Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1421: Day off the Knee

Posted on November 10, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Today is gonna be a day of hard work, after yesterday was a day of nothing.
Well, I say that, but I don’t really know. I’m resting still as I’ve done something to my knee and so walking around isn’t exactly something that one could consider as being productive to getting better today. Still, there might be some.

However, instead of that, I think I might just meld into the furniture. Become one with the space as I slowly become some sort of flesh and bone residence. Sure, might not be good for getting around at a later date, but imagine the views. Anyway, what are they gonna do? Take the house away from me? Can’t take me from me; it’s all inseparable, baby!

But I do think that today is one of those days of rest, but there won’t be any. That was yesterday and I really do have a lot to get through. There’s this essay that I’ve been working on for far, far too long at this stage and I just want it done now, so I’m gonna knock that out and then go onto whatever the next thing is, which I believe is either a review or a transcription. One of the two; not sure as of which at the present moment.

The review is actually done… in draft form, and needs some serious editing, and the transcribing needs to be completed for an interview I’ll be publishing this week, and that’s pretty much the whole day. Hoping to have some time to work on some music, but I need to make sure I keep the pedal to the floor so I actually get all the things done.

There’s a light breeze outside and I’m looking forward to checking that out, but it’ll only be brief, for inside is where I will be. At my desk as per usual, but at my desk being productive for a change. Pushing on and pushing through and getting through everything at a steady rate. That’s the need and that’s what shall be done.

Shall it be done? Of course, I don’t know yet. I hope, but hope will only go so far, and going only so far does only so much so I need to actually push myself, so I will… but that’ll happen after I’m done being lazy, and laziness always comes first.

Just need to keep going and need to get through it, and not congratulate myself on small victories. There will be breaks but there will be rest, for my knee demands it, but I will not rest my hands. They shall glide and find what is wrong and fix to make something less wrong, and then I’ll go on and think about some stuff and then I’ll get up, and there will go my knee, and the lesson there will be to not try to fly so high that I go through the ceiling, but in a non-literal manner, of course. Only in the metaphorical.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:24:33

Damn knee, hurry up and get better.

Written at home.

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Joyous Expression

Posted on November 9, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

When this was taken, the skeleton actually looked a little more unsettling, which I think had a lot to do with the sunlight. Processing somehow made it less so.

I hope you enjoy.

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Scene Shift

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Another photo of this sculpture (Toshio Iezumi’s Rectangular Glass Column), but serving a different purpose in this photo… or maybe the same purpose. I don’t know.

But it is about perception, in a sense, or appearance, or something.

I hope you enjoy.

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Hinge

Posted on November 7, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

I took this as  part of a series of test photos I was sending through to someone.
Decided to stuff around with processing, see what came out with this one and you can see the result.

It’d be easy for me to point out what this is, and I might another time, but right now I won’t. I like the disconnect from what the hinge belongs to. Makes it more interesting to me.

I hope you enjoy.

 

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Ideas Captured in a Column

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Here’s one of the sculptures from this year’s Sculpture by the Sea. The artist is Toshio Iezumi, and the artwork is called Rectangular Glass Column.

I like this as it plays with perception. What you’re getting is a sculpture that alters what is visible through it and what is reflected off of it, so you sort of get this impression rather than an actuality.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness for this week.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

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Underworld: Techno Shinkansen

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

One listen.

There was a first attempt that didn’t go anywhere beyond a few words. reattempted later in the day, the words came out a lot easier. Not a great writing overall, but does give an idea of the song.

Underworld’s “Techno Shinkansen” is from Strawberry Hotel.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys play out and seem reflective, though maybe it’s more a quiet before excitement. A shimmer, then a pulse and the pulse joins in as something echoes on down to meet. The beat comes in and keeps this moment feeling more steady, more warming up. Light excitement and enthusiasm.

The shimmer returns in a moment that holds down before we get back to the main section, and it moves forward as scene flickers and blurs on by. Back to a pause of sorts, or maybe a reduction as the moment is held. The beat pumps and things continue to rush on by, and something blows and noise builds and builds and takes over, and pushes all away before the beat bursts through.

