lomo me (2)

playing with http://www.dumpr.net/
heh heh
& some wine...
ah & photoshop channels, too...

naturally sepia...

oh! i finally got some film developed back
this picture...
not a great theme or anything like that
(although i love the mexican peaberry...)
but what i like about this picture
is the naturally sepia!
this is just my film camera nikon nikkormat EL
and a 200 iso film, cheap one, KODAK Kolor
and well, my dirty kitchen stand instead of a tripod
no photoshop here, just the scan of the film if anything

ah sepia! i like 'cause tastes to my eyes like Café
or a good blessed cup of tea

to grow or not to grow, & rose garden

that is the question!
such a flowery shakespearian dilemma!
that i have to face this cloudy morning



my film camera here
still working...

and to top this flowery day
a song that I grew up to!
my mother used to listen to this song endlessly!
in the early 70's
so I know ALL the lyrics...
a great classic country 70's songs by Miss Lynn Anderson

this song and many others
have been central theme of the DJs list
I get via e-mail...

so... I beg your pardon
but here are the video & the lyrics
be a good cowboy to this cute & skinny lovely lady
and sing along w/her & her retro friends...



I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.
When you take, you gotta give, so live and let live,
Or let go.
I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.

I could promise you things like big diamond rings,
But you don't find roses growin' on stalks of clover.
So you better think it over.
Well, if sweet-talkin' you could make it come true,
I would give you the world right now on a silver platter,
But what would it matter?
So smile for a while and let's be jolly:
Love shouldn't be so melancholy.
Come along and share the good times while we can.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.

Instrumental break.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.

I could sing you a tune or promise you the moon,
But if that's what it takes to hold you,
I'd just as soon let you go, but there's one thing I want you to know.
You better look before you leap, still waters run deep,
And there won't always be someone there to pull you out,
And you know what I'm talkin' about.
So smile for a while and let's be jolly:
Love shouldn't be so melancholy.
Come along and share the good times while we can.

I beg your pardon,
I never promised you a rose garden.
Along with the sunshine,
There's gotta be a little rain sometimes.

the quote of the day

"The days of the digital watch are numbered."

- Tom Stoppard
British dramatist & screenwriter,
Author of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
read the play! or watch the film

must-watch films (part 1): Darren Aronofsky

oh this blog!...
trying to do something useful out of it
i can classify some of my favorite films!
if you happen to read this...
please consider these films on your list!
i will try to post now & then more about films
that i think are good films

for a start:
2 films from young director Darren Aronofsky

π or Pi- Faith in Chaos

a claustrophobic-as-a-migraine but very brilliant noir film
a superb brainiac thriller! please don't miss it

the photography is black & white, high contrast and a bit noisy
the music, a great IDM (intelligent dance music) soundtrack!

& the damn headaches! that i so much relate
and Sean Gullette's acting

π trailer
"Mathematics is the language of nature..."
"There will be no order, only chaos..."


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and the second film by Aronofsky
Requiem for a Dream
(a great link here with a very tricky well-done official web-site)

after watching the film, I couldn't stop thinking,
and sulking, and being depressed for a couple of hours...
still, this is one of the best films I have ever seen on human addictions

it is heart-breaking because it is truthful
a very well-done film with great actors
beautiful Jennifer Connelly
and over all you must watch because of
Ellen Burstyn acting!
she won an Oscar as leading actress
for this film!!!

Requiem for a Dream trailer



another Requiem for a Dream trailer [worth watching!]


I relate this film with Trainspotting because of the thematic
and Trainspotting was a great film too, very shocking, sarcastic...
yet... Requiem for a Dream, I feel goes even deeper
the sarcasm becomes irony
the intensity of how easy a dream could be broken
excellent photography and cinematography
great soundtrack too
another must-watch film! strong, excellent!

Google's SketchUp

3D for Everyone?
seems to be a cool Google Application
check it out

http://www.sketchup.com/



Google Earth is still one of my favorites app's

http://earth.google.com/

creepy!

i found this rather weird looking package
outside my window this evening

i have no idea since when it has been there
i moved it to the trash can
it was heavy and felt like it was full of sand

very strange & creepy
i am a little worried
since my window goes to an alley
that people can access



funny, but i grew up reading
detective stories
sherlock holmes was one of my heroes
when i was 14
and i like the dark mystery novels
but this package thing
when it happens outside my own window
doesn't feel as glamorous
as the crimes on literature

i will check the trash can tomorrow
to see if it's still there
and well, not sure what else to do

creepy! and a bit of insomnia
it brings me indeed

3 minutes of every night tea

i am sure there are much more interesting ways
to spend 3 minutes online
but if you want to share with me
a very simple kitchen moment
please look at my 3 minutes of nothingness

just some tea
a candle
another late night
the coffee beans
& 3 minutes less of your life
3 minutes that you immerse in mine

the ancestors of bloggers

cartoon quote:
"Bloggers were invented ca. 300 AD, and were originally called "monks". Like their distant descendents, monks had shitty haircuts and never got laid."



from one of my favorite online collections of comics
"married to the sea"
check their site for more of their quirky cartoons
there's a new one daily...

this morning

this morning...
I thought I saw the fairy (Elf) of happiness
Trying to hide on my back yard

But when I got closer…
Trying to catch him
it evaporated from my hands

& i realized
it was just the aroma of clean clothes...
Tied up with a string of sunshine