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Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
What Celebs Found at this Awesome Gift Suite
From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
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About Celebrity Connected
Celebrity Connected helps create the best marketing strategy for your business by utilizing the power of celebrity to elevate the visibility and popularity of your brand. With a Celebrity Connected gifting lounge or gifting suite, attendees should expect an occasion where celebrities freely mingle with various brands, the spaces are large enough for elaborate displays, photographers and videographers capture a massive range of content, and about 50 brands from a variety of industries all around the world show their best. For more info please visit: www.celebrityconnected.net. www.facebook.com/celebrityconnected
For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:
www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
What Celebs Found at this Awesome Gift Suite
From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:
• www.facebook.com/RedCarpetReportTV
• www.youtube.com/MingleMediaTVNetwork
About Celebrity Connected
Celebrity Connected helps create the best marketing strategy for your business by utilizing the power of celebrity to elevate the visibility and popularity of your brand. With a Celebrity Connected gifting lounge or gifting suite, attendees should expect an occasion where celebrities freely mingle with various brands, the spaces are large enough for elaborate displays, photographers and videographers capture a massive range of content, and about 50 brands from a variety of industries all around the world show their best. For more info please visit: www.celebrityconnected.net. www.facebook.com/celebrityconnected
For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:
www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
Sarah's a powerhouse. She went in, had these suckers dug out, and came home to a crying Oscar. I tried to relate to our son that the suffering of others is often greater than our own. That the root of compassion is mutual understanding. That the key to deeper satisfaction is to delay gratification.
No go. The thought bubble above his WAAAAAaaa mouth only said, "Milky! Mama milky!"
The most fun sighting was of this wolf puppy out on his own. After awhile he got lonesome for the rest of the pack and sat down and began to howl. While we didn't see the other wolves we could hear the answer.
The puppy heard the answer as well and ran off in the direction of the answer in a sprint.
It's one of a few times I've gotten to hear wolves howl and each time brings a great deal of excitement/wonder/gratification/or some other positive adjective.
This one, and the next two shots, come from a forgotten roll of Portra 160 I had in my Mess-Baldix since at least one year ago. Who needs digital's instant gratification ? Not me, that's for sure ! :)
Mess-Baldix 6x6 camera, Enna Werk Munchen Ennagon 75mm 3,5, Kodak Portra 160 self developed in Rollei Compard chemicals.
Taken in Monza (MB) - Italy
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Iron Furnace
George Rogers City Park, Lake Oswego, OR
April 28, 2013 - Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
ADOX MCP 312 B/W RC paper, variable contrast, matte - used as paper negative.
Exposure: 80 seconds
Shot with custom large format pinhole camera designed and built in collaboration with master camera maker Kurt Mottweiler.
Instant gratification takes too long.
— Carrie Fisher
5200 x 5200 pixel image designed to work as wallpaper on most iOS devices.
Typeface: Above The Sky
Merchandise available: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/30714645
Now, with the gospel of universal harmony [...], he feels as if the veil of Maya had been torn aside.
He is about to take a dancing flight into the air. His very gestures bespeak enchantment.
He feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy, like the gods whom he saw walking about in his dreams.
He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the Primordial Unity.
[F. Nietzsche]
... came to life, bigger than life, as portrayed by Liza. She made Sally live, breath and bear her soul to everyone around her as she stumbled through the vices of life.
Sally made ninty percent of the men in the audience check their wallets to see if they had the two hundred dollars it would cost to spend fifteen minutes in her bed, knowing with Sally's nature, they'd be there for two hours.
The other ten percent were checking their wallets to see if they had enough money to go shop for outfits like she wore.
All of this magic was done with what at times became a lack-lustre script. Sally will always be the poster girl for the gratification now sorority.
Though it is over in two minutes, refuelling the car is, I find, an intolerably bothersome and slightly disgusting chore. There is something Kafkaesque about the process, bound up with ideas of hunger and gratification ...the petrol tank's ever-open orifice somehow oral, the throat turned up in expectation, even though pumped full to overflowing, like a goose fattened for pâté de foie.
