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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
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.
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.
ON THIS VERY DAY 127 years ago Bruckner took a stroll in his residential garden in Vienna. It was October 11th, 1896. Back from the garden, he set the last notes of his unfinished 9th symphony on paper and sipped on a cup of tea. He sat in his bed and passed away in peace. Like a true, blessed Christian: without suffering, pain or shame. He was just 72: a young man by today's standards.
Those last sketch sheets got lost and we will never know what possibly the greatest of all symphonic grand Finale was to sound - he had the sketches ready and the music score has been rounded up in his head. He even played it on the piano to a couple of visiting friends.
There were many attempts to reconstruct this Finale on the basis of leftover fragments. Since the 1970s there is a whole school of authors in existence, scholars who went to their outermost best to give us at least a foretaste of the lost notations. However. The greatest of all existing Finale, those of the 8th and 5th, could have been surpassed and topped only by one man - the Meister himself. He has never heard his 5th performed, which is an extraordinary symphonic contrapuntal masterpiece, one of the greatest in history of music. So I hope that he has already been granted to hear it in a way more perfect and awe-inspiring than we mortals can afford. Also I hope that by the inexplicable ways of the Kingdom to come, Bruckner's Finale of the 9th stands there firmly in place, with finished instrumentation and polished details. Available not only to the composer to hear it, but also to all of us who admire his unique achievements and wouldn't like to live in any dimension or state of Universe without being able to hear it. Repeatedly then.
We fare through an age of materialism / consumerism. We are addicted to ludicrous things that undermine our human dignity. Still, there is hope: not only in the true words of our Lord, who infallibly keeps all His promises, but in our sleepy human nature too - our gifts waiting to become awake. I've heard so many musically uneducated people telling me how Bruckner's Te Deum or a concert performance of a Symphony made them feel goosebumps. So lets leave it open: there you have the image of Bruckner's birth house back side, and a sign inviting you to 'Symphony walkway'. You may hike the marked trail to Bruckner's resting place in Sankt Florian monastery, but – better still – attend a concert performance of one of his symphonies, masses or Te Deum. At least once in your lifetime!
I SINCERELY APPRECIATE all of you who've faithfully followed this mini series dedicated to Bruckner's anniversary and birth place. Knowing that the reading took much more than just glimpsing over the images. Thank you!
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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
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
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
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...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!!
- 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...
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365 Days (self portraits): Day 305
My Face is My Canvas: Emulation #19
Musically Challenged: Nyle - Breakdown
"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...
and I've lost my light
for I toss and turn
I can't sleep at night.
- Soft Cell, Tainted Love
Sleepless nights have kind of turned into the norm for me these past few weeks. It's to be expected with everything that's been happening in my world, I suppose. I anticipate better sleep soon. Today was a major turning point day. I'm hoping that even by tonight I sleep more peacefully, actually. The next month isn't going to be any easier than this past month, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel now. And I'm just going to keep putting one foot in front of the other until I get there.
Greg is hosting Musically Challenged this week and he chose all songs that have been covered by other artists/bands. Love that concept since much of what we do as photographers is to take inspiration from others' work and then put our own spin on it. Anyway, he asked that we state whether we like the original or the cover better and for this song? Hands down I love the cover best. Soft Cell's version grates on so many people but not me. Every single time I hear it, I stop what I'm doing, crank the radio and sing.
I had a hard time deciding between this shot and the outtake in the comments.
Musically Challenged: Soft Cell - Tainted Love
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!!!
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.
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.
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
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.
A brain that never stops ticking,
sometimes an on-off switch would sure come in handy
A mind that's constantly cutting up and dissecting,
looking for answers, committing murders along the way
Is it the red wire, or the blue wire
just pick one and cut, it just doesn't matter anymore
or did it ever, cause I could never control
when the bomb would explode
- Suicide Medicine, by Rocky Votolato
Musically Challenged, reprise week 8
it came to the end of the day and i had nothing, so i gave this a go. this is too similar to day 99. oh wells. i copycatted myself :)
happy tuesday, my flickroos. ♥
I'm not a huge fan of Local Natives musically-not sure why-I don't dislike their music but nothing has really clicked with me yet about them. They do have a great energy live, though, and I really appreciated these fans and their moustache signs. Local Natives rock the 'stache.
Local Natives live shots on Pfork facebook start here:
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150350979891000&set...
Myspace: www.myspace.com/localnatives
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"no sexy time before marriage
we know our Born Again souls had found their mate
they thought us foolish and fucking whackjobs
but we knew that it was fate.
my Connie, my Concetta
my glorious bearer of light.
i will be your Greatest American Hero
you will be my Entertainment Tonight"
"Concetta" by John Tesh
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for: Musically Challenged
July ABC soup: the letter H
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!
