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My hubby was never a confident swimmer but this holiday he managed to change things by swimming nearly every day and snorkelling out in the sea way past his depth (something he never thought he would be able to do). It wasn't that he couldn't swim or float, it was his fear of drowning that held him back so how did he get over it? By literally jumping straight into the deep end of the swimming pool. Something maybe more of us should do when conquering our fears with everyday life. I'm very proud of him, & I know he is very proud of his achievements as he now feels free of the fear he had ;-)
Each new year, many will reflect on their past and look forward to the future. Chickens, not so much. (2014:1/52)
(This is a re-post of the shot I deleted while playing around with Lightroom. Grrrrrr.)
Sold separately in 15 colors and 10 patterns. The FatPack has a HUD with which you can mix and match all colors and patterns.
Sizes for Maitreya Lara and MeshBody Legacy.
Exclusive to Vanity Event.
The round begins on July 15th.
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One of two doilies my mother crocheted me for Christmas. I even got to pick the color (in March!). She's really good at this...
I'd end up with a big formless ball of yarn...
But I had fun photographing this -- and I'm really happy with the shot I got. It reminds me of cosmology, for some reason.
Example of diagram created using the metaphor of SPA health/sports centres in designing learning spaces.
Taken with a 3-fold aim. Primarily for Macro Monday where the theme is Metaphors but the heart also signifies Valentine's Day, and the pinkish background was aimed to amplify that theme. It also falls under my Peter Photographic Improvement Project where the current exercise is Macro. From an earlier lesson on Textures, I tried to use glancing light here to emphasise the texture of the stone.
"God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. "
Bradley Hutchinson found this explanation of the old vs. new Heidelberg logo.Maybe the new meaning is "stop the presses," we have abandoned printing as we knew it.
We are celebrating our son ,Lars, receiving a prestigious National Science Foundation Fellowship for 3 years of research in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence.
Yay Lars!!!
Wow! That was in 2005! Lars is now working for several years as a Sr. Software Engineer, about to buy a house and get engaged. Life moves on and moves on quickly!
Definitions of pentecost on the Web:
The word comes from the Greek which means fifty. So, Pentecost was a celebration on the fiftieth day after Passover. It was a culmination of the feast of weeks (Exodus 34:22,23). Pentecost in the NT is the arrival of the Holy Spirit for the church (Acts 2). At Pentecost the disciples of Jesus were gathered and upon the filling of the Holy Spirit, they heard a great wind and spoke in tongues as tongues of fire that settled upon them. ...
A class project
These are loose definitions:
Karma – The guy smoking has been getting bad karma. The cloud above his head is the karma.
Samsara – The cycle of life and rebirth is symbolized by the traffic lights.
Dukkha – The truth of suffering is shown by the homeless person begging on the right.
Right Livelihood – The lessons of right livelihood is shown by the plants growing on the balcony in the upper left.
Right Concentration – This is demonstrated by the camera focusing on the intersection.
Right Effort – Right effort is being used by the woman telling off the man for smoking at the bottom left corner.
Impermanence – The sense of change is portrayed by the construction.
Enlightenment – Towards the left the painter has been enlightened and begins a new piece of art.
Magga – The businessman on the far right giving money to the homeless person is following the 8-ways.
Nirvana – The an in the center has found Nirvana, despite the traffic of his life.
Exercise #3:
Image cards--Use the card you've chosen to help prompt a metaphor for your vision. Exchange cards with a partner. Respond to each other's metaphors by extending them, deepening them, changing them a bit to become something new. Discuss the results--
"This time is perfect for daydreaming, a little downtime, scheming, connecting dots, and creating art, but it’s not great for things that need a lot of heavy-duty action or communication."
a metaphor, of sorts, not so much for any serious kind of emptiness, but for the mild disappointment you get when you take a picture that you think is really neat and then you post it on flickr and you realize it's just an empty wineglass. what is empty here, by the way, is not so much the wineglass as the blue tile countertop -- normally it is loaded with unopened mail.
Mamiya 7ii
Fuji Acros 100
Mamiya 7 N 50mm f/4.5 or 80mm f/4 w/Mamiya 7 CPL or Tiffen Red Filter
XTOL 1:1
Epson V850
By Wesley Brett
Location:
2nd floor SE
Medium:
Wood sculpture (black walnut)
Description:
Brett, a professor in the Design Department, carved this walnut room divider in 1961. It represents the path of education, which leads students to truth and understanding. Originally installed in Moot Hall in 1963, it was moved to its current location in 1990.
