tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post7757471316582373345..comments2023-07-05T06:34:46.009-07:00Comments on 7thzenpatriarch: photos from zakaj's 2015 japanese tripan3drewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15822554034818405099noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-8727568799322694342015-03-23T16:46:57.249-07:002015-03-23T16:46:57.249-07:00i've seen plenty of photos that are art !
why...i've seen plenty of photos that are art !<br /><br />why shouldn't photos be declarative memory and holographic in nature ?<br /><br />an3drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15822554034818405099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-60302672511504436012015-03-23T16:33:41.371-07:002015-03-23T16:33:41.371-07:00I agree with Baudelaire's criticisms of photog...I agree with Baudelaire's criticisms of photography as an artform.<br /><br />It's good to take for memories or whatever, but it is not an art. It takes no actual application or creativity. Sepehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365353294073196966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-49017753796527595482015-03-23T16:31:41.460-07:002015-03-23T16:31:41.460-07:00You already read some of the art I've produced...You already read some of the art I've produced myself and said it was good... my play and poetry for example. Sepehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365353294073196966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-404335056891593012015-03-23T16:28:18.094-07:002015-03-23T16:28:18.094-07:00that building was completed in 828, and is suppos...that building was completed in 828, and is supposedly pretty much as dogen would have seen it during the time he lived there !<br /><br />most for the buildings were razed in 1571 after the siege of mt. hiei by the shogun oda nobunaga<br /><br />you are looking at something authentically from the 9th century, it's really an authentic "transmission" back to that time, and yeah, there is a patina that comes across from your photo !an3drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15822554034818405099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-62678154633990107642015-03-23T16:05:02.283-07:002015-03-23T16:05:02.283-07:00sepehr you really have reality issues, anime fucke...sepehr you really have reality issues, anime fucked brain and you criticise photography ?<br /><br />produce some art yourself and then comment !an3drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15822554034818405099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-16972088627414907442015-03-23T15:51:41.480-07:002015-03-23T15:51:41.480-07:00I don't consider photography a viable form of ...I don't consider photography a viable form of art though.Sepehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13365353294073196966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-30214038727361464692015-03-23T06:18:13.151-07:002015-03-23T06:18:13.151-07:00Didn't expect this! Thank Andrew. I deleted th...Didn't expect this! Thank Andrew. I deleted the post at first because I thought it's just tourism and tourism has no place on 7th Patriarch blog. You are right I used a digital camera. <br /><br />" the photos came out so well is the light was bright, but diffused which is what it takes to make digital cameras shine, they especially don't like the light being too dull ! "<br /><br />That explains it. <br /><br />https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SxDcFjIhDwU/VQ6-N-yigEI/AAAAAAAABrU/Pd__I786dPA/w823-h617-no/DSC04909.JPG<br /><br />it's really the only good photo I've taken my entire life! It's just with a Sony Cyber-shot... this building was also my favourite of all Japan, yet somehow nobody seemed interested in it! The tendai monks bow to it every time they pass nearby... it is the only building the bow to, it must have an important meaning to them, the bow seemed genuine <br /><br />I want to move here permanently just to be able to stay in these gardens, I love the nature here, for some reason I can't feel the same in Slovenian/European parks/garden/naturePxZhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274894834393896182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-29886539480231847752015-03-22T21:33:16.154-07:002015-03-22T21:33:16.154-07:00zephyr you are doing the typical reddit zen thing,...zephyr you are doing the typical reddit zen thing, quoting some bullshit then making like some righteous guru with stupid comments !<br /><br />zakaj with those photos has done something that is his own work, you just don't get it do you ?<br /><br />you are losing your own identity in rubbish, you need to get the balance right, one look into a book and two in life johann von goethe said !<br /><br />http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/johann_wolfgang_von_goeth.html !<br /><br />btw, don't delete those posts . . just let them sit, i am never entirely right ! :o)an3drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15822554034818405099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-81784612841519235072015-03-22T20:41:55.529-07:002015-03-22T20:41:55.529-07:00“Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;
I crown me ...“Bow down: I am the emperor of dreams;<br />I crown me with the million-colored sun<br />Of secret worlds incredible, and take<br />Their trailing skies for vestment when I soar,<br />Throned on the mounting zenith, and illume<br />The spaceward-flown horizons infinite.” <br />― Clark Ashton Smith, The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poetry of Clark Ashton Smith<br /><br />Here's the full poem, it's long:<br /><br />http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/poetry/572<br /><br />It's too much Infinity though to the point it makes you mad.Zephyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10057761733310813859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-24598118816006327852015-03-22T20:40:19.699-07:002015-03-22T20:40:19.699-07:00http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/57720.Clark...http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/57720.Clark_Ashton_Smith<br /><br />“Not as the plants and flowers of Earth, growing peacefully beneath a simple sun, were the blossoms of the planet Lophai. Coiling and uncoiling in double dawns; tossing tumultuously under vast suns of jade green and balas-ruby orange; swaying and weltering in rich twilights, in aurora-curtained nights, they resembled fields of rooted serpents that dance eternally to an other-worldly music.” <br />― Clark Ashton Smith, Lost WorldsZephyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10057761733310813859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-32851675471010446912015-03-22T20:38:35.294-07:002015-03-22T20:38:35.294-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Zephyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10057761733310813859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-52936257877510462892015-03-22T17:43:06.854-07:002015-03-22T17:43:06.854-07:00Zakaj, you should visit the Aokigahara forest, all...Zakaj, you should visit the Aokigahara forest, all called suicide forest.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FDSdg09df8Zephyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10057761733310813859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6701454427705864554.post-36884800730422523462015-03-22T17:19:13.260-07:002015-03-22T17:19:13.260-07:00yeah i wanted to say majestic zakaj :)yeah i wanted to say majestic zakaj :)jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03808900193540512293noreply@blogger.com