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To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do
Light up...
My 1st musically challenged...so be gentle...=))) GO HERE!!!
I know I've got a face in me
Points out all my mistakes to me
You've got a face on the inside too and
Your paranoia's probably worse
I don't know what set me off first
But I know what I can't stand
Everybody acts like the fact of the matter is
I can't add up to what you can but
Everybody has a face that they hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
A face watches every time they lie
A face that laughs every time they fall
(And watches everything)
So you know that when it's time to sink or swim
That the face inside is watching you too
Right inside your skin
- Linkin Park, Papercut
Sundays on three-day weekends always feel extra special, don't they? Been watching movies and the Indy 500 with the hubs today while processing client photos. Exciting finish to that one. I feel bad for JR Hildebrand but I've always loved Dan Wheldon. And I'm always a fan of that kind of excitement in the last lap.
Hope you're all relaxing and enjoying your Sunday!
Musically Challenged: Linkin Park - Papercut
Why is the last mile the hardest mile ?
My throat was dry, with the sun in my eyes
And I realized, I realized
I could never
I could never, never
never go back home again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Smiths
For this weeks Musically Challenged
Flickr is a puzzling beast.
is it a photography site? a social networking site? the easiest answer would be that it's a combination of the two.
i wonder, often actually, which part plays a heavier role and i also wonder, if asked, how many flickr-ites would give an honest answer.
ten to one says most would be hesitant to admit that it was the social aspect that they are more drawn to.
i'm sure that there are people on here that use this site strictly for photography and all that encompasses - improving your skill set, receiving critiques, etc.
but i think that a good lot are here due to the relationships they've formed, the fun that can be found in bantering with others, flirting, playing in challenges, groups.
i've also seen people state adamantly that they don't post photos for attention or validation. nor do they write their musings and such for attention or validation.
and while i'm sure the level of attention seeking behavior varies greatly, i think that the root of the reason that we all post and play here is, in fact, for attention.
(unfortunately the notion of wanting attention is saddled with this negative connotation. but we all do it, everywhere, all the time, in one form or another)
i love to take photos. i love that i have an eye (to varying extents) that can see something interesting in the mundane. or that i'm lucky enough to capture something beautiful in the world onto a still image.
i enjoy the figurative finger painting i get to do when in Photoshop and Lightroom to further enhance/manipulate the image.
but i'm not a rockstar photographer. i am not innately brilliant at this. i'm not crap, either. but that's not what this is about. it's that i enjoy all this to bits. the actual photography and processing, definitely. but i also love the interaction and fun on this site. and the accolades and attention.
i wish i had something wise to say in conclusion or even a point...but, i don't.
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title taken from one of the weekly songs in Musically Challenged: "Muscle Museum," by Muse
L'azzurro, rappresentato musicalmente, è simile a un flauto.....
( Wassily Kandinsky )
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Into the azure 🎶
The azure, musically represented, is like a flute.....
....always from my balcony
Day 231 Year 3 The Denial Twist -- The White Stripes
Wardrobe Remix
braided bead choker - made by me
Brown Wool sweater - Pierre Cardin
Blue striped tank - Aéropostale
Brown skirt - Forever 21
Blue striped knee socks - unknown
Pale Pink boots - Rocket Dog
Yaşamak ne güzel! Bir ölü olarak dolaşmak evrende. Karşına çıkan dostlarına, bakın yaşıyorum, demek. Bak yaşıyorum. Bir nefes aldım pazardan. Pahalı aldım, olsun. Sizi dünya gözüyle görmek değmez mi her şeye. Değer elbet. ...
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📘📙📖 #aliural #ejderhavekelebek
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🎵🎶🎼 #NikosParaoulakis #Tabakistan
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Annemin çiçekleri 🌲🌳🌴🍀🌹🌻🌼🌺🌸🌞 .
#photooftheday #picoftheday #annemincicekleri #hometown #homesweethome #peace #mother #flower #nice #instagood #mobilephotography #asus #benimgozumden #green #blue #pink #lovely #huzur #memleket #videogram #video #musically #ahenk #edebiyat #qouteoftheday #sky
when i was a kid, my parents took my brother and i out to Detroit several times, where my father grew up, to visit with family.
i remember staying at my Uncle Henrys house and seeing fireflies for the first time. my brother and I being taken fishing at the lake by Henry. i only recall bits and pieces, but they wonderful trips, due in large part to how wonderful Henry, his wife and sons were.
