Via
3 members found
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Flávia Ferreira
Portugal
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Via Kali
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Via Roma
Poland
180 creative works found
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Pastel painting. on Colourfix paper 65×45 of a huge impending storm approaching across the plains of outback Queensland, first gale force wind then the downpour of rain which turned everything to mud and with it several twisters wind so strong it almost flipped th car and daravan over. /
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New York Subway. Unprocessed photo apart from contrast.
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DISCOBULUS VIA PSYCHEDELIC CLOUD [2008] !
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LESBIAN SYMBOL VIA POP: FOR REBECCA [2008] LESBIAN FEMISINISM ACCORDING TO ‘WIKIPEDIA’ It is worth distinguishing between lesbian feminism as a critical perspective, and lesbian feminism as a cultural movement. Both question the position of lesbians, gay men and women in society but put forward different strategies. The latter is also much more specific. Sheila Jeffreys (2003:19) for example defines lesbian feminism as having seven key themes: An emphasis on women’s love for one another / Separatist organizations / Community and ideas / Idea that lesbianism is about choice and resistance / Idea that the personal is the political / A rejection of hierarchy in the form of role-playing and sadomasochism / A critique of male-supremacy which eroticises inequality / Jeffreys is a highly controversial figure not just outside, but within lesbian feminism. Others have critiqued her, amongst other things, for being too specific in these criteria. Nevertheless it is a useful starting point. Biology, choice and social constructivism As outlined above, lesbian feminism typically situates lesbianism as a form of resistance to “man-made” institutions. Sexual orientation is posited here as a choice, or at least a conscious response to a situation. (See also political lesbianism or queer by choice). Indeed, it could be argued that lesbian feminism pre-empted if not laid the ground work for queer theory to posit sexuality as culturally specific. Separatism In separatist feminism, lesbianism is posited as a key feminist strategy, that enables women to invest their energies in other women, creating new space and dialogue about women’s relationships, and typically, limit their dealings with men. Strategies of lesbian separatism are also controversial within feminism. At its most extreme, male genocide (androcide) has been put forward as a strategy for achieving women’s emancipation, as in Valerie Solanas’ SCUM Manifesto. This is certainly a small and isolated view but nevertheless there was a specific flourish of scholarship and literature dealing with whether men are really necessary. Some of this looks at issues of reproduction, for example parts of Mary Daly’s classic text Gyn/Ecology. Other canons explore histories of male violence and still others reference the historic genocides perpetrated upon groups of women. Witchcraft is the most obvious example, but one might also cite a general if variegated preference for male offspring, throughout human history. Elsewhere, lesbian feminists have situated female separatism as quite a mainstream thing and have explored the mythology surrounding it. Marilyn Frye’s (1978) essay Notes on Separatism and Power is one such example. She posits female separatism as a strategy practiced by all women, at some point, and present in many feminist projects (one might cite women’s refuges, electoral quotas or Women’s Studies programmes). She argues that it is only when women practice it, self-consciously as separation from men, that it is treated with controversy (or as she suggests hysteria). Male separatism on the other hand (one might cite gentleman’s clubs, labour unions, sports teams, the military and, more arguably, decision-making positions in general) is seen as quite a normal, even expedient phenomenon. Still other lesbian feminists put forward a notion of “tactical separatism” from men, arguing for and investing in things like women’s sanctuaries and consciousness-raising groups, but also exploring everyday practices to which women may temporarily retreat or practice solitude from men and masculinity. The Woman-Identified Woman If the founding of the lesbian feminist movement could be pinpointed at a specific moment, it would probably be May 1970, when Radicalesbians, an activist group of 20 lesbians led by lesbian novelist Rita Mae Brown, took over a women’s conference in New York City, the Congress to Unite Women. Uninvited, they lined up on stage wearing matching T-shirts inscribed with the words “Lavender Menace”, and demanded the microphone to read aloud to an audience of 400 their essay The Woman-Identified Woman, which laid out the main precepts of their movement. Contrary to some popular beliefs about “man-hating butch dykes”, lesbian feminist theory does not support the concept of female masculinity. Proponents like Sheila Jeffreys (2003:13) have argued that “all forms of masculinity are problematic.” This is one of the principal areas in which lesbian feminism differs from queer theory, perhaps best summarised by Judith Halberstam’s quip that “If Sheila Jeffreys didn’t exist, Camille Paglia would have had to invent her.”[citation needed] Womyn’s culture / / Labrys symbol”Womyn” along with “wimin”, “womin” were terms produced by parts of the lesbian feminist movement to distinguish it from men and masculine (or “phallogocentric”) language. The term “women” was seen as derivative of men and ultimately symbolised the prescriptive nature of women’s oppression. A new vocabulary emerged more generally, sometimes referencing lost or unspoken matriarchal civilisations, Amazonian warriors, ancient – especially Greek – goddesses, sometimes parts of the female anatomy and often references to the natural world. It was frequently remarked that the movement had nothing to go on, no knowledge of its roots, nor histories of lesbianism to draw on. Hence the emphasis on consciousness-raising and carving out new (arguably) “gynocentric” cultures. (Esther Newton’s classic (1984) text “Radclyffe Hall and the Mythic Mannish Lesbian”, although she was certainly not a lesbian feminist, is interesting here in exploring the substance of, and debates around lesbian histories prior to the 1950s in particular). Bonnie Zimmerman is a lesbian feminist literary critic who talks quite a bit about the language used by writers from within the movement. (See her 1978 text) Often drawing on autobiographical narratives and the use of personal testimony. Lesbian feminist texts are often expressly non-linear, poetic and, perhaps, obscure.[citation needed]