My eye always casts about for some diversion to ward off these unpleasant forecourt ruminations. The other day at Halstead, Essex, running idly along the rank of buildings on the opposite side of the road it came suddenly to this, sounding in my mind a skirling, electrified Wurlitzer organ-blast. The former Savoy cinema was built in 1916, well before talkies. "A wildly incorrect confection" splutters Pevsner. Quite right though. Two open pediments, the larger containing an oculus, and pilasters with "vaguely Corinthian" capitals. There is an extra pair of capitals, threequarters of the way up, supporting nothing. The dentils are extremely naïve, the interspaces between them being too great ...and should they also go around the tops of the capitals?
In the Maplewood Rose Garden, these 3 folks were looking a picture taken by the little girl with an iPad.
This morning saw a trip into town so that Laura could visit Waterstones.
Our net friend, Jen, has just had her first (for want of a better term, proper) book published and it seems to be either inadequately supplied to shops, or selling brilliantly!
Waterstones Liverpool One still had a few copies, so in the end we had no problem picking one up.
Go buy a copy - it's hilarious and Jen is a sweetheart and deserves your cash. ;)
A friend gave me the directions to make this incredibly fast, easy tissue case, and I love it!!!! It literally took me longer to set it up, photograph it, and upload it than it took me to sew it. Great for when I want some relaxing sewing with near-instant gratification.
Used a Suzuko Koseki sewing print as the main fabric and the black/natural grid on the edges and lining is Summersville.
Statuesque spacewoman Nyah (Patricia Laffan) lands in Scotland with her robot in tow, to bring back healthy men and repopulate Mars.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOBn-g5VTfM
This is an obscure little British sci-fi, from producers who did everything but sci-fi before (or after). This might explain why Devil Girl from Mars (DGfM) is such a departure from the usual sci-fi formulae. On the surface of things, DGfM is akin to the usual saucer-alien-invasion motif. That kinship is only skin deep, though. Beneath the surface is a delightfully different movie.
Synopsis
Reports come in of a strange meteor landing the remote area of Scotland. A professor of astrophysics and a newspaper reporter are traveling up from London to find it. They stop for the night at a country inn. Meanwhile, a man who escaped from prison has snuck into the inn to seek help from his girlfriend who works there. Also staying at the inn is a fashion model hiding/sulking from a failed romance, and a young boy, the nephew of the man and woman who run the inn. With a grand flash, a flying saucer lands dramatically near the inn. Inside is Nyah, a tall shapely woman dressed in black leather, a black leather skull cap and long black leather cape. She announces that she's from Mars. The male population has grown weak and feeble on Mars, so they are looking for breeding stock. She's the first of what will be a wave of invaders taking the best men, now her trip has proven the success of "organic metal" ships. The people are powerless to stop her. She cannot be shot or electrocuted. Nyah has a force field around the inn, so no one can escape or get help. Nyah has a big robot which can disintegrate things with his head-beam, so resistance is futile. The professor does some recon aboard the ship. He feels the ship's power source is its achilles heel. The men draw straws to see who will go with Nyah -- essentially a suicide mission to destroy her ship. While they argue, the convict tells Nyah that he's the one. Her ship leaves and blows up high in the sky. The earth is safe. The end.
Sure, it's low on action and very talky. It was adapted from a stage play, after all. But there's just so many little touches in DGfM that are delightful. One thing is the total reversal of the usual they're-after-our-women trope. This is so refreshing. What makes this even more fun is that the men do not act all wolfish and slobbery about being a stud for martian women. Instead, they act like it's exile to Siberian salt mines. This, despite Nyah being a hot chick in her own way. Hollywood could not have done this story. Another very fun visual is Nayh herself, all in black with Vulcan-like eyebrows and stoic demeanor. She's like Spock's evil sister or Darth Vadar's wife. This is just great fun for viewing. The model work and matte art are pretty good for a low-budget B-film.
As mentioned above, DGfM reverses the usual alien agenda. Instead of the ruthless alien trying to take away our curvaceous ladies, a leggy lady arrives to take away earth's hunkiest men.
