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Another new year has just begun. Another new year full of new challenges, new worlds to explore, and more rebels to defeat. But Stormtrooper Bruce and the guys haven’t quite worked out their New Year’s Resolutions.
STB: So, did either of you make any resolutions this year?
TK-432: Yes, and I've already broken most of them. No more swearing. And if I do - put a credit in a swear jar for every infraction. So by the end of the year I’ll be rich.
STB: Let me guess. You’re already swearing. Not putting credits in your swear jar - because you never even bothered to make one.
TK-1110: I made some resolutions. Find those stinking droids. Track down the Millennium Falcon. Build a sand castle on Tatooine, and an igloo condo on Hoth. Become omnipotent like Q. And finally, build another ...
STB: Wait, you're joking, right? Those are your resolutions?!?
TK-1110: Busted. Those are the P's. At least I'm guessing those are the kind of things he hopes to do.
TK-432: Dang, I was really looking forward to that igloo condo.
STB: Well, as for me, I resolve to stop with all the pranks, plotting and scheming when it comes to Fett, and not enter any more of the P’s contests. Oh, and eat more veggies!
TK-1110: Great galaxy! We must be in a parallel universe because you sound so serious I almost believe you!
STB: What. I’m serious as a Sith!
TK-1110: OK, this must be where we all get struck by lightening. But actually, I resolved years ago to not make resolutions because I always break them anyway.
TK-432: That’s a shame because I was really, really looking forward to that igloo condo!
STB: And I was hoping you both were looking forward to some homemade lasagna.
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You'd think it'd be easy. All I have to do is not put certain foods in my mouth. And yet, losing weight and eating more healthfully is an annual New Year's resolution for me. So, this year, I'm taking drastic steps. Reminders are posted! Barricades are in place!
Explore, January 3, 2009
One of my new year's resolutions is to start a blog. I never start on January 1st. Yesterday, I began. Have look, and please if you have any ideas, comments and/or suggestions - please tell me. Only one post so far, but it is a start. If anyone uses wordpress - can they give me some tips/tricks, please?
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And it was such a pretty horse - whoda thunk he'd say this to me?
Well, I hope your resolutions are working out better for you than I'm told mine are with me.
Vader's New Year's resolution to lose some weight seems quite pointless. The Storm Troopers are aghast to realize that they simply don't weight anything?
Derek vowed that he would get in better shape in 2020. His friends told him that he couldn't get in any "better" shape because all Lego minifigs have the same shape. But his friends do not realize just how determined Derek is to achieve his goals.
Day 9
New Year's resolution: to shoot in film
Week 2
52 weeks of 2017
Theme: New Year’s Resolution
Category: Creative
A little over a month into the New Year I wonder how many New Year's Resolutions have been kept.
My resolution was to visit at least one new place a month during 2017. I managed 4 in January
Resolution post-it notes at the New York Public Library
i was browsing the 2011 365 group discussion, and saw they do weekly challenges! i am going to try & do them. this week was your new years resolution. i don't really believe in them, but i figured making more time for art would be fitting :) so, here ya go
Puss said it is boring that we talk about New Year's Resolutions again. :o)
Let's plan for the new year! Let's start on some new projects in 2014!!
1. Shoot with an old camera in 2014
It is easy to know which camera is old in digital age. If you shoot with a 6MP camera, it is definitely more than 10 years old. Why old cameras? Because you will pay no attention to the amazing image quality, the high resolution but only the subject, the composition and your ideas about the shot!
2. Shoot with tripod/Shoot handheld
The purpose of shooting with tripod is to slow down and think carefully before clicking. Shooting handheld (for people like me who shoots with tripod all the time) is to shoot more quickly without thinking too much!
3. Shoot with a film camera
You want to shoot and concentrate on shooting itself and not reviewing on LCD. Because you can't!! And after this, you will miss the film tones and they cannot be reproduced by Photoshop!
4. Shoot black & white for everything
Going back to the basics of photography and you will wonder why we need colours for good pictures.
5. Shoot at home or your hometown or your neighbourhood every day or every week
Seeing things new is more important than seeing new things!
Please feel free to add on the list of New Year's Resolutions!
Have a great 2014!!
New Year's Resolution 2:
I resolve to stop worrying about the things I cannot change and start putting more fun into my life. I will wear my wellies whenever I want to!
I always struggle with finding something to writing in here.
It was tough deciding whether or not to put this version of the photo or the black and white version on Flickr . I'll probably post the black and white version on my tumblr. Look out for it! =)
You should view this on black.
This is the same dress from this photo.
