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How true! How true!
Everything disappears.
The Cow
The Mirror
The Person watching
Everything melts like a snowflake in the warming sun
All mystics talk about this.
How true! How true!
HKD
Wie wahr! Wie wahr!
Alles verschwindet
Die Kuh lost sich auf
Der Spiegel
Die beobachtende Person
Alles schmilzt zusammen und verschwindet wie eine Schneeflocke in der Sonne
Wahrnehmung und Wahrgenommenes sind eins.
Alle Mystiker bekunden dies.
Wie wahr! Wie wahr!
HKD
Ochse und „Selbst“ verschwinden
Peitsche, Seil, Mensch und Ochse -
alle verschmelzen zu Nichts.
Dieser Himmel ist so unermeßlich,
daß keine Botschaft
ihn beflecken kann.
Wie könnte eine Schneeflocke
im wütenden Feuer bestehen?
Hier sind die Fußstapfen
der Partriarchen.
Originaltext (aus dem Chinesischen? Japanischen?) ins Deutsche übersetzt.
...
"Hoy que el tiempo nos cambió
Dónde andarás?
Te necesito encontrar
Después desaparecer, ...tal vez, lejos de mí
...Sigo guardando el dolor...
Amame, miénteme, tócame
Piensa en mi
Extráñame, abrázame"
Libido: "tres"
(titulo extraido de la misma cancion)
Modelo: PoOH (Camila)
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"Today that the time it changed us
Where you will be?
I need to find you ....
Then disappear... perhaps, far from me
... I still keeping the pain....
Love me, lie to me, touch me
think about me...
miss me, hug me ..."
Libido: "tres"
Model: Camila (PoOH)
For this week’s Macro Mondays theme, I decided to illustrate a favorite chocolate related quotation: “Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don’t need an appointment.”
I worked with a couple of chocolate bars and the iconic portrait of Sigmund Freud by Max Halberstadt. The chocolate was delicious, but I must confess, I’m a little skeptical about some of Freud’s theories.
“Hello, My name is Sigmund, and I am Chocoholic.”
Well, you know me. I like to look in disturbed areas for plants generally regarded as weeds. Here's one.
This is Tribulus terrestris, Puncture Vine. It originates in the Mediterranean apparently but through its hardiness is found all over the world in almost all climates. Tribulus is only a diminutive, ground-cover plant but its sharp, spiky seeds can cause nastly sores on your feet.
In many countries it's used as a libido enhancer, especially for women but the jury's still out on how it chemically works.
I saw this particular one up a little dusty dead-end in Al Qurum. According to the wonderful Field Guide to the Wild Plants of Oman by Helen Pickering and Annette Patzelt there are several species of Tribulus in Oman and I may thus be wrong on the specifics of this one. They're distinguished by the shape of their seeds, which I didn't see. But the photo of the flower in the book and mine are similar.
The "Wire Artisans Guild" theme challenge for the Month of March is "Emerald Isle". As St. Patty's Day is in March, all things Irish (and all things green, for that matter) are intrinsically linked together in my mind.
But, with this necklace I depart from the story of St. Patrick and venture into the violent & seductive epoch of Ireland's heroic age...
Maeve, the queen of Connacht, looms larger than life in the Ulster Cycle of Irish Mythology. No delicate and dainty queen, she had several husbands and countless lovers in an attempt to satisfy her seemingly insatiable libido. Nor did she hesitate to fight and kill in order to get what she wanted; She went to war in order to obtain the prize stud- bull, Donn Cúailnge, and prevent her husband's wealth from surpassing her own...
This necklace, all golden and flashing green, is my tribute to that intoxicating and provocative queen.
The photo is taken at Central Library, University of Otago.
A few days ago, I chose to toss a coin. Strangely, four tosses all landed on the side representing "no." At that moment, loyalty triumphed over everything, but more libido triumphed over temporary loyalty a few days later. I chose to "go the old way" and tossed the coin again. The poor $2 NZ coin—I tossed it five times, even switching the representation of heads and tails, but all five times landed on "no." My goodness! I have learned about binomial distribution. Out of curiosity, I calculated the probability of these nine outcomes: 0.5^9 = 0.001953125. A 0.19% chance? Ha! So, I definitely shouldn’t do that? Clearly, my original purpose was to use this loyalty. When I tossed heads, I could gain some consolation. Who would have thought EDEN wouldn’t give me a single chance?
Returning to today, a conversation with a missionary in February suddenly came to mind. I told him I believe in my own, subjectively idealistic "god." I don’t believe in the existence of an objective God. He retorted that in terms of willpower, believers and non-believers are equally devout.
I suddenly understood—the heads and tails of the coin don’t matter, because believing heads are heads and tails are tails, their willpower is the same. This willpower is determined the moment the coin is tossed. What it brings me is this willpower, not the "superstitious" result.
Suddenly enlightened, I decided to toss the coin once more, determining heads and tails. Again, I got tails.
A pure, untainted smile filled my face, not because of the result of 0.5^10 = 0.0009765625, but because I saw the resilient continuation of this willpower, its vitality. It was so vibrant that it reversed my feelings from the past nine results. The tenth coin toss reminded me of Dostoevsky’s sunset, transforming old sorrows into serene and moving joy due to life’s great mysteries...
