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Expecting the 261, I instead managed to catch the westbound Twin Cities & Western RR Saturday job at Lyndale Jct on the BNSF Wayzata Subdivision. September 2019
I never expected to see a St. Bernard running agility. I would think that being so big would endanger them of long-term injury, but I guess that agility is the type of thing that dogs were designed to do and I'm sure that if it wasn't safe, the AKC and other agility organizations wouldn't allow it. Besides being huge, this dog was hugely cute and fun to watch.
Last weekend's agility trial was held in a covered arena that had really nice lighting, especially before the sun came up all the way, but unfortunately, there wasn't enough of it, so it was a challenge to come up with sharp shots. I started with my 400mm f/5.6, non-stabilization, prime, which I like better for outdoors, but I later switched to my 70-200mm f/2.8 and shot closer to get more light. The zoom turned out to be really handy, anyway, due to the large variation in the sizes of the dogs.
NASA file photo posted September 20, 2011
NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, or UARS, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Sept. 23, plus or minus a day.
NASA's UARS satellite, launched in 1991 from the Space Shuttle, was the first multi-instrumented satellite to observe numerous chemical constituents of the atmosphere with a goal of better understanding atmospheric photochemistry and transport.
To read more about the re-entry go here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html
About this image: This STS-48 onboard photo is of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in the grasp of the RMS (Remote Manipulator System) during deployment, September 1991. UARS gathers data related to the chemistry, dynamics, and energy of the ozone layer. UARS data is used to study energy input, stratospheric photo chemistry, and upper atmospheric circulation. UARS helps us understand and predict how the nitrogen and chlorine cycles, and the nitrous oxides and halo carbons which maintain them, relate to the ozone balance. It also observes diurnal variations in short-lived stratospheric chemical species important to ozone destruction. Data from UARS enables scientists to study ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere.
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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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Urban photography tip #333: Always park on the top floor of parking garages. For one, there will always be empty spots up there. For two, the best views can be found on top of parking garages. Much more interesting than you might expect.
470 ways to know you are addicted to Minecraft.
You continually refresh Notch's blog for the latest post about the next compatability-breaking update.
You wear a diaper to increase time between bathroom breaks.
You begin to panic when you black screen for more than 10 seconds.
You go to bed in minecraft when you're tired in real life.
You haven't eaten or slept in 24 hours.
You just sit down to mine a few blocks and look up to realize its already been 4 hours.
If you've completed the 404 challenge more than once.
You refresh the mod page hoping for a new mod update to reflect Notch's latest update.
You google "Minecraft addiction".
The only time you see your friends is in-game.
You worry about server griefing while you're offline.
You get excited when Notch releases a demo video about the next update.
You begin dreaming about blocks.
You see a dark area in the kitchen and have the urge to put a torch there.
You smack snow with a shovel and half-expect snowballs to pop out.
You make a website about Minecraft addictions.
You see fog and think about hitting "F"
You look at every building in real life and start seeing it as blocks and measuring it.
You get coal as a gift and think its a good thing.
You are referred by people in real life by your Minecraft nickname.
When you're in public and you hear "ssssss" and you yell "CREEPER!!!"
When you watch too many "Let's Play's" and you begin commentating every move you make.
You are afraid of the dark because you think mobs will spawn.
Your body parts start getting blocky.
You forget to feed your real dog, because you were too busy feeding your pack of virtual dogs...
You hate it when people ask you to eat while playing Minecraft
When it's dark, you try to place a torch.
You re-create your town in Minecraft and live your life in there.
You break all the bones in your hand due to attempting to open doors by punching them.
You see some pesky trees in your yard and think, "I really wish I at least had my wooden axe right now."
You see a stray dog and think, "Dangitt why didn't I bring my bones with me!"
You use Minecraft as a model maker for your dream home/city. (We all have dreams you know)
You hear someone go Uggghh, and you tell your friend, "I think that guy over there is a zombie. Do you have your sword on you?"
You see a beautiful landmark and think, "I bet I could make a cool version of that in Minecraft." And later that night you put a scale replica in you town and say,"Yep, that is as cool as the real Washington Monument."
You see one of those commercial where you sell your used gold for cash, and think, "No way! I'm saving my gold for power rails!"
You're hungry and you think, "Man, I wish I could find a pig right now."
You tested 99% positive for minecraft addiction.
You have submitted over 11 Minecraft addiction jokes to this website. (To whom I thank very much. --Drise)
You try to punch your way through a tree.
You start wondering who people on a server really are.
You begin to view the world as Minecraft.
You punch a tree 5 times hoping it yields some wood.
You try to start a new world IRL because you fell.
You walk into a jewelry store in think "Dang, whish I had a workbench, and a pickaxe".
You hear creeper or zombie noises when you wake up in the middle of the night.
You wonder why a thing doesn't break as easy as in minecraft and why real life is harder.
You start drawing creeper faces everywhere.
You know more about minecraft, than you do in your classes
You suffer from the tetris effect.
You watch Ultimate Survival and Think "I could do alot better"
You start planning what you are going to build the next day, IN YOUR DREAMS.
While fishing you're hoping a fish pops out of the water.
You make cake, but leave the bottle of milk in the mix.
At night you go to bed, lie there five seconds and get up thinking it's day.
You have arachnophobia and begin to see skeletons riding spiders.
You punch pigs when you're hungry.
You punch pigs when you get hurt.
You think Notch is your god and Mojang your church.
You have more then ten Minecraft-related YouTube subscriptions...
You always think with blocks.
You mod your night lights into torches and place them in your house.
When you don't know what to build, you look up famous monuments
You make your own house in Minecraft
You cut part of the bottom of a tree trunk thinking the rest will stay up.
