One-Minute Writer: Moon

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{image by O'Dasor De, LAM}


prompted by The One-Minute Writer

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Today's Writing Prompt: Moon
If you'd been the first human to step foot on the moon, what would you have said, for the world to hear?


answer:
okay! . . . can we go home now?

O'Dasor De
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Now playing: Tony Bennett - Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words)
via FoxyTunes

you say hello, i say goodbye

image by ldinami7e
[aka Leandro Lamezi]

Friends,

we'll certainly take the time to visit our favorite blogs,
{and you know who you are}

but, we'll post infrequently (very infrequently)
between now and September.

we embark on a much deserved summer holiday.

as the song says, see you in September.

hugz-n-kissez from the Big Apple. :-)

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Now playing: Jimmy Durante - I'll Be Seeing You
via FoxyTunes

Saturday Surprise: U.S. Male 2009

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{U.S. Male 2009
by O'Dasor De, LAM}


Saturday Surprise
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2009

THEME: MALE



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Now playing: Elvis Presley - U.S. Male
via FoxyTunes

It's About Who Gets to Choose.

prompted by
The One-Minute Writer

SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 2009
Today's Writing Prompt: Lobby
Imagine you are becoming a lobbyist for the national legislature (such as the U.S. Congress.) What issue will you be fighting for?

we would love to lobby congress for the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) (H.R. 1409, S. 560)

as it stands now the employer decides whether to accept a card-check process or hold an election.

this act transfers that decision to the employee. the employees would decide to have an election if 30% petition for it, or the employees may press for recognition through a majority card-check.

the decision to unionize or not, shouldn't be the employers, it should be the worker's decision.
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Now playing: Ann Feeney - War on the Workers
via FoxyTunes

our teacher gave us two books

prompted by

the blog: THERE IS A LIFE I WILL TOUCH TODAY

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009

Q of the day

As a child,

what was your favorite book?

Have you reread that book since your childhood?

when we left kindergarten, on the last day of class,

after saying our goodbyes, our teacher gave us two books,

a Lassie book, and a Roy Rogers, Cowboy book.

these were largely picture books,

and we don't remember her giving any of the other children books.

so, we presume that there was something about us

that prompted her to give us these books.

whatever it was, these were the first books we remember owning,

and we KNOW that we reread the Roy Rogers book,

which had more prose and less pictures.

again when we were about twelve years old,

and in bed sick and unable to attend school.

we DO remember thinking at this point,

how much fun it was to read,

and how we wanted to read more books.

funny.

we don't remember the teacher's name,

we barely remember what she looked like,

but we've always remembered her giving us those books

back when we were five or six years old.

we're in our late fifties now. and . . . we LOVE to read.

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Visual Response to Question of the Day for May 28, 2009

image by ~uffaaah
{aka kià.}





our visual response
prompted by
Question of the Day
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Vowels Removed

A well known phrase has had all its vowels removed and has been split into groups of three letters. What is the phrase?

HRT DYG NTM RRW
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Now playing: The Ramones - Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
via FoxyTunes

Today's Writing Prompt: Memorial: Corporal Pat Tillman

Corporal Pat Tillman,
(November 6, 1976 San Jose, California
– April 22, 2004 Sperah, Afghanistan )

thank you for putting aside your personal beliefs,
and then heeding the call of your country;
this is the highest order of hero.
may the details of your passing reach the light of day.
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prompted by
The One Minute Writer
MONDAY, MAY 25, 2009

Today's Writing Prompt: Memorial
Write a thank you note or tribute to someone who lost his/her life in an heroic way.

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Now playing: Wiener Philharmoniker - Symphony No.41 "Jupiter" - IV Finale: Molto allegro
via FoxyTunes

Spoonful o' Jimbo

inspired by
PAINTBOX PICTURES


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{Spoonful o' Jimbo
by O'Dasor De, LAM}

we arrived at the top picture by applying the following tools from a free version of PHOTOSCAPE.

-Distort; using motion blur
-Bloom: high
-Clolorize: high
-Sharpen: 13

these tools/filters were applied to the photo on the bottom. {special thanks to Boat-Rocker Jimbo who has his grand-kids doing the spoon/eye trick at restaurants to the dismay of the Missus.