You will find 184+ of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html
I like to post this poem each year at this time . . .
Resolved
Shall we be even more bold this next year?
More brave and adventurous than last year?
Take more chances?
Risk more?
Shoot for the moon?
Bet the ranch?
Is this the year to go for glory?
Seize the day, the month, the actual year?
Carpe diem, mensis, annum?
Can we ask Lady Luck to visit?
Smile upon us?
End her long holiday elsewhere
and pay attention to our hopes?
Our wishes?
Our dreams?
Or is it better to go it alone?
Impertinent?
Cheeky and audacious to carve out our own good fortune?
Give the Lady leave?
Write her out of the story?
Shall we plot a tale of great adventure?
Leave nothing to chance?
Shall we grab life by the horns?
Of course we shall
We will step boldly
Unbowed
Resolute
Determined
Resilient
And Lady Luck can come along for the ride
If she wishes
© Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved
You will find more of my poems and songs here
and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.
My songs are at
Vince Vance ~ All I want for Cajun Christmas
I resolve to do whatever it takes to put the Saints back in the Superbowl.........
We're Here! : New Years Resolutions
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded HOBD-W overhead. AB800 with gridded 7 inch reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
The end of my second 365 project has arrived, and of course, the big question is whether I will do another one. Frankly, I don't know myself. I know it took a hell of a lot of time, precious time I could have put to better use.
So, since We're Here is doing New Years Resolutuions, I need to come up with one. At this point, I don't know if I can. I'm spent. But the fireworks are exploding outside, tomorrow is a few hours away, I'll be up early and heading back to the hospital to work.
We're Here! : New Years Resolutions
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Strobist: AB1600 with gridded 60X30 softbox camera right. AB800 with Softlighter II camera left. Triggered by Cybersync.
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It’s a simple and short resolution, but I need to start living again.
And I’m doing that by starting a 365 project. I’ve always wanted to do one, but never started one because I honestly don’t have a lot of time. And I probably still don’t have time, but I’m going to push myself to do it; I need a push in my life.
For the past few months since this school year started, I have felt incredibly empty honestly. The first half of 2010 was the best time of my entire life. I had everything I could ever want and had the best friends in the world. I enjoyed life in the present. Now all I can think about is the future since the present is so miserable. I lost some of the most important things in my life a few months ago, and I guess I stopped trying to be happy – I didn’t think it was possible for me to be happy without the things I once had.
You know what makes me happy? Trying to capture that orange glow over everything as the sun is setting. Noticing little things when light hits dust or when raindrops are running down a car window. The beauty in the world makes me happy, and capturing it through photography makes me even happier. So I’m going to screw the fact that I’m busy – and push myself to do what I love. Doing this will force me to think creatively, ALL the time. I know I can be so creative, I just don’t always try so hard for whatever reason.
I’m leaving to college in a few months, and I need to turn my life back around and stop going through my days unhappy. This is going to be hard for me, to go out and take pictures every single day since I’m always so busy, so I need you guys to push me if you ever see me slacking. This website has changed my life and made me realize that I want to spend my life as a photographer, and I know you guys can help me.
I didn’t really mean anyone to read all of this – I was sorta just letting out crap, but if you did read all the way to here I want to thank you for caring so much. I’d give you a giant fantastic hug if I could see you in person! And to anyone who is starting a 365 today too, I wish you the best of luck - I hope you find what you're looking for.
Happy New Year. To new beginnings, and a fresh start.
Are you going to be invisible? Are you going to be the person that everyone looks through? Or are you going to make something of yourself and be proud of who you are. In a week of vigorous New Years “resolutioning” we have to make sure we keep up motivation. I was inspired to start my 52 weeks project off with something relating to that idea. I, like anyone else, have a few goals (but I call them aspirations) and I, like many other people, have been known to flake out on those goals. Really it wasn’t because the goals were too hard, it was because I didn’t want them enough. I can sit here and make list after list of things I aspire to do, but it’s not about the lists. You can start with a “what” but without the “why” you’re never going to get anywhere. Do you know why you’ve made these goals? For me my goals are to help me become someone I am proud of. They are to help me make use of the gifts God has given me. When someone looks at me I don’t want them to be able to look right through me. Heck, when I look at me, i don’t want to be unsure of what I see. I want to look at myself and see a complete person. Someone who has set goals and triumphed. Someone who has tried, failed, and learned from those mistakes. I don’t want to look like my surroundings, I want to pop out from them. Maybe this looks like a cliche “finding yourself” picture, but I think your aspirations for this New Year should be a direct reflection of who you want to see yourself as when 2015 rolls around. You have a whole year to fill in that picture, to create that person, even if it means you have to “find” yourself on that journey.
