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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
"The Spirit of Storm" painted by Promode Kumar Chatterjee
Promod Kumar Chatterjee-a painter and a seeker
Promod Kumar Chattopadhyay (1885-1979) was an interesting personality who travelled through many vicissitudes in his life. He was a traveler and travelled extensively all over India, Nepal and Tibet for pilgrimage. But it was not merely for the purpose of pilgrimage –though its spiritual significance was not absent in his psychology-but for his passionate seeking for meeting the enlightened yogis and sadhus, he spent a considerable period of his early and middle life in the paths of the Himalayas and other places of India like a barefooted sannyasin. But he was not a sannyasin. He was already married then and his wife was a loving and dutiful woman. He was a painter of high quality. However, nothing could bind him with the normal familial life and ordinary world. Actually, for an indomitable aspiration for realizing the spiritual truth he became a little restless. This moved him to the dusty path of eternal India. He met innumerable spiritual personalities of almost all the disciplines of the spiritual kingdom of India in the course of his frequent travelling. His love and respect for sacred India and his thirst for India's spiritual treasure were the predominant factors that determined and shaped predominantly the course of his life. Eventually, he became a realized person, a siddha in Vrindavan –a sacred pilgrimage place of North India- famous for Lord Krishna and Radha's lila there on the bank of river Yamuna from time immemorial. He then returned home and pursued his career as a painter to earn a livelihood. He joined Baroda School of Arts as its Principle in the Twenties of the last century. Later he founded National Art Gallery in Masilipattanam in Andhra Pradesh in South India and became its President. He wrote many books on his experiences in the course of his extensive travelling in Bengali. His thirst to know about Tantric philosophy and practice led him to visit many renowned places of Tantric sadhana and he met many enlightened yogis and sadhaks of Tantra-discipline. He will be remembered for his renowned book "Tantrabhilasir sadhusanga" which is rich with the history, philosophy and the past glory and present decadence of Tantric sadhana in India and other places. Later he joined Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry in 1958. He painted some portraits of Sri Aurobindo which were highly praised by the Mother as they reflected the inner being of Sri Aurobindo to a great extent. He was amongst a very few who saw a vision of Supramental consciousness in the form of a winged bird. He came to Calcutta again for some personal work in 1975. But he did not return to Pondicherry as his daughters wanted his presence amongst them for the remaining days of his life.*He left his body on 22 September 1979 at the age of 94.
Once when Promod Kumar was returning home after visiting the Kailash Mountain and the lake Manas sarovar in Tibet he, by mistake, walked through a wrong path near Chmpawati in Almora district and entered into a deep forest. He was to reach Tanakpur to catch the train the next day with an elderly person with whom he was travelling. He was detached from his companion who was much behind Promod Kumar in the path. Promod Kumar as was natural to him was walking faster than his companion and was deeply engrossed in the beauty of the surrounding nature. After an hour he came to realise that he was following the wrong path which led him in the deep forest in stead of his destination. He was to reach Tanakpur before the evening. Then it was already evening in the forest and there was no path found for coming out of it. Then to worsen the situation, rain began to fall from already thickly overcast sky. It became gradually severe and the darkness became absolute. He fell from a height on a boulder, which hurt him badly. He was horrified in that dangerous and frightful situation. Leeches clung to his both feet and legs up to the thighs and were sucking his blood. He was bleeding and became extremely weak.
He lost his sense, remained there in the severe cold, and got completely drenched. After sometime he woke up only to suffer consciously. In the middle of that night he cried out to the God, "Why have you put me in such a situation?"Then all of a sudden he heard someone telling clearly in grave voice "Do you regard God as the doer of all your work?" Instantaneously an inner lightening struck him and by a flashing light he realized that he always thought himself as the doer of all his works and enjoyed the results himself, good or bad, that ensued from his works and regarded God as a separate and vast collective consciousness who was not anyway related to his individual work arising out of his personal initiatives. He said to himself "Then why do I call the God to come to my rescue for coming out of this danger that befalls on me for my wrong work? Actually it is the mechanical response of my vital nature. In childhood we call our parents for help and later we call the God whenever we get troubled as consequence of our own works. It becomes as spontaneous as our breathing lungs!"
Perhaps he knew it before but never before was so much aware of this fact. **
The writing of this article is based on this realization of Promod Kumar Chattopadhyay. We all know from our reading of The Gita that we should not expect the fruits of our work. We do not have right for the fruits or results of our work. So we should work not for ourselves but for the Divine. In the same way we do not have any right to work by ourselves. We are mere instruments through whom the Divine is working for something only known to Him. The basic principle of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is not to attain Brahman or God but to make oneself open to the Divine so that He can work through us. One does not know what is to be achieved from his life. What one is to become. So what makes the feeling that it is I who is working? It is the ego that so feels. But one may raise a point that one does many wrong and heinous works for narrow self satisfactions. Are all these works are done by God? Yes. There is none except Him in His creation. He is evolving i.e. he is in the process of attaining or achieving in myriad ways in all things and beings including the sadhus and murderous criminals. In this journey of evolution everything is progressing towards Him through Him. There is no wrong act. It is the ego only that defines. According to the status of ego in the evolution the work or karma is done in ignorance. We started to compare good and bad karma from the time we started to get in touch of consciousness higher than the general or 'normal' in enlightened beings and also in times even in ourselves. There is only one divine pressure behind the evolutionary urge. In some it is less hindered and so we meet a yogi or a poet or great visionaries and in some it is to move through obstacles and we are met with criminals or a Hitler. Every wrong act is an upheaval or catastrophe from the perverse point of ego.
But a bhakta may well ask where does he stand personally in this evolutionary process? He may obviously want to be justified of his individual dignity in his existence! Yes –the Divine approves and acknowledges his want.
But before that one must consecrate all his work and life to the Divine until one feels that it is the Divine that works through him and moves through him. When one consciously feels that the Divine is absolutely established as the driver in his being and one acts from the status of his union with the divine then only he will feel his individual justification in the vibration of the delight of unfolding of the supreme Divine will in this infinite creation. But one must be aware of one's individual soul first as it is the individual link of the divine that exists within one.
The first essential work in this yoga is to give the right and the fruit of one's work to the Divine. So the Mother tells us to work with a prayer "Grant that I may do as well as I can the best things to do." She insists to be in our best in all our works so that she may face less hindrance in her work in us. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother always insisted on the perfection of our instrumentality.
*As told to me by Promod Kumar in presence of his daughter.
**Promod Kumar was able to come out from that jungle and caught the scheduled train on the next day at Tanakpur.
Courtesy and Link: http://anantaprema.blogspot.in/2009/06/promod-kumar-chatterjee-painter-and.html
Courtesy and Link: http://anantaprema.blogspot.in/2009/06/promod-kumar-chatterjee-painter-and.html
Monday, May 27, 2013
Darshan of the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram
March 7,197O
He sat, it seemed, for eons on the porch outside her room. He
had been waiting already for years, then months, then those
days since he was told he could go up to her on his birthday,
sitting in his solid little block of a Peace Corps house, trying to
concentrate on a name, a tiny face glimpsed above a railing;
eyes that blinked at the brightness of the Bay of Bengal then
swept silence over the sea of faces below. Too soon she returned
into the mysterious inner world of which he knew nothing.
