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Welcome to Doug Yelmen's PostModernArt.com or PostModernArt Blues
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The below is art .a sort of story. It doesn't necessarily
mean I experienced all of it. Some have called my art dark. I agree. But maybe for different reasons. It is dark, it speaks of pain and suffering, like the Blues, but it also speaks of hope and beauty like the Blues. This web site and the work within it is dedicated to those who have suffered, been traumatized, and survived and to those who take the time to even try to see what I am doing. |
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Dogs of War Series
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Abuse Series |
Depression Series |
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Love #1 |
Where were you |
Death by.... |
For You |
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Racism |
Hate #1
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Hate #2 |
Beauty1 |
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Love #2 |
Addiction Series #1 |
Addiction Series #2
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Love and Suicide: The Killing Floor
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Other Web Pages I
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1. Vietnam
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News as
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What Really Matters in Life? A vacationing American businessman was standing on the pier of a quaint coastal fishing village in southern Mexico when a small boat with just one young fisherman pulled into the dock. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish. "How long did it take you to catch them?" the American casually asked. "Oh, a few hours," the Mexican replied. "Why don't you stay out longer and catch more fish?" the American businessman then asked. The Mexican warmly replied, "With this I have plenty to support my family's needs." The businessman then became serious, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?" Responding with a smile, the Mexican fisherman answered, "I sleep late, play with my children, watch ballgames, and take siesta with my wife. Sometimes in the evenings I take a stroll into the village to see my friends, play the guitar, sing a few songs..." The American businessman impatiently interrupted, "Look, I have an MBA from Harvard, and I can help you to be more profitable. You can start by fishing several hours longer every day. You can then sell the extra fish you catch. With the extra money, you can buy a bigger boat. With the additional income that larger boat will bring, you can then buy a second boat, a third one, and so on, until you have an entire fleet of fishing boats. "Then, instead of selling your catch to a middleman you'll be able to sell your fish directly to the processor, or even open your own cannery. Eventually, you could control the product, processing and distribution. You could leave this tiny coastal village and move to Mexico City, or possibly even LA or New York City, where you could even further expand your enterprise." Having never thought of such things, the Mexican fisherman asked, "But how long will all this take?" After a rapid mental calculation, the businessman pronounced, "Probably about 15-20 years, maybe less if you work really hard." "And then what, senor?" asked the fisherman. "Why, that's the best part!" answered the businessman with a laugh. "When the time is right, you would sell your company stock to the public and become very rich. You would make millions." "Millions? Really? What could I do with it all?" asked the young fisherman in disbelief. The businessman boasted, "Then you could happily retire with all the money you've made. You could move to a quaint coastal fishing village where you could sleep late, play with your grandchildren, watch ballgames, take siesta with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could play the guitar and sing with your friends all you want."The moral of the story is: Know what really matters in life, and you may find that it is already much closer than you think. |
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Artist: Johnny Cash Lyrics Song: Hurt Lyrics/ Lyrics by Nine Inch Nails I hurt myself today to see if I still feel I focus on the pain the only thing that's real the needle tears a hole the old familiar sting try to kill it all away but I remember everything what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt I wear this crown of thorns upon my liar's chair full of broken thoughts I cannot repair beneath the stains of time the feelings disappear you are someone else I am still right here what have I become? my sweetest friend everyone I know goes away in the end and you could have it all my empire of dirt I will let you down I will make you hurt if I could start again a million miles away I would keep myself I would find a way |
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rtist: Steppenwolf Lyrics |
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some are political. but, below those are some
gems
from everybody from einstein, jesus, antoine de saint-exupery,
william james, stephan w. hawking, to maharishi mahesh yogi, to
copernicus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern
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When life gets tough and a crisis is at hand; when we must in an instant look inward for strength of character to see us through, we will find nothing inside ourselves that we have not already put there. Ronald Reagan |
"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." George Orwell |
| "The simulacrum is never what hides the truth--it
is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true." |
"I believe that there is, at this point in history,
a desperate need for a resurgence of humanism, a reawakening of values. I believe that art - art of any kind - can play a significant part in the reaffirming of man." Ben Shahn |
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives
they must lead." Charles Bukowski |
| "Terror is the natural response to what is going on." William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer." |
"...wail against the postmodern loss of meaning
and emotion." |
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest
policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it." "War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." Thomas Jefferson |
| Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt, 1783 |
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the
president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not
only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American
public." - Theodore Roosevelt, Republican |
Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all,
it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy, or a fascist
dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no
voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This
is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce
the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
It works the same in every country. - Herman Göring, Nazi leader, recorded by psychologist Gustav Gilbert, who interviewed German defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, published in his book Nuremberg Diary (1947) |
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have become the instruments of tyranny at home. All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." James Madison |
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase
a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin |
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and
I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein |
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. - Philipus Aureoles Paracelsus |
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot |
There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature. - Stephen W. Hawking |
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. - Stephen W. Hawking |
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. - Niels Bohr |
If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. - Niels Bohr |
Reality is not only stranger than we suppose but stranger than we can suppose. - J. B. S. Haldane |
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.’ - (All the sayings of Jesus gathered from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the first time. Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From "The Complete Jesus." (Pg 71) Jesus |
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible. - William James |
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein |
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become-to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Consciousness is a being, the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. - Jean-Paul Sartre |
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the law of the universe will be simpler. - H.D. Thoreau |
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Knowledge is structured in consciousness. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness -- enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
“Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate, sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth…home. My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.” - Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and founder, Institute of Noetic Sciences |
...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself. - Plato |
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Copernicus |
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Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness. - Russell Targ |
"Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do?
How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's
very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality.
You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high
on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you
reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet
out of it." - Charles Bukowski |
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Postmodernism in art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism#Postmodernism_in_art |
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| I asked her for water, she brought me gasoline. Howlin' Wolf "I Asked for Water." |
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Censorship Quotes from the book, Underexposed: Pictures Can Lie and Liars Use Pictures. |
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"Censorship in the Great War was so stringent that for a time civilian photographers were not permitted at the front on pain of death, a rather effective regulation." Vicki Goldberg |
"Photographs seem to be the one thing that the War Office is really afraid of." Jimmy Hare, American photojournalist, 1915 |
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Quotes in Regard to Art and/or Photography (or the art of photography) Quotes from the book God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art |
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If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. |
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to others. George Bernard Shaw |
Every creative person has a second date of birth, and one which is more important than the first: that on which he discovers what his true vocation is. Brassai |
Those who have no compassion for themselves have none for others either. Rabbi Meir |
What did you do as a child that created timelessness, Joseph Campbell |
Those who do original work in any field do so because they mine themselves
deeply and bring up what is personal. Ralph Steiner |
War Poetry |
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SUICIDE IN THE TRENCHES
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William Butler Yeats
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Wilfred Owen The Parable of the Old Man and the Young |
| By Siegfried Sassoon Glory of Women You love us when we're heroes, home on leave, |
Wilfred Owen
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| Dreamers By Siegfried Sassoon Soldiers are citizens of death's gray land, |
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