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Now playing: Beat Positive - If I Could Be Anyone
via FoxyTunes

Thematic Photographic 49 - Human: Fresh Direct

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{Fresh Direct by O'Dasor De, LAM}



following an era of unrestricted greed,
the aftermath is always HUMAN






prompted by
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Thematic Photographic 49 - Human

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Now playing: Herbie Hancock - Don't Explain (feat. Damien Rice & Lisa Hannigan)
via FoxyTunes

The One-Minute Writer: Earth

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{EARTH by O'Dasor De, LAM}



The premise is flawed. Earth's environment does not "suffer" because of Human interaction with it. "Suffering" requires cognizance. What does suffer is the Earth’s capacity to sustain life as we know it. Life, however, is highly adaptable and Nature abhors a void.

It is likely that Life (in general) will adapt and survive on Earth, with or without, human intervention.

Mankind, however, if it is to survive must take action to curtail damage to the environment which WE require to survive.

Ironically, while the Earth may be indifferent to human existence, Humanity would be better off if humans (as we know them) had never appeared. . . . heh, heh. ;-)
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.prompted by The One-Minute Writer
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Today's Writing Prompt: Earth
The environment suffers due to humanity's actions. Would Earth be better off had humans never appeared?
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Now playing: Aretha Franklin - This Bitter Earth
via FoxyTunes

Meme Express: Give Me Just a Little More Time

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Trapped Inside Many Eternities,
Every Man Invokes Temperance.
by O'Dasor De, LAM






This is the four-faceted post clock installed
at Millenium Park (near City Hall) as a tribute
to David Rockefeller and his contributions
to the city of New York.

{that tall building in the background (farthest in pic)

is the gorgeous, Art Decorated, Woolworth Building}

if you're curious about Street Clocks of New York go see

It's About Time; an excellent blog by author Emily Stern.

It's About Time is now defunct having accomplished

its task of cataloging the clocks of Manhattan,

however its archives are still replete

with excellent pictures and information.

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Give Me Just a Little More Time

Prompted by

All Aboard the Meme Express

– Monday, May 11, 2009

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Uncle A.

Uncle A.
Memory.

A cartoonish dream.

Scared,
Frightened and crying!

Uncle A. would visit quite often.
"Your blessing Uncle A."

Uncle A stares with frightening, angry eyes . . .


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inspired by
The One-Minute Writer

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Now playing: Ferenc Fricsay, Yehudi Menuhin, Berliner Philarmoniker, Orchestra Sinfonica Della Rias Di Berlino - Concerto Per Violino e Orchestra In Re Maggiore, Op. 35: I. Allegro Moderato (Ciaikovsky)
via FoxyTunes

SkyWatch Friday No. 43: Archway View of Ground Zero Cranes

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{image by O'Dasor De, LAM}


140 West Street in keeping with its Art Deco styling, the building has a archway along its southside (Vesey Street) that is replete with decorative motifs on the walls and ceiling.

this Vesey Street Archway separates the building from the Ground Zero Reconstruction site.

this is a view of cranes working at the sight as viewed through an arch (note the decorations).
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Skywatch images at the Skywatch Site!

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Now playing: The Bangles - Watching The Sky
via FoxyTunes

Antara

well, we're running a bit late on the Thematic Photographic 47 - Musical  

but we're hoping to add this tidbit just under the wire. :-)

these shots are of a Busker who plays regularly, weather permitting, on the corner of Broadway right next to City Hall, in New york City. he accepts donations and has CDs of his music for sale.

his music, as we can see, is played on an Antara  , or Andean Pan Flute    which originates from Peru. The antara is also known as a Siku, Panflute, or Panpipe. Siku is a term used so much in Quechuan as in Aymara used by the peoples of the Plateau of the Collao (P.e. Qcollas and Huancanés).

we've not spoken to the gentleman but he certainly displays Amerind features. 

Buskers are popular in NY especially in the warmer months; there are a few Pan Flute players all around sometimes playing in groups of three or more. 

during the colder months they play underground in the subway stations where the acoustics transport the listener to the Andes where the sounds of the Siku echo among the snow-capped mountains and verdant valleys.

thanks for stopping by. :-)

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