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• (Photography) Knowledge is Power
  by Stephen Mitchell

  Here is an amazing bunch of Photography Essays and Tutorials I found buried within luminous-landscape.com...

  Here is an amazing bunch of Photography Essays and Tutorials I found buried within luminous-landscape.com early this morning. I plan to do a LOT of reading! Understanding Aspect Ratios and the Art of Cropping Understanding Soft Proofing Understanding Sensor Issues Understanding Printer Colour Management Understanding Raw Files Understanding Local Contrast Enhancement Understanding Contrast Masking Understanding Digital USM Understanding MTF Charts Understanding Histograms Understanding Digital Sensor Cleaning Understanding Digital Work Flow Understanding Mirror Lock-Up Understanding Medium Format Understanding Depth of Field Understanding Polarizers Understanding Lens Contrast Understanding BOKEH Understanding Bit Depth Understanding Sharpness Understanding Resolution Understanding Camera Movements Understanding Colour Theory Understanding the DSLR Magnification Factor Understanding SLR Viewfinders Understanding Exposure Understanding Digital Blending Understanding ProPhoto RGB Understanding Lens Diffraction Understanding Panoramic Stitching Yikes! Yes, there is a so much here to read, but certainly worth it!

• Why I Love Photography
  by Deborah Parkin

  My favourite film is one by Stephen Poliakoff’ called ‘Shooting the Past’. There is this line that sticks with me almost everytime i lo…

  My favourite film is one by Stephen Poliakoff’ called ‘Shooting the Past’. There is this line that sticks with me almost everytime i look at a photograph, either my own or someone elses. It goes along the lines of: / ’ I just have to say one thing to make this picture electrifying, these people are about to be hit by the most terrible change, their whole worlds turned upside down …. they have no idea, uncertainty beyond their wildest dreams.’ And i suppose this is the power of photography, the smile frozen in that split second of time, with no knowledge of what the future may hold. This quote has special meaning to me also because i not only go ‘click’ with my camera, but i even find my brain going ‘click’ – i am constantlly framing life. An example of this was several months ago my sister had her first child, a little boy called Oscar – such an amazing day – then on the Sunday, they were supposed be coming home and i can remember ‘click’ i am in the dining room, ‘click’ the phone goes and i walk into the living room to answer it …. ‘click’ my mum is sobbing because he is being rushed to the heart unit for an emergency operation. Every moment for me was mentally frozen in time – and when i look at photographs of Oscar on the day he was born that quote comes flooding back to me. On a positive note, Oscar is now 8 months old – he had another operation a couple of months ago and is thriving. But to sum up, I suppose i just wanted to say that photography is almost like oxygen to me – i need it – i need to record all those around me that i love and tell the story of their lives. I would love to know why you love photogaphy, or painting or writing or anything creative. Love Debxxx

• Thanks Children-The Power of Raw Emotion for featuring Sweet Tyler
  by Susan E Ward

• Powerstations and Plastic Balls
  by fourtonshadow .

  Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further tha…

  Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further than Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s magnificent Art Deco monolith of brick. / So he had a stab at the telephone box, and Bankside (or the Tate Modern) is alright, but those four chimney’s rising from clutter of terraces and railway sidings strike an imposing figure over the city skyline. And it’s not surprising, it’s the largest brick building in Europe. / From Pink Floyd to Children of Men, via The Beatles and The Dark Knight, it is scorched into our modern cultural psyche, the Bank of England burnt tens of thousands of pounds in the furnaces there when they thought the Bosch were about to conquer us during WW2. Meanwhile the RAF were using the plumes of smoke to guide them home. Screaming Lord Sutch wanted to cover it in wool and make it look like a dead sheep, John Broome tried to turn it into a theme park. Now they want to turn it into a naff collection of faux pot plants and cafes, with a riverside walkway way, exterior designed to within an inch of it’s life. They’ll probably fail. But I don’t care, it meant that it was opened for two days for the public to get inside and have a wander, and this just hasn’t happened very often. (PVZ would have wet himself) On a different note, but while I have your attention, the next day I attended the Lovebox Weekender, and aside from Goldfrapp having these totally ace guys dressed up like colourful carpets pinging it all over the stage, Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips came out in a massive plastic ball and went walking and crawling all over the crowd, oh, and yeah, their show was amazing too

• Found a GEM
  by Sreya Wu

  *Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and …

  Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, “My friend, I fear we shall never, never agree.” Kahlil Gibran’s “Sand and Foam”

• FLOWER POWER PROJECT REQIUREMENTS
  by DarrellMoseley

  Dear interested RB artist, I just got reply from the President of VAGF, and she said she loved the ideal! But she was out of town, ...

