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sunset in hitzendorf, austria.
when working on this shot, some songs of kate bush came to mind....
running up the hill, cloudbusting and the big sky....
Taken this evening 15/2/2012 on an outing to Bovisands with Richie and Dave. The cloud formations and the light were amazing.
Emirates Airbus A380 A6-EOB takes off from runway 24 (Kaagbaan) heading for Dubai as EK148 and flies through the clouds...
Photograph taken at 14:20pm on Tuesday 10th September 2013 in Rowardennan Forest beside Rowardennan Pier on the small stretch of sandy beach on the shoreline at Rowardennan (Rubha Aird Eonain), a small hamlet on the Eastern shore of Loch Lomond in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, Scotland.
Loch Lomond (Loch Laomainn), a freshwater loch situated on the Highland Boundary fault, is the largest inland stretch of water by surface area in Great Britain, at 39km in length and up to 8km in width with a maximum depth of 190metres. Primary inflows and outflows include Endrick water, Fruin water and the River Leven.
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Well, I've been tagged a couple of times in the last months, so here goes nothing. Ten random facts about myself.
1. If anybody had told me two years ago I'd be living in the south of Germany in the future, I'd have told them they were nuts.
2. Ten years back, I experimented with making electronic music. I have two tracks on soundcloud (download them to listen, they sound horrible in the online web player).
3. Need to find me on a Wednesday evening? I'm probably at the New Shanghai restaurant in Heidelberg, enjoying a nice Chinese meal.
4. Yesterday, I went to this event: www.facebook.com/ANightmareInGermany, and now my legs hurt a little from partying hard. I must be getting old, heh.
5. I recently read The Hunger Games trilogy, and I liked it. Currently I am reading the second Game of Thrones book. Game of Thrones is awesome.
6. I'm afraid of speaking to a large group of people. Large starting at ten.
7. Live and let live. Seriously, don't mess up other people.
8. The 6th season of Doctor Who was totally awesome, though I still can't get myself to really like Matt Smith.
9. Places I haven't visited yet but mean to: Japan, Canada, Australia, the USA. Countries I've been to: Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Hungary, Bulgaria.
10. The greatest thing about making your own money? Buying all the awesome toys you never had as a child.
Plus, here's ten random tracks from my iPod:
My dying Bride - The Return of the Beautiful
Grendel - Void Malign
KOKIA - Tatta hitotsu no omoi
Heaven Shall Burn - The Weapon they fear
System of a Down - Toxicity
Trapt - Headstrong (Dubstep Remix)
Killswitch Engage - A Light in a Darkened World
Theatre of Tragedy - Lorelei
Arch Enemy - Night falls fast
Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
Location for the filming of the video for the Kate Bush song, Cloudbusting, which was inspired by the book "A Book of Dreams" by Peter Reich. This picture reminds me of the video, where Peter's father is shown being taken away by The Government and indeed was the site for the shoot.
The book is Peter's memoirs of his relationship with his father - a scientist who discovered Orgonon and invented a Cloudbusting machine - and was imprisoned by the American Government. They burnt, as I recall, over two tons of his papers and books. Peter never saw his father again.
A beautiful site - so special to us - with echos to the story. A place of Dreams.
more detail on the meaning of the lyrics here ,reproduced below for your delectation
still dream of Orgonon.
I wake up crying.
You're making rain
And you're just in reach
When you and sleep escape me
You're like my yo-yo
That glowed in the dark
What made it special
Made it dangerous
So I bury it and forget.
Everytime it rains,
you're here in my head
Like the sun coming out -
Ooh I just know that something good is going to happen
And I don't know when
But just saying it could even make it happen.
On top of the world
Looking over the edge
You could see them coming
You looked too small
In their big black car
To be a threat to the men in power.
I hid my yo-yo in the garden
I can't hide you from the government
Oh God, daddy - I won't forget
Your son's coming out
Inspiration for the song
It's about a special relationship between a young son and his father. The book was written from a child's point of view. His father is everything to him; he is the magic in his life, and he teaches him everything, teaching him to be open-minded and not to build up barriers.
