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"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering" ~Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne
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This was inspired when I found a small coin, a modern equivalent to the old uk sixpence. I found this poem going through my mind. It was written by AAMilne and illustrated by EHShepard.
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Wodehouse like Ozu was a methodical, hard working reviser and editor of his own work. Like Ian Fleming he also started out working at a bank. Both were also avid golfers. Like Furtwangler and Edward the Duke of Winsor, politics was not his thing and in fact, his downfall. And like Ozu and Fleming, Wodehouse has created his own world to inhabit.
An unfortunate bitterness occurred between Wodehouse and A. A. Milne over Wodehouse's imprisonment during WWII. This design is meant to symbolically reconcile the feud between Wodehouse and Milne and the great conflict of his life.
Wodehouse the avid golfer has humorously referred to his mailing address as the 6th bunker at the Addington Golf course. The golf bunker is an apt metaphor not only as a trap for any golfer who has overdone his game but also a metaphor for the depths of life's sorrows as well as the dark depths of a camera's interior (Particularly on Scottish golf courses) This 6th bunker with a bridge is detailed in the camera viewfinder as a 3-D internal view.
The architecture of heights is the polar opposite. It is an architecture of pleasure. For this we site the camera-as-architectural-structure (a leaning obelisk) high up in the air, a metaphor of surmounting life's problems, by locating it high up in Milne's legendary Hundred-Acre Woods.
A large gnarly olive tree (a symbol of forgiveness) offers the enclosure for the camera which is itself made from Jerusalem wood. Wodehouse's Jeeves brings along accoutrements to serve the animals in Pooh's world. The club-conscious Bertie Wooster fits well with the animal community.
Surrounded by the tranquility of the woods, Jeeves and Bertie help maintain it as forest rangers or gardeners via the lookout of this camera treehouse which is oriented to focus on some of the Hundred-Acte Wood's more prominent "Kodak Moments" such as Owl's tree, Kanga's house, the Bee tree, Piglet's house with its famous wooden sign, Eeyore's gloomy place and of course, Pooh bear's treehouse. In reciprocation, the pair are allowed to use the woods as a 9-hole executive golf course, this extending the golf theme to this end of the camera.
Technically speaking, three vintage cameras are hidden the tree sculpture which itself is installed in the ant hill-like structure (the obelisk, or just a rocky eagle's nest).
The sheathed antique cameras peer onto their subjects (by virtue of their three different focal lengths) within relative anonymity (a muted metaphor for the humble nature of A.A. Milne's animal characters) while the photographer is given a full unhidden birds-eye view of the forest by climbing a stairs which begin in the dark ground level and gradually opens as one reaches the top where the contrast (of hiddenness and openness) is experienced the most. My design notes are still partial but this is the basic thematic layout.
In the wonderful book, "Origins of Architectural Pleasure" the author uses the term 'prospect' to gauge the quality of siting that brings the scene to the viewer. He further employs the term refuge to fall back to seclusion. Much of my viewfinder designs certainly agree with this author's concepts. Finally, my Wodehouse design is a sunny idyllic one. Wodehouse himself mentioned that there are two kinds of novels to write: Ones that are very real to life and those in which you throw all caution to the winds, heeding no one's advice and following no one else's trends, and creating a world that is only idyllic. Fortunately, camera designs can veer in either direction, but for this design we stay idyllic.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
"A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise"
Maybe this is why Pooh always has on his tight fitting shirt, but never any trousers. Tired of this indignity, he sets about making some.
If you think my Pooh looks a little bit the worse for wear, you'd be right. A few years ago I walked up Mount Vesuvius in Italy and found Pooh half way up. The ground can be hot up there are maybe it burned off his eyebrows. On return to the base of Vesuvius I gave Pooh to my friend and he comes on holiday every year now. I had to borrow him back for the photo.
Photo taken for the 116 Pictures in 2016 Challenge, no. 18 Winnie the Pooh day (18th January) which celebrates the birthday of Pooh's creator, A.A. Milne.
