Lock Journal Entries

7 creative works found

• Everything
• Images
• T-Shirts
• Writing
• Journals

• Discourse and the unexpected
  by Mundy Hackett

  As many of you may or may not know, in addition to my degrees in science I hold a BA in Philosophy, and I am alaways trying to join appro…

  As many of you may or may not know, in addition to my degrees in science I hold a BA in Philosophy, and I am alaways trying to join appropriate literary quotes with my journal posting when it is deemed proper. So in the spirit of joining my artistic journal with some philosophical wisdom, I want to start the rest of this journal posting with the following quotation from the Famous English Philosopher John Locke (English philosopher, 1632-1704) – “There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.” Well said dear John, and everyone here at the bubble knows all too well how much discourse I have had in the past few weeks. I have even many times behaved as a spoiled rotten child who would not stop touching their sibling, even after the parental units had warned several times of possible groundings and timeouts! So as many know I would proceed to offload my work, whine and threaten that I won’t stay a couple of times, but I literally have received hundreds of emails and bubblemails, not to mention the huge public outpouring of support in other Redbubble locations like journals and forum threads and various works of art…...and so what is my point…...my point is that the encouragement, Redbubble brand of love and support, and the faith in my personal integrity by more friends than I can count has all made up my mind for me that there is absolutely no reason for me to feel I need to go nor need I be ashamed of standing up for my ideals and the stanchion of truth, honesty and the pursuit of a community where these traits are fostered by all involved. I really like the following quote, and I think it really hits home for me today of all days: All the water in the world, however hard it tries, can never sink the / smallest ship unless it gets inside, and all the evil in the world, the / blackest kind of sin, can never hurt you in the least, unless you let it in. Anonymous I lost my head many times in fits of reactionary actions over the past few weeks, and all along I should have let Redbubble do their thing. Peter and his staff have it all under control, and much like ones tax returns things never go as swiftly for an individual as one would like in the business world. Peter only wants the truth, fairness to all deserving of it, and the Redbubble image to remain free of controversy and deception on our part. I am all for that, and I should have more faith in Peter and RB because they did their job and they did it quite well. Now I am going on and on and digressing a bit, and i need to come back round the other side to the BEST reason for this post! Somehow, throughout all of my ups and downs, taking work off and putting work back on, I was DISCOVERED by an interior designer in New York looking to adorn the walls of a pediatricians office with some lovely and colorful artwork. Somehow, by hook or by crook, she came across some of my work and we started talking. Long story short, thanks to my work here on display at Redbubble, thats right, here in the Lion’s Den, I just closed the largest single sale I have had in 2+ years! How unexpected is that! The designer purchased 7 different images at $300 per, and they will be blown up to somewhere between 2’ x 3’ and 2’ x 4’ and placed on the wall of Rye Brook Pediatric Associates, Rye Ridge Plaza, Rye Brook New York. If anyone who reads this is somewhat local to that area of New York state please by all means go by for a visit and tell me how they look! The following are the images that are going up on the wall even as we speak: TILT / / POETRY IN MOTION / / STRIPES / / BLENDED / / TROPICAL / / BASHFUL / / and OOPS / I mean I was literally blown away, and I owe it all to Redbubble friends and members who stuck it out with me through these times of trial and tribulation. So in a more concise way, I just want to say thank you friends, because of you not only have I not left a community that is forgiving and embraces those who get hammered on when the chips seem down, but you also helped my wife and I out in a time of tremendous economic uncertainty in America. I won’t go on with all the sappy stuff, but I easily could. SO I AM STAYING THANKS TO YOU FRIENDS Bless you all, and I hope that my unexpected success thanks to all of you in a time of great uncertainty will help those in the future who may be in doubt of what to do or are bogged down in things they have little control over. I wouldn’t do anything different except to let Peter and Redbubble take the reins from the get go no matter how long their professional and sound process took, it is really the best way! Have a great week! And thank you all for commenting on my recent uploads, and I guess I need to get these that I sold loaded back since they appeal to someone out there!

• My Sincere Gratitude !!!
  by Phil Thomson IPA

  I would like to thank those concerned for the purchases of cards of “The Covenant “and “The Blades on the Locks” !! I hope you enjoy vi…

  I would like to thank those concerned for the purchases of cards of “The Covenant “and “The Blades on the Locks” !! I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I did photographing them. I would also like to thank redbubble for “Featuring” “The Covenant” in the Art page and my sincere thanks to ALL the people that have taken the time to view and comment on ‘The Covenant”. I really do appreciate them all. / Phil T.