Reclusiveness held a fascination, especially for a restless
American given somewhat to seclusion himself. That first year
in India had been a reading binge, a trunk full of books devoured
during the day's heat and night's boredom. Without the yoke of
formal education he drifted from field to field, grazing indiscriminately.
If he could not speak much Tamil, he could at least
talk English with his books. Yet every night he would bike out
into the bazaar on some useless errand, an excuse to lose
himself in the noisy river of the marketplace. He thought often
of Sri Aurobindo remaining in one room for years on end,
sitting still for hours in the heat.
It was very hot in the veranda outside her room. He hadn't
brought a cloth for the sweat. The crows were obnoxious as
usual, louder and more present than the distant hum of the
Ashram below. He wondered if the others waiting with him
were as easily distracted. They seemed so sunk into themselves,
silent and unconcerned about the more than two hours they had
been there. It was two hours, wasn't it? He snuck a look at his
watch. After eleven.
This was a test of course. Like the would-be Zen student who
sits motionless in the snow for days trying to persuade the
master to open his door. He wished ruefully that he could sit still
for five minutes, but he was just a gangly North American
wilting in the humidity. If only he could hunker down anywhere
like any Tamilian, easing the body down over the flattened feet
as if settling into an overstuffed chair; at home in waiting,
unworried about whether a bus would come in two minutes or
two hours. He lasted less than a minute, rocking back and forth
on the balls of his feet, his mind a runaway express plunging
through the dust of India.
He remembered the instructions given in clipped, hushed
tones: "Go in front of her, kneel, and give her your flowers
(rapidly wilting, he noticed). Then make pranam. She will be
looking clearly at you. You should open yourself and let her
look inside through your eyes. You may be staying for some
time. Then she will give flowers and blessing packet."
Some time. . . the eyes! Back in Midwest USA people didn't
look into each other's eyes. He knew from taking speech in
college that "eye contact" was important, but its only purpose,
it seemed, was to make the other person shift their glance.
Man's superiority over the other animals is proved by the fact
that not one of them, dog, cat, horse, can hold a human's gaze.
But what about the wild ones staring at us from the shadows of
the forest. . . the door opened.
Someone stepped outside and motioned them to come. He
followed the others into the welcome dimness of an incense
fragrant room. He looked eagerly around-saw paintings, statues,
cases of knicknacks, books, carvings-a museum of a
room. 'Another test,' he thought, 'to distract my already distracted thoughts.'
What was strange was the combination of
objects: exquisitely carved ivory and wood figures next to
sea-shell necklaces, toy elephants, the kind of things found in
Courtesy and Link: http://www.motherandsriaurobindo.org/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-09%20E-Library/-05%20Magazines/Collaboration/1987%20spring.pdf
Monday, May 20, 2013
Bilkees Latif reminisces Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
Saturday, May 18, 2013
An Aurovillian: Energy but it is not my energy...
Roy in the seventies
Energy…It is not my energy...
When I came to Auroville, it was like an extension of that existence I already was living.
"Here is your ticket for Sunday."
"But I can't leave on Sunday, I don't have a visa!"
On Friday I go to the Indian Consulate. The Indians there hate India, they really try to discourage you.
"Why are you going to India? We spent so many years trying to get out of India. You don't want to go to India!"
"Yes I want to go to India. What kind of visa application?"
They told me to go into another room to find the Visa Applications which were on the floor in a pile.
"Here it is".
"Come back tomorrow," the guy said.
So I came back Saturday. The plane left on Sunday February 28th, 1971.
For me it all started when I was four or five. At that time I had an experience which later I called my "Sri Aurobindo chair experience". It is hard to describe, but after that I started speaking a language that only my cousin, Justine understood. She was a year younger than me and I bossed her around in that language. Later my sister asked me, "Do you remember that language you spoke?", which I didn't, as I didn't know I wasn't speaking in English, but the only word of that language that I remembered was what I used to call my cousin: "Didi", and afterwards I learned that this is Bengali for sister.
I often asked my mother, "Why did you call me Roy?" and she replied ,"Because it is a short name". Much later, when Imet Nolini Kanta Gupta he told me, "My name used to be
I thought this was very special until I discovered later that everybody in Bengal is called Roy. So I felt for a very long time that I had a connection to Sri Aurobindo and very much to the Mother from some earlier times. As a child I was very secretive because my family was hostile to anything having to do with spirituality. There was just so far I could go with them in discussions because they were very sarcastic. They have a New York sense of humor which is sarcasm, which I did not share.
So I was waiting to grow and leave, living in my own private world, and finally at 18 I left home. I was really happy when the sixties happened; it was such a great thing having a community of people that I could identify with. I hated the fifties. The beginning of the hippie thing was great: communities, no money, everything was free; you would just go from place to place. I assumed this was the beginning of the new age. And it was not only the beginning but it was going to expand. Itwas so obvious, you could see it everywhere. So when I came to Auroville it was like an extension of that existence I already was living.
During the sixties, I was looking for a spiritual commune to live in, and people of my own kind. I went to Harvard square, where there was a bookstore where I picked up the latest copy of a magazine called Modern Utopia. On the cover, there was the Lama Foundation which was started by Ram Dass (Richard Alpert). I thought, "Ah, great! A spiritual community, in New Mexico. Perfect!" On the back cover, there was a picture of the galaxy of Auroville, but it didn't really register. So I took off for New Mexico, which was a big adventure and quite interesting, and there I met somebody who had actuallybeen to Pondy, and as he was describing Pondicherry, I visualized something, a weird building with green shutters.
My first discovery of Sri Aurobindo was in 1968, and I got seriously into yoga. I had a kind of opening into the vital world which was really unpleasant. I had these occult experiences many of which were quite frightening: being pulled out of my body, things like this. So I came
specifically to see the Mother to get patched up again. I had studied Tibetan Buddhism, and all those deities they talk about in their texts, I met them, but when you meet them outside your body, it is much scarier than the way they look in tankhas.
So I came here to see her. I was reading Sri Aurobindo. I read in Letters on Yoga that if you want the transformation, you have to see the Mother. Of course he wrote this in 1936, so that wasn't exactly relevant, but I took it as an indication that I had to come and see her. Before I left for India, I was living at Tail of the Tiger at this Tibetan Buddhism place. I don't know if you have ever been to a meditation center, but after a couple of months, you become very addicted to meditation. I got really into it. You keep on increasing your hours until eventually you are living in a kind of monastic life in which all you do is meditate. When you turn the brain off, it is really nice. I was quite happy there, but I had no money as usual. Meanwhile I went down to Boston visit my yoga teacher, who instructed me on Sri Aurobindo. He opened the door and he said, "If you have been thinking of going to India, go!" And he closed the door in my face. So I said okay.
I went into New York. There was a bookstore which sold Sri Aurobindo's books. I used to go there and read. On the wall, there was an announcement: India, $350, one-way ticket. I said, "Oh! I can afford that". So the next day, Thursday, I go to this airplane place.
