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To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
..there will be time to murder and create,
and time for all the works and days of hands
that lift and drop a question on your plate;
time for you and time for me,
and time yet for a hundred indecisions
and for a hundred visions and revisions
before the taking of a toast and tea.
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from "the love-song of J. alfred prufrock"
by t.s. eliot
for my Mom and her strength
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no big glittery icons or invitations , please !
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Rules
1- Find a cool, random, picture that helps describe one of your questions.
2- Write 20 things that NO ONE really knows about you (if you don't have many things, you can shorten the amount)
3- After you're done, tag all your friends!"
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Sorry it's taken me so long to do this tag!
Thank you for tagging me; xJuune, FireflyFlyAway, Sakura, Me&Maruschka, Immortal Love, Vixetoria, Luna Lovegood, Holly Hatter, Darek Donnfhlaidh, Konato, Edelwen, Jessi~lilip, Nanaho, Doomkitty, Game of Fate, Elisabet Threepwood, Sai's~fake~smile, LovelyPapin, and Alurita :)
1. I have a thing about sock suspenders :D i just think they look so great on women (not men), although women with longer legs than me carry it off better hehe. I love 1940s & 1950s vintage fashion... Granny Chic rules!
2. About 10 years ago i had an allergic reaction to blue-black hair dye, where i resembled an Elephant Woman for a week, and now i can only use wash-in wash out dyes :( and i'm a natural blonde but hate having blonde hair... that's why it's usually wishy-washy-browny-reddy-purple-with blonde bits.
3. I have an aversion to washing up... I really don't like the thought of touching old food, even with washing up gloves on. Thank heavens for electric dishwashers!
4. As much as i love my many tattoos, if i were to start over again with a clean slate, i'd go Buena Vista Tattoo Club all the way! Their designs are totally amazing and unique <3
5. I only ever get bored in people's company, never when i'm alone.
6. Only very few people in my life know that i have my septum pierced. I've not worn a ring in it for about 6 years now and my social circle has changed alot since then. Many people would be quite shocked i think, even though they know my tongue is pierced.
7. I don't believe in dinosaurs. I went to the Natural History Museum to see the bones a couple of years ago to try and convince myself, but it didn't work.
8. If i get soaked to the skin from rain, i can't help but giggle and have a big smile on my face even though i try not to :D
9. When i'm nervous, i yawn. A lot.
10. I'm certainly not the life and soul of the party. If there's a party, i'll usually avoid it :)
11. I love reading about asylums and olden days' medical procedures. And i really love seeing vintage medical implements in musems and stuff.
12. I have zero maternal instincts... unless it's for baby animals...! Kittens are my favourites <3
13. To avoid a sports day when i was at school i tried to cut my leg with a blunt kitchen knife... I was very surprised to find it's very difficult to do - physically (and maybe mentally). I had to do the sports day anyway. Doh.
14. I don't watch much TV at all. I prefer films and watch a lot of them!
15. I get on with men better than women.
16. I'm lucky that i have a good metabolism, because i eat lots of chocolate and cakes! :D
17. I'd love to have a nice singing voice... It must be lovely to be able to sing beautifully. Unfortunately i don't hehe.
18. I don't like any seafood; the sight, taste or smell. I won't eat anything that looks like a creature. I was on a boat in Sweden once at a crayfish party and it was like a huge massacre, legs and body parts ripped off and discarded in piles... yuk!
19. I'm quite shy and introvert. It takes energy for me to be sociable and i don't open up to people easily. I don't have many friends, and that's on purpose :D
20. I think that the world is going a bit crazy. When i think about how much has changed since i was young, i'm scared for the future. That is one of the many reasons why i don't want to have children.
I have questions. I mean, if it’s supposed to be hidden, why do you label it with a big yellow sign? Why not erect the one that says “Frap Off. You’re Not Invited”?
Or is Batman going to be pissed at the NTSB?
