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The people often protrude their tongue as a sign of happiness, gladness, gratification and show to welcome you. The meaning is quite different than those in Western customs.
"Texture and foliage keep a garden interesting through the season. Flowers are just moments of gratification." Doyle.
My Hennah Elements stamps finally arrived, yippee! Details on my blog at amusingmichelle.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/a-case-of-delayed...
Last year I got here so late the place had run out of chicken AND brisket. This year, I wasn't fooling around, got there at 8 pm, and even though I had to wait over 30 min. for food, I got the full 3-meat combo. I sat next to an older couple who used to live in NYC, and they said, "You can't get BBQ like this in New York!" I just had to correct them: Hill Country Market, Virgil's, Daisy May's, Mabel's, Dinosaur BBQ, Blue Smoke, Brother Jimmy's - and that's just within the city limits! There's Famous Dave's, Smokey Bones and Smokin Al's out on Long Island. Maybe they left NYC before the BBQ trend hit.
LOLA Day 175
Looks like a start to a great day! Flowers from S waiting on my desk, because she thought I could use a smile. Got myself a Starbucks before getting into the office and the sun is shining.
We live in an instant gratification society. We all want everything right now. We wish away minutes, hours and days and even years so we can get to that perfect moment where we will finally be happy and everything will be as it should be. We need to learn patience, to slow down and let life happen. Those hours and minutes you are wishing away you can not get back, and you don't know what will happen........illness, accidents, milestones, and if you are wishing away precious time you may end up regretting it. Remember no good or bad, it's all just part of life and we have been given this opportunity to experience it all.
Moral of today's story, SLOW DOWN!! Let yourself relish in the moment. It takes practice to let it all go and just relax and be in the moment, so may as well start now. Let life happen, don't force it.
Quotes for today:
*Taking time to do nothing often brings everything into perspective -Doe Zantamata
*“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
*Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why - Eddie Cantor
*Don't try to rush things that need time to grow -unknown
I liked the idea behind this indie magazine when I heard about it around Christmas. First issue arrived a week or two ago: I review it here.
(incidentally, low light and tiredness make terrible photos)
had a lot of fun with this shoot
now I'm glaring at my phone waiting for the little light to flash telling me that the person I hope to have pictures like this with someday has responded to me.
instant gratification <<<<<<<
my KOLA colored filters arrived in the post yesterday from photojojo ❤
chum came over for some doggie walkies and i thought it would be a good time to try the filters out.
learned that the darker filters are prolly better suited for the flash rather than in front of the lens :(
Another camera that i haven't used yet. I do like the instant gratification of Polariod film. But i have to admit to trying to avoid it, as i don't want to invest, time and emotion in a system that is not being made any more. I have however been using my Fuji Instax camera a lot. I really like it.
Met a MF enthusiast at the Harbour Festival. While you have to admire the patience of somebody who knows how to manual meter, manual focus and develop single sheets, I think I'll stick with my instant gratification, AF, any ISO from 100 to 1600 digital toy thanks very much ;)
2014 Ink on paper 63 x 42 in “Convenient Gratification”, exhibition at Robert Henry Contemporary May 30 through June 29, 2014.
It is hard for me to explain why hiking and being out in nature is so important to me.
Often times, there are sections along a trail in that are quite difficult. Steep terrains,
rain, dense fog, snow, bees and other bugs, bears and mountain goats, the unrelenting
heat, wind, cold and I suppose many other additional concerns.
None of these things really matter. If you are prepared, everything will be okay.
Sore legs from a tough climb, so what. Hikers are athletes. We deal with all sorts
of problems. Sore muscles, tweaked backs, blisters. It goes with the territory. You
trust your instincts and move on. No complaining, just gratitude.
What matters the most really, is knowing that a good hike will bring about solitude.
I choose not to do things easy. Being in the back country wakes up all of my senses.
The beauty one sees and the lands that one explores is fully appreciated, as are the
many that traveled these pathways before me. I am grateful to put my boots on trails
so well loved.
