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On my wedding day, I'm gonna recite my vows twice.
Once at the altar and again in the bedroom.
With my tongue.
On her pussy.
One letter at a time.
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It is times like today when I felt like giving up, yet God reminds me through subtle moments and gestures of why I must keep going. And why it all matters. I am so grateful.
He loves me dearly, and I am blessed to know that He is my biggest support system.
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27 | Have you ever broken someone's heart?
I don't think I've ever been important enough to someone to have that power.
28 | Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry?
a couple of them…yeah.
30 | What's irritating you right now?
Conflicting emotions about someone I deeply care about
I need more money
34 | Who/What was your last dream about?
One of my followers and It was so weird that attempting to manifest it into a sensible story would only frustrate me more…
40 | Have you ever walked outside completely naked?
Yeah! Nudity is natural.
54 | Is cheating ever okay?
69 | Do you believe in soul mates?
yeah. You can have more than one…doesn't have to be a person of the opposite sex. It's all about that deeper connection…deeper understanding of another person(s). It's an intimacy that doesn't always require romance or sexual intercourse.
That last answer…beautiful…
Thank you guys for helping me out. I was really struggling but I was able to buy groceries that should last me for a few weeks. I really appreciate the love, prayers, donations, and positive feedback from everyone. I am going through a rough time in my life and it means more than you can ever know.
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I don't have money for groceries. It has been like this for a few weeks now every since my dad made me leave home. I have been paying bills but I have absolutely nothing left for food. I have asked for help before on Tumblr to no avail, but in my last ditch attempt to get by, could you guys spare $5 or $10 to help me buy groceries that will last for a while. I am always hungry and it would mean a lot if you could help me get a meal. My donation button is on the top left side of my blog page.
I know people are on Tumblr all the time asking for money for different things and it is always so easy to over look these people but please take the time to help me. I would be so grateful. I have been through a lot, and nothing seems to be looking up and now all I am trying to do is survive. Please help me do so.
The next time a man tells me "I'm no good for you", I will:
1. Listen
2. Believe him
3. Pack my heart up and go
4. Never look back.
I know I love you because it's always there, and I never have to doubt it. It comes so naturally, I don't even have to think about it. It's like breathing.
Like, I just blinked four times, I just breathed in, I love you."
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by ivorynoire
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I've been a member for years but have never actually taken the time to upload anything. It felt fitting to have my first project be the first project that I made since I started studying fashion at a school for handicraft industry and applied arts this fall.
This was the first skirt that I've made using a pattern that I myself drew starting with a basic pattern block and made to my own measurements. It's actually a two piece ensemble consisting of an overskirt and an underskirt that can be also worn on its own.
I wanted the skirt to have a victorian or steampunk inspired feel without going too literal. I may make a proper victorian gown later on, but this one I wanted to be a modern take on the spirit of the style.
I liked the idea of playing with the direction of the stripes in the front of the skirt and althought I made a couple of mistakes in sewing the front and it didn't turn out exactly as planned, I quite like the effect. The waist line was supposed to have a bit more of a V shape in the front with one side going under the other, but that just seemed impossible to fit and the V ended up disappearing almost completely.
I set a budget of 100€ for the skirt, but as usual, I went overboard and the final total was 150€ for the materials, 100€ for the overskirt and 50€ for the underskirt.
The pleating at the hem I had done for me because it would have driven me crazy trying to iron on all the pleats within the time constraints we had. That's why I chose a polyester taffeta for the hem ruffle; it had to be man-made for the pleating to be permanent.
Overskirt: satin striped wool, polyester taffeta for the pleated ruffle at the hem, chinese braid, an invisible zipper, fusible interfacing.
Underskirt: an embroidered black linen for the main fabric, a plain black linen for the ruffles, a zipper, fusible interfacing.
Feb 26, 2012, 09.42 PMby Gabi Güden
Very beautiful! I love it!
Oct 27, 2011, 06.51 PMby vintagegal
Beautiful. I love everything about this skirt-the fit, the fabric, the use of the stripe pattern. Lovely!
Oct 26, 2011, 04.19 PMby TheSewingStudio
Wow, the detail on the bottom of the skirt is flawless! Beautiful!
Oct 26, 2011, 03.34 PMby littlejay
Oh my goodness, this is gorgeous!
Oct 26, 2011, 01.42 PMby patriciavennes
This is so beautiful! I love love love it!
Oct 25, 2011, 09.44 PMby lanternwaste33
This is really cool. The color is great too. Good job!
Oct 25, 2011, 06.49 PMby bjr99
What a GORGEOUS dress!!!!!! Love the hat too. Everything in this outfit works. Your fabric choices are spot on. The workmanship is great. Love it!!!
Oct 25, 2011, 08.09 PMby ivorynoire
Thanks for the kind words :).
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Rescue Chocolate: greatest company ever, order everything! »
You guys all know about Rescue Chocolate, right?! If you don't it's probably because you're less charitable and compassionate than I but it's okay. I will illuminate you and in return, you owe me your first born. Now, don't EVER EVER had a kid and we're even stevens!
Rescue Chocolate is an all vegan chocolate company that donates 100% of their proceeds to animal rescue. HOW RAD IS THAT? And the actual chocolate? I tried it this weekend when I was in Portland (JEALOUS?) and it was SOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD. I had the Peanut Butter Pit Bull, which I bought strictly because it has a cute-ass pit bull on it, and I was expecting to LIKE it but I LOVED it! Usually dark chocolate is just too bitter for me because I'm a delicate flower but this was SO good — peanut butter mixed with rice krispies (SO SMART) and then coated with creamy dark chocolate. It tasted like a high-class Butterfinger and you know what they say about those things: If you lay a finger on my Butterfinger, I'll murder your whole family.
Order everything (or buy at a local store if you live somewhere great) because they really are the absolute greatest and all vegan and all delicious and about to be all mine, so HURRY!