I knew that Henry had grown up with my father in the same house but i didn't fully understand the reasons why until i was an adult.
Henry grew up in a small town in Poland with his father, mother, and brother, as well as a large extended family. once a week, his father would send young Henry on a walk down to the post office with a letter for his sister who lived in the U.S.
Shortly after the Nazi invasion in 1942, his father and brother attempted to flee to a non-German occupied part of Poland, but never made it. they were exterminated.
Henry and his mother moved into a small apartment with his grandparents and several aunts and uncles. the living conditions, though, were horrible. emaciated, lice ridden and many contracted Typhoid. the fear palpable as the Nazi soldiers roamed the streets killing people or torturing them indiscriminately.
Henry recalled: "But the soldiers would come at least once a week and they started increasingly to kill people sometimes at the flimsiest excuse, like if you were running or if they started beating you and they would just do it until they killed you."
soon, Henry's mother was taken to Treblinka Extermination Camp and was killed there upon arrival.
Henry was sent to the first of several concentration and extermination camps, for forced labor, ending up, eventually at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
During his time at the camps, and on the Death Marches he was forced to participate in, he witnessed unimaginable atrocities, the extermination of thousands of other Jews as well as being nearly beaten to death several times himself.
a few years later, the war ended and Henry was one of those liberated at Auschwitz.
he needed to be "sponsored" in order to leave Germany and come to the United States, meaning a family member had to be willing to take him in.
He had no family left in Poland, none had survived. but he remembered his many walks down to the post office, carrying the letter from his dad to be sent to Michigan. without realizing it at the time, he had memorized his aunts address. Henry arrived in Detroit shortly after.
finally Henry was allowed to leave Germany and moved into my dad's family's home. He was in his late teens when he arrived and my dad, younger by several years, had a new big "brother". Henry lived there for the next several years as he went to college and then medical school. today, Henry is one of the nation's leading Psychoanalysts and has spent his life helping other Holocaust survivors.
* the polaroid photo is of the entrance to Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination Camp, Nazi Germany's largest one .
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title taken from the lyrics to one of the weekly songs in Musically Challenged.
"Damage," by Tim Brantley
So, I have been messing around with some different lighting ideas. For this, I hung a white sheet from the ceiling. I placed 2 flashes about 6' behind it and set them to full power. The shot I was actually trying to get was completely different than this. What I had in my mind and what I was getting out of the camera didn't match up :-(
Before I tore it all down, I shot this one, just for shits and giggles. One take, didn't even check it on the camera. So, after going through all the shots of what I was trying to get and getting pissed cause they all sucked, I came across this one. The lighting really caught my eye. I have no idea why it even worked the way it did. I was expecting nothing more then a silhouette. Anyway...this is my mistake that turned into a success. I love it when that happens.
Hope you all have a sweet weekend. It sounds like the snow might be flying around here soon!
I can't wait :-)
Explored
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And I said I know it well
That secret that we know
That we don't know how to tell
I'm in love with your honor
I'm in love with your cheeks
What's that noise up the stairs babe?
Is that Christmas morning creaks?
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last night, the babe and i had a huge discussion about our future. we really discovered what each of us want from our relationship, and have set a plan we hope will be the last of many revisions. we'll see how it goes. we'll be celebrating our 4 year anniversary together next month! how exciting. donnie and i got to see each other today for a while and watched some two and a half men. it was a good ending to a horrible photo center experience with Costco of Naples. i mean, NEVER go there, the people there are seriously incompetent. I asked the lady not to autocorrect my photos, they came out dark and the skin tones came out dead pale or dead dark. then she went on to tell me that I cropped my photos wrong in the computer and thats why my client's daughter's head was cut in half. I showed her nicely that I made sure that the crop would include all the girls' heads, and that the photo in question was clearly smaller than the others and the other wallets were clearly showing that the crop was my correct crop and that she screwed up. i got an "ohhh, give me 10 minutes." 10 minutes later I get one sheet of wallets. I wait ten more minutes, then I asked her if the other sheet was being printed or if she forgot, she said no there were only one sheet screwed up, i said no there were two. in the end she printed them out and all was dandy, but i was NOT happy with the quality. I am going to have to drive early monday morning to the costco by my school in the next town and get these photos printed correctly. I will never frequent the Naples Costco photo center again unless its for greeting cards.
but!!!! good news, I went christmas shopping with donnie today and we only have one present left to buy, and its for his little sister. yay!
