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Shot for the Flickr Group Roulette challenge to infiltrate the group Jazz Hands!!

 

For those who may be confused:

 

To perform jazz hands, the performer's hands are opened with palms facing forward, and the fingers are splayed. The position of the arms can vary. Forearms are usually extended upward, or the forearms may extend forward with the elbows held close to the body, or forearms may extend to the sides or downward.

 

The hands may then be shaken slightly, as if holding a tambourine. However, this is not a necessary part of the jazz hands action.

 

If the arms are outstretched with fingers wiggling up and down this gesture is sometimes referred to as spirit fingers, as mentioned in the 2000 film Bring It On.

FGR today asked us to create a portrait of who we are. I find the notion vaguely perplexing.

 

I have endeavored to depict myself honestly in my self-portraits. What more can I do to reveal myself?

 

I mean, of course, in a way that any sane person would want to see! LOL!

15/12/08

 

Today’s FGR Task was "Know your rights" based around the group four freedoms. That got me thinking; I suppose one of the things I take for granted in the UK is a fair judiciary, too fair some would say! So this shot represents the freedom that I take for granted and that if I lived in a different culture I might not have.

 

Lightroom: convert to greyscale, direct positive preset, crop, post crop vignette, use brush tool with +2 exp to bring out bars more

 

Strobist: single snooted 580EXII @ 1/16 to camera right, snoot was made from a rollup Velcro screwdriver bag and was roughly 20cm (8 inches) long and about 2 meters away from my hands, the bars were 3 lightstands lined up in a row, the background is the black side of a popup reflector. All ambient light in the room was overpowered by the flash. The black strip to the left is the shutter catching up with the flash, I did it intentionally as my wrist was catching too much light from the flash and distracting from my hands. Sorry about the lack of a setup shot I totally forgot until I had packed up :(

 

For Flickr Group Roulette - today's group is Things I Can't Live Without

 

My vices:

 

1. Della Cola, my laptop - I spend WAY too much time online lol

2. Rebecca, my camera - I take pictures of everything

3. Zoloft - I am insane without it (don't know if this is technically a vice lol)

4. Elmo - I'm a little obsessed

5. Floppy and Boswell - I take them everywhere, can't sleep without them

 

(I didn't put my husband or pets because the description in the group said vices, and though I couldn't live without them, I don't consider them vices lol)

FGR picked music in my mind as the daily theme. I went through the day unaware of the pick, but listening to muisc. It is always in my mind.

 

I worked late and was listening to RUSH, enjoying especially the drum virtuosity of Neil Peart. So when I learned of the FGR pick after finishing work, I sat down and drummed a little Tom Sawyer in Rock Band. I wish that RB had Freewill, but what can you do?

 

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For FGR and Turtles for fun.

 

I love turtles. I bought this guy today - I gave away my last turtle plushie, and I couldn't resist this guy when I saw him today. And he's a puppet!!

 

My shoulder's a fair bit better today (there was little pain in lifting my arm for this shot!). I should be back to commenting properly in a few days - I promise!

 

Day one-hundred and thirty-eight of my 365 Days challenge.

 

Sunday, 22nd March, 2009

 

Some cool original artwork.

This photo was inspired by a song and the inspiration to take a photo inspired by a song was inspired by Oct. 23rd's Roulette.

 

Even though I'll freely admit to being a pure-blooded American mutt (all puns intended), I am most connected to my Irish heritage. Throughout Ireland's history there has always been struggle and strife in pursuit of freedom.

 

Though I have enjoyed freedom all my life, through the music of Ireland I know its cost. I wouldn't hesitate to take up arms to aid my country if it was faced with a real imminent threat attacking our borders.