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THE RETURN OF CHARLES DARWIN VIA POP! [2008] CHARLES DARWIN & HIS LEGACY OF EVOLUTION Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist,[I] eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection.[1] The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s,[1] and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.[2] Darwin developed his interest in natural history while studying first medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge.[3] His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. Puzzled by the geographical distribution of wildlife and fossils he collected on the voyage, Darwin investigated the transmutation of species and conceived his theory of natural selection in 1838.[4] Although he discussed his ideas with several naturalists, he needed time for extensive research and his geological work had priority.[5] He was writing up his theory in 1858 when Alfred Russel Wallace sent him an essay which described a similar theory, prompting immediate joint publication of both of their theories.[6] His 1859 book On the Origin of Species established evolution by common descent as the dominant scientific explanation of diversification in nature. He examined human evolution and sexual selection in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, followed by The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. His research on plants was published in a series of books, and in his final book, he examined earthworms and their effect on soil.[7] In recognition of Darwin’s pre-eminence, he was buried in Westminster Abbey, close to John Herschel and Isaac Newton.[8] ____ Evolution was controversial well before Darwin published the Origin. Even onboard the Beagle Darwin clearly saw that evolution would undermine the simple Biblical notion of ‘the stability of species’. But the notion of ‘stable’ or immutable species was always more than just a scientific idea. It was a scientific idea that lent primary support to the notion of a stable natural, religious, and social order. Thus, once Darwin published his closely reasoned defense of evolution, an entire cultural perspective was challenged. Immediate impacts were felt in Britain, continental Europe, and the United States – where controversies have continued to this day. But the implications of evolution have been so consequential for belief systems and for diverse visions of human society that responses comprise a prodigious, international, cross-cultural assemblage. Too often both the breadth, complexity and the richness of these controversies have been ignored. Too often the cultural impact has been simplistically understood as a binary and parochial conflict between evolutionists and one form of Christianity or the appropriation of Darwin by “negative eugenicists” or totalitarians. Given these responses, it seems arguable that Darwin’s theory may well be the one scientific idea that modern humanity has taken most seriously. In the Responses section we will seek to present a wide spectrum of the world’s religious and political reactions to evolution, from left to right, from atheist to devout, from European to Asian. At launch, we begin with a short but unusual offering from the AMNH Library’s holdings, a pamphlet by William Jennings Brian that throws light on the political underpinnings of his religious opposition to evolution. A major scientific theory does not stand permanently as a fixed Law of Nature. A robust theory changes and grows, serving as a framework for debate, while maintaining its continuity and identity. By these criteria, Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, having been vigorously debated and richly elaborated since 1859, counts as a very strong theory indeed. We will first treat the immediate contributions in Darwin’s day – the formation of a nucleus of primary supporters cultivated before the publication of Origin (T.H. Huxley, J.D. Hooker) as well as Alfred Russel Wallace’s distinctive brand of Darwinism. In the earliest decades significant scientific challenges were raised regarding blending inheritance, the age of the earth, the role of isolation and patterns of speciation. The debate was enriched by a growing paleontological record, including hominid fossils. In France, Germany (notably Ernst Haeckel), Italy, Russia and the United States distinctive national evolutionary and anti-evolutionary schools emerged. Certainly, evolution as historic process became well established, but Darwin’s mechanism of natural selection was seriously challenged. By the end of the 19th century numerous questions were raised and historians speak of an “eclipse of Darwin”, a trend strengthened in the short run by the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws of inheritance. But by the 1920s the evidence of cytogenetics (T.H. Morgan’s school) seemed to reconfirm Darwin’s emphasis on small individual variants as the raw material for selection. By the 1930s the evolutionary synthesis, which cast Mendelism into mathematical models (R.A. Fisher, S. Wright, J.B.S Haldane) and sought to unite the evidence of genetics (T. Dobzansky), systematics (E. Mayr), paleontology (G. Simpson), ecology, and biogeography into a coherent story held together by the reinterpretation Darwin’s central ideas into modern terms. The synthesis, which dominated evolutionary thinking for nearly 50 years, was never monolithic and received a direct challenge, focused on the tempo and mode of evolutionary change in the 1970’s with work on punctuated equilibria by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. Since the 1970’s major advances, coupled with fierce debates, on group versus individual selection, social and cultural evolution (E. O. Wilson), human origins, molecular evolution, and increasingly sophisticated field demonstrations of natural selection (P. and R. Grant). And yet for all the debate, the fabric of Darwinian evolution holds. Just as Darwin had many ancestors, his intellectually diverse descendants are many. / ___
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Autumn leaves – taken at a local garden in Roseville. Canon EOS 5D / Canon EF Zoom 16-35mm L II USM @ 16mm Thanks for looking. Cheers Crispin Best viewed large :-) .
