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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:48:14 -0800

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:13:42 -0800

ZoneZero from analog to digital photography

Photos:Walking down the street in Coyoacan by Pedro Meyer

Photo on the left, taken with the iPhone. Photo on the right, shot with the Sony Alpha 900 with Zeiss 2.8 / 24-70mm VARIO SONNAR lens

Classic Art Gallery - Louis Magre

"LOUIS MAGRE
French

Born 1955 in France, Magre grew up in a culture of art. He first studied drawing and architecture before becoming more passionately involved in the world of art."

Gregory Crewdson

Stefs Sketches

I love sketch blogs and found this one by, (c) Stephane Kardos, to be terrific!

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Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:14:49 -0800

OneXposure (c) Jonas Andersson

FRANK GEHRY

Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain

Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Frank Gehry (Architect)

There is an interesting note regarding a statement Gehry prepared for the 1980 edition of "Contemporary Architects," Gehry states, "I approach each building as a sculptural object, a spatial container, a space with light and air, a response to context and appropriateness of feeling and spirit. To this container, this sculpture, the user brings his baggage, his program, and interacts with it to accommodate his needs. If he can't do that, I've failed."

Inert Greymatter

Dancing House/Frank Gehry (Architect)

Frank Gehry first came to my attention when the Guggenheim in Bilbao was being completed and frankly, I'd never heard of that city before but was awestruck by the beauty of the lines and curves created for what I consider to be a modern marvel! If I can ever bear to get on a plane again, or maybe afford the time and cost of a ship, well actually you have to fly to the ship I think! Anyway, it is on my list of places I must see, should I ever have the patience to travel in today's horrid travel conditions. Gehry has a few horrible buildings in the L.A. area built I believe in a different era. I think they're really pretty unsightly although I'm sure somebody somewhere finds beauty in them too. I have come to love Gehry's other buildings which are so whimsical such as the "Dancing House", in Prague, pictured above. Looking through his other works there are several along these lines which seem to defy convention. I had an assignment to build a model sculpture from paper or cardboard for a design class and was so frustrated by the exercise it spawned a new interest, love and respect for architecture in me. All this to say that Frank Gehry is my favorite contemporary architect!!

Sidewalk Poet
Erica Hopper

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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:54:49 -0800

Love this photo...found chez YA

FOTOTHING :: Browse Photos

Nice photo site with lots of options for storing and sharing one's own pics, as well as browsing those of others.

Michelle Holden | Photographer

Michelle Holden Photographer

Catalin Chitucea Photography

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:52:23 -0700

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted." Jesus

Life
Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is a beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is costly, care for it.
Life is wealth, keep it.
Life is love, enjoy it.
Life is mystery, know it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it!

~ Mother Teresa

Junko Ono Rothwell

Thank you cloudweaver, for the introduction... really love this fine artist!

"The artist creates dynamic yet sensitive figure portraits in pastel. This master of the technique renders figures of beauty and subtlety through the use of strong composition, a thorough knowledge of anatomy and the delicate use of color. Rothwell's landscapes and urban-scapes depict both the beauty of nature and the grittiness of the city. Her use of strong compositional elements and rich color enhance her work in both oil and pastel."

- Spruill Center Gallery, New Americans exhibit, 1996

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:56:33 -0700

Found via MercurialMe

Falling Into You

In whispers that inoculate the silence,
the brevity of these words mired,
by their own undoing, the wisps
that exist somewhere between,
caught among my breath and heart.

The things I really want to say,
that I usher away with a trivial flippancy.
I am treading my mind,
struggling to make sense of things I so easily dismiss,
the everyday stuff we overlook.

I have to stop myself, catch my words,
and take a deep breath, and
let myself fall into you.

Kevin Harling.

Thanks for this send, Alfred :)

Young Marilyn with Milton and Amy Greene being interviewed by Edward R. Murrow ...early in her career...a little nervous in bits. Interested, as I'm reading yet another book about her, thank you Alfred.

Nostalgia's Realm

In the wrinkles of time
That seep in-between
The lost seconds
Of nostalgia's realm
The places we haven't forgotten
Just misplaced temporarily
The lines of character
The faces we have been
Right there between
What is and what seems
Unnoticed and dreamed
In the depths of between
The caverns of time
That are revealed in the wrinkles
The lines on the faces we've been
Seeping in the lost seconds
Of nostalgia's realm.

Kevin Harling.