This isn't treated like the usual adolescent fantasy about being the lone guy in the girls' dorm. No, the men at the Bonnie Charlie Inn regard Nyah's plan as a terrible fate. Perhaps the Brits were able to see beyond their underpants that the martian women's plans would mean the subjugation of the entire earth. There was much more at stake than their own personal gratification. How un-Hollywood!
The writer sets up an interesting contrast between earthly love and the martian woman's buisness-like approach to procreation. Between Robert, the convict and Doris, we see her loyalty and charity. Robert shows a sort of desperate reaching out for help, but then the willingness to sacrifice himself for others. Between the reporter, Michael, and Miss Prestwick, the budding of new romance which softens his cynicism and coaxes her out of her funk over a failed prior romance. Mr. and Mrs. Jamison show parent-like concern of little Tommy. The Professor shows an altruism for mankind. All these earthly manifestations of love stand in contrast to Nyah's passionless approach to duty.
DGfM features a little thing that gets attention in films much later. Her ship is made of "organic metal" which can heal itself. She miscalculated the density of earth's atmosphere, so upon entry a part of her ship broke off. That was the meteor people reported. Nyah had to land in Scotland instead of London, as originally planned, so that her ship could heal itself. In the meantime, she figures to take the best of the men at the inn, just to make the side trip worthwhile. We won't see the concept of organic metal and ships healing themselves until the Alien series in the 90s. Stargate Atlantis has it's Wraith ships which are partially organic too. DGfM might be the first film to feature self-healing ships.
The robot in DGfM is tall, but like many other B-movie robots, it's so slow and clumsy it's hard imagine it inspiring fear. Oh sure, it has its disintegrator beam, but it's even slower than a muzzle-loading musket to fire. Instead of running away (or even just walking away) from it, everyone stands "paralyzed" in fear while the walking refrigerator lumbers up to them. This is necessary, of course, since it's a sound-stage production, not an action film, but it looks a little odd. They could have tackled Nayh and taken away her remote control before robo-fridge could manage turning around. Perhaps in the early 50s the concept of killer robots were more frightening.
Many B-films end on a supposedly happy note when the lone alien is killed, as if there was no other threats out there. DGfM might look like one of these loose-thread flicks, but it's not. Nyah's ship was THE experimental prototype of the organic metal ship. Only such a ship could make the trip from Mars and hold up to our harsh Earth conditions. She said that when she returns to Mars, it will prove the success of the organic metal and a whole fleet of ship will be built like hers. By Robert blowing up her ship, the Martians will assume the organic metal ship was a failure and not re-try Nayh's organic metal approach. This buys Earth much needed time. All this assumes Nayh had no radio chats with Mars once she got here. A naive assumption.
Bottom line? Devil Girl is certainly worth watching, not for the effects or action, but just for the sheer role-reversal aspect.
6x9 watercolor:
I painted this little bright barn while sitting in my car during a light rain a few years ago. My sketchbooks are filled with such watercolors and pencil sketches from what I now call my Pre-Nikon days. The immediacy and instant gratification of taking photos has taken over my sketch books. But I miss those days when I had to sit still, think about color, how to create the illusion of depth, or how to paint a reflection in a puddle. I'm posting this as a reminder to myself to take a breath and slow the train down. By looking through that Nikon viewfinder I am limiting my line of vision. I am also letting the camera do what my own eyes and hands use to do. The camera takes what it sees and "paints" it in pixels on a little canvas called a CCD. It does the work for you. That's not to say I am giving up my Nikon. This isn't a "all or nothing proposition". But every once in a while, a new watercolor or pencil drawing will show up here and now you know why.
the love kills theory’s “Found”
to Hit Top 40 Radio on February 8th
“Happy Suicide, Jim! is probably the most important album of the year.
It is certainly one of the best.”
- Dont Magazine
“Found” – the latest single by alternative band the love kills theory will be released to Top 40 Radio on February 8th courtesy of Howard Rosen Promotions. “Found” is track number 4 on the band’s album “Happy Suicide, Jim!” on Xemu Records.
Here is a link to check out both the single and album:
soundcloud.com/xemu-records-555547316/sets/the-love-kills...
the love kills theory differentiates itself from other bands in two distinct ways. First, they utilize sound effects to create aural landscapes that are sonically unique while still employing melodic hooks and a driving beat. Second, there are the lyrics.
