Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

space and warmth. been awhile since i came around here. been an awfully long winter... perhaps i complain too often, and that may say more about me than any phenomenon of weather. yet it snowed today, again, and i'm still waiting for constriction to ease. some breathing space. i hate to put it all on desert promise, but tonight these leftover photos inspired (and sustained).


death valley, from chloride cliff


artist drive, death valley


kingston range, california/nevada

Those shots are nice!!!! Yeah it's been a long winter by me too. But seeing your pics makes feel all better!!!!
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wow. an intense place to be thanks for posting these mnaz. i'm not familiar with the desert. water surrounds me and we get lots of rain here in Vancouver, BC

~westcoast

beautiful!

just what i needed.... wide open natural spaces

i envision more mnaz banners ... would also make nice book covers maybe .

beautiful photos!!!!! easily flowing inner-outer spaces in places like that!
thanks for sharing!!!!!!! (think about them while walking/driving in the city trying not to crash in the try! )

That first one always gets me-- looking south into receding depths of Death Valley from the short-lived Chloride camp-- its remains (circa 1870, one of the first desert mining camps)-- more than a vertical mile over the valley floor, about as exposed to the elements as is possible, yet it was so calm that day (though I'm not fooled). I'm surprised I haven't posted the Chloride cliff photos. They inspired, and continue to do so. I was looking back through some of the threads on this board yesterday, and...
Arcadia... "easily flowing inner-outer spaces"... Yes!

looking at the thread of graded road, ubiquitous roads anywhere that explorers could go, at the edge of nowhere

the artists' road mercy where does it go?

vancouver shot seen on banner
lucky to be so near nature
urban blues

but i get to go to a spring training game today, yippie!

the bottom photo shows the minimalist wonder you get there
that's why it becomes so spiritual, minimalist aesthetic
very roomy makes the eyes grow the brain soothe

Breathtaking, inspiring or sustaining, yes, thank you mnaz. These remind me of seeing mountains for the first time, riding the bus from Ohio to CA, and not realizing at first that those things on the horizon weren't clouds...

Here's another cliff shot looking more westerly..



Ahh, that dimensionless point of now. Little did I realize.

jimboloco wrote:the artists' road mercy where does it go?

back to where it may have started, i guess.

makes the eyes grow the brain soothe

so lucky to be so near nature.

gorgeous, again. i'm reminded of how i felt when driving on the canadian Prairies under an endless blue sky with a constant far horizon. i felt deep in my bones that it would be difficult to hide from myself in the vast expanses.

~westie

Some how those pics remind me of "Gerry".
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makes the eyes grow the brain soothe

yeah something like cosmic consciousness
or "pure consciousness"

a reel eye opener
thank you
Never got off the beaten path
You fill in the gaps of my world view.

Thinking of space-time
more than what meets the eye

inspiring shots... even to this ol' desert rat.

i agree with Dor' that one of these would make a great book cover (but which one??? hmmm....)