photographers, actors, designers, writers, models, artists, stylists, MUAHs, artistic directors.,.. and others alike
there is the challenge described:
In his absorbing web series http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/ , writer and editor #JohnKoenig gives names to deep longings and vague feelings in the form of brief, beautiful videos. Subtitled "For lack of a better world". Koenig tries to create a better world by calling attention to sensations that made you think, "maybe it's just me, but…"
His ' The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows' is a compendium of #InventedWords. Each original word and its definition aims to fill a hole in the language - to give a name to emotions we all might experience but don't yet have a word for.
The author has a ferocious curiosity about the art and science of being human, especially language, mythology, poetry, and the natural world. His dictionary has been acclaimed by New York Magazine, Washington Post Express, author John Green, blogger Jason Kottke, and the guys from Radiolab Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26JK_Xw_laQ
we used many of Koenig's amazing words before as the inspirational key words for our magazines in the past.
the next word is
ASTROPHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1SkepihYLE
It's hard not to look at the ground as you walk. To set your sights low, and keep the world spinning, and try to stay grounded wherever you are. But every so often you remember to look up, and imagine the possibilities. Dreaming of what’s out there. Before long, you find yourself grounded once again. Grounded in the sense of being homebound. Stuck on the planet Earth.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek. Depending on how you slice it, astrophe could mean a couple different things:
- a/strophe would be the act of not turning, or
- astro/phe, the act of turning to the stars.
Reader Krokonil suggested an alternate etymology, from Greek astron "star" + atrophy, the wasting away of muscles or organs due to lack of use or trauma). "For us the stars are wasting away, because we will never reach them."
TRANSCRIPT:
It's hard not to look at the ground as you walk. To set your sights low, and keep the world spinning, and try to stay grounded wherever you are. But every so often you remember to look up, and imagine the possibilities. Dreaming of what's out there. Before long, you find yourself grounded once again. Grounded in the sense of being homebound. Stuck on the planet Earth. The more you look to the sky, the more you find yourself back on Earth, confronting certain possibilities.
It's possible there are other names for our planet, that we will never know. That there are constellations that feature our sun, from an angle we'll never get to see.
That there are many other civilizations hidden beyond the veil of time, too far away for their light to ever reach us. We dream of other worlds, and name them after our old discarded gods, and they seem almost as distant-too far to be seen with the naked eye. Only ever in artist's renditions. Or a scattering of pixels on a monitor, with the colors tweaked to add a bit of flair.
Even our own neighborhood is impossibly vast. We're used to showing the planets nested together-because if we drew them to scale, they'd be so far apart, they wouldn't fit on the same page. And even our own moon, that seems to hang so close to Earth. But still so far away that all the other planets could fit in the space between them.
It's possible our spacesuits won't need treaded boots ever again. That one day soon we'll tire of wandering and move back home for good. And we'll get used to watching our feet as we walk, occasionally stopping to hurl a single probe into the abyss, like a message in a bottle. Maybe it shouldn't matter if anyone ever finds it. If nobody's there to know we once lived here on Earth.
Maybe it should be like skipping a stone across the surface of a lake. It doesn't matter where it ends up, It just matters that we're here on the shore. Just trying to have fun and pass the time, and see how far it goes.
ANNOUNCING COMPETITION
on the best concept / style photograph or set of photographs that will fit into the category "ASTROPHE" with the focus on WOMEN OF UNEARTHY, CELESTIAL BEAUTY which might seem a very easy theme indeed but the models to be pictured as the most famous celebrities and stars. Let's think we are not stuck on Earth and let see the whole world beyond Earth to be our home.
We publish the best photos in APRIL issue 2020 of MARQUIS FASHION MAGAZINE.
The due date for submission is 26 April 2020 1200pm
The works of art should be sent in the form of
a direct dropbox link or direct wetransfer link
with the full list of credits and
your story of inspiration to accompany it
to [email protected] or in PM.
Your photos should be a highly acclaimed art in fashion - each image should be like a part of a collective story for the magazine pages therefore making it more readable for everyone who opens it.
good luck!