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I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't seen it with my own two eyes!
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By the way, Saturday, February 4th is "3rd-Person Caveman" Comment Day! All comments left on Flickr photos today should be phrased in the 3rd-person as if you were a caveman found frozen and preserved in a glacier somehwere. For example, these would be appropriate comments a flickr named "Konaboy" might leave today:
"Photo good. Konaboy like!"
"Light strong! Shadow dark! Sun make fire in sky. Konaboy smile!"
"Grasshopper too big! Konaboy get spear, kill grasshopper!"
You get the idea.
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If you want a boost to your mood or share the cheer and smile on people's faces, be a simple spectator on a spot anywhere tourists flood in...any location.. You will see how happy and cheerful people are just watching the fun, enjoying the stroll, watching over atractions with curious eyes and taking snaps of one another.. All with a very different touristic mood and spirit of brotherhood reaching over religion,colour,caste,culture, national boundaries, language differences or any such differences. It is another spirit and mood. And for that which is a better place than the heart of London, the most cosmopolitan city...... I enjoyed just watching the mood there.. You will feel that the world, afterall, is a small place of just simple n joyful people, not that complex..This is just one snap of that.....which I am glad to share with you
Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Pickadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills, or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars. The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England but was known as Piccadilly by 1743. Piccadilly Circus was created in 1819, at the junction with Regent Street, which was then being built under the planning of John Nash on the site of a house and garden belonging to a Lady Hutton. The circus lost its circular form in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.
The junction has been a very busy traffic interchange since construction, as it lies at the centre of Theatreland and handles exit traffic from Piccadilly, which Charles Dickens, Jr (Charles C. B. Dickens, son of Charles Dickens) described in 1879: "Piccadilly, the great thoroughfare leading from the Haymarket and Regent-street westward to Hyde Park-corner, is the nearest approach to the Parisian boulevard of which London can boast."
The Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain in Piccadilly Circus was erected in 1893 to commemorate the philanthropic works of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. During the Second World War, the statue atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain was removed and was replaced by advertising hoardings. It was returned in 1948. When the Circus underwent reconstruction work in the late 1980s, the entire fountain was moved from the centre of the junction at the beginning of Shaftesbury Avenue to its present position at the southwestern corner.
-Source Wikipedia
/edit - 2015
Well it's been 4 years since I've updated this entry, 9 years since God made me a true child of His.
I am still in awe, utterly amazed at His grace and mercy to me, a wretched sinner..and sinner still.
I say "true-child" because until that day I'd been a false convert, quite confident of my salvation yet as far and away from the true and living Christ as any religious Pharisee or Pagan from the first century to today.
One early spring day back in 2006, as I looked through the scriptures inquiring of someone else's sin (scriptures I hadn't even payed attention to in years), God showed me my own sinfulness and pride, and that my standing with Him was not good as I'd come to so firmly believe.
Not even one bit.
He showed this by revealing to me His holiness and, similarily to Isaiah I could say: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!"
Woe indeed..there was no questioning it...I had been God's enemy, still separated from and un-reconciled to Him. All that time I'd been claiming to be a "Christian" yet living a life that totally defied real and true identity in Christ.
This shocked me. I thought I was "saved", "born again".
I'd "walked the aisle" and prayed "the prayer" numerous times-that's what the churches I'd grown up around taught and so I believed..that gospel.
Yet I'd been heading straight towards an eternal place where, upon my death, I would be forever separated from the Creator of men and of the whole the universe! Banished to a world apart from the Author of Life and Love, a conscious existence along side all that is opposite of God, where total darkness and torment are what reigns..and I knew in those moments that is exactly what I deserved, what all men deserve.
But God..
I also knew in those moments that I was being redeemed, born again to a new and Living hope, and so delivered from the final fate of the judgement to come.
Then came the joy..utter and true and pure: Joy.
All this grace, mercy and pure Love raining down on me with no accounting of my wickedness and fist-shaking and mud-dragging the name of my Lord who purchased my Life with His own blood.. He came to seek and to save the lost, and found me He did!
I am His now.
"For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart." (Heb 4:12)
God used His Word to make my dead heart come alive in Christ and dead to the world-my teeny kingdom world of me-mine-ours.
Everything belongs to Him and nothing escapes His gaze. In Him we live and move and have our being-yes even the God denier (atheist) lives and breaths on the common grace, mercy and momentary long-suffering of our Lord. He upholds the universe by the word of his power.
And it's not just the men/women standing firm in their denial of God's existence who are the fool, but also those who claim to know and love Him yet who's life and character consistently prove otherwise.
Perhaps especially all the more foolish are these--no, super especially. That was me.
But God..
"But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved" (Eph 2:4-5)
May you be found in Christ and know the power of the Resurrection..not superficially but supernaturally; the supernatural power that comes by the Word of His grace.
May you lose your own life and humble yourself before Him and the word of His Truth.
Every blessing,
Suzanne
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/edit - 2011
Another year and the God of the universe still holds me in His grip.
