘Flame’.

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