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Some awesome presents from Sassy Sweet Poses, ( available in world and MP!) with notes to santa, different poses, click the sign for a new note.. dont forget the contest at Karma... Deadline is Dec 26.
For good Flickr buddies New Yorkled and m dee, who just couldn't leave me alone in my own little macro world and had to drag me screaming and shouting back to the water!
I'm grateful, bokeh and happy Wednesdays just ain't my kinda thang!
So, Mac, Luis, here's hoping y'all like this shot created with my bucket and spade and a good ole pile of Samui sand (but shot on my D80, and over 12 months ago ;-D
Work done for the group Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which illustrates two sides of the same person. (this being me ;-)
Mitt bidrag till veckans fotosöndag/ My contribution to thisweek photosunday/fotosöndag on he theme Festligt/ Festive
Weather
My life is splattered like the edges
of a painting in the rain. Stained
grey days melt all together
for the weather always hesitates
to change.
In truth, I can't complain
like the rest, for the way
I feel when those drops
drive down and smash onto
the glass of my car
is nothing short
of relieved.
I believe that I could be
like a winter storm, dark and
lumbering and seeping
into spring before
my clouds finally break
into powder puff worries
and even those I know
will scurry into the deep blue
of a wild and windy day.
But until then I am content
to rain.
(Poem by me. I have long had a fascination with the way water droplets perch on surfaces, especially skin. One of my Flickr contacts has quite a few of them, this one is my favorite among them. I attempted some of my own shots not too long ago, but it's nearly impossible to do by yourself. Still, it gave me an idea for a diptych.)
The theme this week for the the Behind the Lens - Global Creative Photography Project is cuisine!
A big thanks to Kristen for preparing the waffles and helping me set up the shot. Thanks to Evelyn for making the batter! They were so tasty!
Enjoy!
The look you get when you want to take pictures too close to dinner time.
Watched some of the Scott Robert Lim "Real World Lighting" class on Creative Live today and had to play around with some of the ideas, apparently a little to close to dinner time for my model.
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There is no way a day spent at Point Reyes can be anything but beautiful. Especially not when the company is fantastic, the food is tasty, the photos are great, the weather is ideal, and you get to see a peregrine falcon using some nice gentleman's binoculars.
One may get thoughtful, for a moment, looking at the gorgeous scenery, thinking about what lies ahead.
(One may also get thoughtful about the tourists yelling loudly about going to the gift shop to buy a patch, or about the tick bite one just got, which hurts a lot, that one is all freaked out about because augh grody ticks and lyme disease aaahhh! but thank God one's mom is a doctor and all is well.)
It really was an awesome* day.
And thus is represented here with an awesome yet spooky shot. The awesomeness of what lies ahead, refusing to look back at the specters of the fears we have conquered! Or something. (See also: the tags.)
*Special dispensation allowed in this case. Seriously, look at this. More to come, don't worry.
I wanted to go in amorecreative way thisweek.. Most people would think tough,and rebel when it's pro-gun but I made Erin a rich, glamorous woman who needs self protection for her fortune!
I AM SO SORRY IT'S LATE!! and so bad
The same day I took this photo unknown to me, the following article ran in the Dallas Morning News Travel section. Note the photographs are very similar. I took this photograph July 26th, 2009. :
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This week, The Queen, Elizabeth II will celebrate 60 years on the throne.
..........Her Coronation took place on 2nd June 1953.
.....The Morris Minor is a British economy car that debuted in
London on 20th September 1948.
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This Week magazine Dec 13, 1964. This was a magazine inserted in the local Sunday papers across the country. Thanks to my friend Roy for sharing this.
~W. B. Yeats~
Weekend outtake. I seem to be going through a shadowy mini-phase...
This is a fly-by, I'll catch up with you all tomorrow and over the weekend.
The veteran reporter Peter Taylor has been covering events in Northern Ireland for more than 40 years now, and has written numerous books on the subject.
He and I have been friends for even longer – and for much of the 1970s we worked together in Northern Ireland on countless This Week current affairs programmes for Thames Television, then part of the ITV Network.
Under the legendary Jeremy Isaacs, Thames Television’s Controller of Programmes, This Week led the way for its coverage of The Troubles throughout the ‘70s. In 1980 Peter moved to the BBC, where he has continued to make award-winning documentaries not only about Northern Ireland but also on intelligence matters and Islamic terrorism.
