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Hi as you can see this is the final upload to my project 365 DAYS OF B&W, which at times has been very challenging and also very theroputic.
I would like to take this opportunity as we move into 2014 to thank everyone who have followed me on my journey and hope they have enjoyed it as much as I have,once again thanks and please keep folowing me on my adventures.
Finally to all my friends and Flickr uses I would like to wish you all a very very happy new year and here's looking forward to 2014.
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Arabic calligraphy - National Theater of Koweït - Koweit city - 2016
Photography realized live during our show "Turn off the light"
Calligraphy : Julien Breton aka Kaalam
Photography : Cisco
Danseuse : Stéphanie Naud
I wanted to make it a point to read a lot more this year. I've been getting into romantic novels a lot lately, ironically. I feel that reading more will help enhance my own writing. The Hunger Games is a great series, I recommend!
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Scription's Perfect System 2011-2012
I didn't realize until 3 days ago when I put these 3 things together (which contain a whole lot more of other things inside each), that this bunch of tools are actually EVERYTHING I need wherever I go, and it is quite compact IMHO. Powerful isn't it? In a moment I'm gonna share with you the details but first, let's contemplate on the pattern behind, which is beyond objects and tools, but of planting seeds which someday all coagulate and become something more.
Today I have a dream job most of you envy and I myself enjoy tremendously, but this dream job is just one of the things I surrounded myself with. My core has always been planting seeds, finding tools, connecting unrelated stuffs and sit back to look at all of these actions once in a while. Sitting back is most important of all, it is one of the happiest moments when you can most certainly find and reap innovations and insights.
Back to objects and tools. This so called "Perfect System" which I assume is valid at least until the end of 2012, is a result of me continuously simplifying my daily needs, finding tools that fit and beautifying them along the road. Somehow it all made sense when I put them together.
Traveler's Notebook
It is not a perfect notebook but you have a choice to carry only what you need and I customized it to fulfill my needs for: travel, GTD, scheduling, mind mapping and drawing. It is basically holding all my plans and thoughts.
Travel: card pockets to hold business cards, hotel access cards, mileage cards, medical card. Zip pocket to hold receipts, post cards, stickers, paper clips. Elastic band to hold my flight itinerary, boarding pass and passport.
GTD: I carry two refills inside Traveler's Notebook. One is used for GTD, drawing and mind mapping. Instead of carrying extra deck of GTD index cards like before (scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/hacking-gtd-tabs-and-i...), I use my Leather GTD Tabs (scription.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/leather-gtd-tabs---a-h...) to clip on specific pages for various purposes (Next Actions, Projects, Waiting For, Someday). In addition, I created some custom inserts to facilitate my mind mapping needs. It is a PDF in A4 size which you can download, print double sided, cut into the right size, fold in half and insert into a refill notebook very easily. Here's the file! Try it out and let me know your feedback. On blank page of the refill, I enjoy drawing things randomly or sketching my next leather project ideas.
Scheduling: The second refill I use for scheduling. I've decided that no commercially available diaries fulfill my needs and most of them too rigid. So I created a way I temporarily called Chronodex, which you may already had a glimpse in some of my previous photos. I'm still adding and modifying things but here's a version you can download and try: CHRONODEX VERSION 6. It is a PDF in A4 size, you can process it the same way I mentioned above and use it as a free weekly diary. The main advantage of it for me is that I can use the space freely but still referring to the correct time slice/pie, it is visually more pleasing and less rigid to me. Again, I'm happy to hear your comments, good and bad.
Well, I also stitched a leather loop onto the back cover of the Traveler's Notebook to carry an extra pen the way I like it. Other customization is just aesthetic, like the bookmark charm and the camera charm.
Twelve South BookBook and iPhone
This BookBook leather case for iPhone is super popular and we are always out of stock. I found it perfect to be my wallet and communicator all-in-one.
Wallet: I use Twelve South's BookBook to hold my credit cards, staff access card, transport card and occasionally paper money.
Communicator: I customized the BookBook to allow better experience photo shooting with iPhone [scription.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/twelve-south-book-book...]. For work, using iPhone for photos is good enough most of the time. Besides, my iPhone is, like many people, for: Instagram to have fun with photos and image loving communities, email, music player, phone calls, Facebook, whatsapp, audiobooks (I now "read" books mostly in audiobook format, at least I won't fall asleep), meditation (I use binaural beats to achieve mind states), alarm, address book, teamviewer (to connect remotely to my work or home computer), tethering, calculator, etc. Thanks to Charles Kao and Steve Jobs, never been so powerful connecting to the world.
