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All photos on this blog are my own. I sometimes reblog inspiring images at menotbyme.tumblr.com.

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Guimaraes, Portugal, a few years ago.

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Guimaraes, Portugal, a few years ago.

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Some years ago, HK.

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Some thoughts that came too late

I haven’t been posting for a while.  For various reasons, some personal, some related to the platform.  Tumblr is no longer what it used to be.  Far from it.  More ads, no artistic nudes.  I am not asking for porn, but I hope to find art.  But hey, art has been inspired by nudity for millennia, both female and male.  Maybe even ten(s of) millennia.  And here we find ourselves banning it.  We might think we progress, but if this is progress I find myself lost.  Utterly lost.  Perversion, to me, is turning art into something it never wanted to be. 

The world is evolving, I know that.  We’re no longer in the 60′s or 70′s when I grew up.  We should be critical, but at the same time appreciate the beauty of life.  I feel more and more that we lost the latter.  But I know it’s too late to turn the tide.

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Tainan, Taiwan, 2008.

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Hengchun, Taiwan, 2018.

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Hengchun, Taiwan, 2018.

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Composition in grey.  Hengchun, Taiwan, 2018.

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This day and age

I had wanted to write something about my current project, of which I have been posting some images recently.  But I don’t feel, in this day and age, that it has any relevance.  In fact I just feel desperation, about the fact that humanity seems incapable of solving the problems it has created for itself.  I don’t have to name them, the list would be too long.  Buried deep in our minds, we all know what to do to survive, I think.  When will we start doing it?

2022/03/07:  today I read this on CNN: “ As a commander of US Army troops that defeated the Nazi regime in Germany 77 years ago, Gen. Omar Bradley knew a lot about war. Three years after the Second World War ended, he warned, "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."”.  Still true :-(

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So here we find ourselves II.  Taiwan, 2016.

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So here we find ourselves. Taiwan, 2016.

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Composition in grey.  Taiwan, 2015.

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Taiwan, 2006.

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Taiwan, 2006.

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Composition in grey.  Daxi, 2020.