You look at a birch tree in real life and see it as blocks.
When the cat hisses, you run away and come back in 2 minutes looking for the crater.
You give your dog 5 bones just so you can take him for a walk and slap him on the head once to make him sit.
You get arrested for punching sheep.
Your biological clock adapts to Minecraft's 10 minute days and nights.
You see a circle and think "wait, that's not right."
You stay home all day isolated in your room
You start driving minecarts instead of cars
You notice perfectly square brick columns IRL and think, "man, where'd that guy find all that clay?"
Your desktop, mouse cursor, screensaver, and homepage all relate to Minecraft
You start swinging your arms like the minecraft character when you walk.
You are in history class and you imagine the building as if they were built in minecraft
When you bookmark this page.
You walk by sugarcanes and attempt to make a bookcase
You see the sun as a square.
When the server you play on is down you immediately curl up in a corner and cry while playing single player on your laptop with a creeper skin to prevent theft.
When you don't have bread, you align 3 wheats together.
You start eating raw pork.
You try to make friends with wild wolves.
When you stay up late at night starring at your computer trying to find redstone somewhere
You check your backyard mob grinder every ten minutes hopping to find bones and gunpowder.
You jump off a 50 ft tower and hope you land in that 3 ft deep water
You think apples made of pure gold taste delicious
You recreate your real life house in MC, and make better things inside.
You break your head attempting to place a big stone block above you...
You try to organise things in multiples of 4.
You mutter /time day in your sleep.
You attempt to put fires out with your bare hands, then eat cookies until you stop burn ing.
When you say "In Notch's name" instead of "In God's name"
You don't go near obsidian for months because your afraid if you light it on fire it will send you to the nether
When you see a person wearing diamond jewelry IRL, you think, "How the nether did that guy find that much diamonds??!!!" And proceed to ask that person what kind of mining technique they use.
You throw an egg hoping for a chicken to pop out.
You are afraid that your cup of water may flood the kitchen.
You feel strange whenever you see something taller than 64 meters.
You think of the world from a blocky perspective
If you are tired but you can not sleep because it's a day
You fear to go to the woods because you think there are a lot of wolves.
When you will die, you look forward to finally meeting this "re spawn" Button!
You think you can carry 10 billion pounds of stuff in your pockets.
You see a creeper and you piss yourself
You punch the grass on your lawn, and when someone asks you what you're doing, you tell them you're going mining.
The ONLY vehicles you know of, are minecarts and boats. Wooden boats.
You walk on stuff lying around your room, hoping you automatically pick them up.
You listen to minecraft-parodied songs rather than the original.
You Play Minecraft(FULLSTOP)
When diving, you think that you can evade drowning by eating pork really fast.
You dig Diamonds
When you want to make a book stack 3 papers and wait...
You make weapon,and hurt tree!
You start digging a hole and look for caves in real life.
When you see something white in the dark, you think it's a Skeleton.
It gets dark out and you think: "must find coal...)
Your friends make hissing sounds just to makeyou jump.
In math class, your using the calculator to find out just how many cobble you'll need for your next castle.
You always get scared around wooden structures because you think they'll be greifed.
You start finding crafting recipes for common things: Tv:two glass by eight cobble and redstone Pencil: coal and stick Fish tank: two water plus four glass
You try to change pictures on the wall by punching them
You always check your basement for slimes
You walk down the street, saying "THIS TEXTURE PACK IS AMAZING"
You try to hit right click when your real life dog is bothering you.
You picture redstone running through your walls when you turn a light on.
You do research to find out how real life mining compares to Minecraft mining.
You think when you sprinkle ground up bones on to a tree sapling and expect it to suddenly grow into a tree.
You validate 'creeper' as a real animal.
The only animals you've ever known of are cows, sheep, chickens and pigs
You are suprised you get hurt when you make a belly dive from the highest diving platform.
You wonder why the real world is so small and doesn't have snow next to the desert.
You see someone with a checkered shirt and think: Dont tell me you haven't added a HD texturepack.
You think outside the blocks.
Your friend finds you in the garden, in a 5 metre deep hole trying to find iron.
You connect your electrical devices using reddish-black dust.
You place 3 diamonds and two sticks on a workbench and think, "Dang it, why isn't this turning into a diamond pickaxe?!"
You think smashing a saddle on a pig and riding it will make you epic. But the farmer just screams at you.
You go to sleep with your lights on, and wait for everything to get progressively dark before you close your eyes.
You start to make cartoon characters in minecraft.
You think you're dead when you fall 6 feet.
Your "downloads" folder is Full Off Minecraft stuff
You try to attach a stone to your wall and wonder why it falls down.
I Play Minecraft until i can't focus on the screen.
You run away and jump for cover everytime you hear a "Ssssssss" sound, expecting a explosion.
You stuff porkchops and coal into the furnace and hope that 10 secs later a cooked porkchop pops out.
You try to ride a pig on a regular basis
you throw a wooden plank in front of a door and step on it to open it
You can only count up to 64 and then start over at one
Putting a lump of coal on top of a stick you found outside and thinking "Where is my torch?"
You think of redstone instead of wires and minecarts instead of cars.
How many creepers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None cause they dont have any arms.
You sit your dog down and expect it to stay there until you stand it up, no matter how far away you go.
You sprint away from your dog as fast as you can just so you can see it teleport to you.
You plant a seed in the ground, thinking it will be fully grown in an hour.
you try to make bread by mashing up wheat on a work bench
you try to do the /fly command and then brake your face trying to fly
You start to see creepers appearing as flowers in your garden...
You look up at the sky to see which way the clouds are moving in order to determine which way is north.