Pen Holder on Neck Strap
It seems trivial nowadays to many people but it is so useful for me.
Pens: I carry 3 pens close to me (I want to carry one more, a mechanical pencil either by Rotring or Kaweco, but that's just too much to carry sometimes). A Pilot Capless Matt Black: it is efficient like a roller ball, just click and write, but produces elegant strokes as a fountain pen even at fine nib, I use it mostly for scheduling and mind mapping. A Kaweco Sports ball point pen: I hate ball pens but sometimes you need to use them on laminated name cards or coated papers, very good price and small to carry. A Graf Von Faber Castell Classics Platinum fountain pen: thanks to a dear friend who bought me this, I now use it for important signature (not much actually), its medium nib allows me to generate beautiful calligraphy and heavier strokes for sketches, I love the classic shape a lot and …err it is also something I can brag about :)
Leather Pen Holder on Neck Strap: I made this pen holder modeling after one made by 4GATS, a talented Japanese leather-craft company made of 4 staffs. If you like the look of this, all credit goes to 4GATS, I made it because I couldn't get one myself and I love to DIMyself. Having pens readily accessible but with style is satisfying, how? I get more than 30 people staring at my chest every single day, anyway I hate putting pen and especially more than one of them on my shirt pocket. One additional function I like to have this on my neck is that I can clip my visitor's pass onto it whenever I go to trade shows, no more ugly event straps hanging on my neck!
The leather pen holder is usually hanged from my neck or in my shirt pocket, BookBook in my pant pocket, while I carry by hand the Traveler's Notebook. Well, the "Perfect System" may sound like a clumsy organizer to you, but it is my constant (remember Faraday's "constant" [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Constant] in LOST? [lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Constant]) and I invite you to think more about the constant concept if you will.
Finally, if I had the luxury to carry one more thing I would carry an analog camera: Voigtlander R4A 35mm f1.4 or Canon F1N 50mm f1.2 or Polaroid 110A converted to use Fujifilm peel apart.
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Inside the Historic and Haunted Sylvanus Brown House at Slater Mill Historic Site
Pawtucket, RI
History on the location:
The Sylvanus Brown House
The Sylvanus Brown House, the oldest building at the Slater Mill Historic Site, is a typical dwelling of the mid-late eighteenth century. A small, solid looking building, the house was moved to this location in the late 1960's. Except for the basement and chimney, the original structure is intact. The sparse furnishings conform to those of Sylvanus Brown's 1824 estate inventory and include a loom, spinning wheel and other tools used to make cloth by hand.
In this house, and others like it, women and children did the slow tedious work of cleaning and carding wool, spinning yarn and weaving cloth. It is interesting to watch this process by hand since the machinery in the Slater Mill duplicates many of the same operations, often with equipment that looks much like the hand tool original.
Grenfell.
The roaming of the local Aboriginal people became curtailed from 1833 when the first white pastoralist moved into the Grenfell district. He was John Wood squatting beyond the legal areas. It was one of Wood’s shepherds who discovered gold in 1866. He was named Cornelius O’Brien and he registered the find in Young and took out a miners lease. O’Brien went on to sell his lease in 1872 for £32,000 and his mine yielded £370,000 worth of gold over the first five years. Diggers rushed to the area in 1866, many from Lambing Flat fields (Young), when news was released and a settlement named Emu Creek sprang up overnight. On 1st January 1867 the goldfields were renamed Grenfell in honour of John Grenfell the Gold Commissioner of nearby Forbes who was killed by bushrangers in a hold up on 6th December 1866. Before then the Weddin Post Office opened at Emu Creek on 3rd December 1866 and it was changed to Grenfell PO on December 24th. The Weddin Ranges lie just to the west of Grenfell and the shire council is still the Weddin Shire. Thus the first part of Grenfell developed along the curves of Emu Creek as the fields soon had around 20,000 diggers. Buildings - hotels, dance hall and theatres, mainly canvas or wooden in the early years, crowded along the narrow George Street which was the original heart of the town. There were soon 33 licensed hotels in Grenfell. But several major fires destroyed many of the cramped buildings. Today George Street is just a narrow backstreet and the Main Street is the area of commerce, but still with a dogleg curve. The goldfield at Grenfell was a rich one but it provided its bounty for only a short time. Between 1867 and 1869 Grenfell produced over 40,000 ounces (1,100 kilograms) of gold worth over three million pounds. A few buildings of note remain in George Street despite their faded appearance and they include the Oddfellows Hall. The first one was built in 1873 and was replaced with the current building in 1888. Next to it is the old printer’s works. The Mining Record was published from 1866 (marked on the building) but became the Grenfell Record in 1875 when the new owner moved the premises to the Main Street next to the Exchange Hotel.