Inside pic of a PBPB, GIVE IT TO ME:
UPDATE 9/2/11: I am bummed to find out that Rescue Chocolate isn't on the Food Empowerment Project's list of places that don't use slave labor to get their chocolate. I am sorry I didn't check the list first, because it's such a good guide and I really do want to support places that are guaranteed happy for everyone. Rescue Chocolate, please use the good stuff so I can go back to ordering massive quantities on the reg!
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Well guys, sometimes life happens, and if you're a blogger, "life" is anything that makes you unable to post your highly anticipated recap of the day. Although, seeing as how the Rockies lost 10-0 on Tuesday and Jeremy Guthrie allowed 7 runs in 3 1/3 innings. Do we really want to relive that disaster? Let's not.
Turning instead to yesterday's game, we see at least this improvement: the Rockies' offense, so hot last week, managed not to get shut out. That's something of a miracle, though, when you consider that they only recorded 3 hits. That's just what I was afraid of after everything went so well last week. Eventually they were bound to come down to earth and start getting dominated again. To be fair, at least this time around it was Ian Kennedy and Wade Miley, not Old-Man-Who-Hasn't-Thrown-A-Shut-Out-In-7-Years and Some-Fill-In-From-Triple-A.
Miley, 7-2 with a 2.53 ERA, is having a fantastic rookie season for the D-backs, and the Rockies aren't the only team he's owned. Still, I wish they'd made him throw more than 102 pitches in 8 innings, and I wish they had gotten on base at least three times as often. It was a pretty lackluster night from some guys who can't afford complacency right now.
And then we have Josh Outman, the Rockies' starter, who was quite good against the Dodgers last weekend. He was on a little bit longer leash this time, but unfortunately he did not handle this extra freedom very well. In 3 innings he allowed 5 runs and only struck out 1. His third inning was also his worst: a walk and 3 doubles led to 3 runs scoring. In each case he got behind in the count. Outman's got a good fastball, but it's really not fast enough to be his outpitch. He kept getting himself into situations where he had to throw it though, and then this sort of line is what you see happen.
The bullpen has gotten a ton of work this season. At 194 2/3 innings, it has put in more time than every team but the Royals. That's not a good thing, because it means the starters are giving us no depth to work with. Luckily for us, we have a good bullpen, and they keep coming out and doing their job, day after day. Josh Roenicke pitched the 4th aand 5th yesterday, surrendering no runs and allowing 2 baserunners. Adam Ottavino finally gave up another run, on a solo shot to Paul Goldschimdt in the 7th, but his ERA is still 1.29. Rex Brothers took the rest of the 7th and set the D-backs down in order. And Rafael Betancourt allowed 1 hit in a scoreless 8th. The Rockies will be sellers in just a month or so here; should they trade away the entire bullpen, wholesale, to a team that needs it more? Such a move wouldn't shock me at this point.
At least this D-backs series is over and now we head home. Of course, it's to face the Angels, so maybe that's not a good thing after all.
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Critically Ill Children Find Hope at Mayo Clinic
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She adds, "If you can reach the families while they are here, or the translator, and be able to spread the love of the gospel to them - and if they go home and carry that back to their family members and you start hearing from your transports that go in say they met a group that came last year, hearing the difference in their lives from what they were before they came here - it is really a testimony that you actually have accomplished what you set out to do."
In addition to transporting critically ill children to North America for care, Samaritan's Purse is also providing doctors and hospitals overseas with the equipment and training needed to diagnose heart defects and effectively treat sick children in their own countries.
The Children's Heart Project got its start when Samaritan's Purse, working in Bosnia in 1997, found many children suffering from congenital heart defects who could not be adequately treated because the country's ethnic war had damaged hospitals and equipment and forced many doctors to flee. Today the project has moved beyond Bosnia into Kosovo and Mongolia with future plans to expand into other areas of the world where treatment is unavailable.
As of January 2003, The Children's Heart Project has helped save the lives of more than 175 children including:
Anuujin Duulim, a 7-month-old girl from Mongolia, arrived in Rochester, Minn. in February 2001, critically ill, suffering from a heart condition that would end her young life if not treated quickly. Two other critically ill children, Erdembat Lkhagvasuren and Uranchimeg Ganbold, accompanied Annujin to Rochester for surgery. With aid from Samaritan's Purse and surgery provided by the Mayo Clinic, all three are now healthy children living in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Blerta Morina lives with her extended family of more than 30 members in a two-room house. Her family home was burned during the war and they are working to rebuild, but without employment this is no easy task. Blerta was brought to Nashville, Tenn. for life saving heart surgery in June 2002. This was the first time Vanderbilt University Medical Center worked alongside Samaritan's Purse to help save children from war torn and under privileged countries. Blerta is now back in Kosovo leading a healthy, vibrant life since her surgery.
Rrahim Shalaj was born in the woods of Kosovo, where his mother had fled from the war that took her home and her husband. Doctors at their refugee camp could tell from Rrahim's blue-tinted skin that he had a serious heart defect, but they had neither the equipment nor the expertise for the surgery he desperately needed. Then in January 2000, Samaritan's Purse brought him to Minneapolis, where he was the first child from Kosovo to benefit from the Children's Heart Project. Within days after surgery, 16-month-old Rrahim was standing for the first time, and soon he was happily back home.
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Did you know there are two types of single people in the world? Yup, some people wear single life better than others, but what distinguishes those who rock singles-ville and others who drown in pudding pots? I'll tell you - it's all in the attitude...
The word "tradition" is so often misunderstood to mean the dragging heels of a conservative past, whereas modern traditions actually include our calendar customs such as Halloween and April Fools, our music and dance, our games and sports, almost all the foods we eat, the stories we tell, and so much more.
A quick scan through the Twittersphere reveals plenty of expressions of disgust about Newmark's behaviour, but relatively few about the questionable morality of what is effectively a sting operation. If the editors of the Sunday Mirror had any integrity, they would sack the journalist responsible. They don't, so they won't.
Sex when you're a single female usually follows one of two extremes: you're either getting too little and gagging for it or getting too much and gagging on it...
