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Taking a wee break from blogging for a while. I still hope to pop in from time to time, either on my blog or my neighbours, but right now I just have far too many (fun fun fun) projects I'm attending to. In the meantime, wanted to leave you guys with a lovely presentation (though not mine) certainly sums up what the heart feels. Enjoy! (Click on the below link, and turn on the volume). All my love for now, Dee xox.
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An additional slide that I'm using for the March of the Mannequins, (operatic tragedy) powerpoint presentation. No.. its not a "reflection" of how I'm (personally) feeling, but love how, alternatively, the image could be used, or entitled for either: "silenced, sadness and sorrow".
Photo taken with the Sony 12x optical zoom cybershot DSC-H5. Tags: March of the Mannequins, The Strange and the Seductive, |
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Chrome-delicious Robot Art & Ray
Guns – damn, I wish I had a welder!
Cindy Sherman’s film noir self-portrait photographer
starring as a heroine in B-movies that never were.
If You Need Me - Solomon Burke - [Music] Great song! Embedded in p-point pres I'm working on - See related post Sony played this mind-blowing video at their executive
conference this year - [Very Interesting]
Tiny Dancer - Elton’s 1971 solo performance
– [Music, love the fashion! See related Post]
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Just having fun with some older pics and yet more powerpoint shows: this one a kind of operatic tragedy of the life
and journey of mannequins made from as few as approx 10 slides. (I’ve uploaded a few just for the hell of
it: Slide 2, Slide 3, Slide 4, Slide 5, Slide 7) Have eventually decided on a classic piece (audio – violin and piano – very dramatic), but altnerately could have chosen “Tiny Dancer by Elton John” . The solo dance scene of Penny Lane from “Almost Famous” is one of my all-time favourites (which I wanted to include here>>) but the video clip just doesn’t seem to be uploading for me. Here’s a link to Elton’s 1971 solo performance – doesn’t he look great there? Just love the fashion – I could easily join him in similar gear today. All photos taken with the Sony 12x optical zoom cybershot DSC-H5.Tags: March of the Mannequins, The Strange and the Seductive, Iconic Images, |
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Thursday March 19th, 2009 Thank goodness for friends ... hey! There are a zillion emails around
which say the same thing, far more eloquent than I (none of which I'm going to
copy and paste here). But I have to say - some friends (regardless of how
often one is in contact with them) - really do leave lasting footprints in your
life, don't they. I know I spend far more time, thinking of these friends
(most often even on a daily basis), but never seem to get around letting them
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Just some Music I'm listening to at the moment.
(Press the "listen" button for "If you need me" which appears first at top of the list at this link/site).
Its embedded within another
p-point show that I've been playing with.
Great song! Absolutely love it - so just thought I would share. Enjoy!
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Monday 9th March, 2009 Another juicy book to pour over, gathered up amongst the “bargain buy a bag” (library books on sale): “Behaviour and Medicine” by Danny Weeding. Hmmm.. behavioural studies, always good to muse over when wanting to identify the patterns, cause and effect and somehow, break the human chains we bear. Heres a small excerpt: Displacement: involves redirecting an emotion from its original object to a more acceptable substitute. Turning against the self is a special form of displacement in which impulses and fantasies directed at someone else are self-directed. It is a common feature in those who do not display any overt anger, instead they grow increasingly depressed. Transference: may be defined as the “attitudes, feelings and fantasies” seemingly irrational, brought from their own unconscious needs and psychological conflicts rather than from the actual circumstances of the relationship. Scattered with references to classic artwork such as “Death and the Maiden” by Edvard Munch, and many others – I find I could be occupied for hours on this book alone! See also Gallery Indexes, Pictures of the week - [Posts, only], All posts - [List] | |
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Click button bottom right to view show as full screen. Sunday 8th March, 2009 A slideshow I’ve been playing
with. The words aren’t mine, (used from
another/email received, and the original is most definitely uploaded to the
net). Just using it as a basis/viewing board) to play around with some of my photos. Made a copy of mine to a USB to
take to work to show my photography buddy, only to find that the font was
incompatible when viewed on any PC there, and having to fiddle or accept any
other font than “Chiller” I found changed the whole look and feel of the
presentation. Have tried a number of ways to
upload these powerpoints (i.e.my blog), but to date, am not altogether
satisfied with the clarity after uploading – the photos become incredibly
blurred , (not nearly as sharp as how they appear as individual photos). Flow
of animated text and slide transition also appears a little off, and most
definitely stilted, and at some points, the timing has been completely
corrupted, when compared to my own personal version. File is too large to email – so….
Right now, ok, I’m thinking – along with the message its trying to deliver – we
happen to have all these labour saving devices – only to waste more time! Am I done with it? …. Do pigs fly? See also Gallery Indexes, Pictures of the week - [Posts, only], All posts - [List] |
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Right now, I've got more reading material than I could poke a stick at! That's not to say this is anything new - I have always been surrounded by more books, emphemera than I have storage space, or 'leisure time' to catch up with it all. Combine that with today's cache - ("Fill a shopping bag of books for $8.00" - as stated by sign on table at the local library) - now stacked against the current pile cluttering up my bedroom, and well, you can imagine! Ok best to start somewhere, anywhere! The first - grabbing a book from the top of one pile, was received as a gift - "Letter to D" (read more Times-on-line>>) I've only read half over dinner tonight (quite a quick read actually) but interesting story, certainly one that needs to be told. I love the references to Sartre, am envious of the alluring life of the many philosophers, writers, intellectuals and their social scene during the postwar years, and adore this quote (reference to an English romantic) within the book, "There is no wealth but life".
Here’s an excerpt from the book:You’d married someone, you said, who couldn’t live without writing and you knew that a person who wanted to be a writer needs to be able to shut themselves away in seclusion, to make notes at any hour of the day or night; that their work with language goes on well after they’ve laid down their pen and can take complete possession of them without warning, in the middle of a meal or a conversation.
“If only I knew what was going through your mind”, you’d sometimes say, faced with my long dreamy silences.
But you did know, from having gone through it yourself: a flow of words seeking their most crystal-clear order; snatches of sentences being endlessly reworked; ideas dawning then threatening to evaporate if a code word or a symbol didn’t swiftly fix them in memory. "To love a writer is to love him writing", you said. “So, write!”
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Saturday 7th March, 2009 "But not us! An' why? Because I got you to look after
me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." ~~Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. Photo taken Nov 08, Gisborne-Sunbury area, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Taken with the Sony 12x optical zoom cybershot DSC-H5. Tags: Travel Landscapes, Funky Postcards & EmphemeraSee also Gallery Indexes, Pictures of the week - [Posts, only], All posts - [List] |
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