Many of America's highway signs are made by inmates. Is this a practical joke facilitated by a petty larcenist? Whatever the answer, thanks for nuttin'..
Me: What are you doing, Skye?
Skye: Silly question, I'm on the lookout of course!
Me: Are you looking for anything in particular?
Skye: Didn't you hear?
Me: Hear what?
Skye: I need to hand over the reins! The talk is all over the 52WFD. I amazed you didn't hear about it. So I'm looking for a worthy successor
Me: Silly dog, you don't need to hand over the reins. I'm not going to do 52WFD with just some random dog. We're into this together, just you and me
Skye: And mom and the kids??
Me: Sure, they are in too
Skye: Phew, I'm glad to hear that! I like it in the 52WFD!!
Brincadeiras de Liz com uma lente Sigma 2.8 e uma XTI na mão...
Eles são péssimos jogadores porque são bons fotógrafos... ou são bons fotógrafos porque são péssimos jogadores?!
Brincadeira de fotógrafos.
Play Liz with a lens of 2.8 and a Sigma XTI in hand ...
They are bad players because they are good photographers ... or photographers are good because they are bad players?
Play of photographers.
Elodie Wysocki (1985), diplômée de l’école Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Nîmes, explore la question de l’existence et de la différence. Sa recherche, d’abord centrée sur le genre humain, s’étend aujourd’hui à l’ensemble du vivant. L’humain et l’animal se mélangent, induisant des notions d’origine et de mutation. Les thèmes de la vanité, de la mémoire et des traces sont aussi récurrents dans sa recherche artistique.
Mon travail pose la question du corps, le nôtre, celui des autres et le corps comme matière. Ce qui m’intéresse c’est autant le “je” que le “nous”. On trouve d’ailleurs de nombreux allers-retours de l’un à l’autre, de l’un au tous, et son contraire. J’ai travaillé dans un premier temps sur le rapport œuvre-spectateur. J’ai mis en place des sculptures-objets qui mettent en scène le corps des ou d’un regardeur. J’ai ensuite centré ma recherche vers des sculptures dans lesquelles le corps était figuré mais tendait à la dissolution, parfois jusqu’à la disparition. Elodie Wysocki
La fatigue des autruches interroge par le biais d’une figure animale gorgée d’analogies et de références psychologiques, les notions de courage et de conscience.
Beaucoup d’idées sont liées à l’image de l’autruche: peur, refus de voir les réalités, féminité, agressivité, etc.
Pourtant l’autruche est un animal tout sauf peureux. Extrêmement habile, l’autruche est le plus grand et le plus rapide des oiseaux.
Elodie Wysocki (1985), graduate of the École Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Nîmes, explores the question of existence and difference. His research, initially focused on the human race, now extends to all living things. Human and animal intermingle, inducing notions of origin and mutation. The themes of vanity, memory and traces are also recurrent in his artistic research.
My work raises the question of the body, ours, that of others and the body as matter. What interests me is both the “I” and the “we”. There are also many back and forths from one to another, from one to all, and its opposite. I first worked on the work-spectator relationship. I have set up sculpture-objects that depict the body of or of a viewer. I then focused my research on sculptures in which the body was represented but tended to dissolve, sometimes to the point of disappearance. Elodie Wysocki
The fatigue of ostriches, through an animal figure bursting with analogies and psychological references, questions the notions of courage and conscience.
Many ideas are linked to the image of the ostrich: fear, refusal to see realities, femininity, aggressiveness, etc.
Yet the ostrich is anything but fearful. Extremely skilled, the ostrich is the largest and fastest of birds.
Where are your favorite places to get UNIQUE mesh hair? I'm tired of the same long flowy hair all the time and I want something unique and edgy, but still something for every-day wear (i.e. nothing avant garde).
I like short hairstyles, medium hairstyles, ones with a fringe/bangs, ponytails, side-cuts, undercuts, etc. I'm looking for something high quality in terms of both mesh and textures.