My 81 year old aunt took me aside at lunch one fine day, and said to me firmly, "Girl, you need to update your boudoir skills, you have been with the same bedfellow for far too long. It gets stagnant, you know?"
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Many women I've spoken to say they've given hand jobs or blow jobs "to be polite". They did not feel that a man owed them the favour back if he had inadvertently made them wet. All of the men I questioned thought the idea of it being rude for a woman to neglect an erection was ridiculous..
The sex positions are drawn as cartoons. It's worth pointing out that the pictures which feature alongside many of Cosmo's sex tips for straight couples are of real-life people. The fact they've used cartoons to illustrate these "mind-blowing" lesbian sex positions is cringe-worthy, creepy and actually quite offensive.
It has happened! Make no mistake, this is very big news. I have been delivering my Educate & Celebrate training to make schools LGBT-Friendly across the UK over the last few years and this is my first primary school to take the leap of using policy language and making it visible to all.
Doctors want you to update your will immediately then, according to the latest scientific study into lifestyle you are cutting years off your life just by being a certain 'size and dimension'.
What do we see when we look at a naked woman? This week's leak of celebrity nudes suggests that we consider female sexuality and sexual agency to be shameful. By turning a private image of a sexual subject into something public to be leered at and used as pornography, you suggest that women should be sexual objects and nothing more.
He tries to have sex with her, she says no but carries on kissing him. This continues for a while until eventually the girl is lying still and only able to whisper "no" in his ear, while he has sex with her...
The notion of sexuality being linked in a negative way is notorious and omnipresent in our society. It's easy to hear someone say 'that's so gay' when in public, even for the most unequivocal things... Since when did being gay, lesbian or bisexual necessarily mean a bad thing anyway?
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For the past 2 years I've been working on a new body of work about the woods next to my house. The resulting images have allowed me to explore how we relate to the abandoned rural landscape in Britain today. Formally a quarry, the woods have been left to grow unchecked for at least the past 30 years, and the result is a complicated mix of thick forest and sparse areas of quarried land. Here is a sneak preview of the work, more of which will be shown this saturday at my talk at The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
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Singapore International Photography Festival
I've been very honoured recently to have been included in the 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival exhibiting my Thames Town work alongside the works of 47 other photographers from around the globe.
From the SIPF website: "The 2nd SIPF continues its purpose to unearth new works and talents while incorporating the theme, Human : Nature, to address the universal concerns of the world. There is a duality in this theme and it can be freely interpreted either as 'Human Nature' or 'Human & Nature'; the colon representing a relationship or a balanced ratio between the words. This is an ambitious call for creative interpretation based on the theme, yet, the 550 works from 48 photographers from 23 countries selected by the four festival curators Ark Fongsmut, Bridget Tracy Tan, Chow Chee Yong and Yasufumi Nakamori, continue to inspire the photography community and elevates the understanding of photography."
You can visit until the 13th November. My work is on show at The Gallery, Old School. For more details please visit SIPF.sg and to download the full guide to the exhibitions click here
My Thames Town work is this week featured on the newly formed ShutterSpark website. Shutterspark was, "created to showcase the work of budding photographers to both the public and potential employers alike, shutterspark blog gives photography BA and MA graduates the best opportunity to promote their work."
Please visit ShutterSpark now and have a look, there is some awesome work being displayed at the moment and if you graduated within the past few years, it is well worth submitting work of your own whilst the site is growing in popularity.
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed 09
Well I have had an interesting week of it with trips back and forth to the Photographer's Gallery in London. "The reason?", I hear you ask… Well I have been part of a group exhibition showcasing who they deemed the most interesting graduates from the past 12 months on British photographic courses (I know, my MA was in China but it was run through the University of Bolton). 23 of us showed work and it was a varied mix of styles. It was interesting to see the work I was doing in China in the light of what other courses had been producing, including Goldsmiths, the RCA and LCC, all courses I hold in high regard. Overall I am chuffed to bits to have been included and more importantly my work held its own there. I will try and get hold of an image of the work in situ to add here when I go for the VIP reception tomorrow night.
There is also a mini site that will be up for a year promoting the work in the show so go and have a look at the variety of work for yourselves.
Thames Town series featured in Deep Sleep Magazine
Deep Sleep is, in the words of it's creators, "…a quarterly online photography magazine founded by and featuring work from a small group of contributors who share the same office space in Shoreditch, East London. Each issue (published in February, May, August and November) will be on a specific theme and guest contributors are also invited to submit a set of images based on that theme."
Well their theme for issue two was Alien and as such they are featuring my work from Thames Town, which is jolly nice of them (too much Blackadder goes Forth means the word 'jolly' must make an appearence).
You can see the whole issue here: Deep Sleep
Thames Town images featured on 1000 Words Blog
Tim Clark over at 1000 Words has featured my Thames Town work on his blog a little while back so please go over there and check out the blog. It is by far one of the more interesting blogs showcasing and reviewing contemporary photography online.
Zoo 8th December 2008
The light was fantastic today so I went and shot in the more open side of the zoo again to make decent images of the viewing platforms and enclosures. I am not worried about using these for my project at the moment, more just trying to get as many of the things I want shot done before I leave China in a couple of weeks.
I will post some images shortly but the biggest highlight was watching the zebra. Think I may be loosing the plot a bit cos I was stood waiting for a groundskeeper to move so I could shoot the enclosure and daydreaming of midgets riding zebras in a cavalry charge.
Oh, and I came across what I believe was some Emu. Never seen them up so close before and didn't automatically recognise them without Rod Hull's arm being elbow deep in one's rear end… Weird thing that caught my attention with them though was the sound they make, much like someone banging a bongo type drum!
Shot the rest of the viewing structures including the ones I did a few weeks ago that inspired this concept, despite having to make a dash through the gates to stop a suicidal emu following me into the hyena and wolf area. One of the Hyena's was on heat as well and so they were all very boisterous today. Made it round to the bear enclosure just as the light was disappearing and so the colours were all pastel hues but could only make some images because the main thoroughfare to the lions had been sealed off since my last visit.