"I am interested in the ticket for India".
"How do you pay?"
"In cash".
"Here is your ticket for Sunday."
"But I can't leave on Sunday, I don't have a visa!"
On Friday I go to the Indian Consulate. The Indians there hate India, they really try to discourage you.
"Why are you going to India? We spent so many years trying to get out of India. You don't want to go to India!"
"Yes I want to go to India. What kind of visa application?"
They told me to go into another room to find the Visa Applications which were on the floor in a pile.
"Here it is".
"Come back tomorrow," the guy said.
So I came back on Saturday. The plane left on Sunday February 28th, 1971.
I left a chit to my parents: "I am going to India".
I arrived in the Ashram. I just came from that Tibetan Buddhism center in Vermont which was very cold, so I arrived at the Ashram with an Icelandic wool hat on, a woollen lumber jacket, back pack and a guitar, dressed for winter. At the Ashram gate they saw me and they freaked
"Go away, go away!"
"Where should I go?"
"Take him some place," they told the rickshaw.
The rickshaw took me to some lodge, Anavasyam Lodge, which turned out to be this ugly building with green shutterswhich I had visualized earlier at Lama Foundation.
So my trip coming here in hindsight was guided forcefully because I am still pretty stupid but I was really stupid then, really an unconscious person, and to get here took something else. I would never have made it.
I went to see her. Before we were allowed up there, her secretaries came down the stairs, like Counouma who came literally creeping down the staircase, and looked really scary. There seemed to be a very strange kind of cult thing surrounding her. It was hard to have access. But when she touched me, she changed my whole personality, from this uptight New-York Jewish guy into something else.
And lots of people who meet me say, "Roy has such a good energy".
It is not my energy they feel, it's hers. It has always been like that. If anything, because I am a simple person, she put something in me physically that people feel - those who are open to me,
they feel this.
The thing I am sure everyone who came early will tell you, is that the vibration of the Mother here was so strong and physical that you could not think of leaving. Now everyone goes out for the summer because it is hot. In those days we would not leave for a second because it was totally happening and you would not like to miss one moment.
You had these experiences, and after a few days Mother would say, "Oh, yes, something came down and did this..." You felt it. Her Being was so big and powerful and present that you would not even dream of... .
Why leave? So it is a lot different now than it was.
I stayed in Pondy for a couple of months, then I got directed to Auroville. I lived in Silence, where Bharat Nivas is now. There was Larry, who came the same day I did, and Jaap and Lisbeth who also came the same day I did. Black Krishna was there, big Jocelyn and
Constance and Daniel. Minu had a hut that was only big enough for a bed. She had a big framed sign that said "Sincerity", that the Mother wrote to her. When she left Silence, she moved over to Gene Maslow's place (which is where Sincerity is now), and she brought the sign Sincerity over to there. So they called the place Sincerity.
It was an interesting time.
I was very young when I came. In fact, the oldest persons in Auroville were Frederick and Shyama and Francis. They were the adults. The rest of the people were my age, like twenty. The whole place was run by kids basically.
Besides the other aspects, it was really fun. It was an amazing place where you would feel totally
comfortable as a young person. There was no one to tell you what to do. So we did every stupid thing you can imagine. It did not matter. It felt very experimental: we try this, it does not work, so what?
We were living in the middle of the fields, sleeping in the fields, there were no trees. The water used to come by kattavandi. We would wait and see in the distance the kattavandi coming with the water. It was timeless. There was no electricity, no village music. It was still the ragi
culture here; there was this amazing cycle of timelessness. I don't know if you have ever ploughed a field with bullocks, it is an amazing feeling. Watching them is different, but if you do it yourself, you feel an amazing security. This is a wonderful thing, ploughing the field. It is so
ancient. India was really incredible. Now with TV and everything it is totally ruined. It is not the same thing.
A year before Mother died, I was living in the Matrimandir workers camp. I had this very vivid dream where I went to the Samadhi and there was a long line of people. I waited in line, and I went in and there was the Mother lying dead. So I go up to her, I kiss her feet and all this energy comes out. I thought: She is not dead.
Then I woke up. Larry who was living next door came in, looking the way Larry looks when he is in a state of shock. He said: "I just dreamt that the Mother died!" I went to see Pandit and I said, "I just dreamed that the Mother died." –
"Ah! this is in the atmosphere, you know!" like: forget about it.
One year later I was in Pondy. I used to play Go with this Chinese man, Fan Chan Hsu, who lived in the Ashram and was translating Sri Aurobindo into Chinese. He was a very special kind of person. He once told me he could look at somebody and tell if he was going to die or not. I said, "Oh it's interesting!" He said that well, it wasn't interesting, because when the Japanese had invaded China, everywhere he looked he saw people about to die.
He came to Pondy in 1949 to study Sanskrit. The Red Chinese took over and he could not go back to China because he came from an aristocratic background. He would have been executed or sent to a camp. I used to play Go, which is a Chinese game, with him.
On November 17th, in the middle of the game, he stands up and says, "Let's stop playing". I looked at the clock: it was7.25. He says, "It would be good if she could live up to a hundred." Then I went to a place called Aurovilla where little Jocelyn had a kind of guest-house. I was sleeping on the roof, billions of mosquitoes, it was impossible to sleep. When the sun rose I was so happy to get up and go to the Ashram.
There was a long line of people, it was like in my dream, she was lying in state... When I saw her, she looked totally different than the picture they show you now: she was quite erect and her head was up, and she was still in her trance. There was a picture [like this] that they posted in the Ashram briefly, but then it disappeared and they put the other one, where her head is down, on
her chest. I've always been trying to get that picture but no one knows where it is. In this picture, she looks incredible, in a different state - not dead, in a complete trance state. Satprem wrote about all that. It was my experience also, that she wasn't dead, she was in a trance. She
shouldn't have been touched or moved for a while at least but then they brought her downstairs and disturbed everything.
After that happened, I was in a total state of shock, because that was not supposed to happen. We had a belief system that was total commitment at that time, so it was impossible. Then Nolini came out with his statement saying the transformation has been postponed! I freaked out a little more: like the whole thing is over, that's it.
Still we had this faith that it was not finished.
Then these incredible years began. The war with the Sri Aurobindo Society started in 1975. From that point on, another thing kept us here, which was this fight for freedom.
It was such a together thing. A lot of people got messed up, but at the time it was like no question, we felt so strong. When it started, it was a shock not only because of their hostility, but that it could even happen in Auroville.
Now I feel more compassion for Nava and everybody. Everyone is an instrument for the Divine, which uses whatever it can, so there is no blame. People did what they did.
I guess everybody was sincere.
But the attacks on Auroville - I felt they have been happening since the very early days. We used to have occult attacks that every night people experienced in their body. These were intense experiences. We had to stay really focused on Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, whoever one felt closest to, and shield ourselves, because the hostility was incredible, totally penetrating. Auroville has been under that kind of hostility since the time I came
In Letters on Yoga, Sri Aurobindo says "You should not criticize the Ashram, because it is a creation of the Mother." And it is the same thing for Auroville: It is Her creation and it is difficult to justify criticizing things because we are not really conscious of how She is developing Auroville.
