Bridge to Cape Banks

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This bridge is visible in the previous photo I shared.

I was trying to capture the bridge and Cape Banks at a particular angle and I almost pulled it off. Sort of get a sense of size and distance. Sort of.

I feel that monochrome worked really well here. It brings out some detail and shading really well. It also helps to give a sense of the age of the area.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.
I suggest checking out Leanne’s photography, as well as checking out what other people submit.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Stara Rzeka: BHMTH (czyli historia z wujkiem Albertem)

Posted on July 21, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

There was a period of time where I was listening to this song a lot. It has been a while since then and in the intervening time between then and now I’ve listened to the song only a small handful of times. I still find it an affecting song, though perhaps not with the same grip as before.

Anyway, I don’t know what I was aiming for here. I set out to write and write I did. I mth,captured something of the song but not something clear, I feel. Maybe it is clear; I don’t know.

Stara Rzeka’s “BHMTH (czyli historia z wujkiem Albertem)” is from Zamknęły się oczy ziemi.

I hope you enjoy.

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Percussive sounds beat and echo. Soon piano comes in, matching the beat in its movement. It sets a sense of weight that soon finds itself further built upon by ambient sound and guitar.

A bass-like sound beats away to the rhythm and more sound comes in and fills out space and all congeal almost as one. The sense of weight remains, even as something seems to rattle in the background and even as it seems like something is raining down, but perhaps it is all dry. Perhaps all the sounds are dry and it’s just an expanse, but it’s almost like rain.

Slight details get added in various parts and steadily the sounds flow onward and forward, keeping the rhythm going. Soon the rattling increases and it seems less like rattling but more bubbling, or even something more like an indistinct noise. The other sounds move to something with a bit more of a sense of linearity to them and they follow a path more linear than before, but remain expansive.

Eventually an electronic sound seems to scatter down and soon the opening rhythm, or at least something similar to it returns, and cycles occur and more sounds appear and become long and expansive and spread across and along.

A voice speaks out at a distance but it is commanding and massive. There is something emotive about it but it is difficult to pinpoint just what. Perhaps they are calling out for someone or something; perhaps it is something else entirely. Once they stop the sounds have shifted and suddenly bits seem to rise from a fertile bed. Things unfurl and among it all another voice follows a melody that is heavy and massive, yet small and fragile. Gentle.

Sounds pulse and beat away around this, almost protecting this moment. It seems like a moment of peace among noise but soon it all fades away to leave noise at the song’s end.

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The Path to Cape Banks

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

A couple of days ago I was walking around La Perouse. There was a lighthouse there that I wanted to see and take photos of which I did and I also wanted to go for a walk that wasn’t around where I live.

I thought about the Australian coastline whilst walking around there and I won’t get into that on this post, but I will say that the thinking involved taking a lot of the area around me in certain ways.

This one kind of feels idyllic; lightly winding path leading to a place that’s larger than it appears, the ocean appearing calm from a distance, not much cloud cover, among other things.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-eighth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
The theme for this one is “Summer Vibes“.

I feel that, despite it being winter here, this photo fits as it’s a bright day and the photo has a slight warmth.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Guest host

This one is guest-hosted by Andrew of My Blog–Solaner. The next two are also guest-hosted and the themes have been announced in advance:

July 23 – Tracy, who posts at Reflections of an Untidy Mind (Surrealism)

July 30 – Sarah Wilkie, who hosts Travel with Me (Three Favourite Images)

I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re enjoyable and allow room for interpretation of the theme without straying too far. If you don’t participate, then I recommend that you at least check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Ryota Kozuka: Tremble as you Face Doom

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Three listens for this one.

I went more for describing the song and I’m not sure why. I’m sure I could’ve done a lot with pulling imagery out of what I was hearing, but I didn’t go that way.

If there’s anything I’m realising about Ryota Kozuka (小塚良太) it’s that he’s quite good at capturing a certain atmosphere, but working within the context of a game soundtrack seems to be limiting for him. It would be good to see him do an album of this kind of stuff without the constraints of composing for a soundtrack.

Ryota Kozuka’s “Tremble as you Face Doom” (“震えながら逝くがいい”) is from the soundtrack for Shin Megami Tensei V, Shin Megami Tensei V Original Soundtrack.