It may be energy-guzzling, but the night-time sight of Harrods in London is one of the capital’s finest extravaganzas. No fewer than 12,000 light bulbs illuminate the façade of the shopping emporium, which was established in Brompton Road by Charles Henry Harrod, a tea merchant, in 1849.
Now the biggest shopping emporium in Europe (it has more than a million square feet of selling space over seven floors) Harrods is owned by Qatar Holdings, the investment arm of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund. Annual turnover is around £770m, and last year the amount of money going through the tills, including that from in-store concessions, was £1.39bn.
Oh, and here’s another nugget for you: the children’s author A.A. Milne found a teddy bear for his son Christopher Robin in the emporium’s toy department. That teddy bear became, of course, the celebrated Winnie-the-Pooh.
Further to my stag beetle hpad the other day, I spotted a female one today in Puss's garden. We spent ages watching her and then Puss dug out this poem by A A Milne:
I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name,
And I called him Alexander and he answered just the same.
I put him in a matchbox, and I kept him all the day...
And Nanny let my beetle out
Yes, Nanny let my beetle out
She went and let my beetle out-
And beetle ran away.
She said she didn't mean it, and I never said she did,
She said she wanted matches, and she just took off the lid
She said that she was sorry, but it's difficult to catch
An excited sort of beetle you've mistaken for a match.
She said that she was sorry, and I really mustn't mind
As there's lots and lots of beetles which she's certain we could find
If we looked about the garden for the holes where beetles hid-
And we'd get another matchbox, and write BEETLE on the lid.
We went to all the places which a beetle might be near,
And we made the sort of noises which a beetle likes to hear,
And I saw a kind of something, and I gave a sort of shout:
"A beetle-house and Alexander Beetle coming out!"
It was Alexander Beetle I'm as certain as can be
And he had a sort of look as if he thought it might be ME,
And he had a kind of look as if he thought he ought to say:
"I'm very, very sorry that I tried to run away."
And Nanny's very sorry too, for you know what she did,
And she's writing ALEXANDER very blackly on the lid,
So Nan and me are friends, because it's difficult to catch
An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match.
Een van de liefste Engelse feestdagen is Winnie de Poeh Day, gevierd op de verjaardag van de schrijver AA Milne. Het is een speciale verjaardag. Fans kunnen het gewoon niet verdragen om deze dag te missen! Elk jaar wordt de gelegenheid gemarkeerd met evenementen zoals picknicks teddyberen ', met tal van honing op het menu.
Winnie de Poeh verscheen voor het eerst op de afgedrukte pagina in 1926, samen met vrienden Knorretje, Teigetje en Iejoor. Ieder van hen waren gebaseerd op speelgoed in handen van de zoon van de auteur, die ook te zien in de beroemde verhalen van Christopher Robin. Het karakter werd later de hoofdpersoon in een reeks van zeer geliefde Disney-films. Één extra speciale manier om de dag te markeren is om te bezoeken Pooh Corner in Hartfield, East Sussex, waar de boeken werden geschreven. Je kunt kiezen uit een kaart om in de voetsporen van de personages, en zelfs een potje Poohsticks spelen op de oorspronkelijke brug.
Speciaal voor deze foto heb ik Winnie the Pooh gehaakt (ca. 10 cm groot). Het leuke is dat het woord "hooked" zowel verslaafd betekent (de fans) als gehaakt (mijn Winnie dus). Winnie had wel een ladder nodig om boven op de pot honing te klimmen :-).
Especially for this photo I have hooked a Winnie the Pooh (about 10 cm). The nice thing is that the word "hooked" means both addicted (the fans) and crochet (my Winnie so). Winnie did need a ladder to climb on top of the honey pot :).
(116 Pictures in 2016 - #18 - Winnie the Pooh Day (18th Jan) )
For a surprise Baby Shower afternoon tea in a very posh hotel on Ashdown Forest (Home of AA Milne and Winnie the Pooh). The tartan ribbon is the ribbon used for the Mum-to-be's wedding cake, as it was also the anniversary of her hen-do!