Drawing from influences such as Guy Debord, founder of Situationist International, and Aldous Huxley, fused with the current bio-genetic studies on the evolution of despair, the love kills theory has forged their own novel philosophical commentary on contemporary life. Fronted by Cevin Soling, who has three Master’s degrees – all from Harvard, the love kills theory was conceived as a desperate and most likely futile struggle against the progressive demise of art and critical thought in mass culture.
According to the love kills theory, the regression that has taken place in various mediums could not have come about without a complicit and intellectually lazy audience who require less and less in terms of content but grow ever more impatient with their demands for immediate gratification. Combine this with the fact that the desire for exposure among most performers has preceded any sense of need for content or substantive message, and you have all the ingredients necessary to produce a cultural wasteland.
As their name implies, the love kills theory is not merely a band but also a manifesto. Society has reached a point in its development where the pursuit of the things we love – indulgence in all of its forms – is killing us by making us all soulless consumers. If art can’t be resurrected, at least the reasons for its death will be documented in the love kills theory’s songs. If we succumb to the allure of commodity fetishism and become hopelessly bound to an existence of inescapable alienation, the path to our self-destruction was revealed here.
The petty details of the history of the band and its members and various accolades are irrelevant filler.
the love kills theory is:
Cevin Soling – Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Bill Brandau - Keyboards
Jim Minics – Lead Guitar
Darren Pilato - Bass
Jaron Stewart - Drums
I don't know. It was a moment. Now I own 9 more of these in assorted sparkly colors. They make me feel like a rave alien.
I love them so much that I can't take them off.
In fact, I'm wearing them right now, as I type.
I'll probably still be wearing them tomorrow.
Episode, "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall." Aired May 13th, 2015. I was recently contacted by the maker's of American Picker's that my photo would be airing in their latest episode. As a huge fan of the show I was incredibly honored to be asked to participate. The whole thing was an exhilarating experience.
Mingle Media TV and our Red Carpet Report team were invited to cover the Celebrity Connected Honoring The Emmys Luxury Gifting Suite at the Great Room of the W Hotel Hollywood.
What Celebs Found at this Awesome Gift Suite
From Little Tipsy (spiked) Cakes to sweet potato apple chips by Seneca, Shut Your Pie Hole pie in a jar and the vegan and gluten free Yoga.urt were a good place to start but then we stopped at The Curious Creamery and we learned how to make our own ice cream without a machine needed. Then there was the Blast Ice Cream, LA's first liquid nitrogen ice cream mobile food truck, can you say instant gratification?
There were more gourmet food products from Corine's Cuisine with some amazing sauces and recipes. And of course you need some kitchen accessories to make those amazing recipes, right? There were green friendly vendors, from reusable food wraps by Nil, reusable cake and loaf liners by Unstick which we love. Mora Wines poured their Cabernet Franc and Valpo, and gifted hand painted bottles.
Wearable items made a statement: ‘I care about Fair Trade and the planet.’ The Casery had protective gear for the Iphone 7. Japanese designer Akiko Shinto had their retro-chic and modern Asian edge Vivon eyewear collection. Uashmama, had a line of cross body bags and home accessories made from high-grade paper that looks and wears like leather.
Jafra was there with their unforgettable royal jelly lipsticks, along with other wellness products like Theramu’s restorative cream and sublingual pain remedies to Haiku Organics’ soaps, DeP’s two-month face mask treatments (with reusable chic leopard print mask), Elyptol hand sanitizers, the UK’s PureSkin by Vanessa Blake, French company Bioderma, and Washdolly’s reusable make-up remover towels.
There were also natural products from social good Toronto-based the Pink House, founded by sisters Tracy Olesen and Karen Sjöberg. Sjöberg had been diagnosed with breast cancer and realized there was a need for simple but luxurious beauty products crafted without hazardous chemicals.
