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Wat Umong Suan Puthatham, Chaing Mai, Thailand
Siddhartha knew that he could achieve enlightenment by giving up all desire, but it's a long hard road and even he made mistakes. In his youth he forced himself into an extreme aesceticism and lived on a single grain of rice, a seed or a nut a day until he became thin and wasted. He finally fainted in a river whilst bathing and nearly drowned.
It was then that he realised that mortification was not the path to enlightenement and liberation, just as self indulgence and excess wasn't either. He took himself in hand to regain his strength.
It's almost a Soctratic tale in a way; the Prince who wants for nothing gives it all up and wants nothing at all until, having experienced both extremes, he finds the middle way.
By the by: I'm still not sure who that fat guy is that most people think of when they hear 'Buddha'. It certainly isn't a representation of Siddhartha.
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For me, Cambodia was an absolutely amazing place full of fabulous people and amazing landscapes like this one.
To get to Bokor Station we climbed the 3540 ft peak from sea level which took us all the hours of daylight as we took the 'scenic' i.e. vertical route, in 100 degree heat and 100% humidity. Fortunately it's cooler, foggier and filled with tigers at the top. We therefore explored the town in daylight. It was truly amazing to be in a 1920's French Colonial ghost town.
Bokor Hill near Kampot in Cambodia is famous for being the setting of the Korean horror movie R-Point as well as City of Ghosts.
Because I'm completely mad I've decided to make some Lego versions of the Tanith First and Only from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghost's series. Throne knows if and when I'll actually get them done.
Here we see a lasgun with a "straight silver" Tanith warknife attached bayonet style, a second warknife and two bolt pistols (which Gaunt will be weilding as soon as I build him).
I'm currently engaged in an extremely nerdy project to make Lego models of the Tanith First and Only from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series. Yeah, this is gonna end well ;)
Top shelf, left side:
Electric Velocipede nos. 1-11 ed. John Klima, Intracities ed. Michael Jasper, Spirits Unwrapped ed. Daniel Braum, Say... no. 4 ed. Christopher Rowe and Gwenda Bond, Living Together in Mythic Times and Floodwater by Heather Shaw and Tim Pratt, On Spec no. 45 ed. Diane L. Walton, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks, An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate (ARC) by Ted Chiang, Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, The Man in the High Castle and UBIK by Philip K. Dick, Grendel by John Gardner, Amerika by Franz Kafka, Walk in Shadows by Nicholas Kaufmann, Threshold by Caitlin R. Kiernan, White As Snow by Tanith Lee, Embroideries (ARC) by Marjane Satrapi, Black Butterflies by John Shirley.
Above, from the bottom:
Argosy nos. 1-3 ed. Lou Anders and James A. Owen, Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller, Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison, Howard Who? by Howard Waldrop.
Live shot from the Etrois Dance Comapny's production of A Grimm Tale of a Wayward Girl.
Lou Lou Locket was brilliant in the performance as the Princess who is turned out of the castle and has many adventures.
You can see more pictures from this shoot on my blog.
Marvelously entertaining vaudeville routines with burlesque dancers, magicians, music and comedy. Highly recommended.
Because I'm completely mad I've decided to make some Lego versions of the Tanith First and Only from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghost's series. Throne knows if and when I'll actually get them done.
Here our models are showing off a long-las (earmarked for Mad Larkin), a Tanith "straight silver" warknife and a tread fether (rocket launcher).
I'm currently engaged in an extremely nerdy project to make Lego models of the Tanith First and Only from Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series. Yeah, this is gonna end well ;)
Darwin has some of the best sunsets I have ever seen and the skies are so clear you can watch the whole of the sun setting into the sea.
There is no photoshopping or alterations done on this picture, it really is this beautiful.
This carving dates back to around the 9th Century AD and is found on the walls of Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The design is called an Apsara and the discolouration is purely natural, the original stone is the dancer depicted on the right.
There were many such carvings throughout the complex but I particularly liked this one. You can see why.
Figure skating - NOVEMBER 14: Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto complete in the Original Dance during the Cancer.Net Skate America at Herb Brooks Arena on November 14, 2009 in Lake Placid, New York. (Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
The white-balance is off deliberately. I had a very strange dream a couple of nights ago and the colour of the picture is the colour of the dream. The little girl with the body of a bird and feet that had been crayoned in was a big feature, It was one of those dreams that feels very real upon waking and during the dream I was aware that it wasn't reality. Spooky.
