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Spent some coyote-human introspective time with this coyote at Grand Portage State Park, Minnesota. This little song dog has got some seriously "dogged perseverance". Its front left paw is missing, from the wrist joint down, probably gnawed off to escape a trap. Its tail seems to be missing the tip. Not so noticeable is an injury of the left rear leg, which it favored while walking. Its most remarkable trait was running, when it held its left rear paw completely off the ground, running on only its two right legs! I've seen plenty of canids running on three legs, but this is the first quadruped I've ever seen run on two legs...both on the same side!
....aos que estavam com "saudade", como o Léo (Rivello) , o Thiago (introspective), o leonart (bj) e ao queridíssimo amigo Leosalata!!! Bem light, ok???? bjs pra todos!
British postcard by Memory Card, no. 712. Lobby Card: Warner Bros. Keanu Reeves in The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999).
Keanu Reeves (1964) is a Canadian actor, producer, director and musician. Though Reeves often faced criticism for his deadpan delivery and perceived limited range as an actor, he nonetheless took on roles in a variety of genres, doing everything from introspective art-house fare to action-packed thrillers. His films include My Own Private Idaho (1991), the European drama Little Buddha (1993), Speed (1994), The Matrix (1999) and John Wick (2014).
Keanu Charles Reeves was born in 1964, in Beirut, Lebanon. His first name means ‘cool breeze over the mountains’ in Hawaiian. His father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr., was a geologist of Chinese-Hawaiian heritage, and his mother, Patricia Bond (née Taylor), was a British showgirl and later a costume designer for rock stars such as Alice Cooper. Reeves's mother was working in Beirut when she met his father. Upon his parents’ split in 1966, Keanu moved with his mother and younger sister Kim Reeves to Sydney, to New York and then to Toronto. As a child, he lived with various stepfathers, including stage and film director Paul Aaron. Keanu developed an ardour for hockey, though he would eventually turn to acting. At 15, he played Mercutio in a stage production of 'Romeo and Juliet' at the Leah Posluns Theatre. Reeves dropped out of high school when he was 17. His film debut was the Canadian feature One Step Away (Robert Fortier, 1985). After a part in the teen movie Youngblood (Peter Markle, 1986), starring Rob Lowe, he obtained a green card through stepfather Paul Aaron and moved to Los Angeles. After a few minor roles, he gained attention for his performance in the dark drama River's Edge (Tim Hunter, 1986), which depicted how a murder affected a group of adolescents. Reeves landed a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated period drama Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988), starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich. Reeves joined the casts of Ron Howard's comedy Parenthood (1989), and Lawrence Kasdan's I Love You to Death (1990). Unexpectedly successful was the wacky comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989) which followed two high school students (Reeves and Alex Winter) and their time-travelling high jinks. The success led to a TV series and a sequel, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (Pete Hewitt, 1991). From then on, audiences often confused Reeves's real-life persona with that of his doofy on-screen counterpart.
In the following years, Keanu Reeves tried to shake the Ted stigma. He developed an eclectic film roster that included high-budget action films like the surf thriller Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) for which he won MTV's ‘Most Desirable Male’ award in 1992, but also lower-budget art-house films. My Own Private Idaho (1991), directed by Gus Van Sant and co-starring River Phoenix, chronicled the lives of two young hustlers living on the streets. In Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Reeves embodied the calm resolute lawyer Jonathan Harker who stumbles into the lair of Gary Oldman’s Count Dracula. In Europe, he played Prince Siddharta who became the Buddha in Bernardo Bertolucci’s Italian-French-British drama Little Buddha (1993). His career reached a new high when he starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the hit action film Speed (Jan de Bont, 1994). It was followed by the romantic drama A Walk in the Clouds (Alfonso Arau, 1995) and the supernatural thriller Devil’s Advocate (Taylor Hackford, 1997), co-starring Al Pacino and Charlize Theron. At the close of the decade, Reeves starred in a Sci-Fi film that would become a genre game changer, The Matrix (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999). Reeves played the prophetic figure Neo, slated to lead humanity to freedom from an all-consuming simulated world. Known for its innovative fight sequences, avant-garde special effects and gorgeous fashion, The Matrix was an international hit. Two sequels, The Matrix Reloaded (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999) and The Matrix Revolutions (Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999) followed and The Matrix Reloaded was even a bigger financial blockbuster than its predecessor.