Will I toss the eleventh coin? Yes, because happiness is never the final destination; it’s more like the scenery along the way. Therefore, I cannot stop, wasting my life. Perhaps, I have already tossed this eleventh coin, over and over, every minute, every second.
I am Reborn this time around
As a Man.
What a lesson to learn.
Fighting with my libido.
And with the grace
of my feminine side
of energy
I am slowly
becoming victorious.
Silent,
still
and comfortable
with my solitary being of self.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ
With the lights out it's less dangerous
Here we are now
Entertain us
I feel stupid and contagious
Here we are now
Entertain us
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My Libido
Yeah, a denial
A denial
(quando la notte sopraggiunge ricca di note dolenti e il cielo riesce a trasformarsi in un enorme scolapasta, dai cui fori filtra la luce di altri universi, quella luce che noi crediamo essere stelle e che sarà solo un'altra illusione di questo non mondo)
a sketch is from a book printed about 1830-35 yr.
finger is mine
However some problem may appear in creative areas, cause these are close related with Libido..
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I intended to represent a mermaid attracting several persons with her love (please see some closer details below)...
Made for "Art Official Concept", an art gallery based in Cape Verde (Western Africa).
See the whole Pencil Vs Camera Album.
More facts: The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 volcanic islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa. The islands, covering a combined area of slightly over 4,000 square kilometres. The previously uninhabited islands were discovered and colonized by the Portuguese in the 15th Century, and became an important location in the Atlantic slave trade due to their geographically advantageous position. The islands' prosperity often attracted pirates including Sir Francis Drake, who twice sacked the (then) capital Ribeira Grande, in the 1580s. The islands were also visited by Charles Darwin's expedition in 1832.
Cape Verde has a rich cultural heritage influenced by continents like Africa, South America and Europe. This heritage is reflected in the country's literature, poetry, cuisine, its dance and its famous national song, the Morna, represented worldwide by the famous Cesária Évora.
>>> Review from THE DAILY MAIL for this picture: "Mixed Reality: This incredible sketch has captures the boats on the water sitting alongside a mermaid on a rock. A carefully-cut hole in the paper even makes room for the diver as he prepares to launch himself overboard" (Kerry McQueeney, The Daily Mail, Sept. 2011)
Update: See THIS VIDEO showing some 18 Pencil Vs Camera images in progress (with a small animation and an original musical composition)
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The yellow flowers are commonly known as "dubbeltjies" over here…devil's thorn in English.
A pretty but invasive plant in "disturbed" or overgrazed areas.
It has many medicinal uses and health benefits, apparently. According to this article it reduces blood sugar and cholesterol, alters hormone levels and increases sexual function and libido. There you go... Have a fun weekend, everyone! 😁 🌻
She: "I took the liberty of ordering you a ginseng, clove, nutmeg, and maca root latte. It increases the libido and boosts energy, circulation, and stamina."
He (thinking): "Oh my, I really should have got a prescription for those little green pills."
Image imagined in MidJourney AI and finished with Topaz Studio and Lightroom Classic.
Giving up my ego raises my libido
My bag is Gucci
To match my perfect coochie
Glamour is my hobby
Fuck my pornstar body
My sexy aesthetic is highly synthetic Fuck my genetics (I'm totally plastic)
My sexy aesthetic is highly synthetic Fuck my genetics
I wanna be a bimbo doll
Let's have another shopping hall
I wanna be a bimbo doll
My boobs are huge but I am small
I wanna be a bimbo doll
Let's have another shopping hall
B.I.M.B.O.
I just wanna be a stupid hoe
I wanna be a bimbo doll...
++Credits++
TOP1SALON - HD LOVELY LIPSTICK LELUTKA X PALE
TOP1SALON - HD EVE EYESHADOW
e.marie // Melia Earrings - Silvers { EvoX elf F }
REBORN - Juicy Boobs
[Cynful] Stripper Dust - eBody Reborn
Normandy-Lacuna.Bodysuit-Aegis[reborn//juicy]
Normandy-Specialist.Gloves [Reborn]
16. TRUTH / Bangs / V Bangs
MAZE.mods - Soft Thighs
Messy. Cute Choker Reborn
REBORN by eBODY v1.69.4
Cosmic Crybaby Tears + {aii}
+Dreamy Downbrushed Lashes Masked (Lelutka Lilly) + {aii}
HEAD / lel EvoX LILLY 3.1
16. TRUTH / Bangs / V Bangs
::Static:: Fae Embers
BONDI . V.I.P. Drone . Pink
NANAO X MAZE // Destroyed Stocking // Reborn // White
REIGN.- CUFF ME HEELS (REBORN-HIGH)- FATPACK
TRUTH / Curious / Size 2
[d.] Plain - Static {L/R}
{minuit} Lisa Skirt [Reborn]
THIS IS WRONG Cybernetic shine 2D/3D
I'm sure people with a high sex drive have to find new ways to feed their stimulus and that often leads them to think outside the box and turn to bisexual activity and various fetishes. I know I'm using this out of context but mud sticks and once one gets sucked in it's hard to go back to 'once a week with the light off' kind of sex, although that must be far less common today as couples no longer wait for the wedding bells before they find out their partner is gay or a dud. I'm one of those people who was always randy and I'm sure it frightened all the girls away especially as I was not one to bring flowers or exactly come across as the marrying kind eager to settle down and have kids. So apart from when I had a relationship or the occasionl treat life for me was a bit lonely when I was younger and I had to rely on my fantasies and art of get by. But strange thoughts did cross my mind and being female instead of male did sometimes give me a warm glow especially as I beleived quite rightly that being female would have enabled me to express my feelings more especially as I loved my body and the thought of to pose, I guess too when I looked at porn I probably imagined I was the woman without realising it. If I dressed like this as Christopher everyone would think I was gay but now that I'm Jojo it doesn't matter if I am or not as I have pushed my bounderies beyond that. I'm sure if like more normal people I hadn't been born with an over active libido I might have settled down to a more conventional existence but we randy people are like mountaineers we have to get out there and try to reach our peaks. The only trouble with that is the way I dress makes it feel cold at times especially when one seems to live on that mountain.
