Christmas is coming fast.
Today’s Christmas lights were lit up on Union Street, and the street was filled with colourful crowd.
A few photos of today’s events.
Thank you for visit here.
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| a man goes to sea for many reasons. perhaps to sense it’s beauty and stare at the infinite horizon that offers no questions, and seeks no answers. but there are also those who go to sea ultimately because they are lost, and never want to be found |
A port is a delightful place of rest for a soul weary of life’s battles. The vastness of the sky, the mobile architecture of the clouds, the changing coloration of the sea, the twinkling of the lights, are a prism marvelously fit to amuse the eyes without ever tiring them. The slender shapes of the ships with their complicated rigging, to which the surge lends harmonious oscillations, serve to sustain within the soul the taste for rhythm and beauty. Also, and above all, for the man who no longer possesses either curiosity or ambition, there is a kind of mysterious and aristocratic pleasure in contemplating, while lying on the belvedere or resting his elbows on the jetty-head, all these movements of men who are leaving and men who are returning, of those who still have the strength to will, the desire to travel or to enrich themselves.
“The Port” by Charles Baudelaire
O nieba płynnych pogód,
o ptaki, o natchnienia.
Nie wydeptana ziemia,
nie wyśpiewane Bogu
te drzewa, te kaskady
iskier, ten oddech nieba,
w ramionach jak w kolebach
zamknięty. Jak cokoły
drzewa z szumem na poły;
serca jak dzbany łaski,
takie serca jak gwiazdki,
takie oczu obłoki,
taki lot – za wysoki.
Słońce, słońce w ramionach
czy twego ciała kryształ
pełen owoców białych,
gdzie zdrój zielony tryska,
gdzie oczy miękkie w mroku
tak pół mnie, a pół Bogu.
Twych kroków korowody
w urojonych alejach,
twe odbicia u wody
jak w pragnieniach, w nadziejach.
Twoje usta u źródeł
to syte, to znów głodne,
i twój śmiech, i płakanie
nie odpłynie, zostanie.
Uniosę je, przeniosę
jak ramionami – głosem,
w czas daleki, wysoko,
w obcowanie obłokom.
K.K. Baczyński
8 IX 42 r.
These wet rocks where the tide has been,
Barnacled white and weeded brown
And slimed beneath to a beautiful green,
These wet rocks where the tide went down
Will show again when the tide is high
Faint and perilous, far from shore,
No place to dream, but a place to die,—
The bottom of the sea once more.
There was a child that wandered through
A giant’s empty house all day,—
House full of wonderful things and new,
But no fit place for a child to play.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A port is a delightful place of rest for a soul weary of life’s battles. The vastness of the sky, the mobile architecture of the clouds, the changing coloration of the sea, the twinkling of the lights, are a prism marvelously fit to amuse the eyes without ever tiring them. The slender shapes of the ships with their complicated rigging, to which the surge lends harmonious oscillations, serve to sustain within the soul the taste for rhythm and beauty. Also, and above all, for the man who no longer possesses either curiosity or ambition, there is a kind of mysterious and aristocratic pleasure in contemplating, while lying on the belvedere or resting his elbows on the jetty-head, all these movements of men who are leaving and men who are returning, of those who still have the strength to will, the desire to travel or to enrich themselves.
“The Port” by Charles Baudelaire
A lot of steps around Aberdeen harbour. I love the smell of the sea.
I love the stories of silent ships. Rustle rusting rust from rusty anchors.
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Aberdeen’s ‘Drive It’ day.
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One of the great artists sharing their creativity in the Aberdeen urban space at this year’s Nuart Festival / Aberdeen – Julien De Casabianca (FR) :
“Julien de Casabianca is a visual artist, filmmaker and founder of the Outings Project – a global participatory art project that embellishes the streets with portraits taken from classical paintings.
What began as a prank upon seeing Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’s portrait of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière at the Louvre (“I wanted to help her get out, like Prince Charming trying to rescue the girl in the museum castle” says de Casabianca) has evolved into a full-time mission to merge the perceptions of canonical and street art, while punctuating neglected spaces with images of beauty.
Each individual appears as if liberated from their museum setting, thus highlighting the strategies employed by street artists in the democratization of art and questioning of the received authority of traditional institutions.”
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The School of Computing Science and Digital Media,
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night bus to the afterlife
Denburn Rd/Aberdeen
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Donmouth/Aberdeen. Photo taken from the morning bus on the way to work. I love my new camera… :)
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91st day of the year
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