When you hear a dog bark, you quickly climb over the nearest hill/mountain hoping to find a wolf pack.
Your in geometry and you have to find the area of a square, but you already know it because tis the same parameter as the temple your building.
When you pick up steel tools, you think its iron and and if you have one, whack your diamond ring with it.
You're setting up a minecart track and say, "Mom, can i have some redstone?... or maybe just some stone?"
you ride the mono-rail and think "I wonder where the boosters are?"
You go door to door asking for your neighbors to let you inspect their house to make your scale replica of your town in Minecraft.
You constantly wonder, "How does life not lag with this super high res texture pack?"
You say "/give tnt 999" when you're really board and somehow are not playing Minecraft.
You throw dirt in the air trying to make it float.
You spend your school day making textures.
You read all of these jokes hoping for help.
When someone drops wood, you run away because you don't have a sword or arrows.
You chill
You walk into a library and think "It must've taken a long time to get all those reeds."
You see a water fountain and think "Wish I had some buckets on me."
You're heading out to the store, and check and see if you've got everything you need - Wallet, car keys, list of stuff to get, redstone compass...
You try to find a torch when your room gets dark.
Your Face is a Creeper
You punch trees IRL and wonder why your fist bleeds
You try to establish your house on a floating island.
You change your clock time forward IRL to engage hyperspeed.
You hear about the earth running out of resources and think 'just spawn some, damnit!'.
You sit in class and sketch stuff to build later.
You decide to learn Java just so you could make Minecraft mods.
You see solar panels at the store and explain to your dad how they work in Industrial craft format.
When your parents say 'Come on, we have to go now!' and you said 'Wait a minute, I just need to finish this..'
It is physically impossible for you to eat beef, chicken or lamb.
When you see a dark corner you think "I should put a torch there."
You dig holes in your backyard looking for coal and iron.
you ask your P.E teacher if you can go on a creeper pking field trip
you try programing a mod for real life
you broke your hand cause you needed wood.
You get a job as a miner and bring a sword with you.
When you can tell the time of day by looking at the sun
You feel like you need an obsidian panic room
Your scared that monsters will spawn out of your shadow.
you can eat gold !
You lay your building materials in geometric-grid shapes expecting them to build themselves.
You trade your olex for a clock that only shows day-time and night-time
You burn real pigs and wonder why they don't drop cooked porkchops.
You punch trees in real life to the point where you rage because its too slow without your diamond axe.
you watch bluexephos and then attempt to sing the diggy diggy hole song!
When 64 seems like an important number
you see an ugly building and think "I need a new texture pack"
When you want pork, you go find a pig to kill
When you want to pick something up you start punching it first.
you see a dead skeleton and try to take his bones and arrows
You go and play another game and DIE SKOL AFSOLFAO SLASPÖ
When you see a thunderstorm you become extremely scared of pigs and all things green
when you click on this site.
You smelt your own wedding ring to make gold.
You think you can dig up dirt in 3 seconds
You try and make a diamond pickaxe
Reading this entire list.
You try to change texture packs in real life.
You try to mod real-life.
you think that your render distance is low when it is foggy in real life.
You are terrified of the color green.
You break your door with an axe hoping it's miniature version will drop to the floor to be re-used.
if you see a creeper at your door telling "oh what nice house you got here" you run away telling "panic" and you falling down by dizzy.
You can describe, in-depth, three different mining systems and their varying efficiencies for finding ore.
When the entirety of your absent-minded doodles consist of designs and schematics for mechanisms or new projects.
You look at a building and image what it would be made of in Minecraft.
You beat the crap out of your computer waiting for a small flat pixelated portable version to pop out
You try to collect parts of your house.
you look at your clock or wristwatch and expect it to be half blue with the sun and half black with the moon
You build a clock that only has "Day and Night" on it.
Minecraft its a funny game im right?!
When you hear footsteps you grab the nearest pointy object and hide behind the sofa waiting for the creeper to pop out.
When you go outside you start punching trees
When you make a site to know if you're addicted or not..
Everything is blocky, even your eyes.
You cry for days when you lose your minecraft saves.
You have all the icons from Orion-Pyro
You have memorised all the splash screen messages.
You know about Dr. Leon Sisk's existance from Bobby Yarsulik's song, "PigMen Story" and also know he actually is a real person.
If you get a raging boner after seeing all the dicks on multi player servers... You mite be a faggot.
You see something green and grab out a wooden sword and charge
You crouch to make sure you don't fall off
You start to think of clothing as skins.
You try to find lava for your new house.
you wonder why things on the ground are not popping in to your quickbar
You start to to call yourself Steve and wish you could change your skin.
You are looking for the create a new world button when things go bad on Earth.
You hold shift to not fall from a building
you keep a list of your mod names,just in case there is a new update
you turn your car into a minecart.
You can't make a perfect circle in the real world.
You call your parents pussies because "they disabled hostile mobs spawning".
You walk for ten minutes trying to find a new biome.
You think about digging up the floor and look for iron under it.
When your parents come in the room, you scream, thinking its a creeper
When something happens to your minecraft you cry
When you get bored of minecraft you watch youtube about minecraft or go to the forums
You make a facebook so you can like this page or any other minecraft page.
When you hear Notch has twitter, you delete your facebook, and go on twitter.
Every site you make an account, you use your minecraft name
You don't care about dying because you think you can respawn.
You try to punch cacti without being hurt... ouch!
You keep refreshing this site to see if your joke has been added.
Creepers are green Spiders are black Now your shelter is under attack
You see a beautiful sunset and think "Hey, that's just like Minecraft"
You try to milk a giant squid, and when you fail epicly, you think: "Curse the Beta 1.3 update!"