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French rock musician Matthieu Chedid (who has the stage name of -M-) playing with Lamomali at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris (Dec 2017). This is from the first of two gigs at this venue.
Last summer, I photographed Lamomali at WOMAD and loved them musically and photographically.
Fortunately, my pics were a hit with -M-. 😎
I asked nicely if I could photograph the final two gigs of their tour (at a 20,000 capacity arena) and received permission. Woo-Hoo!
Lamomali is a single album collaboration (rather than a band), between -M-, Toumani and Siddiki Diabaté and Fatoumata Diawara.
You can see videos of songs from the album at these links:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7q5CXiwsME
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0fKM2XMgpE
You can buy the album here: www.amazon.co.uk/LAMOMALI-Lamomali/dp/B01LTIBMLM/
You can see my Lamomali pics here: Lamomali
a picture’s worth a thousand words
but you can’t see what those shades of gray keep covered
you should have seen it in color.
"In Color" by Jamey Johnson
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for: Musically Challenged
mothers day was spent down in Newport Beach at a gorgeous open air restaurant overlooking the back bay. mimosas and unreal delicious food and moms and oceans and the days just keep getting better.
when we were leaving i noticed some young boys playing near the waters edge, feeding some wayward crabs their shrimp they had in a to-go box. i joined in and was cheering on the ravenous crabs with them. i can't wait till i can go searching for little creatures and insects with my son. :)
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for Musically Challenged: City of Angels by The Distillers
There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea.
You became the light on the dark side of me.
Love remained a drug that's the high and not the pill.
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and,
The light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
The more I get of you,
Stranger it feels, yeah.
And now that your rose is is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grey.
There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
there's so much inside.
You remain,
My power, my pleasure, my pain, baby
To me you're like a growing addiction that I can't deny.. yeah.
Won't you tell me is that healthy, baby?
But did you know,
That when it snows,
My eyes become large and the light that you shine can be seen.
Baby,
I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey.
Ooh, the more I get of you
Stranger it feels, yeah
Now that your rose is in bloom.
A light hits the gloom on the grey,
What is it you ask? It's the bridge from my husband's Fender Stratocaster. His 'thing' is music and he's very good at it so he plays the guitars and I photograph them.
I'm not the most musically literate person around...and believe me, that's a serious understatement. A few years ago my husband and daughter were going to a Page and Plant concert and they were chatting away in what seemed like another language to me. Finally, in complete confusion, I asked, 'you keep talking about Led Zeppelin but I thought you were going to something called Page and Plant?!?!' They rolled their eyes in unison and had to explain the connection.
A while back I tried making a youtube video of my husband playing using photographs I'd taken:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHZB5ex23do
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what you own is your own kingdom
what you do is your own glory
what you love is your own power
what you live is your own story
in your head is the answer
let it guide you along
let your heart be the anchor
and the beat of your own song
- Rush, Something for Nothing
Spent the day packaging 8x10s for Art Fair. Getting very excited to set up at the coffee shop tomorrow. Planning on spending my days getting some writing done on my book while I hang out and wait for sales. :)
So this cute little camera was a gift from my friend Marcy who I got to spend a little (emphasis on little) time with on my road trip. Wish I'd had more time to hang out with her. But now whenever I pull out this camera, I'll think of her and that makes me smile. She also gave me this awesome vintage suitcase that I will definitely be using in some of my upcoming newborn shoots. :)
Off to help the hubs make dinner! Hope you guys are having a great day! I should be online a lot this week, so I'm hoping to catch up with most of you then!
Musically Challenged: Rush - Something for Nothing
*yeah, I totally replaced the original with this alternate. I was messing around with processing and just liked this so much better.
ghosts and clouds
and nameless things
squint your eyes and hope real hard
maybe sprout wings
- The Mountain Goats, Maybe Sprout Wings
Ok, yes. It's the same sweater I wore in yesterday's shot. Sue me. I was in a rush this morning and grabbed the first thing I saw in my closet. I've also had a horrible day, but you know what? I feel like all I do lately is talk about the stuff that's bringing me down. So instead of rehashing it all, I'm just going to let it go. I'm home now. I'm eating leftover chili. My dog is curled up on the floor at my feet. So I'm just going to relax and move on and hopefully have a decent evening. I hope you're all doing the same.
Musically Challenged: The Mountain Goats - Maybe Sprout Wings
three.six.four.whoa.
and as i'm posting this, i just realized i have a make-up shot to do from my first week hosting musically challenged. so i'll do it and post it tonight and be caught up! ha! and then tomorrow, i'll be done.