Endlessly shattering noise as the beat keeps on holding down until synth returns in full, and it’s a moment that seems to look to the future, and looks to a sense of wonder, though there’s a bit of melancholy there too.

The beat stops, and sounds shimmer and echo until the start lowering and disappear. Something that could be a voice sounds like it says something, then the song ends.

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Pelicanscope

Posted on November 5, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Similar to this photo, but with a pelican!

I’ve probably said this before, but I like photos like these. They’re not necessarily pleasant or appealing, but they’re still showing the subject. They show something that often isn’t considered the way to view a subject in photo form. Not to say that this photo is good, of course, but I do think it turned out well.

I hope you enjoy.

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Skeleton Dog

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Just a skeleton dog, as soon a few days after Halloween.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s Monochrome Madness for this week. For this one Dawn of The Day After has chosen a theme, and the theme is “Spooky“.

Participating is pretty straightforward and something I recommend. If you do, then include the tag “monochrome-madness” in your post. If not participating, then at the least check out Leanne’s photography as well as what other people submit.

I hope you enjoy.

 

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Space Around Mass

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

This photo I took as I liked the space caused by the differing clouds. Something continental about the scene, I think.

This is my submission into the three hundred-and-twenty-third Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Silence“.

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

Tina

Patti

Ann-Christine aka Leya

John Steiner

Sofia Alves

Anne Sandler

Egídio

Ritva

Egídio is curating this one. The next one is curated by Patti.

I recommend joining the community and participating in the challenges. They’re pretty straightforward, allow room for interpretation, and provide a good way to think about photography in general. If not, however, then at the very least you should check out what others submit to the challenges.

I hope you enjoy.

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1420: Heavy Fatigue

Posted on November 3, 2024 by Stupidity Hole

Two days of heavy fatigue, and now the sun is clouded and hot and all  the heat is being trapped in, and I want it to be cool again. I want space away from the heat, but it is unavoidable. I am currently in a room that is a little cooler, but the heat seeps in and the time away is getting out.

Far too many days of being tired, and two days of heavy fatigue, and now I’m doing my best to push through it so I can get something done. I don’t want the day to feel as though it’s a waste, and resting isn’t a waste to be fair, but I need to not be resting right now. Too big a week ahead, too many things to take care of, all that stuff.

Maybe the body isn’t holding up as much as it used to, and I’m needing to slip into a slower state of life. I don’t know. Maybe I just need more sleep. Don’t know.

I do know that, so long as I can use my arms and keep going, I should try to keep going where I can, however I can.

Light is growing dark and I feel time slipping away, or rather I pretend to feel time slipping away, but there’s a niceness here and there’s something nice about sitting in this room right bow. But I have to work; I have to persist and push on, and try and get some stuff done and the usual routine falls upon me. Trying to push through it all, but needing sleep, but it’s too early to and I’m just throwing myself around, so to speak.

Trying to race against the day, and what’s new there.

Trying to push through the need to rest and keep going before the time all slips away, and I’m realising that I’ve nothing to say here, and I need to be more fine with having nothing to say, because even though I quite often don’t, I’m quite often not.

Of course I’m not looking for the profound. I’m not looking to have people go through these heavy realisations, or anything like that. I just want to say something more than I usually do, and that gets difficult at the best of times. Gets difficult at the worst of times.

Have I said anything? Should I keep throwing stuff into the great Internet abyss? Eventually it’s gonna be full of crap, and there will still be room for more. It doesn’t stop, but I don’t need to contribute to that. I can offer something a bit more with my words, but I keep not doing so and I keep allowing myself to think it’s a difficult thing that I’m often incapable of doing, and perhaps a lot of people feel the same way, and there’s something in that, but I still need to stop. Or rather, I feel I need to stop. It’d be nice to offer a bit more.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 06:38:18

Got a bit heavy at the end. A bit lacking in tightness throughout too.

Written at home.

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