 

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"Gates of Aberdeen"

traditional, made popular by Amadan

 

Before you go to bed my lad, a tale to you I'll tell

About his majesty's 183rd, the regiment from hell

I signed on with my country in 1664

and if my country asked again, my son, I'd offer up my sword

 

Well hey! Ho! Away we go! We're off to the front again

You raise your fist and you hear the cry of a thousand highland men

Well hey! Ho! Away we go! To Aberdeen we tread

With the blood of a thousand score or more

Make the rivers all run red

 

They were led by general Kellington, who walked on sacred ground

The devil through and through was he, and for Aberdeen was bound

They saked old Edinburgh, raped in Perth and took Dundee

And but for the fields on which we stood, would have marched right to the sea

  

Well hey! Ho! Away we go! We're off to the front again

You raise your fist and you hear the cry of a thousand highland men

Well hey! Ho! Away we go! To Aberdeen we tread

With the blood of a thousand score or more

Make the rivers all run red

 

Well, the musketeers lined up, at the Gates of Aberdeen

the cannons blazed and armor charged in numbers since unseen

We fired our pipes in Satan's face, our family's plaid hung free

Claymore in hand, to free our land, and back to hell ran he.

  

Well hey! Ho! Away we go! We're off to the front again

You raise your fist and you hear the cry of a thousand highland men

Well hey! Ho! Away we go! To Aberdeen we tread

With the blood of a thousand score or more

Make the rivers all run red

 

For Flickr Group Roulette, 365 Days and Hit and Run Photography

 

Discussion can be found here.

 

Photo taken at work earlier today.

 

Its my coworkers cube.

 

She is also my sister. Well not really. We both started working for this place at about the same time. Didn't find out until later that we have the exact birthday. Down to the day and year. So, we always say that I was given up as a child by our her mom.

 

Glad she wasn't looking at porn.

Nov 30 335/366

 

Exsanguination

 

Flickr Group Roulette is doing My Favorite Word -- and I had a nasty time with it because there SO many good ones, but my favorites are really quite a pain to photograph:

 

- cunt (most amazing curse word ever, though this gay guy won't be posting THAT picture)

 

- cacophony is brilliant

 

- cyclopentanoperhydrophenanthrene is certainly the longest word

that I can pronounce and spell :)

 

- melliflouous rolls off the tongue beautifully

 

- juxtaposition always makes me watn to talk with my hands

(a close second that I might still shoot)

 

...but I finally chose exsanguination. Fun to say, but likely not fun to experience.

 

Of course, I went to shoot this... NOTHING red in the house... so, the chocolate syrup wins :)

For FGR:

 

1.Quotes and Quotations:

I have two quotes:

"So long, and thanks for all the fish..." - Message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspatial express route. A good book in a good series, and a saying on one of my favorite shirts. A goodbye saying for Mikey since he's leaving. I know that I don't know him, but a nice farewell is due anyway. Today is his last day of doing two years of 365 Days photos.

"I've always been afraid to die, but I think I'm more afraid to live..." - Billy Corgan (The Aeroplane Flies High). I used this as my senior quote when I graduated high school, and still to this day, I believe it sums up the way I am. I'm too afraid to let go and live. I'm working on that, and hopefully one day soon I'll get to "L-I-V-I-N'" :)

2.Jump for Mikey (The Jedi of Jump)

I tried so many times to get a much sharper picture without the blur, but I'm quite new/amateur at taking photos. I'm hoping that I'll get better and better at it since I love taking pictures. I'm not making excuses though! This photo does make me chuckle though, and the more and more I look at it, the better I feel. Oh, and my hips hurt. :D

3.Half Nekkid Thursdays

I am half nakkid... I have less clothes on than I did on Tuesday. I'm not going to go into why I didn't show more...

4.Black and white self portraits

I would love to have gotten my face in there...

Taken for Flickr Group Roulette and Make Saturday a Hat Day!

 

On Saturday FSU baseball played against Stamford in round one of the College World Series, and unfortunately we lost. It was a tough game; we've never played a Pac 10 school that early in the bracket. It was pretty exciting for the most part until they started walloping us at the end. GEEZ. We play Miami tomorrow (Monday) in an elimination round, so we'll see if we can bounce back! (And if we play like I know we can, then we'll kick asssss... because Buster Posey just won the Dick Howser Award, w00t!)

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For Flickr Group Roulette. Friday's theme is Villains.

