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The battle raged in the swamp, Superman, Superboy, Green Lantern, and Red Arrow. Red hot heat vision met green shields of sheer willpower channeled through the Green Lantern's Power Ring. Kryptonite arrows were dodged and avoided by narrow margins.
Red Arrow took a shot and ran through the muddy trail to the north. Still the battle raged on. Superboy took a solid hit, sending him flying towards the same direction Red Arrow had escaped. Scrambling to his feet he chose the easier of the two battles and followed after the archer.
It was down to John Stewart and the Man of Steel. Both men were willing to lay it all out on the line when suddenly the swampy waters bubbled and out burst a red, yellow, and purple clad Batman.
"Zur En Arrh!" It was all he said. In his hand was a kryptonite arrow. "Zur En Arrh!" The other hand held a small device that seemed to scramble Green Lantern's constructs. "Zur En Arrh!" The Batman joined the battle after a mysterious disappearance in Northern Gotham during the Cataclysm.
The Batman of Zur En Arrh! moves from #33 Gotham Boardwalk to assault #141 Slaughter Swamp placing John Steward, Red Arrow, and Superman, and Superboy* in peril.
(At the moment Superboy's picture is in queue but he has neglected to add it to the action log so he's in peril too)
Mother with teenage daughter is often under tremendously high stress.... So it takes a lot of willpower to stay online with the world.
Used an SB-600 and an umbrella reflector. The Speedlight was controlled by the commander setting in the camera where the built-in blitz was set to "off" and the SB-600 to manual 1/4 output. The rest of the settings can be seen in the EXIF
Part 21 of my Unreleased Covers.
David Guetta - One Love
Will.I.Am - #Willpower
Tinie Tempah - Disc-Overy
Cheryl Cole - A Million Lights
Crystal Kay - Color Change!
One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful
Pixel demonstrating great willpower 😂. I don’t think Pixel or any of the polar boys need to go on a diet, they are all very well cared for 😃. Pixel had just had some meat and was more interested in having a rest next to the lake.
Personally, I’ve no time for quick-fix, fad diets or ones that demonise a particular food group. A balanced diet is a permanent lifestyle change and even small changes can make a difference.
Polar Bear Pixel
Project Polar
Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Doncaster
December 2017
It's been a strange week.
Last weekend I felt I'd lost my mojo. I tried several sculptures on the Saturday, I had the ideas, but not the willpower to carry them through.
And on Sunday we went to the beach and I did some rock balancing, but they all fell down before I could get any photos. Disappointed we skulked home with nothing to show for it. After such a long period being so prolific I felt a little lost. I started a new job this week - more hours, more stress, more travelling, more responsibility. It seemed that I didn't have energy for both work and play.
I think I had reached saturation point and couldn't even think about land art despite having lots of editing of my book to do and land art always being my solace. I was worried.
My art has a large element of luck associated with it. Very fragile pieces hanging together long enough to be photoed, the light in the right place and time and so on. These things, up to now, just seem to come together for me. I don't why or how. It just seems to work. Without any knowledge of how this formula is put together, when it ceased to be and I had no clue what to do.
I guess inspiration needs some freedom, needs some space to reveal itself and the pressure I felt was not allowing it any room. It can't be forced I would have to wait until it was ready.
As I awoke this morning this is how I felt. I knew I wanted to make something, what I didn't know (well I rarely do know, it just seems to happen) but now I wasn't confident anything would come.
So I went for a stroll around the park. And this was when I realised what was missing. It doesn't matter what I do, how I do it or what I end up with. I do this because there is joy for me in a little flower, or a beautiful leaf. Through a connection with nature I find myself.
As I walked around the park my mojo started to return. The beautiful plants and trees thrilled my senses and once more I cared not about any worries and strifes.
There are two wonderful copper beech trees in Williamson Park. Massive and majestic and their leaves are exquisite. I looked at the colours and the veins in the leaves and was enthralled. This is what it is all about. To feel such pleasure through looking at a leaf, how delicate and colourful they are. A joy to hold in your hand. My land art has always been purely about this. About the pleasure of constructing something from natures wonderful creations and trying to take a few steps into that world, to feel more part of it, connected and at one with the world.
It isn't about creating nice photos or other people enjoying my work. These are all secondary to how it feels. And without that feeling I can't make anything worthwhile, take interesting pictures or expect any appreciation. I had to lose that feeling to discover actually what it is. If I try to make things people like it doesn't work. It has to come from the heart and from deep within or else it isn't what it is supposed to be.
All the attention I have got recently meant I wandered off that path but now I have come full circle. It is important to keep your feet on the ground and be true to yourself as that is where the best things about you come from. But it has taken all the kind words from dozens and dozens of people to have made me see where some of the answers I have been looking for are. For that I will always be grateful.
I took some of those copper beech leaves, some maple and some horse chestnut and set about making something, exactly what and how didn't matter.
The sun did not show itself until late afternoon so I waited and waited and the muggy air meant the leaves did not wilt. But with the sun came the wind and once again I embarked on a battle to take a photo before the elements destroyed it. And this is when I was sure my inexplicable luck returned. As I got it ready I laughed to myself and said "why do insist on making things so flipping fragile?! I must be mad!" and as I thought this two of the triangles fell apart completely and off the frame. I didn't think this sculpture was much good anyway and as I waited for the sun to come out I expected the photos to be binned. It didn't worry me though as I enjoyed making it and was completely absorbed in the process, and that was what it was all about.