Peter is the recipient of a John Grierson Award for Best Historical Documentary; a Royal Television Society Lifetime Achievement Award; and a BAFTA Special Award in recognition of his career and contribution to factual and current affairs television. He also received the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize for his lifetime’s contribution to Anglo-Irish understanding and he holds the OBE for services to broadcast journalism.
On Sunday at 10pm, BBC Two will broadcast Peter’s personal retrospective of his time in Northern Ireland. For me, because I spent so much of the '70s treading that beat with him, it will be unmissable; I’ve booked my front row seat.
♦ For anyone with a long memory, the title music to the This Week programme is here; formally known as the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite by Sibelius; still one of the most thrilling pieces of classical music I've ever known.
See also my Flickr album 1970s Northern Ireland.
Week 18- Out here we miss the changing color of leaves. How about fall colors Southwest style? Spotted in Tucson, AZ
Nail technicians and skin-care specialists (the salon workers who do the most waxing) earn a mean annual pre-tax wage of $22,150 to $31,990. This figure doesn't include tips, which can total another $4,430 to $6,398—a clear financial incentive to befriend your clients in this service-based, nonreciprocal way.
And yet. When it came to 38, I wanted the cash, not the compliment, to show the value of my abilities. And maybe, to compensate for how she got to leave feeling so clean and sexy—but I could still smell her body on me, ever so faintly, even after I threw away the gloves and washed my hands.
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I’m not sure what the phrase “owning your sexuality” means to you, but for me, one thing it entails is responsibility: doing my best to make sexual choices that are sound for me and a partner. (That’s also part of doing consent well.)
If I am offering something sexually light and fun but anticipate that it will be emotionally or interpersonally complex–or if I’m feeling stressed, confused and worried about it–then I can know that easy-breezy is neither what I can expect nor earnestly offer.
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Can Sex “Just for Fun” Be Emotionally Healthy?
October 11, 2011 by Heather Corinna
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This week’s installment of Heather Corinna‘s sex-and-relationships advice column tackles the issue of casual sex.
...Q: So excited for this new blog spot! Can you discuss whether it’s emotionally healthy to have sex outside of relationships? I want to own my sexuality, but all of the advice around me seems to be no-sex-outside-of-relationships-or-marriage. I know this depends on the individual, but any insight would be great! I’ve been toying with asking an ex–whom I am friends with–to have sex just for fun. I’m 98 percent sure he’ll agree, but I am worried about emotional health consequences. He has always wanted a much closer relationship than I do. I’m worried I’ll feel guilty for possibly leading him (or myself) into wanting more.
You’re right: this is a very individual and situational decision. To give some context, a recent study found that, on average, for 20-year-olds, casual sex and committed relationships led to the same level of psychological health. But individuals aren’t averages. Not everyone wants or is comfortable with sex in the same kinds of relationships or scenarios (including committed relationships). Context and interpersonal dynamics factor in, too.
There are some guidelines, however, that everyone can apply. When a sexual situation is likely to be sound, we usually feel good heading into it, as does anyone else involved. If we feel uncertain or predict negative feelings on anyone’s part, those are strong cues not to proceed.
I’m not sure what the phrase “owning your sexuality” means to you, but for me, one thing it entails is responsibility: doing my best to make sexual choices that are sound for me and a partner. (That’s also part of doing consent well.) If I am offering something sexually light and fun but anticipate that it will be emotionally or interpersonally complex–or if I’m feeling stressed, confused and worried about it–then I can know that easy-breezy is neither what I can expect nor earnestly offer.
Even when I’m having sex-for-sex’s-sake–which I would define as sex that takes place outside of a larger intimate relationship, without any agreed-upon, intended or implied commitment–that doesn’t mean I have zero responsibility for my emotional health or that of others. My partner (or wanna-be partner) and I still owe one another respect, care and consideration, which includes considering possible outcomes, even if we don’t intend to be there with each other for them.
It sounds like you’re on board with that, and you’ve already voiced your own sense that this specific situation probably isn’t sound for you or your ex. While he’d likely agree to sex, clearly some of this wouldn’t be fun for him or you, and could be an emotional landmine. While your romantic relationship may be over, you two are in a relationship: you have a history and a friendship, and it sounds like you have strong feelings for and about one another that are not only or primarily sexual. If what you want is just a roll in the proverbial hay, this isn’t likely to be it.
