Stella the Cat says: "happy holidays!"

EDIT: this is Barely Awake Stella, not Grumpy Stella. she's incapable of being grumpy, trust me!

*ok, so it's a huge stretch, but this is for Musically Challenged, too!

"Hey Kwanongoma!," by The Ark

This is the last one from this series. I increased the amount of time I waited from when the gun was shot to when the picture was taken It's amazing how the liquid shoots out the top of the glass like that. Julia was still pouring it in while all this was going on!

I spent about 4 hours on Sunday getting everything setup and working correctly, and came away with these 3 images. Some times I wonder if it is worth all the trouble!!

Anyway, thanks for looking and have a sweet night :-)

No work for me tomorrow..Don't forget about our Veterans and all they have done for us!

Gunpowder and Lead

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for the last day of my song selections in Musically Challenged, i knew i wanted to do "Gimme Shelter".

everything that i know and love about classic rock, i learned from my big brother. and though our top bands were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and, most importantly, The Doors, there were a few dozen Stones songs that found a permanent place on our list of favorites.

that, and the fact that the first concert i ever attended, with my brother and some friends, was the Rolling Stones (with Guns N Roses opening!).

i had a much different shot in mind than the one i posted, but i wasn't able to find the time to execute it.

i'll probably get around to doing it one day, but i didn't want to let my last chance at doing "Gimme Shelter", to just... fade away.

(yes, i totally said that on purpose. and yes. i am such a dork)

it may not look like a storm is threatening on that sun soaked beach, but i love the way the women in the bottom right are looking up to the sky as if something IS, in fact, coming their way.

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"Gimme Shelter," by The Rolling Stones

It's just a kiss away

i know that i am nothing new

my words might not seem much to you

but brother how we must atone

before we turn to stone

- Ingrid Michaelson, Turn to Stone

It's officially no longer my birthday since it's now past midnight. It didn't really feel all that birthday-ish anyway. Weird year. Weird month. Weird birthday. I didn't even have any birthday cake. I guess some years a late night cup of gingerbread tea has to suffice. Here's hoping my thirty-third year will be a little smoother and less hilly than my thirty-second. The highs were wonderful but I don't think I want to suffer through those kinds of lows again. Thankfully, there's nowhere to go but up from here. And I intend to climb rapidly and not look back.

Musically Challenged: Ingrid Michaelson - Turn to Stone

More fun with lights this evening.... combo of Strobist stuff as well as light painting.

The more astute amongst you will realise this is not a self portrait..... I used to look like this 30 years ago, but now I'm more of a party keg guy than a six pack guy. (Although compared to most 50 yr old folk I still look fairly fit so happy enough with my body). This is my younger son Sebe.... Luckily quite happy to pose half-nekkid at night in October in the UK (the young are hardy & foolish).

Strobist Info: Bowens GM200 1 ft behind & 6 ft to either side of subject. Both on full power. Triggered by Cactus triggers at start of the 30 sec exposure. Light trails with a hand flashlight triggered by muscle.

As usual, some learning experiences when doing a new technique. I really should have worked out a way to keep his arms still..... initial flash captured him, but during the 30 second long light painting his arms moved slightly & they look a bit thin as a result. Next time I will use some thin black thread for him to tense against & keep arms in absolute position.

OK, so hit quite a few themes with this one.....

FGR - Alien Light Forms

Bench Monday

TOTW - Love your body (I do, but envious of my son's)

Musically Challenged - As chosen by Pikespice.

The song is Halloween by Helloween - supposedly from the 80's so I ought to remember it, but I don't.... of course metal wasn't my thing then (or now). Long long lyrics, so here's the section that is relevant.

I can see a Light comin'

It's comin' nearer

It's shining

It's shining so bright

It's shining on me

I am the one, doom 's in my hands

Now make your choice,

redeemed or enslaved

I'll show you passion ang glory

He Is the snake

I'll give you power and abundance

He's the corrupter of man

Save me from the evil one

Give me strength to carry on

I will fight for all mankind's

deliverance and peace of mind

Jim Shields Photography

you've been all over

and it's been all over you.

