iphone pano version with better light.

I tell my love to wreck it all.

Cut out all the ropes and let me fall.

Two uploads in one week? What!? Unheard of since school! Well actually I took this on the 16th, Sunday... This came out better than all the rest. So I like it. Even though it's not the best.

I'm so incredibly tired.

Press 'L'

...and you still can´t see a chance to change anything...

This one was realy exhausting to paint... I can´t say if it´s good... I need a break before I could judge this painting in a fair way

never give up seeking what you are searching for in life and never give up assessing that you are seeking for the virtue.

Houston photog/artist Chuy Benitez at Aerosol Warfare Gallery for GIve up closing exhibit. party.

check out chuy's stuff here: www.chuybenitez.com/

photo: gareth courage

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"Olha, eu sei que o barco tá furado e sei que você também sabe, mas queria te dizer pra não parar de remar, porque te ver remando me dá vontade de não querer parar também."

Juliana Mello ©

® les-vers-de-juke

35mm color film. Minolta SRT101.

Trying to give up smoking, like any addiction it can be a struggle. Partly physical, partly mental; it takes a certain strength of character.

Candid shot, Hoi An Vietnam.

Stokes Croft, Bristol.

Candid street shot, Barcelona.

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Most smokers use tobacco regularly because they are addicted to nicotine. Addiction is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and abuse, even in the face of negative health consequences. It is well documented that most smokers identify tobacco use as harmful and express a desire to reduce or stop using it, and nearly 35 million of them want to quit each year. Unfortunately, more than 85 percent of those who try to quit on their own relapse, most within a week.

Of primary importance to its addictive nature are findings that nicotine activates reward pathways—the brain circuitry that regulates feelings of pleasure. A key brain chemical involved in mediating the desire to consume drugs is the neurotransmitter dopamine, and research has shown that nicotine increases levels of dopamine in the reward circuits. This reaction is similar to that seen with other drugs of abuse and is thought to underlie the pleasurable sensations experienced by many smokers. For many tobacco users, long-term brain changes induced by continued nicotine exposure result in addiction.

quitnow.smokefree.nhs.uk/

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gosmokefree.nhs.uk/

gosmokefree.nhs.uk/quit-tools/addiction-test/

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"£400 bribes to help pregnant women stop smoking: Mothers-to-be twice as likely to quit if they have a financial incentive

Pregnant women were offered vouchers if they stopped smoking

Doctors found that financial incentives increased the likelihood of success

5,000 babies die each year in the womb or after birth due to smoking"

By Jenny Hope for the Daily Mail

Published: 28 January 2015

100 photos challenge | 93. give up

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i wanted to create the feeling of free falling, as if down the rabbit hole. :) i wanted to create an atmosphere of some sort of release. i wanted to portray giving up not in a negative light, but in a sort of "return to the womb" sort of decision.

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The phrase "give up" emblazoned on a wall abutting Memorial Drive.

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The picture was taken by me, so please comply with copyright ! Thanks~

1: to yield control or possession of : surrender

2

: to desist from : abandon

3

: to declare incurable or insoluble

4

a : to abandon (oneself) to a particular feeling, influence, or activity

b : to devote to a particular purpose or use

5

: to despair of seeing

6

: to allow (a hit or run in baseball) while pitching

intransitive verb

: to cease doing or attempting something especially as an admission of defeat : quit —often used with on

— give up the ghost

: to cease to live or function : die

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April 7th 2012

Madone asked if i would help with a sticker installation for sticker phiends 5

Gathered up some troops and helped bust out this install.

Artists that helped with the install

SKAM

Mr.Say

Madone

Voxx

Your So Dumb

Life is messy but do not give up hope.

Relinquish - voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up. Never give up something you can't go a day without thinking about. :)

This has to be one of the worst photomerges.

A golden nugget!

