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The structure of the human body is...
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...encrypted in the pentagram (too long title).
This journal entry is an explanation for this one:
The pentagram/pentagon is based on the golden ratio. The grid in this picture is one of Penrose's mosaics, also derived from the golden ratio. The positions of the nodal points are not random.
There is nothing mystical here. Or no, on the contrary, it is the deepest mystery over which the greatest minds of the past fought and never solved it. For example, Johannes Kepler was looking for a mathematical formula for the harmony of the Universe all his life. He did not find it, but as a by-product he became one of those who founded modern science. (by the way, Penrose's mosaics are based on Kepler's ideas).
If you learned to draw at art school or from books, you know what composition is. This is a set of rules, it is advisable to use them when creating a picture, so that it looks "complete". Now do a thought experiment. In the countryside, just look to any side of the horizon. Now evaluate what you see as a landscape. As if it were a painting. There is a composition there. The question is: who did apply the composition rules to the random point where you stand and to all the random set of things that you see (trees, clouds, landforms, etc.)? That is, a person who draws poorly can paint a landscape "with non-compliance with the composition", but in nature there is no such "bad landscape" and cannot be? Why?
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No Title Journal Entry
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Hi guys,
Some time ago I posted this one: leadbirdie.deviantart.com/jour…
It was a try to discuss a role of porn in modern world. I am sure that this role differs from the porn in pre-internet era (where I am from). Huge amount of porn and easy access to it has altered a mankind slightly (advanced part of it, where traditions and religions are dissociated, being replaced by new toys) . As former biologist I see a noticeable decreasing of birth rate in countries of mature economies (and good internet access). Porn acts in complex with "child free" movement, LGBT and feminism. It's nice way to control Malthusian growth of population, better, than wars and plague.
If you are older than 45 years, you have to remember the main fear of those years: the fear of over-population. Exhaustibility of resources, threat of hunger, irretrievable damage of environment (btw, green movement was born in these days, 60's - 80's). What we have now? Our concerns were void. Well, we won, don't we?
But today I am not going to discuss it again.
I was sure that we live in happy time when picture of naked woman (or man) is not something scandalous, unusual or abnormal. So now we may concentrate at pure psychological impressions or at pure artistic features. Lines, colors, anatomy. Personal flashbacks. Nude nature stopped to be something improper or indecent. To be honest it stopped to be such in XIV century, in Renaissance, but not for all.
But last months I see an ocean of plain porn at dA Artistic Nude gallery. Sometimes it's very low grade porn. Proctological and gynecological atlases are better, because they are useful for physicians. But what's a purpose of these pictures here? To jerk? It's nice, but there are a zillion of porn sites, dA was not declared as one of them.
If somebody can explain me an artistic value of pictures with anuses/vulvas/penises close-up, I'll be thankful
Some time ago I posted this one: leadbirdie.deviantart.com/jour…
It was a try to discuss a role of porn in modern world. I am sure that this role differs from the porn in pre-internet era (where I am from). Huge amount of porn and easy access to it has altered a mankind slightly (advanced part of it, where traditions and religions are dissociated, being replaced by new toys) . As former biologist I see a noticeable decreasing of birth rate in countries of mature economies (and good internet access). Porn acts in complex with "child free" movement, LGBT and feminism. It's nice way to control Malthusian growth of population, better, than wars and plague.
If you are older than 45 years, you have to remember the main fear of those years: the fear of over-population. Exhaustibility of resources, threat of hunger, irretrievable damage of environment (btw, green movement was born in these days, 60's - 80's). What we have now? Our concerns were void. Well, we won, don't we?
But today I am not going to discuss it again.
I was sure that we live in happy time when picture of naked woman (or man) is not something scandalous, unusual or abnormal. So now we may concentrate at pure psychological impressions or at pure artistic features. Lines, colors, anatomy. Personal flashbacks. Nude nature stopped to be something improper or indecent. To be honest it stopped to be such in XIV century, in Renaissance, but not for all.
But last months I see an ocean of plain porn at dA Artistic Nude gallery. Sometimes it's very low grade porn. Proctological and gynecological atlases are better, because they are useful for physicians. But what's a purpose of these pictures here? To jerk? It's nice, but there are a zillion of porn sites, dA was not declared as one of them.
If somebody can explain me an artistic value of pictures with anuses/vulvas/penises close-up, I'll be thankful
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Stories?
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When I was a little kid, dinosaurs were already dead, but Soviet Union yet alive. I was in kindergarten. Geographically it was in small republic near border with Iran and Turkey and I could see the Mount of Ararat through the window of our game room.
As you know Soviet Union was a terrifying totalitarian state where all children got education by uniform program. One of the most important point in this education was a propaganda of international brotherhood and other communist shit. So every communist holiday we had to make children's matinee which must demonstrate an inviolable friendship of Soviet Nations. Kids had to impersonate 15 Soviet republics (and no one has to be omitted).
The problem was national composition of my kindergarten mates. We had many Azerbaijanis, Armenians, some Russians, a couple of Ukrainians, Jew, but no exotic Latvians, Estonians and so on. So roles of exotic nordic peoples were distributed among others.
