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The Secret Ghosts of Objects

18 Wednesday Jan 2012

Posted by nzumel in Musings, True Life

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just for fun, photography, shadow art

Amazing Examples Of Shadow Art 16
He/She. Artists: Tim Noble and Sue Webster.

A friend posted a link to this gallery of Shadow Art yesterday. It’s a collection of photographs from four different artists who tease surprising and intricate shadow images from random objects.

What looks like a pile of trash becomes an image of two friends enjoying each other’s company. Squares of crinkled paper become the profiles of people you might pass on the street. All it takes is the right light.

It’s fun to try to figure out how they did it; it’s also fun just to imagine the hidden beings and secret messages that lurk in the innocuous objects that surround us.

At the bottom of the gallery page are links to the four artists who created this work. Enjoy.

Amazing Examples Of Shadow Art 7
Profile. Artist: Kumi Yamashita.

A Daisy Chain of Words and Pictures

16 Monday Jan 2012

Posted by nzumel in Books, Browsing My Bookshelf, Musings, True Life

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books, Goethe, Herman Melville, Jack Cady, memories, photography, quotations, St. Teresa of Avila, Stephen King, travel

If the pulse lies, then the heart lies.

– Cebuano folk healer, quoted by Richard W. Lieban, Cebuano Sorcery: Malign Magic in the Philippines

Vienna
Vienna, Austria. Photo: Julie Mount


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17 Countries in 5 Minutes

14 Saturday Jan 2012

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Kien Lam, photography, San Francisco, travel

A friend of mine just posted this beautiful time-lapse documentary of Kien Lam’s year-long journey around the world. The music was composed by Kien’s brother, specifically for the video.

It’s just plain gorgeous photography. What struck me while watching it was how the city I live in, and other places that I’ve visited (many of which I would consider “mundane”) seemed new and unfamiliar from his eyes. And other places that I’ve never been to seemed somehow familiar and everyday.

We are one world.

Kien posted the story of his journey here. Enjoy

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