While out doing photos on my birthday, with already one stranger photo under my belt I was feeling adventurous and went for number two. I came across Joshua sipping on his tea outside of Ian's Pizza on State Street, between drinks he strummed a chord or two. I knew that he was a willing subject for my 100 more strangers project, and thus I asked him why he didn't have a cup for tips. As the wind gusted up State he expressed to me that he tried putting a cup down already, but the wind blew it away (thankfully nobody had thrown any large bills in just yet!) Although he did suggest that if someone had a golden nugget he could keep it weighted down, reaching into my pockets I pulled out a folded $1 bill. "Not a golden nugget, but a good start for the day," I said and smiling he finished sipping his tea and removed the lid. Allowing me to put my bill as his first contribution for the afternoon, to go towards his "tea replenishment fund."

For lent, Joshua decided to force himself to play his guitar more. While I'm not entirely sure how this relates to giving something up, maybe it was more then just the beautiful weather that brought him outside today. Strumming with a smile and a good tune, he asked me if I would like a happy or a sad song. Obviously, a given with the weather a happy song. As I sat near his side, a few other people stepped in and listened to the melodic sounds of Joshua and his guitar. I found my feet tapping in tune with the music and when it was all over we gave a round of applause (mostly just myself). Joshua was thankful for the fact that myself and the others decided to just sit and listen. As many times a busker only captures a few seconds of ones attention for his pay, so to have an audience enjoy a full song was quite the treat.

After snapping a few photos once the crowd* dwindled to just my friend Ben and I, I informed him of my project and was happy to find that he was just as willing as I thought to be included in the project. As summer draws closer, I hope to find more local musicians to enjoy the wonderful weather found on the isthmus with, no matter the instrument; it's all about the moment. In order to find more stranger stories as well as great photographs, I suggest checking out the 100 Strangers group.

059/100

SUNDAY, February 15th

GIVE UP…stop dancing and cry

hey weeping willows and withered wonders! join your hosts:

Dntel

frosty

and super sorry guests:

KOZYndan

Carlos Nino

for an evening full of the saddest songs plus eye-watering visions projected by the Masses.

FREE / 21+ / 9pm-2am

The Hyperion Tavern

1941 Hyperion Ave.

Los Angeles, CA 90027

hyperiontavern.com

Thanks to our resident pouting painter Kime Buzzelli for the Give Up image above.

If you are getting no love this Valentine's day, come and kozy will make your cry the pain away.

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.

learninginlife.com/give-up/

Dont giveup

A man is not finished when he is defeated. A man is finished when he gives up.

I know this is a subject that we are "not allowed" to talk about, as it is taboo for most people. If this is you please do not read further as it will just upset you. I know I have never been allowed to talk about this, those close to me forbid me to broach the subject. This is why I have decided to be free here - I can make this decision to have a voice.

I’ve lived for about 20 years under abuse (in my mid-twenties now). I was abused as a child by two different men, they were not aware of each other. I finally broke free from that when I was 17 and spent 2 years being “free” in denial. I met a boy who saw the signs of abuse in me and purposefully chose me to date (he told me this). He was cruel and abusive to me in every way that you can imagine for 5 (almost 6) years. I didn’t know I could get away. I was used to being stuck, I was conditioned to react this way while I was a toddler.

I didn’t even know I was in trouble or needed help until it was too late.

I never reached out for help even though I knew I was suffering mentally and had PTSD by the time I was 15. I didn't know I had an eating disorder for a long time, until people started noticing my ribs sticking out and I was forced into an eating disorder program. I didn't know I was depressed and suicidal until I decided to kill myself a few months ago. I was very effectively living in denial.

But now I am trying to get better - I am going to therapy and working on my mental health. I really want to erase the past. I want a fresh start, one that doesn't include me, an innocent child, on the sexual menu for grown men.

I'm a realist though and I know I have to accept my past and try to live in a world full of people who I do not trust.

It is my hope that other people might see this image and hear my story and gain strength to tell their own - or flee from the people who are hurting them. It is possible to get help. There are good people out there, you just have to look really hard to find them - it is worth the effort.

The statement that is pictured was said to me by the second man to sexually abuse me.

Photographs are © Copyright Galactic Dreams (or others when indicated) and are not in the public domain and may not be used on blogs, websites, or in other media without advance written permission from Galactic Dreams.

Give up, ?Indsey, cork, tck, inb, smok

Just like how u were.