Freezing my b*llocks off in Labour park
Oh god it was cold yesterday, but unfortuately I didn't realise this until I was standing in the wind with my tripod set up in Labour Park. Well, the wind had hinted at it earlier when I was shooting some billboards with images of trees set up in front of actual trees but the realisation that a hoodie was not going to be enough to keep me from freezing was quickly setting in 30 mins later as I focused on the vents and sky lights of an underground market seen from the grounds of Labour park.
Image wise I basically spent a couple of hours wandering around the north and west sides of the park that I have not really visited before and focused on the little hints of man and the efforts at hiding the controlling elements within the park. Interestingly came across a make shift home presumably again for homeless immigrant workers built behind some bill boards but nobody was home so could not get any portraits.
Finished off by shooting a little in the now empty amusement park, specifically the rollercoaster and a tree in front of it. If I get a chance to go back here and the guy who was either the supervisor/watchman or someone trying to rob the place blind (could have gone either way to be honest) is not about I will hop the fence and shoot some more interesting images of the rollercoaster not in use.
Botanical Gardens III
Decided one last trip to the botanical gardens was in order after the light had gone last time before I covered the remaining exercise spaces so braved the gloomy looking sky (reminded me of English weather actually when I was actually there).
Turned out to be a wise move (isn't being motivated to go and shoot always a good idea?) because I went to one space that had been occupied the past 2 trips and had one of the most interesting relationship between the trees and their adaption for use yet.
Made a point today to shoot images of the other parts of the park I found interesting as well including sie of the bank that supports the lake and the huge water pipes that are the output from the manholes I documented before here.
There is also an space here for an unknown game that is fenced off so managed a few frames of that although I have no idea what the game is at the moment.
Sadly I think my career as a celebrity in the park is over because bar a nod and Ni hao from the guys following me about last time as they passed me by I was left to my own devices for the afternoon. I feel strangely D-list and washed up now… !
Tai Shan 2nd December 2008
After shooting a lot on Monday I intended to take it easy today and just shoot the wave defenses in Xinghai but the light was interesting and I felt like a hill so decided to stop putting off my Tai Shan visit. Turns out I should have come here in the summer really when there may have been a chance of getting some light on the North side but oh well, the dim light adds to the eerie feeling on the North side where I found broken down walls and buildings that are perfect fodder for me at the moment. If I get a chance with decent weather again (it is a few days later now and snowing heavily outside…) I'll try and spend a day wandering through the woods both sides of the hill exploring whilst making new images. Near the top you get a spectacular view North over the vast identical housing blocks with the new high rise buildings to the rear. Had an interesting experience yet again when making images of this actually. Heard a rumble and the screech of brakes behind me and turned to see 2 army jeeps with soldiers pouring out. Obviously my heart sank a little and i was quickly working out what I had shot that may be deemed inappropriate that day (nothing came or comes to mind!) so thought I was all good even though I knew I didn't have all my papers on me. Turns out they seemed to be escorting some officers who were going to watch the sunset at the top together… while the rest just stayed down with me at a lower level viewing spot. Despite us not speaking the same language they seemed nice, with some old man pointing at me and shouting various things a lot while talking with them that included the words foreigner, England and stop, but they were absolutely pissing themselves at this slightly senile old guy which was a huge relief. They even had a play with the camera while I was pointing out and trying to explain I was waiting for the tram to go through the frame…
The other interesting part of the day was on the way down the hill I found a small area set up presumably by an immigrant worker as a makeshift shelter. The light was failing fast so shot a roll or so around the scene to add to a growing collection I have of these from around the parks so will see how they turn out. Also should try to make time to go and hotograph the roads around the base of the hill because they are so very different than the more modern sanitised Dalian with overcrowding and power lines and pipes above the streets and generally looking more like most would assume China to look.
Botanical Gardens II
I made a second trip to the Botanical gardens in Dalian on the 26th November on a quest to shoot the rest of the exercise spaces there and make the most of the tripod that I didn't have last time I was there, and have a go at getting slightly different takes on the chairs in the lake image that is currently in my edit for the leisure book (see a post with the pdf that will be here in about a week or two). I noticed on the the main scenes with the cross beam between 2 trees now had bright yellow tape over the beam so reshot this before moving on to a few of the other trees that now stood out more due to this yellow tape and some spaces I had not noticed on my previous visit.
Amusingly I gathered quite a bit of interest while doing this and after an hur or so had a solid fan base of 5 spectators following me through the woodland. I remember when I first started out in photography and being shy to the point of not even liking taking pictures in front of people let alone of people and now here I am, wondering through a random bit of woodland in China with 5 guys just following and staring in utter bemusement at what I am doing. Wish I had shot some portraits of them now but oh well, my complete lack of language means it is difficult to achieve anything approaching intimacy in portraits here so I choose to avoid them, instead feeling that the landscape speaks far more intimately about my relationship with the Chinese and all of our relationships with the landscape. I still feel that nagging voice in the back of my head that I should be making portraits though but I worry if that is genuine or if it is just me trying to do what I think I should do rather than continuing to just respond in my own vision to the questions in my head.
A quicky in Xinghai with Mike…
Before I start, in case he reads this, sorry for the title Mike, couldn't resist really! Anyway, went for a walk done in Xinghai a couple of weeks ago just for a break from the essay writing really, I forget the exact date but it must have been around the 20th of November or so. Didn't take the tripod cos it wasn't really anything formal, just a chance for fresh air but took the camera down with me seeing as the cloud was dull and low.