Kombucha (also tea mushroom, tea fungus, or Manchurian mushroom when referring to the culture; botanical name Medusomyces gisevii[1]) is a fermented, slightly alcoholic, lightly effervescent, sweetened black or green tea drink commonly intended as a functional beverage for its supposed health benefits. Sometimes the beverage is called kombucha tea to distinguish it from the culture of bacteria and yeast.[2] Juice, spices, or other flavorings are often added to enhance the taste of the beverage. The exact origins of kombucha are not known.[3] It is thought to have originated in Manchuria where the drink is traditionally consumed, or in Russia and Eastern Europe.[4] Kombucha is now homebrewed globally, and also bottled and sold commercially by various companies.
Many people drink kombucha for its purported health benefits. Research has been conducted using biological assays in vitro.[40] Other studies have been in vivo using rats. There have not been any human trials conducted to assess its possible biological effects, and the purported health benefits resulting from its biological activities have not been demonstrated in humans.
In 2000, a scientific review was done, which summarized the range of claimed health benefits: "It has been claimed that Kombucha teas cure asthma, cataracts, diabetes, diarrhea, gout, herpes, insomnia and rheumatism. They are purported to shrink the prostate and expand the libido, reverse grey hair, remove wrinkles, relieve haemorrhoids, lower hypertension, prevent cancer, and promote general well-being. They are believed to stimulate the immune system, and have become popular among people who are HIV positive or have AIDS".
A 2003 systematic review characterized kombucha as an "extreme example" of an unconventional remedy because of the disparity between implausible, wide-ranging health claims and the potential risks of the product. It concluded that the proposed, unsubstantiated therapeutic claims did not outweigh known risks, and that kombucha should not be recommended for therapeutic use, being in a class of "remedies that only seem to benefit those who sell them."
The claimed health benefits of kombucha are based only on animal studies and any potential benefits would need to be investigated via clinical trials.
Tiger Tiger Fading Bright Part 6
The Hunter in the Red PVC Cap is still giving an impromptu rock and roll guitar rendition on his knee. Don't miss that.
the situation on the Tiger front has been grim for quite sometime. The Planet Earth is slowly relinquising its flora and fauna as humankind expands in uncontrollable numbers and fritters away Nature and its resources in a headlong dive to extinction for almost all.
Continuing the series
Tiger Tiger, Fading Bright !
The tigers in India are facing the toughest odds and are on the brink of being wiped out. There is a big industry based on tiger claws and bones etc that drives up the demand for the killing of this beautiful beast.
Men will buy a enlargement (is enhancement the right choice of word ?) of libido anytime anywhere but Chinese men will pay top dollars for tiger remains to increase theirs.
If you wonder why all the grand conservation efforts to save the tiger are failing, go no further then the politics of funding tiger conservation. It has been known for years that it is allegedly a big sham with mega bucks and mega publicity but almost nil results.
If you have the time it would be interesting to read some interesting thoughts and the current day reality ( The link is now dead as Aditya Singh has closed that blog, However you can see his work at
on the tigers in an exchange between Thatzme and Aditya Singh from Rajasthan. This is not possible now... as the content has since then vanished in the great digital morass.
One can only hope that one sees a tiger in the wild in one's life time as the future generation may not have that privilege anytime soon. So if you are young and in India, head out and go see the elusive tiger before it is too late.
India has only 1150 - 1600 tigers that are available in the wild as per the Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh.
Pervez 183A in one of his earlier comments on this series had mentioned >>>
"why don't the Chinese just try Viagra...???...it might make them dance on one leg...!!!"
Will Viagra be the Saviour of the Indian Tiger ?
This is an enactment of the situation at a Kerala street show during Onam in Thrippunithra near Cochin on the Atthachamayam day.
DSC_0843 jpeg via ACR
"You can't just wish and hope for something to come true, you have to make it happen."
This image is one of three pieces I created for a Pee-wee Herman themed art show. Initially I knew I wanted to make surreal shots with Pee-wee. When I started looking up locations and re-watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure over and over I stumped upon something deep n juicy.
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In the 1985 film Pee-wee's Big Adventure the address seen on Pee Wee's house is 1848. This is the address of the house in real life and the address seen on screen. The left side of Pee Wee's front yard is filled with Native Americans, a teepee, and a totem pole. Moving right you see domesticated animals, a SCUBA diver, and finally on the far right a rocket ship. Smack in the middle, above the front door is the address 1848. 1848 is the year gold was discovered in California.