Get the Story from the Red Carpet Report Team, follow us on Twitter and Facebook at:
• www.facebook.com/RedCarpetReportTV
• www.youtube.com/MingleMediaTVNetwork
About Celebrity Connected
Celebrity Connected helps create the best marketing strategy for your business by utilizing the power of celebrity to elevate the visibility and popularity of your brand. With a Celebrity Connected gifting lounge or gifting suite, attendees should expect an occasion where celebrities freely mingle with various brands, the spaces are large enough for elaborate displays, photographers and videographers capture a massive range of content, and about 50 brands from a variety of industries all around the world show their best. For more info please visit: www.celebrityconnected.net. www.facebook.com/celebrityconnected
For more of Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report coverage, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook here:
www.facebook.com/minglemediatvnetwork
I recently picked up a SX-70. It is simply a beautiful camera. It's beyond me why Polaroid stopped innovating in much the same way. Any how, these are the first pics I've take with it. Camera works great. I adore it. We are going to have an affair. We are going to make lots and lots of pictures. Please don't tell my other girlfriend Louise (Canon 20D).
I've got to perfect the scanning process a bit.
Anan Magazine, April, 2009
Right after finishing the Apartment Therapy cure for our apartment, Tina was interviewed by the Japanese women's magazine, Anan.
A photographer documented our apartment for about 3 hours, if memory serves.
For Our Daily Challenge.
The challenge - Multicolor
Recently we've heard (again!) that major recording labels have stated that CDs cost money to make, to store, and to market, and are planning replace them with streaming and digital download options. I guess that comes as no surprise since I've seen the death of LPs, 8-track cartridges, and cassette tapes.
As much as I love the instant gratification of downloading music from iTunes, for me nothing beats going to the store to check out the racks of new releases, admire the cover art, and once home, finding the perfect slot in the CD collection for my new prize.
Are Instagram and Facebook killing Flickr?
Hard to say. From a personal point of view they are responsible for a drastic drop in my Flickr uploads and, as a knock on from that, the amount of time I spend interating here. Instagram gives me instant gratification in terms of uploads and, more importantly, is designed to be used on the move. I can upload to Flickr from a phone, but the interface is clunky and mobile Flickr offers nowhere near the experience of the full version. I can't use it how I want to.
Facebook is now the home of some of my more random or family-orientated pictures. After all, it's about sharing things with family and friends.
My blog is now the home of my wargaming photos. My tranny activities are still shared here (albeit mostly on another stream). And this is still the home of what I'd call my 'serious' photography. It's still the best place to share good pictures on a long-term basis with people who appreciate them. It's better than Instagram for social activity, whatever the fans of Instagram say. Instagram's interface just isn't suited for the kind of comment or group participation activities Flickr offers. And since I've just won myself another year's membership I'll be here, in some form or other, for a while yet :)
Kent Pietsch
"Kent Pietsch fell in love with flying when he was four years-old. Five decades later, his passion has not waned.
Since 1973, Kent has performed his incredible aerobatic routines for millions of people at more than 400 shows that have taken him to quality venues throughout the United States.
Kent grew up in Minot, North Dakota, where every day after school, he’d find a way to get to the airport, and do whatever it took to get into an airplane.
While most aerobatic performers have one basic program, Kent executes three storied acts that leave spectators mesmerized. These include a dead-stick (turning the engine off) routine from 6,000 feet and a rooftop landing on a moving RV! However, Kent is best known for a comedy act that features a detached aileron (wing flap) and a mesmerizing wingtip-scraping pass down the runway that you must see to believe. When Kent is at the controls of his plane, it is impossible not to watch him perform.
Kent loves to fly, but the audience is always his number-one priority. “If you can’t entertain, you have no business being out there,” he said. “The gratification is in knowing that people are enjoying themselves.” Kent’s humble nature and willingness to interact with fans make him a crowd favorite wherever he performs.
He flies an 800-pound Interstate Cadet with a 37-foot wingspan. The plane’s horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine can generate 90 horsepower and a G-force ranging from -3 to +5."
From "Featured Performers" The Great State of Maine Air Show
Same packs of expired Polaroid 669, this time at Lauren's graduation from the University of Findlay on Saturday May7th. Her whole family was there and I was the makeshift photographer for the day. Shot a ton of digital, meh, but guess which pictures everybody loved? Pack film for life!