My boys are over-exposed with all sorts of products of a capitalistic society. These are just the tip of the iceberg and bath time usually becomes a playtime. Back when I was a child, I just got in, took shower, got out. .....lol (I am just acting crazy with too much coffee in my bloodstream) ;-)
ISO 1600, 1/80, Flash and bathroom light ...lol
Durable notes, shedding impatient grandeur,
and when they, upon their wings, do soar -
I see eloquent shades uplifting, enveloping uproar,
Mixing metaphors, my heart can hurt no more.
I rise, I fly, I glide well high,
my effort, little and with subtle tilt of wings,
climbs over her visage, her sight slightly cries,
swiftly gained yet gainsaid shadows bring
me crashing back to transient sighs.
Rejecting doubt, rather, believe in love,
Radiant, enveloping, completely without abandon.
Heed pure words offered with honest candor,
Eloquence comes rarely, as the wings of a dove,
genuine sincerity is offered up once more.
Wrote this after the Pittsburgh Symphony performance last night.
the pen is mightier than the sword. And the pen that writes numbers (however meaningless) even more so.
We're very good at measuring, but just what exactly is it that we're measuring? I think we've lost sight of the wood for the trees...
Martha says she and Betty are two peas in a pod, they have even started finishing each other's sentences.
3 years on Flickr as of TODAY.............don't know why this one seems appropriate. This is not an image of a flowering plant.
Life, is like the cereal isle.
There are way too many choices presented for you.
Making one, takes a lot more than just consideration.
During his address, the Emperor paid tribute to the heroic stormtroopers who have died at the hands of Ewok insurgents. He stated that the cosmos has irrevocably changed since the unprovoked terrorist attack on the Death Star, and that it would be foolish to underestimate the rebel threat. The rebel assault on the space station was, he claimed, motivated by "envy for our way of life" and a "hatred of freedom". Warming to his theme, he added "This is a clear and present danger. It is vague, and may be some years away, but it is nevertheless clear and it is present."
Mr Palpatine expressed disgust at video footage which appears to show Ewoks using the helmets of murdered clone soldiers as makeshift drum kits. "The creatures who mocked the deaths of our brave galactical freedomists are enemies of libertaria, as well as rather blatantly being designed with one eye on the spin-off toy market." The Emperor went on to dismiss reports that imperial troops have been torturing prisoners by freezing them in carbon. "What people have to rememberise is that this empire is striking back, and you can't strike back unless it was the other people who striked you firstly. The Death Star was a civilian target. OK, so it was the most influential military building in the galaxy, and it ruthlessly vaporised entire planets, but that doesn't make it a legitimate military target."
Lord Sidious also backed the secretary of defense, Darth Vader, over his handling of the mission to locate Bin Kinobi, the fundamentalist Jedi, who is thought to be in hiding in the Tatooine desert. Kinobi is believed to be the figurehead of a wide-reaching intergalactic network, consisting of himself, a small green puppet, and at least one adolescent trainee. "These three terrorists are everywhere," said Mr. Palpatine. "There could be millions of these three people." He concluded his speech by denying that Lord Vader is to be replaced by the significantly more hard-line Donald Rumsfeld, saying "That would be going too far."
-Cow jaw bone, map
The term “lungs of the city” is one of several metaphors commonly used to describe nature. Borrowed from parks in London, the phrase was made popular in the U.S. by renowned landscape designer and engineer Frederick Law Olmsted. Charles Whitnall, having grown up on the Milwaukee River, readily elicited similar language as a member of the Socialist Party and first Secretary of the Milwaukee County Park Commission (starting 1907) – referring to the benefits of a “transfusion of nature’s refined blood” associated with the development of a geographically and ecologically interconnected park system.[1]
While both Olmsted and Whitnall believed that nature was an indicator of human physical and mental health, they differed in their means of reaching such a state. Olmsted’s background in English Romanticism and Victorian landscape led him to emphasize the “view,” or an accentuated aesthetic brake in the landscape, as an element of formal parks.[2] In contrast, Whitnall focused on providing experiences of nature in everyday settings – such as streets, boulevards, and “parked ways” as green space corridors.[3]
Both viewpoints can be seen as a response to the industrialization period and the urbanization of Milwaukee. Olmsted reflected on culture itself and declared the designation of parks imperative. As illustrated in the 1868 memoir The Justifying Value of a Public Park, he asked himself a dire question: “Considering that [the park movement] has occurred simultaneously with the great enlargement of towns and development of urban habits, is it not reasonable to regard it as a self-preserving instinct of civilization?”
1.Charles B. Whitnall, lecture at USC, 1937, Milwaukee Historical Society
2.Frederick L. Olmsted, Address to {the} Prospect Park Scientific Association, 1868
3.Charles B. Whitnall, The First Tentative Report of the Metropolitan Park Commission [City of Milwaukee], 1909, Milwaukee Historical Society