At first gold nuggets were easily picked off the ground by independent prospectors. Later, gold was recovered from streams and riverbeds using panning techniques. The craving for gold led miners to develop more sophisticated methods. Technology advanced and soon gold prospecting reached a point where significant manpower was required, thus increasing the proportion of gold companies to individual miners.
Early in the film, while inside Chuck's Bike-O-Rama Pee-wee claims to be a "rebel" and a "loner" and it's after making these claims that Pee-wee loses his most valued possession.
-Past-
When Pee-wee's friends can't help him get a lead on his missing bike he turns to a fortune teller, Madam Ruby. Madam Ruby convinces Pee-wee his bike is in the basement of the Alamo.
The gold discovery of 1848 happened in January. Moving forward through the year we have another major event. In February 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. This is the treaty that ended the Mexican-American war. The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event in the Texas Revolution and a predecessor to the Mexican-American War. All Texians were slain. America got it's ass kicked. It was a loss that prompted soldiers to fight harder than ever for what they believed in.
After arriving at the Alamo Pee-wee takes the guided tour and finds there is no basement. His whole search is derailed. But why would Madam Ruby mislead him? She didn't. He misinterpreted.
What if I told you Morpheus was Cowboy Curtis on Pee-wee's Playhouse? Morpheus is the Greek god of dreams. The opening scene to Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a dream. Enroute to the Alamo Pee-wee has an intimate discussion about dreams with Simone, inside the mouth of a T-Rex.
In dream mythology the location of a basement represents our hidden motives, unconscious, unknown feelings, memories or past experiences, your biological past, and the place where your conscious mind contacts hidden powers, universal wisdom, and even other minds. It is from the basement, below, or within, that libido or life force arises. Fears and terrors sometimes come from downstairs. This is because it is the place we hide our old memories and hurts – in the unconscious. But it also holds the understanding of your wholeness.
Back to the movie. After his loss at the Alamo, Pee-wee goes to a bus station where he happens to run into a very excited Simone. Simone is on her way to France. She's following her dream. Going back to that opening scene to the film it was Pee-wee's dream to win the Tour de France.
Moving even further through the year 1848 we get to a wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more open-minded governments which spread as far as Latin American. And where did all these revolutions begin? France. When Pee-wee tells Simon the Alamo was built without a basement he says, "They don't tell you that stuff in school, it's something you just have to experience." Pee-wee is having an inner revolution.
Next he calls Dottie in the Bike-O-Rama and apologizes. He says he's learned something out there on the road, humility.
-Future-
Throughout his journey Pee-wee learns the power of making others happy. He inspires Simon to follow her dreams, entertains a crowd at a Texas Rodeo, and dances for the Satan's Helpers in a biker bar. All this before discovering his bike, his treasure, his gold is in California.
The revolutions of 1848 end in Austria. In December the Emperor, Ferdinand I willingly stepped down from the thrown. Remember the opening scene to the movie, Pee-wee is millimeters from being crowned (victor of tour de France) when his alarm clock wakes him, spiraling him into the most pivotal day of his life, the day he lost everything, an ass kicking that pushed him to fight harder than ever.
Pee-wee's Big Adventure ends with Pee Wee playing a bit part in the story of his life. During the premiere of his big movie Pee Wee gives back to all the people who've helped him in his journey. And at last, loner no more, selflessly he rides off with the real gold, eternal love.
Icing on the cake:
while inside the Magic Shop the last thing Mario offers Pee-wee is a blue boomerang bowtie, to which he responds: "Come in red?" Pee-wee took the red bowtie, he willingly chose to leave the slave world and see how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Double icing on the cake:
the first image of Pee-wee in waking life is him putting on rabbit slippers.
Triple icing on the cake:
Pee-wee leaps on the fireman pole in his house and slides down the hole.
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NOTE: This image made Popular Photography Magazine's Photo of the Day June 18th 2014.
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A photo I recently took at "Fort L'Ecluse" in France.
Model: Sophie Frisch.
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Tiger Tiger Fading Bright Part 5
The Hunter in the Red PVC Cap is still giving an impromptu rock and roll guitar rendition on his knee. Don't miss that.
the situation on the Tiger front has been grim for quite sometime. The Planet Earth is slowly relinquising its flora and fauna as humankind expands in uncontrollable numbers and fritters away Nature and its resources in a headlong dive to extinction for almost all.
Continuing the series
Tiger Tiger, Fading Bright !
The tigers in India are facing the toughest odds and are on the brink of being wiped out. There is a big industry based on tiger claws and bones etc that drives up the demand for the killing of this beautiful beast.
Men will buy a enlargement (is enhancement the right choice of word ?) of libido anytime anywhere but Chinese men will pay top dollars for tiger remains to increase theirs.
If you wonder why all the grand conservation efforts to save the tiger are failing, go no further then the politics of funding tiger conservation. It has been known for years that it is allegedly a big sham with mega bucks and mega publicity but almost nil results.
If you have the time it would be interesting to read some interesting thoughts and the current day reality on the tigers in an exchange between Thatzme and Aditya Singh from Rajasthan.