Now a major, bonafide box office star, Keanu Reeves continued to work in different genres and both in big-budget as in small independent films. He played an abusive man in the supernatural thriller The Gift (Sam Raimi, 2000), starring Cate Blanchett, a smitten doctor in the romantic comedy Something’s Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers, 2003) opposite Diane Keaton, and a Brit demon hunter in the American-German occult detective film Constantine (Francis Lawrence, 2005). His appearance in the animated Science Fiction thriller A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006), based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, received favourable reviews, and The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti, 2006), his romantic outing with Sandra Bullock, was a success at the box office. Reeves returned to Sci-Fi as alien Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (Scott Derrickson, 2008), the remake of the 1951 classic. Then he played a supporting part in Rebecca Miller's The Private Life of Pippa Lee (2009), which starred Robin Wright and premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. Reeves co-founded a production company, Company Films. The company helped produce Henry's Crime (Malcolm Venville, 2010), in which Reeves also starred. The actor made his directorial debut with the Chinese-American Martial arts film Man of Tai Chi (2013), partly inspired by the life of Reeves' friend, stuntman Tiger Chen. Martial arts–based themes continued in Reeves's next feature, 47 Ronin (Carl Rinsch, 2013), about a real-life group of masterless samurai in 18th-century Japan who avenged the death of their lord. Variety magazine listed 47 Ronin as one of "Hollywood's biggest box office bombs of 2013". Reeves returned as a retired hitman in the Neo-Noir action thriller John Wick (Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, 2014). The film opened to positive reviews and performed well at the box office. A sequel, titled John Wick: Chapter Two, is currently in production and is scheduled to be released in 2017. This year, he could be seen in the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) and the romantic horror-thriller Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour, 2016). Reeves’ artistic aspirations are not limited to film. In the early 1990s, he co-founded the grunge band Dogstar, which released two albums. He later played bass for a band called Becky. Reeves is also a longtime motorcycle enthusiast. After asking designer Gard Hollinger to create a custom-built bike for him, the two went into business together with the formation of Arch Motorcycle Company LLC in 2011. Reported to be one of the more generous actors in Hollywood, Reeves helped care for his sister during her lengthy battle with leukaemia and has supported such organisations as Stand Up To Cancer and PETA. In January 2000, Reeves's girlfriend, Jennifer Syme, gave birth eight months into her pregnancy to Ava Archer Syme-Reeves, who was stillborn. The strain put on their relationship by their grief resulted in Reeves and Syme's breakup several weeks later. In 2001, Syme died after a car accident.
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my back ain't broken
i got no addictions (yet)
my internal organs are squishy
no one's busted my heart (or jaw) lately
there's no wolf (or repo man) at my door
i can't do a two-step or a 12-step
and you won't find my heart on my sleeve (or anywhere else)
so what am i doing on flickr?
(oh, i might have captured my soul with this photo. but i'm a catch and release sort of guy. so i'm back to being soul-less.)
Shin pencil 6B on paper
Kitajima Hirofumi ___contemporary art Contemporary Art CONTEMPORARY ART Automatism Surrealism
Paris-Roubaix 2012
winner Tom Boonen enters the Roubaix Vélodrome as a winner for a record 4th time; stuff for legends
Usually, war memorials have statues of grave, introspective soldiers remembering fallen friends, but the one in Liverpool's docks doesn't bother with all that gloomy stuff and instead goes for a full-on triumphalist personification of victory.
This picture is cluttered with symbolic motifs. The laurel wreath and the union jack are the obvious ones, but there's also the boat that the figure is standing on, which is there because the monument is actually for the employees of the Cunard shipping company who died in the wars, rather than Liverpudlians in general (that's the Cunard building behind the statue). Another one is the bundle of sticks tied together, which sits beside the window -- that's the fasces, which would have been an innocent Roman symbol of strength through unity when the building went up, but which, within 20 years, became the symbol of the Italian fascists (although no one seems to hold that against it these days, and it's escaped the guilt by association that was the fate of the Hindu swastika).
There's the fig leaf as well, I suppose, but it's not really symbolic of anything except the fact that looking at sculptures of genitals makes some people feel icky.
(NB - Before you ask, no you can't use this for your BNP leaflet.)
In another photo's description I lied with abandon by saying that my hike in the Sand Flats Recreation Area was without incident. This scene confirms the lie.
As I am often wont to do when exploring the magnificent landforms at Moab, Utah, I paused here to seek Enlightenment by becoming One With The Rock, a state of being that can enable a person to get answers to life's Unanswered Questions and understand things that have been mysteries for eternity.
This is a practice espoused by my spiritual guru, the Bhagwan Hotair Windbag of Antelope. He has written a valuable though inscrutable treatise on Enlightenment titled "The Sacred Paths to Oneness," which I read and re-read with fervor (and headaches). To learn more about the Bhagwan, his teachings, and my attempts to follow those teachings, see the set description.
The scene pictured here documents an attempt by yours truly to become introspective while achieving Enlightenment. (The Bhagwan discusses this on page 1348 of the aforementioned text.) It was my desire to Know Myself, something so unnerving that I rarely have the fortitude to pursue it. But this day I assumed the appropriate full-body contact with Moabian sandstone, WITH MY HEAD LOWER THAN MY FEET, so that my 7.1-hour meditative session would yield mind-expanding truths about my own character.
