I love the old photography with its style, graphic, light and shadows, black and white, how it transforms the tri-dimensional shapes in a bi-dimensional graphic image. After I saw this high dynamic range technique I learned that the human eye can perceive scenes with a very high dynamic contrast ratio, compared with mediums that we have at this moment. So this technique is an attempt to compensate for the lack of sensibility of today's mediums and I guess a step in another direction from the black and white photography.
Thursday 20 May 2010
Bahá'u'lláh said, “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens,” now is the time for humanity to live in unity.
Science today says the same thing.
Jeremy Rifkin. The Empathic Civilisation
The two topics below have a conection... at least for me, the first one is a statement from the baha'i comunity the second one is a from behavioral scientist Dan Pink speaks about what motivates us. Enjoy...
"NEW YORK — A new statement challenging the common assumption that human beings are slaves to self-interest and consumerism has been issued by the Baha'i International Community.
A more profound look at human nature would reveal the ability to respond to a higher calling, suggests the document – issued this week for the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development as it began its annual two-week session.
"The culture of consumerism ... has tended to reduce human beings to competitive, insatiable consumers of goods and to objects of manipulation by the market," it says.
In fact, "the human experience is essentially spiritual in nature: it is rooted in the inner reality – or what some call the 'soul' – that we all share in common," it states.
The document, titled "Rethinking Prosperity: Forging Alternatives to a Culture of Consumerism," challenges the view that there is an intractable conflict between what people want – which supposedly is to consume more – and what humanity needs.
"Much of economic and psychological theory depicts human beings as slaves to self-interest," it says. "The faculties needed to construct a more just and sustainable social order – moderation, justice, love, reason, sacrifice and service to the common good – have too often been dismissed as naive ideals. Yet, it is these and related qualities that must be harnessed. ..."
The discussion, held on 10 May at the New York offices of the Baha'i International Community, was cosponsored by UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization - and the Permanent Mission of Sweden to the United Nations. The 2010 session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development runs through 14 May. Read more about the statement, "Rethinking Prosperity: Forging Alternatives to a Culture of Consumerism" here.