"Beautiful Day" by U2

for: Musically Challenged

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view of the Century City skyline from atop The Grove in Hollywood, CA

It’s difficult not to be impressed by Violent Magic Orchestra (JP). Their band name is a nod to countrymates Yellow Magic Orchestra, although musically they have little, if anything, in common. VMO describes itself rather as ‘Napalm Death barging into an Autechre show’ or Black metal meets Kraftwerk’.

And all the girls walk by

Dressed up for each other

And the boys do the boogie-woogie

On the corner of the street

~John Mellencamp (Van Morrison)

Strobist Info:

Flashpoint II 320M @ 1/2 in softbox at 4:00

530 EX II @ 1/2 in softbox at 8:00

430 Ex II @ 1/4 in beauty dish at 5:00 pointed against BG

CyberSync triggers

On Friday 2 friends of mine and I flew down to Denver to be with our friend Deb, who had just lost her husband Derek, in a tragic accident. After the candle light memorial Friday night, we went over to her place to help get her boat ready to sell. Deb also went through Derek's things, figuring out what she wanted to keep. Unlike myself, Derek had very good taste in clothing, and knew what looked nice. Deborah gave me a few of his ultra high class button-up shirts, and I am honored to have them. I just hope I can do them justice!

Today would have been Derek's 40th Birthday.

HBCCT

Musically Challenged

Alison Krauss & Union Station—The Lucky One

(21 of 52)²

do you ever go through slumps? i'm so slumpering right now.

picking up the camera and taking photos has slipped so far back on my Want To Do list. i can't sort out if it's because we're so damn busy with several large Life Things at the moment or if it's just one of those times where photography sort of naturally takes it's turn on the back burner.

i always carry my camera with me - that's still the case. but i just don't take it out as much these days. even when i see something i know could become a stellar shot. i got a macro lens about a month ago and have shamefully hardly utilized it. and taking self portraits? dear god, that sounds just full of allllll sorts of hassle and the antithesis of fun. i'd honestly rather take pictures of clouds day after day than pictures of myself. where, oh where, has my vanity gone? ;)

i suppose i can partially chalk up my lack of interest to having a parent in the hospital for several weeks and subsequent recovery, house hunting and all the stress that brings, and the fact that i'm going to have a baby in 3 months time (eeeek!!!).

but still. i miss it dammit. and this place, too. i love it when the stars align and everything you shoot looks and feels great and you can't want to get on here and post and comment and just enjoy.

i'm sure it will all return soon enough. ebbs and flows and all that jazz.

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i really, really love Explosions In The Sky. there are three great songs by them in Musically Challenged this week, including this one: Your Hand In Mine

(which is a perfect accompaniment to the above image, i've decided)

Because the Night

a few years ago, i fell in love with a song by Joshua Radin, "Closer". i found it the way i seem to find most these days: on a television show.

i've since been mad abut the rest of his songs as they are very much the singer/songwriter style that i'm crazy about. give me a voice and a guitar or a voice and a piano and i'm sold.

Ashley chose the songs this week in Musically Challenged and selected "Today", by Joshua Radin.

this particular song wasn't in my tops of his until Ellen Degeneres showed a 4 minute video montage of the day she married Portia De Rossi and it's just unreal beautiful. i tear up every damn time i see it.

the photo above is more of a literal take on just one line of lyrics, and not indicative of the entire song itself. the video does that job brilliantly, so have a look there, if so inclined.

if you like simple but beautiful singer/songwriter music, i can't recommend Joshua Radin enough.

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Shoelaces untied

You can dry your eyes

Perfect shadows alive

Behind us

This is the day i make you mine

Well i thank god you came along

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edit: oops! i forgot to add that this image was inspired by this photo by the lovely and talented Kaboomish Gem (who also rocks a Sheffield dialect, my favorite!)