Inspired by the gorgeous creation of Cookie Jan www.flickr.com/photos/cookiejan/3734178096/
Do something creative | Part 41 | Winnie-The-Pooh
Edit: This poster was featured on Minimal Movie Posters : minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com/post/12606353630/winnie-th...
I made this poster today as a challenge / suggestion from a friend. I had a great time watching clips from Winnie-The-Pooh on YouTube getting ideas.
This is the part of the story where he decides to disguise himself as a "little black rain cloud" by rolling in mud to steal honey from the bees in the tree. He figures that there is no reason a rain cloud would want honey, so the bees won't be suspicious.
This was inspired when I found a small coin, a modern equivalent to the old uk sixpence. I found this poem going through my mind. It was written by AAMilne and illustrated by EHShepard.
Due to chronic poor health I'm unable to take on new contacts but do my best to reply to comments. Thank you so much for your interest, comments and favours on my photostream. Also for your good wishes. I send you joy and peace.
"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes."
A. A. Milne
Japanese stamps depicting Winnie the Pooh and friends.
Taken for #18 of 116 pictures in 2016 - Winnie the Pooh Day
I'm afraid I made an error when posting. This is the 4th verse so belongs before the previous 3.
This was inspired when I found a small coin, a modern equivalent to the old uk sixpence. I found this poem going through my mind. It was written by AAMilne and illustrated by EHShepard. There are 4 verses, the others can be seen on previous shots.
Due to chronic poor health I'm unable to take on new contacts but do my best to reply to comments. Thank you so much for your interest, comments and favours on my photostream. Also for your good wishes. I send you joy and peace.
Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Jerome K Jerome.
For utata iron photographer 303, which requires:
1. Something pink
2. Something from your youth
3. Titled from one of those uplifting slogan posters
My very tatty copy of AA Milne's poems When we were very young has an inscription on the flyleaf dated 1943, so it is four years older than me. It's one of the rare things I've kept from my childhood, even though the pages are detached from the binding, some are missing, some are cut, torn, stuck together with ancient yellowed sellotape; I coloured in the drawings with one of those crayons that had three our four colours in the lead, yellow, blue, red, green depending which way you turned it. They have faded to almost nothing. I knew all the poems by heart. When my parents were on their honeymoon, they made friends with a couple from Whitby, Joyce and Ernie, who ran a boarding house on The Crescent. Every year, we would spend a week with Aunty Joyce and Uncle Ernie, I felt privileged because we were allowed behind the door marked Private and into the back kitchen. I see myself very clearly in the guests' sitting room: Uncle Ernie made me climb on the table and recite to the guests this poem, Missing. I must have been four. Another memory of that house is that I locked myself into the toilet (shared bathrooms and toilets on all floors, no en-suites in those days) and my dad had to find a ladder and climb up to the small window from outside to rescue me. One year I had a garret bedroom with a dormer window where the sqawking seagulls woke me up at the crack of dawn.
I'm not a fan of uplifting slogan posters but did find that JKJ quote on one of them... And my sunhat is pink.
Wind on the Hill by A. A Milne,
Hebrew by Jacob Orland.
Thinner prints and colored pencils.
רוח בגבעה מאת א.א מילן
תרגם לעברית: יעקב אורלנד
הדפסי טינר ועפרונות צבעוניים
The Morning Walk by A. A Milne,
Hebrew by Jacob Orland.
Thinner prints and colored pencils.
טיול בוקר מאת א.א מילן
תרגם לעברית: יעקב אורלנד
הדפסי טינר ועפרונות צבעוניים
“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
"Winter is dead.”
SOOC except for the crop. Still exploring my love of the pear blossom!!
This is the ACTUAL BRIDGE where Winnie the Pooh played "poohsticks" ( dropping a twig from one side of the bridge and then watching it emerge from the otherside after being caught up in the flow of water beneath !)
Located in the "Hundred Acre Wood" near Hartfield, East Sussex, England.
The Winnie the Pooh stories were written by AA Milne, and set in the area where he had grown up.