I dreamed about the world having too many suns and this girl/bird/monster thing that wanted to take a ride in my dad's car and of couse I let her so everything was fine but she had feet that were drawn on in crayon. At one point I realised I was naked and rather than do the usual thing I went to a shop to buy clothes and had a whine at the proprietress about what a pain in the ass it was to have to get dressed in mt dreams as well as in real life. She did the usual shop owner polite thing but i could tell she just wanted my dream custom. Very odd all round and I woke up feeling very peculiar and had to go and check my camera (the little one not the broken one because that wouldn't have worked in my dreams either), just to be sure that none of the pictures I took in the car of all the suns in the sky were really on the camera. They weren't - obvioulsy - but I was a bit surprised.
I think I'm ailing a little, that and it's the run up to Hallowe'en so I suppose dreams are allowed to be a little more other-worldly than usual.
The opposite page is rambling ideas for the short story I am presently writing with the brief of 'write 2931 words of fiction which must contain the phrase 'Seagulls Go Home.'
My friends Sinthia, Tanith, & I were out wandering around shopping last night, and we ended up at the Paradisis mainstore. They had a lot of neat stuff, but up on the third floor was a bunch of really great futuristic catsuits and armor suits. I decided to pick up the Green hologram suit to see what kind of outfit I could put together with it.
My first stop for accessories was the Cyberbunker to see what neat Sci-Fi accessories they had. I ended up grabbing the Oralune Jetpack and Armor set in black. I had the older version of the jetpack by itself, but in the pack it was cheaper to by the new version with the armor parts then to buy them all in pieces. =)
Since any good space explorer needs some protection, I headed to Fairlight Industries. I knew that they had some guns from when I have been there shopping for boots, eyes, and wings. I took a peek at what they had and bought the flash rifle. the details and bullets can be changed to Red, Green, or Blue and I always like colorchange stuff so it can fit more than one outfit.
Catsuit:Paradisis Hologram Green
Catsuit2:Hugo's Designs Cat2 Black 10% Sheer
Corset:Hugo's Designs Luxon Sheer
Stockings:Hugo's Designs Viktoria
Armor, Helmet, & Belt:Oralune Jet Pack and Armor Black
Boots:Oralune Cyberbunker Boots Black
Rifle:Fairlight XLB-88 Flash Rifle
Cuffs:Mesmerize Dungeon Rubber Cuffs
Autumn fog; sunrise over the Tyne in October.
This was taken around 7am at the bottom of Dean Street and I think it is both beautiful and gloriously sinister. The vignetting is accidental apart from the bottom right hand corner where I've taken out a building and added in the vignette to match it up with the other three corners. This doesn't usually happen with this lens (Canon L series 24-70mm), so I suppose it's a result of the fog and eerie light .
See, creepy but gorgeous :)
This photo is available to buy as a print from Etsy
Looks best in LIGHTBOX
Tanith really likes the new duplo block. She particularly excels at tower building, and demolition of course :)
Smidgen of post-processing to capture the feel of Beth's Birthday in Paris. What a lovely long weekend that was, and how nice to revisit in my photo collection.
Taken the same weekend as this lovely picture: More Beth
Sa Pa, Vietnam
Sapa is full of hill tribe people selling their wares. Generally they're all lovely and we had an amazing time. This girl, Ha, was fabulous fun and the expression she's wearing that seems to say 'you're being weird and Western again, aren't you?' was worn frequently but most often in jest. That said she was rather freaked out that I had no underarm hair and couldn't for the life of her grasp why or how I'd get rid of it!
Sam and Tanith really loved this hammock, took a lot of explaining to convince them why we weren't going to get one at home!
I LOVE art, ANY kind of art. It makes me happy. It inspires me. Most recently I was inspired by artist Jane Mount who began drawing people's bookshelves (to see Jane"s bookshelf drawings click here ). Like Jane, I have a fascination for looking at people's book shelves. You find out a lot about a person by looking at their books.
So I gathered up a sample of mine that I thought was representative and sketched them my own self.
Here they are.