Being in nature is a love affair. Just like a relationship, there are good times and trying
times. A person learns to adjust to the various conditions as they develop. It is all about
gaining wisdom, trusting your gut feelings and having a strong resolve to accomplish
often times difficult tasks.
Combining these elements with friends and photography completes the adventure and
thus begins the planning for another rendezvous with nature. I am so very lucky :)
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Many thanks to the usual suspects for my romps on the trails; Ken, Kelsie and Jason.
Each of them talented artists and good companions. Passionate about hiking, writing
and photography----all winning combinations and motivators for me to continue on!
I hope to add Danielle and Orion to some of our future adventures. They are amazing too :)
As last week's batch of magnets sold so quickly, I ordered a lot more this time. I've got a couple of sets for sale too, such as these crisp b&w shots of metal structures in south-central Indiana.
Easy instant gratification artwork! Get yours at exoskeletoncabaret.etsy.com!
Thank you.
THE DUGGAR FAMILY BLACKSHEEP SPEAKS ABOUT BUYING SEX TOYS
The Duggar Family TV Show "19 Kids and Counting" often featured a relative, cousin Amy. The on screen antics don't give justice to the real wild child that Amy actually is. Here are a few of the differences...
Whatever you've heard about about The Impossible Project's PX 600 UV+ Black Border films, it's probably true. It's incredibly sharp, has nice, smooth silvery tones, and even warms to a pleasing sepia color. Frankly, this is my favorite Impossible Film to date, (PX 680 beta coming in a close second).
You should try some of this film out for yourself here:
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Polaroid One Step Closeup
Impossible PX 600 UV+ Black Border
Closeup Filter
Darken
One of the temptations about taking photos with your smartphone is wanting to post those photos immediately. It's an addiction to instant gratification. There a hundreds, if not thousands, of apps that will make that process as close to instantaneous as possible. There is a place for that, but for this particular instance, I should have waited.
I shot the above photo with my iPhone 4S (just the built-in camera app), imported it into Instagram, applied a filter, then posted it. Looking at this photo now, I wish I ran inside the house and grabbed my SLR, or even pulled the S95 out of my pocket--the very same pocket I keep my iPhone in. I didn't. I took it with my iPhone thinking about Instagram.
Instagram does not produce a great "final image". It's only suitable for viewing on a small screen. Today, I tried a different tactic. I grabbed the original iPhone photo, imported it into Lightroom, and went about my normal post-processing experimentation. I'm definitely more pleased with these results. The quality isn't that far off from what I would get from the S95.
I've told many friends that the "best" camera is the one you have on you. In this instance, I had two cameras, and I made the wrong choice in the name of instant gratification and comment/feedback addiction.
Instant gratification, i did this yesterday afternoon =D
Somewhere in my house is a baggie of SSC shoes, wonder what I did with those.
She's like a little Meridda but with green hair instead of red.
Instant gratification is sometimes necessary! I wondered if the eyes in this palm root would polish out to have some red in them. Now I know! This is a relatively rare thing to find, even without much color. But with the red, it is very rare. I will end up making myself a bola from this piece and have been waiting to find one like this for many years.
We live in the “Me Generation” where secular humanists, even in the pulpit, have fanned the flames of narcissism, hedonism, and self- gratification. The United States has never had so much stuff and been so unhappy. Millions are looking within for happiness, but the only problem is that doesn’t work. You were not self-created; you can’t tell yourself the purpose for which you were created.
There is great truth in the words: “Look around and be distressed; look within and be depressed; look to Jesus and be at rest.” Victor Frankl, a Jewish neurologist/psychiatrist, was given the opportunity to leave Nazi Germany for the United States. He chose to stay because of the commandment the Bible, “Honor your father and mother.” In the concentration camp, most of his family perished, but Frankl lived. In his book, A Search for Meaning, honored by the Library of Congress, he states: “If man knows the why of his existence, he can bear almost any how.” Corrie ten Boom found that to be true in her life while she was also imprisoned by the Nazis.