Oh I am what I am

I do what I want

But I can't hide

Until you're resting here with me

- Dido, Here With Me

Had a really good day. My stomach is finally feeling normal again. *knocks wood* Had a very busy day and none of it was spent on my couch. Well, ok, I'm on my couch now, but come on. It's after 8pm. I think it's allowed now. Have a lot to get accomplished in the next week. Including heading down to the dreaded Secretary of State to wait for god knows how long to get my last name changed on my driver's license. Hopefully I can tick that off my list tomorrow so I can focus on the rest without that looming over my head any longer.

Happy Hump Day, people!

Musically Challenged: Dido - Here With Me

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You can still donate $10 to the Red Cross by texting HAITI to 90999.

"Vicarious" is my favorite song from my favorite band, Tool. I was thrilled to see it in this week's Musically Challenged list, but I knew it was going to be hard to do it justice. It hits you hard right out of the gate and builds for 7 minutes to an enormous climax. It's incredibly powerful and explosive, and its subject matter is the guilty pleasure we all experience from watching others suffer. And by an eerie coincidence, it happens to be extremely relevant right now.

A week ago the nation of Haiti didn't cross any of our minds. Some of us didn't even know where it was. And now we donate our hard-earned money to help people we'll never meet put their shattered lives back together.

But let's not kid ourselves; We're glad it's not us. We're glad we can look at the photos on our laptops and watch the rescue efforts on our HDTVs. The part of us that feels guilty about that tries to empathize, to suffer vicariously through the pixels on the screen. But none of us can possibly know what it's like to be surrounded by death and destruction of such magnitude. So ultimately we just go about our day.

I live in Los Angeles. I'm able to live here only because I choose to ignore the simple fact that sooner or later, we will have our own Big One. It could happen in a thousand years, or it could happen at the end of this sentence. So every time the Big One hits somewhere else is another time it didn't hit me and the people I care about. Like it or not, we're all playing a game of Russian Roulette with the universe, and there's no sense feeling guilty when someone else gets it in the head. Just be glad it wasn't you and make the most of the time others no longer have.

So Haiti, I'm so sorry for the fate that's befallen you. I've given to help you rebuild and will continue to urge others to do the same. But to quote the final lyric from my favorite song:

Much Better You Than I.

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Eye on the the TV

'Cause tragedy thrills me

Whatever flavor it happens to be, like...

"Killed by the husband"

"Drowned by the ocean"

"Shot by his own son"

"She used a poison

in his tea...kissed him goodbye"

That's my kind of story

It's no fun 'til someone dies

Much better you than I

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Strobist: Red gelled flash to my left and behind on 1/4, bare flash hitting the wall to the right on full power.

Musically Challenged

Superbus - Mes défauts

(13 of 52)²

Girl put your records on

Tell me your favourite song

Just go ahead, let you're hair down...

Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On

EXPLIZZLED

For Musically Challenged, Gimme Shelter by the Stones.

A storm is threatening

My very life today.

If I don't get some shelter

Yeah, I'm gonna fade away.

Lyrically, whatever. But that guitar is just to die for, and the haunting backup vocals give me chills every time.

I've been kind of a slave to my 50mm lately, so I figured I'd whip out the ultrawide for a change.

Strobist: 430 EX2 in 60" reflective umbrella above camera with 1/2 CTO. LP120 behind me with a red gel fired up at the ceiling of the freeway overpass.

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Musically Challenged

Here we go again,

asking where I've been

You can't see these tears are real,

I'm crying

(Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds)

Hey Lou, what did you get up to on Friday night?

Oh you know, got home from work, had a beer, ate some taco’s, had another beer, sat in the kitchen for three hours well my boyfriend painted me, had another beer, watched The Crow.

This weeks Musically Challenged list was chosen by the wonderful Forty-OneCrush.

Counting Crows - Round Here

I think it looks pretty sweet Large, so go ahead and hit "L" :-)

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Like I said, I like roads. And I like this one in particular a lot because it takes me snowboarding. I've driven it many times, but usually at night. It's rare that I get to see the 395 bathed in light, and man is it a pretty drive.

Therefore, I'm hereby assigning myself this song for Musically Challenged, since it just barely missed making the cut when it was my week to choose the songs. But it was running through my head when I ran out into the middle of the highway to shoot this, so out of the blue and apropos of nothing, here's my photo entry for Dredg's "Same Old Road."