You cut down a tree in real life, and once you regain conciousness in a hospital with severe breakages in all your bones, you wonder why gravity sudeny started working.
When you see green jello in your fridge, you slash at it wildly with your sword, and later wonder why it didn't multiply or attempt to eat you.
You want to have everything infinite in REAL LIFE.
You play on "PEACEFUL" because you hate that ... SsssSsss......
You start smashing your head at table when Notch release minecraft update and the mod's you really like gets broken.
You never try to catch squid with a fishing rod because you read on MinecraftWiki that it is impossible.
You put a piece of coal on a stick thinking that it will instantly become a torch that never burns out or lights stuff on fire.
When some-one asks you how big your house is, you proudly answer, "Four chunks."
You look at a map of a round Earth and think, "Where are the Edgelands then?"
Your wallpaper is minecraft.
you see a person and think: man, he needs to change skin
You go out in the morning looking for some arrows/bones/feathers
You never go outside for more than 10 minutes.
You try to press e to open your inventory and place your new dirt and rocks in there...
You live in constant fear of your neighbors punching through the wall and stealing all your valuables.
You throw coco beans at a sheep hoping it to turn brown.
You eat nothing but pork chops.
You sit around hoping to see a pink sheep.
You try to swallow apples with 8 cubik meters of pure gold around it, atempting to heal all of your woulds
You try to change your skin if you think you look ugly.
You hit a real crafting table and think a gui will show up and get frustrated by that.
Everyday, you watch at least 2 Minecraft videos
You see the sun and moon as squares
You can carry 81365 cubic feet of stone.
You think bears are a mod.
In real life you think that bookshelves are for decoration only
You can't hold a conversation in real life.
You started thinking electricity works the same as redstone and becomes surprised hearing that wires are circular.
your dream is what you did earlier that day on minecraft
You dream in Java code.
You see a car and go, "How!?"
When you look into a mirror, you think about F5 and i
When you go to the beach you take sand and come home and out it in a furnace
You build your room full-detailed at a scale of 1/1000 (no, really, its scary)
You think "this will make things easier!" when you see floor tiles.
You carry a grid-paper notebook on you at all times.
You cry when your wolf drowns.
when you star a painting and put it on the wall its blank as you forgot that paintings only automaticaly paint themselfs in minecraft
You want to know what texture pack it is when u go outside
You don't understand why your dog in real life doesn't sit when you right-click on it.
When there is a blackout, you try to wire your computer into a redstone torch.
Its a sqaury joke you got there
You hear a tyre hissing and you run away.
You make a site that has a werid name for minecraft addicts
You don't go out at night because you think Zombies will come after you!
You look at your bed and wonder why it isn't red.
You don't get a job because you think you can make your own with self-harvested resources.
You dump a bucket of water on a flat surface and wonder why it doesn't flow towards a hole you placed 7 meters away.
You wonder why your computer has colors other than black and red.
You see a spider and wonder why it's not as big as you are.
You start telling people "I like your skin. Where'd you get it?"
You see a dead person lying on the ground and wonder when they'll respawn.
You wonder how the Empire State Building was built when the sky limit is only 64 meters above sea level.
You See a book IRL and you wonder when Notch will let you write in it.
You have a Minecraft themed birthday with a creeper cake.
You kill an animal and wonder why it doesn't disappear in a poof of smoke.
Whenever there is a thunderstorm in real life, you are scared that monsters will spawn.
You wonder why you don't move upward when you walk into a ladder.
Whenever you get hurt in real life, you imitate that "Ohff" sound that you make in minecraft when you get hurt.
You punch someone and wonder why they don't turn red and jump backwards.
You place a cake in real life, and wonder why punching it doesn't make small portions of it disappear
You start seeing pigs fly through your screen when you're actually riding them off a cliff.
You see a sky scraper and think "that can't be right, the world isn't that high."
You try to break stone with wood.
When you stop listening to the real version of the song and listen to the Noteblock one instead.
You see a rectangle and think: "thats almost right!"
You always bring two extra porkchops when going diving.
When it's dark, you fear that a creeper spawn behind you.
You are actually reading this.... to see if you are addicted.....
You go out in a thunderstorm with a pig waiting for a lightning to strike it so you can have your own zombie pigman
You wonder why your hand gets bloody one you punch things
You make a giant creeper out of wool and fill it with TNT so you can blow it up when a sheep walks near it.
You find some obsidian and try to set it on fire so you can see your deceased grandfather
You never swim in the ocean without a fishing rod because of your perfectly rational fear of fireball-spitting-floating-jellyfishes
You sing the Minecraft "TNT" song everytime you hear Taio Cruz's "Dynamite"
You often get splinters in your knuckles due to the amount of wood-punching you do.
You drink milk by pouring it on the ground.
You start thinking about how epic your house would look with a few creeper traps.
You start raiding graves to make some fertilizer and tame all the wild wolves you come by.
You dig to the core of the earth, and you think you can survive the lava since you have hax on.
When it's dark, you try to /give 50 64.
When you see a shovel and start thinking about starting a mine in your backyard.
you hang up a painting and take it off repeatedly thinking it will be a new painting
You lay 2 sticks and 3 chunks of wood on your kitchen table.
you start putting rocks in your stove.
you try to make a wooden pickaxe out of fallen sticks
You try to put a pumpkin on your head.
you tried and failed to get to the bedrock layer
You find yourself fiddling with sticks and stones on a crafting table
You expect your friend to turn red for a couple of seconds when you punch him.
You look at your wife's jewelry box and say "Yes! I can finally get obsidian!"
