The Wondrous Story of Sand
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Composed of the remnants of volcanic explosions, eroded mountains, dead organisms and even degraded manmade structures, sand can reveal the history - both biological and geological - of a local environment. And examined closely enough, as the scientis…
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from Sheryl Karas @ Spiritual Counseling, Perfume, Healing and MeI can’t resist. Paul and I put a stat counter on our blogs so we could find out what blogs of ours are the most popular. His most popular blog is called “Beauty of the Snail”. What? Why????We didn’t have any idea but we did notice that most of the hits…
Read the rest here: Beauty of the Snail ContinuesThe Star in the Periwinkle
from Sheryl Karas @ Spiritual Counseling, Perfume, Healing and MeRachel Sherf sent this poem to us. It thought it went well with the Periwinkle flower Paul shot on our walk today. (And already available on our Cafepress website!) Some people say Periwinkle flower essence is the flower for joy and trust.LIFE FORCEWak…
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from Zz @ LZPColumbine 2000, Liz Zorn Art What is a perfumer to do when the nose goes. catch up on other art. what else. It was too good to be true. The day before New Years, a huge family gathering with kids grand kids, food, presents, kissing, hugs, photos, etc…..
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWe come from beyond,and we go from whence we came,courting the hands of time.We are bound by nothing so much as our imagination. Time Travelers, Surrational Images by Scott MutterTheAmericanMuseumofPhotography: Scott Mutter: A More Perfect WorldWikiped…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Ignoring Zimbabwe’s acute food shortages and 8,000-percent inflation (or maybe because of them), Santa showed up in full dress in Harare, the capital. In 1881, the political cartoonist Thomas Nast first outfitted Santa in a red suit trimmed in white f…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingA woman regards the Three Gorges Dam at Sandouping. When the dam is completed in 2009, its reservoir will be 575 feet deep and hold 20 billion tons of water.Beijing: The promise of Western-style capitalismMother Jones: Photo Essay: China, The Last Emp…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingNick Brandt’s pictures are almost too beautiful. They’re black and white photographs of large, wild animals in a strangely uncluttered world, that seems on the verge of doom. What saves them from faltering on the side of kitsch or sentimentality (most …
Read the rest here: Leave Them Creatures AloneMinimiam
from Lou
Who hasn’t dreamt of diving in thick chocolate mousse?…of digging a hide-out in a piece of cheese or fruit?
or skiing down a slope of whipped Chantilly cream? See: Minimiam
(Akiko Ida & Pierre Javell)
via: muse-ings
l’Exactitude n’est pas la Vérité
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, the Rotterdam-based photographic team of Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek have been systematically hamstringing such permutations of received identity for ten y…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Sandra Penketh, head of the Lady Lever Art Gallery, said: ‘Some of these images record the Victorian world and people, others are more reminiscent of paintings. All of the images are incredibly beautiful and powerful. The achievement of these early …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJ.D. McClatchyHardly a day goes by that I don’t see somewhere in print an impassioned reference to some classic I haven’t read. Why, having read so many over so many years, am I still embarrassed to be caught short? Am I certain that Oblomov will chang…
Read the rest here: Novels Novelists Have SkippedWhen Larry met Diane
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The guests departed and Diane went to change, as I watched night settle over Central Park. Then something tilted, and it tilted downward. She changed clothes four or five times, but then lots of ladies change clothes several times, as they decide who …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSplit-ScreenEleanor, 1949, Harry CallahanMichael Stipe, not dated, Anton Corbijn
Read the rest here: Encore: MirroringPhoto Friday
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingEntry ID: 44532Submitted by: Jim McHugh, Los Angeles, USPhoto title: Bekins StorageExpertise: ProfessionalCategory - Rank: Architecture - Historic - 3rd place International Photography AwardsBest of show 2007
Read the rest here: Photo FridayTHE SHOE PROJECT
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAyu Woodcut ArtistTITLE: TWENTYONE PEOPLE PROJECT: PEOPLES FACES AND THEIR SHOES WHERE: SAN FRANCISCOTwentyOnePictures: THE SHOEPROJECTTwentyOnePictures: PhotoThanks to StAndrewsGirl at POL
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBetter Late Than Never”Sometime in the spring of 1936, the lovers and photographers André Friedmann and Gerta Pohorylle changed their names and, in the process, the history of photography. To distinguish themselves from other Jewish émigrés in Paris…
Read the rest here: Gerda Taro In Her Own RightThe Hidden Victims of 9/11
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingNYPD patrolman Chris Baumann was injured on 9/11 and had to retire on disability due to many injuries and illnesses. At home in Lindenhurst, N.Y., with his parrot, 5/26/2006.Stuyvesant High School graduate Amit Friedlander was in class just a few block…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingInside Dachau, picture of a drowned nazi by Lee Miller”For an hour I watched a baby die. He was dark blue when I first saw him. He was the dark dusty blue of these waltz-filled Vienna nights, the same colour as the striped garb of the Dachau skeletons,…
Read the rest here: Lee Miller, the AuthorInfinity and the Pinhole Technique
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingHow to attempt to take hold of the soul of a place where time is no longer of any importance, in such an infinitesimally short time, 1/500 of a second? In my opinion, only the pinhole can manage to do it, thanks to very long exposure (from a few hours …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingB: Do you think your work has more humour than it gets credit for? C: I think it’s more funny than scary.Tate Magazine, Issue 5, Interview with Cindy Sherman by Betsy BerneMetro Online exhibit: Cindy Sherman (clowns)
Read the rest here: Sherman LaughsThe Big Shoot
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingMost fabulous homage to the film noir by Annie Leibovitz, who’s got the Hollywood glitterati in front of the camera for this one. Don’t miss it. Vanity Fair again.The 2007 Hollywood Portfolio: Killers Kill, Dead Men DieJack Nicolson; Hellen Mirren and…
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