When Krishna calls you to wish you a happy birthday, it is such a nice thing. Last time he called me, I told him, "As long as I can hear your voice say Happy Birthday, I know everything is good." I feel like that, because a little bit of personality makes such a huge difference. When
Kireet first came, he said that when one wrote to Sri Aurobindo, they used to bring his reply by hand to the person, so the people in the Ashram felt some contact with him, physically.
Kireet had the idea of a Unity Council: a group of people that would make everyone feel known. They would know your birthday; they would come and see you, like the Ganges flowing with goodwill into the community, all the time, all the time, all the time. Later it switched to
something else, but it was a great idea, a simple idea...
From a conversation with Roy
TURNING POINTS published by Auroville Press Publishers
Link: http://afforestationauroville.blogspot.in/2013/05/energyit-is-not-my-energy.html
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Property from a Private American Collection
John Graham (1886-1961)
Still Life
signed and dated 'Graham/927' (lower left)
oil on glass
20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm.)
Washburn Gallery, New York.
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E. Green, John Graham: Artist and Avatar, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 28.
Born Ivan Gratianovitch Dombrowski on December 27, 1886 in Warsaw, the artist now known as John D. Graham would change his name after moving to New York in 1920. Details of the artist's early life in Poland and Russia are sketchy due in equal part to poor documentation and Graham's penchant for self-propagation, which he would continue throughout his life, creating and projecting a mythical persona. In New York, he enrolled in the Art Students League where he met fellow students Adolph Gottlieb, Alexander Calder, Barnett Newman and Elinor Gibson, whom he married in 1924. Gibson was from a wealthy Baltimore family and introduced Graham to sisters Etta and Claribel Cone, the city's most prominent collectors of contemporary art, who became the artist's first patrons.
Graham painted Still Life in 1927, an important year for the artist both personally and professionally that marked his United States citizenship and the first museum acquisition of his work with Duncan Phillips' purchase of Blue Bay (1927, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C). Graham had just approached the point in his career at which he was gaining critical recognition on both sides of the Atlantic when he painted the present work. Although he produced still lifes from the mid-1920s through the 1940s, Still Life is the only known work on glass by the artist, making it a rare and striking table top composition. In addition to the various elements--including a guitar, a pitcher, a playing card, a book and a checker board--Graham has transcribed all but the last stanza of his poem C'est Moi:
Ecoutez Moi, le Barbare
Je suis le génie de trios arts
Et Je vous prendrai
Dans les bazaars de l'univers
Ecoutez Moi,
Je suis monsieur le bourreau de Paris
Je marche planter des crachats
Sur l'echautillon de votre âme
Pourie et hypocrite
Vous pleurerez vos larmes
Vous tomberez à genoux
Me voyant passer
La Cinquième Avenue
Debout en chariot
Claquant mon fouet
Entouré de vaches
Je m'approche de l'est
Renersant vos idols
Guerisant vos pestes.
Tout le monde dehors
Gonflez les avenues
Tombez à genoux
Pleurez vos larmes,
Glorifiez moi-
Don Juan et Apache
Listen to me, the barbarian
I am the genius of three arts
And I will take you
Into the bazaars of the universe.
Listen to me!
I am Monsieur the Butcher of Paris
I walk dribbling spittle
On the core of your soul
Prurient and hypocritical
You will cry your tears
You will fall to your knees
Seeing me pass
On Fifth Avenue
Driving my chariot,
Cracking my whip
Herding the cows.
I come from the east
Shattering your idols
Healing your plagues.
Everyone abroad
Swelling the avenue
Fall to your knees
Cry your tears,
Glorify me-
Don Juan and Apache
The inclusion of this poem, which manifests Graham's public tendency towards self-aggrandizement, makes Still Life a highly personal work and partial self-portrait.
C'est Moi is included in the artist's book Have It!, which was published in 1923 and is a "'slim volume' of poems in French and English, [that] is an odd document, a pastiche of partially digested influences ranging from French Symbolism to contemporary American." (E. Green, John Graham: Artist and Avatar, Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 28) This range of intellectual sources is typical of the diverse, international interests that would come to characterize Graham's work and philosophy.
Green goes on to discuss the poem as well as the present work, which was unlocated at the publication of her book, John Graham: Artist and Avatar in 1987: "In 'C'est moi,' which is a flagrant display of Graham's nearly obscene arrogance, he revealed a side of his personality that he usually kept masked. He liked this poem enough to inscribe it in mirror writing on a painting whose present location is unknown...This cocky assertion of superiority corresponds to Graham's claim that he was born the son of Jupiter, to be worshipped, but it is the earliest blatant manifestation of the tyrannical, sadistic side of his personality." (pp. 28-29) This aspect of Graham's persona would reappear in works throughout his oeuvre.


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For People – With People. Since 1984 people like you have provided services that feed and nurture – both physically and emotionally – the wellness of those in need living in Ottawa's Carlington Area. Please help:
- Feed more than 500 families per month with nutritious food.
- Promote healthy happy babies by providing baby food, formula, and diapers.
- Nurture early childhood intellectual development by loaning out educational toys.
- Provide clothing and household supplies at an affordable cost.
- Teach invaluable skills like healthy cooking and sewing.
- Make the loneliness and isolation go away.
- Make getting hired more achievable.
- Teach English as a second language to newcomers.
- Assist newcomers to settle in.
- Inspire kids to stay in school and out of trouble.
"Poverty is not only a deprivation of economic or material resources but a violation of human dignity."
– Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Poverty is prevalent in the Carlington neighbourhood where Caldwell Family Centre is located. Overall 32% of families are low income compared to the city average of 11%[i]. There is a large concentration of social housing with a staggering 110 units per 1,000 people in Carlington, compared to the Ottawa average of only 24 per 1,000. There are over 3,000 children 14 years of age and under living in the area; more than 500 over the average Ottawa neighbourhood. 363 children age 6 and under are living in low income families compared to 89 in the average Ottawa neighbourhood.
You can make a difference. Help to provide food, training, and social supports by giving a donation or by giving your time. Your donations of used clothing and household goods will go directly to those who need these Items. Please help to restore dignity.


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THESE are the first images of Liverpool's new stunning John Lewis department store, destined for the Paradise Street redevelopment area.
The building, which will be the largest John Lewis shop outside London, will replace the partnership's home in Church Street.
Directors of the group and the developers, Grosvenor, last night signed on the dotted line for the multi-million pound store.
Work will start on the foundations before the end of this year, with major construction due to get under way early in the New Year.
The store is one of the key anchor developments in the #750m redevelopment scheme by Grosvenor.
Last night, the leader of Liverpool City Council, Cllr Mike Storey, said: "The plans for the John Lewis store are stunning and I am delighted that we are getting such a high calibre development in the heart of our city.
"It has been delivered in record time with private sector money. Grosvenor's development is unlike anything that has happened before. There will not be a glass covered mall, but a scheme that respects the existing architecture and mixes it with stunning new architecture that will be of a high quality.