Finally the sun did come out and the colours revealed themselves and the three together were just right. The other two triangles would have spoilt the balance so they seemed destined to not make it to the final cut. Was this a coincidence, a fluke or all part of the inututive process? Who knows? But without the luck I get when things are going well my sculptures would be a poor imitation of what they can be.
Born lucky? Yes I think so.
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striped skirt: modcloth
tights: leggs
pink tee: j crew outlet
maryjanes: dansko
Will Power, Team Penske Chevrolet
NTT IndyCar Series
REV Group Grand Prix
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI USA
Sunday June 23, 2019
World Copyright: Peter Burke
LAT Images
This female has no willpower when it comes to sunflower seeds. She certainly enjoys it enough to endure my shutter snapping wildly when she arrives.
September 30, 2010
Happy National Mud Pack Day (another ???)
Well that self-portrait embargo lasted what, two days? My Oreo embargo lasted one. And my dresses on windy days embargo lasted a week. Thank heavens I don't have any serious addictions, because evidently I have no willpower. Anyway, on to the show! (hope I did this correctly!)(also, for some reason I couldn't tag you, AppleJack. So, if you're reading this, consider this your tag!)
1) I have all the domestic abilities of a turnip, possibly less. I cannot cook for the life of me, to the point where if you asked me to fix you a bowl of cereal I would probably find a way to burn it. That said, I am somehow able to make a mean cheesecake with the help of my former-baker grandmother’s recipe. How is this possible? I have no idea. But I also don’t know how Twilight got published or why shoulder pads were ever in fashion so I choose to chalk these things up to the great mysteries of life.
2) Since I was little I’ve had a habit of personifying just about everything short of my underwear (because that would be awkward) and from that habit I developed the habit of naming inanimate objects. To this day I don’t have a frequently used item that doesn’t have a name. My computer is Charlie, my camera is Roger, my tripod is Steve and my former camera was Ginger, who was named after my childhood bike. Ahem. Straightjackets are in fashion this year, right?
3) I could happily sit with a snake around my shoulders, a tiger at my side and some sort of zombie-pterodactyl hybrid on my lap without flinching, but if you come anywhere near my with a harmless little house spider in your hands, there will be a me-shaped hole in the closest wall.
4) When I was a kid I wanted to be an actress/archaeologist/artist/author. I have no idea what my affinity for ‘A’-word jobs was (though to be fair, I was and still am actually interested in each of those fields), but whenever anyone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, that’s what they’d hear. The last one still applies today, though.
5) And on the topic of acting, I began seriously acting at 14 and, up until last year, remained heavily involved in the world of theatre. When I was 19 I took this passion to the next level by writing, directing and producing a play for my local Fringe Festival, which was received with surprisingly positive reviews! To this day it remains one of the greatest experiences of my life and I’d very much like to take those roles on again soon.
6) When I was in Paris a few years back, an entirely random man grabbed and kissed me on the Champs-Elysées. This freaked my little sister out to no end but I thought it was just about the most amusing thing to happen all trip.
7) Over the course of the next several months I will be attempting National Novel Writing Month, continuing with Project 365, participating in The Sketchbook Project, writing second novel for class and stumbling through a double major. My straightjacket question still stands…(if anyone wants any information on the wonderful projects mentioned, please feel free to contact me)
8) My first real concert was The Who when I was 16. I was spoiled with great music growing up thanks to a dad with very good taste.
9) I taught a Lebanese belly dancing workout class to high school students a few years back. I haven’t shaken my groove-thang since starting university but I’ve been going through belly dance withdrawal lately and hope to start back up this winter.
10) My ultimate dream would be to have a small cottage in a quaint little costal village in either Ireland or Wales that I could come home to when I want a break from travelling the world. I would also love to retire in Venice because as much as I am enamoured with the UK and Ireland, Venice is the most incredibly magical place I’ve ever seen. (side note, cross your fingers for me folks! I’m hoping to keep my grades up enough so that I’ll be able to study abroad at Trinity College, Dublin through my university in a year or so!)
If you've been tagged, feel free to fill in your own 10 bits of info. :)
In children’s games the wave splashes
Shrieks of joy announce complete detachment
Out of broken sandcastles
Out of ripped up shreds of paper
Out of paint pots spilled over
Another kingdom comes
The will to create fills the cup
Again and again
When Self is redeemed and dives
Uninhibited
Into endless possibilities
The Water of Life replenishes
The dead and unused parts
To generate once more
Acts of courage
Express new rapture
© Ganga Fondan, 2012
An ode to Imagination. This posting is an ode to the movie “Mighty”, one of my favorite films ever. Out of a very impossible situation, two boys conquer their challenges as a team and live by the code of honor as inspired by King Arthur and his noble knights. Out of their exquisite imagination pours an elixir of courage and heroism which touches all those around them. (It’s beautiful to see how one of the two boys gently opens up the creative process of the other.)
Fitting to the theme of this posting are the words of my Teacher:
“We must be able to think freely before we can vision freely.” – Tulshi Sen
Willpower + Barge Willcarry 1717, port of Blyth 14/8/2019.
Willpower IMO:9220691.
Svitzer Tyne assisting.
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