I was "Latvian" due to my yellow hair and light gray eyes. I was dressed in ethnic costume and had to sing a song in absolutely incomprehensible (for me) language. However I liked this song and especially I liked latin letters "Latvia" in the book. Latin letters looked cool, I saw them in movies about Nazi invaders and also in films about our brothers in Cuba (Soviet propaganda named them "brothers"). Spanish speech sounded like music for me, German speech sounded like dogs barking, and I did not get at all Latvian one. I was 4 years old.
Less then half of century passed, I print exotic Latin letters at American website, official Latvia hates Russia, Cuba is going to make peace with gringos.
Well what do you know! I do love this world, it never stops to change and surprise us.
Funny stories from your childhood are welcome in comments.
Do not hestitate to fix my horrible English.
As you know Soviet Union was a terrifying totalitarian state where all children got education by uniform program. One of the most important point in this education was a propaganda of international brotherhood and other communist shit. So every communist holiday we had to make children's matinee which must demonstrate an inviolable friendship of Soviet Nations. Kids had to impersonate 15 Soviet republics (and no one has to be omitted).
The problem was national composition of my kindergarten mates. We had many Azerbaijanis, Armenians, some Russians, a couple of Ukrainians, Jew, but no exotic Latvians, Estonians and so on. So roles of exotic nordic peoples were distributed among others.
I was "Latvian" due to my yellow hair and light gray eyes. I was dressed in ethnic costume and had to sing a song in absolutely incomprehensible (for me) language. However I liked this song and especially I liked latin letters "Latvia" in the book. Latin letters looked cool, I saw them in movies about Nazi invaders and also in films about our brothers in Cuba (Soviet propaganda named them "brothers"). Spanish speech sounded like music for me, German speech sounded like dogs barking, and I did not get at all Latvian one. I was 4 years old.
Less then half of century passed, I print exotic Latin letters at American website, official Latvia hates Russia, Cuba is going to make peace with gringos.
Well what do you know! I do love this world, it never stops to change and surprise us.
Funny stories from your childhood are welcome in comments.
Do not hestitate to fix my horrible English.
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Boundaries: update
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I want to thank everybody who dropped a comment in my previous journal about boundaries in art ( leadbirdie.deviantart.com/jour… ). It's really interesting for me to know what you think.
Now I am going to tell you about my personal "supertaboos" in art and in simple pics production for wide public.
The motto "There are no boundaries in art" sounds very strangely for me. Because I think "No boundaries - no art (and even primitive culture)". Even animals have taboos. The only living objects without limits are cells of cancerous growth
The art and any creative activity is a play with boundaries and limits, it's essential. Just everybody has own system of limitations and own goal of this play. Great artist is a great manipulator or even creator of new limitations. Limitations, boundaries, taboos are main subject of art, neither hindrance, nor "norma".
My personal taboos:
1) Evident ugliness. But I am ready to work with ugliness to emphasize the beauty.
2) All the rest: offence and humiliation, violence, gore, hard porn, etc, etc are senseless, if the goal is an еpatage only. Attention whores are sick, they don't break limits, they are enclosed in limits of their egoism and they have nothing to say, so they try to break something, because they cannot create something. But I can imagine somebody (or I) can use all this stuff if there is a serious message which demands hard media.
Now I am going to tell you about my personal "supertaboos" in art and in simple pics production for wide public.
The motto "There are no boundaries in art" sounds very strangely for me. Because I think "No boundaries - no art (and even primitive culture)". Even animals have taboos. The only living objects without limits are cells of cancerous growth
The art and any creative activity is a play with boundaries and limits, it's essential. Just everybody has own system of limitations and own goal of this play. Great artist is a great manipulator or even creator of new limitations. Limitations, boundaries, taboos are main subject of art, neither hindrance, nor "norma".
My personal taboos:
1) Evident ugliness. But I am ready to work with ugliness to emphasize the beauty.
2) All the rest: offence and humiliation, violence, gore, hard porn, etc, etc are senseless, if the goal is an еpatage only. Attention whores are sick, they don't break limits, they are enclosed in limits of their egoism and they have nothing to say, so they try to break something, because they cannot create something. But I can imagine somebody (or I) can use all this stuff if there is a serious message which demands hard media.
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Boundaries
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Well, it's evident and common-place: if we live at dA, there are NO BOUNDARIES for us. Even the domain name itself speaks about it. We are DEVIANTS. We are free in our self-expressionn, etc, etc.
But. Anyway... There are many absolutely unacceptable things for us. You know: we may speak about tolerance a lot, but there are supertaboo or superhorrible things which we never regard as things which have a right to exist. Confess, it's true.
So. My dear watchers. Can you tell us about it?
I promise, I'll tell about my supertaboo after 10 comments. (update: leadbirdie.deviantart.com/jour… )
But. Anyway... There are many absolutely unacceptable things for us. You know: we may speak about tolerance a lot, but there are supertaboo or superhorrible things which we never regard as things which have a right to exist. Confess, it's true.
So. My dear watchers. Can you tell us about it?
I promise, I'll tell about my supertaboo after 10 comments. (update: leadbirdie.deviantart.com/jour… )
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