“Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.”
~ George Orwell ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.
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Posts Tagged With: History
SCHADENFREUDE
Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Benightedness, Blindness, Denial, Digital Imagery, Egotistical, Embellishment, Fact, Fiction, Forgotten, History, Ignored, Insensitivity, Lessons, Opportunities, Pain, Pathological, Perspective, Perversion, Photography, Poetry, Schadenfreude, Shards, Suffering
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NEITHER HERE NOR THERE
“The more powerful and original a mind,
the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
~ Aldous Huxley ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Bastille, Books, Bookshelves, Digital Imagery, Dust, Elysium, Future, Here, History, Hooks, Museum, Perspective, Photography, Pictures, Poetry, Sanctuary, Skeletons, Solitude, There, Tomes
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AFTERLIFE
“Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in.
But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped.
We are programmed to betray.”
~ Michael Ignatieff ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of an archaeological find material storage depot taken in the early 1990’s.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Afterlife, Archaeology, Bones, Cartons, Catalogued, Death, Digital Imagery, Dreams, Eternity, Graves, Heaven, Hell, History, Illustrated, Life, Measured, Memories, Numbered, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Resurrection, Reward, Shelves, Skeletons, Storeroom, Studied, Time
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BEFORE THE DOOM
“Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.”
~ William Shakespeare ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2018.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Book, Broomstick, Buffalo, Digital Imagery, Doom, Fakir, Ground, Heart, History, Imagination, Leaf, Life, Love, Paris, Past, Photography, Pie, Plain, Poetry, Street Art, Wind, Words
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REVOLUTION IS FOREVER
“True revolution comes from true revulsion;
when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”
~ Charles Bukowski ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a Roman sculpture of a Celtic warrior prisoner taken in January 2014.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Authority, Change, Commitment, Corrupt, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dignity, Equality, Forever, Future, Hated, Heart, History, Human Rights, Individuals, Inequality, Injustice, Institutions, Justice, Life, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Protection, Purge, Revolution, Sanctity, Streets, Strong, Vigilance
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AGELESS AM I
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
~ George Carlin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Kinderdijk, Netherlands in April 2007.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Beauty, Cave Painters, Civilization, Colonialism, Cruelty, Dark Ages, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Egypt, Environment, Experiment, First Farmers, Future, Greed, Greeks, History, Ignorance, Industrial Revolution, Innocent, Life, Medieval Society, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poor, Romans, Sumeria, The Enlightenment, Time, War
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EMPIRES
“We’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.
That’s what it is to be alive.”
~ Kurt Vonnegut ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Pompeii in June 1996.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Breath, Crumble, Curse, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Empires, Foundations, Future, History, Ignorance, Lessons, Life, Mankind, Memories, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plundering, Poetry, Proud, Rot, Rubble, Ruins, Strong, Stupidity, Survivors, Tall, Tides, Time, Walls, Wreckage
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MAMMOTH STEAKS
“Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred;
a flint will break upon a feather bed.”
~ John Cleveland ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Debitage, Digital Imagery, Flint, Game, History, Knapping, Mammoth, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Point, Steaks, Survival, Technology, Time
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THEM THAT’S GOT SHALL HAVE
“Behind every great fortune is a crime.”
~ Honore de Balzac ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Aristocracy, Beggar's Bowl, Blade, Bovine Bitch, Dandy, Death, Digital Imagery, Finery, Grim Reaper, Guillotine, History, Inequality, Laugh, Life, Money, Noses, Past, Perspective, Photography, Pittance, Poetry, Pseudo-Pomp, Riches, Severed Head, Smile, Sneer
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OTHER WORLDS
“There are times when we stop, we sit still.
We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
~ James Carroll ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in April 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belief, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fantasy, Fight, Future, History, Imagination, Lies, Memories, Normal, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Revolution, Time, Tomorrow, Truth, Twisted, Warped, Worlds
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CAPITALISM MUST DIE
“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will sell us the rope.”
~ Joseph Stalin ~
Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in March 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Asthma, Avarice, Capitalism, Capitalist Pig, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Fat Ass, Future, Greed, History, Lungs, Orange, Pension, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Shit Stained, Thighs, Weasel Eyes
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CREATIVITY
“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”
~ Leonardo da Vinci ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in May 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Archaeology, Art, Artistic Expression, Birth, Creativity, Creatures, Digital Imagery, Figurative, History, Humanity, Humans, Imagination, Inspiration, Language, Learned, Life, Mind, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Refined, Symbolically, Taught, Time, Unique
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THE IDES
“A great civilization is not conquered from without
until it has destroyed itself from within.”
~ Ariel Durant ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2019.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Avarice, Baboons, Bodies, Burned, Capitalists, Civilizatiion, Corpses, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Drooling, Dust, Extinction, Face, Feet, Fiddle, Flesh, Future, Greed, History, Humanity, Lampposts, Life, Mask, Nero, No Future, Orange, Paris, Past, Perfume, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Smoke, The Ides Of March, Time
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THE EXPERIMENT
“We are like butterflies that flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
– Carl Sagan ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in February 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Alive, Chain, Comprehension, Consciousness, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Evolving, Existence, Experiment, Future, History, Imagination, Learning, Life, Light Years, Link, Metamorphosis, Nothing, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Possibilities, Science, Sentience, Stars, Time, Universe
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THE FORGOTTEN OLD MASTER
“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”
~ Pablo Picasso ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Art, Clothes, Collectors, Countryside, Digital Imagery, Dutch, History, Laundry, Life, Mill, Museums, Painting, Past, Photography, Poetry, Villages, Windmills
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HATS OFF TO GOD
“Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear,
explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.”
~ Ambrose Bierce ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Belligerent, Binders, Bullshit, Chosen People, Conflicts, Death, Digital Imagery, Free Thought, God, History, Holier Than Thou, Intelligence, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Problems, Religion, Undies
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TOUCH THE PAST
“As the archaeology of our thought easily shows,
man is an invention of recent date.
And one perhaps nearing its end.”
~ Michel Foucault ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in September 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Death, Digital Imagery, Documentation, Exposure, Find Material, Future, History, Illustration, Life, Memories, Past, Photography, Poetry, Science, Scraper, Shovel, Surveying, Time, Touch, Trowel, Years
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COMIC OPERA
“The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity
is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
~ Voltaire ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Roman oil lamp, unearthed in a cremation burial, taken in September 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Act, Civilization, Comic Opera, Curtain, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Disaster, Encore, Existence, Flicker, History, Human Folly, Humans, Life, Light, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Shadows, Soot, Time
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THE END OF AN EMPIRE
“An intelligence that is not humane
is the most dangerous thing in the world .”
~ Ashley Montagu ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken on the mountain Donnersberg in August 1982.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ashes, Avarice, Capitalism, Corporate Greed, Darkness, Death, Digital Imagery, Dust, Empire, Future, History, Life, Machiavellianism, Opportunistic, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Rubble, Time, Winds
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WAG THE DOG
“Any man can make mistakes,
but only an idiot persists in his error.”
~Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of a Neolithic dog burial taken in February 1988.
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Categories: Photography, Poetry
Tags: Ass, Awareness, Bimbo, Bitch, Compassion, Comprehension, Consequences, Corruption, Cult, Death, Depravity, Digital Imagery, Distraction, Empathy, Fascist Pig, Filth, Future, Hatred, History, Ignorance, Immorality, Intelligence, Photography, Pig, Poetry, Politics, Racism, Sense, Silicone, Teeny Weenie, Tiny Hands, Understanding, Worshipers
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