Posted at 9:30 pm by Gelene Celis, on October 13, 2016
…is a fortune-telling deck brought to you by EvanDoherty from Toronto, ON
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They were in an exhibit with tarot readers and they were right around the corner asking people, “Hey do you want a bullshit reading?” Nice.
Note: they weren’t trying to insult the tarot readers or anything. Their cards actually made it to an occult/tarot shop and the community is pretty cool about it.
I also get tarot readings, on occasion.
I just think this is a really creative and clever counter-culture/mockery.
Posted at 10:45 pm by Gelene Celis, on August 21, 2016
…directed by Alan Holly (Dublin, Ireland)
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“Take me in your arms. I wish to see the sky and feel the weather on my skin… I wish to hear the sea and smell the damp woods…Look at the ants… Show me fire’s burning…I wish to be among people… Grant me something hidden, something shared… Show me many things, so that I remember.”
Posted at 1:00 pm by Gelene Celis, on August 1, 2016
…is a flooded cave system located north of Tulum, on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The exploration of Dos Ojos began in 1987 and still continues.
– Wikipedia
Playa del Carmen is only a few hours ride away from several Cenotes in Tulum, Mexico.
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We went diving in it and there was a rope line to guide divers around. There was sunlight in many parts but there were also plenty that was so dark, we needed our flashlights.
It made me feel… irrelevant. It reminded me that I’m just another speck of dust in this world: a state of being that I am constantly on the lookout for, which is one of the reasons why I do these things.
Anyway, there’s also this thing called the halocline effect (density of saltwater changing or, in this case, saltwater and freshwater meet but don’t mix), which was happening at many points in the cave. Some parts were blurry like looking through a translucent, textured glass, whereas some parts look like a different body of water in itself. The divemaster warned us about the latter because of the illusion of “coming out from the water” and apparently some people had taken off their masks. We kept ours… but it was pretty unreal.
The Yucatan peninsula doesn’t have any lakes or anything for freshwater so this is where the Mayans got their supply 500 years ago. It’s insane. There are apparently spots where you can squeeze (when you push yourself through narrow gaps in between rocks); we didn’t do that but I think there’s that option for technical divers, which is a different route from the recreational one.
(If you’re interested in seeing more: Planet Earth, Ep. 4.)
DO NOT dive here if you have claustrophobic tendencies. The divemaster compared the large openings to the size of the gas truck. I’d say it was bigger and those bits were easy enough to navigate but there were spaces that were really narrow.
My buoyancy is not bad for ocean diving but for this, you have to be really steady.
I kept hitting the stalactites & stalagmites. It was a hassle, not mention a hazard (to the cave, your equipment – your life support – and therefore, yourself).
The divemaster held on to me during those parts to minimize the damage.
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Either way, this is still most definitely worth checking out. You can go swimming, snorkeling… the view alone from its shallow waters are well worth the several hours’ ride.
We stayed in an all-in hotel thing so it was good to get out of the resort too. I like staying in bamboo-things and hippie stuff places when I’m in tropical areas but all-ins are great if you’re pressed for time and/or you’re literally just there to dive and care about nothing else.
Posted at 6:30 pm by Gelene Celis, on May 29, 2016
…pseudonym of Gyula Halász (1899 – 1984, Romanian/French) was a street artist, photographer, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker.
Street Art/Graffiti
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“Many viewers of Brassaï’s work found it easier to accept his photographs of graffiti as art than to accept the graffiti itself. In this sense, his work encouraged audiences to look at graffiti on the street in a new light: as framing devices for the world, as a parallel voice of the city, and as a modern primitive art that is all around us if we just care to look…”
– Street Art, Cedar Lewisohn
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I found a series by him called “Transmutations” that I love, love, love. These days you can probably render a similar/the same kind of effect with Photoshop or Illustrator or AfterEffects, but they didn’t have that back then so they were using photographic glass plates. Very manual, analog type way of doing things. Most avant-garde artists these days still do the analog thing and combine it with digital stuff to enhance their works.
“In 1934, directly inspired by his collaboration with Pablo Picasso who he had been working with for two years, Brassaï decided to experiment with the technique of engraving onto glass photographic plates. He worked on thirty or so negatives of female nudes dated from 1931 to 1935, printing around 150 proofs covering the various states of the photographs at different moments in the process of altering the original material.” – museoreinasofia.es
Posted at 1:11 pm by Gelene Celis, on December 28, 2015
…originally from France, based in Toronto, ON.
Stay humble and work hard.
Life ⏳
We are the power 📣
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Snowy night ❄
La haine 💥
Cold shots ❄❄
Christmas eve 🎄
Wanted 🚨
Wanted to celebrate my 416 followers with that picture to show my gratitude for the opportunies that the city offers and to the people that support me and my art. God bless you guys! 👊
On the road to glory 🆓
Blessed for another year on earth, be grateful for what you have… God bless you guys 😇
Don’t play too much with fire 🌋
Hard work is key 💯
A night in Chinatown
God Bless Toronto
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I compared his work to Brassaï, as the sensibility is very similar, to which he responded, “Oh cool! Is he on Instagram?”
lols
“No no he’s one of those academic, dead ones from like the 20’s or something.”
Jokes.
I would write more about him but he’s trying to stay anonymous so no dice, folks. Sorry.
And I know his photos look like it was shot on film, but he’s actually using a DSLR.
Gelene 