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The walk down to Marina Piccola was openned again this year after 32 years. It’s called Via Krupp after the man who created it and it is known as the most beautiful road in the world – I agree. Even the trees are trying to get into the blue blue sea! / Not my usual medium, don’t usually upload photographs but couldn’t resist this one!
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Winnipeg’s Union Station opened in 1911, and was designed by Warren and Wetmore, the architects responsible for Grand Central Terminal in New York City. This is located on the East side of Main Street at Broadway. / Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Taken last week during my visit to the Italian city of Florence.
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Medium: Pastel & Mixed Technique / Framed 140×125 cm / $5.600 Via Airmail Since the day you first said hello / I fell in love…. and want you to know. / I am writing love letters and more. / Poetry for you the man I adore. / This love letter comes quite naturally / Just thinking of you inspires me. / This is my first poem I’ve written to you / To tell you it’s you I adore, / In poetry I’ve never written before. / This love letter in poetry is on its way / Delivered my darling / Via airmail! This work painted and poem written / “For my husband William on our 40th wedding anniversary” / August -2008 – by me Kate Smith
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How does one communicate love from a distant land, not knowing for certain, whether they’ll return…? Found envelope, old anatomy chart, defibrillator pads, string and undisclosed form of communication inside envelope. Part of the mixed media collection. Circa 2006
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“Doble Via” ~ Street corner in Antigua, Guatemala ~ October 2008
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Gran Via is one of the major arteries in Madrid, Spain. It is filled with restaurant, shops and is bustling with traffic and pedestrians. Needless to say that this was taken in the early morning as I was making my way to the subway. There is no other way that I would have been able to stand in the middle of the street and have time to take a photo.
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, nor time unmake what poets know. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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Oil Painting on canvas 700×1000 just finished today near the Victoria River N.T KImberley Region /
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A motorcyclist was passing… / Taken along Via Aurelia near Savona (Liguria, Italia) Sony Alpha 100 / iso 100, f 20, 1/20 sec., 60 mm. Thank you for your attention.
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The Via Aurelia was a Roman road constructed around the middle of the third century BC to connect Rome to Pisa, Genua and France. / The modern “Strada Statale n.1” occupies the same route, and is still called with the same name / These photos had taken on the Via Aurelia near Savona (Liguria, Italia) Thank you for your attention. Featured in the group Collective Collage
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taken with my Olympus E-510
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Help me / I’m not like the rest / I haven’t gone / I’m still here / If I move / They will know / If I blink / They will know / If they know / They will take me / You can see life in my eyes still / You can see / You can help me / You can / Help me A further detail from the window of a Doll Hospital in Via del Vantaggio, Rome. The full window can be seen in the image ‘Heads’.
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San Gimignano, Toscana October 2008 Featured in “I Love Italy”
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VIA DELL’AMORE…...Lover’s lane, where couples would secretly meet. It was said that a kiss shared here, was a kiss that would be kept forever…....Now we leave our messages on its walls, so that our mark becomes forever too…... Le Cinque Terre (Liguria) Italy This photo was featured in “TUNNEL VISION.”
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I found this fantastic wall in a little village in Piedmont region, Italy. Nikon d70 with Sigma 50mm F2.8 EX DG Macro
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