• Lock Your Doors!.....there here......(gulp!)
  by Alan Reading

  ZOMBIES…... Comments appreciated! ;P

  ZOMBIES…... Comments appreciated! ;P

• New Lens
  by Mark Richards

  I recently bought a Tamron SP AF28-300 lens and I’m so very pleased with it. It has excellent resolution and the anti-vibration technolog…

  I recently bought a Tamron SP AF28-300 lens and I’m so very pleased with it. It has excellent resolution and the anti-vibration technology works great… only found one fault so far and it tends to lock-up here and there… I think this is due to a communication breakdown or overload in the camera/lens circuitry. I switch it off or remove the lens, put it back on and it’s okay.

• Locked in a military base because of a creative moment.
  by Michelle Dry

  Well adventures are never adventures unless there is a worthwhile story at the end. This weekend as always was fruitful in terms of endea…

  Well adventures are never adventures unless there is a worthwhile story at the end. This weekend as always was fruitful in terms of endeavours. Saturday I spent at a horse show in Exeter where I found a baby of nine months riding a horse. Yes they start them young. In fact the child was so young that it was riding the horse in a basket. So effectively it was a baby in a basket! i know. They day was lovely, baking and the horses took rather a liking to me. It was when I was photographing that a horse decided to have a nibble at my hair. Yes it is red and quite shinny but I did not think that it looked like hay. Sunday was where it all went wrong, well kind of. I thought it was great. Bovington is a military camp where there are quite a number of tanks. Now each year Bovington, because it has a lot of land, holds horse trials here. I was lucky enough to be invited to photograph. After spending most of the day sat in a bush I decided to get some great shots of horse jumping a wooden tank. I then went for a wonder to photograph the horses. Horses are incredibly clever and have their own personalities. It was then I realised that one said horse was playing a game with me. Every time I went to photograph it, it turned its bottom towards me. The final blow was when it passed wind rather loudly in my direction. Just as it did this someone passed by and said ‘it’s trying to tell you something.’ / What would it be trying to tell me? Was that horse language for sod off. Or was it cleverly speaking through its arse? I soon lost interest in the horse and posterial conversation and it was then I noticed a field of dandy lions. I thought to myself ah here is a chance to get some creative imagery. So I took a little wonder across to the field. Admittedly it was the end of the day and people were packing up. Now when you get creative it seems that time disolves, well it does for me. Anyway once I had got the wonderful shot I was looking for I turned around and all the gates had been locked. No-one had seen me because I had been laying in long grass. Ideal for the profession of sniper, not so ideal if you would like to go home. So I did my best attempt at not panicking and went for a stroll along the fence to find a way out. Unfortunately the fence is covered in barbed wire to stop people getting in. I tell you at this point I thought I was going to have to camp out. The sun started making its decent to the horizon and there was really no way out. So what did you do? Make a tunnel? Too much work? Work out ways to scale the fence or maybe start shouting. I didn’t do any because as luck would have it, the land keeper was driving along in his tractor. Well that was it, I gathered up all my equipment and ran like fury to the part of the field he was on. To say he was surprised to see me was an understatement. ‘What you mean they left you in here?’ he said. ‘I knows what you were upto – you were mislead into the forest by a young soldier weren’t you?’ The answer to that was no. I was mislead by a small plant in some grass. I was not going to tell him that, he might think that I was insane. Anyway he kindly made me stand on his trailer, told me to hold on and then drove me through the military base. Was it embarrassing standing on the trailer and being paraded through numerous soldiers milling around? Well the answer was yes! Anyway I was lucky enough to be taken to a gate where my car was parked. And the land keeper smiled. ‘I reckon you did that on purpose. you’re not a spy are you?’ Well if you were you would hardly say yes. If you said no they would suspect you.

• Using my real name now : )
  by Michael Hurren

  Thought I might change my settings, wont be Ljxtreem anymore will be using my name : ) / Just thought I would tell you all, so you still …

  Thought I might change my settings, wont be Ljxtreem anymore will be using my name : ) / Just thought I would tell you all, so you still recognize me :) Mick : )

• Locked In and Sealed Forever
  by Punkette151617

  My heart was locked, and you possessed the key / Skys so blue with sights and sound / Troubling my wisps of memory / It is you i long to b…

  My heart was locked, and you possessed the key / Skys so blue with sights and sound / Troubling my wisps of memory / It is you i long to be around. Lock it in and sealed forever / Without you my hearts a crying stone / I wish to spend eternity together / Lifes never enjoyable alone. Sleekness of silk, heat of the sun / Watch his light and subconcioiusly smile / Hugs so close its like you are one / Hand-in-hand walks, that should last a mile Dance it out in the arms of you / I was afraid in this world / All my thoughts were askew / I used to sing along… to my own melody Love you always and forever / Now through your eyes i can see.