Came across the deserted amusements from the summer that looked much like I remember the ones back home when I visit Weston during the off season. I always found these places so much more interesting visually when they are abandoned, something slightly eerie and melancholy about them. I could go on about ideas of how these things remind me of childhood dreams and the like that didn't quite pan out as expected but you get the idea. I find the aspects of how an area thrives during the on season and then becomes so desolate during the winter months more in tune with my experience. Anyone from around small season areas would be able to relate to this concept
Anyway, I have added one image to this post that I feel sums up the ideas I am talking about well. The closed down confectionery stand with the fake rock behind that would appear to now be home to someone from the look of the makeshift curtain doorway. The flat lighting helps as well add to the general feeling of a loss of innocence felt by the kids who would have been buying ice-cream here only 2 months ago. The large fake rock is built as well to make people feel that the large park this is in that has been transformed for tourism is really still a natural environment, with the explanation mark sprayed on just to remind people that the natural is far to dangerous and they should remain in areas where their money can be procured. In reality all that was once natural has been laid waste in the the urban sprawl. Dalian serves as an interesting example of this with the Mayor in the ate 1980s adding many green parks for people to relax in. The only problem is most of these have given way to commercial ventures and remain only as a weak facsimile of the natural environment, the remnants of which are only seen in the steep surrounding hills that are inaccessible but still littered with power stations, quarries and pylons.
Xinghai Square and Eastwards 1st December 2008
Weather today was good for shooting and I'm sure it will be one of the last during this trip to China so I went out and shot a load of film today all from Xinghai Square and Eastwards through the Shell Museum (a giant recreation of a fairy tale castle) and out along Binhai Xi Lu again.
Before I get too engrossed i should add that I have been shooting since the last post, just lost my internet last week and have yet to catch up with the missing posts. That and book editing have been taking up all my time lately so expect a flurry of posts about the past couple of weeks over the next few days.
The plan was to go down to the zoo to re shoot a couple of images that were soft from my earlier inability to pull my thumb out of my arse and use a tripod, and after much deliberation decided on the decent end for the day with an early go at the bathtubs again with better light. As is often the case with me this plan went to the wall almost as soon as I got off the tram to walk to the zoo the long way through Xinghai Square. I've never really shot much in there so trees with fairy lights attached and the plugs hanging loose by the trunks was too much to pass up really…
After making a nuisance of myself sufficiently around the main bits of the Square including trampling through the flower beds with the tripod to get something interesting with the colour purple (photo will be here in about 2-3 days) and annoying a sleeping policeman enough was enough. There should be quite a few interesting images from all of this and one of the things that I really found helpful in removing the distraction of having everyone stare at me like I'm from Mars (its really, really off-putting sometimes for those of us with no desire to join the stage) was having the iPod on. Gogol Bordello to the rescue again! Something about their music always puts me in a happy and inquisitive mood (and want to drink vodka for some reason..!) so I think it added to my work today.
Anyway, went up the Shell museum as well and made some interesting I hope images of electricity cables coming out of a window. Doesn't sound that great but the window is made to look like a fairytale castle and these were big think cables, so it should work.
Oh, and the other place I managed to get to today was the bathtubs again, and I think at pretty much the same time as last time so we shall see what the lighting was like. Thinking tomorrow morning is the time to go and get the definitive shot -it looks like it will snow later in the week so this could work as well but would like a well lit non snowy shot to start with. As has been my habit lately I went off wondering again in the little trails at the sides of the road today and I swear i spend as much time treading around people's makeshift toilets as i do making images, but I think it is worth it. I found a whole area covered in empty clam and oyster shells today in a bit of woodland so I think that tactic of exploration is worth it photographically. Hell, I enjoy so even if the images are no good I'll still keep exploring.
Beth Dow, Keith Taylor and old processes
I noticed today there have been a couple of Beth Dow's images up on Flak. For those that don't know Dow won the book prize on offer from Blurb this year with a series entitled In the Garden that presents a series of visages of man's encroachment upon nature. You can see the series on her site here: Beth Dow. My interest in the work is pretty obvious to anyone who has been paying attention but what with the reading into the concepts of Imagined Geographies and historical and culture depictions I have been doing for my MA, I find Dow's use of Platinum printing fascinating. Think of the my current work dealing with the expansion of the ultra modern and artificial into the natural and how this would look presented as prints visually familiar to those early photographs from travelling Victorian tourist photographers.
There are a lot more details on contemporary use of old processes -today utilising digital technologies interestingly, on Keith Taylor's website. Taylor did Dow's printing as well as apparently undergoes work for a range of photographers from Eve Arnold through to Mario Testino. I'd be interested to know what Arnold work he prints because I know Glen Brent was doing all of her printing up until at least a few years ago, but I'm not sure if Brent uses any old processes.
Recent activities
I realise I have not been updating this as much as I possibly could recently so thought I would add something about what I have been working on lately. Today being the last day to finish the 1st draft of my MA dissertation means my head has been in the books recently but I have been trying to get out and about to shoot and find new and interesting locations for later shoots. One thing I have been expressly looking at is the sports areas flood lit at night. I've visited a few of these now but have to find one that is going to be appropriate -either the flood lights are insufficient to allow me to make a useable image or there is nowhere from which I can get a suitable vantage point. I swear with my current quest to find high ground I feel like a sniper half the time.
One thing that has become clear over the past few weeks of shooting and looking at work for my paper on contemporary practice, I am becoming more and more interested in the periphery of spaces. This idea has been addressed before in Mark Power's 26 Different Endings and Steffi Klenz's (of Nonsuch fame, a series that heavily influenced my Thames Town work) A Scape. Both if these bodies of work concern the edge of the city of London, Power in regards to how we artificially create borders and Klenz in an examination of the nature of a space in flux.
What I am interested in with this periphery concept within leisure spaces is how we have a more fluid relationship with the landscape. These spaces are less about the commoditisation of the land and present more of a balance between man and the land. However when we dig deeper we see that this is still a highly managed landscape and our relationship is still one of dominance over all.
Shooting wise I have also been revisiting spaces now that it is November and officially the off-season. Ever sonce first picking up a camera I have been obsessed with the notion of a landscape virtually abandoned during the winter months with only the remnants of a vibrant summer industry left behind. Never sure that the images I capture of this are not overly cliched but if nothing else there is something both calming and poignant about photographing something so familiar when so far from home.