165 more days to go yippee!!!!
project 365: day 200
TOTW: Party On!
Musically Challenged: Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Gazing from my window to the streets below
On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow.
I am a rock,
I am an island.
- Simon & Garfunkel, I Am a Rock
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVLFlkehGuU
I'm bound and determined to make this a good week. So I'm exercising the power of positive thinking. And taking one day at a time. I didn't sleep well last night. Woke up to my sweet little doggy puking his guts out on our bedroom floor. After that, I was up for hours, unable to get back to sleep. But I did eventually sleep some more, and when I woke up I smiled and was happy to greet the day. Because who knows what's in store for me today?
I hope all of you are tackling the start of this week with equal enthusiasm.
Musically Challenged: Simon & Garfunkel - I Am a Rock
My nephew, Neil and is new wife, Renee.
Posted for Musically Challenged group ... "We're In This Love Together" - Al Jarreau
music
www.youtube.com/watch?v=otVH5cv9z1A&ob=av2n
lyrics
www.romantic-lyrics.com/lw35.shtml
Submitted to Monthly Scavenger Hunt Clue #8 "Romantic"
- Bruce Springsteen, Trapped
Another shot for this week's Musically Challenged songs, selected by the beautiful Sarah[Ann]. And another non-head shot if you're keeping track. I know some of you are.
This shot was inspired by this phenomenal work of art by the immensely talented ladybugrock. I was so fascinated by the wet clothes and the coldness she created, I wanted to give it a try myself. If you aren't familiar with Christine, you really owe it to yourself to check out her stream. She's an amazing photographer who is constantly pushing herself to try new and different techniques in both shooting and processing. She's a huge inspiration to me.
365 Days (self portraits): Day 289
Musically Challenged: Bruce Springsteen - Trapped
Tributes to My Homies: ladybugrock
I was going for a cinematic feel, not sure I achieved it, but it is what it is.
***Attention Music Lovers***
Head on over to Musically Challenged and play along! A new list of songs goes up every Sunday, and if you really want to get involved sign up to get your chance to make a list!
For the group Musically Challenged, this week (or last week, I lost track), one of the ten songs in this chicks fine list was Arcade Fire - “Rebellion (lies)”.
Funeral by Arcade Fire is easily one of the best albums ever to come out of rock music. I bet it was hard to even pick a song from this fucking fine ass masterpiece to showcase. And to be honest, I don’t care what you do or like or who you are or what race you are or how old you are or where you were born or where you live now or even if you are dumb or smart or something in between: YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM!
Maybe that’s a stretch on the dumb or smart part. Or maybe I’m just a music snob.
No kidding, this album is top 10 of my all-time albums. Of course I think I say that a lot with albums because I get obsessed with them. But with this one I’M NOT KIDDING!
And the song? Well dude… check out the person flying by on the bike in my picture and the dead kid on the pavement of a busy city street.
This is the best I could do to illustrate this song in a “picture”.
Arcade Fire - “Rebellion (lies)”
Sleeping is giving in,
no matter what the time is.
Sleeping is giving in,
so lift those heavy eyelids.
People say that you'll die
faster than without water.
But we know it's just a lie,
scare your son, scare your daughter.
People say that your dreams
are the only things that save ya.
Come on baby in our dreams,
we can live on misbehavior.
Every time you close your eyes
Lies, lies!
Every time you close your eyes
Lies, lies!
Every time you close your eyes
Lies, lies!
Every time you close your eyes
Lies, lies!
Every time you close your eyes
Every time you close your eyes
Every time you close your eyes
Every time you close your eyes
Day 305 Year 3Musically Challenged
Something in the way she moves,
Attracts me like no other lover.
Something in the way she woos me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
Somewhere in her smile she knows,
That I don't need no other lover.
Something in her style that shows me.
I don't want to leave her now,
You know I believe and how.
You're asking me will my love grow,
I don't know, I don't know.
Stick around, and it may show,
But I don't know, I don't know.
Something in the way she knows,
And all I have to do is think of her.
Something in the things she shows me.
I don't want to leave her now.
You know I believe and how.
