new year 2009

sometimes magic just happens

I could not have posed this shot if I tried

these kids just ran into the shot

to ice skate on the puddle

coincidence, a sign, meant to be, on the right path

who knows

just see where 2009 leads

anything is possible

winter

live in the present moment

facade

the road

after the abberation

micro wind energy

Windbelt has won Shawn Frayne a 2007 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award. A video of Shawn Frayne discussing Windbelt can be viewed by clicking this



http://video.popularmechanics.com/services/link/bcpid1214137061/bctid1233395616

new direction

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been investigating the themes of architecture, sustainability and art and finding some interesting sites, organisations, publications that explain concepts, provide resources and identify projects that are inspired by sustaining resources for the future and acting now.

from the ordinary to the inovative, everything has an impact - learn what, learn why and be aware

http://www.un.org/

http://europa.eu/

http://nobelprize.org/

http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/

http://www.inhabitat.com/

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frame

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frame of mind

frame of reference

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in the frame

door frame

picture frame

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time frame

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disconnect

evolve
start end continue
dissolve renew
detach submerge
transform
deviate
transcend
refresh

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perfection is overrated

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but this is sooo SEXY
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why do you look for perfect
why do you think there is the perfect image, the perfect object, the perfect item of nature
a chipped shell doesn't make it imperfect but taints your acceptance of it
perfection does not exist
this image is not perfect - how can it be, what is perfect in the sense of this image, where is straight, what is clear, the pixelation deliberate, there are no mistakes here only intentional lack of clarity, intentional disappearance into the abstract
what were you expecting
what do you think you need to see
why don't you like it
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perfectly perfect
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(de)illusion

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see what you want to see
hear what you want to hear
think others have something you don't
think others have something you can't
think others are what you aren't
and never will be
your perception is distorted
nothing is what is seems
nothing is possible
anything is possible
nobody is what they think you are
nobody is what you think they are
possessions are nothing
possess nothing
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seriously!

as seen at Brussels airport
drop off zone during renovations
no stopping!!!

big city

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the shopper digital print

To many it is considered a recreational activity in which one visits a variety of stores in search of a suitable product to purchase. Window shopping is an activity that shoppers engage in by browsing through glass windows of a shop for entertainment. The browser might try on the items or imagine purchasing these items without actually purchasing, possibly just to pass the time between other activities, or to plan a purchase.
To some, shopping is a task of inconvenience and vexation. Shoppers sometimes go though great lengths to wait in long lines to buy popular products as typically observed with early adopters shoppers and holiday shoppers. Sometimes buyers feel ripped-off because they did not get what they paid for often asking for a refund. Sometimes shoppers get caught up in a scam.
More recently compulsive shopping has been recognised as an addiction. Commonly referred as compulsive shopping, shopping addiction, shopaholic or formally oniomania, these shoppers have an impulsive uncontrollable need to go shopping to get a rush or high. Some people, in order to cover up their addiction, call shopping "retail therapy."
-wikipedia

and some of us shop for what we need

inspired by the masses thronging through the streets of big city tourist destinations of Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels

how much is there to shop for when you don't need

context

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just one part of a work in progress
though now it might have to go a different way
although I still have to complete the intital piece
oh...where to go
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cacophany

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a jumble of visual pollution
a mess of style and proportion
a sea of potential awash in architectural statement
useful? good? beautiful?
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travel

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travel – verb

1. to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure
2. to move or go from one place or point to another.
3. to proceed or advance in any way.
4. to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.
5. to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.
6. Informal. to move with speed.
7. to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.
8. Basketball. WALK
9. to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism
10. to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.
11. to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.
12. to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.
13. the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.
14. journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels.
15. the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.
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and for what

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Get your own

I went to a place but didn’t get a chance to explore
I thought I missed something so I planned to go back
I went to the same place a second time but in another part
I thought I missed something so I planned to go back
I went to the same place a third time and explored
I found that I missed nothing and if I keep planning
for what I am missing then I am missing what happens while I plan
I was missing everything while planning for nothing

for these images
amsterdam august 2008

where does reality start?

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structure I digital print
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acceptable, conventional, traditional, standard, regular

synthetic, fake, manufactured, contrived

mockery, parody, burlesque, artificial

fantastical, imaginary, visionary, surreal, abstract

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faith

de lijn en de vogel digital print (detail)

as in belief -
conviction, feeling, idea, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, sentiment, view

as in trust -
what you do, where you go, what you see, what you find, how you use it

as in reliance -
confidence, credence, dependence, loyalty

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more from the park
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inspired by cuban surrealist Lester Campa and a conversation about quantum physics and life and death at the same moment, definitions, transitions, maybe even Lissitzky's "proun"
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it's just there
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just a pic i took in the park the other day

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aim

modern gothic (detail) from antwerp series

what are your aims, your goals, your desires? what do you strive for?
can you have it? can you reach it?
is it a thing?
or is it intangible? unattainable?
then why do you seek it? to better yourself?
for enlightenment?
then what?
I want to be
better, smarter, stronger, wiser
I am . . .
I am not . . .

blank?

couple of things to ponder

I looked up the Paris Reviews website to find out who they had interviewed recently.
In reading about their publications was this description:
"From “the biggest little magazine in history” comes an addictively clever anthology prescribed to fill all the blank moments of your life."
Blank moments?
I can comprehend being vague and not attentive, having a blank stare or even the saying "the lights are on but no-one is home" but other than whilst in a meditative state how can a moment in your life be blank. Seems contradictory.

also:
In an excerpt from an interview in Paris Review with Umberto Eco, the interviewer likens the DaVinci Code to Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum. Eco’s response is that he invented Dan Brown.
I don’t know whether the interview continues about this as the excerpt ends there but it does make the mind boggle about reality. What if the DaVinci Code & Dan Brown are Eco’s creations and the whole hoopla over the DaVinci code is fiction, the making of the movie, our reaction to it, all written by a man – suddenly, what is real and what isn’t? Can we tell?

du di du du (twilight zone music)...

BTW I like the Paris Reviews. They have some fantastic and not so fantastic interviews with writers.

vertigo

from antwerp series digital print

oops

from antwerp series digital print (detail)

an urban landscape of ephemeral architectural scars

virtual

detail from painting

choices

from antwerp series digital print

consider ponder challenge
freedom easy simple
provoke confront stimulate

I choose

where I go