This leads me onto another point about my work that has become more focused and resolute in my mind. By attempting to a China so different than the manufacturing giant depicted in the western news, or the mystical historically rich ideal of the travel books, my work is attempting to comment on globalisation and homogenisation of culture, how in the 21st century the global culture means that the land is shaped in much the same way no matter where you are based and it is only in the small details that we can see references to individual cultures coming through. Those spaces that are altered by groups of people and not by industry are the spaces where we will be able to truly observe some level of individual culture.
On a technical note it has been difficult to add images lately because I blew a harddrive and as such have to redo all corrections on my film based work. I knew I should have burnt the back up disks last week… It also meant I lost 95% of the digital work I shot in China but I am strangely calm about this and find if anything it actually to be a freeing experience. The only images I truly rated I have A3 sized copies available of and the rest to be honest were in two modes -a form of diary of my initial time here, annoying to lose but lets be honest, I would have never even converted the RAW files anyway (I am not and never have been one to shoot in this way before or after my first 2 months in China -I just have no interest in photography outside of using it as a method to explore my ideas. I guess this is a family thing because there are relatively few snapshots of us from my childhood when compared to the horrendous experience most we are subjected to when other families pull out the photo album). The other lost pictures were just my initial explorations, all of which have led to the work I am doing now but form only the basis of the initial ideas. That they represent the desire for me to leave behind the more reportage style for the time being would have been interesting to look at again but overall their loss feels almost like a weight has been lifted -the sum of my work in China will rest in that which is on the physical artefact that is film.
On the edges of Labour Park
On a whim, partly because I felt I was yet t have made a successful picture there and partly because I wanted to go exploring, I went back to Labour Park in Dalian a few days ago to work my way up to the top, Lu Shan, and have a look around for more of the subtle (comparatively speaking) signs of our influence and control over the environment. I found a whole series of spaces used for tai qi and other morning rituals and also some presumably for more violent martial arts further up the hill. Also had an interesting experience with the local, 'wildlife' again when a couple decide to get together in the background of one of my shots while a strange guy crouched and watched them from the bushes, completely uninterested in the fact he was in full view of me. I guess the wooded edges of city parks are pretty much the same no matter what country you are in…
Anyway, here are a few random selects from the shoot that have caught my eye initially.
Guido Castagnoli
Castagnoli's work -Provincial Japan, is available to download from his site and is a very interesting look at Japan form a Western perspective, utilising a very western style reminiscent of the work of the new Topographics and also more contemporary artists such as Joel Sternfeld and Mark Power, but with a more snapshot aesthetic in his representation of colour. The work is very relevant to mine when looked at in light of Edward Said's theories of Orientalism and as such will be included in my dissertation in relation to how it represents the East from a Western perspective.
You can look at Castagnoli's work on his website here: Guido Castagnoli
Thanks to the ever valuable Conscientious blog run by Joerg Colberg for this info which I would have undoubtably missed otherwise. The web does have its uses afterall…
More Exercise Spaces
Thought these would be better in a separate post to keep things uncluttered. Anyway, here are some more of the spaces cleared for exercise, this time in Xinghai Park.
Xinghai Park again!!!!!!! 29th and 30th October
Just for all the haters out there I spent a couple of days this week in Xinghai looking for images that were completely different than the usual from what is quite possibly the most photographed part of China by the MA course -its an easy location to test ideas out and get used to China when you first arrive, I should know, I still have around 3000 digital images off my old Canon I need to edit properly.
Anyway, on Wednesday I stupidly didn't take the tripod out with me, even after knowing how much it is essential on the more dull days and is generally a wise more to slow my image making down. I managed to make images for about an hour, maybe 2, until I was down to shooting at 1/30 at f4.0 which was useless so packed it in for the day. Once again, I need to carry my tripod.
Anyway, I spent the time basically rooting around in the arts of the park away from the main paths and found a few areas marked out for Tai Chi, similar in concept to the ones in the Botanical Gardens. Due to my general uselessness of no tripod I will have to see whether these will work with the shallow depth of field or not, ideally if I was working that angle properly I would have a 5×4 down there and use some movements to really isolate just little traces of footprints or the like in sharp focus with the rest falling off, but for now I'm relying less on camera trickery and more on just the sense of tranquil space created around a manipulated environment to make my point. I'm going to post some of these images in a separate post for now and just include the the later ones here.
Before the light completely vanished and the rain came I managed to make some images around the closed up shower facilities and the green areas adjacent. Not 100% yet but think these should be ok technically -they were not in amongst trees and so there was enough light to gain sufficient depth of field.
After the balls up of not taking the tripod I went down to Xinghai again on thursday with the tripod in tow. The sun was much brighter today but patchy cloud meant I could make images with and without scattered light to see which work more effectively. Traditionally I'm always thinking that even lighting s better but then I look at work like that of Michael Schmidt's and his woman in a park image with mottled light hitting her through the leaves and i think I should really experiment with this a lot more, so now consciously make the effort to shoot the same scene in different lighting to see how it looks on film.
I basically re shot the same images as the day before plus more from the last section people use for Tai Chi that had been occupied the previous day. I liked this last area because it had the option of standing on a raised up section to shoot slightly downwards which is a viewpoint I both like ad feel is sorely missing form some of the images. A step ladder would be a good purchase… (plus naturally a bigger tripod then, oh the joys…). Interesting (well to me at least) side note, this spot is either where the local (non existent according to those in charge) gay male population hang out looking for 'friends' or I have the worst luck in the world for men exposing themselves to the camera for me… Kicking myself for not releasing the shutter in any of the right moments but I get enough problems from my lab as it is without those images as well. I also shot a load of frames of two kites in the sky, tiny with the lenses I had with me but the idea would be to print these big; Its an experiment really after looking at some Joel Sternfeld work recently.