One can only hope that one sees a tiger in the wild in one's life time as the future generation may not have that privilege anytime soon. So if you are young and in India, head out and go see the elusive tiger before it is too late.
India has only 1150 - 1600 tigers that are available in the wild as per the Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh.
Pervez 183A in one of his earlier comments on this series had mentioned >>>
"why don't the Chinese just try Viagra...???...it might make them dance on one leg...!!!"
Will Viagra be the Saviour of the Indian Tiger ?
This is an enactment of the situation at a Kerala street show during Onam in Thrippunithra near Cochin on the Atthachamayam day.
DSC_0842 jpeg via ACR
Model: Ajee
Hand Model: Clarence H
Freud believed that humans were driven by two instinctive drives, libidinal energy/Eros and the death instinct/Thanatos. Freud's description of Eros/Libido included all creative, life-producing instincts. The Death Instinct represented an instinctive drive to return to a state of calm, or non-existence....
Tiger Tiger, Fading Bright !
The tigers in India are facing the toughest odds and are on the brink of being wiped out. There is a big industry based on tiger claws and bones etc that drives up the demand for the killing of this beautiful beast.
Men will buy a enlargement (is enhancement the right choice of word ?) of libido anytime anywhere but Chinese men will pay top dollars for tiger remains to increase theirs.
If you wonder why all the grand conservation efforts to save the tiger are failing, go no further then the politics of funding tiger conservation. It has been known for years that it is allegedly a big sham with mega bucks and mega publicity but almost nil results.
If you have the time it would be interesting to read some interesting thoughts and the current day reality on the tigers in an exchange between Thatzme and Aditya Singh from Rajasthan.
One can only hope that one sees a tiger in the wild in one's life time as the future generation may not have that privilege anytime soon. So if you are young and in India, head out and go see the elusive tiger before it is too late.
India has only 1150 - 1600 tigers that are available in the wild as per the Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh.
Will Viagra be the Saviour of the Indian Tiger ?
This is an enactment of the situation at a Kerala street show during Onam in Thrippunithra near Cochin on the Atthachamayam day.
DSC_0838 jpeg via ACR
The 3rd Gender - Katoeys and Ladyboys in Thailand
It is a grim plight to be born with intermediate hormonal levels and be forever trapped inside the wrong physical body. Transgenders, cross dressers and the like have a tough time in the Indian subcontinent as well as the rest of Asia. Thailand is the only country where there is freedom of expression and acceptance among the masses.
Many libido charged men roving the female form in Thailand nightlife in Thailand have been fooled into finding out a man or a boy under a superbly sculpted feminine body whom they would have picked up and considered themselves lucky to get such a prize catch of sexiness.
Katoes or Ladyboys generally carry on openly and most of them have a surgically grafted big bust line, feminine makeup to the hilt, scantily clad provocative dressing. The walk and the postures are exaggerated fashion ramp style and their tall frames make them stand out easily from the regular women of Thailand.
This was late evening in Aonang, a tourist hotspot in Krabi. Two groups of scantily dressed ladyboys all set for a cabaret show were working the street selling their shows in to the predominantly Chinese and Indian tourists.
The ambient light was immensely poor right outside a Burger King franchise but the ladyboy here had enough glamor and oomph to light up the frame.
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When I first gave him tattoos, I was trying to cover some stains caused by dark fabric (my worse nemesis👿) but now I'm doing it for the aesthetic.
Billy has the heart of a merman (you can see a mermaid tail on his chest), the soul of a hipster,(the libido of a succubus/incubus), the humor of a clown (loves healthy pranks and jokes), the creativity of an artist and the vocabulary of a sailor.
He's also an artist and I like to imagine him designing his own tattoos.
The Hunter in a Red Plastic Hat and a black and red striped jail line tee held his gun as if he was strumming the guitar in a rock and roll epiphany.
Whether he had an epiphany or not but the situation on the Tiger front has been grim for quite sometime. The Planet Earth is slowly relinquising its flora and fauna as humankind expands in uncontrollable numbers and fritters away Nature and its resources in a headlong dive to extinction for almost all.
Continuing the series
Tiger Tiger, Fading Bright !
The tigers in India are facing the toughest odds and are on the brink of being wiped out. There is a big industry based on tiger claws and bones etc that drives up the demand for the killing of this beautiful beast.
Men will buy a enlargement (is enhancement the right choice of word ?) of libido anytime anywhere but Chinese men will pay top dollars for tiger remains to increase theirs.
If you wonder why all the grand conservation efforts to save the tiger are failing, go no further then the politics of funding tiger conservation. It has been known for years that it is allegedly a big sham with mega bucks and mega publicity but almost nil results.
If you have the time it would be interesting to read some interesting thoughts and the current day reality on the tigers in an exchange between Thatzme and Aditya Singh from Rajasthan.
One can only hope that one sees a tiger in the wild in one's life time as the future generation may not have that privilege anytime soon. So if you are young and in India, head out and go see the elusive tiger before it is too late.
India has only 1150 - 1600 tigers that are available in the wild as per the Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh.
Will Viagra be the Saviour of the Indian Tiger ?
This is an enactment of the situation at a Kerala street show during Onam in Thrippunithra near Cochin on the Atthachamayam day.