"The start of this development will confound the cynics because this really is happening. Advance work has already started on the Paradise Street site and everything is on target."
On November 27 the chairman of Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster, will be in Liverpool for a formal ground-breaking ceremony to kick-start what will be Europe's biggest city centre redevelopment scheme.
By then workmen will already be on site.
John Lewis will be the biggest tenant in the redevelopment with a store of 240,000 sq ft due to open in 2008.
The existing store employs around 600 people and the new larger store is expected to generate more jobs.
The London-based group say its new Liverpool store will represent "the next generation of John Lewis department stores."
Christopher Glenn, managing director of John Lewis in Liverpool, said: "This multi-million pound investment demonstrates John Lewis's commitment to the regeneration of Liverpool city centre.
"We have traded here for over 60 years and are all delighted at the prospect of offering an exciting new department store."
John Lewis first became a presence in Liverpool when it bought George Henry Lee's store from Selfridges in the 1940s. George Henry Lee had started the shop in Liverpool in the 1850s before selling the business to Selfridges.
Rod Holmes of Grosvenor, said "This sends out a strong message about the huge importance of the John Lewis project to Liverpool."


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Excellence in health care depends on the philanthropic spirit of individuals, businesses, and foundations. At South Shore Hospital, we gratefully recognize the contributions of our donors at special events, in our publications, and through plaques and certificates.
A committee of donors and other friends has helped us structure a Donor Appreciation program that appropriately recognizes the generosity of our donors.
Please call 781-624-8600 for more information.


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10 µCi quantities of [4-14C]-Isopentenyl Pyrophosphate, Triammonium Salt are available for your research. Application of [14C]IPP can be found in: isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase deficiency in cyanobacteria, effect of different allylic diphosphates on the initiation of new rubber molecules, purification, properties and heteromeric association of type-1 and type-2 FPPSs, activation and inhibition of rubber transferases by metal cofactors and pyrophosphate substrates, etc.
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A new study by scientists in the Gulf of Mexico finds that oil from the worst offshore oil spill in history is settling on the sea floor, where it is harming critical microscopic organisms.
Researchers at the University of South Florida issued the report on the impact of the BP oil spill Tuesday.
They said oil from the leak appears to have seeped into an underwater canyon east of the ruptured BP well, where they say it is killing small plants and bacteria. The plants, called phytoplankton, are a critical part of the food chain for several species of fish.
On Monday, a team of scientists at the University of Georgia said a review of government data showed that almost 80 percent of the oil from the BP leak remains in the Gulf - much higher than government estimates.
U.S. officials have said that only about a quarter of the spilled crude remains in the water.
The commercial shrimping season opened Monday in the Gulf state of Louisiana. The Associated Press said many shrimpers reported large catches that were free of oil.
Also Monday, the U.S. Interior Department said it is toughening environmental reviews for all new deepwater oil drilling.
Oil first began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico after an April 20 explosion on a BP well that killed 11 workers. BP capped the well in mid-July and the British-based company has been engaged in a massive clean-up effort.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and Bloomberg.


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Sunday, 19 August 2018
Air Date: Saturday 04 February 2017
Guest: Robert Fisk
Host: Steve Woods (Stevoe)
Studio Contributor: Debi Davis
Executive Producer: Emily Sullivan (Sully)
Robert Fisk of Maine Friends of Animals (MFOA) didn't start his career planning to help animals, but it seems he plans on ending that way. Fisk, an Exeter, NH native, was an athlete: a physical education major, a college basketball coach, and the owner of the Portland Athletic Club. He says he's always been "politically inclined," so he decided to run for state legislature in 1997 and did a 2-year stint in Augusta which was his first step in animal welfare advocacy.
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The MSSPA web site states that the Society was originally formed in
1872 to protect the horses which pulled Portland's
streetcars and fire engines. Please give an overview of how it has
evolved to today's
largest equine facility in New England.
Society was formed to provide "after
and protection for horses who then pulled the streetcars and fire
engines in Portland. Following the advent and widespread use of the
gasoline engine, there were virtually no horses in need of MSSPA
services. For a period of time the organization was moribund and
though it maintained an office on Exchange Street, it primarily
raised money for other animal welfare organizations such as the
Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland.
State's propping up harness racing industry makes less and less sense
By Robert Fisk, Jr.
Special to Portland Press Herald
Published January 7, 2017
FALMOUTH — Colin Woodard's thorough piece ("Casino funds could offer hope for retired harness racing horses," Dec. 18) raises another issue: subsidizing a dying business. Maine's harness racing industry continues in steady decline despite an $8.44 million taxpayer subsidy in 2015 and similar annual allocations from slot machine revenue since 2005.
Maine Voices: Elephants won't forget that a long crusade on their behalf began here
The Maine House was the nation's first to oppose a barbaric and outdated circus practice.
By Robert Fisk, Jr.
Special to Portland Press Herald
Published April 30, 2016
FALMOUTH — On Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is scheduled to have its last performance using elephants. The 146-year-old tradition, which has been deeply ingrained in our culture, will end.
The past three decades have been a tumultuous time for Feld Entertainment, the parent company for Ringling circuses, as the public learned how circus elephants are trained, kept, used and disposed of. The plight of these great creatures grew into a major issue within the animal protection movement.
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Ray Kurzweil reveals plans for 'linguistically fluent' Google software
August 4, 2017
Ray Kuzweil, a director of engineering at Google, reveals plans for a future version of Google's "Smart Reply" machine-learning email software (and more) in a Wired article by Tom Simonite published Wednesday (Aug. 2, 2017).
Running on mobile Gmail and Google Inbox, Smart Reply suggests up to three replies to an email message, saving typing time or giving you ideas for a better reply.
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Vietnam Visa
Visa to Cambodia, Laos and Thailand is easier to obtain now, you could apply for visa at the arrival airport, while apply visa to Vietnam and Myanmar is bit more complicated. Visitors have to apply Visa in advance to enter Myanmar and Vietnam. Below are some information about Visa to these countries. For more information, please contact one of our Travel Consultants for further help...
Once you book tour with us, we will make all preparation and get you free Vietnam Visa Approval Letter, We will send to you by Fax or Email. Please Contact Us for further help
VIETNAM VISAMost visitors to Vietnam require a visa to enter the country.
Visas are exempted for the citizens of the countries listed below:
- Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia and Laos (30 day visa).
- Brunei, Myanmar (14 day visa).
- Philippines (21 day visa).
- Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Norway, Russia, Denmark and Finland (15 day visa; required to hold a passport valid for at least 6 months on arrival and also must make 30 day pause between two arrivals).
- United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain (15 day visa).
- Belarus (15 day visa. This visa waiver is valid until 30 June 2020).
- Kyrgyzstan (30 day visa).
- Chilean citizens holding valid diplomatic passports are exempt from visa requirements (90 days).
- Citizens of China, Cuba and North Korea holding normal passports endorsed "for public affairs" do not require a visa for Vietnam.
- APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) Holders from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies are exempted to stay within 60 days without visa.