  Dear interested RB artist, I just got reply from the President of VAGF, and she said she loved the ideal! But she was out of town, but will set down with me sometime next week, to work out all the details. I will still be working feverishly to put something together to show her the talent on RB! Images should be of flowers, and safe for kids, if you would like to add to this project! / I have asked that each artist add their own text into their images, where your name/ copyright, your title of work, and RedBubble.com can be read. This labels/identifies/protects your own work ! ADDING RedBubble.com ! Tells people who see your work, where they are going to find you! / I only want to take credit for my own work, myself! I am wanting to experiment, and see if we can not promote the art found on RedBubble.com and hopefully help inprove sells for us all. I hope you will find, Flower Power, on search! Linda had made an excellent example of adding text! Once the text was added correctly, flatten layers and save as a jpeg. I think artist should insist on this protection, but will accept it without! / No matter what, you can freely add images for screensaver, that will display on moniters at no cost! Not for sale, strictly for display! / Maybe the best picked by a group choice, and framed, or canvas for large windows if the artist can afford. Please remember I am still working out the details, and shipping will be a factor! Foamboard might work as well, and might even ship to the next location, for a fraction of the cost! I hope this will answer some of your questions! I have copied, and pasted inside my journal, for anybody else who might want to know more about what is the requirements. The shows I have helped put together for the VAGF.ORG, a standard release form was needed, which you should be able to download, fill out and mail in! / Just add your text to your images, for me to put together a screensaver to show Diana. She is a wonderiful artist herself, and has true passion for art! When she see’s this falling into place, she will go all out! For all that do not know, she’s a great friend of the arts! She was a major part in my going public with my art! She has worked very hard, for arts in Frisco, and had asked for ideals that might help establishing the New Arts District in Frisco, Texas. I am hoping that we can combine both groups, at least for the show, to benefit all those involved! Thanks for your continued support, and hope it will take off beyond our wildest dreams! I am blessed to have all the wonderiful friends that I do! / Very sincerely, / Darrell M. Moseley, aka Big D!

• WHAT LUCK! - 5th Front Page
  by Steve Bulford

  Hi all Can’t belive it! My 5th front page in as many weeks! just want to say a BIG thanks to all at RB and to everyone who has comment…

  Hi all Can’t belive it! My 5th front page in as many weeks! just want to say a BIG thanks to all at RB and to everyone who has commented on my work! Thanks / Steve :-) / / Penguin Power / / / / /

• Selected Among The Top Winners !!
  by TrEaSuReDiMaGeS

  I am so excited and can’t believe that I was selected among the top winners to have up to two pieces of my work in the International Flow…

  I am so excited and can’t believe that I was selected among the top winners to have up to two pieces of my work in the International Flower Power Fine Art Exhibit curated by Diana Moya at the George A. Purefoy Municipal Building in Frisco Texas from March 15-May 15. I rec’d the notification by email yesterday. I’m just humbled to think that someone in the artistic community,thought my work was good enough for the exhibition. So I’m floating on Cloud 9 today!! It’s a wonderful oppurtunity…... One I will embrace!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all those who have inspired,supported and encouraged me and my work!!! :-)

• ~*~read, think, decide and share~*~
  by midnightdreamer

  MWM: This long letter to humanity appeared with no apparent return address. It is being posted here and there. This is another Internet p…

