Great pics but an "unsettling" post.

What beautiful pictures that shattered window made. I'm really happy there is the center of a peace sign showing in the 2nd and 3rd photos. Or a chicken foot but I like peace signs so that's what I saw there. I try not to think of deviant lovers, demons or where chickens put their feet. Sigh.. I do not in any way have the soul of an artist.

Only an artist would create this beauty from such aggravating actions of others tromping on your personal space...
"the building settling"
I like that person too : )

glad it was safety glass...sweet jesus

Wow, nice package. Sure you're not in marketing?

It occurs to me that the fact they put safety glass in there means they must know something.

Interesting. I like the photos.

But mostly ... Happy Birthday Zuma! Laissez les bons temps rouler indeed.

Who has been using your work? You're pretty open about owning it so it must have been a brazen person.

Jmac: sknorxx...i misread your comment the first time and it scared me!

I didn't notice the peace signs. ..thanks, l'Heure Bleue

Just thinking: hugs!

Hy: really. That was like a bomb going off. Now I wonder what's holding everything up!

Chicken Maan: are you serious? If not, let me know! I have no marketing chops at all...it will be me downfall.

Boanerges! Thanks.

just Phyllis: I am just recently getting serious about my photos is all. I never treated them as all that valuable. Pinterest snags all the photo data so anyone can steal anything you pin there. Otherwise, people are just not aware (as I wasn't) that you can't just take any photo.

Z, I love pinterest and have noticed that some people don't let you import their photo (even stupid ones like 'look at my nail polish'). It stops you when you try to load it. I know flikr has that capability, and I'm sure other sites do, too.
Those people I just don't pin on my board. The rest I always source- always. I can't see how getting another artist's work out there is bad. Exposure for any artist is key to selling your stuff and attracting an audience.

and I was curious too- wiki- "Laminated glass holds together when shattered because, in the event of breaking, it is held in place by an interlayer, typically of polyvinyl butyral (PVB), between its two or more layers of glass. The interlayer keeps the layers of glass bonded even when broken, and its high strength prevents the glass from breaking up into large sharp pieces. This produces a characteristic "spider web" cracking pattern when the impact is not enough to completely pierce the glass."

I love those photos! Every fissure is so clear. Very unsettling and beautiful at the same time which is the kind of Art I love.

Beauty from destruction....is that a cover to a book you published? I'll have to follow the clue....

i actually sorta love wreckage and chaos...because there is a special kind of beauty there.

i hope it aint the apocalypse nor demons, z. going with settling myself, but even still - DAMN!

i think your gorgeousness shattered it, general. that glass just wasn't zuma-proof. :)

Your photos made the broken window as beautiful as crystalline snowflakes. Take care until it is repaired.

"Art" is my middle name

This reminds me of a friend who had a car window shot out while doing whatever it is he does to help the homeless and otherwise in need of help street people. He had an idea that was never capitalized on to take the broken glass and turn it into jewelry to be sold and the profits to go to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter or other such charity. Thus turning disaster (or thankfully near disaster) into art and service all rolled into one.

Hy: You did masterful work here! Too cool. The window is all holding together. Not a chip has fallen out because it is double paned, but my fear is that the pressure of the building settling caused it. We have other problems, like really out of alignment doors and it is all going to get worse.

The problem with Pinterest is that any subscribers who get sued will get no help from Pinterest, who did not even tell them about the 8 layer metadata that they snag. All Pinterest has to do is to give the thumbnail and link, so what are they up to? I refuse to pin anything but my own stuff...with watermarks!

Zanelle: I will be taking pics until they come to fix it tomorrow! I got the late afternoon ones that had blue and gold in them.

Anne C...go to the website! It's the light!

loriane: it's a good day to be an artist, isn't it?

daisyjane: really! My toilet blew up last summer and my door wouldn't close for months.

Femmeforte! so good to read your voice! Hugs.
Miguela, Hugs! Hy settled me down for the night with news that it will hold together.

Chuck: Then you is an art-ist! ha ha.

Painting: That would have been incredible and would have sent a real message that the "message" art never seems to send.

The shattered window is awesome, but still, EEK!!

If your building is settling to the extent that doors are seriously out of alignment and windows are breaking, may I suggest that you 'settle' elsewhere asap?!

Those are warning signs of the most serious kind.

Besides; you probably won't write half as well when flattened under a few tons of concrete....

;-)
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Zumalicious, your image of the broken window, is such a strong metaρhor, for our mind, heart, life, it has so many relations to the true world. Thank you for this!

What an eye for unexpected beauty you have!

Tinkertink: Happy Birthday and hugs...eeeks too.

Stathi Stathi: It is incredibly powerful and it hits us right in the meta knowledge. The poisonous spider's web, the powerful and deadly forces of nature , the sundering of relationships...so much is represented in that glass.

Sky: The county apparently passes the structures but that was about the last straw for me.

Procopius: It was the HTC and the 8 mp camera with immediate uploads! If I had been with a film camera, those photos would never have seen the light of day. I never would get film developed.

Scary, Zume. What happened?

I vote for the building settling. There have been many problems here and they worked on shoring all of them up last year, but this is spooking me out.