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"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
-Bruce Lee
^_^ my first sketch upload. bought myself a wacom. I am a noob, my pencil work was getting better but using a wacom takes a bit of time. This is a new album where I draw stuff and write quotes :)
Random things I thought would be nice to share with my Flickr friends.
Please, see comments for bigger photos and more stories.
"My Favorite Things" flickr kansai meetup photo exhibition vol.1 was over yesterday.
We spent happy days in a gallery.
Let's meet you again on the next time. Good luck!
Thank you:)
『My Favorite Things 』
flickr kansai meetup photo exhibition vol.1が昨日終わりました。
私達は、ギャラリーで楽しい日々を過ごしました。
再び次回お会いしましょう。
ありがとうございました。
Sometimes the little things get overlooked, but I try to see the beauty in everything.
I try to look for what matters, to get underneath the surface.
It believe that it is important.
The Wild Things in concerto ai Magazzini Generali di Milano foto di Andrea Ripamonti per www.rockon.it
Do you see the thoughts that run through my head? They twist, turn and race in and out of the darkness. Do you see them emerging in frantic and mischievous ways? Do you see now?
Can You See the Things in my Head?
5 x 5” watercolor & ink on paper
2011
Salon de la Photo, Paris - this is a crossed image.
Click here for the Anaglyph for red/cyan 3D glasses version;
Click here for the Anaglyph for amber/blue 3D glasses version;
Click here for the Parallel version;
Click here for the Wiggle version.
The above alternative versions are courtesy of www.schillr.com.
Beautiful Things should be part of life...
we all deserve as much happiness as we can squeeze from our lives - the things that authentically make us happy even better if there's love and devotion.
As I grew up, the family line of 'we're a cat family' but this year I've searched my soul, sat with myself to find out who I really am - not what society expects or dictates - but me 😁 because all that matters is you and your family's peace and love when that front door closes the rest of the world out.
Turns out - I may well be a dog person -
Introducing Lord Hero Phoenix
Hero for short ❤❤❤
Okay I know to start with as we really get to know each there maybe a few mishaps - especially as it's my first time with this type of love (but I'm sure my love will carry me through with him until I learn !
He'll probably run off a few times, chew some things he shouldn't, have the odd accident!
But i've mellowed, whats a bit of damage for such loyalty, friendship, an enthusiastic greeting and a very pleased wagging tail as you walk through the door - 24 hours and the love in his eyes❤
Lesson learnt I definitely make my own decisions on what brings me happiness and puppy love I know now is for me - 'H' on the other hand is where the heck did this come from - I think he foresees Mom wanting to go on even more walkies ❤
I like to drive. Sometimes I see strange things. Sometimes they frighten me. Sometimes they confuse me. But I keep driving.....keep moving. Sometimes there is the temptation to get out of the car......to interact with this odd world but I think not.....c'mon Jessiqua get back in the car, I don't think it's safe out there..no place to mess around.
Many things have changed along the busy Colac shopping strip that runs the length of Murray Street. Shops have come and gone, and each time the shop front it inhabits is redecorated. Yet if you look above a shop's awning, you will often find the original building's parapets, still very much intact.
This very decorative parapet was used to conceal the building's proper roofline, and owing to its highly ornamented nature, this shop has been constructed in Victorian Free Classical style. The Victorian Free Classical architectural movement was popular from the mid to the late Nineteenth Century and resulted as a reaction against the strict rules of two previous styles, the Greek and Roman Revival movements, which were very constricted. The Victorian Free Classical style, as the name suggests, allowed architects more freedom when designing buildings, often combining complimentary elements from different periods. The movement was used widely, from large city buildings to small domestic buildings, religious and domestic buildings alike.
Located approximately 150 kilometres to the south-west of Melbourne, past Geelong is the small Western District city of Colac. The area was originally settled by Europeans in 1837 by pastoralist Hugh Murray. A small community sprung up on the southern shore of a large lake amid the volcanic plains. The community was proclaimed a town, Lake Colac, in 1848, named after the lake upon which it perches. The post office opened in 1848 as Lake Colac and was renamed Colac in 1854 when the city changed its name. The township grew over the years, its wealth generated by the booming grazing industries of the large estates of the Western District and the dairy industry that accompanied it. Colac has a long high street shopping precinct, several churches, botanic gardens, a Masonic hall and a smattering of large properties within its boundaries, showing the conspicuous wealth of the city. Today Colac is still a commercial centre for the agricultural district that surrounds it with a population of around 10,000 people. Although not strictly a tourist town, Colac has many beautiful surviving historical buildings or interest, tree lined streets. Colac is known as “the Gateway to the Otways” (a reference to the Otway Ranges and surrounding forest area that is located just to the south of the town).
11/23/08-11/24/08
Yesterday/last night was wonderful. Found Benny near Donut Circus (naw) and we went to The Windtalkers band practice, good stuff. Then we left to get directions for Orlando and then we got Maximus Willis and went to Orlando to see Copeland and Lovedrug and Lydia! We met up with Stereo Carousel and other psl and stuart persons. I've been to concerts before but none like so close and personal with the bands, as was this.
