Archive for the ‘Technology’ Tag
Desert Wildflower Painting by kenne
There’s many a battle fought daily
The world knows nothing about;
There’s many a brave little soldier
Whose strength puts a legion to rout.
And he who fights sin singlehanded
Is more of a hero, I say,
Than he who leads soldiers to battle
And conquers by arms in the fray.
— from “Our Heros” by Phoebe Cary
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Children, a Stream, and Connecting with Nature — Computer Art by kenne
A picture may seem not what it is.
Two teens may appear more interested in a
phone than a stream slowly passing at their feet.
Like most images, it’s up to the viewer
to place it in some element of their reality.
Put in the contact the image was taken,
the teens are sharing pictures taken in
my iPhone photography class where they
learn to connect the eye, to the mind, to the heart.
— kenne
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Source: William Morrow/HarperCollins
It’s just a little after midnight in Tucson, and I’m having trouble sleeping. It could be that Joy is having surgery later today. It could be that in this age of hand-held technology it was several hours ago I received news alert on the passage of Robert M. Pirsig at age 88.
In the 1970’s I was interested in motorcycles — own a couple. It was a time in which I loved reading about technology and philosophy. So, in 1974 when I read a review of a recently published book, “Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values,” I went out and bought a copy.
The inside cover jacket begins with a quote from the book:
“ The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon.”
What better way to write about the conflict between science and religion, and the nature of Quality in art than to have it as part of a motorcycle narrative of a trip Pirsig, his eleven-year-old son and two friends took from Minnesota to California? As it turns out, the real trip was not a motorcycle trip, but a philosophic trip that centers on an insane passion for truth.
In February of this year, I posted a blog entitled, The Zen of Visual Imagery – Balancing Passion and Obsession, in which I reference the novel I have worshiped over the years. Whether in my own teaching of educational philosophy or photography, I can’t talk about life without referencing Pirsig for the truth. It is time for a Chautauqua.
–kenne
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Desert Chicory Art by kenne
I look at nature
Knowing its beauty is there
Because we see it.
— kenne
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New Age Technology (Women in Sedona Using a Drone to Take Selfies.)– Computer Art by kenne
At nature’s vortex
three women capture selfies —
irrational state?
The spiritual
and technology transcend —
tragicomedy.
In creative acts,
essence of being human,
we are what we are.
— kenne
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Cheers From Mooney’s Irish Pub, Sedona, Arizona
HWY 179, Sedona, Arizona — iPhone Images by kenne
Social media compresses
the moment,
what is captured
in the moment
is now past
and the future,
already having
been on Facebook
and Twitter —
art becoming pop
and pop becoming art,
the moment is no longer
in the present,
delegated to the past
and the future,
becoming art.
kenne
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-110.860703
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Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona — iPhone image by kenne
In the age of social media,
capturing the moment
allows the parallel universes
of past,
present, and
future
to coexist
in the moment.
This iPhone image
of Cathedral Rock
was sent via
Facebook,
Twitter and
StumbleUpon —
Capturing the moment
has become
sharing the moment.
kenne
(My Nikon images will be posted in the blogging universe later.)
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-110.860703
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