DSC_0840 jpeg via ACR
The beaches of Goa in the winter of 2008-09 season have not seen much activity, thanks to the general slowdown of economy and the insidious terror calls made by Pakistan fomented Islamic radical groups.
While the terrorists landed in India over the same coastline as the one that runs here. Goa has an invasion going on from the vast numbers of Russian beauties and the Russian hunks who throng the more secluded beaches of Morjim , Ashvem, Mandrem and Arambol in North Goa.
Pictured here is Ms July C on a holiday in Goa with a radiant smile that seems to outshine the brave Helios that is descending on the western horizon.
I have a contact and a female friend tell me that Ms July was neither beautiful, nor sexy nor had a good figure. I would, however, hold Ms July as beautiful, sexy and a sure shot material for a monthly magazine(s) that caters to the male world libido.
What do you think ?
The large size for the male consumer's screen saver is here
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The tigers in India are facing the toughest odds and are on the brink of being wiped out. There is a big industry based on tiger claws and bones etc that drives up the demand for the killing of this beautiful beast.
Men will buy a enlargement (is enhancement the right choice of word ?) of libido anytime anywhere but Chinese men will pay top dollars for tiger remains to increase theirs.
If you wonder why all the grand conservation efforts to save the tiger are failing, go no further then the politics of funding tiger conservation. It has been known for years that it is allegedly a big sham with mega bucks and mega publicity but almost nil results.
If you have the time it would be interesting to read some interesting thoughts and the current day reality on the tigers in an exchange between Thatzme and Aditya Singh from Rajasthan.
One can only hope that one sees a tiger in the wild in one's life time as the future generation may not have that privilege anytime soon. So if you are young and in India, head out and go see the elusive tiger before it is too late.
India has only 1150 - 1600 tigers that are available in the wild as per the Minister of Environment Jairam Ramesh.
Will Viagra be the Saviour of the Indian Tiger ?
This is an enactment of the situation at a Kerala street show during Onam in Thrippunithra near Cochin on the Atthachamayam day.
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The red hot of the Indian Mirchi is a delight for the eyes and here it is in its popping best for this day when the weather has turned into what we in India refer as " sexy weather "....now what the hell that is ( cool temerature, a faint breeze wafting with the smell of the redolent earth on it, overnight rains, the distant visible hills, a feeling of satisfied life... ) ....it is for you to decide.
You must see it large size to get the mood going
So you have a flurry of furtive assignations and couples on dates and in general a renewal of life ! Red remains a powerful fertility symbol across cultures. It is supposed to invigorate you, increase your metabolism, your blood pressure and your libido. So go forth and pop some red hot sex and imprint your DNA.
How I wish the weather stayed like this for many a days !
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Fleming: the ritual of urine sniffing; a behavioral component of libido in the male animal. The animal appears to be carrying out a test for odor in the urine. He sniffs the urine or the perineum, then extends the head, dilates the nostrils, and lifts and curls the upper lip.
Inspired by mysticism, the narrator uses desire and its fulfillment as the principle of life and religion. The senses are explored in depth in contact with a nature rich in gifts, captured in landscapes with oriental colors from Biskra and the painter Etienne Dinet.
" Look in the evenings as if the day were to die here; and in the morning as if all things were born there. May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is the one who surprises himself with everything. .....Throw out my book; tell you that it is only one of the thousand possible postures in front of life. Look for yours. What someone else would have done as well as you, don't do. What someone else would have said as well as you, don't say, _ as well written as you, don't write. Be devoted in
yourself only to what you feel which is nowhere other than in yourself, and create from you, impatiently or patiently, ah! the most unrivalled of all beings. There are strange possibilities in every man. The present would be full of all futures, if the past did not already project a history. But, alas! a unique past offers a unique future - projects it before us, like an infinite point on space.
I wish no rest other than the sleep of death. I am afraid that any desire, any energy that I would not have satisfied during my life, for their survival will torment me.
I hope, after having expressed on this earth all that awaited me, I am satisfied, I hope to die completely desperate.
No, not sympathy, Nathaniel, love. You realize, don't you, that it's not the same thing. It is out of fear of a loss of love that sometimes I was able to sympathize with sadness, trouble, pain that otherwise I would have barely endured. Leave everyone to take care of their own lives.
(I can't write today because a wheel turns in the barn. Yesterday I saw her; she was beating rapeseed. The ball flew away; the grain rolled on the ground. The dust suffocated.
A woman turned the wheel. Two handsome boys, barefoot, harvested the grain.
I'm crying because I have nothing more to say.
Everything that seeks to assert itself denies itself; everything that renounces itself affirms itself.
Tomorrow's dream is a joy, but tomorrow's joy is another, and fortunately nothing resembles the dream we had of it; for it is different that everything is worth anything.
Dare to be what you are. Don't let it get out of hand. There are admirable possibilities in every being. Persuade yourself of your strength and youth. Know how to tell you over and over again: He only cares about me.
Our actions cling to us as his phosphorus glow.
They consume us, it is true, but they make us our splendour.
And if our soul was worth anything, it was that it burned more ardently than a few others.