Headed over to another slightly wooded area after this where I know more pensioners meet ot play cards and practice Tai Chi. Was hoping to find more of the lashed on brace beams like in the Botanical gardens but alas there were none. Spent some time shooting a manhole cover in an apparently tranquil forest though and some random concrete blocks. Not sure how successful these will be but it was interesting to shoot them nonetheless.
Just taking the work to the lab now so hopefully they won't screw loads of them up this time (last zoo trip I lost about 10 frames due to fogging, most likely when the films were being loaded into the machine. Annoying but at about 80p for a whole roll of 120 to be developed and scanned to 72mb each -about 5000 px square, I can live with remembering to reshoot any image on the end of a roll again at the beginning of the next roll…)
Binhai Xi Lu 25th October 2008
Bit late updating this but thought I would add a little about a shoot I did last weekend. I finally manged to make some images along the coastal road Binhai Xi Lu, or West Binhai Road if you prefer. The one part of the actual road I wanted with the painted tarmac and blue lamppost wasn;t going to happen -waited for 45 mins but a saturday early afternoon is possibly the worst time possible to not have a landscape full of people, which is fine for some of the images but not the one I am trying to make here.
Made my way over to the zoo and the the beach opposite where there is a carpark that has been interesting me for a while before the beach at the base of the cliff. Not sure if I any of the beach images work -I seem to be inept at the moment getting appropriate images involving beachs after my early successes but I will continue to experiment until I find something that interests me. On the path down to the beach i found a series of bath tubs set into the ground. Light was awful so may go back and reshoot but will post one here so you know what I am on about at least.


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« Now Welcoming New Recruits to 'The Women's Crusade'–Part I | Main | Christian Leaders and Their Motorcycles »September 9, 2009
Now Welcoming New Recruits to "The Women's Crusade" Part II
Last week we talked about a spread in the New York Times entitled "The Women's Crusade." Authors Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn share with us how women are more often the victims of poverty and the injustices that so often come with it: financial and sexual exploitation and reduced access to education and healthcare.
Now that we've steeped ourselves in the bad news, let's talk about workable solutions, for this is truly an issue that breaks God's heart. In Luke 4, we see Jesus approach the Synagogue and quote these words from Isaiah 61, showing that he is the fulfillment of God's promises and commands: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come" (Luke 4:18–19, NLT). Those of us who call ourselves Christians must answer Jesus' call while we can.
I'm among the growing number of people who believe that the best way to alleviate poverty in the developing world is to support its women. The best way to help a starving child is to give their parent a job. While a suffering world needs all kinds of aid–even if not especially handouts of food and medical supplies at times–why is this best?
First, statistics show that women are more likely than men to spend the family's money on education and healthcare for the children. Studies show that men are more likely to become in debt and spend earnings on tobacco, alcohol, and prostitutes.
Second, educated women are less likely to be sexually trafficked or exploited. People who can read are better able to vote to change their situation, learn about solutions to their problems, and break the cycle of poverty. Educated women are also more likely to take control of their reproductive health and engage in family planning so that they do not have more children than they can afford.
And finally, providing loans for businesses leads to employment, which is a sustainable kind of aid. Loans can also be repaid so that the benefits are recycled, and entrepreneurs can hire additional staff as their businesses grow, so that the benefits are multiplied.
As an illustration of how this all fits together, Kristof and WuDunn write about Saima, an impoverished woman with a broken spirit from Pakistan. Her husband was unemployed, in debt, and he beat her everyday. Her relatives scorned her for failing to produce a male heir and urged her husband to get a new wife. Then Saima found the Kashf Foundation, a microfinance institution. Microfinance means that small entrepreneurial loans are given to individuals–who often form support groups to guarantee each other's loans–who are then able to buy an oven or textiles or a small storefront to begin to work. While a loan to start a business in the United States would be extremely costly, microfinance loans in the developing world can be as little as $50.
Saima got $65 and started an embroidery business. As her venture grew, she paid off her husband's debts, hired more workers, and brought back the children she couldn't afford to keep at home before. Even Saima's husband works for her now and the beatings have stopped. She is now the "neighborhood tycoon." Saima can repay her $65 loan (to be given to someone else) and take out a slightly bigger loan to expand her business. She can cover the loan payment of another woman in her group of 25 who meet to gain life skills and learn about managing household finances. Similarly, they can cover her payment in an emergency so business can move forward. In many places, these groups also worship God together and learn about Christianity. They pray for one another and can find forgiveness, hope, and healing.
Poor people are not lazy, stupid, or dishonest. They need a working chance just like the one Saima received. The premiere Christian microfinance organization, Opportunity International, boasts a 98 percent repayment rate among their clients across four continents. We in the United States cannot even claim such a record. While microfinance has benefited men as well, many institutions loan exclusively to women because of their success rate; Opportunity International loans to more than 80 percent women.
In the interest of full disclosure, let me admit that my father has worked at Opportunity International for almost 20 years. My mother is the former manager of a not-for-profit store that sells handmade goods by artisans in the developing world and is certified fair trade. My parents have a passion for the world's poorest populations and I've heard heart-breaking and hopeful stories like Saima's my whole life.
In a never-ending quest to convince me that "my life of wealth and privilege in the United States isn't normal" (to which I replied, "Whatever, Dad!"), he took me on a trip to the poorest areas of Romania and Hungary when I was 13. Not as a tourist, but as a sort of ride-along as he inspected the progress of microfinance in those countries and visited with clients. I experienced firsthand the flush of pride of a woman who can give a tour of her shop or introduce me to her children in their school uniforms. These women were grateful for their loans and speak about their life before their business as if they were a completely different person. True, sometimes a meal is what is most immediately needed and is the difference between life and death, but what will truly turn the tide for impoverished nations is providing a way out of the all-consuming cycle of daily need. That is where there is dignity. And hope.
Let the words of the Old Testament prophet Amos be our prayer today: "Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!" (Amos 5:24, NLT).