A Gallup Poll revealed that 40 percent of Americans do not think their lives have a clear sense of purpose or are neutral about the question. Frankl’s study revealed that living a meaningful life corresponds with being a giver, not a taker, and that happiness without meaning is characterized by a relatively shallow self-absorbed, even selfish life.
My book, Living in the F.O.G., was written to help Christians see this truth clearly. Living in the F.O.G. (Favor of God), is not about what you can get from God, but what you can give to God: “You, God, created absolutely everything…and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created” (Revelation 4:11, NLT).
Let the Spirit of God open your eyes to this revelation, and cease to be obsessed with what you are going through, but rather with what you are going to.
Barukh atah Adonai eloheinu melekh ha-olam, ozier Yisrael bigvurah.
Blessed art thou, Lord our God, King of the universe, who girds Israel with might.
Your ambassador to Jerusalem,
Dr. Mike Evans
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Smoking is ubiquitous in glasgow. (Highest levels of lung cancer in the UK.)
Mix with that a population who couldn't care less about their environment and who are only concerned about their own instant gratification, a town council who don't ever clean up anything properly and a badly-designed bin and you have this sight facing unwitting visitors at every turn.
Taken with Panasonic 20mm f1.7 lens on Panasonic G1.
It's my birthday today, so I'm having a day of ridiculous self-gratification.
The plan for the day (some of which, as you can see, is already complete, and will be updated throughout the day):
- Beans on toast for breakfast
- Nice hot bath with muchos bubbles and a Terry Pratchett book
- Messing about on Flickr (mostly in Guess Where Southampton)
- Putting the washing out
- Doing the food shopping
- Noodles on toast for lunch
- Getting the car washed
- Playing computer games
- Possibly getting a new mobile phone (more minutes, less money, free phone - think it's a no brainer)
But I'd first like to take a moment of silence in memory of the UK's HP sauce factory that closed down a while back. When I was in the USA, they had never heard of what's more commonly known as 'Brown Sauce', and it's sad to know that although a national institution, it will no longer be made here.
For those of you from the other side of the pond, HP stands for 'Houses of Parliament', why? as with everything else, go read the wikipedia article.
Kodak BW400CN, no longer being produced.
Shot with a Nikon FM2n and currently being processed. No instant gratification.
Fujifilm XT-20
Fujinon XF 35mm f/2.0
Film simulation: Classic Chrome
Color setting: -3
Grain seting: Weak
instant gratification cardigan, made from mirasol hap'i. Started in the early spring and finally finished....so not so instant with me.
enjoying an 11am late breakfast out on the deck while soaking up some rays for happiness, the wind for energy, and nature for a tranquil start.
goodmorning everyone! :)
I'm having a hard time justifying to myself all the films, developers, scanners, bulky equipment, effort, money... In terms of visual gratification iPhone does the trick just fine. All you have to do is avoid those ridiculous vintage filters with fake vignette and you're safe from being seen as a hipster... presuming you're not wearing a smurf beanie, checkered shirt and oversized glasses.
BOULEZ conducts ZAPPA.
by Frank Zappa. performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporaine & the Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort.
Hollywood, EMI Records Limited, 1984. simultaneous cassette version, issued as 4DS-3817o.
approx. 4o min. audiocassette (mustard plastic) in 2-3/4 x 4-1/4 x 5/8 hinged plastic box with 1o-panel offset Jcard.
music. 7 "dance pieces", with accompanying choreographic notes by Zappa, 3 performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporaine conducted by Pierre Boulez at IRCAM, 1o & 11 january 1984, the others "during the three-month period thereafter" at the UMRK by Zappa on synclavier. cover painting by Donald Roller Wilson.
25.oo
____ also: another copy, delete hole drilled into bottom of box spine (without affecting the Jcard)... 25.oo