I hope you enjoy.

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A deep rumble rolls forward whilst a distorted harshness moves on by and seems to shimmer off in a distance. Suddenly something rushes and a percussive pulse rapidly pulses. Sounds move distant and detached along with the beat and it all seems to slowly build toward something. It builds in intensity and distorts, then suddenly ends.

In the aftermath sounds seemingly atmospheric linger at a distance whilst others fade in and out of a sense of reality. There is a control in it, however, and soon a sense of rising takes over, though before anything further can happen the song ends.

 

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1128: Should be Doing Things

Posted on July 19, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

The clouds are threatening today. Meant to have started raining earlier but it never happened, but maybe it will happen soon. It gives me an excuse to be lazy and that’s probably a bad thing, but I am lazy and so I will keep being lazy, though perhaps I should stop. Perhaps I should put in a bit more effort and get some things done.

That will involve walking and the weather does not invite walking right now. Maybe it invites hurrying and that’s probably a good thing so I should stop this and go and do the things that I need to do. I don’t want to have to do them in the rain.

This isn’t something worth writing about. It’s not worth writing about this incredibly mundane series of things. The rain is mundane as are the clouds, but they are threatening and ominous and that too is mundane and that doesn’t matter right now. There are other things that matter, such as looking after each other and making sure that everyone is doing the best that they can and supporting them if they are not. That matters. Talking about some clouds at the present moment doesn’t matter. Talking about needing to do things that need to be done doesn’t matter.

I think I find myself in my bedroom once more. This is the room in which I sleep and of course I could have said that I find myself in a rut once more but I decided not to as I wanted to do a lazy subversion, or at least a subversion of any kind of variety.

It also was a bad subversion but that’s neither here nor there.

Can lazy be good in this particular case? Maybe. I don’t know. I don’t even want to think about it if I am to be honest. I do think, however, that there are other things out there and I need to stop procrastinating and just get on with it. I need to get on with going outside and doing what must be done.

Therefore, I will soon make preparations to venture outside. I will then go outside and I will grumble for a while. I will grumble for so long that all my grumbling will loop over itself and start echoing through dimensions and in directions that do not have an existence in the way that we perceive existence.

From there I will ride these grumblings to new lands, but instead of new lands I will just ride them home so that I can get home sooner rather than later. From there I will go inside and grumble some more whilst I prepare my tea as it’s a little too late in the afternoon for COFFEE and therefore I don’t want to do that…

Well, it will be too late in the afternoon by the time I get home. Right now it would be fine but I would much rather have tea anyway as I had COFFEE earlier.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:49:47

Not great writing. I took too long to get anywhere but I didn’t want to extend as this would’ve dragged so much more had I gone for more words.

Written at home.

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Leaving a Gallery Dream

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I was in The Australian National Gallery and I was leaving. Someone I knew was behind the counter and I didn’t want to talk to them so I sneaked out.

I got to the door I was going to exit through which was not the exit door but rather a side door of sorts, and I opened it and went through the doorway and into office space. I had to go down a few floors to get out of the office space and to the exit as surprisingly each floor was office space.

After a few floors I asked someone for help in leaving and let them know I didn’t want the person I knew to see me. They took me back up to where I had entered the office area and then took me to a lift. If I took the lift up a level I would get to the exit.

I took the lift up a level and there was a pirate. I knew this pirate and the pirate knew me and so we greeted each other. The pirate didn’t sound like a pirate. We then headed off to the pirate’s ship to go somewhere.

We may have been on the ocean and someone spotted a wave and it was a big one. The pirate was then standing on a road near where I live and he said “That wave be closer than it seems”. The road seemed still at first but then a mass of energy moving underneath it became apparent. Much like waves on the ocean the energy was rolling forward but it wasn’t tearing anything up and so all was fine as it passed under.

We were somehow back on the boat and in the ocean and so we went into the main cabin and then crouched to avoid the wave.

Then I woke up.

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A Poem About a Regular Evening

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This isn’t great. I had an idea but I didn’t go with it for some reason.
The idea was mainly trying to present a regular evening as being odd, or at least things becoming odd. Should’ve gone for that instead of this.

