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“A vision quest comes from the Lakota people, who are from south and north Dakota. They traditionally had young children, young boys mostly, go out into nature for a few days with the facilitation of a medicine man without food and water. To commune with nature and also get insight into their place and community. I’m not Lakota so I had to learn a lot about this tradition with the utmost respect and care. I had to learn a lot about what it means to be a contemporary spiritual seeker.”
“What sort of preparation do you have to do before going out into nature without food and water?”
“I prepared for a year and all that discipline that I talked about when I was writing my book, went towards prepping for vision quest. Everyday I was praying at my altar with tobacco and making ties. The medicine woman that I was working with had a very high bar. Sometimes you can prep for 3 months before a vision quest but she told me we were going to prep for a year and that we were going to do a lot of work. Intense preparation. I had to make 1000 ties. Go seek certain plants. Cedar, mugwort. I had to harvest willow poles. I had to make my altar basically, which was what I was going to have while I was out there on my vision quest. The preparation was even more intense than being on the mountain in some ways. 6 months before you go up you prepare your body with a diet, so you go vegan, then gluten free. A month before you go up you’re on non solid foods, then you’re just on juices…and a ton on water. So you prepare the body, but it’s mostly preparing the spirit for what you’re about to encounter. I worked with a Lakota man and he said, ‘You’re gonna go on a date with the creator’.”
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Sticking with the Muppets theme, but heading 2500 miles east, here's the WDW original version of this attraction. While to actual attraction (movie) is the same, the surrounding area is quite different. At DCA, the theater is tucked back in a corner without much Muppets themeing. WDW is quite different with this large Muppets square and the Stage 1 Company Store. I've heard that a much larger Muppets presence was planned, but never materialized.
In contrast to some of the other 3D films throughout the parks, I think this one has held up the best. With the exception of the end scene with the fire truck crashing through the theater and exposing the guests outside, the story and characters have held up well. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I hope they leave this one alone for another 20 years!
Walt Disney World | Hollywood Studios | Muppet*Vision 3D
"Vision is as much the work of the mind as it is of the eye." Galen Rowell.
The Christmas tree and lights in Jamison Square in NW Portland. This shot was directly inspired by Immortal Thrill-Seeker's shot, which I guess was indirectly inspired by one of mine. I love the give and take of Flickr. So any of you who enjoy this photo, stop by Patrick's stream and check out his visions of this same square. Same location, two different minds, a world of photography just waiting to happen.
This was taken on a Hasselblad 500C and was probably about a 30 second exposure. While the camera was exposing I racked the lens from in focus to way out of focus. What can I say, I wanted to double expose, but could not figure out a way to do it with the Hasselblad, had to settle with racking the focus instead. ;-) It's all fun, as it should be.
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Street corner in Tucson AZ
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"Visions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be..." -Andy Stanley
Explored Dec.5,2008
Scania Omnicity YP59 OEA turns by The Wellington pub while working a school service on behalf of Blackburn & Darwen Council.
This had been new to Transdev in London.
mass effect: andromeda
taken with nvidia ansel
popping my mass effect cherry and going down the technological rabbit hole.
"break through the impassable barrier and get to know the opening beyond."
- fo-hsing t'ai -
... a reverie on the possibility of transcendence...
scanned, assembled and altered image, july 26, 2006
Vision after assembly. Took me a couple of days of putting together :-)
Used it to take a break from studying for exams - I always enjoy building/creating/being practical, when I'm studying - takes my mind of things a bit - therapy!
There are two intellectuals that I enjoy reading and one that many may know is Fredrick Douglas and the other is Thomas Sowell. I don't follow his teachings however even Malcolm X has great quotes and Martin Luther King had a great vision that the current generation is dismantling piece by piece because they feel the need to have something big for their generation instead of building upon the legacy, they are building on feelings and quite frankly urban myths that have been floating around from another group.
As I read and listen to many sources including the BH365 Project. I've learned what I've always suspected of my Christain faith. Many of those in the Bible have had race swaps which I've had great Pastors who taught this over the years. It doesn't mean the Bible is wrong, just the images project of the people are wrong.
So instead of throwing it away, we need to make the corrections.
What the world doesn't know is there has been a lot of race swapping all through history as well as a gender-changing role of women in science and technology to men. Women in many cases had to use male pseudonyms to get published in literature mainly.
Yes, we as people of the world have a long way to truly get back on track. Right now the few have the louder voices and are dictating the path of the many.
BTW, this has been in the works for many decades.
Time for an eye exam and a new pair of glasses. These are the frames that Janice selected. I'm posting this photo mainly to document the date, for future reference.