Polaroid Land 420 Automatic
Expired Polaroid 669
Exposure dial +2
Covered goblet with mythological scenes
About 1680
Balthasar Griessmann
German, 1620-1706
Ivory
A masterpiece of figural carving in relief, this goblet shows a procession honoring Bacchus (Roman god of wine). A sleeping youth is tempted by Bacchus and Venus (goddess of love), while Saturn and Minerva (deities of time and wisdom) try to restrain him. The goblet illustrates the pleasures of wine alluding to the risks of sensual gratification.
Things may change in just a flash,
so live the life on day-to-day
Endure everyday with passion,
as if it's the last turn of your way
Give a meaning to the life,
without holding back in fear
In the moments of happiness,
remember to leave space for a tear
Make plans and set the goal
Always listen to your soul
It's the journey not destination
That provides more gratification
Each day is a little life,
to live, to breathe, to wonder and desire
So don't wait for a special day,
to feel, to celebrate, to ponder and aspire
Life is like a hilly river,
from sinking banks to vanishing currents
Keep your feet firmly on ground,
don't let yourself controlled by the events
Dream big but appreciate smaller things,
make no regrets and harsh comments
In search of a miracle,
don't miss life's little precious moments
Deependra Kumar Jha
Instant Gratification Alert!
Me at my desk with kitten, kitten holder/spoiler and purple octopus. Envy me.
Covered goblet with mythological scenes
About 1680
Balthasar Griessmann
German, 1620-1706
Ivory
A masterpiece of figural carving in relief, this goblet shows a procession honoring Bacchus (Roman god of wine). A sleeping youth is tempted by Bacchus and Venus (goddess of love), while Saturn and Minerva (deities of time and wisdom) try to restrain him. The goblet illustrates the pleasures of wine alluding to the risks of sensual gratification.
["Mirror, mirror on the wall..."]
This is my last photo for the year 2005; a mirror to look in and see what was and hope for what's next.
This was kind of a peculiar year for me, with some good gratifications at work and for my photos (see here and here, for ex.) and lots of bitterness and absences in other fields.
I hope for the new year to bring us all something that may stay and make us a little bit happier.
All my best wishes, everyone!
--------
L'ultima foto del 2005, per guardarci dentro e vedere quel che è stato e sperare in quel che sarà.
Per me è stato un anno... sorvoliamo. Tante soddisfazioni per il lavoro e per le foto (vedi qui e qui, per citarne solo due), tante amarezze e assenze su altri fronti.
Spero che l'anno nuovo porti a tutti noi qualcosa che possa restare e farci un pochino più felici.
Auguri, a tutti!
by Cello8ctet Amsterdam / Via Berlin
Our insatiable craving for instant gratification is abundantly catered for by the consumer society: INSTANT HAPPINESS is simply for sale. A theatrical musical performance inspired by our obsessive demand for disposable fashion at rock-bottom prices: narrated by eight cellists, impetuous music and touching choreography set amidst a fairytale-like pine forest.
At the start of the performance, the eight cellists were standing in the glass houses, and the clothes were in golden bags hanging in the trees (you can see a bag in the glass house on the right). One hour with a non-stop composition for the cellos, no speaking, just performing and playing the cello, using all of this space in the forest (with lots of running parts). It was wonderful to listen and watch.
Me doing my Mel Gibson Braveheart impersonation. The hand down trousers is purely structural and no personal gratification was involved.
1. Sketchbook Shorts , 2. Sketchbook shirts & shorts, 3. Harry the Convict, 4. Denim Sandbox Pants, 5. MIP High Flyers, 6. Sandbox shorts, 7. Sandbox shorts, 8. Sandbox Shorts - KCWC, 9. Tea Party Playsuit, 10. Spotty pj's, 11. Super fast skirt - yet again, 12. Instant gratification skirt, 13. Sorbetto top14. Not available15. Not available16. Not available
Created with fd's Flickr Toys
29 March 2008
URBAN FRAGMENT of Bologna City. (Urban Street's Fragment)
BETTER View On BLACK
It was a sunny day and we were walking toward the light. Sometimes it hard to enjoy the simple things of life.