His father has built a machine that can make it rain, a "cloudbuster"; and the son and his father go out together cloudbusting. They point big pipes up into the sky, and they make it rain. The song is very much taking a comparison with a yo-yo that glowed in the dark and which was given to the boy by a best friend.
It was really special to him; he loved it. But his father believed in things having positive and negative energy, and that fluorescent light was a very negative energy -
as was the material they used to make glow-in-the-dark toys then - and his father told him he had to get rid of it, he wasn't allowed to keep it.
But the boy, rather than throwing it away, buried it in the garden, so that he would placate his father but could also go and dig it up occasionally and play with it. It's a parallel in some ways between how much he loved the yo-yo - how special it was - and yet how dangerous it was considered to be.
He loved his father (who was perhaps considered dangerous by some people);
and he loved how he could bury his yo-yo and retrieve it whenever he wanted to play with it. But there's nothing he can do about his father being taken away, he is completely helpless. But it's very much more to do with how the son does begin to cope with the whole loneliness and pain of being without his father. It is the magic moments of a relationship through a child's eyes, but told by a sad adult.
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All of us tend to live in our heads. In "Cloudbusting," the idea was of starting this song with a person waking up from this dream, "I wake up crying." It's like setting a scene that immediately suggests to you that this person is no longer with someone they dearly love.
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It's a song with a very American inspiration, which draws its subject from A Book of Dreams by Peter Reich. The book was written as if by a child who was telling of his strange and unique relationship with his father.
They lived in a place called Organon, where the father, a respected psycho-analyst, had some very advanced theories on Vital Energy; furthermore, he owned a rain-making machine, the Cloudbuster. His son and he loved to use it to make it rain. Unfortunately, the father was imprisoned because of his ideas. In fact, in America, in that period, it was safer not to stick out. Sadly, the father dies in prison.
From that point on, his son becomes unable to put up with an orthodox lifestyle, to adapt himself. The song evokes the days of happiness when the little boy was making it rain with his father.
I still dream of Orgonon
I wake up crying
You're making rain
And you're just in reach
When you and sleep escape me
A song by Kate Bush
ODC - Theme (13-02-2014): Cloud(s)(y)(ed)
1.Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. I tag anyone. Meh.
5. Everyone tagged has to do the same thing.
1. IF SOMEONE SAYS 'ARE YOU OKAY' YOU SAY?
Alfie (Well that makes sense.)
2. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
Cloudbusting (Okay then.)
3. WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Shark In the Water (Oh, yes I love sharks.)
4. HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Big Black Car (...?)
5. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Falling (That's nice.)
6. WHAT'S YOUR MOTTO?
Littlest Things (That kind of makes sense.)
7. WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Strangeness and Charm (That actually describes me perfectly. Well done, iTunes, you've finally made sense.)
8. WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Freind Of Mine (Well, at least we're friends.)
9. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Set Fire To The Rain (Okay then.)
10. WHAT IS 2 + 2?
You've Got The Love (Makes sense.)
11. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Breaking Down (Hahahahaha that's actually acurate. No offense, my friends, if you're reading this.)
12. WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Babooshka (I have no explanation for this.)
13. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Foundations (... Okay.)
14. WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Headphones (I don't like anyone, so I suppose I am in love with my headphones.)
15. WHAT SONG WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Someone Like You (That's nice.)
16. WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Army Dreamers (Apparently I'm going to die in the war.)
17. WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Here To Stay (...?)
18. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
Friday Night (Hahaha)
19. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
The Show (Oh, God.)
20. WHAT DO YOU WANT RIGHT NOW?
He Wasn't There (Oh, yes, because that makes perfect sense.)
21. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Breath Of Life (That's actually correct.)
22. WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS AS?
Landscape
So, here I am trying to zap the clouds away hoping to see a clear night sky and the pesky ISS crops up in my photo! I didn't even notice it until I got home.
Merry Christmas everyone!!
Shot from a moving car on the A9 near Schiphol, This Emirates A380 was on approach to Schiphol and made it's own clouds. © Bert Visser
A group of people take photos with their phones as the sun sets on Killiney hill obelisk. Dalkey, Dublin.
The Obelisk bears the inscription: “Last year being hard with the poor, walks about these hills and this were erected by John Mapas, June 1742"
Killiney Obelisk was built in 1742 to commemorate a sad event in Irish history which was described as ‘the Year of the Slaughter’.