 

I've been a bad, bad girl

I've been careless with a delicate man

And it's a sad, sad world

When a girl will break a boy just because she can

 

Don't you tell me to deny it

I've done wrong and I want to suffer for my sins

I've come to you 'cause I need guidance to be true

And I just don't know where I can begin

 

What I need is a good defense

'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal

And I need to be redeemed

To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love

 

Heaven help me for the way I am

Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done

I know tomorrow brings the consequence at hand

But I keep living this day like the next will never come

 

Oh help me but don't tell me to deny it

I've got to cleanse myself of all these lies 'till I'm good enough for him

I've got a lot to lose and I'm bettin' high so I'm begging you

Before it ends just tell me where to begin

 

What I need is a good defense

'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal

And I need to be redeemed

To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love

 

Let me know the way

Before there's hell to pay

Give me room to lay the law and let me go

I've got to make a play

To make my lover stay

So what would an angel say, the devil wants to know

 

What I need is a good defense

'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal

And I need to be redeemed

To the one I've sinned against

Because he's all I ever knew of love

 

"Criminal" - Fiona Apple

  

I forgot about this song until this afternoon. A session with my therapist brought out some hidden shit that explains why I act the way I do, but I have no idea how to move forward and leave old patterns behind. A beautiful boy once loved me. I was young and dumb. I broke his heart. I've been paying for it ever since.

 

Yeah, so FGR today picked Portmanteau, which is the smooshing together of two familiar words to create a new and descriptive one.

 

But what I really wanted to say here is that I watched South Park last night for the first time. Their "Played It Perfectly" episode started with Obama's "stirring" acceptance speech (given less than two days earlier!), then went on to show that Obama and McCain are not who they said they were. I came to realize that he probably isn't the Anti-Christ (1); he's just a jewel thief! You gotta watch it. The full episode is on-line.

 

I also realized that most of my feelings lately were caused by the over-the-top Gobama stupidity. (Gobama is another portmanteau, of course). The episode did an excellent job of showing how really blindly stupid most of them are—the ones who are not knowingly evil, of course.

 

Too, I have been reading post-election analysis. Obama is probably well-intentioned, if naive and wrong-headed. It's Reid and especially Pelosi we need to fear. I don't know if Obama has the ability to stop their ruinous excesses, but I think he might try to govern from the middle and that is OKish.

 

And finally, I was reminded that I live in a State that can legally secede (2). Texas is still a haven for conservatism. When you are ready to live somewhere sane, move here.(3)

 

So today, I am filled with a renewed hope. I am coming back to the light, like the center of my image is coming out of the lomotastic border.

 

Notes:

 

1 - For real! There is a very good chance that Obama isn't the Anti-Christ. He probably only means to steal my money and my children's future as part of Liberal doctrine. He is probably not malevolant. But really, I was reminded that I need to live my life as if Obama is the Anti-Christ, because then I am doing the right things. Christ's return will be a glorious thing, and we need to be prepared every day for that.

 

2 - Before Lincoln "saved the Union", States were assumed to be more powerful than the Federal government and most thought they could leave the United States. He did many good things, but diminishing our rights wasn't one of them. Among other things, I am stumped by some Liberals denouncing Bush's legal activities while ignoring Lincoln's gross abuse of power. Texas can secede because we joined the Union via treaty. We can also split into five separate states, with 10 Senators versus the 2 we have now.

 

3 - Did you know that Texas has accounted for nearly half the job growth these last few years?

Today, FGR asked to show our favorite body part. I like my hands best, because they are so darn fumctional. I went to the Republic of Texas bike rally today. and I figured I would get a photo of my hand holding a beer.

 

Lo! and Behold! I stumbled upon this sign saying The Shocker. Ha! I tok a picture of my hand making the shocker. When I did, I was confronted by the booth's owner... who has trademarked the shocker! Actually, he's trademarked the "catch phrase". Ha ha ha!

 

I told him I'd send him my stream, and he'd put one of my shocking photos on The Shocker website.

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FGR - dr_nik rocks my socks

 

here is her photo i chose :)

not exactly the same, i wanted to add come originality to it :D

 

ps , two things id like to point out that i dont like with this photo :

one . the wall color ... same way , stupid lighting .

two . i hate my legs , *chops off knees* gah :)

For FGR - I have never eaten gherkins here.

 

Cold & windy... honestly, I could take this picture anywhere since I've never have eaten a gherkin in my life.