It's been a hard couple of days putting in long hours at the hospital. I haven't been able to attend to shots I've already taken. They're still on the cards waiting to be viewed. It's cold in the studio. The sub zero wind outside is howling. And I'm looking at another 14 hour day tomorrow starting at 5AM.
After my last case tonight, I found myself sitting in the warmth of my vehicle outside the studio not even wanting to go inside. Why am I doing this? This silly 365 project? Nobody cares. Hardly anyone is doing a 365 any more. And mine has grown stagnant. I don't even want to go into the studio. It is not welcoming. And photography is no longer fun. The magic is gone.
As I sat in my vehicle, Armer texted me an image to critique. It was a good image. Technically near perfect in B&W. Beautiful light. I told him this. And I asked him what he was doing. What was he trying to communicate. And I texted him a couple of videos from Zack Arias. They have helped see me through tough creative times. youtu.be/KZYlQ4Wv8lE and youtu.be/z65jlY4e908 And then I watched the videos myself.
For 2018 I resolve to be true to myself. I will not contribute to any flickr group unless I want to. Daily contributions to We're Here, color focused groups and even the 365 group will cease. No more. My misguided dedication to these groups has made my photography into a second job. And it is not a fun one. It's tedious, thankless, mind numbing and devoid of discovery. I feel my creativity has been crippled by this.
I will shoot what I want. When I want. Where I want. And I'll share it online if I want. And maybe I'll find myself again.
Happy New Year.
"Keep looking for beauty even if the familiar place has turned alien."
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New Year's Day, Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
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My New Year's Resolutions -
I will become fluent in a language of each continent.
I will become a Shakespearian actor.
I will run a marathon in each of the four seasons.
I will become a lip-reader.
I will give up my dreams of being a cat burglar.
I will utter no profanities should minor calamities befall me.
I will cut my own hair each month.
I will finally overcome my fear of clowns.
I will design a wedding dress.
I will prudently procrastinate.
I will cross the road only when the Green Man is flashing.
I will climb a very high mountain.
I will write two children's stories.
I will learn to weigh meat with my hands.
I will win the Lottery.
I will befriend a small stray animal.
I will become ambidextrous.
I will rise with the sun.
I will domesticate a chicken.
I will play with magnets more frequently, but never lend them.
I will learn to lean less suggestively.
I will make parsley more fashionable.
I will be 17% more interesting this year.
I will consume alcohol only for medicinal purposes.
I will finish everything that I start.
I will be a shoulder to cry on for many downtrodden folk.
I will carry my own mirror with me.
I will remember my dreams.
I will be taller.
I will improve my sense of smell.
I will remain deadly serious at all times.
I will become 23% less ironic.
When I am taking photographs, I am first and foremost drawn to color. (I think that's why I take pictures of flowers so often.) It is more difficult for me to choose photographic subjects based on line, shape, composition. So, in my resolution this year to work on improving my photography, one of my specific goals is to get better at black and white photography.
This photograph is an attempt to draw primary attention to the lovely white droplets, without interference from the original bright green tones of the blades of grass.
Explore front page, January 5, 2009
Forgive and forget!
To all my flickr friends, I wish you and your families a wonderful, happy and healthy 2015!
May your troubles be less,
And your blessings be more.
And nothing but happiness come through your door.
xoxo
marion
"My resolution is to learn how to drive. You can see I have the engine on, now I just have to figure out the gears, steering etc. There are places to go, people to see, dogs to sniff, beaches to explore! Off we go!"
Hello everyone.
Wishing you all a very Happy New Year for 2025.
I am still changing myself from a glass-half-empty kind of person to a glass-half-full kind of person. I am still building up confidence in myself to do what I can do, and chipping away my self-doubt. I am trying to get rid of the negativity, and trying to believe in the positivity.
Over the past few years, as my Photostream grow, I’ve watched the number of views every photos get, grows larger and larger. I’ve watched the number of Followers grow to more than 750 so far.
All of that is giving me a motivation to make an effort to do what I want to do.
I’m a deaf person. Here in the UK, back in the 1980s, there weren’t much human rights and disability rights, so when I told my family, hearing teachers at a deaf school, the social services, and the job advisors, that I want to get into college to study photography, and become a photographer…
They all were very negative, and not very supportive. It was a discrimination, pure and simple. It was like “No, you can’t be a photographer because you are deaf.”
“You can’t be a writer because you are deaf.”
“You can’t…” whatever is always followed by “…because you are deaf.”