If you know of somewhere I might like, please drop a LM in the comments! :D
Thanks for visiting! Most photos are of Mei, my wife and muse.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
My photos with more than 1000 Faves: 1000+ faves album
We all know that 2018 will be the year of the Roller Coaster. So the question becomes "how do you make yours unique?" Well, this is my spin on it - Classic Space.
The base frame is mostly the same as the released model, however I color swapped as much as I could in the frame to white to give it a cleaner look. And then I went to town modifying the base with a classic Space theme, along with a few extra touches.
Oh, and the Food stands on the end? Well, people kept telling me they'd look great in a RollerCoaster display, so, here they are, filling out the park. (And if you haven't checked them out on LEGO Ideas, follow this link and hit support. they could become an official set)
This pumping station has been shut down many years ago. But the smell is still there…I just love the decay in places like this. It always makes me wonder and asks me questions….
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Is anyone still gonna enter this? Cause I really hope so. I hope I could get some more entries for my contest. So please enter my contest.
We had to do a Self Portrait for school.
Here is mine
Strobist :
One sb800 with softbox in front of me @1/4
That's all
Lantern glow flickers on fleeting glances—half-seen, half-felt. In the blur of passing strangers, a silent question lingers unanswered.
Enivrez-Vous
" Il faut être toujours ivre.
Tout est là:
c'est l'unique question.
Pour ne pas sentir
l'horrible fardeau du Temps
qui brise vos épaules
et vous penche vers la terre,
il faut vous enivrer sans trêve.
Mais de quoi?
De vin, de poésie, ou de vertu, à votre guise.
Mais enivrez-vous.
Et si quelquefois,
sur les marches d'un palais,
sur l'herbe verte d'un fossé,
dans la solitude morne de votre chambre,
vous vous réveillez,
l'ivresse déjà diminuée ou disparue,
demandez au vent,
à la vague,
à l'étoile,
à l'oiseau,
à l'horloge,
à tout ce qui fuit,
à tout ce qui gémit,
à tout ce qui roule,
à tout ce qui chante,
à tout ce qui parle,
demandez quelle heure il est;
et le vent,
la vague,
l'étoile,
l'oiseau,
l'horloge,
vous répondront:
"Il est l'heure de s'enivrer!
Pour n'être pas les esclaves martyrisés du Temps,
enivrez-vous;
enivrez-vous sans cesse!
De vin, de poésie ou de vertu, à votre guise."
Charles Baudelaire
Get Drunk
"Always be drunk.
That's it!
The great imperative!
In order not to feel
Time's horrid fardel
bruise your shoulders,
grinding you into the earth,
Get drunk and stay that way.
On what?
On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever.
But get drunk.
And if you sometimes happen to wake up
on the porches of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the dismal loneliness of your own room,
your drunkenness gone or disappearing,
ask the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock,
ask everything that flees,
everything that groans
or rolls
or sings,
everything that speaks,
ask what time it is;
and the wind,
the wave,
the star,
the bird,
the clock
will answer you:
"Time to get drunk!
Don't be martyred slaves of Time,
Get drunk!
Stay drunk!
On wine, virtue, poetry, whatever!"
Recently my friend Bill Storage asked a question in DeletemeUncensored titled "What's Wrong With Flickr." The thread wasn't meant to complain about Flickr but to talk about how Flickr could be improved if one were starting from scratch. I wrote a couple of long responses out to Bill in the thread, but thought that some of the ideas really belonged in a longer-form blog post.
Alot of people give me crap for criticizing Flickr. They ask me why I use Flickr if "hate" it so much. The fact of the matter is that I don't hate Flickr at all. In fact I love Flickr (even if they don't love me anymore). I spend more time on Flickr than any other site on the web. I think Flickr represents the best place on the web for a photographer to share photos today and I think as a whole that Flickr is one of the cultural gems of our lifetime. What's more, a lot of the stuff on Flickr works really, really well and is really really great.