A Beautiful Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce. 1st edition given to me by my Mother, who also recommended this book to me. This lovely book is about a woman's life growing up in the Sonoran Desert. The authors individuality, insight and empathy made this my very favorite book about Arizona; the state, of course, where my heart lives. I'm crazy in love with my desert. Well any desert really, but the Sonoran desert is extra special. I am one of those people who falls just as much in love with places as with people.
Electricity For The Entertainment Electrician and Technician by Richard Cadena. The book I SHOULD be reading every night until I've learnt it all by heart. I am very privileged to know its author, one of the most interesting, nicest men I have ever met. I need to get my copy signed!
The Dragon by Jane Gaskell. 1st edition. The book I discovered freshman year of high school. The main character is so much like me. This book and the others in the series were my comfort through many lonely times. No mater how bad things seemed, I could always escape to this incredible world.
The Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers and the guide to Insects and Spiders. This sort of represents all field guides actually. I have a bunch, many of them given to me by my photographer father who gets free copies whenever his pictures are printed in one of them. I love wildlife of all sorts and my family showed me at an early age, how to identify all the cool stuff i find on my rambles.
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend. Ah, the cringe-worthy adventures of Adrian Mole. Much like the British TV show hit, The Office, Adrian Mole is painfully funny. So horribly awkward you just cant stop reading, and so terribly, squirmishly familiar.
Compost. The best guide I've found on the subject so far. My dream has always been to have a big garden.
Louisa the Poisoner by Tanith Lee. Tanith Lee is my very favorite author of all time. Her writing is beautiful and creepy and sexual and dark and gorgeously grim. I cant get enough of her. Fortunately she writes a lot! This isnt even my favorite book of hers, but it does have the best title.
Desert Places by Robyn Davidson. The author's first book (which i own a 1st edition copy of) Tracks, was an account of her trip across the Australian desert alone except for her camels and her dog. This is another author of rare insight, empathy and independence, definately a hero of mine. She, like me, loves deserts.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit. Natalie Babbit is the most gifted story teller I have ever read. Each of her lovely children's stories is nothing less than perfect. Tuck is probably her most famous, but I have them all and love them all, The Search For Delicious, Kneeknock Rise, The Eyes Of The Amaryllis...
Higglety Pigglety Pop or There Must be More to Life by Maurice Sendak . First edition. Yes Mr. Sendak wrote Where The Wild Things are, but he wrote so many other good ones too. I collect books that he's illustrated. He is one of the main reasons I wanted to become an illustrator. This one has a very independently minded heroine named Jenny, who happens to be an adorable, fuzzy dog. Dogs are another weakness of mine.
The Lonely Planet Guide To Baja and Los Cabos. To represent all the travel books I have and my constant wanderlust. Baja is one of my favorite places on earth and it is, of course, a desert.
A Beginner's Guide To Bats. Just another neat field guide.
The stones are two that I brought home from a beach in Baja California. I sometimes use them to meditate when I have my life together enough to do things like meditation.
The dragon is one of a set of Dragon bookends my Mother brought to me from a trip she took to England. I love them!
Publication: Delirium's Mistress ISFDB Publication Record # 9775
Authors: Tanith Lee
Year: 1986-06-00
ISBN: 0-88677-135-8 [978-0-88677-135-5]
Publisher: DAW Books
Pub. Series: DAW Collectors
Pub. Series #: 674
Price: $3.95
Pages: 416
Binding: pb
Type: NOVEL
Title Reference: Delirium's Mistress
Cover: Michael Whelan
Notes: • $4.95 Canada • Catalog #UE2135 • DAW Collectors Book No. 674 • Illustrations by Tanith Lee
Publication: Sung in Shadow ISFDB Publication Record # 33787
Authors: Tanith Lee
Year: 1983-05-00
ISBN: 0-87997-824-4 [978-0-87997-824-2]
Publisher: DAW Books
Pub. Series: DAW Collectors
Pub. Series #: 530
Price: $3.50
Pages: 349
Binding: pb
Type: NOVEL
Title Reference: Sung in Shadow
Cover: Victoria Poyser
Notes:
Stated first printing, although there is no number line.
Catalog ID UE1824. DAW Books No. 530.
OCLC: 9565994
Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (SNGNSHDW401983)
Tanith tries to get into the washing machine on a regular basis, not sure what she is expecting to find in there.
The Gilli Islands (just north of Lombok), are absolutely amazing. The most calm, tranquil places unless you want wild crazy fun on Gilli Trawangan in which case you can have that too.