All that negativity left me feeling self-doubt about myself, lack of confidence in myself. It actually took me about 10 years and maybe 5 different instructors, to finally pass my driving test.
During the 2000s to 2020s, I was a busy full time single parent, so my photography was put on hold for a while. I also had counselling seasons, to help me develop my self-confidence.
Now that my kids are older and left home, I decided to resume my career as a photographer. With more and more growing belief in myself, and chipping away my self-doubt, I’ve encouraged myself to make an effort to actually do photography.
I’m starting to believe that I can. I try to make an effort to roll up my sleeves, and get to do photography, in ways that I can. Not only because nowadays, with human rights and disability rights, but also because I start to believe in myself.
So with my growing confidence in myself, as part of my New Year’s Resolutions, I am studying how to start and run a business, for the purpose of going freelance. As soon as I’ve familiar myself with how to run a business, I aim to create a business plan, and aim to kick start my freelance business.
This is what the above photo is about, I got the books I needed, I’ve been reading some of them, studying them, and will start writing notes. For me, my resolutions for 2025 is to plan for going freelance.
In the meanwhile, I’m going to keep working on doing photography, expand my skills and my experience. I hope that if my Flickr account can grow, and motivate myself into doing more, then it will give me the motivation to do more.
Below the main subject in the above photo, is a few selected photos that acts like a preview of what I will be uploading in due course. Not only photos, but also a few graphic design work by using my own photos.
If any of you have similar experience, I wish you all many success in whatever your aims are, as you try to build up the belief in yourselves to be able to aim high and can do what you could do. Whatever your Resolutions for the New Year is, good luck and try your best.
Once again, wishing you all a Happy New Year.
Captain Phasma is teaching Stormtrooper recruits a basic wisdom: don't make New Year's Resolutions because no Stormtrooper ever accomplished a New Year's resolution.
Well, it seems even in a Galaxy far, far away things are not so different lol :)
A little joke in Lego form :)
May the Brick be with You :)
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Silly catch, silly (and lovely) song
And then, to speak seriously:
I want to be a good woman
And I want for you to be a good man.
This is why I will be leaving
And this is why I can't see you no more.
I will miss your heart so tender
And I will love
This love forever...
Cat Power - Good Woman
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After three years of trying, I finally did it. Fifty books in one year. Some were re-reads, some were flashbacks to middle school, a few were recommendations, and a couple were random pick-ups. Favorites and recommendations appear in bold.
1. Diary, Chuck Palahniuk
2. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
3. Beautiful Stranger, Hope Donahue
4. Dracula, Bram Stoker
5. Women in the Shadows, Ann Bannon
6. Love That Dog, Sharon Creech
7. Why Marriage?, George Chauncey
8. She's Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan
9. The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Turn Me On, Cherie Jeffrey
11. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
13. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
14. Among Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking, Aoibheann Sweeney
15. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
16. Loose Girl, Kerry Cohen
17. Steal This Book, Abbie Hoffman
18. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
19. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Mary Roach
20. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote
21. Snuff, Chuck Palahniuk
22. P.S., I Love You, Cecelia Ahern
23. Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Chelsea Handler
24. Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
25. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas, Louise Rennison
26. Certain Girls, Jennifer Weiner
27. Beautiful Boy, David Sheff
28. Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants, Louise Rennison
29. Beezus and Ramona, Beverly Cleary
30. Rubyfruit Jungle, Rita Mae Brown
31. Why I Wore Lipstick to my Mastectomy, Geralyn Lucas
32. Smashed, Koren Zailckas
33. Beginning the End, Brigid Marz
34. Ecstasy, Miriam Joseph
35. Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
36. Cunt, Inga Muscio
37. Walden Two, B.F. Skinner
38. The Art of Racing in the Rain, Garth Stein
39. Smack, Melvin Burgess
40. The Last Time I Wore a Dress, Daphne Scholinski
41. Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
42. The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti
43. Marley and Me, John Grogan
44. Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk
45. Gender and Culture, Melford Spiro
46. Americans Abroad, Arnold Dashefsky
47. Flat Broke with Children, Sharon Hays
48. As I Sat on the Green: Living without a Home in New Haven, Alice Mattison
49. The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
50. Ramona the Pest, Beverly Cleary
Oh and as far as books I would never touch again and you probably shouldn’t either?: Walden II, Among Other Things I’ve Taken Up Smoking, and Turn Me On. One was read for a Sociology class and the other two were all I had on me during a plane ride to California. Otherwise, they would have been chucked after the first few pages & sent to the library donation box.