Whenever you're wife gets angry, you think of the Charlotte mod and throw a flower at her to make her stay put.
You Try punching a Tree
You see real creepers
You continue to ask to be OP
When you are driving and see the fuel gauge going down you ask your passenger: "Hey, you have any spare coal?"
You use your wives diamond jewlery with sticks hoping for a pickaxe.
You make sure there isn't any way creepers can get into your house before you go to sleep.
You see a tree in real life and immediately calculate how many tools you can make from it.
You accidentally hit your dog and wonder why it's eyes aren't red.
When it starts getting dark you jump in your bed and go to sleep.
You build boats
You put your mom's ring's Diamond on the end of a stick attached to another stick and try to dig with it.
Every day, when you have to go to school, everything looks smooth and hi-resolution, and you think, wait, thats not right
You meet a blind person and think it's Herobrine.
When your motto is thinking outside of the block.
You wish for a minecart every time you need to go somewhere irl.
You cannot go to sleep unless the whole area is sleeping,
you have played more than 10 minecraft adventure maps
You jump into lava thinking you have god mode on.
You sat through this entire list.
Every light in your house has to be on.
Your pulse shoots off every time you hear a bow twang
You expect leather to pop out of a cow after it dies.
You find diamond in real life and try to make armor out of it.
You disassemble your computer and look at your motherboard: 'Woah, the guy who created this deserves a free internet.'
When youre stuck, you think you can just jump and put some dirt under you.
You keep your old computer because it has all your minecraft saves on it and you dont have a USB stick.
When you get greifed you start to treat everyone on the server as greifers. (even admins/ops)
You need a pick axe, oh wait, yes I have in my backpack
You have read the entire 'Art of war' thread on the forums and actually understood it.
When you see something ugly you think "Man i need to change my texture pack".
You feel like pressing shift-f whenever a game lags.
When you know the exact circumstances for leaves not to decay in alpha.
You think real spiders are midgets
When you get told that riding pigs is apparently a bad idea.
When your wolf says CREEPER than cry!
you walk up to people and hit them so you can take stuff of there dead bodies
you can survive a head on collison with a minecart going at full speed
You are still reading this
You see tree's waving in the wind. You say, " Thats not right..." .
You place a rock against the wall and when it drops, you wonder if it was gravel.
You're drawing minecraft figures all over your homework.
You shout "HAX!1!!!1!" when someone runs by faster than you can walk.
You attempt to re-texture IRL.
When your bored you try to add a mod.
You make a house dedicated to crafting
You try eating 10 un-cooked porkchops and wonder why you got sick.
You are no longer impressed by gold medals.
When you see a pig get hit by lightning in real life, you expect it to turn into a Zombie Pigman.
You refuse to take trigonometry because is it based upon heresy. (circles)
You stab a a sheep with a sword and the wool doesn't fall off, you call the president and tell him to fix the bug.
when you watch movies you think: ''c'mon just jump in the water it will be ok''
You know what a creeper actually is...
I guess you can say that Minecraft is pretty.. *Sunglasses* Top Notch.
You call yourself steve.
you think you have to press ''T'' before talking to someone
You read all this stuff here.
All your friends were made through Minecraft.
You get on minecraft at 6:30 then someone asked you what time it is and look at the clock and it says 5:45...
you have attempted to ignite a living pig in an attempt to cut out the time it would take to cook it's pork
You go out at night and worry,"Am i gonna get eaten by zombie"
You see flowing water and think "I'm going the other way"
You jump off a building, thinking you can eat an apple later.
You end up breaking your neck from looking up to see where the sun is.
You we're mining on a cave when you saw 50 creepers chasing you and you won.
You avoid moss stone because you are afraid that a dungeon might be near
The only way you spend time with people is on SMP.
You read every single one of these.
You see a TV and wonder how the redstone circuitry works.
You know every block id.
When you get stuck, you jump up and punch at the ground continuously, but no dirt appears.
You've burned down your house trying to create a Nether Portal.
In Geometry class, you suggest you spend a little more time on cubes.
You were sleepy and punched your bed.
you expected a mere metal bucket to hold a cubic meter of lava.
You poured a bucket of water on top of a mountain and were disturbed by the fact it didn't create a waterfall
you tried to carry 2,301 cubic meters of sand.
you punch things to pick them up.
You are afraid to go within a 5-meter radius of sprinklers.
You search all the sports channels looking for a Spleef match that's going on.
When Creeper stops meaning the guy who's a creep.
You cant stop listening to the "Form this way" yogcast music video.
When you hear a lot of sizzling and yell 'CREEPER GANBANG!'
You have several Minecraft related apps, even ones that do nothing like the Redstone torch app.
your watching TV and you wonder how to make it with redstone
You Punch Trees in your backyard When you want a new house
You look at grass IRL when your low on seeds in Minecraft and say "Dangit, I should've brought my hoe."
You get home from a car trip, cautiously walk into your dark house, and jump out in every room swinging a stick around in case there are creepers who have spawned, and then go to sleep with every light in the house turned on.
You have dreams about Minecraft updating.
You're constantly dissapointed with modern architecture, because you know you could build better in-game.
you look at a cow and wonder how much leather will drop
You hear groans and run only to find out that it was only your big brother
You jump off a high cliff into shallow water thinking you will be just fine by hitting jump.
You see a forest and think "I can build a wood fortress!"
You refer to Notch has "The Creator".
You always place your hands on the AWSD keys and mouse while waiting for stuff on your computer to load.
You refresh this page constantly to see if your joke has been added yet.
You get a watch thinking it shows a sun and moon.
Youve actually read all of these, shame on you...
You think that a creeper caused the Haiti earthquake.