It also sounds like you’ve been curious about sex outside of romantic relationships, but you haven’t felt supported in or exposed to alternatives. So you might also want to give yourself more time to take a bit more stock of what you want and to find people to talk with who aren’t all saying the same things. If that’s not currently available to you, Sex & Single Girls is a great anthology with a diverse array of women writing about various sexual experiences. I also think Jaclyn Friedman’s new book, What You Really Really Want, could be just the thing for you.
My best advice is that you hold out for an opportunity to explore casual sex if and when you feel a lot better about it. That will also likely entail a partner or scenario you don’t feel so conflicted about; that feels more likely to be explosive in the ways you want, rather than the ways you don’t.
Check out last week’s advice about lube blues.
Have a sex, sexual-health or relationships question you want answered? Email it to Heather at sexandrelationships@msmagazine.com. By sending a question to that address, you acknowledge you give permission for your question to be published. Your email address and any other personally identifying information will remain private. Not all questions will receive answers.
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When the Sweet Spot Becomes a Sore Spot
October 31, 2011 by Heather Corinna
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Q: I’m a 21-year-old lesbian. A problem has popped up in me and my girlfriend’s sex life. When we practice tribadism with just skin, after a while a very small raw spot will show up, bringing with it a sharp pain. Both of us have this problem. Neither of us is clean-shaven, but we do trim–would shaving help? Is there anything else we can do?
A: Ah, friction. Sometimes it feels so awesome. Other times it hurts. Part of what makes genitals so sensitive is that genital tissue is far more delicate than other kinds of skin on our bodies. With genital friction, there’s a tipping point after which a wowie can turn into an owie.
To avoid being rubbed raw, first make sure you and your partner are always very well-lubricated. Lube from a bottle tends to do the job better than our bodies’ lubricant when it comes to friction-intensive sex.
Apply lube before you start and add more as needed throughout. Be generous and don’t skimp.
I checked in with Searah Deysach, the fantastic owner of Early to Bed, to see if she had any specific lube suggestions; she keeps up with brands and types like nobody’s business. She suggested a high-quality silicone lube, such as Uberlube or Sliquid Silver–they tend to be longer-lasting and slicker than water-based lubricants. But if you prefer water-based, she suggests glycerin-free brands such as Sliquid Sea or Liquid Silk (my fave), which are kinder to vulvas and vaginas than those with glycerin.
Searah and I are of one mind about hairy issues. She says, “Hair that is growing back after shaving can be especially irritating, as stubble can be vicious on delicate tissues. “ I agree. Stubble from hair removal is more likely to irritate than the softer pubic hair we tend to have when we don’t shave. If all you do is trim, chances are hair isn’t the problem.
Consider positioning. I’d suggest experimenting with an eye for reducing how much weight is being put on each of your genitals. Try finding ways you can scissor without anyone really being “on top” at all, like lying on your backs toe to head. Searah suggested straddling your lover’s thigh as an alternative. Similar feeling, less pain. If you do like a missionary-style V-on-V position, whoever’s on top can try to balance so less weight rests on the other person’s tender bits–e.g., by bracing their hands on a headboard. Mixing up positions often helps, too. And if and when either of you start feeling raw, don’t keep going with the activity that got you there–take a break from genital sex or at least consider that spot done for the day. If it remains raw the next day, lay off the intense pressure for as long as it takes to heal.
Now and then this still might happen, especially because, when we’re very aroused, pleasure can cause us to space out on signals of pain. But with these adjustments, you can probably make it a rarity instead of a norm.
Check out last week’s advice to a woman whose fiancé monitored her vagina’s size.
Have a sex, sexual-health or relationships question you want answered? Email it to Heather at sexandrelationships@msmagazine.com. By sending a question to that address, you acknowledge you give permission for your question to be published. Your email address and any other personally identifying information will remain private. Not all questions will receive answers.
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My Year in Waxing School
Naked people don't tip well, and more tricks of the trade.
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The 38th client I worked on at Beauty U. was my first full Brazilian wax—the kind where you remove all (or almost all) of your hair below the belt. I'd waxed many bikini lines and other body parts. I'd also assisted on Brazilians, handing my teachers wax-dipped Popsicle sticks the way nurses hand over scalpels. But now, it was my turn to wield the wax, solo. "I know—I'm a hairy beast!" Client 38 apologized, hopping onto the waxing table, clad in disposable thong. "You have to fix me. I'm going on vacation with my boyfriend."
