| Flagstaff Invasion: Babies, along w/ Jihad+BOSSK (from PHX) |
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[ 22nd @ 04:21PM] |
Video from a local 24 hour race last year. It's the weekend of September 6 this year. There's prizes for solo and team scores - last year's winning soloist completed 22 laps (about 330 miles), while the winning team completed 32 laps (about 480 miles).
I'm really excited about this year's race.
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| Babies from Flag Aug 7th |
[ 22nd @ 01:25PM] |
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| Babies+BOSSK+Jihad--August 7th |
[ 22nd @ 01:19PM] |
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| Stuck in Aspen trip |
[ 22nd @ 01:35PM] |
So, this weekend is my annual sojourn to Aspen for my "Stuck in Aspen" trip. This trip commemorates the time I got stranded in Aspen following an incident where I nearly rolled my truck off the side of a mountain in the area. Every year since then, I go back and stay at the hotel that put me up for those two nights, The Annabelle Inn. Charley, the innkeeper, was phenomenally nice to me and I really appreciated it.
For those of you who weren't on my flist back then -- if you're interested, I blogged the entire situation. Heh, reading back through those posts brings back memories and was actually the inspiration for my hiking activities since then. When I think that the hike out of there took me four hours, I think, "Lightweight!". My hikes nowadays last anywhere from 8-13 hours on average.
July 30, 2005
July 31, 2005
August 1, 2005
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[ 22nd @ 10:47AM] |
How would these three approaches differ in response to the colors of the fall?
Neil Evernden: The "Nature" response entails chlorophyll being dispersed after the cold weather comes. Red is caused by cold, which is a logical connection, a necessary connection, but not an obvious one. I think the colloquial expression would be much the same, because we're so prone to pick up scientific terms - not necessarily the meaning, but the words. The individual explanation is the one the Dutch psychologist J.H. van den Berg was talking about. The reason the leaves are red, he said, was "because it is so beautiful. Don't you see how beautiful it is, all these autumn colors?" How else could it be?
I've never before been in a deciduous forest in the fall. This may seem a bit fuzzy-headed, but I'd swear the trees are showboating.
Neil Evernden: Yes, but this is our earthly experience. It's a human interpretation. So what? I happen to be human. It's a funny situation to try to deny that, to say, "Oh, that's what you experience, but that's not really there. What's really there is a molecular interaction."
The legitimacy of your own experience can be undermined if people can convince you it is "only" subjective. What authority do you credit? What constitutes real knowledge, or "factual" information about the world? Undermining subjectivity by denying the merit of your experience leaves you open to the acceptance of somebody else's idea of the system of Nature.
What I'm really saying is that there is no such thing as Nature. There are simply other entities. We say the Native Americans and other indigenous peoples had a nice relationship with nature, but I suspect the reason they did is because they never had any "Nature." They had a cosmos, full of other beings, entities, others. But not Nature.
The belief in Nature becomes a danger when you begin to mistake your own abstract conceptions for things. You make these ideas up, bu then you forget they're concepts. That's why it's tricky to talk about concepts of Nature, because that's all they are - concepts of Nature.
I'm not quite happy saying this. It sounds a bit precious to make these kinds of distinctions. There's something I want to say, and there are no easy words for saying it. A lot of the time you have to use metaphorical language to talk about these things. I suspect that's because only logical and descriptive language is normally used to talk about Nature.
I notice it with my students, who may have a very good idea why something needs to be changed, or why they need to advocate a certain position, but who also feel their views must be legitimated by the language of science, by some piece of quantification, which as a rule proves nothing. It simply allows them to say what they wanted to say in the first place, but apparently with authority.
It's really a dilemma. I don't know what the solution is, other than to refuse to speak the other language. But once you're in court, you've got no choice but to use the language of the court.
John Livingston did an odd thing years ago. There was a proposal to put a huge pipeline down from the Arctic Ocean, and there was an inquiry called the Berger Commission. It was supposed to be just another commission to get the public off the politicians' backs, but they gave it to a judge who had much wider interests. He allowed any kind of testimony from everybody. So, many people, including Inuit grandmothers, testified, and of course their language was different from the lawyers' language. The commission was loosened up enough that a lot of the so-called emotional things got mixed into it, which would never happen in a regular, constrained, preplanned, "expert" kind of inquiry. When John Livingston was sworn in as an expert witness, they asked him to promise to tell the truth. He said "No." The judge bristled, and John said, "I don't know the truth, but I'll give you my opinion." The whole thing was like that.
