Category Archives: Photo Essay

Mediterranean Travels to Autumn Inner Sea

Travels to Autumn Inner Sea and the Mediterranean Breviary With Extracts from Predrag Matvejevic Mediterranean Breviary VCrown©2010 Et dès lors, je me suis baigné dans le Poème De la Mer, infusé d’astres, et lactescent, Dévorant les azurs verts; où, flottaison bleme Et ravie, un noyé pensif parfois descend… And from then on I bathed in [...]

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Metropolis and the Environment

Metropolis and the Environment Aftermath of a mining disaster at Portman. Metropoly and the Environment: The Promise of Progress. A Photo Essay by VCrown “Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize as Man, the power of an endless life, has done [...]

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History of Time

History of Time … if one sets aside for a moment the rotation of the earth and its orbit round the sun, one could say that the earth was at rest and that a train on it was travelling north at ninety miles per hour or that the train was at rest and the earth [...]

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Wired to Sustainability

Wired to Sustainability The capacity to endure or how biological systems remain diverse over time. For humans it means maintaining the well being for the long term dealing with environmental, economic and social their impacts and dimensions. Sustinere: maintain, support, endure You can follow VCrown work at: Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo

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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (IV)

Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part D: THE AGE OF STUPID The Age of Stupid. This is the title I attach to how education, politics, entrepreneurs and we, the Mass, are dealing with Our Environment: climate change, desertification, nuclear waste, rainforest,  unnamed activists, toxic waste, steriles, save the planet, effects of [...]

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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (III)

Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part C: ANATOMY OF GREED Portman´s Successful Environmental Genocide can be defined, as well, as THE ANATOMY OF GREED. Using the words of a former Enron´s Executive: We’re the bad guy. We’re the criminals. And don’t think it’s just this company. There’s hundreds of Enrons out [...]

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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (II)

Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part B: THE CORPORATION Portman and the events occurred there show us which has been the processes and developments of the business corporations until now. Studying Portman we can identify how Corporation moved from a legal entity with a government chartered institution to effect specific public [...]

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Lavadero Roberto: The Tower of the Ambitious (I)

Photo Essay: La Unión, a Mining Sierra. Chapter 2. Part A: METROPOLIS Portman is the Story of how two Companies, Miguel Zapata e Hijos and Peñarroya SA Spain, together with the complacency of the fascist and democratic spanish authorities, committed one of the biggest ecological genocides of the XX Century. Moreover and to make things [...]

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Flower Portraits and the Divine Comedy

Flower Portraits and the Divine Comedy The Purgatorio Text extracts from The Divina Commedia, Purgatorio, Dante Alighieri. Flower Portraits and the Divine Comedy CANTO I Here, O ye hallow’d Nine! for in your train I follow, here the deadened strain revive; Nor let Calliope refuse to sound A somewhat higher song, of that loud tone, [...]

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Gothic Art and the Militant Church

Gothic Art and the Militant Church Arcipestral Church of Santa María La Mayor Morella, Spain, Gothic Art The Gothic Art can be defined as the Art of the Militant Church, as  Gombrich mentions in his History of Art.: These powerful and challenging stone clusters erected by the Church in the lands of farmers and warriors [...]

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