http://www.bioneural.net bioneural.net is for stuff worth sharing: commentary by Bruce McKenzie. Major topics covered are gadgets, informatics, Internet, Mac, mobile, musings, New Zealand, photography, Project Koru, quicklinks, rant, rave, travel and Windows Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:57:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.bioneural.net/images/kiwi-yellow-64px.png http://www.bioneural.net 64 64 bioneural.net http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2008%2F05%2F10%2Fthe-incredible-dissolution-of-being%2F&seed_title=The+incredible+dissolution+of+being http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2008%2F05%2F10%2Fthe-incredible-dissolution-of-being%2F&seed_title=The+incredible+dissolution+of+being#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 20:25:51 +0000 Bruce http://www.bioneural.net/?p=954 From http://www.bioneural.net doi:tSglPpAB7a8nfM :

Another former communist-occupied country visited, another monument to the fallen photographed. How did communism's lofty ideal of equality become so twisted and evil, delivering oppression and brutality wherever it was (or is) practised? Having seen the poignant sculpture in Moscow commemorating Stalin's victims, and the collected skulls from the Killing Fields of Pol Pot's Cambodia, I wasn't expecting to find a similar memorial in the Czech Republic so moving. But death is only one way you can hurt people: how do you physically capture the dissolution of a man's spirit? The Memorial to the Victims of Communism is located in Prague's Lesser Town, on the lower slopes of Petrín Hill (since my image and this post are geotagged, you can retrieve the exact coordinates). This work by Olbram Zoubek, Jan Kerel, and Zdenêk Holzel was unveiled in 2002 and is succinctly described in this passage: It contains seven "phases" of a man living in a totalitarian state—from the first statue being a full man, up to the last statue where only a part of him remains. This evaporation represents the gradual physical and [psychological] destruction of a man who is ruled by any undemocratic regime. The man disappears due to censorship, secret police, no freedom of thoughts and expressions etc. Click thumbnail to enlarge imageThe incredible dissolution of being Very powerful imagery, I think reinforced by the shallow depth-of-field in this photograph which helps to blur the detail (and even the existence) of the more distant figures. It's not a great shot—taken in light ...]]> http://www.bioneural.net/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bioneural.net%2F2008%2F05%2F10%2Fthe-incredible-dissolution-of-being%2F&seed_title=The+incredible+dissolution+of+being/feed/ 0 50.0811996 14.4041996 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/