Day 4770: Artist, Yoshinori Mizutani & Long-spined Sea Urchin.

         

"Influences": digital collage.

  

Want music?

    Click: Barbara Streisand, Guilty.

 

2GN2S

  I sat at a long traffic light.

I noticed birds on all four traffic light extensions.

I knew there wasn't time to get out my phone.

I studied their line-up, all but two were facing east. 

I watched as a new bird came to add on ...

the end bird charged him until he flew off.

I wondered if that was his job or just his personality?

Do you ever notice the bird line up?

Why is it on just some traffic extensions?

Why do the majority face the same direction? 

Is it the wind, or the view or habit?

The same day I was pondering these questions,

I saw this artwork by Yoshinori Mizutani ...

The photographer Yoshinori Mizutani captures kawau 

birds perched on electric wires in Tokyo. The Kawau are large seabirds, not unlike seagulls, that were pushed to the brink of extinction in Japan in the 1970s due to pollution. But in recent years they’ve come back – with a vengeance.

For photographer Yoshinori Mizutani, the sight of these  huge birds perched on electric wires in Tokyo were both “visually shocking and at the same time breath-taking.” And they became the basis for a new series of photographs called Kawau.

 

Mizutani photographed the birds in black and white as the perched on electric wires along Tokyo’s Tama River. The compositions, both beautiful and eerie, are reminiscent of musical notes. Mizutani’s series was turned into a photo book by the same name. 

   

    

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Catapult, here

 

  

 

Just because ...

Golden-collared Honeycreepe

 

Monday's Smiles ...