  MWM: This long letter to humanity appeared with no apparent return address. It is being posted here and there. This is another Internet piece for which I cannot assess the validity. All I CAN say is that it sounds like a good idea, is coherent, and is written skillfully at a level of intelligence and maturity with I would associate with a serious, non-technical, matter-of-fact level of discourse. It is not ethnically loaded and the writer has a very good understanding of language and human psychology, though there are a few moments where the grammar is different than we are accustomed to and there are a couple of language errors. Most importantly, it makes no reference to impossible constructs, faux-tech, nor any type of religious or New Age buzzwords. This is as clean a straight-shooting letter, as you will find. Accordingly I am sending it to you to “vet” it and see what our Phoenix Five brain trust surmises about it. I am also sending it to you because it might be real. The main assertion in the letter is that human civilization is now in an uncontrollable free-fall implosion which cannot be “fixed” from within existing social systems. The implosion is causing, will cause a major rupture in all human orders. There is a dark road down toward the use of technology to rapidly enslave human populations in a badly degraded and unhealthy environment. Those who are defining this path, many of them unintentionally, have the greater advantage of power over resources and may gain the upper hand during the coming rupture. There are many who would take a liberating path, they could gain the upper hand if they UNDERSTAND THE CHOICE and can lose their fear, sense of isolation, and ignorance about the true state of affairs. The main proposition in the letter is that the mass appearance of ET in the skies now could help humanity clear away the veils of illusion and deceits, help settle many existential issues and dilemmas, and provide an “attractor” to help pull positive mentalities out of the social death-vortex and enable them to refocus the next stage in evolution. The main question in the letter is whether you want ET to thus show UP. ET suggests that direct contact and some cultural assistance would provide the means to overcome the major blocks in human social and cultural evolution. ET argues that the mental/emotional ground needs to be prepared for such contact. Consent and expectation for such contact needs to be created around the world, less humans react in mass with fear and become manipulated by reactive power elites. ET suggests that a focused telepathic answer from each reader will be sufficient to assist ET is reaching a conclusion about what it should or should not do. Even as the internet is achieving universal penetration during this time, ET requests that this letter, its first mass communication, be universally translated and transmitted throughout the world. ET also suggests that this should be done by people to people, forget the mass media. Here is the letter. Here it is unaltered by me. Decide for yourself. Mwm CHANGE THE WORLD! “DECIDE WHETHER WE SHOULD SHOW UP!” Whoever transmitted this translated message to you is irrelevant, and should remain anonymous in your mind. It is what you will do with this message which matters ! > Each one of you wishes to exercise her/his free will and experience happiness. These are attributes that were shown to us and to which we now have access. Your free will depends upon the knowledge you have of your own power. Your happiness depends upon the love that you give and receive. Like all conscious races at this stage of progress, you may feel isolated on your planet. This impression makes you sure of your destiny. Yet, you are at the brink of big upheavals that only a minority is aware of. It is not our responsibility to modify your future without you choosing it. Consider this message as a worldwide referendum! And your answer as a ballot! Who are we ? Neither your scientists nor your religious representatives speak unanimously about the unexplained celestial events that mankind has witnessed for thousands of years. To know the truth, one must face it without the filter of one´s beliefs, however respectable they may be. A growing number of anonymous researchers of yours are exploring new knowledge paths and are getting very close to reality. Today, your civilisation is flooded with an ocean of information of which only a tiny part, the less upsetting one, is notably diffused. What in your history seemed ridiculous or improbable has often become possible, then realised, in particular in the last fifty years. Be aware that the future will be even more surprising. You will discover the worst as well as the best. Like billions others in this galaxy, we are conscious creatures that some name “extra-terrestrials”, even though reality is subtler. There is no fundamental difference between you and us, save for the experience of certain stages of evolution. Like in any other organized structure, hierarchy exists in our internal relationships. Ours is based upon the wisdom of several races. It is with the approval of this hierarchy that we turn to you. Like most of you, we are in the quest of the Supreme Being. Therefore we are not gods or lesser gods but virtually your equals in the Cosmic Brotherhood. Physically, we are somewhat different from you but for most of us humanoid-shaped. Our existence is a reality but the majority of you does not perceive it yet. We are not mere observations, we are consciences just like you. You fail to apprehend us because we remain invisible to your senses and measure instruments most of the time. We wish to fill this void at this moment in your history. We made this collective decision but this is not enough. We need yours. Through this message, you become the decision-makers ! You personally. We have no human representative on Earth who could guide your decision. Why aren´t we visible? At certain stages of evolution, cosmic “humanities” discover new forms of science beyond the apparent control of matter. Structured dematerialisation and materialisation are part of them. This is what your humanity has reached in a few laboratories, in close collaboration with other extra-terrestrial creatures at the cost of hazardous compromises that remain purposely hidden from you by some of your representatives. Apart from the aerial or spatial objects or phenomena known about by your scientific community, that you call ´UFOs, there are essentially multidimensional manufactured spaceships that apply these capacities. Many human beings have been in visual, auditory, tactile or psychic contact with such ships, some of which are under occult powers