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She spread her legs. I put on some vinyl gloves and worked down and across her pelvis, twirling clumps of hair and trimming them free. You have to trim any hair longer than eyebrow-length to prevent "locking" with the wax. You also have to act like this is normal, even though a part of your brain is thinking, "Pubic hair, pubic hair, oh my God, pubic hair." But I was getting better at trimming, and also at acting. And so clouds of hair piled up on the paper-covered table while 38 chatted about her vacation plans (the Poconos; if she was lucky, a proposal), her C-section scar, and how she liked my red glasses.
The $1.8 billion business of superfluous hair removal is our most intimate and uncomfortable kind of beauty labor. When I enrolled in a 600-hour aesthetics program at my local strip mall beauty school, I knew the standard feminist rhetoric against hair removal: Women wax because we've been culturally indoctrinated to hate our bodies in their natural state. I also knew the women's magazine defense, that removing excess hair celebrates our femininity and increases sexual pleasure. And I'd been in 38's position enough to know that waxing can make you feel vulnerable in ways feminists haven't even considered and hurts more than women's magazines (or at least, their beauty advertisers) let you believe.
But being on the other side of the waxing table turns out to feel simultaneously more exploitative and more empowering than I ever expected. There is, for example, the moment when your client shuts off from you, closing her eyes to "relax." Your client is in charge, having commissioned you to perform this service. And yet they are also terribly vulnerable, half naked, exposed and—eyes closed—hoping for the best.
After I trimmed, I tested the temperature of the hot wax on the inside of my wrist and painted a stripe along 38's inner thigh, quickly covering it with a muslin strip. She tensed before I ripped, then relaxed even as her brown skin tinted pink: "That hurt so much less than last time!" I watched some spots of blood well up. "I'm going to have you do my eyebrows, too," she added. And as I waxed my way along the crevice of her inner thigh to some very sensitive parts, 38 closed her eyes, drifting into that blissful state we enter whenever a spa service goes well.
With most Beauty U. clients, I liked offering this respite from their harried lives and from the even more harried relationship they had with their bodies. Before beauty school began, I hoped this body shame part wouldn't be so true. Instead, I saw women hating their bodies—in subtle ways, like 38's matter-of-fact "I'm a hairy beast!"—with every spa service I performed. So I saw my role as providing a kind of safe haven of acceptance, where a client could feel comfortable enough to drift away
Two hours into 38's appointment, I was the one who could not relax. I had waxed right through my dinner break and my back ached from hunching over the table. I removed all the hair 38 had asked me to (all but a delicate landing strip) and cleaned up her brows. I held a hand mirror between her legs, angling it so she could decide if she was satisfied. I'd snipped off her paper thong, so we looked together like those consciousness-raising women's groups from the 1970s. Only with me still wearing my vinyl gloves, now sticky with a layer of wax.
By that time, I knew that 38 had two kids, was divorced, and was going back to college. I liked 38. I wanted her to enjoy vacation and get engaged and have a good life. But we weren't friends. There was nothing reciprocal in our conversation. We were taught to avoid sharing personal information about ourselves whenever possible. "Customers don't care about your life," teachers told us. "They're buying your full attention." And that seemed to work. Once clients relaxed, they told us all sorts of personal things, like when they next expected to have sex and why their mothers made them crazy. And we learned that letting clients share these intimate details was good for business. "Remember to mention something about them or their life that they've talked about previously. Keep notes about each customer on file if you need to," advised one handout. It was much like being a therapist, serving soul and body.
In April, the New York Post reported that "NYC Women are Strangely Bonded to the Beauticians who Wax Their Brazilians," quoting smitten spa-goers who viewed their waxers as surrogate moms. But the story didn't explain how this one-sided friendship is made all the more awkward by socioeconomic differences. No matter how friendly their relationship, the client still pays and the waxer still needs that money. Nail technicians and skin-care specialists (the salon workers who do the most waxing) earn a mean annual pre-tax wage of $22,150 to $31,990. This figure doesn't include tips, which can total another $4,430 to $6,398—a clear financial incentive to befriend your clients in this service-based, nonreciprocal way.
Before starting, I assumed that most clients tip the industry's expected standard of 20 percent. They don't. I wasn't surprised, for example, when 38 tipped me just $5 (under 15 percent) because we never got big tips when clients got naked. Like johns who mistake their hooker's acrobatics for true love, clients can put such emphasis on the girlfriend-bonding time that slipping us a wad of cash would destroy the fantasy.