Ode to Beauty

I cannot decipher whispering mouths
that try to label such delights
it seems beyond the eyes sight,
beyond the feel of fleshy peach,
beyond the taste of pomegranate knees,
beyond the realm of words breath.

So what am I left with beside exquisite,
besides eloquent lengths of pearl ankles
and scarlett blushes that touch Heaven.

I cannot aptly portray alabaster limbed
divinity and all its grace.

All i can do is sigh smiling with stars
in my eyes.

Kevin Harling.

Photo: Mario Testino

SU's best resident poet...
Update: Kevin is leaving SU...a great contributor to Stumble who will be greatly missed! A fond farewell and wishing you all the best!

Glamour Photography by Thomas Paquet

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Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:56:29 -0700

Light and Wisdom from YA

He can at times be shocking or funny, when in the mood he rocks the house! Many times he has the wisdom of Solomon and others he is a mischievous naughty boy! Most of all and always he has a great heart and soul which reaches out to everyone who is interested...a good friend to all, and a great and cherished friend to me. Thank you dear, Alfred.

Faith As Basic Trust

Life is borne by a fundamental trust preceding every personal volition and not dependent on any rational justification. Human existence is anchored in a primordial trust neither in need of nor in search of grounds. Through this faith, which in the strict sense is not an act of any autonomous, 'I', the world in whichwe live always appears clothed with a certain evidence. We do not begin as if seeking justification for what we do. The experience of alienation or of a more radical confusion is possible only against the already pliant background of minimal familiarity with the world. because of this self-evidence, what we do happens automatically and despite me. This fundamental trust does not imply or correspond to any specific or explicit consciousness. Instead, we stand in it; we live from a trust that supports us.

... excerpt from Flight of the gods By Ilse Nina Bulhof, Laurens ten Kate ...

From my frog loving friend...a beautiful frog and flower

Sun-ua / beautiful images

Yet another Russian (I think) site full of eye candy...some of it anyway....

louis' lusty ladies & the paris apartment

Trust Frenchtwist to discover this, the loveliest and lustiest of SU lady there is! I still don't know who Louis is but there is somehow something charming and playful in these images!

Roby07s review - StumbleUpon

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:04:47 -0700

JACO PASTORIUS : the official web site of the worlds greatest bass player...

WOW! Genius and greatest bass player of all time (so far)! He lived a short and sometimes tragic life but what a gift he gave when performing his music which he did with talent, humor verve and grace!! Love to watch him!!!
Check him out; I am sure you will be smiling in a New York minute!
Thank you Alfred, for introducing me to this gifted artist!YouTube-Jaco Pastorias Solo (Joni Mitchell)

Choose to Shine

Love.

Seeing, in Three Pieces

Somehow we must see
through the shimmering cloth
of daily life, its painted,
evasive facings of what to eat,
to wear? Which work
matters? Is a bird more
or less than a man?

*

There have been people
who helped the world. Named
or not named. They weren't interested
in what might matter,
doubled over as they were
with compassion. Laden
branches, bright rivers.

*

When a bulb burns out
we just change it--
it's not the bulb we love;
it's the light.

~ Kate Knapp ~

the photo is courtesy of, lifesitooshort and the poem is from, panhala.net

Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore

Mind Without Fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up

into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;

Where the clear stream of reason

has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action...

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Half Moon Bay

Half Moon Bay a real low key beach which was usually cold and windy but as long as there was sand and ocean, we were thrilled!

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Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:31:21 -0700

Fotograf :: Julia Wilam

Like the way portrait photographer Julia Wilam captured the innocence of these little darlings...

Incredible watercolour paintings by boy aged just SIX: DAILY MAIL

...Thanks, earthwormken!

Carl Larsson Gallery 1

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

Swedish Proverb

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.

Swedish Proverb

Those who wish to sing always find a song.
Swedish Proverb

Super gallery of me fave, Carl Larsson. I have more info and another link for him in another entry on the following page here. I continue to be enchanted by his work.

Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre Photography

These photos are originally from a French site which has been changed to this one featuring different places and photography, but the photos of Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, make the same the point, which is that we have abandoned some beautiful buildings which serve no longer the purpose for which they were designed, while building new ones when the previous architecture could surely have been restored and used to some purpose. If I recall correctly, the location of these pics are in various parts of France.

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Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:47:23 -0700

Neil Gaimans Journal

"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art, write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."

Neil Gaiman