Among the early gold miners to rush the fields was a Norwegian digger Niels Larsen. On 17th June 1867 Larsen’s wife gave birth in their tent to a baby who they named Henry changing their surname to Lawson at the same time. WE do not know but Lawson built a slab hut so Henry could have been born in that. His mother Louisa made meals and sold them to the diggers for income. Niels Lawson soon moved his family to Mudgee and that is where Henry Lawson spent most of his childhood. For some years young Henry travelled the country out west doing sheep farming work with his father which gave him later inspiration for his outback stories. In 1883 Henry Lawson went to live in Sydney with his mother. Louisa established a suffragette paper for women called Dawn. She had her own printing press and Henry Lawson’s first short stories and prose were printed by his mother. His mother, with Peter Bell, printed the radical journal called the Republican. By this time she had separated from Henry’s father. Henry accepted a newspaper job in Brisbane in 1891. His first story in the Bulletin was published in 1888. By the mid-1890s Henry had taken up drinking. Despite travel and writing and several bouts of depression he persisted with life. After his wife Bertha separated from him in 1920 he took up drinking again and attempted suicide after which he entered a deep depression and downhill slide psychologically. He died alone in 1922. Although Henry Lawson did not spend much of his life in Grenfell the site where the slab hut was built was recorded and a plaque dedicated in 1924 with Lawson’s estranged wife and daughter attending the ceremony. A tree was planted at the site at that time. Grenfell was early in its recognition of Lawson’s contribution to Australian literature and folklore. The town also established the Henry Lawson Festival, which is still held annually, in 1957 when few towns were thinking about attracting tourists to their regions or honouring their prominent citizens. The festival covers music, singing, poetry photography, writing, theatre etc. Lawson is commemorated on our ten dollar note.
Another literary figure with connections to Grenfell was Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist and social critic and commentator. Trollope wrote the Chronicles of Barchester and 47 novels in all. His social commentaries covered Australia, New Zealand, South Africa etc. Trollope visited Grenfell twice in 1871 to visit his son Frederick who worked on a sheep station near Grenfell. He then travelled to parts of QLD, SA and NSW and from it wrote several books on Australia. Trollope’s ancestors still live in Australia and they have inherited the baronetcy of Casewick Hall which is currently held by Sir Anthony Trollope a school teacher in Sydney. Trollope accused Melbournians of being loud mouth braggarts. In Adelaide he stayed with Sir Thomas Elder at Birksgate and dined at the Adelaide Club. Trollope wrote: “No city in Australia gives one more fixedly the idea that Australian colonization has been a success, than does the city of Adelaide”. His humour and irony were also evident in his quotes: “The number of sheep at these stations will generally indicate with fair accuracy the mode of life at the head station. A hundred thousand sheep and upwards require a professed man-cook and a butler to look after them; forty thousand sheep cannot be shorn without a piano; twenty thousand is the lowest number that renders napkins at dinner imperative.” And “Australian mosquitoes …were never so venomous to me as mosquitoes have been in other countries.” Or “The subject of heat is one of extreme delicacy… One does not allude to the heat in a host's house any more than to a bad bottle of wine or an ill-cooked joint of meat… You may call an inn hot, or a court-house, but not a gentleman's paddock or a lady's drawing-room.”
Although not a grand town Grenfell has charm and history. Big changes came to the town when wheat was first grown in the surrounding countryside from 1871 onwards but transport costs were a problem. A spur railway line from Cowra reached Grenfell in 1901 and agriculture expanded. A flourmill was erected in the 1880s but it burnt within a few years. It was replaced with the Challenge flourmill in 1901. That mill still stands although not in use. It produced flour for our troops during the World War Two and it finally closed in the 1960s. The heritage buildings of Grenfell include the Courthouse (1879), the School of Arts (1890) and Methodist Church (1928) in Camp Street and the Anglican Church (1877) and Presbyterian Church (1870) in Middle Street etc. In the Main Street look out for the William Wardell designed old Union Bank building built in 1890, the old Temperance Hall from the 1880s, the beautiful Exchange Hotel 1912 and the Albion Hotel which dates from 1866.
BRidge BURner
she tried so hard to leave
the past behind
she burned all bridges
along the way
but the past knows
all the shortcuts
and all the detours
despite all her efforts
the past caught up with her
in the END
While you are letting your guard down
I will be letting myself go
While you keep running your ship aground
I will be setting myself alight
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East Side Famlee 30 Jahre Jubiläum. Die Leinwand haben alle Famlee Member zusammen gemalt. Ein gemeinsamer Gruß für dich und es wird nicht der letzte sein.
