Where 3 meet

3 persons and a statue
question:
a random intersection of trajectories?
or an observers paradox?

Amsterdam, june 2005

First derivative of light

there they are
dark yet bright
binary stars
casting contrast
sheltering shadow
first derivative of light

Helical focus

Stargate 260

doors spring open
triggered by a thought

Point of view

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Reiterating

dreams
circle and flow
in vivid colors
transposing textures
transforming dimensions
photo and text by Zia

Potsdammer Platz Berlin

So what!

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Amsterdam, may 2005

Reiterating instance

promenade
and
small talk
frozen instance

a
propagating
reiterating
dream

since
tomorrow
yesterday
will be a promise

to a
future
the next generation
will claim

when they
journey
your deja vu
of the other days dream

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Amsterdam, june 2005

Urban flamingo

Music me again calls

eye –turn lament just things itself face?
cogitation –buried passion men
war –neglect on grieved behavior
myself –difference am

countenance –look you hand have gentle
ness –late you desire in part do I
course –pass march again upon face march
hear –music me again calls
text originally posted by Harry K Stammer

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Museum café, last saturday

The gift

Entry Word: dream

Function: noun

1. a series of often striking pictures created by the imagination during sleep
2. a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality
3. something that one hopes or intends to accomplish

sourceMerriam-Webster Online Thesaurus


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Amsterdam, June 2005

Think dutch

The sign states "Do not place bicycles here". So why does she place her bike right there? Start thinking dutch, stay sane and perhaps you'll understand.

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Amsterdam, may 2005

Tunnel revisited

This photo was published in Photoblogs Magazine in the Critiques section. I received very usefull comments. I like to credit and thank all the commenters. I was able to apply some comments to the original picture. So here it is: "Tunnel revisited".
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"Tunnel of light, a deja vu
You are much on my mind tonight
as I slide through the oval tunnel of light
made by my high beams, follow the thread
of radio talk to keep myself alert."

Words were written by Annette Allen, the poem is titled "Good Monsignor" originally published on "Poets against war"

Tomorrow never ends

time scales differ
more or less, related to what?
perhaps choose

attractors forcing walls to percolate chaos
random generating chance
kharma guiding cognition

recognise
act
of willpower

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La Perche d'Or, Amsterdam, june 2005

changing trains

a discrete
stable orbit
the journey
begins

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Duivendrecht metro station, may 2005

Raw horror, elegant beauty

World Press Photo. Visited the exhibition in the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam. A photo-journey through 2004, a confrontation with the extremes of humanity and nature, raw horror and elegant beauty.

My companion wondered why brutal violence is common in some countries. This remark triggered my awareness to the fact that this part of Europe has a thin varnish of civilisation for only a few decades now. The 20th century has been the most violent era in human history with millions of casualties. The majority perished in Europe.

Salient detail: the Oude Kerk is also a graveyard. When I enjoyed the exhibition I walked over gravestones, among which the tomb of Saskia van Uilenburgh the wife of Rembrandt.


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Amsterdam, Oude Kerk, World Press Photo 2005

Shades of deception

not what happens to you
but
what do you do
with what happens to you

shades of reality
shaped, to a
perhaps plausible
world reloaded

photo image, passage
to the other day
reshaped with deception, into
another door of perception
this string of thoughts was induced by Aldous Huxley

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Café de Jaren, what a perfect afternoon, may 2005

Tell me about your homeworld

"Life is not a mystery to solve, but a reality to experience."
~ Frank Herbert (1920-1986)

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Airborne kid, Dappermarkt , may 2005

Entry Word: play

Function: verb

to engage in activity for amusement
to spend time in aimless activity

source: Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
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Amsterdam, Wibautstraat, may 2005