You made Minecraft forums your homepage.
You see a jellyfish and run for your life, thinking that it will blast you with flaming snowballs.
You see strange landforms in real life and think "HEROBRINE".
You try to punch a tree in real life, hoping to get wood, but then you're just disappointed.
You never go underground in case of the Obsidian Skeleton.
You put cactus in the oven, then hope to dye sheep green with the resulting paste.
You go to a graveyard and punch the bodies expecting to get feathers.
You think that spiders won't bite you in the daytime.
You try to shear a sheep with snowballs.
You swim in shark-infested waters thinking that you're safe because you don't have Mo creatures on.
You put four pieces of sand in a grid formation expecting to get sandstone.
You put a log on a workbench expecting to get planks IN REAL LIFE.
you watch commentary by slyfox and yogscast everyday.
It has been 10 minutes and your wondering why the sun hasn't started to go down.
You think cages are Mob spawners
You light a steel cage on fire and put a model of a pig inside expecting swine to be created in puffs of smoke.
You think worshipping Notch is a religion.
You can't read normal clocks.
Also PSN Will be back tomorrow with free membership and free downloads for 30 days.
E6 slide film back from the lab yesterday.. I had no idea what to expect from this roll of film. I found it loaded in a Mamiya RZ back when having a sort out. I think it must be at least 3yrs old in camera and it was given to me as expired film. It was unexposed so I unloaded the film in the dark and respooled then loaded into the Mamiya 6. I was not sure what film it was so shot it at ISO100. Here is the result! I'm amazed I didn't lose more detail with the huge contrast direct sun light. Shot in a field with Aneta.. first frame with slight light leak. No cropping.. I love this film!
Love the colours! As scanned
Mamiya 6 + 150mm + 120 expired Fuji Provia 400
Lab developed, Epson v800 scan
Mamiya 6 Review - mrleica.com/mamiya-6-review/
www.instagram.com/mrleicacom/ - there is a video of the negatives..
More 'Memories from June', this one of my son and his bride having just announced the birth of my first grandchild in November...
Really wasn't expecting to see this in Dover today!, and this was the best I could do of this vehicle due to the sun being out, and before I had to go back to work.
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else I saw last week!!
Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
Chinese were very rude to the ambassador': Queen
An official cameraman recorded the 90-year-old monarch rarely comments publicly on political matters, and media accompanying her are asked not to eavesdrop on private conversations.
Hope i'm not expecting too much but couldn't resist one more image of this amazing little creature !
Taken with Canon 40D & Sigma 150-500mm OS ......... Large frame crop !...strong beams of sunlight thru the branches caused me some problems with exposure ! finding a midtone to meter off when using spot or partial metering on a black & white subject is often difficult and it appears i may have over compensated a touch, but evaluative can get it wrong also !
i wish i could steal this photo.
(we've been staying in a rented house in betty's bay this holiday, and it is full of the typical trinkets you'd expect of a south african holiday house by the sea.)
Kashyyyk Battle Droids Known as Jungle or green Camo Battle Droids , they're were never seen in the Revenge of the Sith Film , these are really look like in the action figure toys expect for the commander one , let me know it !
Just when you least expect it.....
A flower blooms.....
You meet someone speical.....
You find a solution......
the sun melts the snow......
the door open's...
you here from an old friend...
progress is made.....
a prayer is answered....
a problem is resolved...
something moves you...
something or some one inspires you....
someone touches your life....
a dream comes true....
never lose HOPE.....
life is full of many
WONDERFULL and UNEXPECTED
gifts, that arrive
just when you need them most !
Ok not the best shot by a very long shot! Huge huge crop in probably the worst light you can get but how often do you get to encounter not one but two White Tailed Eagles when you're not expecting it?!
High up on the Sussex Downs being mobbed by at least six Red Kites..a truly magical encounter.
I missed the best chance of some decent shots as at the very moment they were heading right towards me (and overhead) a squall came in out of nowhere and the sleet and ferocious wind whipped one of my contact lenses clean out and I spent the decisive moments on my hands and knees in a field trying desperately to find it!!!!! What are the chances?!! 😬😂
The Red Kite has approximately a 5 ft wingspan compared to the White Tailed Eagle's 8 ft to give it some perspective…
"A mother's joy begins when new life is stirring inside... when a tiny heartbeat is heard for the very first time, and a playful kick reminds her that she is never alone."
-- Author Unknown
These are other shots of Shaui, who is 7 months pregnant, during the shoot. These shots show how happy and proud she is to have her baby. Thanks again to Mitch Bautista for tutoring and allowing me to participate in the shoot.
Please click here to view this Large on Black.
Model: Shaui
LIghting: Mitch Bautista
Make-up: Toni Rodriguez
Location: Rogue Studio, Salcedo Village, Makati
Arwork for Elysium Art Fest @InWorldz. March 2013.
"Expected transition" by PralineB.
We have no fear of time passing.
We have always known
That the Birds People take care of trans-humans.
They carries the universe,
The beyond, the unspeakable, in their bellies.
They are the elders of the Watchers.
We are the one,
We are the all.
The transition is occurring always
Under the watchful eyes of the Birds People.
They know the matrix creates the merger,
The merger creates the multicolored, multiple and unique being
Fused in the Birds to the infinite.
The universe and the beyond belong to the Birds People.
PB.
No one is expected to rise above anybody in this world. Each and every one should be at the same level no one superior than the other. Look through the world as a world of peace and unity, a world of equilibrium and not as a place to become superior. I shot this to show a very peaceful picture. Well I decided to use my Naruto (most of you know him right?) figurine wherein he is eating and living peacefully with animals. Well, just a play along story okay? just to fall in line with my concept :).
