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#experiment

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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 37

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Niamh Bernadette
Recurrence 🔁

(Reupload! Sorry! It was really blurry this first time - I don't know why! 😐)

More experimentation today! This time it started with a pretty bad photo of the stairs from the front of Villa Spada and then I asked myself "What would happen if we added more stairs?" - so that's what happened! 😂 It's not completely symmetrical but it's close enough for me! The stars you see in the centre are from a bad astrophotography attempt a few months ago! ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #stairs #steps #photomanipulation #compositeimagery #spooky #eerie #dark #weird #art #digitalart #moody #dream #dreamy #stars #sky #geometry #symmetry #opticalillusion #editing #experiment #scale #villaspada #bologna #italia #italy #europe
#europe
Niamh Bernadette
Beaded 📿 for #fotovorschlag "Ist das Kunst, oder..." / "Is that Art, or..."

Is it a water bottle that I left too close to an open, sunlit window and the resulting heat created these little condensation droplets on the inside? We'll never know and I'll never tell! 🤫✨

#photography #amateurphotography #photo #water #droplets #waterbottle #geometric #pattern #rainbow #yellow #blue #art #abstract #macro #closeup #experiment #abstractart #colours #light #photo #astratto #colori #europe #bologna #weird #texture #detail #pattern
WIST Quotations

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the determination to put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining consciousness, the thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty music of the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite possibilities, which made me an archangel for the moment. The veil of eternity was lifted. The one great truth which underlies all human experience, and is the key to all the mysteries that philosophy has sought in vain to solve, flashed upon me in a sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear: a few words had lifted my intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim. As my natural condition returned, I remembered my resolution; and, staggering to my desk, I wrote, in ill-shaped straggling letters, the all-embracing truth still glimmering in my consciousness. The words were these (children may smile; the wise will ponder): “A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Speech (1870-06-29), “Mechanism in Thought and Morals,” Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University

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Niamh Bernadette
The Cycle 🔄 for #fotovorschlag "Alles steht Kopf" / "Everything is Upside Down"

I've seen some really cool photo manipulation/editing and upside down photos on Pixelfed the last few months (there's so much talent on this site 🤯👏🏻) - I wanted to give it a go myself (badly, but we got there!)
This tree is from Villa Spada - one of the parks in Bologna. ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #tree #upsidedown #photomanipulation #spooky #creepy #eerie #dark #moody #dream #dreamy #park #field #blackandwhite #monochrome #nature #reflection #experiment #parco #bologna #italia #italy #europe
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A.Stringer

"By far the most impactful in this #experiment, though, was the ‘#corporateinterests’ message. This pushed down not just on favourability to #Farage, it was the only message to significantly reduce willingness to vote for #Reform. It decreased Farage’s numbers as best PM, increasing #Starmer’s lead over him in the two-way version of this question."

(2) What messages might Reform be vulnerable to?
strongmessagehere.substack.com

Strong Message Here · What messages might Reform be vulnerable to?By Steve Akehurst
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