Another copy cat shot. This one was kind of a bitch! Getting the lighting even close was tough. It's far from perfect, bit it's as good as I could get it! And hey...I'm learning, so it's all good.

Musically Challenged

Matthew Barber: Easily Bruised

Happy Big Cushy Chair Tuesday :-)

all the details are at Second Spaces.

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We're a ship without a storm

The cold without the warm

Light inside the darkness that it needs, yeah

We're a laugh without a tear

The hope without the fear

We are coming - home~!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~DIO~

The Last in Line <------Listen.....one of my all-time fave songs..ever!!

Posted for Musically Challenged...The Last in Line by DIO!

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The drive back home yesterday was quite uneventful, so much so, that I decided to stop at my favorite photo spot between Missoula and Spokane.

Musically Challenged

Down By the River - Phish and Neil Young

(40 of 52)

one good thing about music,

when it hits you feel no pain

so hit me with music, hit me with music

hit me with music, hit me with music now

- Bob Marley, Trenchtown Rock

I suppose I was due for one of these. My behind the glass series always kind of reminds me of a peep show - a little glimpse into the story of a character who you think you know, while in reality what you're seeing is just a thirty second show of a character of their choosing. Does that make sense? Anyway, while creating these various characters obscured behind the glass, I just kept thinking of a burlesque peep show. Of course, I don't own any really burlesque lingerie (unlike a certain friend of mine whose closet overfloweth and shall remain nameless). So you get my toned down version.

And before my family gets pissed (as they most always do when I show this kind of skin), I was also in the mood to celebrate my weightloss thus far. I mentioned last week that while I've been watching the numbers on the scale change, I only just recently started noticing my clothes fitting much more loosely. Well last night, on a whim (at 12:30am no less), I decided to try on some old jeans of mine that just a few months ago I couldn't even pull all the way on, let alone fasten. Some of these jeans I haven't worn in YEARS. Um, yeah. Totally comfortable in them now. Can't even express how happy that made me. So of course I wound up trying on the majority of the clothes in my closet that haven't fit me in forever. And squealed (quietly since it was 1am by that time) each time something fit me comfortably again. I'm up to six pairs of pants and jeans that are now fully ready to move back into active rotation in my wardrobe. And countless shirts and adorable jackets that used to cut off all circulation in my arms and now fit exactly the way they're meant to fit.

I'm working on getting healthier and losing weight for me. Not for anyone else. I want to get back down to a weight where I feel like me again. That's probably not as skinny as I once was, but I want to stop feeling like I'm trapped in somebody else's body. I've got about forty pounds left to lose, but I'm in no rush. Slow and steady wins this race (says the girl who has lost rapidly and gained it back just as quickly in the past).

Progress, not perfection.

Musically Challenged: Bob Marley - Trenchtown Rock

watching this: butterflies! and anything else from the Viva La Vida tour in 2009 makes me tres happy. smiles all around. Coldplay is my guilty pleasure and i am not ashamed, dammit!

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"Lovers in Japan" by Coldplay for Musically Challenged

- Portishead, Roads

Hey guess what? This week marks the one year anniversary of our weekly Emulation Challenges in My Face is My Canvas! Unreal, right? I never in a million years thought that when I created that group one drunken night that it would become so popular that it could actually sustain weekly challenges for a year. To those of you who have been active participants, thanks for being so rad. To those of you who loved it at the beginning and then abandoned it half a year ago (Vic!), you aren't quite as rad but I still like you (except for Vic). This week's emulation challenge is effing awesome if I do say so myself. It was chosen by the immensely creative and talented Kel-Z. You should really drop by and play along.