Ruhe in Frieden Bruder Meiro.
Wir werden dich nicht vergessen. Berlin 2019
See also the back of this card: Dunk a Donut and Be Merry! (below).
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Design: Shuzo Fuijimoto
Paper: Kraftpapier 60gm²
Paper size: 7,5 x 30 cm; result is about 3.8 x 12 cm
I promise, these are perhaps the last ones I post here ………. :)))
May be the next aim is all these in one square?......
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The voice is calling with an ever-present urgency. Telling you to wake up, or failing that, to dream if you must stay asleep. It is waiting patiently on your front step, ringing your doorbell and preparing its pitch. The voice says he has it, he's found it at last! "What is it?" you say, still rubbing the sleep from your eyes. "The cure!" he shouts excitedly, "The cure for boredom!" Now this is something interesting, you think. Speaking slowly so as to not betray your emotions, you ask again, "What is it, then?" A crooked smile nearly tears his face in half.
"Adventure!"
Supplies:
Cardstock: PTI (Kraft)
Stamps: PTI (Celebrations) Lawn Fawn (Blissful Botanicals)
Ink: PTI (Dark Chocolate) Copic (YG67)
Other: Martha Stewart (Writing Pen Sepia) Hybrid Gel (white)
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Washington Irving wrote in his essay "Old Christmas" of a nostalgic longing for the flavor of the "honest days of yore", which finds a similar echo of angst in our modern times.
His regret that the old traditions even then were more and more obliterated by the modern fashion of his time, that "those picturesque morsels of Gothic architecture which we see crumbling in various parts of the country ... partly lost in the additions and alterations of latter days", is nothing compared to our current condition where the only vestiges of the original spirit is fed to us with big business in mind via commercialism.
His particular search for the intangible yet sorely missed Christmas feeling is the same today, and drew inspiration for my design.
The traditional camera, starting with its early photographic "salad" days through the abundant expansion of the 1940s, certainly carries a vintage charm before the fireside hearth of commercialism, as it were. This also has become authentic, at this point in time.
What to do? The only way I can figure is to reconcile these far off almost polar associations.
A difficult problem indeed. But in these instances, I always look to a few tried and true cameras that carry much potentiality for me.
My design proposes and offers such an amalgam within one camera, but this is only one example of many.
Washington Irving's literary sketchbook of Old Christmas is mixed in with the modern architectural trend of rooftop additions, which is necessitated by the modern dilemma of a crappy economy and lack of urban space. In the case of our camera it would simply be the viewfinder hot shoe attachment. Washington Irving's literary devices to bring back the nostalgic past is done via the symbols of a Victorian stagecoach, a cottage fireside and a Victorian dining hall. This Rollei 35 SE custom kit (available nowhere) comes with a tripartite viewfinder of a replica of Sunnyside, Irving's 17th century home. Through the windows you can see three different views. the chief one being Irving's writing studio. The formal dining hall resplendent with a festive setting and for travelers of inferior order, a cottage fireside scene. Juxtaposing these last two rooms, a narrow foyer filled with unopened luggage cases places the viewer in a conflict of class distinction as to which to choose. As a final contrasting element, the camera kit is housed in a valise that is a replica of the recently discovered (still an alleged discovery) suitcase belonging to the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, whom I plan to turn my attention to later on with a full-fledged homage, but for the sake of Christmas I will make this it's "cameo appearance". Although he had no direct connection with Kahlo, Irving was the U.S Ambassador to Spain.
A note about the Rollei 35 SE camera: the best thing to do with this would be to digitize it, however it wouldn't shoot the same; the charm of this scale focusing camera is in the working of its front face dials. A fully digital version of this camera issued by Rollei would be ideal. However, the better thing to have in that case would be a printer connected to it so that an inferior digital LCD would be replaced with a photographic print. I include a flip down cover over the LCD to give it a more analogue feeling instead of the usual way of turning off the LCD. A hidden compartment under the camera body reveals a red memory chip containing a facsimile copy of Washington Irving's famous sketchbook recalling the 18th century red armchair in Irving's study with its hidden drawer where he kept his manuscripts. The latch on the Rollei to open its hidden compartment is in the viewfinder's writing studio compartment and can only be toggled by lifting the oil lamp on his desk. To do this a special tool is provided with the kit.
Irving's red armchair is also used in my design no. 92a, for the astronomer William Herschel.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.