If her tip had been bigger, I would have been more delighted that 38 had taken time to write a "Client Kudos!" card about me: "She was professional and friendly at the same time. … Thanks so much!" She even drew a star on top next to my name. "That makes up for the bad tip," said my classmate Campbell about my Client Kudos. "Look how happy you made her!" Most salon workers say making clients feel good is their biggest source of job satisfaction. But I'm not convinced it's enough to balance out the often exhausting, difficult, and underpaid labor. No matter how much we liked our clients, we still had to brush stray pubic hairs off our sleeves, pick seaweed-stained disposable thongs out of the shower, and work around the occasional menstruating bikini wax client.
But it's also true that many waxers find this work empowering because the services require such skill and our clients are so thrilled with the results. Even if we don't totally return our clients' affections, we feel a kind of sisterhood with them and our fellow salon workers, because we're all toiling away together to meet some impossible beauty standard. When Campbell and I practiced our first Brazilian together, she rubbed the back of our "client" (another classmate), singing songs to distract her from the pain. We all traded stories about waxing and then, childbirth—that other time when a woman spreads her legs in pain and the support of other women gets her through.
And yet. When it came to 38, I wanted the cash, not the compliment, to show the value of my abilities. And maybe, to compensate for how she got to leave feeling so clean and sexy—but I could still smell her body on me, ever so faintly, even after I threw away the gloves and washed my hands.
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This is one nasty piece of work, a Russian Hind on steroids. Extensively upgraded and 2 tons lighter the display pilots tossed this monster around like a stunt plane in a simulated attack after which it landed and deployed a stick of combat troops onto the 'target'. The entire nose of this attack chopper has been completely re-engineered with top drawer avionics and weapon systems. I would not want to be on the wrong end of one of these!
If you catch the movie Blood Diamond at your DVD store you'll see this very machine in action. The South African avionics company that does these upgrades made her available for the shoot. Otherwise she does the South African airshow circuit (I shot her in Cape Town at the bi-annual AAD show) and for testing new systems.
Read more at: www.engineeringnews.co.za/eng/news/thisweek/?show=94535
Update, May 5, 2017: This poster was originally done in February 2016. But, with the passage by the House of the GOP's sad version of their healthcare act yesterday, it seems appropriate for their self-serving actions. Republicans lawmakers don't care about the American people. All they care about is winning and staying in power.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News, that the GOP would support Donald Trump if he was the Republican nominee. Then he said, "Winning is the antidote to a lot of things." The first part of his response is spin. Republicans are trying to find any way they can to stop Trump. The second part, however, reveals what is most important to the GOP: winning. Important issues like immigration reform, healthcare, and fixing the very things Republican voters are angry about (angry because of the party's inability to deliver of promises they've made to their electorate for decades) are not as important. Governing is not important. By extension: citizens are less important than power.
His admission comes a week after Senate Republicans, lead by Mitch McConnell stated they would refuse to consider any Supreme Court nominee suggested by President Obama —without even a hearing.
Obstruction and winning are the only things on the GOP's political agenda. And we citizens are the big losers.
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Shot on election evening November 4th 2008 - ABC News did their coverage from Times Square, New York City (NYC). This is a shot of the ABC News studios used for the election coverage and one of the cameras. Has an Orwellian "1984" feel to it but not enough to title it as such.
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There appears to be no consistent/conclusive identification of this oft-published iconic photo of the X-15. Most sites identify it as photo no. EC65-885 and/or ECN885. The vehicle's serial number is discernible (56-6671), so that narrows it down somewhat. However, check out the following, and you'll see what I mean:
www.space.com/22585-x15-mounted-to-b52-mothership-pylon-i...
www.sierrafoot.org/x-15/ecn885_large.html
www.x-15.com/X-15/In_Flight.html#0
www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/history/thisweek/EC65-885.html
archive.org/details/287270main_EC65-885_full
Unfortunately, the above is pretty much demonstrates 'circular reporting'. The following "official" site at least states the photo date as "probably 1962":
www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/X-15/HTML/EC65-885.html
That, in conjunction with the seemingly conscientiously compiled data at the following site, gets my vote:
www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/mud-lake/
However, the verso of the photo has a 'received' stamp dated "JUL 1962" - predating the above...so...who really knows.
Suffice it to say: a great photo of the Bad-Ass X-15 taken some time during the 1960's.
From my archive... a Thames Television This Week current affairs film crew in West Belfast, January 1974, during 'The Troubles'.
(l to r) David Crozier, sound recordist; Peter Taylor, reporter; Teddy Adcock, camera; David Gill, director.
There's more material from the same era here.