I'm glad I have soccer tonight because I need to work off some nervous energy. I'm shooting my first wedding this Saturday (with the help of the talented and cocky Tom) and I'm fairly terrified at the prospect of screwing it up somehow. Fingers crossed everything goes off without a hitch! And Tom has promised not to be a little pussy this time and actually drink with me instead of bitching out, so Saturday night after the reception should be fun times. :)

My Face is My Canvas: Emulation Week 52

Theme of the Week: Fashion Statements

Musically Challenged: Roads - Portishead

30 Songs in 30 Days: Roads - Portishead

Created for The Hypothetical Awards' 4th Annual, Musically-Themed challenge..."Album Cover Design!"

A number of years after Lead Singer Devanna Heikoop’s mysterious death, Lorne Carvalho and Margret Van Rooy, two of the founding members of the now defunct Tempora Equinox, gathered in a Geneva recording studio with the original 24 track, 2” tapes from the Dead Album sessions. Working with a looped bedtrack taken from Ultrahybrid #4 and Devanna’s “ghost vocals” from various other outtakes, the song Fallen was completed.

The song was released as a limited edition single and within weeks skyrocketed to #1 on the Billboard charts. Such was the success of the song that, ten live shows were staged, featuring the heretofore unknown singer KayCee and three members of the original sextet. The Coachella show was truly the last time any version of The Tempora Equinox performed together.

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For Musically Challenged.

It's Step23's week - yay!

song

Lyrics

341/365

Musically themed container, West Mersea dry dock, Essex.

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Why were you so surprised

That you never saw the stranger

Did you ever let your lover see

The stranger in yourself?

The Stranger by Billy Joel

Today's baby shoot of Anthony was so adorable. I just want to steal him away what a freaken cute kid! I cant wait to get to editing those photos.

I didnt get the calendar project from that producer :( I got out-bidded apparently. Even though I never even got to speak to the guy in person and negotiate anything. But all is good, God will re-direct my path, and I've been getting some really sweet referrals. I need to start building my website but have no idea what to call myself since Anna Nguyen is already taken. :(

anyways.... Jen ! tagged me so I get to give you all ten random facts about me: here goes...............................................................................................................................................................................................................

1. I have a strong tendency to teach people, to help people and show them how to reach their potential. I think I should be a teacher. and i love it.

2. I've been taken for granted a few times in my life, and its not wonderful, but for some people, like family, I just cant say no, even if it hurts me.

3. I hate it when guys hit on me especially now, I normally nonchalantly add in the conversation that I have a boyfriend/fiance/husband, I get almost frantic when they still proceed to disregard that comment I made. Sometimes I just up and walk away, I cant help it my body says "get out!"

4. I use to hate taking pictures of people, I thought they were boring and everyone did them. after starting my 365 I absolutely LOVE taking pictures of people. they are interesting and captivating.

5. I cry in almost every movie I watch, even if it's not sad, I will probably take something that way and cry about it.

6. I tear up during the biggest loser finales when the contestants find out how much they have lost. I feel like I journey with them during their weightloss journey

7. I thought I was over an ex-friend, but every time I think I will run into her, I get scared and run away. I'm such a coward

8. I try to be the best person I can be, so that people will miss me when I'm gone.

9. my favorite ice cream combo at Cold Stones is French Vanilla with Cake Batter ice cream, graham crackers and a kit kat or twix mixed in. YUM.

10. I over-analyze everything.

Project 365: day 218

Musically Challenged: The Stranger - Billy Joel

TOTW: Album Covers - It just looks like an ablum cover, I have no idea what to call it yet.

Musically Challenged

The Offspring - Hammerhead

Check it LARGE!

Baby it's Cold Outside~Dean Martin

I really can't stay- But baby it's cold outside

I've got to go away - But baby it's cold outside

This evening has been - Been hoping that you'd drop in

So very nice -I'll hold your hands they're just like ice

My mother will start to worry- Beautiful, what's your hurry?