I hope you enjoy.

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It was an evening much like any other
The air was still and the dark thin
And a vacant stare held firm and fast

Time for rest would soon arrive
Though it crept into business
As soft music played through silence

Time moved slow and in large jumps
Thoughts were focused with ease
Yet none were translated through action

With much thinking and little done
Time for rest took precedence
As it was an evening much like any other

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Soil & “Pimp” Sessions: 16 Blues

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

This one mostly came easy but I don’t know if that’s a good thing.
I did less overthinking which is good, but I don’t know if it paid off here.
That said, I think I captured the progression of the song well enough.

Soil & “Pimp” Sessions’ “16 Blues” is from Pimpin’.

I hope you enjoy.

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Sounds of people in a space a heard. Soon bass comes in, flickers and draws. Keys follow along and build a bit around the bass, adding more form. Eventually percussion and brass follows; both are slow and play it cool and mysterious. Vocals speak in short parts and the sounds move with a smooth steadiness.

Rhythm continues whilst the keys and brass fade in and out, rising and falling in parts. Eventually a shift and the sounds let a little loose and a little cooler, but there is a sense of tension building. The brass has greater presence; the bass is harder and the percussion keeps things a little more on edge.

Suddenly all reaches that build, but rather than explode all flows and blooms and expands and keeps it all cool and melodic. There is energy but the expression is beauty. There is rise and fall and motion and grace, and the coolness remains and it remains big. Keys wrap around and flow through percussion and the bass keeps its steady groove going whilst the brass seems to find a crest that it rides. Vocals grow more frantic and eventually seem to fragment whilst the percussion and bass lock further in and increase in their intensity and keep building.

The brass rises and the vocals steady, but only for a few short seconds as the instruments find their final point and the song ends.

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Muscovy Sitting

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Here’s another photo featuring a Cairina moschata, though not the same as this one.
Same small space as the other one but this one had more black feathers.

Anyway, this is a simple photo. Not much to say about it. I think the light levels work well but I should’ve not allowed so much blur into the shot.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.
I suggest checking out Leanne’s photography, as well as checking out what other people submit.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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Railway Crossing

Posted on July 16, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

There’s a bit of a story involving this scene.

When I was driving back form Melbourne I took a few photos as this particular location.A few of weeks ago I was going through my photos and I can’t remember why, but I think it had to do with Facebook reminding me of this photo. I then checked if I’d shared it here. Turned out I hadn’t, but I remembered sharing it to Instagram so I decided to see which photo of the scene I’d put there and share that one here.

When I went back through my photos I couldn’t find the one I’d shared on Instagram. I looked over what I had and the cloud formations didn’t match; nor did the particular angle, though there was one that was close. I checked the RAW files to see if I’d accidentally deleted the processed version and I couldn’t find a record of it there either. I checked to make sure I hadn’t deleted any of the RAW photos by mistake and I hadn’t.

I searched to see if anyone else had taken a photo of the same scene in case I had uploaded someone else’s photo by mistake and I couldn’t find any that were close to what I had taken. I began to wonder if Instagram had altered the photo somehow, but I couldn’t find anything that suggested that is something Instagram did.

I began to question how I was perceiving reality and what had happened. The trying to work out what happened went on for about two hours. Around that time I decided to check to see if I had taken any photos of the scene with my phone and it turned out that what I shared on Instagram is a photo I took with my phone.

The first of these two photos is the one I took with my phone. The second is the one from my camera that I feel works the best. I like that these photos contrast each other; they’re og the same scene and taken close together (time-wise) but have differing feel, I think.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-seventh Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
The theme for this one is “Seeing Double“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Guest host

This one is guest-hosted by Jez Braithwaite of Photos by Jez. The next three are also guest-hosted and the themes have been announced in advance:

July 16 – Andre of My Blog–Solaner (Summer Vibes)

July 23 – Tracy, who posts at Reflections of an Untidy Mind (Surrealism)

July 30 – Sarah Wilkie, who hosts Travel with Me (Three Favourite Images)

I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re enjoyable and allow room for interpretation of the theme without straying too far. If you don’t participate, then I recommend that you at least check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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