I settle down in this point of the space that I occupy, in this precise moment of duration. I do not accept that it is not crucial. I extend my arms all the way. I say: this is the south, the north... I am effect; I will be cause. Determining cause! An opportunity that will never come again. I am; but I want to find a reason for being. I want to know why I live.What absurd conception of the world and life manages to cause three-quarters of our misery, and by attachment to the past refuses to understand that tomorrow's joy is only possible if the joy of today gives way, that each wave owes the beauty of its curve only to the withdrawal of that which precedes it, that each flower must wither for its fruit, that this one, if it does not fall and die, does not die. From the day when I convinced myself that I didn't need to be happy, happiness began to dwell in me; yes, from the day when I convinced myself that I didn't need anything to be happy. It seemed to me, after giving the touch of selfishness, that I had poured forth such an abundance of joy from my heart that I could water all the others with it.
I understood that the best teaching is an example. I accepted my happiness as a vocation."
This work of youth, long matured, is that of a "convalescent who embraces life as something he almost lost". No novel, no essay, no long poem in prose, this unclassifiable work is a little bit all this at once. In the eight books that make up the book, the narrator, referring to himself as a master called Ménalque, addresses a disciple who answers to the biblical name of Nathaniel and who represents the virtual reader of the text. The subject of the work is given from the Warning which precedes the first book:"Let my book teach you to be more interested in you than in itself.Terrestrial Foods are the great work of Gide, without which the author's knowledge is incomplete. It is, however, surprisingly different from the Pastoral Symphony, the False Minters or the Narrow Gate, which adopts the Romanesque form. A long poem in prose, a textbook of hedonistic philosophy or a travel narrative, it is read like an exalted praise of nature and the senses.The fruits, the gardens, the soil are so many beauties rediscovered by new organs and which want to be free of any physical, sentimental and social attachment. It is freedom in uppercase, pleasure erected as a law above the heart and mind, absolute availability to the world and the moment - all this contradicts the very writing of this manual, which stirs memories and shapes this new ethic of joy rather than being satisfied with the present.
Letter to Nathaniel
"You can't imagine, Nathaniel, what can finally become of this watering of light; and the sensual ecstasy that gives this persistent heat... A branch of olive tree in the sky; the sky above the hills; a flute song at the door of a café... Algiers seemed so hot and full of festivities that I wanted to leave it for three days; but at Blidah, where I was in a place like Blidah, where I could not believe it!I go out in the morning; I walk around, I don't look at anything and see everything; a wonderful symphony is formed and unheard sensations are organized in me. The hour goes by, my excitement aligns itself, as the less vertical sun's march is slower. Then I choose, to be or something, of what to fall in love with, - but I want it to move, because my emotion, once fixed, is no longer alive. It seems to me then at every moment that I have not yet seen or tasted anything.I'm lost in a disorderly pursuit of the things that flee. Yesterday I ran to the top of the hills overlooking Blidah, to see the sun a little longer; to see the sunset and the fiery clouds colouring the white terraces. I surprise the shade and silence under the trees; I lurk in the moonlight; I often feel as if I am swimming, so much the warm, luminous air envelops me and lifts me softly."
The book was written in 1895 (the year of Gide's marriage) and appeared in a review in 1896 before publication the next year. Gide admitted to the intellectual influence of Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra but the true genesis was the author's own journey from the deforming influence of his puritanical religious upbringing to liberation in the arms of North African boys. Andre Maurois draws attention to the similarity of moral outlook between the two works in these words: "Like Thus Spake Zarathustra, Les Nourritures Terrestres is a gospel in the root sense of the word: glad tidings. Tidings about the meaning of life addressed to a dearly loved disciple whom Gide calls Nathanael." "Nathaniel" comes from the Hebrew name נְתַנְאֵל, "Nethan'el", meaning "God has given".
The book has three characters: the narrator, the narrator's teacher, Menalque, and the young Nathanael. Menalque has two lessons to impart through the narrator. The first is to flee families, rules, stability. Gide himself suffered so much from "snug homes" that he harped on its dangers all his life. The second is to seek adventure, excess, fervor; one should loathe the lukewarm, security, all tempered feelings. "Not affection, Nathanael: love ..."
A subtly structured collection of lyrical fragments, reminiscences, poems, travel notes, and aphorisms, the book came to command such a following after World War I that Gide wrote a preface stressing the work's self-critical dimension. Nevertheless it influenced a generation of young writers, including the existentialists Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre, to cast off all that is artificial or merely conventional. In Roger Martin du Gard’s The Thibaults, two of the main characters, Jacques Thibault and Daniel de Fontanin, are deeply changed after reading the book.Gide develops the theme of the relationship with matter and natural elements, in an ode that is both lyrical and sensual. Through the work, an almost extatic enthusiasm for life emerges, making the text a kind of gospel of the awakening of the senses; in fact, it seems that sensuality almost acts as a profession of faith, or even a new religion, so much so one feels fervour and emotion, especially for the earth, the harvests, the fruits, all that is physical and fleshy.The entire text can be considered a true hymn to the libido sentiendi.In terms of filigree, it is also about sexuality, even if this theme is not directly mentioned in the book. In this sense, the work can be interpreted as a hyperbole on desire and eroticism, the evocation of harvests and "food" having the value of a symbol of the desired body. It is, above all, a book on desire, on thirst, the objects evoked as a pretext for expressing this desire, often unquenchable, irrepressible, overflowing, which succeeds in magnifying and transcending the whole world.It is not strictly speaking a novel, but rather a long prose poem in which sensuality is expressed, tinged with fervour and contact with nature.The question of the kind of terrestrial food finds its answer in an aesthetics of diversity. Gide proposes hybrid structures, made up of obsolete poetic forms (ballads, rounds), fragments of diaries, notebooks, wandering notes. Despite the current editions, it is important to know that the original manuscript took great liberties in terms of typography, even going so far as to resemble the future modernist verses and other calligrams in vogue at the beginning of the twentieth century. On the other hand, editors have tended to pick up the text and some verse episodes are now presented as a block of prose.