I am safe and secure, and can say with confidence all is well with my soul..I will rise when He calls my name . .
I don't know how many will bother to stop by here anymore, (of course, I have lost touch with most of you) but for those who do, May God bless you not with things that moths will eat and rust corrode, nor other earthly elements return to dust..
..but by opening the eyes of your heart to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and to what He has done for you on the cross: "but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) "it is finished" (John 19:30)
My prayer is for God to grant you repentance and faith so that true reconciliation to Him takes place..
..that He turn your world completely upside down --or rather-- right-side-up just as He did for me 5 years ago.
with every sincerity,
~Suzanne
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/edit - 2010 - God still hasn't changed ;-)
He really changed me though. 4 years ago last month through reading His word, God changed my heart , giving me a new one (Eze 36:26).
I always believed in God to be sure, even professed myself a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ, but boy was I ignorant of what being a Christian was! I was also, to my horror as far from the living God of the bible as the day I was born of my mother. God gave me a new birth, made me a new creation in Him, (2Cor 5:17) and made me His daughter. I wasn't even asking for it or thought I needed it (I thought I was "born again") - I would not have been able to tell you even what that meant..but through a series of circumstances that called for my looking into scripture for answers, that's when God woke me from my slumber, awakened me to my own depraved state and sinful nature! This was a shock...I thought I was a "good" person! But on that day God showed me that I was as lost and far from Him as any so-called atheist, and then some.
Notice in this verse: "The fool has said in his heart..." Instead of just saying -The fool has said there is no God" it was added: "in his heart" . I find this rather significant. It seems one thing to deny God with our mouths when our hearts are not in it (yes that is possible) - but when our hearts are in it? *shudder*. Friends, I plead, know your standing with God, (2Pet 1:10) don't just assume like I did lest you be caught eternally regretful.(Luk 16:19-31) And do not assume that there is no God, don't believe the lies of the world, which belong to the enemy. (1Jhn 5:19). It is a matter of eternal life, and death.
What is salvation? here's one excellent description.
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"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life."
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/edit - 2009..Still holds true today, God hasn't changed, only man changes.
We change our own ideologies, beliefs and understanding of things, dividing them from true truth, but still, God remains God. This is the God of the scriptures; the God who created us, loves us, and desires us to be reconciled to Him, and sent us a Savior for this to be possible. The gospel of His Word written to man by men through the sovereign orchestration and by the inspiration of a living and holy God..written over a period of 2000 years in different times and places.. that we may read and know Truth, know Jesus Christ, know God.
"the bible was inscribed over a period of 2000 years. In times of war and days of peace. By Kings, Physicians, Tax Collectors, Farmers, Fishermen, Singers and Shepherds. The marvel, is that a library so perfectly cohesive could have been produced by such a diverse crowd over a period of time which staggers the imagination. Jesus is its grand subject, or good as design, and to glory of God as its end. " (taken from the song: "The Word Is Alive")
Yet that our love be pure, He gives us the choice to believe in Him and this Gospel of Grace . Some of you believe these things, but have you been changed by them? I plead, don't be fooled even in that.
When I say "God bless you" I really mean it ~
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(2008)
/edit - one year later....
Wow, it's been a whole year and I could say the same thing today in this caption that I did then, (below) word for word! - - and I even woke to several inches of snow again this year.
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(2007)
man, already April and I haven't posted any of the snomobile-trips shots from the year . . my priorities have changed, but my good wishes for y'all here sure havn't.
"while it is said:
"Today, if you will hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
Hebrews 3:15
~Have an inspiring, if not life changing day.
i had some pretty stunning english skills at an early age. and by stunning i mean embarrassing. because my parents didn't speak english to me, whatever i did say in english in the years i first started to talk was limited to the subject matter of what i had seen on television and what went on at preschool. kudos to my parents for putting up with a 5-year-old who walked around the general public speaking in commercial jingles about cold medicine and oil changes and the occasional commentary on plastic blocks and diaper rash. and all that for the most part in some unexplainable latvian-english hybrid.
i did take some shots with the natural light, but since i'd just gotten up i looked less girl-wearing-bear-shirt and more shirt-wearing-girl-mauled-by-bear. i've been in a strange mood this week. like good loopy strange :D ("what else is new?" the people ask) it would be nice to have it last the week -- though i've got a feeling it may see a break on thursday.
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Believeit or not, I had a difficult time this week with the paper tearing challenge. So I decided to make a 3x3 card--I find the smaller size to be easier for me.
Cardstock is Bazzill kraft; paper is BasicGrey (eskimo kisses); ribbon is American Crafts; gemstones and stamp are Hero Arts.
Thanks for looking! :)
Please view "Large" or "Original" for lots more detail.
massive billboard on the AGO façade, Toronto.
by Barbara Kruger.
www.ago.net/american-artist-barbara-kruger-to-appropriate...
scotiabankcontactphoto.com/public-installations/185
assembled from 67 images using AutoStitch. Camera: Nikon D90.