that govern you. The scarcity of your observations is due to the outstanding advantages provided by the dematerialised state of these ships. By not witnessing them by yourself, you cannot believe in their existence. We fully understand this. The majority of these observations are made on an individual basis so as to touch the soul and not to modify any organised system. This is deliberate from the races that surround you but for very different reasons and results. For negative multidimensional beings that play a part in the exercise of power in the shadow of human oligarchy, discretion is motivated by their will to keep their existence and seizure unknown. For us, discretion is motivated by the respect of the human free will that people can exercise to manage their own affairs so that they can reach technical and spiritual maturity on their own. Humankind´s entrance into the family of galactic civilisations is greatly expected. We can appear in broad daylight and help you attain this union. We haven´t done it so far, as too few of you have genuinely desired it, because of ignorance, indifference or fear, and because the emergency of the situation did not justify it. Many of those who study our appearances count the lights in the night without lighting the way. Often they think in terms of objects when it is all about conscious beings. Who are you ? You are the offspring of many traditions that throughout time have been mutually enriched by each others´ contributions. The same applies to the races at the surface of the Earth. Your goal is to unite in the respect of these roots to accomplish a common project. The appearance of your cultures seems to keep you separated because you substitute it to your deeper being. Shape is now more important than the essence of your subtle nature. For the powers in place, this prevalence of the shape constitutes the ramparts against any form of jeopardy. You are being called on to overcome shape while still respecting it for its richness and beauty. Understanding the conscience of shape makes us love men in their diversity. Peace does not mean not making war, it consists in becoming what you are in reality: a same Fraternity. To understand this, the number of solutions within your reach are decreasing. One of them consists in contact with another race that would reflect the image of what you are in reality. What is your situation ? Except for rare occasions, our interventions always had very little incidence on your capacity to make collective and individual decisions about your own future. This is motivated by our knowledge of your deep psychological mechanisms. We reached the conclusion that freedom is built every day as a being becomes aware of himself and of his environment, getting progressively rid of constraints and inertias, whatever they may be. Despite the numerous, brave and willing human consciences, those inertias are artificially maintained for the profit of a growing centralising power Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way. This can change as long as you keep this creative power in you, even if it cohabits with the dark intentions of your potential lords. This is the reason why we remain invisible. This individual power is doomed to vanish should a collective reaction of great magnitude not happen. The period to come is that of rupture, whichever it may be. But should you wait for the last moment to find solutions? Should you anticipate or undergo pain ? Your history has never ceased to be marked by encounters between peoples who had to discover one another in conditions that were often conflictual. Conquests almost always happened to the detriment of others. Earth has now become a village where everyone knows everyone else but still conflicts persist and threats of all kinds get worse in duration and intensity. Although a Human being as an individual, yet having many potential capacities, cannot exercise them with dignity. This is the case for the biggest majority of you for reasons that are essentially geopolitical. There are several billion of you. The education of your children and your living conditions, as well as the conditions of numerous animals and much plant life are nevertheless under the thumb of a small number of your political, financial, military and religious representatives. Your thoughts and beliefs are modelled after partisan interests to turn you into slaves while at the same time giving you the feeling that you are in total control of your destiny, which in essence is the reality. But there is a long way between a wish and a fact when the true rules of the game at hand are unknown. This time, you are not the conqueror. Biasing information is a millenary strategy for human beings. Inducting thoughts, emotions or organisms that do not belong to you via ad hoc technologies is an even older a strategy. Wonderful opportunities of progress stand close to big subdual and destruction threats. These dangers and opportunities exist now. However, you can only perceive what is being shown to you. The end of natural resources is programmed whereas no long-term collective project has been launched. Ecosystem exhaustion mechanisms have exceeded irreversible limits. The scarcity of resources and their unfair distribution – resources which entry price will rise day after day – will bring about fratricide fights at a large scale, but also at the very heart of your cities and countrysides. Hatred grows bigger but so does love. That is what keeps you confident in your ability to find solutions. But the critical mass is insufficient and a sabotage work is cleverly being carried out. Human behaviours, formed from past habits and trainings, have such an inertia that this perspective leads you to a dead end. You entrust these problems to representatives, whose conscience of common well-being slowly fades away in front of corporatist interests, with those difficulties. They are always debating on the form but rarely on the content. Just at the moment of action, delays will accumulate to the point when you have to submit rather than choose. This is the reason why, more than ever in your history, your decisions of today will directly and significantly impact your survival of tomorrow. What event could radically modify this inertia that is typical of any civilisation? Where will a collective and unifying awareness come from, that will stop this blind rushing ahead? Tribes, populations and human nations have always encountered and interacted with one another. Faced with the threats weighing upon the human family, it is perhaps time that a greater interaction occurred. A great roller wave is on the verge of emerging. It mixes very positive but