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quotes i like

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Santa Perspective

Santa The Hero

Santa The Man

Even in the Elf world there are "those" people...

Ornament Power!

Jolly Holidays

Two Kinds of Cake...

From The Music of Regret by Laurie Simmons

i'm no expert...

Films that could change your life...

A little song and dance

Dear Reader by Billy Collins

Dear Reader Baudelaire considers you his brother, and Fielding calls out to you every few paragraphs as if to make sure you have not closed the book, and now I am summoning you up again, attentive ghost, dark silent figure standing in the doorway of these words. - Billy Collins

New York state of mind...

quotes i like...

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

uppity mrs. santas unite!

What's Your Sign? from Hilary Pfeifer on Vimeo.

Running would be a good idea....

Model Behavior

quotes i like...

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H. H. Williams

cuteness break

Today

Today
by Frank O'Hara

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas!
You really are beautiful! Pearls,
harmonicas, jujubes, asprins! all
the stuff they’ ve always talked about

still makes a poem a surprise!
These things are with us every day
even on beachheads and biers. They
do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.

(1950)

quotes i like...

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck

My Polaroid Angels

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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

Clownattude

thought for the day

I'm in a show...

Inaugural Holiday Art Show

November 19, 2010 - January 5, 2011
This month in the Jean Bulicek Gallery, the Beck Center presents the inaugural Holiday Art Exhibit highlighting seven outstanding regional artists who engage and inspire with their creativity. Darrelle Centuori, Anizia Karmazyn, Liz Maugins, Lynn O’Brien, Patricia H. Sigmier, Marilyn Szalay, and Mark Yasenchack offer a visual feast of beautiful art for our patrons buying pleasure during the coming holiday season.
Painter Lynn O’Brien’s current work includes three different overlapping series of mixed media paintings entitled “Forms from Nature,” “Garden,” and “Letters.” These works developed from her interest in creating more quiet and calming images with a connection to the natural world. Marilyn Szalay offers outstanding figurative drawings and Patricia Hanahan Sigmier engages the viewer with her vibrant watercolors of the natural world.
Photographer Darrelle Centuori’s work evolves from her process of “trying to find objects or situations that seem to evoke a kind of quiet magic,” and she is interested in “the resonance that occurs when unexpected elements come together and seem to have always belong to each other.” Painter and Printmaker Anizia Karmazyn uses the deeply textured, patterned, and colorful world around her as inspiration for her work. She also “sees parallels between the nature of the surrounding natural world and that of human experience.”
Printmaker Liz Maugins images are plucked from 1950’s children’s books, the ultimate era of perfection and idealism, which she then manipulates by contrasting these images to today’s youthful archetypes. Ceramic Artist Mark Yasenchack’s work presents a textural feast for the eyes. Mark’s boxes and mirrors are adorned with pattern and jewel like touches of vibrant color.
Come and see this wonderful show, and maybe you will find something to bring home or to give to a loved one.

Quotes i like...

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
- Bill Lyon

new project - results posted soon...

This summer we raised butterflies. Finally made a video...

Mysteries

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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich

Circus Souvenirs

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." - Pericles

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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham

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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Still out playing with my cameras!

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Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
- William Ralph Inge

Rediscovering Polaroid Cameras

New found analog love made me miss my instant Polaroid. Now they're able to come back thanks to the Impossible Project's new film to work in the classic Polaroid cameras! http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

Forest From The Trees

Pictures Taken Technology Free

These were taken with a Holga camera. It's a plastic camera with almost no controls and a plastic lens. It feels really freeing to not have to deal with the infinite possibility that my digital camera has. Techno free!

I mean l*o*v*e*

I'm in love...with film.

quotes i like

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
- William Hazlitt

Zimoun

Zimoun : Sound Sculptures & Installations | Compilation Video V1.9 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

quotes i like

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White

Litany BY BILLY COLLINS

POEM

Litany

BY BILLY COLLINS

You are the bread and the knife,
The crystal goblet and the wine . . .
Jacques Crickillon

You are the bread and the knife,

the crystal goblet and the wine.

You are the dew on the morning grass

and the burning wheel of the sun.

You are the white apron of the baker

and the marsh birds suddenly in flight.