Strobist info: 430 EX II at left at 1/32 power with a shoot thru umbrella
Hello and welcome to another edition of "What one could expect to see while meandering around Bill's apartment" (Until Sales and Marketing comes up with a new title, we're going with that one for brand recognition.)
I figured that with the previous post of lobster, I'll keep the food thing going. After all, it does meet the criteria of "....what one could expect..."
As the title suggests, this is a new addition to my (already pretty decent) cooking repertoire. White pizza! This one is half plain and half spinach and mushrooms. I had the whole thing polished off in no short order....I was hungry and I'm oh so happy with the product.
Barring some outlandishly-fantastic-so truly-awesome food item, I hereby swear that this will be (at least for the time being) the end of the food-related posts. There's plenty more to shoot in the rest of my apartment.
One last note:
I will accept orders for delivery. Depending on location, prices start at $149.00.For a limited time, I am offering new customers a 10% off their total order. Hurry! Supplies are limited! (Batteries not included; some assembly required; actual product may differ in size and appearance; some exclusions apply; void where prohibited; see store for details)
Wasn't expecting to see this in Dover today, and this vehicle from Gravesend operator 1st Bus Stop Buses had brought School Groups to Dover Castle, and All kids and drivers faces are Blurred out and Not Shown as previously requested.
The colour changing fountain at the Hofvijver during the blue hour. I was expecting a more interesting sky, but it didn't happen unfortunately... What you see in this picture is the outside of this.
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach so
She ran away in her sleep
and dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise, Para-para-paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
When she was just a girl
She expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
and the bullets catch in her teeth
Life goes on, it gets so heavy
The wheel breaks the butterfly
Every tear a waterfall
In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes
In the night the stormy night away she'd fly
and dreams of
Para-para-paradise.
What to write about Lydia Lunch, that has not been written? She has been called an American icon. She´s certainly a confrontationalist. A provocateur/multi-talented woman on the highest order who uses her talents to fight against a corrupt system and society. If you ever go to see Lydia and her band Big Sexy Noise or to one of her spoken word performances, expect to be challenged. It is certainly not something for the faint-hearted. You should google Lydia Lunch to go to her amazing website that will give much more details.She has expressed her creativity through her music, books, spoken word performances, film, video, photography, poetry and ... I am sure I am forgetting something else. I would have to write a detailed Lydia Lunch history book to cover it all. I really appreciated her collaboration with Rowland S. Howard on the two albums "Honeymoon in Red" and "Shotgun Wedding". It was a big influence on me and it was because of that, I met Lydia once again. I will write a bit about Lydia and then end with a story of how I met Lydia after all these years because of Rowland S. Howard. It involved a nasty volcano and a happy ending in Vienna. Google any names here to get further information.
Lydia Lunch has been called "One of the 10 most influential performers of the 1990´s. I have always admired her energy and anger and how she throws it all into all of her art. She started singing and playing guitar for her band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in New York when she was 16, all the way back in 1976! She was one of the major innovators behind what was known in 1978 as No-wave music. Brian Eno attended a series of their shows along with other bands of that time such as The Contortions, Mars and DNA. He produced an anthology album of these bands called No New York on Island Records. A revolutionary album at the time in 1978 and is still somewhat shocking after all this time. Her next band 8 Eyed Spy took off in another intense direction. She went on to make her solo debut influential album "Queen of Siam" in 1980. As Lydia became more involved in a wider range of artistic pursuits, her musical endeavors of the 80's focused on an extended, infamous series of collaborations with the likes of members of Sonic Youth, Birthday Party, Foetus, Einsturzende Neubauten and many others. In the present decade to date, Lydia has undertaken repeated tours of Europe and the U.S., and has giving spoken-word performances and been featured at internationally prestigious events. Her still photography has been exhibited at galleries in Prague, Paris, Eindhoven, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, Melbourne, Australia and England. She went on to make underground films with Richard Kern and Beth and Scott B. In 1998, Lydia had an international retrospective of her photography which culminated in Paris at the Museum of Erotic Art, where 4 of her pieces are now on permanent display. She was the poster-girl for the Whitney Museum of Art's Underground Film Festival (Oct. 96-Jan. 97), Lydia appeared in 8 films in the festival including the gut-wrenching films of director Richard Kern. She shook up people with her performance as the phone-sex worker in Kern´s infamous film "Fingered" which captured Lydia´s and Kern´s vision of sexual violence and desire
She started her own production company Widowspeak which released her spoken word collaborations and her books. Such as the compilation, "Our Fathers Who Aren't in Heaven" (1990) features Lunch and author Hubert Selby Jr (Last Exit to Brooklyn), Henry Rollins and Don Bajema. She has traveled through the world with her bands and doing her intense spoken word performances. She has published quite a few books. Some of the books that come to mind: Her collaborative book of poetry with Exene Cervenka entitled "Adulter´s Anonymous", "Video Hysterie" a retrospective of Lydia´s music collaborations from 1978 to 2006 which comes with a DVD, "The Gun is Loaded" and "Paragoxia: a Predator´s Diary". This book has been described as a gorgeously battering experience, I will have to include a quote here: The unspeakable sexual confessions of underground legend Lydia Lunch. "Paradoxia reveals that Lunch is at her best when she's at her worst . . and gives voice to her sometimes scary, frequently funny, always canny, never sentimental siren song." --Barbara Kruger, ArtForum. Her recent book is out now and is called "Will Work For Drugs".