Here are links to some of the premiere microfinance institutions if you'd like to get involved, all not-for-profit:
Christian organizations
Opportunity International
Opt in Now - individual sponsorship arm of Opportunity International
Hope International
World Vision and World Relief also have microfinance programs although they have other ministries as well
What do you think of the idea of microfinance? How do you think about poor people now—and how did you think of them when you were a child? Do you agree that supporting women is the best way to alleviate poverty worldwide? Why or why not?
Anything we can do to provide an education and livelihood to women and girls in developing nations makes them less vulnerable to abuse, trafficking, and sexual brutality. Microfinance is one of the best ways to do this; child sponsorship also helps.
Whereas there are many hard earned good results for these women involved, there are also issues one cannot turn away from. Rigid gender roles and the unshared responsibility of hme making and care-providing of women mean that women participating in the meetings and activities of micro-credits experience a huge increase of work and pressure. It is therefore important to advocate for the fair sharing of 'domestic' responsibilities. There are also reports that some women's health deteriorated further not only becasue of increased work and pressure but that they actually sometimes have to decrease their intake of food in order to save the amount to be paid back every few days. In some cases, their male partners are the ones to control the use of the loan which was taken in her name. Some experience increased abuses from their male partners when the women ask for the return of the money. These examples are to illustrate that providing opportunity is good if adequate consideration of realities is made, tackling the institutional sins of gender discrimination that deny women of opportunity must not be made invisible and untackled. The biggest reason why 70% of the world's poor are women, it is because they are women.
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|11 Apr 2013
Liteon optical drive not burning
Hi all,
Another problem so back to the gurus here!!!
My LG DVD burner died so I buried it down the back with my old dog and bought a Liteon iHAS524-T07 DU.
I have been using ConvertXto DVD to convert movies and burn them to DVD+RW media. This program even formats the disc prior to burning so saves a lot of messing about.
Now the bugger!!! This liteon will not burn to my DVD+RW discs. Put in a DVD-R and no problem.
Is there a workaround or solution? Is there another burner which will do what I want? It's been great using the DVD+RW's, saves money on media so I'd like to keep doing that. Ta for any help
|My System Specs
|11 Apr 2013
Either that burner doesn't like the brand of DVD+RW disc you're trying to burn (meaning try another brand) or the burner itself is defective (meaning RMA it).
|My System Specs
|12 Apr 2013
Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium SP1
I concur ^.
Optical burners are real touchy about the quality of disks and the formats. And with so many formats it makes the entire optical disk system not as reliable as it ought to be.
That is one of the reasons why we will soon find optical drives in the hole with the dog, floppy disks, and CRT monitors.
|My System Specs
|12 Apr 2013
Windows 7 Pro X64 SP1
I've had a couple of LiteOn drives die early deaths, but they worked OK while they lived.
The drive that you list supports DVD+RW and DVD-RW, so it ought to work.
I mostly use a TSST (Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology) drive, but I seldom use DVD±RW or DVD-RAM . (I've tested both, though, and both work.) The drive was around $20US, so if it gave me trouble, it'd go in the electronics recycling bin. Wouldn't be worth paying to ship it back.
|My System Specs
|12 Apr 2013
Thanks for the input blokes.....now let's throw a curve ball.
In frustration I installed another burner I had laying around with the same result...it will not burn to a DVD+RW but will burn a DVD-R no problem. Hmmmm, methinks try another burner so I borrow two more and try them both...Bugger me, same deal nfg!!!
Why would it be that all was well previously, I could burn to any disc with ConvertxtoDVD or imgburn or whatever, then I replace the burner and now even my old ones which used to work, don't? Got me stumped!!
|My System Specs
|12 Apr 2013
Well, well, an update for any interested readers!!
After my burner/s reading data on DVD+RW's OK but not being able to burn anything and being frustrated to the point of computercide, I tried to format a disc with AShampoo and start again but it refused to recognise the disc. I put in another one and another one etc etc. Same deal and on it went, until.......after around eight rejected discs, (at which time the feeling I wanted to murder this bloody computer was strongest), it started to format a DVD+RW and completed it successfully. I then tried to burn to that disc and don't ask me how, I wouldn't have a clue but it worked!!! What caused all this kerfuffle?? Dunno, but I doubt very much that eight discs out of ten or so could all go troppo at once. Bloody gremlins, think I'll get my place exorcised!!
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Rites Ltd Recruitment 2014
Rites Limited has announced a notification as Rites Ltd Recruitment 2014 to invite the eligible aspirant for the Manager Vacancy. Aspirants are requested to come in the walk-in interview and get recruited on the basis of their performance.
Willing aspirants can register their applications either through the online mode on before 12th September 2014 or by the registering themselves on the date of interview on 13thSeptember 2014
Candidates can get more information related to Rites Ltd Recruitment 2014 such as post name, no of post, qualification, salary, how to apply etc which is given by the team of recruitmentresult.com
Name of Organization
Rites Limited
Post Name
Jr.Manager (Finance)
Aspirant must be CA/ICWA qualified.
Selected candidate will get Rs.16840/- per month.
Age Limit
Age of the aspirants must not be more then 35 years.
Selection Procedure
Aspirants will be selected on the basis of Walk-in interview.
Interview Tips & Questions and Answers
How to Apply
- Aspirants who are willing to apply can register their name through online mode or at the date of interview.
- Candidates who will register their name before the interview through the online mode will get first chance to attend the interview.
- To apply online aspirant must visit the official site of Rites Limited, which is rites.com.
- Then select the "career" option which is on the upper side of the page.
- Then select "online registration".
- Fill all the details and submit it.
- Your registration no. will be generated.
- Registration no. and password will sent at your email address.
- Then login your account by selecting "application login".
- Fill all the information upload your CV and photo.
- Submit your application.
- Applicants should go for walk-in at the address given below.
Postal Address
GC/BMRCL, B.M.T.C. Complex,
3rd Floor, K.H. Road, Shantinagar,
Bangalore 560027
Important Date
- Last Date of online registration: 12th September 2014
- Date of interview: 13th September 2014
Note: For more information you can read Official Notification
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