However, you are not the wind in the orchard,

the plums on the counter,

or the house of cards.

And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.

There is just no way you are the pine-scented air.

It is possible that you are the fish under the bridge,

maybe even the pigeon on the general's head,

but you are not even close

to being the field of cornflowers at dusk.

And a quick look in the mirror will show

that you are neither the boots in the corner

nor the boat asleep in its boathouse.

It might interest you to know,

speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world,

that I am the sound of rain on the roof.

I also happen to be the shooting star,

the evening paper blowing down an alley,

and the basket of chestnuts on the kitchen table.

I am also the moon in the trees

and the blind woman's tea cup.

But don't worry, I am not the bread and the knife.

You are still the bread and the knife.

You will always be the bread and the knife,

not to mention the crystal goblet and—somehow—the wine.

New Favorite Web Site

http://www.whatsthatbug.com

Take a picture, it'll last longer! - Pee Wee

Still funny - although that may not be a universally shared opinion.

One Quick Thought for the Day

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright

Bad, Bad Clown

This is the reason people are afraid of clowns.

Mother's Day

Although she's not with me anymore, I still think of my mom every day. She had a lot of good advice that she thought I wasn't listening to - but I was! So here's a few words of wisdom from my Mom to share:

"Don't put your arm out the car window or it'll get whacked off!"

"If you are bored, you're boring."

"Apple pie without the cheese is like a hug without the squeeze!"

So true.

Earth Day

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

Neil Armstrong quotes

Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30th 1853

Surreal Monopoly - game in progress

About The Moon

Margaret Ballardini & Fred Watson, Luna Park, St Kilda, Victoria, ca. 1927 / photographed by M D True, Electric Studio, originally uploaded by State Library of New South Wales collection.

Close encounter

Close encounter, originally uploaded by The National Archives UK.

A Fine and Funky Musical Interlude.....

Shel Silverstein - the scariest looking, most subversive wit I ever wanted to meet.

God's Wheel

God says to me with a kind of a smile,

"Hey, how would you like to be God awhile,

And steer the world?"

"Okay," says I, "I'll give it a try.

Where do I set?

How much do I get?

What time is lunch?

When can I quit?"

"Gimme back that wheel." says God.

"I don't think you're quite ready yet."

Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926,

This man and I share a birthday and so little else.

More Life in Hell

Snack Time

Shtop Thinking

From Mutts by Patrick McDonnell

Graceland

The Mississippi Delta was shining
Like a National guitar,
I am following the river
Down the highway
Through the cradle of the civil war,

I'm going to Graceland
Graceland
In Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland,

Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland,
My traveling companion is nine years old
He is the child of my first marriage,
But I've reason to believe
We both will be received
In Graceland,

She comes back to tell me she's gone,
As if I didn't know that
As if I didn't know my own bed,
As if I'd never noticed,
The way she brushed her hair from her forehead,
And she said losing love
Is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody sees the wind blow,

I'm going to Graceland,
Memphis Tennessee
I'm going to Graceland,
Poorboys and Pilgrims with families
And we are going to Graceland,

And my traveling companions
Are ghosts and empty sockets
I'm looking at ghosts and empties,
But I've reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland,

There is a girl in New York City,
Who calls herself the human trampoline,
And sometimes when I'm falling flying
Or tumbling in turmoil I say
Whoa so this is what she means,
She means we're bouncing into Graceland,
And I see losing love
Is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you're blown apart,
Everybody feels the wind blow,

In Graceland Graceland,
I'm going to Graceland,
For reasons I cannot explain
There's some part of me wants to see
Graceland,
And I may be obliged to defend
Every love every ending
Or maybe there's no obligations now,
Maybe I've a reason to believe
We all will be received
In Graceland

(Pause)

Woah in graceland graceland graceland
i'm going to graceland

Graceland by Paul Simon

The Ones I Can't Forget...

Art of Flowers

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti

Automata Zen

Best Picture

Brazil (1985) by Terri Gilliam

Yesterday's Missing Post

I had something so amazing and revealing to post yesterday that I decided to keep it to myself.



Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Eleanor Gwynne Miller (LOC)

Eleanor Gwynne Miller (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

Eleanor on her prettiest day with a perfect hat.