 

I've nearly given up on hiding my double chin. There's nothing I can do about it, and honestly, who cares? One of these days, I'll get over my self-image.

 

I think I'm getting better at using textures?

 

Texture from here.

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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

 

Box of Blessings

 

Flickr Group Roulette's group of the day is Box of Blessings, which asks for a picture of something we're thankful for.

 

Now, I'm not the preachy type, but I will tell you that I started reading the Bible each morning, five chapters a day before I do anything else. No coffee, no news, no computer, no flickr.....and it really does help you get a good start to the day.

 

Now traffic lights don't turn green for me and I don't come across lost money, I have the occasional bad day, week, month and even year, but it does help to put things into perspective.

 

I have done nothing on my own, I owe it all to God who's allowed me to be here to enjoy His blessings. No box can fit all that in...

 

to quote Rev Run, "God is love".

For FGR and Somebody else's glasses, and for TRP and Story Poople.

 

Thanks R for letting me borrow your shades!

 

(I may end up replacing the 365 photo for one without the text - but we'll see...)

 

Day two-hundred and ninety-three of my 365 Days challenge.

 

Monday, 24th August, 2009

For FGR's "Wink Wink, it's Bed Head!" - combining Wink Wink and Beadhead

 

I didn't really like this shot this morning and uploaded it because it was the lesser of all evils, but it is growing on me now. This was probably about a dozen takes later, so I was wide awake by then. I didn't want to look like I was just half asleep and yawning, so I had to make it clear it was a wink, hence my apparent display of enthusiasm.

 

Random fact: I can only wink with this eye. If I try to wink with the other, I look like my face is distorted or I just had stroke.

 

january 7 2009

 

for Flickr Group Roulette; assignment Wish I Was There

 

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i was tagged by the beautiful bandita.

i must list 16 random facts about myself.

ready? go!

 

01. i've never been on the golden gate bridge, or to san francisco.

02. i prefer blue ink over black.

03. i haven't gotten my 2009 hello kitty calendar yet; can't let a 5 year streak die.

04. i grew up in illinois.

05. i have one tattoo, and hope to get another someday.

06. when i drive over debris in the road, i brace for an explosion.

07. i played the clarinet in 5th grade.

08. i'm terrible at math, yet i work in accounting.

09. my boyfriend and i met on myspace over 4 years ago.

10. i played softball for a few years.

11. i don't like tomatoes.

12. i hate easy listening or soft rock... whatever it's called.

13. sometimes i get what i like to call "trashy cravings" for pork rinds and beef jerky.

14. i want to lose weight, but i'm too lazy to workout.

15. nobody can make me laugh like my brother and sister can.

16. i use to attend 2 or 3 concerts/shows a week with my best friend. but i haven't been to one in over 6 months now.

Today is my day for FGR. I picked ...Purple Photos for Lupus Awareness..., since it is Lupus Awareness Month.

 

To raise awareness for Lupus, today I am donating a dime to the Lupus Foundation of America for every purple photo added to the Flickr Group Roulette group. If you see purple today, take a photo and upload it to the group. Or, "share" it with me. They'll add a dime.

 

Don't know what Lupus is? Here's a brief description:

 

Lupus is a chronic, autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body (skin, joints, and/or organs inside the body). Chronic means that the signs and symptoms tend to last longer than six weeks and often for many years. In lupus, something goes wrong with your immune system, which is the part of the body that fights off viruses, bacteria, and germs ("foreign invaders," like the flu). Normally our immune system produces proteins called antibodies that protect the body from these invaders. Autoimmune means your immune system cannot tell the difference between these foreign invaders and your body’s healthy tissues ("auto" means "self") and creates autoantibodies that attack and destroy healthy tissue. These autoantibodies cause inflammation, pain, and damage in various parts of the body.

 

So, notice purple today. Take my money.

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Flickr Group Roulette is doing mugshot monday -- and I've been really getting tired of my mug allover my photostream! Dammit. I'm gonna have to start coming up with some more creative interpretations... of course, my first thought was -- hey! coffee mug! -- already taken. Bah.

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Remember those at the local fish and chip shops?! The screen flipped for each players turn.

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