Posts Tagged With: History

OTHER WORLDS

Posted on 03/04/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

CAPITALISM MUST DIE

Posted on 26/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

CREATIVITY

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

THE IDES

Posted on 15/03/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

THE EXPERIMENT

Posted on 03/02/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 2 Comments

THE FORGOTTEN OLD MASTER

Posted on 26/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

~ Pablo Picasso ~

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in January 2020.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Art, Clothes, Collectors, Countryside, Digital Imagery, Dutch, History, Laundry, Life, Mill, Museums, Painting, Past, Photography, Poetry, Villages, Windmills | 1 Comment

HATS OFF TO GOD

Posted on 21/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

TOUCH THE PAST

Posted on 16/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

COMIC OPERA

Posted on 15/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment

THE END OF AN EMPIRE

Posted on 08/01/2020 by Nightpoet

“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.

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 | 1 Comment