But it happened one day that you find the desire to catch a fragment of time. A fragment of light.
It happened one day that a man walking down the street discover again that particular sense of gratification you can feel taking a picture. Just a picture.
This is my recollection of that carefree day.
There comes a time where I have to evaluate my life and see where it's going. Where I take the time to see if this is the direction as to where I want to be. As I strive to do this, it's very painful for me. For as I take this time, I see that I am not even close to where I want to be, who I want to be with and how I want to live this life out. I'm far away from any reality of what I want, and I'm on a daily struggle of dealing with what I've been given. I see it and I cannot have it!!! Excluding the raising of my three children, I am not living the life I want to lead. I am not finding gratification in the things I do, people I'm surrounded by (here in AZ) and not even close to where I want to be. I'm stuck in this state of "being" that I cannot escape and no matter how I try to make changes, I'm still stuck. Stuck in all that I have or don't have, feeling very dissatisfied on a constant basis (Oh, I know I sound selfish here. So what?...I say). Stuck in this emptiness and loneliness, that never goes away. Why can't anyone take this from me?
You might ask me, what is it that would fulfill you? Well...fulfillment is definitely not something that I seek in means of money or materialism. Fulfillment for me is something you cannot necessarily see. Fulfillment is something that I feel within, and is where I feel comfortable within my own soul. It's something I have felt in very small bits or times in my life, that truly warms me when I have felt it. It's that calm feeling I get whenever I'm next to the ocean. It's that stir that I have had in the past when something as silly as two coffee beans can make me laugh, to where I'm happy with just that...two coffee beans and the person I was with. It's that feeling of being understood for all I am and what I am about. No questions, just that acceptance of who I am without any pressure to change. It's that "knowing" that everything will be alright, somehow...some way. It's that "knowing" that you feel deep within with things...with someone. I have felt that. Now...close to never.
And as I sit here...after many, many years of self discovery and finding myself, I look at it all without any clear direction or purpose here. Once my children are raised, then what? Where do I go from there? What can I do now to help attain what it is that I want? It is much harder than you think and some of it is impossible to reach. Impossible...some might disagree; however, I know the things I wish for in my life are unattainable and will always remain that way. I'm coming to a harsh realization and acceptance that I will live it out solo, finding meaning in things best I can on my own.
These lyrics, by Ben Harper, seem to really resonate with me more than ever:
Welcome to the cruel world
Hope you find your way
Welcome to the cruel world
Hope you find your way
It's a cruel world
Try to enjoy your stay
Yes it is a cruel world
When you're tryin' to get by
It's a cruel world
When you've seen the look in their eye
Makes life hard living
But I'm so scared to die
Welcome to the cruel world
Welcome
Welcome
Don't know how
We've lasted so long here
There must be more good than bad
Or we'd already be gone
And if you get up to heaven
Before I do
I'm gonna tell you
It's gonna be cruel there too
You can't hide from this cruel world
Cause there is no place to run
You can't hide from this cruel world
There's just no place to run
It's been cruel from the beginning
It will be cruel when we are done
So when I'm gone
I will gladly say goodbye
When I am gone
I will gladly say goodbye
And if you want to feel me
Put your hands up to the sky
Welcome to the cruel world
Welcome
Welcome
Hope you find your way
Try to enjoy your stay
Oh...I know some of you will try to comfort me. Some of you will have the most wonderful words on earth that I will treasure. Some of you might say, "Marcie...look to God and keep praying. Look for the better and everything will be alright." I thank you ahead for your wishes, thoughts and perhaps prayers...but understand this, I pray to the same God you do. This same God has left me in this state for years, perhaps my entire life. He's teased me with what's real and true. He's teased...then taken. He's not given me much of anything in regards to my dreams and what I'm striving for in life. I'm working hard to make the changes and I see nothing in return. I will go down in this cruel world knowing I did all I could. I will go down always trying to find my way.
As for now my friends, I have nothing more to say. I still live on a little hope, a little prayer and a few of my dreams. That's all I can do.
And...I will try to enjoy my stay.