Obscure
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Have a virus? Use the pill… Pocket Clouds to clean. Shh… Your system is infected!
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Skeleton of desert plant. Studio still life. Photo based mixed medium image. Extreme image softness, textures, and grain.
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La Rue Obscure is the oldest street in the old town of Villefranche sur Mer on the French Riviera, between Nice and Monaco. It was built on virgin soil at the beginning of the 13th century. La Rue Obscure formed the basis of the rest of the town’s construction on the slopes rising from this coastal lane. It gave inhabitants of the town certain refuge against possible attacks. The ship captains who were forced by storms to anchor in the bay, could make necessary repairs in safety. La Rue Obscure also welcomed precious merchandise, such as wine, in its cellars.
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Skeleton of desert plant. Studio still life. Photo based mixed medium image. Extreme image softness, textures, and grain.
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Model – Atrophy Old work, never seen the light of day. Shot in early 2006. / Nikkormat ftn + Kodak Portra 160vc cropped. Copyright 2008 Harmony Nicholas
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I wanted it to reach out and grab the viewer, it deals with what we as human beings go through with life and how some times it just pulls us into a darkness where alot of people just fade away into their mind never to return. This is for the contest In The Moment Thank you for viewing my work. Image copyright © 2007, Larry Fridel. Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited.
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Study on a Christmas tree on: Les Champs Elysées in Paris ...I love trees…I think they have a soul, a collective one…
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This is a virus? Or anti-virus? Take it!
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“It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream.” / - Yamamoto Tsunetomo The Untapped Source Store – deviantART Gallery – deviantART Shop / “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
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Kurnell coast – Sydney I’ll be uploading some images over the next weeks just to keep in the loop. I won’t unfortunately have time to respond to comments or surf the Bubble at all much (see last journal entry). But please feel free to leave comments if you are inspired to. Would love to read what you think of these Sydney images .) Thanks.
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Skeleton of desert plant. Studio still life. Photo based mixed medium image. Extreme image softness, textures, and grain.
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Sun behind clouds over Billingborough, Lincolnshire. / / Taken on Ilford FP4+ 125 with a Lomo Lubitel 166B. / /
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An image of writer Samuel Beckett edited on GIMP.
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This is an original photograph / draphic art design.
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June is already a great sunset month here in my part of the world… / Taken with my Canon 100-400 Zoom. No filters, no processing, just careful re exposure again… :)
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This is an original photograph.
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This is an original photograph.
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ON THE ARTIST LIVING IN OBSCURITY
by Gary CrandallThere was a movie called Il Posto (The Job) made during the European New Wave era. It was about a young clerk rising in the drab confines…
There was a movie called Il Posto (The Job) made during the European New Wave era. It was about a young clerk rising in the drab confines of a corporate office in Italy. At one point (as I remember it), an older clerk dies and opens up a position in the office. When authorities go to the dead man’s meager apartment to take stock of his belongings, they find stacks and stacks of manuscripts he has written. Labors of love he wrote at night to counter his bleak existence as a clerk. None of his writings had ever found a publisher. / “What should we do with these?” one official asks. / “Throw them out,” is the reply. Sometimes I feel like that guy. I’ve spent many years writing screenplays, sending them out, trying to market them… hoping some day to see one on the silver screen. Not one sale. Realistically, it’s a very tough racket. Tens of thousands of screenplays are written every year. Only a few hundred films are ever made. It’s got to be top-notch for someone to want to invest millions in making it. So the rest… forty-thousand or so, give or take… lie moldering in the closets of despairing screenwriters in shabby, unkempt dwellings. “Don’t quit your day job,” they say. This is the voice of experience speaking. I’m not sure how many other Bubblers have nurtured dreams of fame and success in the marketplace. Hoped to be accorded some measure of worth for their artistic efforts by actually being paid for what they love to do. But I would suspect I’m not the only one who has dreamt such dreams… instead of ending up like the clerk in Il Posto. So how does one come to terms with obscurity? In my case… two words… Small Victories. Yes, I have come to live with anonymity by finding fulfillment in the process of creation itself. “Against the darkness there is but one defense… the creative act.” Wisdom from the Beat Poet Kenneth Rexroth. Penning a well-turned phrase. Capturing a pleasing image with the click of a shutter. Applying paint to canvas with a beauty that stands on its own. Something you can stand back and say: “Ah, yes! This I can leave to humanity with a sense of pride. My love letter to the universe.” And in my most Zen moments I ask: “What does fame and fortune get you anyway?” (other than that nice Lamborghini I’ve always wanted). Fame is basically an ego-fix. As we’ve seen from the supermarket tabloids, it alters one’s personality. Lives turn brittle and restless with dissatisfaction. Rehab facilities thrive on the rich and famous. And who needs that horde of jackals snapping photos of you every time you go to the store for a Twinkie. Small victories. I store them in my memory. Fill scrapbooks with moments I can savor. Like Marcel Proust, I have turned memory into an art form. Small, intimate details that are mine to keep. Lovers… voyages… fantasies. These are the essence of our days. And Red Bubble. That is a small victory, too. A global village of fellow artists who strive for some kind of perfection in their art… exploring ways to express their vision. Offering kind words… sharing their experience… knowing they are not alone. And even achieving a bit of fame within this cyber world… becoming not quite so obscure as one may have thought. —Gary Crandall /
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I took a close up of a mussel shell I found in Betty’s Bay, South Africa.
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This is an original photograph.
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