That said, I've always viewed criticism as a positive thing. As something that helps us improve and grow. Hopefully we learn from our critics and hopefully one can view suggestions as opportunities for improvement rather than simple mindless negativity. I blog alot about Flickr because I care about Flickr. I care about photography on the web. I care about the greater Flickr community and I want to see it get better and better. So don't see this list as a bitch list about Flickr, rather see it as some honest ways that Flickr can improve.
1. Improve the process on how account and group deletions are handled. Flickr is increasingly becoming known as a place that deletes accounts willy nilly without warning. Flickr's "Community Guidelines" are notoriously vague (you can be deleted without warning on Flickr for being "that guy" or if Flickr feels that you are "creepy.")
Many of my friends have had their entire accounts deleted for pretty minor offenses that are not specifically prohibited in more specific language in the TOS. In some cases photos with historical significance have been permanently lost. A while back Flickr nuked a group that I administered killing thousands of permanent threads. Thousands of threads by a group with thousands of members. Threads about cameras, workflows, photographic techniques, etc. Institutional knowledge stricken from the web forever.
Flickr really only should nuke accounts or groups as a matter of absolute last resort. They should try to work with their members (especially their long-term and paying members) if they find content that they object to. They should give members opportunities to take self-corrective action before just pulling the plug on their account. If they object to a single thread or a single image, they should just delete that image rather than nuking a user's entire account.
When Flickr nukes a group or an account it says to a user, "I don't respect you or your data." It creates an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty is bad for community.
At Flickr when they nuke your account it is also permanent and irrevocable. There is no undo button. Even if Flickr staff mistakenly deletes an account or if a hacker maliciously deletes your account, there is no getting that data back. It's gone forever.
Flickr could probably very easily create a system where deleted accounts are simply turned completely private and inaccessible from the web without actually removing all of the data. They could then give a user an opportunity to fix whatever they have a problem with in order to get their account turned back on. This would be a far better way of managing community than Flickr does at present.
2. Create a more robust blocking tool. Today at Flickr when you block someone, all it means is that they can't fave or comment on your photos. This is a very weak blocking system. If someone really wants to harass you blocking them does nothing. They can still comment on photos after you do so that their comments show up in your recent activity. They can still follow you around in groups and post things that you're forced to look at etc. Especially with cheap throw away troll accounts this creates unnecessary conflict on the site.
A few years back, over at FriendFeed, they developed a far more robust blocking system. When you block someone on FriendFeed they become entirely invisible to you. Not only can they not comment in your threads, anyplace else they post on the site is made invisible to you. They are wiped off the planet as far as you are concerned.
Now this would accomplish a few things at flickr. First it would give users far more control over eliminating anything that they found personally offensive or negative on the site. You don't like my paintings of nudes from a museum and don't like seeing them when you search for the de Young Museum? Fine. Then block me and you never see any of my content again. You don't like someone who uses language that you find offensive in a group post? Fine, block them as well.
Second though, this sort of tool would encourage more civil interaction between users. If a user creates a troll account and starts behaving badly. They are quickly blocked and become irrelevant. This encourages them not to troll creating a more positive experience for the rest of us.
Many of the personality clashes that occur on Flickr could be avoided if Flickr simply empowered the user to block more robustly.
3. SmartSets. Having to manually construct sets is an incredibly inefficient way to build and maintain your sets. That's why I use Jeremy Brooks' SuprSetr. It's probably the best third-party app ever built for Flickr. Flickr should hire Jeremy in fact as he's doing groundbreaking work here, but that's another topic.
Flickr should consider building SuprSetr technology directly into their Organize section. Let users build sets by keywords. It makes it much easier for users to build and maintain their sets. If I build a Las Vegas set for instance. In the future every single photo of mine keyworded Las Vegas, automatically gets added to this set when I run SuprSetr. Very slick.
