Tagged — Jamie Lyons

Sharka Cão de Água

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Sharka Cão de Água...
The most interesting dog in the world.

Davenport, Santa Cruz, photography, jamie lyons, train tracks, documentation

There are no mistakes…

There are no mistakes only happy accidents Bob Ross What we’ve got here is the absolute American catastrophe rendered in one perfect frozen moment, a car smashed against railroad tracks like some kind of sculptural fuck you to manifest destiny itself. And there, in the foreground, is Sharka, the Portuguese Water Dog who clearly gives […]

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Lindsey Dillon, Davenport Beach, Davenport, Portuguese Water Dog, Sharka, Pacific Ocean

So fine was the morning…

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse Davenport Beach, it’s not some tourist trap with overpriced […]

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Capitola Wharf: What Sharka Knows

The thing about watching a dog run, really run, is it strips away all the pretense we wrap ourselves in. No existential dread, no performance anxiety, just pure kinetic joy translated into muscle and breath. Sharka doesn’t give a shit about my Instagram feed or my quarterly earnings report for the board. She’s a four-legged […]

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Capitola, Warf, Beach, ocean, boardwalk, portuguese water dog, Sharka

Bonny Doon Tasting Room

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Lindsey Dillon, Sharka, Portugese Water Dog, Boony Doon, Davenport, iphone
Rodin, Sculpture,Rodin Sculpture Garden StanfordRodin Sculpture Garden Stanford Sharka, Portugese Water Dog, Stanford University, Stanford Arts, Rodin Sculpture Garden Stanford, Stanford public art

Sharka & Rodin

Gsell: What astonishes me, is that your way is so different from that of other sculptors. They prose the model. Instead of that, you wait till a model has instinctively or accidentally taken an Interesting pose, and thon you reproduce It. Instead of your giving orders to the model, the model gives orders to you. […]

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Vénérons le chien

Vénérons le chien

Let us venerate the dog. The dog (what a funny creature!), has sweat on its tongue and a smile in its tail. Victor Hugo , The Man Who Laughs Victor Hugo nailed it over a century ago: the dog has its sweat on its tongue and its smile in its tail. And here’s Sharka, this […]

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Self Portrait One

Self Portrait (Solipsism in Bagan)

I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not […]

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Sharka

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development. Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being I can count on one […]

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