- Those who directly visit Phu Quoc Island without a visa for up to 30 days. Foreigners and Vietnamese nationals bearing foreign passports who enter Vietnam through an international border gate and then travel to Phu Quoc Island and stay in Phu Quoc less than 30 days will also be granted Vietnam visa exemption. After arriving in Phu Quoc Island, if visitors want to travel to other localities or stay in the island for more than 15 days, the immigration department will be responsible for issuing visas right on the spot.
Vietnam's visa waiver policy is eligible for passport holders of Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, France, Germany, Italia, Spain. Accordingly, those come from these countries are currently allowed to stay in Vietnam for only 15 days per visit and wait for at least 30 days if you want to apply for the next entry.
So in case citizen from those countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, France, Germany, Italia and Spain) wants to stay in Vietnam for more than 15 days or entry Vietnam more than once in less than 30 days, you should apply for single entry visa 30 days valid or multiple entry visas as other.
Visa Approval Letter processing fee:
1 - One-month Single-entry Visa: 15 USD.
2 - One-month Multiple-entry Visa: 30 USD.
- The above rate does not cover the Visa Stamp Fee, which must be paid at the arrival airport to immigration officers: 25 USD Single Entry or 50 USD Multiple Entry.
I. Travel Vietnam's Visa Service:
Travelers with Travel Vietnam receive a complimentary Visa Approval Letter to make your trip a little easier! A Travel consultant will prepare the necessary paperwork and send you the letter either by email or fax.
Once you've received your Visa Approval Letter you have two options through which to obtain your Vietnam visa: To save your time at Immigration, please print out and fill in the VISA FORM in advance.
Option 1: Take your Vietnam Visa Approval Letter and get the visa stamp at the Vietnamese Embassy or Consulate in your home country.
Option 2: Get your visa on arrival at the airport in Vietnam. Visa on arrival is the easiest option, especially if you are pressed for time or have no Vietnamese Embassies in your area. Just bring a copy of your visa approval letter (you may be required to show this when you board the airplane) and a passport size photo. Upon arrival in Vietnam show these forms at the Visa on Arrival counter and pay the immigration officers the stamp fee:
* 25 USD for single entry (<30 days),
* 50 USD for multiple entries up to 90 days,
* 95 USD multiple entries from 90 days to 180 days,
* 135 USD for multiple entries from 180 days to 365 days (cash only).
(Please note that the visa on arrival option is not applicable to Chinese citizens. Chinese citizens will need to get their visa stamp at the Vietnamese Embassy in China before being allowed to enter Vietnam)
Choose the option that suits you best, and then send us the following information:
- Your Name (As printed in your Passport):
- Gender:
- Date of Birth:
- Passport Number:
- Expiration Date:
- Nationality:
- Date of Entry:
- Copy of your passport: (scan and e-mail)
We will submit this information to the Vietnam Immigration Office and get your visa approval letter within 3 (three) to 4 (four) business days.
- The Visa On Arrival to Vietnam only works when you arrive by plane to the International Airports of HCM City, Hanoi, Danang, Nha Trang.
If you travel via land (boat or drive) from Laos or Cambodia to Vietnam, please have the Visa in advance because service of Vietnam Immigration Offices at Vietnam borders (in Vinh Suong - Chau Doc or in Moc Bai) is complicated and slow.
- Citizen of following countries must pay 70 USD per visa to the Immigration of Vietnam:
II. E-Visa Service:
An electronic visa (E-visa) is one of visa types issued to foreigners by Vietnamese Immigration Department visa electronic system. Vietnam E-visa is valid for maximum of 30 days, single entry.
Outside Vietnam foreigners who want to enter Vietnam can personally apply for E-visa or through the inviting/ guaranteeing agencies and organizations.
E-visa fee (25 USD) is paid via electronic payment gateway as prescribed by the Immigration Department. The fee will not be refunded in case the applicant is refused to grant e-visa.
Applicants are required to complete a form available on two separate websites (one in Vietnamese and the other in English) run by the Ministry of Public Security. It takes three working days for tourists to find out if their applications have been approved or not, according to the directive. Successful applicants will be able to print off their e-visas to present when they arrive.
Visitors can touch down at any of Vietnam's eight international airports, including Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City, Noi Bai in Hanoi and Da Nang in the central region. Visitors can also arrive via land at 13 international border gates, and via sea at seven ports across the country.
Conditions for being granted e-visa:
- Outside Vietnam foreigners;
- Holding valid passport;
- Not falling into the cases of suspension from entry prescribed in Article 21 of Law on foreigners' entry into, exit from, transit through, residence in Vietnam.
1. For outside Vietnam foreigners, click here,
2. For inviting, guaranteeing authority/organization, click here,
3. For airlines, click here.
E-visa holders in Vietnam may be considered to grant new visa if being invited/guaranteed by authority/ organization/ individual in Vietnam in accordance with Law on foreigners' entry into, exit from, transit through, residence in Vietnam.
Foreigners who entry Vietnam must comply with Vietnamese law.
Inviting/guaranteeing foreigners in accordance with Section 1, Article 16, Law on foreigners' entry into, exit from, transit through, residence in Vietnam; can be applied through electronic system (click here).
List of Countries that allowed E-visa issuing.
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The city spent more than $150,000 on police, fire and jail overtime and other costs during the University of Kentucky men's basketball team's NCAA Tournament run.
Public Safety Commissioner Clay Mason said Tuesday that it's unlikely that police, fire or the jail will have to ask for additional money to pay for those overtime costs.
Other costs include replacing stolen street signs.
The city released the final tally of $150,254 on Tuesday. The costs were incurred during the weekends of March 28 to 31 and Final Four weekend, April 5 to 7.
Mason said the city cut some overtime costs by better scheduling of officers to work games. Kentucky State Police also helped Lexington and university police during the championship game.
Still, overtime for police, approximately $113,424, was the biggest chunk of the money.
The city also spent roughly $14,000 replacing damaged or stolen street signs. Community corrections racked up $7,800 in overtime costs, and fire and emergency services had $10,694 in overtime.


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Before I begin to write about how to buy gold coins, the first thing you need to determine is the size of the coins you're looking to buy. Below you will find a chart with displaying the weights of different coins. All coins are in troy ounce.
Gold Coin weights: 1 oz. – 1/2 oz – 1/4 oz. – 1/10 oz – 1/20 oz. ( Canadian Royal Mint )
The above list of coins contains the most common found on the market today. The 1 oz. coins carry the cheapest premium over spot. The smaller coins tend to carry higher premiums. The reason for the price increase is due to the manufacturing of the coins. I have heard the Royal Canadian Mint will reject 30%+ of the 1/20 oz gold coins they produce; this is very costly and time consuming, so the cost to buy the coins increases. Also contributing to the price, Government mint gold coins are VERY precise in dimensions and for good reason: this makes counterfeit coins easy to detect.