also very negative aspects. Who are the “third party”? There are two ways to establish a cosmic contact with another civilisation: via its standing representatives or directly with individuals without distinction. The first way entails fights of interests, the second way brings awareness. The first way was chosen by a group of races motivated by keeping mankind in slavery, thereby controlling Earth resources, the gene pool and human emotional energy. The second way was chosen by a group of races allied with the cause of the Spirit of service. We have, at our end, subscribed to this disinterested cause and introduced ourselves a few years ago to representatives of the human power who refused our outstretched hand on the pretext of incompatible interests with their strategic vision. That is why today individuals are to make this choice by themselves without any representative interfering. What we proposed in the past to those whom we believed were in a capacity to contribute to your happiness, we propose it now to … you! Most of you ignore that non-human creatures took part in the exercise of those centralising powers without them being neither suspected nor accessible to your senses. This is so true that they have almost very subtly taken control. They do not necessarily stand on your material plan, and that is precisely what could make them extremely efficient and frightening in the near future. However, be aware that a large number of your representatives are fighting this danger ! Be aware that not all abductions are made against you. It is difficult to recognize the truth ! How could you under such conditions exercise your free will when it is so much manipulated ? What are you really free of ? Peace and reunification of your peoples would be a first step toward the harmony with civilisations other than yours. That is precisely what those who manipulate you behind the scenes want to avoid at all cost because, by dividing, they reign! They also reign over those who govern you. Their strength comes from their capacity to distillate mistrust and fear into you. This considerably harms your very cosmic nature. This message would be of no interest if these manipulators´ tutorate did not reach its peak and if their misleading and murderous plans did not materialise in a few years from now. Their deadlines are close and mankind will undergo unprecedented torments for the next ten cycles. To defend yourselves against this aggression that bears no face, you need at least to have enough information that leads to the solution. As is also the case with humans, resistance exists amongst those dominant races. Here again, appearance will not be enough to tell the dominator from the ally. At your current state of psychism, it is extremely difficult for you to distinguish between them. In addition to your intuition, training will be necessary when the time has come. Being aware of the priceless value of free will, we are inviting you to an alternative. What can we offer ? We can offer you a more holistic vision of the universe and of life, constructive interactions, the experience of fair and fraternal relationships, liberating technical knowledge, eradiction of suffering, controlled exercise of individual powers, the access to new forms of energy and, finally, a better comprehension of consciousness. We cannot help you overcome your individual and collective fears, or bring you laws that you would not have chosen, work on your own selves, individual and collective effort to build the world you desire, the spirit of quest to new skies. What would we receive? Should you decide that such a contact takes place, we would rejoice over the safeguarding of fraternal equilibrium in this region of the universe, fruitful diplomatic exchanges, and the intense Joy of knowing that you are united to accomplish what you are capable of. The feeling of Joy is strongly sought in the universe for its energy is divine. What is the question we ask you “DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP?” How to can you answer this question? The truth of soul can be read by telepathy. You only need to clearly ask yourself this question and give your answer as clearly, on your own or in a group, as you wish. Being in the heart of a city or in the middle of a desert does not impact the efficiency of your answer, YES or NO, IMMEDIATELY AFTER ASKING THE QUESTION! Just do it as if you were speaking to yourself but thinking about the message. This is a universal question and these mere few words, put in their context, have a powerful meaning. You should not let hesitation in the way. This is why you should calmly think about it, in all conscience. In order to perfectly associate your answer with the question, it is recommended that you answer right after another reading of this message. Do not rush to answer. Breathe and let all the power of your own free will penetrate you. Be proud of what you are! The problems that you may have weaken you. Forget about them for a few minutes to be yourselves. Feel the force that springs up in you. You are in control of yourselves! A single thought, a single answer can drastically change your near future, in one way as in another. Your individual decision of asking in your inner self that we show up on your material plan and in broad daylight is precious and essential to us. Even though you can choose the way that best suits you, rituals are essentially useless. A sincere request made with your heart and your own will will always be perceived by those of us whom it is sent to. In your own private polling booth of your secret will, you will determine the future. What is the lever effect ? This decision should be made by the greatest number among you, even though it might seem like a minority. It is recommended to spread this message, in all envisageable fashions, in as many languages as possible, to those around you, whether or not they seem receptive to this new vision of the future. Do it using in a humorous tone or derision if that can help you. You can even openly and publicly make fun of it if it makes you feel more comfortable but do not be indifferent for at least you will have exercised your free will. Forget about the false prophets and the beliefs that have been transmitted to you about us. This request is one of the most intimate that can be asked to you. Making a decision by yourself, as an individual, is your right as well as your responsibility ! Passivity only leads to the absence of freedom. Similarly, indecision is never efficient. If you really want to cling to your beliefs, which is something that we understand, then say NO. If you do not know what to choose, do not say YES because of mere