Really loving this song.
[V1]
Hello little boys, little toys
We're the dreams you're believing
Crawling up the walls
Running down your face
Razor sharp, razor clean
Feel the weapon's sensation
On your back...
With loaded guns
[B-section]
Now hold onto me pretty baby
If you want to fly
I'm gonna melt the fever sugar
Rolling back your eyes
[Chorus]
We're gonna ride the race cars
We're gonna dance on fire
We're the girls Le Disko
Supersonic overdrive
[V2]
So what's it gonna take?
Silver shadow believer....
Spock rocker with your dirty eyes
It's a chance gonna move
Gonna fuck up your ego
Silly boy gonna make you cry
[Bridge]
If what they say is true...
You're a boy - and I'm a girl
I will never fall in love with you
~ Le Disko, Shiny Toy Guns
i think i'm growing feathers...
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for Musically Challenged: "Journey of the Featherless" by Cloud Cult
for TOTW: It's All in the Details
Well this did not turn out as planned :-(
FYI: Peach pits provide a very formidable barrier against the pellet of a pellet gun. I was hoping for some serious SPLAT but not so much. So I ended up having to take the pit out of the peach just to get something worth posting. Still not thrilled with the results. I guess I would need to shoot it with a real gun or some larger projectile. Maybe I should make a small caliber air cannon??
This is for my week in Musically Challenged.
through this doorway
what's on the other side?
never knowing
exactly what I'll find.
- Offspring, Hammerhead
Yeah. I have a feeling I might be doing glass door shots all week. They're quick, easy and you can't tell how dead tired and allergy-miserable I look.
First day at Art Fair was great other than the fact that the coffee shop's power kept going out and there was basically no a/c or air moving. I stopped by the drug store on the way home and picked up a personal fan that should make the next few days more tolerable. Made a few sales and picked up (hopefully) a few new clients who said they'll be calling to set up photoshoots. Also got to visit with some family and friends who stopped in and met eyesontheskies too. It was a really good day until my allergies knocked me on my ass about a half hour before my husband came to pick me up. I'm sure I'll sleep it off, though.
Musically Challenged: Offspring - Hammerhead
Blue October~Calling you
Theres something that i cant quite explain
i'm so in love with you
you'll never take that away
and if i said a hundred times before
expect a thousand more
you never take that away
well expect me to be
calling you to see
if you're ok when i'm not around
asking if you love me
i love the way you make it sound
calling you to see
do i try too hard to make you smile
to make a smile
well i will keep calling you to see
if you're sleepin are you dreamin and
if you're dreamin are you dreamin of me
i cant believe
you actually picked...me
i thought that the world had lost its sway
(its so hard sometimes)
then i fell in love with you
(then came you)
and you took that away
(its not so difficult, the world is not so difficult)
you take away the old
show me the new
and i feel like i can fly
when i stand next to you
so what if I'm on this phone
a hundred miles from home
i take the words you gave
and send them back to you
i only want to see
if you're ok when i'm not around
asking if you love me
i love the way you make it sound
calling you to see
do i try too hard to make you smile
to make a smile
i will keep calling you to see
if you're sleepin are you dreamin and
if you're dreamin are you dreamin of me
i cant believe
you actually picked...me
maybe I'm thinking myself in a hole
wondering, who I am when I ought to know
straighten up now time to go
fool somebody else, fool somebody else
- Ben Folds Five, Best Imitation of Myself
Got a little participation out of Samson today. Though not for long. He's a bit of a nervous nelly when there are strange noises (i.e. me moving around on a chair above him), so he stuck around long enough to scarf down a treat and then high tailed it out of there. I'm putting a picture in the comments from back when I first got him. It always amazes me to look at how damn tiny he used to be. The shot is from fall 2002, back during my second year of law school. It's scary that I look at myself then and think I look young. I guess I really am getting old.
As a side note, I am SO not a skinny jeans person. I cringe to even post this, but I'm really not in the mood to shoot something else right now. I never wear these jeans without my knee-high Northface boots over them. I've always hated my legs. Soccer made them super stocky with muscle, and age (and laziness) has not helped the situation. But whatever. I am who I am.
I realize the chair's not all that big, but it is cushy. It's part of our dining set with the awesome green table. My mom tells me (since this was her breakfast table growing up) that these chairs used to match the table exactly, but at some point my grandma reupholstered them. I'm planning to cover them in a new, brighter fabric soon. Happy Big Cushy Chair Tuesday!
Musically Challenged: Ben Folds Five - Best Imitation of Myself
HBCCT!