On the 21st August, 1920 his son Christopher Milne was born,( later to be featured as Christopher Robin) At this point his father AA Milne had written a short verse and had given it to his wife Dorothy as a present, he told her that any money she made on it she could keep, She sent it straight away to magazines, it became a very expensive present and Success Alan was asked to write more and that's where "The Doormouse and the Doctor" derived from, which he wrote for The Merry Go Round magazine.
From there "Winnie The Pooh" was written, Alan got his inspiration from Christopher's toys and from there he wrote "The House at Pooh Corner" Alan claimed this would be his last book. Alan realized that writing was his dream and in 1929 wrote "Toad of Toad Hall" based on the story told by Kenneth Grahames "The Wind in the Willows". On January 31st, 1956 Alan Alexander Milne Died.
In 1961, Dorothy sold the film rights to Walt Disney, who created what we see today as the Winnie the Pooh animated stories.
Today Milne's books still continue to be best sellers even after his death, and his classic Pooh stories are still children's favorites and his play "Toad of Toad Hall" will still be enjoyed as a Christmas classic.
Ashdown Forest is where the real-life Christopher Robin, and one of the most famous bears in the world (alongside Paddington ;-) ) had their adventures, which were turned into the books by Christopher's father, A A Milne.
This two mile walk in one small corner of the forest allows you to visit some of the places that Christopher, Winnie the Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet and other friends spent their time.
The first place you visit is the Enchanted Place, a group of pine trees at Gills Lap, (Galleons Lap in the Pooh stories). This is at the highest point in the forest at 669 feet/204m above sea level, the views are pretty impressive. It was from this very spot that Christopher and his merry band set off on their expedition to the North Pole! Between here and the North Pole, though, are some other familiar spots. The first that you come across is the Heffalump Trap where that rarest of creatures the Heffalump was captured. It must work as I have never seen one!
Roo’s Sandy Pit, a disused quarry, is also en-route, a place where the baby Roo played happily in the sand.However, it was from here that Roo was kidnapped, which led to Kanga and Roo leaving the forest forever :-(
Across the road you can view Hundred Acre Wood, where Owl lived and this is the way to the North Pole. It was Christopher's idea to go to the North Pole even though he didn't know where it was. In the valley bottom is a stream which Roo fell into. Lucky for him Pooh just happened to find the 'North Pole' and used it to pull Roo out of the water. The pole was then planted in the ground and a notice left for all to read:
NorTH PoL E
DICSovERED By
PooH
PooH FouND IT
Beyond the North Pole is Eeyore's Sad and Gloomy Place. A swampy area where Eeyore's house used to be, before he lost it!
www.ashdownforest.org/enjoy/walking/docs/Walk1_PoohWalksF...
I was cleaning out the annex/studio this afternoon and found a beetle, so used it as my model for an illustration for A A Milne's poem "Forgiven".
Brush and ink with colour added in Photoshop.
If you've ever read the Winnie the Pooh books, you would find the Disney version of Eeyore is somewhat less caustic and sarcastic than in A. A. Milne's original stories. Despite his depressive nature, Eeyore is often shown to be capable of great compassion. He is my favorite of the Pooh characters.
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh," he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you..."
A.A. Milne
Today is Winnie the Poo day... 18 January 2015...
Not having any little ones at home and no grand-children, I didn't have anything with Winnie & Co at home, and didn't have time to go routing in town since I was at work all day, so 9pm, sat down with my old sketch book, search a picture to copy onlne, and 10 minutes later, the sketch was ready... Please bear in mind I have not put pen to paper to draw for a few years....
Another wonderful example of a floral presentation of Disney characters at Epcot. This is Tigger...a fictional tiger character originally introduced in A. A. Milne's book The House at Pooh Corner. Like other Pooh characters, Tigger is based on one of Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed toy animals. Tigger appears in the Disney cartoon versions of Winnie the Pooh and has also appeared in his own film.
He is known for his distinctive orange and black stripes, large eyes, a long chin, a springy tail, and his love of bouncing. As he says himself, "Bouncing is what Tiggers do best." Tigger never refers to himself as a tiger, but as a "Tigger".
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11