curiosity. This is not a show, this is real daily life, WE ARE ALIVE ! And living ! Your history has plenty of episodes when determined men and women were able to influence the thread of events in spite of their small number. Just like a small number is enough to take temporal power on Earth and influence the future of the majority, a small number of you can radically change your fate as an answer to the impotence in face of so much inertia and hurdles ! You can ease the mankind´s birth to Brotherhood. One of your thinkers once said: “Give me a hand-hold and I´ll raise the Earth”. Spreading this message will then be the hand-hold to strengthen, we will be the light-years long lever, you will be the craftsmen to … raise the Earth as a consequence of our appearance. What would be the consequences of a positive decision ? For us, the immediate consequence of a collective favourable decision would be the materialisation of many ships, in your sky and on Earth. For you, the direct effect would be the rapid abandoning of many certitudes and beliefs. A simple conclusive visual contact would have huge repercussions on your future. Much knowledge would be modified forever. The organisation of your societies would be deeply upheaved for ever, in all fields of activity. Power would become individual because you would see for yourself that we are living. Concretely, you would change the scale of your values! The most important thing for us is that humankind would form a single family in front of this “unknown” we would represent ! Danger would slowly melt away from your homes because you would indirectly force the undesirable ones, those we name the “third party”, to show up and vanish. You would all bear the same name and share the same roots: Mankind ! Later on, peaceful and respectful exchanges would be thus possible if such is your wish. For now, he who is hungry cannot smile, he who is fearful cannot welcome us. We are sad to see men, women and children suffering to such a degree in their flesh and in their hearts when they bear such an inner light. This light can be your future. Our relationships could be progressive. Several stages of several years or decades would occur: demonstrative appearance of our ships, physical appearance beside human beings, collaboration in your technical and spiritual evolution, discovery of parts of the galaxy. Every time, new choices would be offered to you. You would then decide by yourself to cross new stages if you think it necessary to your external and inner well-being. No interference would be decided upon unilaterally. We would leave as soon as you would collectively wish that we do. Depending upon the speed to spread the message across the world, several weeks, or even several months will be necessary before our “great appearance”, if such is the decision made by the majority of those who will have used their capacity to choose, and if this message receives the necessary support. The main difference between your daily prayers to entities of a strictly spiritual nature and your current decision is extremely simple : we are technically equipped to materialise! Why such a historical dilemma ? We know that “foreigners” are considered as enemies as long as they embody the “unknown”. In a first stage, the emotion that our appearance will generate will strengthen your relationships on a worldwide scale. How could you know whether our arrival is the consequence of your collective choice ? For the simple reason that we would have otherwise been already there for a long time at your level of existence! If we are not there yet, it is because you have not made such a decision explicitly. Some among you might think that we would make you believe in a deliberate choice of yours so as to legitimate our arrival, though this would not be true. What interest would we have to openly offer you what you haven´t got any access to yet, for the benefit of the greatest number of you? How could you be certain that this is not yet another subtle manoeuvre of the “third party” to better enslave you ? Because one always more efficiently fights something that is identified than the contrary. Isn´t the terrorism that corrodes you a blatant example ? Whatever, you are the sole judge in your own heart and soul ! Whatever your choice, it would be respectable and respected! In the absence of human representatives who could potentially seduce into error you ignore everything about us as well as from about those who manipulate you without your consent. In your situation, the precationary principle that consists in not trying to discover us does no longer prevail. You are already in the Pandora´s box that the “third party” has created around you. Whatever your decision may be you will have to get out of it. In the face of such a dilemma, one ignorance against another, you need to ask your intuition. Do you want to see us with your own eyes, or simply believe what your thinkers say ? That is the real question! After thousands of years, one day, this choice was going to be inevitable: choosing between two unknowns. Why spread such a message among yourselves? Translate and spread this message widely. This action will affect your future in an irreversible and historical way at the scale of milleniums, otherwise, it will postpone a new opportunity to choose to several years later, at least one generation, if it can survive. Not choosing stands for undergoing other people´s choice. Not informing others stands for running the risk of obtaining a result that is contrary to one´s expectations. Remaining indifferent means giving up one´s free will. It is all about your future. It is all about your evolution. It is possible that this invitation does not receive your collective assent and that, because of a lack of information, it will be disregarded. Nevertheless no individual desire goes unheeded in the universe. Imagine our arrival tomorrow. Thousands of ships. A unique cultural shock in today´s mankind´s history. It will then be too late to regret about not making a choice and spreading the message because this discovery will be irreversible. We do insist that you do not rush into it, but do think about it ! And decide ! The big medias will not be necessarily interested in spreading this message. It is therefore your task, as an anonymous yet an extraordinary thinking and loving being, to transmit it. You are still the architects of your own fate… “DO YOU WISH THAT WE SHOW UP?” MAY PEACE PREVAIL ON EARTH AND IN SPACE I made my decision, make yours…even if you think this is the stupidest thing you have ever read, send it off as a joke….I dont care, just share it….. source~ / http://raenergy.igc.org/ETtoEarth.html