If you're looking to buy small (fractional) gold coins for "barter", as I have heard many people asking about, buy a couple ounces worth of fractional gold coins. Don't buy only 1/10 or 1/20 ounce gold coins as the premium over spot is VERY expensive and in my opinion you are wasting money. The bulk of your gold coin investment should be in 1 oz gold coins. Also DO NOT BUY GRADED COINS OR PRE 1933 GOLD COINS!!! If you are looking to invest in gold, and not rare coins, stick with the basic gold bullion coins. If you're on the phone with a dealer telling you to buy graded or collectable coins HANG UP THE PHONE. You should not feel uncomfortable when calling to ask questions – if you do, hang up and call another dealer.
Best gold coins to buy
For some reason people in the United States feel they must buy Gold American Eagle Coins. While the United States mint does make beautiful and consistent gold coins, I would recommend looking at the Canadian Maple Leaf gold coin as an option. The Canadian Maple Leaf is a 24 kt. gold coin, versus 22 kt. for the American Eagle Coins ( this means pure gold, more on why this could be important later). BOTH coins contain one troy ounce of gold but the American Eagle coin contains 3% silver and 5.33% copper as well. Many people, when buying gold coins, prefer to own solid gold (Asian buyers seem to really prefer 24 kt. gold, much more so than US and Canadian buyers). For this reason the American Eagle coin is slightly larger than the Canadian Maple Leaf coin. Not to mention the fact that the United States Mint has a higher premium on the Gold Eagle compared to the Royal Canadian Mint. Last time I checked ( Aug. 2012 ) the US Mint was charging 3% over spot for a 1 oz. gold Eagle to wholesalers, while those same whoesalers (buying in bulk) can obtain Maple Leaf coins for around $25.00 over spot. So at a spot price of $1,700 the US Mint is charging $51 to wholesalers while the Royal Mint is charging around $25. These savings can be passed on to you the customer simply by purchasing the proper coins.
Buying pure gold coins
Another reason I recommend buying gold maples, if the public begins selling coins and overwhelms the buying capacity of bullion dealers and wholesalers the coins need to go somewhere. The last line of defensive for coin dealers is the COMEX (which requires 24 carat 0.995+ fineness) and jewelers (produce rings and such). If you have a 24 kt gold coin they can easily be melted down for jewelry and made into COMEX-approved bars. If you have a 22 kt. coin ( American Eagle ), the coins would need to be refined. Refining costs money and would make them a less attractive option to the bullion buyer should such a selling pressure take place. Again I am not saying this is going to happen, just trying to help prevent a problem, if it were to happen. Not only can you save money while buying gold Maple Leafs you are getting pure gold coins. For this reason I would recommend buying the Maple Leaf coins.


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Brain-imaging study links cannabinoid receptors to post-traumatic stress disorder cure
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Blair Anderson
IMHO prohibition sentiment requires inherent addiction to status quo, an incapacity to visualise beyond the here and now and a desperate desire to know others might feel the same... Reform is not revolutionary, rather it is evolutionary. Having survived banging your head against a brick wall the evolutionist relishes having stopped. / Blair
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The bid
We're on the right road,
the stakes getting higher
I'm bled out from trying
To keep it together
The luck that befalls us
Has bent over sightly
More than waht you
were willing to give me
The bid can never get so high...
I don't think you notice me
Don`t know who I really am
Maybe if yoy lost me
You would see...
Maybe you're over
this hyper-ambition
It takes more than you
to create an opinion
I'm too proud to understand
experience's messages.
That few thing in real life
prove to be ageless.
The bid can never get so high...
I don't think you notice me.
Don't know who I really am,
Maybe if you lost me
You would see...


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Elizabeth Olsen: 'Liberal Arts' Premiere with Josh Radnor!
Elizabeth Olsen flashes her smile at the premiere of Liberal Arts held at Eccles Center Theatre on Sunday (January 22) in Park City, Utah.
The 22-year-old actress, who wore AG jeans and a Jewelmint necklace, met up with her co-star Josh Radnor on the carpet for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival screening!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Elizabeth Olsen
Lizzie plays a college student who falls in love with Josh's character, but their wide age difference strains their love.
Zac Efron also stars in the flick.
Also pictured inside: Lizzie at the T-Mobile Google Music Village at The Lift and at the Liberal Arts Premiere Party hosted by Chase Sapphire.


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musing: thoughts on X100F as an upgrade from X100T (the good, the bad, and the ugly)
Other posts I wrote prior to this one regarding the X100F: Stealth thumb grip, Fuji case vs Gariz case, X100F Sugru focusing tab, dust proof X100F viewfinder, USB camera battery charger, stacking WCL and TCL converter lenses, convert TCL/WCL I into version II
In Jan 2017, Fuji released the next successor to the x100 series, bringing with it welcoming changes that I've always hoped the x100 series would have. During January, I was in China and I didn't think about purchasing the X100F (yet). In April of 2017, while in Tokyo, I was browsing camera store out of habit and had learned of the last X100F in the area surrounding Tokyo and decided to immediately purchase the it. Since then, having both cameras side by side, I was able to compare the two cameras to arrive to these observations and conclusions.
I've been a shooter of all of the previous version of the cameras of the X100 series, and I feel as if the camera is finally ready to play alongside with DSLRs. Many things have changed over the 4 iterations the X100 has gone through, some more important to me than others. For me, the more important aspects of the camera is no other than the speed and the operation of it in practical real world applications.
I don't own any other x series cameras, so even though I know the focusing system is adopted from other higher end cameras in the series, it's still entirely new to me.
X100S improved autofocus over X100 by a bunch. Back when the X100S came out, it was advertised for being so much faster and having noticeable improvements in performance over the original X100. Comparing to DSLRs at the time, it was still slow and inaccurate. I have been using full frame Nikon DSLRs exclusively and there was really no comparison. Two years later, I've upgraded to X100T and while there were few bells and whistles added, the autofocus was still suffering slightly comparing to DSLRs, especially at night. The X100T had adequate focus speeds that I still had to somewhat adapt to every time I use it. For these years since the original X100, I've adopted my shooting style to the temperament of the camera. That meant whenever I picked up the X100, it was for a static scene. I wouldn't be able to rely on it during anything hectic. I would default to my Ricoh GRII with snap focus during a chaotic scene. With the X100F, I finally can have a camera that responds and focus the way I like it to.
In DSLRs and other PD AF cameras, there is often a rhythm (snap) between the half-press of the shutter to the focus lock. The rhythm is noticeable for a fraction of a second but it's constantly there, beating in the background and being slightly out of sync than what one is used to always make it frustrating. The earlier cameras in the X100 series, I must really slow my mentality down to make it work, I can't actively jump into a situation and expect the focusing of the X100 cameras to work. With the X100S, I once was on a subway in Shanghai and witnessed people arguing and throwing things around. I was quick enough to pick up the camera but when I half pressed the shutter button the camera decides to hunt and hunt for focus when usually there shouldn't be a problem with a DSLR. Now I can jump into these situations without worrying too much about the camera not being able to perform under pressure.
The autofocus points also have gotten a huge upgrade. No longer am I afraid to shoot by the hip and miss using the camera. Wide AF mode covers the entire viewable area and even zone AF points can cover a considerably larger square on the sensor (the entire height of the sensor in a square).