4. Better Group thread management. At present Flickr has a very strong and robust Groups section. Here users can create groups (and there are probably literally millions of groups at this point) and talk about whatever they want and post photos into a pool. Games have been created around groups. Businesses have set up groups. Local communities have created their own groups. There are niche groups about anything and everything -- from graffiti in South Florida to a specific neon sign in San Jose. Some groups have more robust discussion threads than others, but all offer this feature.
One of the problems with group threads on Flickr though is that you are constantly losing track of conversations that you are having because you have to manually go to each and every group to check the threads. If I post something in a group, but then don't remember to go back to that specific group and that specific thread, I have no way of knowing if someone has answered my question or commented after my thoughts or whatever.
Flickr should create a page that aggregates all of the group threads that you are participating in or have chosen to follow. This page would encompass all threads from all group in a nice aggregated section. This way if you posted a really important question in a group three months ago that someone has finally got around to answering, you will actually see it, the moment it is bumped to the top of your aggregator.
Flickr should also allow you to hide group threads. Both in your aggregator as well as in the more general group view. If I don't care about the latest Pentax camera (because I'm a Canon 5D M2 owner) I should be able to mute that thread in the group and never see it again. This would also help decrease negative trolling and bumping of threads on the site as offensive threads could just be hidden by a user if they didn't want to see it.
5. Kill explore and replace it with a recommendation system based on your contact's/friends photos. Flickr blacklisted me from Explore a while back after I wrote a negative blog post about actions that someone on their community management team had taken. They capped my photos in it at 666 (cute huh?). But this isn't why I don't like Explore. There's a whole thread called "So I Accidentally Clicked on Explore" in DMU devoted to crappy photos that end up in Explore. The problem with Explore is that it largely shows you photos that you are less interested in. Broad general popular photos of cliches. Sunsets and kittens as the saying goes.
If I choose to follow people on Flickr, I'm probably much more interested in their style of photography or them personally than I am images in Explore. Maybe I'm a graffiti writer and am most interested in graffiti photos. Maybe my thing is mannequins. Maybe I want to see photos of classic cars. Whatever. Instead of presenting the community what Flickr feels is the best of the whole community, show each member the best of their contacts each, day, week, month. I would be far more interested in the photos of people that I actually follow, like, know, etc. Maybe Aunt Edna's photo of her dog will never hit Flickr's explore. But it just might hit my own personalized explore and because I know Aunt Edna and she is my contact, it might be a much more rewarding experience for me to see than say another random dog shot from a user that I don't even know.
Flickr does have a page that shows your contacts most recent uploads, but this page is very limited and only shows the most recent 1 or 5 photos. There is also no way to filter it so that you see the photos that are faved/commented on the most and are likely to be the more interesting photos.
Get rid of Explore and replace it with something that is focused much more on your contacts than people you don't even know. A personalized Explore would be a far more interesting page.
6. Improve Group Search. I have no idea why Group Search sucks so badly on Flickr but it does. Frequently you will search for terms that you've posted in group thread conversations and Flickr will not return the thread where the word exists. I would think that Yahoo! should know a few things about search and am surprised that searching for threads in groups has been so spotty for so many years. I have no idea why this is so bad, but it shouldn't be.
7. Improve Data Portability. Flickr gives lipservice to data portability, but is not serious about it. As long as 99% of Flickr users can't or won't figure out how to move their photos easily to another site they are just fine with things. Functional lock in. The data that we put on Flickr is our data. It belongs to us. We are paying Flickr to hold it for us, but it belongs to us.
Recently my friend Adam wrote up a post on a help forum post about the language Flickr uses for encouraging people to buy Pro accounts. They said that they felt that Flickr is holding your photos hostage (beyond the 200 photo free limit) if you don't upgrade to Pro. Only Pro accounts have access to original images on Flickr.