Two years earlier between 1740 and 1741 an incredibly cold winter was followed by a severely wet summer that wiped out the crops and killed off livestock. This was followed by months of minus temperatures during the next winter.
Reports suggest that between 250,000 and 480,000 people died during this forgotten famine.
It was so cold that small vessels were destroyed by icebergs on the River Liffey, street lamps could not be lit plunging towns and villages into darkness and food riots were common throughout the land.
Many of the oldest trees were also felled for fuel and sickness was common.
A small number of rich landlords like John Malpas of Killiney Hill and Kathryn Connolly of Castletown House commissioned famine relief projects like this one to provide employment to destitute families.
..... on a cheerier note, Don't know why but there’s something about this picture that makes me think of Kate Bush’s 1985 video for cloudbusting from the album hounds of love.
Mini hunt to celebrate our new location on the LISP Sim! 4 stores taking part with 5 free gift sets available.
Professor Lisp is preparing to build a cloudbusting machine, but he is not getting very far. He is in need of as many clouds as he can get his hands on. Can you help him in his quest?
(click the hunt notice in the shop entrance to start!).
Planespotting at Zürich Airport
Please notice that there are ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED on my photos! It's absolutely not allowed to use my photos for any commercial or private purpose without my permission!
A bit of wildlife photography is good for the soul.........especially when you get the bonus of a 'cloudbusting' three 'oler !
Lufthansa Cargo's McDonnell Douglas MD-11F, D-ALCE, (c/n 48785/629), is seen over the Pilsworth Fishery, Heywood, while inbound to Manchester.
It is Kate Bush’s birthday today, a day before my own. She's 50, unbelievably. I've loved her since I was in my teens, and it's a measure of her impact that every slightly quirky female singer songwriter - Bjork, Joanna Newsom, Tori Amos - have been compared to her at some point by lazy critics. Many happy returns to her :)
Text from 'Cloudbusting'
Here Bob McCoy, curator of the Museum, is showing one of Wilhelm Reich's orgone accumulators. Reich, an early psychiatrist and a protégé of Freud's who later turned into a pseudoscientific crank, believed that a form of energy he called orgone was responsible for many phenomena. Orgone was supposedly released at the time of orgasm and helped the body heal, but it was also responsible for the weather and even for the sky being blue. Orgone accumulators were supposed to store up orgone, so you would sit inside the box, close the door, and let all that accumulating energy heal you.
Trivia: Reich built a machine he believed could cause rain by sucking orgone energy out of the sky. Kate Bush wrote a song called "Cloudbusting" about this machine, and in the video Reich was played by Donald Sutherland.
As you can imagine I got off the Moors pretty quick after taking this one.
I'd been up there a while without realising this was sneaking up from behind one of the Tors.
Fantastic afternoon as the clouds break up and the sun's coming out... I just know that something good is gonna happen (Kate Bush's Cloudbusting - the 1985 video was filmed here)
Seen at Rotterdam Centraal building site. This is a small part of the biggest crane in Europe. It didn't even fit in the frame.. ;) This thing is seriously big!
01 - House PA Eberhard Weber playback > House announcement
02 - Lily
03 - Hounds of Love
04 - Joanni
05 - Top of the City
06 - Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
07 - King of the Mountain
The Ninth Wave
08 - Video: phoning the coastguards
09 - Video: And Dream of Sheep
10 - Under Ice
11 - Waking the Witch
12 - Skit: Father and son
13 - Watching You Without Me
14 - Jig of Life
15 - Hello Earth
16 - The Morning Fog
Intermission
A Sky of Honey
17 - Prelude
18 - Prologue
19 - An Architect's Dream
20 - The Painter's Link
21 - Sunset
22 - Aerial Tal
23 - Somewhere in Between
24 - Tawny Moon
25 - Nocturn
26 - Aerial
Encore:
27 - Among Angels
28 - Cloudbusting
notes
First live show since 14 May 1979.
"Tawny Moon" is sung by Kate's son, Albert "Bertie" McIntosh.
"Among Angels" is Kate solo on piano.