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[ 22nd @ 12:48PM] |
My Mon.Jul.21.08  70 pics inc. teaser. I'm Brittany, 16, Fl. Just another summer day. Friends, of course, are always welcome! [: <3 I try to post daily on my personal acct. |
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| July 21, 2008 |
[ 22nd @ 11:34AM] |
I'm Faron, 19. About to be a junior in college in New Orleans.
I'm here for summer classes. >.<
Sorry no teaser!
A day in which... nothing happens.
( sixty-three, nothing repeated )
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[ 22nd @ 11:13AM] |
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It's about darned time, right?
So I had the comics all ready and printed on Friday evening. Picked them up, paid for them, and barely got a chance to look through them before I sold a few. Then, Saturday night I received a call from my grandparents (who are cool enough to get the first look at my work), saying that there are a couple pages that are duplicated...
Between then and now, I've sold a couple, so to those folks I'll offer my misprint-discount refund and/or replacement copy.
BUT the news is still the same... the comics are officially on the market! The fully-fixed versions will be in my hands as of 4 PM today, but in the meantime, there's a lot of work to be finished.
Of course Jack, a stranger to the idea of work, had to get some chill time in with one of the comics to just show how cool he is.
 Z-List celebrity endorsements make me indier than thou...
The comics are officially on the market. $5 for the good copies, $4 for the mis-prints.
IF you want one, leave a comment or drop me an email. If you're local, I can just bring it to you... if not, I'm asking $2 for shipping and handling on your order, and I'll get it off to you ASAP!
In the meantime, I've been preparing madcore for the show next weekend. Also, sketches must be completed for the mural at the Humane Society, and I promised I'd get down to Terror On The Fox and do some painting since they've got some walls prepared.
Also, as per usual, I've finished another painting for this week. This giant canvas has so many layers of paint on it that it feels heavier than any of my other non-framed pieces. I blame it on the frequent re-paints because the colors wouldn't saturate the way I wanted them to. Eventually, I just threw in the towel on the color front and decided that if I couldn't make it work, I might as well work with it. WORK WORK WORK. wonk.
 Phantom Limb
I made it a bit more subtle than my other paintings because of its size. It's calming just to zone out looking deep into the picture when it's hanging in my room. It helps me sleep at night, even.
Now it's about time for me to chug this cuppa joe, hop on my bicycle, and purchase a new sketchbook. I've got some work to do and I need some blank pages to do it. YAR!
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| Miles walked/hiked log |
[ 22nd @ 09:24AM] |
To date:
Walked -- 26 miles
Hiked -- 182.1 miles
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[ 22nd @ 02:56PM] |
First post.
19/F/England.
This is yesterday- 21st July 2008. Not a typical day per se, because I get up early, go to bed late, and actually do something!
These were taken on my mobile phone, so the quality isn't great!
46 pictures including the one below.
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[ 22nd @ 08:22AM] |
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| Monday July 21, 2008 |
[ 22nd @ 01:00PM] |
Blimey O'Reilly's Trousers! No need to have a nervy b my little chummettes. I am posting yet again.
Today will feature a grand opening in a secret place, Magnolias, and mozzarella sticks.
Are you on the edge of your seat...?
Rachael, 19 from Rome, Italy.
65 pictures including repeated teaser.
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[ 21st @ 10:20PM] |
I got a Nikon D60 at the beginning of the month and have dedicated myself to taking at least one picture every day.
( some of them. )
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[ 21st @ 12:49AM] |
hii this is my first post and i just wanted to some feedback.
( thank you! )
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[ 19th @ 11:27AM] |
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i've recently bought a digital rebel xt having upgraded from a canon s5is. and also, in respect, an upgrade from my pentax me super (which i still use). i don't think i've ever posted any of my photography in this community so i'd love some criticism. i also took a class last semester for life drawing and before that a class for beginning drawing and i'd like to post some of my drawings also. i think i've only posted once or twice before. i'm quite a lurker.
( onward. )
here's a question... i used to draw really stylized and now, after taking a couple art classes, it's hard to find a style that is visually correct. how do all of you remedy this? does it just take time? or do you have to choose between the two?
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