Wednesday, September 19, 2012

DICTATE SHUN

Something that most people might not know about me: I hate being in front of the camera (having my picture taken) and so the new pictures from Jordan's wedding that feature me are  by my own definition  Barforama ... I've never liked pictures of myself and this goes back to high school..    And so I try to avoid picture sessions as much as possible.. There was a point in late August where we had gone into the local Safeway and they were offering to take pictures for a fairly decent price and mom was all but signed up for it when she found out the date for these pictures was the Labor Day weekend.. She canceled out and told me about it and I told her both Donald and Bob were doing weddings that Saturday so it was a good thing she cancelled out.. Plus I had no way of getting out of the session myself although I can get creative when I need to...

The new wedding pictures on FB...: Well I see several ideas for these but I also see a lot of abstract ideas.. it will be the later that gets the video creative juices flowing.. I have already doctored some of the pictures and they are right up there with some of the coolest ideas I have ever done..  With the "Dark Side" project starting to really take off these pictures were just what I needed.. Adding them to the pictures I have is gonna make some of the videos be... Better than I thought they would be.. I love letting the picture program do what it does.. There is no program as good at doing this.. And I have a tendency to let my imagination go off..   None of these pictures will be recognizable, unless you have a thick twisted sense or reality.. by the way there was a black picture on the site.. I put a comment "Black on black with a black background"  Such a classic comment and yet never able to use it until then.. Seriously, I don't know why things like that come to mind like that.. That one is from over thirty years ago...   So cool to remember passages like that.. I can recall RATEOTU passages the same way religeous people can pull passages from the bible.. Uncanny..


There are smells that go with the right of passage from one season to another.. In spring it is the smell of new mown grass.. Summer is grass being cut, flowers  and trees, mostly pine trees.. And in fall as we get chilly weather setting in it is the unmistakeable stench of the first time the furnace kicks on.. Why does that always smell so horrible??  And stays in the air..   Winter has the smell of wood burning stove if you're lucky, winter can have nearly no smell at all.. So that's what nothing smells like..   Fall has leaves changing and the nearly never smell odor anymore of leaves being burned, although occasionally there is the scent of leaves burning, someone ignoring the "no burn" policy.. I didn't mind smelling that a little but when it would linger into the night it got old really fast..   I remember they used to burn their trash in trash cans all through the town.. Walking to school through allies and seeing a smoldering trash can and the smell of that time, while not healthy, was still something I remembered from way back then.. Maybe that wasn't healthy or maybe it was..  then last night I let the cat in and didn't notice... she brought in a little friend.. A fuzzy little friend. I heard some rastling sounds and thought, the cat was off her nub again.. Turned and looked and there it was, a furry little rodent that was pretty much dead.. This was a mouse, and I tried to get it away from her and she hissed and I thought eat the damn thing you screwy cat.. So she did.. Add cat breathe (dead mouse) to the list of things that have a certain odor.. 



Badge Henry (think small, planet unknown)

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