You might or might not have noticed the MACRO mode is now missing on the X100F. It's not missing really, but because with the new AF system, there is no longer a need for the MACRO button. The camera is fast enough to focus far and then close, without much hunting.
Also, I've noticed a new mode with the AF system called AF+MF. It's similar to what you can do on modern SWM and G lenses. You can have the camera lock focus and then use the focus ring to change or fine-tune focus, while having the shutter button half pressed.
In the previous versions of the X100 cameras, there exists menu options to specifically configure the performance of the OVF and the camera response, most likely configurable to maximize the battery life. In the menus of the X100F, those options are simplified into HIGH, STANDARD, and ECONOMY. With the new, larger capacity battery, I can leave the camera on HIGH and still not worried about it chewing through battery too quickly. At worst, I will carry the same number of batteries with me as before and still retain the highest performance.
With the new processor, there is also less slowdowns when using advanced filters, and generally the camera is more responsive to controls with less freezes.
The sensor now has 24MP instead of 16MP. Usually it doesn't make a huge different, though now cropping is easier, and using it as a backup of a backup on commercial jobs is more of a possibility because of the higher resolution files. It also bridges the gap to my DSLR for work (the D810 has 36MP). At night, the camera performs better not only in focus but also sensitivity. ISO performance is by at least a stop in the usable range. I can set the auto ISO up to 6400 and still get very usable files.
With the new sensor (and processor) you can now shoot in ACROS! It's great if you shoot JPG, having contrasty JPGs straight out of camera, and is a welcome addition to the Chrome we've gotten since the X100F. If you shoot RAW like I do, it'll be a nice in camera preview for you to match your post processing to later.
Compressed RAW is now available with the X100F and Lightroom recognizes it. The file is compressed using lossless compression, shaving the file size in half. Now the 24MP file is slightly larger than the 16MP file on the X100T, a great addition.
Digital teleconverter is a fun feature, though not very useful for someone who shoots all RAW like me. It's good for getting and idea of what a crop or zoom would be like using said focal lengths, in a pinch. However, I have to say it's quite cute when you see a 100mm box inside the optical viewfinder when you've dialed the TCL-X100 to x2 using the digital teleconverter.
When it comes to added buttons and configurable menu options, I now finally have extra slots open in the Q menu, whereas before there were features I had to omit to make the more important ones immediately available.
All the controls moved from the left side of the screen to the right of the screen. Not necessarily a bad thing, but we did lose the WIFI button which I use a lot, to make room for the joystick.
I've grown used to using center AF and refocus on the previous X100 cameras, just because changing focus points is a huge process involving lots of clicking and pushing. With the joystick I can use to quickly change focus points. It's so new that I often forget it's there. As of now, I must constantly remind myself to use it when necessary.
The ISO dial is nice because there is now physical controls associated with each corner of the exposure triangle (aperture, shutter speed, ISO), and not having it on a button makes it slightly less confusing (and annoying) during operation. Before, it was very annoying to switch ISO on the fly, so I left it on Auto and forgot about it, now I can change it without referring to the screen.
Drive button is now on the up side of the 4 way buttons, I almost never accessed it before having it being in such a weird place (near the thumbrest on X100T). Though with the higher FPS, AF tracking and higher resolution compressed RAWs, I can occasionally use the burst function a bit more liberally.
View mode button has moved next to the viewfinder, which I find makes A LOT more sense ergonomically, for single handed operation.
AFL button is also in a better place, to the left of the wheel. For those of us who are used to back button AF, this is a welcomed addition that makes operating this camera much more natural.
The camera is still difficult to grip without any modifications, here I use a simple and un-intrusive mod to make the camera a lot more grippable.
TCL and WCL:
I am a huge user of the converter lenses, and it has been a consistent pain to change the lens profile through the menu each time I put on (or take off) the lenses. Often, I forget to change it and end up with an overcorrected RAW file in camera (changing it applies in camera distortion correction). Eventually I assigned a button dedicated to changing the lens profiles on the X100F and even then, I still sometime forget to change the profile in the heat of the moment. Now, through simple yet clever engineering, they've added a magnetically activated switch inside the lens barrel. It uses different polarity of the magnet inside the TCL-X100II and the WCL-X100II to communicate with the camera what lens is installed. Optically the I and the II lenses are identical, the only thing added is a magnet switch. If you're crafty, you can add a 1x2mm magnet to the inside of the older lenses to make them trigger the camera like the new lenses. I use this trick to stack the two lenses.
For those of you who are upgrading and still have V1 of the lens, use this modification to make your lens auto-detectable.
In X100T, the WIFI was a welcoming addition I didn't know I needed. Though I've grown to really use it when I need to be discreet. Using the smartphone to control the camera is even better than having and articulate screen. I can hang the camera on my side and still through while looking like I'm being distracted on my phone. I have been having problems with the newer versions of the Fuji app using the older camera. It could be due to the more complicated interface and control options in the latest version of the app. With the X100F though, I have not had any problems yet and I seems to get more control of the camera through WIFI (whereas before all I can change was EXP COMP and aperture, now I get a myriad of options including size, quality, film modes, highlights / shadows, and more). The photo below was taken with the Wifi function on. I was literally sitting with arms reach of her, and can't really look through the viewfinder or the screen and look like I'm taking photos.
THINGS I KEEP HOPING TO GET FIXED (but has been broken for 3 generations, LISTEN UP FUJI)
Seems like maybe I am a part of a very small group of user who always has a broken X100 after a year and half. I'm using it regularly, turning the camera on and off while pulling and putting it in and out of my camera bag. After 3 iterations of cameras, I keep finding same flaws happening to every version of the camera I had before the X100F.
On and off switch: It gets sticky after a while, I don't think it's because of dirt and grime inside the switch but a mechanical malfunction. While I had the X100S, I used it enough that eventually the switch became more and more difficult to turn on and off with only 1 finger. I sent it in for service and apparently according to the Dept the switch popped out of its socket. The same thing is now happening to my X100T and it's no longer under warranty (BUMMER). They've fixed it on the X100S under warranty and if I recall correctly, the surgery is around 600USD. My one solution is to stop turning the camera off so much but that's hardly a solution at all. Hopefully with the X100F they've changed the design, only time will tell.
Viewfinder dust: After using the cameras regularly, taking it in and out of the camera bag, both my X100S and X100T looks like operation Desert Storm inside the viewfinder. There is so much dust inside there. While it has not affected the image quality, it is still very annoying to see giant specs of black when using the OVF. My solution so far is to put Sugru over the diopter adjustment hole.
Sticky focusing ring: The focusing ring isn't sealed, and over time sand and grime will get underneath it, making it sometimes impossible to turn. The focusing ring of my X100T is no longer smooth, so much that I can no longer manual focus reliably. Once again, these will happen after your warranty expires (BUMMER AGAIN). My one solution is to use one of the 3d printed focus rings to protect and shield the focusing ring from coming in contact with anything and everything, on the X100F.
Thank you for reading this far. Check out my Instagram for the latest work taken with the X100F and leave comments below if you have any questions.


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