Lydia devoted still more of her time to writing, spoken-word performances and lecturing at academic institutions at home in the U.S. including teaching a class on Performance Art at the San Francisco Art Institute and even more so abroad with foreign engagements taking up the bulk of her time in recent years.The 2004 release of "Smoke in the Shadows", a full length LP which features Tommy Grenas, Len Del Rio, Nels Cline, Terry Edwards, Carla Bozulich and Adele Bertei, who together have created a jazzy, late night noir masterpiece which twists even further the unique genre she originated with Queen of Siam. Lydia's involvement with cinema was further expanded when she was invited by Asia Argento to operate as official still photographer for Asia's film based on JT Leroy's "The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things".
Lydia´s new band is called BIG SEXY NOISE formed with the musicians Terry Edwards, James Johnston & Ian White from the rabble rousing band Gallon Drunk. I saw them play in Prague and the combined intensity of Lydia´s singing vocal assaults and the raw, but hard harmonic sounds of the band blew me away. If you have the chance see them. You won´t forget it. OK, my story: Phil Shoenfelt contacted me last March. He had heard that the Australian filmmaker Richard Lowenstein was making a documentary about Rowland S. Howard. There was going to be a tribute concert in Rowland´s memory and Richard needed to have it filmed. I contacted Richard, one thing led to another and it was agreed that I would put together a film crew and capture the concert and do interviews with the musicians who were performing. The line up was Phil Shoenfelt´s band Southern Cross, Kill The Dandies! and Lydia Lunch´s band BIG SEXY NOISE headlining. The very fact that Lydia was involved in this concert, it was obviously very important to film it and do an interview with her. Lydia had a long and very close creative collaboration with Rowland spanning many years. Lydia had promised to project some film footage of her and Rowland while her band played.
I put together the film crew, arranged the interview with Lydia, we got all of the equipment together, the fateful day was nearing and we were ready. I had met Lydia several times a very long time ago in New York. I never really got to know Lydia. We had a lot of mutual friends. I´ve seen Lydia perform with her bands over the years and went to her spoken word performances. She was an intense person to say the least and I was bit nervous to interview her. Lydia normally does not do interviews and made an exception in this case because it was about Rowland. I did not know what to expect, so I did my best to prepare for the interview and to do my best, but fate intervened. The concert was on Monday night and it was Saturday. I had been in contact with Lydia and the concert organizer Ondrej Sturma from Scrape Sound.There was a problem, an Icelandic volcano called Eyjafjallajokul (I love her name) was spewing ash in the atmosphere and all planes were grounded in Europe. Lydia and her band were in France doing some concerts. They were having trouble getting out of France. On Sunday, Lydia had to cancel playing in Prague. All planes were still grounded. They wanted to take a train, but guess what, there was a train strike in France. Surprise, surprise! No rental cars available, so that was the end of that. Even Lydia Lunch couldn´t win against the force of nature with Eyjafjallajokul! I started to think that there might be something to Lydia´s apocalyptic premonitions. We all felt that Rowland must be laughing at this absurd situation.
We all carried on anyway. The Rowland tribute still happened and was filmed without Lydia and her band. The bands were great, good crowd, atmosphere, we filmed the concert, did all the interviews and were pleased with the results, but I was not satisfied. I kept in contact with Lydia hoping that we could hook up and do the interview at a convenient place while she was touring through Europe. Some of the concerts had to be canceled, but it seemed that the volcano threat calmed down. Lydia contacted me that she was doing a special performance in Vienna in June. Vienna is only five hours away from Prague, so it all seemed good to me. I contacted the filmmaker/Lushfilms Andrew C. Standen-Raz in Vienna. I knew I could count on him. I saw his talent through his documentary film about the Vienna music/performance scene called Vinyl. He promised to get a good camera person, he would film with another camera and I would be free to interview Lydia. The time came and Andrew was true to his word. He got the talented cameraman Sako Missirian. Sako had organized a van for us to film in and Andrew put together a music studio to do the second part of the interview in. The day finally came. I was prepared, but a bit nervous not knowing what to expect from Lydia. We picked her up in the van and she didn´t want to waste time and we got right into it. We filmed Lydia in a van that moved through the streets of Vienna. It was perfect, Lydia spoke intensely as I saw see the background of Vienna going by. Sako was crunched in a very uncomfortable position filming with his big camera. The seats were movable and my seat was turned around and I was able to interview Lydia properly, while Andrew was driving the van. Lydia was in good form and spoke intensely about politics, culture and of course Rowland. We continued the second part of the interview in the music studio. While Andrew and Sako set up the equipment, I took this photo in the courtyard of the music studio. I was totally relaxed with Lydia. She was intense, no bullshit and directly to the point. It was one of the best interviews that I did and I was really pleased with the results. I enjoyed the time spent with Lydia. She was very gracious and at times inspiring. We found the right note to the interview concerning Lydia´s work with Rowland and finished, but my work was not finished. I continued to interview people in Berlin that was connected to Rowland. I photographed them as well and have included the portraits in this series: The Rowland S. Howard documentary interview portraits".
Final thoughts about Lydia: The wonderful thing about Lydia is: she has never ever sold out once. The best thing to end this with is this: Do yourself a favor and listen to these Lydia Lunch songs. These are some of my favorite ones at the moment. Dance to these songs and kick in some walls. This is music made by a true passionate artist unlike all the Gaga crap that masquerades itself as being underground and shocking. Have a taste of the real deal! Go to youtube and search for these following songs: "Kill Your Sons " with Lydia´s band Big Sexy Noise, "Some Velvet morning" her demented beautiful ballad with Rowland, "Atomic Bongos" from Queen of Siam, "Touch My Evil" and finally I thought it proper, fitting and showing respect to end this with: "What is Memory" with Rowland´s screeching guitar playing.