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
**Explored**
It's a double-whammy kind of day! This is both my emulation for this week's challenge in My Face is My Canvas AND my response to Kevin's music challenge for the song Sugarfoot in Musically Challenged! Booyah! Two birds, one stone, you know the rest.
And I can't post today without congratulating my boy, Vic on finishing his 365. Vic, you better make good on your promise to stick around here and keep posting shots or else I might really learn how to make my head explode. Congrats on making it through a year and on turning out the kind of genius works of art that you did. You're inspiring. I find your style seeping into my subconscious and making my shots ever so slightly scarier. The last outtake in the comments is for you. Ha.
I hope everyone else had a good day. I spent mine working on drafting a brief and texting with Ry-O, Pimp, Cirkus, Ashley and Anna. :) Thanks for helping me get through the day, guys! Now I'm going to head out for the evening, so this is a post and run until later when I can catch up and comment on all of you guys' brilliant work from today.
365 Days (self portraits): Day 205
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation Week #5
Musically Challenged: Sugarfoot - Black Joe Louis & the Honeybears
TOTW: Face Art
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348/365
...I was here...
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be...
What a cool musically challenged set of lyrics! I have wanted to find a tunnel somewhat like this since I started messing around with a camera, and this one was way cooler than any of the tunnels and shots I had imagined. I ran around out of town today and enjoyed just having a partial day off. It's nice to get out and drive for a bit, even if it wasn't exactly what I had hoped for :P I seem to always have a wee bit too high of expectations for my life :) It will be good to work for awhile tonight and then blast out early to grab my guy and go with friends to Cowboys and Aliens, woohoo! I hope the seats rumble and the screen thunders!!
"If I'm a ticking time bomb
Waiting to blow my top
No one would ever know
Not until I blew up
No one would believe it
He was such a normal man
Shake their heads and wonder why"
Next time you see someone staring into the distance, stop and ask them how they're doing...
Where the hookers and thieves and the junkies play
It's a circus round here for sure
And I worry about how I'm fitting in
If I only had her
And I know my friends they worry about me
I can see it written on their face
But despite anything I might have said before,
The bar is a beautiful place
Ryan Adams
- Nyle, Breakdown
Pretty far removed from the original inspiration shots for this week's Emulation Challenge in My Face is My Canvas, but I was kind of feeling like straying a bit. So there you go. And yay to a new week of songs in Musically Challenged too!
My mom and I spent the better part of today moving me into my new (bigger) office and shopping in Ikea for shelves. It was really nice to have some mother-daughter time. And my mom's awesome at arranging rooms and whatnot, so it was nice to have somebody's opinion that consisted of something other than "I don't know." The next challenge will be getting my heavy Ikea shelves up the stairs to my office and then put together. Ugh. Not looking forward to that headache.
So we're supposed to be going to a party tonight. And I really want to go. Andy is less enthused. We're supposed to leave in an hour. Let's see what happens...
**Explored**
365 Days (self portraits): Day 305
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation #19
Musically Challenged: Nyle - Breakdown
God knows it weighs on me
As heavy as stone and as blue as I go
I was just wondering if you'd come along
Hold up my head when my head won't hold on
- Dave Matthews Band, The Stone
I know I've said this before on here, but I've never been what I would describe as a religious person. I've always called myself spiritual. I believe in God (what that term means to me), but I've never been to church. I've prayed for a number of years, but I've always found my relationship with God to be personal. It's what I want it to be.
But it's funny...I've never felt closer to God than in the past few weeks. And by closer, I guess I mean that I feel God or some higher power is with me throughout my day. If I had said that out loud five years ago, I might have laughed at myself. But as hard as things have been for me, I truly believe that there is something bigger than myself that is holding me up and keeping me afloat and moving in the direction I need to be moving. And I can't even begin to describe the serenity that has provided me in the midst of this storm. Maybe "God" isn't even the right term. I don't know. I feel closer to nature and to the earth. I feel like I'm connecting with the world around me. And though it may sound silly, I feel comforted by light breezes, the rustle of leaves, the distant tweets of birds, the sensation of raindrops hitting my skin - as though each of those sensations were meant especially for me.
I talked yesterday about how hard it is for me to let go of control. I've always felt like I'm in the driver's seat of my own life - my hands on the wheel - directing myself where I need to go. Lately I've found that the more I try to cling to this notion, the more unmanageable my life seems to become. It's sort of a relief to let go and trust that something bigger than me is there to catch me and guide me where I need to be. It's a different kind of trust.