On the drive up to Bigfoot country, Mike spotted Daniel Perez in the car next to us on Interstate 5... at NIGHT no less. So we flagged Dan down, stopped at an AM/PM gas station and talked for about 30 minutes. Crazy coincidence, or was it?
Skagit Valley ??? Festival.
The weather forecast was for more cool, cloudy days, even a chance of snow.
Do you believe this weather? Believe it. [Sigh]
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Canada
by navema
A site-specific work by American artist Barbara Kruger was currently on display along the façade of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. The public installation was located on the north facade of the Frank Gehry designed gallery as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. The piece was created by Kruger in response to the festival’s theme ‘pervasive influence’. The work consists of a series of found images and statements that includes ‘shove it’, ‘love it’, ‘kiss it’, believe it’ and ‘shame it’. The project aims to explore ‘how photography informs and transforms human behavior, especially via the medium’s connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism, and propaganda.’ The installation was on view from May 1, 2010 until August 30, 2010.
For more info, visit: scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/185
ABOUT BARBARA KRUGER:
Since the 1980s, the American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger has deftly dissected the visual and graphic codes of advertising, consumerism, marketing and propaganda. Her bold works – declarative texts juxtaposed with found images – question the assumptions embedded in advertising and the limits of individual agency in a consumer society. Kruger’s works highlight photography’s complicity in reinforcing ideologies of power and control; in maintaining gender stereotypes; and in stimulating consumer desire. The message of her work remains relevant, and her critical stance remains potent as the boundaries between advertising, journalism, and entertainment continue to shift and blur. She has said, “I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.”
Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945, and studied at Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design, New York. Her work is in the collections of major national and international museums, and she has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Mary Boone Gallery, New York. The artist lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor at UCLA, and New York City.
Much of Kruger's graphic work consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique. The phrases included in her work are usually declarative, and make common use of such pronouns as "you", "I", "we", and "they". The juxtaposition of imagery and text containing criticism of sexism and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in Kruger's work. The text in her works of the 1980s includes such phrases as "Your comfort is my silence" (1981), "You invest in the divinity of the masterpiece" (1982), and "I shop therefore I am" (1987). She has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.
Kruger's words and pictures have been displayed in both galleries and public spaces, as well as framed and unframed photographs, posters, postcards, t-shirts, electronic signboards, billboards and on a train station platform in Strasbourg, France. For the past decade Kruger has created installations of video, film, audio and projection. Enveloping the viewer with the seductions of direct address, her work is consistently about the kindnesses and brutalities of social life: about how we are to one another.
For more info, visit: www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kru...
Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Canada
by navema
A site-specific work by American artist Barbara Kruger was currently on display along the façade of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. The public installation was located on the north facade of the Frank Gehry designed gallery as part of the Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. The piece was created by Kruger in response to the festival’s theme ‘pervasive influence’. The work consists of a series of found images and statements that includes ‘shove it’, ‘love it’, ‘kiss it’, believe it’ and ‘shame it’. The project aims to explore ‘how photography informs and transforms human behavior, especially via the medium’s connections to mass media, advertising, consumerism, and propaganda.’ The installation was on view from May 1, 2010 until August 30, 2010.
For more info, visit: scotiabankcontactphoto.com/events/185
ABOUT BARBARA KRUGER:
Since the 1980s, the American conceptual artist Barbara Kruger has deftly dissected the visual and graphic codes of advertising, consumerism, marketing and propaganda. Her bold works – declarative texts juxtaposed with found images – question the assumptions embedded in advertising and the limits of individual agency in a consumer society. Kruger’s works highlight photography’s complicity in reinforcing ideologies of power and control; in maintaining gender stereotypes; and in stimulating consumer desire. The message of her work remains relevant, and her critical stance remains potent as the boundaries between advertising, journalism, and entertainment continue to shift and blur. She has said, “I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.”
Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945, and studied at Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts, and Parsons School of Design, New York. Her work is in the collections of major national and international museums, and she has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Palazzo delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and Mary Boone Gallery, New York. The artist lives in Los Angeles, where she is a professor at UCLA, and New York City.
Much of Kruger's graphic work consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique. The phrases included in her work are usually declarative, and make common use of such pronouns as "you", "I", "we", and "they". The juxtaposition of imagery and text containing criticism of sexism and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in Kruger's work. The text in her works of the 1980s includes such phrases as "Your comfort is my silence" (1981), "You invest in the divinity of the masterpiece" (1982), and "I shop therefore I am" (1987). She has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t.
Kruger's words and pictures have been displayed in both galleries and public spaces, as well as framed and unframed photographs, posters, postcards, t-shirts, electronic signboards, billboards and on a train station platform in Strasbourg, France. For the past decade Kruger has created installations of video, film, audio and projection. Enveloping the viewer with the seductions of direct address, her work is consistently about the kindnesses and brutalities of social life: about how we are to one another.
For more info, visit: www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kru...