• I Won 2nd!
  by Robin Webster

  I am still away and just thought I would check in to see what is going on. Well…..........to my surprise!!!...........I opened a b…

  I am still away and just thought I would check in to see what is going on. Well…..........to my surprise!!!...........I opened a bubblemail from Darrell Moseley informing me that I won second place in The International Flower Power Fine Art Exhibit that is ongoing now in Frisco Texas. I provided 4 photographs for this exhibition and the one that took second place is titled Tulips 2. I am so excited and honoured!!! I don’t even really know what to say except that I am so excited and honoured! Robin

• The Truth...Vertigo.
  by Janis Zroback

  *I was sent this today and found it interesting, and it’s especially appropriate for the month of September…some of you may have seen i…

  I was sent this today and found it interesting, and it’s especially appropriate for the month of September…some of you may have seen it before…it’s dedicated to those of us like Hilary who everyday helps us to strive for the best…at first it sounds sad, and you may say what???...but you must please see it to the very end..It is an amazing lesson in perception but don’t stop listening too quickly... / Listen to the same words in / reverse order....click here /

• The Power of the Group
  by linaji

  True Story: Once a very famous glass blower (who before glass techniques are as they are today rather so out of this universe!) held a…

  True Story: Once a very famous glass blower (who before glass techniques are as they are today rather so out of this universe!) held a big class. He was very famous and his style was unsurpassed back then. His class consisted of about 100 people, his students for the weekend came from all over the world, all eager to learn something. After two intense days of showing them all the details of his work he held a goodbye seminar going over his teachings and told the class if they ever had any questions as to what they learned here he would accept their calls and he would help them with what ever it was they did not remember. One student raised their hand to ask a question.., rather embarrassed but determined to ask. / “Excuse me, sir, I have a question…” / “Please” he said, “Well you have had us for 2 days now… showing us all your original ideas to your work…. aren’t you afraid that we will steal your ideas and copy what you do?” He smiled and said,,,,, Well I would, if I thought what I shared with you was the last idea I would ever have” ..............!! ......And so it goes, if we trust the ‘infinite nature’ of our being we can allow everyone in. We never have to worry who has the limelight or no… Our turn is always here, first in our hearts and minds about our work… / I am learning this here at RB with all of you. Sometimes I can feel other feelings besides ‘It’s all good in the hood’ as my neck of the woods might put it. But I am learning to trust everyday the power of co-creation. It is necessary for me like going to a yoga class. I love the energy… sometimes others can do more than I can, but…As my brother Paul who is a great yoga teacher says to me… / Just take your shoes off and look around with love and stick to your mat. Stay with ‘your’ expansion and all else will follow. So I am sometimes having this experience here that feeds me… yesterday was one of the first times I felt a group expanding force, everyone was doing their own thing and yet when someone posted it was as if we all did it together… / I am in complete appreciation of you all. / Linaji

• A little bit of Mindfulness
  by Jaybe

  Ok, so I’m going to go on about Mindfulness again….lol…and I don’t apologise for it… / Every day I read something new and this one I…