And maybe my relationship with this higher power isn't what I want it to be after all. Maybe I was fooling myself. Maybe my relationship with God or the universe or however you choose to describe it, is what I need when I need it, whether I realize it or not. All I know is that as of late, I haven't been asking for things that I want in my life in my prayers. I've been asking for the strength to withstand my current troubles, the knowledge I need to find my way, and clarity of mind so that I may know the right path when it presents itself. And it feels good. It feels comforting.
I spent some time sitting out in nature today. Just soaking up the sights and sounds around me. And I felt blessed. I know I'm rambling, but this is where my head is at today. I feel connected and grounded. And honestly, that's a pretty big step in the right direction.
Musically Challenged: DMB - The Stone
HURT
Certainly not Low Key, and now that Kaija took a crack at the processing, not even Lame Ass!
But it's still Thursday so Happy Low Key Lame Ass Thursday ;-)
She did a sweet color version as well, I think I might like that one even better, what do you think?
(32 of 52)²
I have been musically unplugged for too long. No longer will I disallow music to motivate and stir my mind and my emotions. I will compile, write, translate, research, study, work - all with beats urging me onward to completion.
Currently enjoying: Kraak & Smaak - Il Serpente. Have a listen.
Big thanks to gsfpres30. I gratefully utilized his abilities, props, and company for this shot. This is not a self-portrait: he was the trigger-man! Check out his stream!
5D + 85L + 580exII into 45" shoot-through umbrella high camera right, triggered by 580ex and radiopoppers.
Born Again - Newsboys
I am going to try and get caught up with my 52 weeks, so we are calling this 42 of 52 ;-)
Wishing you all a wonderful Friday, and a fantastic weekend!
TGIF!!!
I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Single strobe in front and handheld
Cieling light above camera.
It had been 7 days since I picked up my camera and took a photo. Just haven't been feeling it. But last night I figured I should do something. So I thought would try some different lighting techniques and came up with this.
Kinda been a crappy Flickr contact lately too, but I will be checking out your streams to see what you have been up to tonight :-)
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Happy Low Key Lame Ass Thursday!
(48 of 52)²
Two weeks in NOLA for the mardi gras 2017
Founded in 1993, the Krewe of Orpheus takes its name from the musically-inclined son of Zeus and Calliope. Founding members included Harry Connick, both the junior and senior.
In New Orleans, the krewe established themselves as a superkrewe with their first parade in 1994, which rolled with 700 riders. They were the first super Krewe to allow both male and female riders.
The Krewe's throws include a number of popular items including emblem beads, stuffed animals, signature beads, light-up Orpheus medallion beads, cups, three different types of doubloons, and 4-foot-long stuffed dragons.
They have a number of notable floats including the Dolly Trolley, the horse-drawn bus that was used in the opening of Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, the Smoking Mary which is a six unit float that looks like a steam locomotive, a Trojan horse and the Orpheus Leviathan Float, which is a three unit, 139-foot float, and the first Carnival float to use extensive fiber optic lighting.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Fats Domino wass the honorary grand marshall for 2014. His eldest son, Antoine Domino III, rode in the parade and perform his 85 year old father's music.
In addition to Fats Domino, Quentin Tarantino reigned as the krewe's celebrity monarch.
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
Released in April of 1990 this album just blew minds away.I really enjoyed what was happening musically with rap music in the 80's (Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, RUN DMC, Fat Boys, Kool Moe D, LL Cool J, Whodini, 3rd Bass, Eric B and Rakim, Beastie Boys, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul) and this album took all of that and ushered in a new wave of rap music.
The best thing is to share what our friend Wiki says about this album:
Their debut album, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, released on April 10, 1990,was marked by a playful lyrical approach and light-hearted content such as safe sex, vegetarianism and youthful experiences.The music was an eclectic mix of jazz, funk, soul and rock samples."A Tribe Called Quest put no feet in the wrong place here. This is not rap, it's near perfection" The Source gave it the first "five-mic" rating in the magazine's history,and called it a "completely musical and spiritual approach to hip-hop.
Enough chatter here are a couple of musical gems and all time greats from the 90's, enjoy:
I Left My Wallet In El Segundo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WILyWmT2A-Q
Bonita Applebum
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xE6ZWwJezg
Can I Kick It