And as far as this year’s reading? Well, I’m not sure. I’m going to try for 50+ but am not going to stress over it if I realize I don’t have time. We’ll see.
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52 weeks of 2017
Week #2 ~ New Year's Resolutions
I don't normally make New Year's Resolutions but having to take a photo to encapsulate such a concept led me to thinking that I would like to find clarity in life (and photography, of course). Conditions at the Sally Gap today were misty, wet and the opposite of clear.
The beginning of my New Year's Resolution to return to my regularly toned, healthy feeling self.
Current self feeling a wee bit uncomfortable in my skin as I am carrying a little too much around the belly.
Although I am also at my bloated time of the month in this photo.
Mehr Fotografieren...
Um das sicherzustellen, kann man ja alle Kameras auf einmal auslösen *:)
Totally explored: Klick
I'll be 30 in less than a month, and I've been skinny my whole life. I figured out long ago that working out does nothing for me as I think I'm lacking the genes that allows muscle growth. But I'm finding that I can't eat like I used to and get away with it. I seriously can't believe I'm even saying that.... but it's true. I decided that now is probably a good time to try and get in shape. Otherwise I won't be able to pass as 23 anymore and go out with 21 year olds...
-"So, you're a freshman, right? Tell me, man, how's this year's crop of freshman chicks lookin' this year?"
-"Wood, you're gonna go to jail very soon, man!"
-"Naw, man, that's what I like about these high school girls, man; I get older, they stay the same age.."
Canon 5D
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I am not exactly a huge fan of having one day of the year to decide to be a better human. You should strive to do this every day of the year. What is lacking in humans is that we long for specific time demarcations to make major life decisions. Everyone intelligent already knows we're just stuck in 40AD anyway.
I digress, the truth is I make these resolutions every day lately and try to uphold them.
Kindness and All Lives Matter:
How terrible that a bunch of stupid white people had to ruin the Black Lives Matter movement with "All Lives Matter" when it was really just about their own stupid white guilt and all that.
But, to me, the actual concept behind All Lives Matter does make sense. Let me break it down.
The lives of animals who feel pain and emotions, who love their young, who live and breathe our same air and, just like us, don't like to graze on plants filled with chemicals or be pumped with growth hormones matter.
The lives of Native Americans who have had their land taken time and time again and their culture reduced to meaningless symbols by white people matter.
The lives of all women who have to drive several states just to have appropriate medical care or terminate a pregnancy, even if it was a result of an act of rape and/or incest or if their very lives are in jeopardy matter. The lives of women who have not healed after sexual attacks or other attacks of a violent nature matter.
The lives of all people with disabilities who struggle to be accepted and loved, be independent, and find gainful employment matter.
The lives of Jewish people living amongst anti-semites, especially in places like Montana, matter.
The lives of hard working Latinos who provide essential work and are taken for granted, not paid fair wages, and discriminated against matter.
The lives of Asians who are still stereotyped and not treated as true experts, artists, and companions matter.
The lives of people who are transgender or transexual that cannot use the bathroom of their choice in certain states in America and in the world and are not accepted for their true identity matter. The lives of any two people in love, being it two men or two women, who do not feel safe getting married or even holding hands in public matter.
The lives of immigrants living in a country which, at one time, welcomed immigrants as a part of its national identity and has now become hateful and spiteful matter.
The lives of Muslims who are stereotyped every day, who are taunted and whose burkas are literally pulled off by white supremacists and Trump supporters matter.
And yes, of course, the lives of African Americans who have had their lives taken away by police officers who laugh at the idea of justice and who get off without any kind of consequence matter. The government has actively and systematically defunded public schools for poor minorities and profited off of their imprisonment and it is an outrage.
We are at a very crucial time in America's history and, indeed, the world's history. Not enough people realize that "May you live in interesting times" might in fact be the biggest curse. We must work actively to fight even the insidious nonchalant racism. Confront any racism or homophobia within yourself, be a mobile safe space and work to create a safe space in your community. Polite people are boring. Have some integrity and stand up for the oppressed. Even if it kills you and me, your life will have more meaning.
Susan B. Anthony was a racist. She wanted only white women to vote. But, Susan B. Anthony died over 100 years ago. We are better now but let's prove it.
Happy New Year's. You don't need one specific day to have a resolution. You don't need one particular day to start a revolution.
This is one corner of my office....recently cleaned up and organized.
Every once in awhile I follow up on a New Years resolution.
I purchased shelf and super cheap file folders from Ikea. Covered the files in some vintage wrapping paper. Makes me happy to look over at them now when I start day dreaming instead of working.