The novelistic aspect of the book is to be found in the theme of travel, in the existence of emblematic characters and above all in the reconstruction of a hedonistic life that transgresses traditional morality.The Foods are in a sense the joyful and solar counterpart of Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, a dark work in which the Irish writer also developed, but "negatively" through absence and lack, a form of absolute sensuality that seeks to free itself from the narrow moralism of the Victorian era, conformism and social conventions.
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Gide was born in Paris on 22 November 1869, into a middle-class Protestant family. His father was a Paris University professor of law who died in 1880. His uncle was the political economist Charles Gide.At a very early age, André began learning to play the piano, which would be his lifelong companion. An accomplished pianist, he regrets that he did not meet excellent teachers early enough to make him a true musician. In 1877, he entered the Alsatian School, beginning a discontinuous schooling2. Indeed, he was soon dismissed for three months after letting go of his "bad habits", that is to say masturbation. Shortly after his return to school - "healed" by the threat of a doctor's castration and the sadness of his parents - the disease keeps him away from it again. In spite of the medical and parental objections, onanism - which he calls "vice" 3 and which he does not practice without a strong taste for sin and sad defeat - will later regain its place among his habits, which will make him write at the age of 23 that he lived until he was "completely virgin and depraved".
Gide was brought up in isolated conditions in Normandy and became a prolific writer at an early age, publishing his first novel, The Notebooks of André Walter (French: Les Cahiers d'André Walter), in 1891, at the age of twenty-one.The death of his father on October 28,1880, pushed him away from normal schooling. Already marked by the death of a little cousin, Émile Widmer, who provoked a deep crisis of anguish in him, baptized, according to Goethe, by the German name Schaudern, André lost, with the death of Paul Gide, a happy and tender relationship, which left him alone in front of his mother:"And I suddenly felt all wrapped up in this love, which now closed on me. During one of his stays in Rouen in the fall of 1882, he surprised his cousin Madeleine's secret sorrow about her mother's adulterous relationships. In his emotion, he discovers "a new orientation to his life". There a long and tortuous relationship emerges. Gide is fascinated by the young girl, by her consciousness of evil, her rigid and conformist sense of what to do, a sum of differences that attracts her. Little by little, he builds a perfect image of his cousin that he falls in love with, in a purely intellectual and yet passionate way.Between 1885 and 1888, the young André lived through a period of religious exaltation - described as a "seraphic state" 8 - which he shared with his cousin through extensive correspondence and common readings. He draws heavily from the Bible, Greek authors, and practices asceticism. In 1885, he met François de Witt-Guizot at La Roque-Baignard, whom he associated for a time with his mysticism. The following year, Pastor Élie Allegret, a summer tutor, became his friend.In 1887, he returned to the Alsatian School of rhetoric and met Pierre Louÿs, with whom he became involved in a passionate friendship, which revolved around literature and their common desire to write. The following year, while preparing for the baccalaureate in philosophy (at Henri-IV high school), he discovered Schopenhauer. After graduating from the baccalaureate in 1889, he began to attend literary fairs, meeting many writers. His first collection, Les Cahiers d' André Walter, through which he hopes to obtain a first literary success and the hand of his cousin, meets with the favor of criticism, failing to attract the public's attention. In the spring of 1892, a trip to Germany without his mother was an opportunity to deepen his knowledge of Goethe. Gide then begins to think that "it is a duty to be happy. In the Elégies romaines, he discovers the legitimacy of pleasure - unlike the puritanism he has always known - and it gives him a "temptation to live". It's also the beginning of tension with her mother. However, the latter decided to support her son in the conquest of Madeleine, against the rest of the Rondeaux family and the young girl herself, who remained firmly opposed to a union with her cousin.
In the summer of 1892, he wrote the Voyage d' Urien, which was co-authored with the painter Maurice Denis, who produced thirty original lithographs16. The book is ignored by critics and little encouragement is given to those close to them. In the fall, after a brief barracks stint - poorly experienced - and five review boards, Gide was reformed. The following year was marked by the birth of a new friendship - initially exclusively epistolary - with Francis Jammes, which Eugène Rouart presented to him.However, it is another friendship, that of Paul Laurens, which will play a decisive role. The young painter, as part of a scholarship, must travel for one year and invites him to join him. This journey, reported in "Si le grain ne meurt" is going to be for Gide the occasion of a moral and sexual emancipation that he called for from his vows. They left in October 1893 for a nine-month trip to Tunisia, Algeria . André then moved to Biskra in Algeria, where they continued her romance, in the arms of the young Mériem. Juliette Gide's sudden intrusion, worried about her son's health, broke their intimacy before the journey resumed without her in April 1894.