Lovedrug was fantastic and Copeland was amazing. Lydia sounded good too. A lot of clones there and kids acting all important; it was silly. Nonetheless, the music was good, the Social was muggy and warm, and there was a lot of love pouring in my heart through music last night.
After, we met up with Juka and a Kayla and went to this Ihop where I got some sweet hot cocoa and filled out Max's Whataburger kid's meal activities. As we were making our way back to 95, we almost died in a car crash with this drunk guy who's tire was completely blown and his rim was like trashed. Max called the cops so they would do something about it, cause he was in the middle of a lane. The ride home was the highlight. We played truth to keep Benny awake, as opposed to truth or dare, because we were in a car and creativity would be limited. We asked eachother really amazing, in-depth, personal, crazy, hypothetical questions, learned a lot about eachother. The stars were beautiful as well! Overall, a really memorable evening.
We got in around 2-2:30 and I had class at 7:30. Got back my earth science test, failed, and I was falling asleep as my professor lectured us on taking notes and not sleeping and slacking in class. It's not that I'm slacking; it's that he sucks as a professor. He covers hardly any of the materials on his exams. REDICULOUSSNESSSSS!
Then I walked home and was planning to go back to sleep until my next class but Asia called me :)))))) and we went to Starbucks, got some coffee, and talked about various things. She's like one of my ultimate, all-time favourite people ever in the existence of my life. She's so kosher. Then we went our separate ways, to class, where I sat and dreamt up ideas for The Windtalkers cover art. I'm clueless as to what I'm going to do for them. I'm unsatisfied with my non-existent talent.
It's beautiful out. I opened my back patio's door so the wind can invade my house and make me happy. I'm alone until this afternoon, so hopefully I'll find something to do.
As tagged by memmu, I'm playing too. In no particular order, 16 random things about me:
1. My middle name, Marie, is also my sister's middle name (Theresa Marie), my mother's first name (Marie Ann), and my grandmother's first name (Marie Jessica).
2. Christmas is my favorite holiday, and I never seem to have as much time to celebrate it as I would like. A lot of years it's been because of school and work taking up too much of my time, but I'm hoping after I graduate, that I'll be able to take full advantage of the season and do all the baking, decorating and crafting that I want.
3. I am an absolute tea fiend, and really a day seldom goes by when I don't have a cup or two. My favorite is Earl Grey, with plenty of milk and sugar. My electric hot water kettle is worth its weight in gold to me, let's just say. :)
4. I'm 5'4", and while I wish I was taller, I've accepted the fact that I'll be petite forever.
5. I once moved nearly 3000 miles to be with the man I loved. Before I moved from Virginia to California, the_dean and I had spent maybe a month's time total in each other's physical presence. The rest of our relationship had been lived through emails, phone calls, and care packages. It's been nearly 3 years, and it was the best decision I made in my life.
6. My all-time favorite color is blue. I've never met a shade that I didn't like.
7. I much much prefer a chilly grey rainy day over a bright sunny warm one. I lovelovelove the rain, especially in the fall, and especially when I can curl up somewhere warm with a cup of tea and a good book and watch the rain out the window.
8. My favorite number is 8. :)
9. I'm a bit of a claustrophobe, and I don't like being in small enclosed spaces. I can deal with being in vehicles, like cars and planes, as long as I can be near a window and I know where the exits are. Being somewhere where there are no windows makes me very uncomfortable.
10. I have a good-sized tattoo on my right arm (about 8-9" by 5-6" - it's tricky to measure) of a magpie and oak leaves that symbolizes myself and the_dean (Oak is his nickname), as well as my love of fall, water, air, and color. It's my first, and I already have my second one in planning.
11. I have *never* been a morning person. Getting up "early" on the weekends means waking up at the earliest 9:30.
12. I believe clothes should be flattering and comfortable. I adore jeans and wear them any chance I get. I like to dress up, but I much prefer to be comfortable and casual.
13. I grew up in a largish family (two parents, two brothers, one sister) and we are all noisy, loud, talk a lot, and each one of us is pretty unique, but we love each other, all get along, and our family has strong relationships. My parents have been married for nearly 38 years, and have the strongest most loving relationship I've ever seen, and I've never seen them fight. (My mom's parents were married for nearly 60 years before my grandfather passed away, and same thing, very loving and close). This is why I never really understood the concept of divorce when I was younger, and it was only when I was a young adult that I started to get it.
14. I absolutely adore the snow and can not wait until I can move out of California so I can live somewhere it snows in the winter. A lot. Lots of rain and green is also highly desired.
15. I have always loved languages, and I've known from a young age that I wanted to teach. I'm finally pursuing that dream, and it just feels so right.
16. One last random thing: I was born in a country that technically no longer exists. Who can guess it? :)