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Paradisos

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Not been around much. Time seems to contract as in a relativistic abnormality. Writing, translating, thinking and taking not as many photographs as I'd wish.

But in September I was able to finally go through with a long-cherished project: a series of mostly nude photos in Paradiso, the city's best known and tremendously classical bookstore, with one of the great models we have in Spain today, Dana Moreno. Breakneck photoshoot: three hours, that's all the bookstore could give us 9 PM-Midnight.

So we will be opening a show of some 20 photos from the project on Friday in Gijón.

To launch things, one of the photos from the project got an award today in a local contest.

Which probably means I'm back.





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Images

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Time is the cruel artisan of love.


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The debate seems to have followed me forever.

If you like science, you have no emotions, right? You're cold, detached, something like the painful caricature of "Bones" Brennan in the unnerving TV series.

Conversely, if you do art, you have to look down upon reason, it's an alibi to be utterly illiterate in terms of how the Universe really works. You don't do rational thought.

At least that's how many people see it.

I've been in love with science ever since, as a kid, I woke up early to see the launching of increasingly larger and more complex spaceships. And I've been in love with art about the same time. I've never seem the contradiction that seems so obvious to so many people. On the contrary, I have concluded there is no dichotomy between emotion and reason.

These two essential features of humanity are not mutually exclusive. On the contrary, they're both needed.

Reason and emotion are not opposites.

The opposite of reason is stupidity.

The opposite of emotion is psychopathy.

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Please explain

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Feathers on the Bay by nocturno

This photo I took and uploaded yesterday of Rut has gone to 83 faves and 3,431 views in less than 14 hours, becoming my fourth most-faved photo. This is more than half the views received through many _years_ by my most viewed and faved photo, also musically themed:

It's All Music to my Eyes by nocturno

I would like to know what happened or what is the reason for this reaction. The photo is well within one of my usual styles, it's not a breakthrough or an experiment, so this is most surprising, especially since views and faves continue (so it's not only the reaction to appearing on the front page for a few seconds).

BTW: I met Rut when she was singing in the streeet. She's not exactly a street performer, she works cafes and larger venues and is developing her own songwriting, but she also acts in the street when necessary to make ends meet. She's a sweet person, with a very good, resonant mezzo voice.

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Hard as it may be at times, only art can make some of us truly alive.

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