Alas, the only Sacred Truth that was revealed to me was the reason why some people, when under the influence of overbearing spiritual leaders, make fools of themselves by lying motionless on rocks for long periods of time. This Level of Understanding was short-lived: by the time I sat up the awareness was gone.
I will confess to having consumed industrial-grade tranquilizers to dampen my fear. Perhaps the resulting chemical and spiritual imbalance are to blame for my failure to achieve Ultimate Knowledge. Please do not tell the Bhagwan of my chemical transgression: if he finds out, I will suffer greatly by being denied access to his inner circle. Remaining ignorant in spite of my efforts to achieve Enlightenment is suffering enough.
Feeling somewhat disoriented and devalued, I rested a while before continuing on my otherwise fulfilling hike among the fins and sagebrush above Negro Bill Canyon.
Joe Tripod, who assisted me in this effort of self-documentation, achieved Enlightenment simply by remaining absolutely still for the duration of the photograph.
Complete piece here: www.flickr.com/photos/jasoux/25228833383/in/dateposted-pu...
Ink + watercolour paint
In celebration of Kim's 80th Birthday. It was a wonderful affair - thanks to Linda and Cindy for organizing the party.
This woman was eating that pie and chips for about 2 hours.
Everytime I looked over at her plate she still had half a meal left.
The only explanation is that she was faking it but I still don't understand her motivation??
Damn, she was such a tease.
I've always wanted to take a photo like this. The sentimental/introspective window shot is just...it's so classic! Couldn't pass it up!
Met up with Craig on Easter Sunday to do some portfolio work after emailing back and forth for a week or so. We ended up spending the day at Bush Stadium- a baseball park that was built in 1931 and finally closed it's doors in 1998 after spending it's last two years as a racetrack.
Craig is just starting to get in to the modeling world, so it was a great learning experience for us both. I really got lucky with this because he was a total pro and we connected in a personality/creative sense almost right away.
We both kind of feel that now that we have one shoot under our belts, we know how to better prepare for the next one...we know what works and what doesn't work- what to do, and what not to do. So I think we're going to try to meet up again soon and do another set of photos. Plus, it was a total blast, as he's a photography enthusiast as well...it never felt like work, but more like exploring and photographing a run down building with a friend!
I'm really happy with how these turned out, especially since I used 100% natural lighting in all of the photos I've posted- no alienbee's/nikon flash- nothing but the sun!
Went on an adventure with one of my best friends the other day, she is a beautiful bean and I couldn't put the camera away.
what I see is all I've known
land of grey and subtle tones
navigating light & dark
tethered by these beauty marks
This was not posed it was a candid pic, the light was coming though a sunroof of a kids business in St Louis. I just happened to look over he was there for maybe 15 seconds and then off to play again.
Jarel is exceedingly intelligent, introspectively quiet and incredibly ambitious. He has worked hard to achieve academic excellence in all his classes. In addition to his achievements, Jarel has a flare for the fine arts notably in visual arts and photography obtaining final marks of 100%.
He plans to combine his gift for art and strong academic success to attend BCIT this fall where he will study Architectural Sciences.
Throughout his high school years, he’s been active on the volleyball team; helped in musicals; and contributed to the Yearbook. In the community, Jarel was a member of the Langley Ukulele Ensemble; volunteered as a Day Camp Leader; and serves as a Sunday school teacher sharing kindness and truth to children.
If Jarel has any spare time, he enjoys travelling, sketching, playing tennis and reading. We look forward to seeing his marvelous creations in the future whether it’s an architectural structure or from his inspired art portfolio!
I don't think I've ever seen a more serious baby! She was with her South Asian Muslim mother and father in Times Square and they stopped to talk to each other or find their bearings and I made this shot. She turned her head a little as I took this photo, but it's not too blurry thanks to the brilliant sunlight. Her intense, intelligent expression has left me imagining that she's a future poet, perhaps to follow in the footsteps of the great Faiz Ahmed Faiz...
Art, Rock, & Talk
With Kate Myers and Wiitala Brothers
Saturday Feb. 26th
Chicago Art Department
Kate Myers’ music is passionate and introspective. Drawing influence from singer/songwriters of the past (Jim Croce, Bob Dylan) and of the present (Conor Oberst, Fiona Apple), she has been able to create a style that is completely and recognizably her own and that transcends the standard coffee shop singer/songwriter genre. Her songs are stories of pain, love, hope and the experience that she has collected through her travels, her family and her years.
Kate’s debut, self-titled album was released in 2004, her second album, “Blanket Sky” in 2006 and her most recent work, “Instant Clarification,” in 2008. She has performed on stages all over the USA and in Europe and is currently writing for her anticipated 4th release.
Wiitala Brothers
“The Wiitalas’ new Bad Blood could be qualified as minimalist indie pop-rock but it’s something much more effective than that might suggest. The duo’s stark guitars and lingering vocals tend to waft around, electrifying the air with their simplicity.”
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