Flickr should let any member get their photos out of Flickr at any time. Further they should offer competitors API keys to allow them to build service to service direct transfer applications to move your photos to another service if you want. If I don't want to renew my Pro account on Flickr and want to move my photos to Picasa, this should be as easy as me pressing a single button and having all of my photos transfer over.
Today it is very difficult and clunky to get your photos off of flickr. A few third party apps are available, but there are lots of problems with them. They fail if you have too many photos. They are only Windows based, etc. etc. Flickr has functional lock in and holds photos in a silo while talking about how they allow you to get your photos out of Flickr. Flickr should follow the lead of Google here and publicly both state and help make our data more portable. This ought to be part of being a good web citizen today.
8. Uncensor Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Germany and Maktoob.com. At present Flickr censors content to these places. It's still mind boggling to me that a photo of a painting that I took in the Art Institute of Chicago can't be seen by people in India. Trying to censor the world's web is messy business. Flickr/Yahoo should take a stand for freedom and uncensor these locations. Google last year took a bold step of choosing to walk about from China rather than censor results there. Yahoo should stand for freedom and stop censoring in these places.
9. Let people sell their photos for stock photography. Flickr missed the boat by giving away stock photography to Getty Images. Stock photography is probably the single easiest way for Yahoo to dramatically increase the profitability of Flickr. Getty Images represents a tiny fraction of the images available on Flickr. The Flickr/Getty deal was probably done as a defensive move by Getty more than anything to keep Yahoo out of the multi billion dollar market that is stock photography today. What resulted is that users get a paltry 20% payout for a very small number of their images that can be sold.
Flickr could be a far more formidable competitor to Getty. Flickr has the size and market share to dramatically disrupt this market. The stock photography marketplace is *far* more complicated than this. But oversimplifying things, Flickr should offer two collections for sale (if a user chooses to offer their photos for sale). Cleared photos and uncleared photos. Uncleared photos should pay more to the photographer than cleared photos. Cleared photos would be reviewed by a team of stock photography experts (Yahoo could even buy one of the smaller stock agencies that already has experience clearing images) and result in a lower payout to the photographer. By turning Flickr into the world's largest stock photography agency Yahoo could receive significant revenue from Flickr and Flickr photographers personally could benefit much more from posting their work there.
10. Build a better mobile app. The Yahoo built mobile app for Flickr sucks ass (sorry). As I understand it, it wasn't even developed by the Flickr team. Over at Quora former Flickr Engineer Kellan Elliott-McCrea answers the question, "Why did Flickr miss the mobile photo opportunity that Instagram and picplz are pursuing?" There is no compelling mobile Flickr experience today.
Recently, one of my favorite Flickr photographers, Michael Wilbur, deleted his entire Flickr account and is now one of the most popular photographers on Instagram. Flickr needs to develop a more compelling mobile experience. Part of this should be a very easy way to view group threads via mobile.
There you go. Food for thought. And keep on flickering.
the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question :-)
Orson Scott Card
cherry blossom, sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina
The question was: right side light, or right side wind? This was the first steam-hauled Royal Train working since 1967, operating on a sunny but very windy day. The exhaust of No. 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' could almost have been 'By Appointment' as it would have hidden most of the train, thus the decision to go 'wrong side light'. The headboard is a replica of those carried by London Midland Region locomotives to celebrate the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II, and this train was part of her Golden Jubilee celebrations on 12th June 2002. After being stabled in the nuclear flak sidings at Valley, on Anglesey, the train is now departing heading for Bangor. where the Queen will alight for her first engagements of the day. After reigning to Holyhead with the ECS, 6233 later worked the Royal Train from Llandudno Junction to Crewe. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved.
En extrapolant, pour une élection politique c'est la question de confiance...
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Fresque murale sur le thème de la Commune de Paris, rue de la ferme Savy (où furent situées les dernières barricades), au bas du parc de Belleville à Paris. Une fresque réalisée à l'occasion des 150 ans de la Commune par l'artiste Question Mark (projet des Amies et Amis de la Commune)