Re: input about time management with groups, blog, real life

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by ~KES in Gaia Groups Community - "The Mod Pod"

Thanks for all and for your spirit of play, Dawn. This has been such a pleasure to take the time out to look at all of the films in  Earth Cinema Circle Group where I watched... More »

Re: Common man's life

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Eli in Now I Can See the Moon

The faces of the common man were captured using the cheapest available cell-phone camera. They don't boast of high quality digital photography.

Re: Just joined - blindly

Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Jenny in Now I Can See the Moon

Hi Jenny, Great to see you in here. We have a lot of quiet fun though sometimes end up laughing quite loudly. Here you can hone your creative skills and get good support doing that.... More »

Re: INTRODUCTIONS #3 - About Me - Introducing myself

Posted on May 8th, 2009 by Jenny in Now I Can See the Moon

Hi Michelle Lovely to meet you. I also had a son in the navy for 8 years and now he is out. I also suffer from fibromyalgia and Hashimotos disease which is the opposite of... More »

Re: Common man's life

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by ~KES in Now I Can See the Moon

They have umbrellas too... and a McDonalds as a back drop. Let's find some more Common man's life around the globe and learn more of the geography.  I found this motel in Samoa .  I... More »

The Heart of my city

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Eli in DREAMS of ARTISTS™

I live in Kolkata (earlier called Calcutta), the capital city of the state of West Bengal. There are beautiful places and tourist resorts within and around this city, and there are the everyday scenes of... More »

Memoir (and)

Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Sandra in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

Interesting magazine that might be a good venue for some of our less fictional work: Memoir (and) from their home page: “This is the age of memoir,” proclaims William Zinsser in Inventing the Truth: The... More »

Re: The End of the World - What's Next?

Posted on Apr 30th, 2009 by inlink in The GLOBAL PEACE POD.

For whatever help this might be, remember that birds of a feather flock together. Authoritarian control, with the help of the mainstream media, is bucking an inevitable change. Last night, President Obama was given a... More »

Hello Everyone! :)

Posted on Apr 12th, 2009 by Dave in Gaia Lounge

I'm relatively new to Gaia, I've been signed up for 9 months, but haven't had the time to really interact.  I've been on Facebook trying to build up a network out there and now I... More »

Re: Natures Celebration - a woodland walk 2

Posted on Apr 11th, 2009 by ~KES in Now I Can See the Moon

Oh Leigh ann - that is such a wispy invigorating shot.  And to see today from your eyes in England and now to Jenny in Australia on the same day, I can feel the difference... More »

Who heals the healers

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Jeff

As I come out of my self imposed isolation, that in the past few days has turned into, depression, sadness, fear, more withdrawal then usual...  The Q&R's of the past few days bought some of... More »

May 2009 Newsletter – Happy Mother’s Day 2009

Posted on May 6th, 2009 by Jessika

Namaste fellow peacemakers, May is an amazing month.  It is a time to honor really awesome ladies - our mothers. I am not a mother, but I have some really special moms in my life! ... More »

What do you love most to do?

Posted on Apr 27th, 2009 by Jeff

Painting pictures with Light! Photography... I lose all sense of time, tiredness, I become enraptured, awed, lost in all time and space, truly in the moment... 

What do you love most to do?

Posted on Apr 27th, 2009 by Liza

Sometimes I get so absorbed into my art that I do not have a sense of time or what day it is. It's like a flowing feeling comes into me from my Source, a must!... More »

How Time Recreates – Class 3, Week 4

Posted on Apr 23rd, 2009 by Davidu

Edge of the Future - photo by Garry   The class for the last couple of weeks has been working with what it's like at the edge of the future.  Asking: Can we see what... More »

THE NEW CONSPIRACY

Posted on Apr 21st, 2009 by Deepak

On the surface of the world right now there is war and violence and things seem dark. But calmly and quietly, at the same time, something else is happening underground An inner revolution is taking... More »

Spiritual Conspiracy

Posted on Apr 15th, 2009 by earthmama

This landed in my in box the other day and I just have to share it. It resonates with me on a very deep level.... This is a conspiracy that I am a part of...:)... More »

Why is the room you're in arranged the way it is?

Posted on Apr 15th, 2009 by Katherine Spiritual Adventurer

If I'm truthful, I have to admit I'm embarassed.  The room I'm in is my studio.  I'm lying on my futon with my laptop. All around me is my work ... and I mean ALL around... More »

How do you describe yourself?

Posted on Mar 21st, 2009 by JOANNA

Describing my artistic side... I am a mathematician.  Paying particular attention to proportions. Scale. 1. While painting I am using a gigantic ruler. To apply Section d'Or*  in my abstract paintings. * The golden ratio... More »

The Flaneur

Posted on Mar 21st, 2009 by Enlightened.thinker

In a modernism and photography course I took last July in my Masters program, I learned a great deal about the Flaneur described thus: "The term flâneur comes from the French masculine noun flâneur —which... More »

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. It is a little better than the work of an Apache, but not quite so good as that of a Cheyenne.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular . . . sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

Gardening can bring out the inner child, and sometimes, especially after all that time out in the hot sun, it can bring out the inner surrealist. When the urge comes over you to construct a zucchini zeppelin or a tomato truck, give in to your muse and then document [photograph] your masterpiece, preferably against an uncluttered background.

Photography helps people to see.

I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Blessed be the inventor of photography! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has "cast up" in my time - this art by which even the "poor" can possess themselves of tolerable of their absent dear ones.

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

For many people the scent of certain plants can revive memories with a vividness that nothing else can equal, for the sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that and left the conscious mind.

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