Gear trompe l'oeil

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Put Your Gears on Display with These Mechanical Wallpapers

Gear pile

Put Your Gears on Display with These Mechanical Wallpapers

Two faced by the sun

I've been avoiding the sun for about 15 years now: fair skin and a tendency to burn easily plus celtic ancestry make me a prime candidate for some kind of -noma. So it's with a sense of 'Boy I'm glad I'm doing this' that I view this picture

Check out the backstory -but that's not a made-up face; it's a real person. One face, but two sides of a story | Society | The Guardian:

The left-hand side of the 66-year-old's face is deeply lined, pitted and sagging after 28 years of sun exposure through the side window of his lorry. The right-hand side, shaded by the cab as McElligott delivered milk around Chicago, is the taut, unblemished face of an apparently much younger man.

And apparently people who drive with their hands in the sun should also be wary ...

The Transit of Venus

Venus transiting the Sun – in pictures | Science | guardian.co.uk

Art and the flow of spacetime

I have long enjoyed and admired Andy Goldsworthy's art. These are examp0les directly picking up the link from Andy's site (and are copyright to him, hence I've merely linked through to them not copied them). Here's one:

Or this: 

 You'll perhaps pick up form these that Andy's work involves natural materials and these are, in variying degrees, ephemeral. The presentation of the art is to a public is lrgely through the photographs as the 'original' tends to gain entropy and returns to the flow of energy and matter that we call nature. Here's somethoing of what Andy says of his work.

I have become aware of raw nature is in a state of change and how that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. ... All forms are to be found in nature, and there are many qualities within any material. By exploring them I hope to understand the whole. My work needs to include the loose and disordered within the nature of material as well as the tight and regular.

See Andy Goldsworthy - Philosophy. It's also worth checking out here

I recently was given a book token as a thank you present. I used it to buy an Andy Goldsworthy book (Time). It has got me thinking about all sorts of things developing further some of my theological thinking about art in the purposes of God. I think i feel a meditation coming on. In this case about order, chaos and the artistic endeavour where some of Andy's methodology helps to appreciate a particular theological approach drawn from Genesis 1 and possibly drawing on a key (for me) insight from Vanstone's Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense. I've not time to develop it at the moment but hopefully in the next month or two, there will be time.

Also look at the images here.

~alone

Somewher in Jesmond is this message. Is it a promise or a threat?

Mooring rusted

Which is better? This photo or the one on the previous post?

Mooring

 This is on Cuthbert's Isle, Lindisfarne.

the eye of a very big needle

 Also at Dawlish Warren.

in the wider eye of the beholder

... in the eye of the beholder

I too this with my phone camera in Dawlish Warren the other week. So glad the onboard camera seemed to be up to what it was that I saw iwth the naked eye. Thinking that this might make a nice picture to put on a wall. What do you think?

Trees bejewelled

Trees bejewelled, originally uploaded by Andii.

When I take the dog for a walk, I often take my mobile phone which has a 2mpx camera onboard (so quality not hot for detailed work, but seems okay for snaps). Every so often I see stuff I like and try a picture of it in case it comes out something like what I saw. In this case, the splendour of the sunlight and sky on and behind the trees is fabulous. So I thought I'd share it.

Resurrection

Church Times - Easter Sunday: "Church of the Resurrection, interior Strong sunlight pouring through the dome over the empty tomb in the Church of the Resurrection, Jerusalem. Ulrich Noetzel: “A light that cannot be extinguished, greater than any Paschal candle”"

Oh, bollards!

I was just sent this by a friend. The workmen are just installing the bollards to prevent people parking in the demarcated space ...