I love these little outrigger boats, they're really very good and all painted pretty colours.
I'd go back there in a heartbeat.
Fantasy and Science Fiction / Magazin-Reihe
- Michael Reaves / Werewind
- Stan Dryer / An End of Spinach
- George Guthridge / The Quiet
- Tanith Lee / Paid Piper
- Pamela Sargent / The Summer's Dust
- Graham Petrie / Bars: An Aspect of Night Life
- Susan Coon / Memory-Mate
- Isaac Asimov / The Runaway Star
- Stephen King / The Slow Mutants [Roland]
cover: Kent Bash
(Cover illustrates "Werewind")
Editor: Edward L. Ferman
Mercury Press Inc. (Cornwall / USA; 1981)
ex libris MTP
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Emilie and I had an afternoon of portraiture. I particularly like this shot of her as a 'dizzy teacher' as it is in such stark contrast to her. Emilie is currently studying for her PhD, is a French native but speaks amazing English.
The processing on this final picture was a slight accident, I merged down the layers when I meant to just flatten them in Photoshop. Still, a happy mistake!
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Yes, that is a starfish. Yup, it's blue.
Seriously though, how cool is that?!
Baz found this off Gili Meno in Indonesia (along with Crab Brother). If it weren't for the fact that I took a series of photographs which proved it moved I could easily have belived that this deep blue starfish was in fact a plaster cast. We found other starfish like this later on proving that it was not just a freak occurence but nevertheless, it is a bit odd dontcha think?
My beautiful friend Tanith, who stands at a really tall 6'2" without heels (and that day was 6'6" in her heels).
Publication: Dark Castle, White Horse ISFDB Publication Record # 8773
Authors: Tanith Lee
Year: 1986-03-00
ISBN: 0-88677-113-7 [978-0-88677-113-3]
Publisher: DAW Books
Pub. Series: DAW Collectors
Pub. Series #: 665
Price: $3.50
Pages: 302
Binding: pb
Type: OMNIBUS
Title Reference: Dark Castle, White Horse
Cover: Ken W. Kelly
1. Make a Wish!, 2. Heart of Many Colors II, 3. Splish Splash, 4. Heart of Many Colors, 5. Tippy Toes, 6. Whew, 7. Kid and Kid, 8. Not Another One!, 9. BRA-ZIL!, 10. Summer Saturday, 11. Moon Girl, 12. Ben Agosto and Tanith Belbin, 13. Looking Over the Rainbow, 14. Most Viewed - May 2006, 15. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, 16. Attitude, 17. Soccer Girl, 18. Smile, 19. Piano Woman, 20. Horrible Grief, 21. Power, 22. Britt and Swin Cash, 23. Guitar Man, 24. Reaching For the Sky, 25. Cycle Girl
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Kammouan Proveince, Laos.
We took a motorbike and went off the beaten track to find many joyous places including this very pretty pool which really was this colour. It was also freezing cold.
On day 3 of The Loop (anticlockwise) - a pretty much off road motorbike circuit through Kammouan Province starting in Tha Kaek - we decided to find a swimming hole listed on the 'map' and eventually, after driving across fields and the like, found this very pretty spot. Several workmen were building a Buddhist Shrine and spent much of their time laughing at my ineptitude for crossing bridges made out of a single fallen tree. Eventually they took pity on me and found a broken boat which they ferried me and my camera kit in. I just made it to the opposite bank before the boat sank.
Love raises us up, makes us feel special, makes us feel as though we can do anything - even fly. And if you do not feel these things it simply isn't love.
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Tanith Belbin and Benjamin Agosto from the US perform during the Ice Dance Free Dance November 15, 2009 during Skate America, the 2009 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series in Lake Placid, N.Y. The event is being held at the 1980 Rink-Herb Brooks Arena. AFP PHOTO TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
H'Mong children play fighting on the rural road to the villages.
The children were cool, most of them could only say 'hello'in English and were fascinated by us white folk and we ended up having an entourage of around fifteen kids for three or four kilometers. they just wanted to look at us. Most of them were amazed by how tall we were.
I just realised that of all the Cherish the Dress pictures that I did of Kerry, I only put a single one on Flickr! Now that's not very good is it?
So here's Kerry in her wonderful Faragé Galaxy wedding dress, looking stunning by the beach.
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