L o g b o o k
Collection of images and literary suggestions
"I am Darrel Standing. Very soon they will come to get me to hang me. In the meantime, in these pages I will express my opinion by writing about different times and places."
from the incipit of The Tramp of the Stars by Jack London
N E W S
Transport your mind to magical places
Sep 19
The summer pools
In these first rainy days of early September, summer, with its vivid colors, its intense lights and the scorching sun, already seem like a distant memory, yet it was just yesterday. Not even the time to sort out the shots taken in August, and we are already catapulted into autumn, time runs as they say, and the landscape runs with it....
Sep 19
The world to come
The only revolution possible is to change oneself
Sep 19
Breath
"... it is evident that there is nothing to know, but only experiences to be had, fruits to be savored, bodies to be enjoyed, spirits to be perceived, lives to be loved. It is the dizzying understanding that life is an infinite process of self-generation. No Creator, but only the simple and interminable pulsation of a breath whose metamorphic...
Sep 19
Digital and film
Envy and nostalgia at the restaurant and considerations on technological progress.
Sep 19
The beautiful woman's leap
AT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE TESTANELLO AND RIO DEL BASTARDO STREAMERS
Jul 04
When nature breaks in
DON'T BE DECEIVED, THE TRUTH IS WITHIN US!
Apr 07
Wonderful part of me
A tribute to my river with the words of the poet Carlo Luigi Folcia
A personal tribute to the great Danish storyteller: Hans Christian Andersen
Feb 25
The religion of the desert
While reading an interesting booklet on homo selvaticus I came across this phrase which particularly struck me and opened up a sea of questions: "...the cult of trees in places that were already sacred well before the advent of the new religion of the desert".
Feb 17
The plotter
Everyone was laughing when the plotter Noah was building the ark, then it started raining...
A fairy tale coming from distant Finland, a land of forests and snow, begins by telling the story of a family who lived in the woods, the father had three children, and each of them had a lucky tree near their home. Now grown up, the boys expressed the desire to finally find a partner, the father then asked the...
Feb 11
Tomasz Ryger
The west il dying, it's strangling itself with its own hand !
Feb 11
A N N A
Unexpected communities in the wild Latin American nature.
Jan 28
The nude in the Paleolithic
The Venus from ancient past: a spiritual vision of the body.
Prophetic words from the distant sixties
Jan 19
Decameron Tarot
Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori wrote Virgil, that is, love conquers all and we submit to love, which sounds a lot like a somewhat empty and banal phrase, like "beauty will save the world". The world will not be saved, neither with beauty nor with love, those who have understood, those who want to save themselves,...
Jan 19
Pay attention to the light
I publish this beautiful image that I found on the web because I find it particularly significant, as well as being graphically beautiful and emotionally very pregnant. Unfortunately I have not been able to trace the author, because surely he will have produced other very interesting images.
These considerations arose while I was reading a book on art collecting (the catalog of the exhibition The Pizzi collection, a seventeenth-century picture gallery - FMR editore) and while I was reading a sort of examination on the psychology of the collector, I asked myself: but then, is photography also in a certain sense a form of collecting? And...
Jan 19
The art of Jimmy Nelson
Little museum of photography and visual arts
Rummaging through the old photos buried in the memories of the hard disks, this image of the small station in my town, Collecchio, came back into my hands, with the flowers and the warm shades of the late afternoon. Now that spring is upon us again, this photo made me go back in time, to the scents and colors of...
I AM NOT A WOMAN, I AM THE UNIVERSE *
Jan 19
Fracture
Myths tell us that in a distant past they were "one", then something or someone divided us, created a deep fracture in ourselves, tearing apart our unity. Woman and man were created, divided, eternally searching for the lost unity, and then in succession, in a cascade, an infinite series of divisions and fractures, starting with that between spirit...
Jan 19
† Gothic Carnival 2023 †
The charm of the Gothic and Victorian styles
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As long as freedom of thought is not a crime, I will express my ideas and opinions, through my words, through those of otherauthors that I appreciate and through my photographs and art in all its forms. Freedom is not a given, and many of us do not even know what it really is. We are victims of a world that has emptied our lives of meaning, of "sense", starting from the words themselves. Maybe we cannot do much about it, but just being aware of it can help us, at least to not make ourselves accomplices of our own slavery!
For this same reason I have abandoned social networks, communities, forums and so on, I have retired to private life and I dedicate myself exclusively to my sites and my blogs, with no other goals than pure personal satisfaction and my personal journey in search of "a meaning", which is a bit the fundamental objective of these pages: to search for a meaning through beauty, art, poetry, reflections, through a walk, a photograph, a bath in the river. Finding a center within ourselves through the exercise of simple things and the exercise of free will and free choice, collecting what I like and discarding what I don't like, as is natural for each of us. In this way I build my own virtual corner of paradise, or a sort of spiritual testament, that no one is required to share or appreciate. If these pages do not please you, you are free, indeed you are asked to go elsewhere, the ways of the Lord are infinite, aren't they?
Also for these reasons, I have fenced off my opinions and my most personal experiences in a strictly reserved area (for members only), not because there is some dark secret to hide, but because basically I do not have to answer to anyone for my ideas, and I would not even want to do so anymore, it would just be a waste of time, precious time. I have seen with experience that dialogue and comparison are very rare things, more often there is only the clash, the affront and the provocation, and after heated discussions everyone basically remains of his own idea, so all wasted time, better to dedicate oneself to more constructive things than fighting against windmills.
After these strictly personal but necessary considerations, I leave you to free navigation, or to drift if you prefer (I prefer), below is a collection of the latest articles and photos taken ... thanks
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