And father will be pacing the floor- Listen to the fireplace roar

So really I'd better scurry - Beautiful please don't hurry

Well maybe just a half a drink more - Put some records on while I pour

The neighbors might think -Baby it's bad out there

Say what's in this drink - No cabs to be had out there

I wish I knew how -Your eyes are like starlight now

To break this spell - I'll take your hat your hair looks swell

I ought to say no no no sir - Mind if I move in closer

At least I'm going to say that I tried- What's the sense of hurtin my pride

I really can't stay- Baby don't hold out

Baby, it's cold outside

I simply must go - But, Baby it's cold outside

The answer is no -But, Baby it's cold outside

This welcome has been -How lucky that you dropped in

So nice and warm -Look out the window at that storm

My sister will be suspicious - Gosh your lips look delicious

My brother will be there at the door- Waves upon a tropical shore

My maiden aunt's mind is vicious- Gosh your lips are delicious

Well, maybe just a cigarette more- Never such a blizzard before

I got to get home- But baby you'd freeze out there

Say lend me a comb- It's up to your knees out there

You've really been grand- A thrill when you touch my hand

But don't you see- How can you do this thing to me

There's bound to be talk tomorrow- Think of my life long sorrow

At least there will be plenty implied- If you caught pneumonia and died

I really can't stay- Get over that old doubt

Baby, it's cold outside

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You could say I'm hard to hold.

- Jann Arden, Good Mother

Not much to report today. Other than I couldn't decide whether I liked this better in color or in black and white. I feel myself gravitating more towards black and white lately, so I'm trying to make sure I don't just default to that every time.

Musically Challenged: Jann Arden - Good Mother

TOTW: Musically Inspired

i know you're coming in the night like a thief

but i've had some time, oh lord, to hone my lying technique

i know you think that i'm someone you can trust

but i'm scared i'll get scared

and i swear i'll try to nail you back up

"Jesus Christ" by Brand New

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there's not one song i've heard before on the list of songs this week in Musically Challenged. not even one band/artist i know either, for that matter.

the song i chose for this image is my favorite. and from what i've seen it has atheists and christians arguing over it's meaning which i always find interesting.

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Griffith Park Observatory at night. a 30 second exposure, which makes for excellent ghosts!

Low and behold I joined another group.. basically I just needed inspiration. I don't know how many of these musically challenged I will be doing. I just wanted to try something different.

The word "falling" has great meaning to me so I thought that I would start off with this one. I've never heard this song before.

lyrics

VIdeo

bigger better faster more

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i've had a hell of a time lately. photo-slash-Flickr wise.

i think i've uploaded 3 images in the last week alone only to remove them but moments later. i've got no follow through. i'm second guessing bits i never think to guess at in the first place, usually.

my very favorite sort of photos to take are ones that look like i've stolen a moment from random stranger(s). any sort of landscape or cityscape or what have you is, in my opinion, often made heaps better with someone in it. or a few someones. and definitely not posed someones.

shoot. where was i?

anyway. something is off and i'm fairly certain it's me. i just can't seem to produce anything that i'm satisfied with, which is ridiculously irritating.

someone please beat me relentlessly about the head till i've got all this sorted...?

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title from one of the weekly songs in Musically Challenged.

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Although the words below were first used musically to address great famine, the lines selected are intended to express some of my own thoughts regarding world crises of all kinds.

>>>>>>>

There comes a time

When we heed a certain call

When the world must come together as one

There are people dying

And it's time to lend a hand to life

The greatest gift of all

We are the world

We are the ones who make a brighter day

Send them your heart

So they'll know that someone cares

And their lives will be stronger and free

(paraphrased lyric content "WE ARE THE WORLD")

@ M Jackson. L Richie 1985

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Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace...

And the world will live as one

(paraphrased lyric content "IMAGINE"

John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band

@J Lennon, 1971

242/365 Nothing like a drink and cigar at the end of the day....

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I hurt myself today,

to see if i still feel,

I focus on the pain,

the only thing thats real,

but I remember everything

Musically Challenged Group - DJ RED

"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash

lyrics: www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858493857/

Cash's rendition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

NIN's rendition: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0bZtf5MCzY&feature=related

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This is the first in a series of musically inspired images created for a friend's classical guitar performance this November. He asked me to created something for the mailer that he will be sending out and I believe that this is the one that he's going to use. This was created from sheet music of Glassworks Opening by Philip Glass and from another multiple exposure image of light from a sunset relecting off of pool water.