  Ok, so I’m going to go on about Mindfulness again….lol…and I don’t apologise for it… / Every day I read something new and this one I just HAD to share with you….I hope you like this… If I had my Life to Live over…. / I’d like to make more mistakes next time. / I’d relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been on this trip. / I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. / I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. / I would eat more ice cream and fewer beans. / I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones. / You see, I’m one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. / Oh, I’ve had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I’d have more of them. / In fact, I’d try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. / I’ve been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. / If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. / If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. / Written by Nadine Stair – 85 years young And THAT is why I continue with Mindfulness training…..I couldn’t have put it better myself….... / This isn’t a piece about regrets, it’s a piece about living….for the now….and I smile…

• Daily Feature of the Live, Love, Dream Group: The Search For Power
  by Joyce Dickens, IPA

  !http://images-3.redbubble.com/img/art/border:blackwithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:large/view:preview/522253-3-the-search-for-pow…

  I am thrilled and honored at having this image featured in the Live, Love, Dream group!!!

• Bubble Power
  by PhotogeniquE IPA

  I have to say that I am heartened by the way the Bubblers drew together over the polyvore.com affair...

  I have to say that I am heartened by the way the Bubblers drew together over the polyvore.com affair How people from all over the world, with different backgrounds, with different religious beliefs, of differing ages, sexual orientation, sociological ideologies, political leanings and nationalities, all pulled together, to help one another. I don’t know about you, but I’m proud to be a Bubbler!! BUBBLE POWER!

• GREAT NEWS!
  by DarrellMoseley

  I first want to thank all those who have added to make this project special! It is because of your contributions that this project is b…

  I first want to thank all those who have added to make this project special! It is because of your contributions that this project is being accepted by all who veiw it! Today, I found out the New Library is adding hanging systems for fifty images there, as well as running the screensaver on all monitors in their system! We are working on this, and have been told its going to have food from many restaurants! Ten stages for sculpters, artist work, with live flowers everywhere! A fashion show, with a runway for models! Coverage in the newspapers, as well as three Local TV News crews! / Diana has alot going on, but made time to meet with me, and give me a rough draft of what was going to happen with the City of Frisco, Texas! We will be getting with companies to find support for purchasing work, really soon! We believe the local Mall, Stonebrair Centre will be really supportive, and might even help get the most donations! From companies who will purchase and hang work in their stores! Work will be their property, unless they will donate it for the use to build the calloge! / This is where text added to the images, will help promote your work, but its up to each artist! If you want people to see more than just your copyright, so they can find you, add your text! I will add more as soon as I get it! I am the Project Chairman, and will do all I can to make this the best, and hope to make beneficial to all who have added to it!

• BETTER THAN I HAD DREAMED
  by DarrellMoseley

  Forgive me for not posting sooner, but had to try to get help from RB! I am copy and pasting that e-mail to see how the meeting went! I …

  Forgive me for not posting sooner, but had to try to get help from RB! I am copy and pasting that e-mail to see how the meeting went! I hope you will be just as excited about this, as I was! Diana loved the ideals, and your images, and wants to get it going! Dear RedBubble team, / / I have just finished my meeting with my friend Diana Moya, over this project! She had asked me to contact you over pricing of 100- 2’X 2’, or 2’X3’, (which all have different images) of those that have been added to this project! Some images will be from the VAGF, as well! The VAGF.ORG’s group, is not as big as redbubble.com’s group! It will be the best, of the best added to the project, from both groups! If you will give printing price, and then mounting on foamboard, and then laminated, framed, canvas! Maybe the cost sheet for all sizes, but maybe on wholesale price, to get all the work printed, and delivered at one time! I knew she would love it, and she will help us to get going! I hope you will be able to help as well, and this will be just a start, to where this goes! She wants to take this project, to other towns besides Frisco, and turn it into a Traveling show at least for the North Central Texas Area, as well as I do! I think, she dreams bigger than me! With all that you already do for the people on RB, I hope you can work with us again, to make this work out! / I really do not want artist to have to crop their work, and ask that you give her pricing for sizes where all their work fits! I am doing all that I can do, and will do a lot more, to help promote RB, and all those that have contributed their amazing work! She loved the screensaver ideal, like me, thought it might be great in the library! I told her I already sent them an e-mail! She knows them all a lot more than me, and she will do this if its ok with the group! It will maybe run on all the computers in the library, if it Oked, by all the artist, and RB! She deals with all the issues, and there will be more details, still to work out! She said she will add the forms needed to their vagf.org webpage, for each artist to approve before we could add their work! I want RedBubbles support, in what we are try’n to do! This could be really Huge! I wanted to give back to your giving me this site, and hope you will support me, as much as all my amazing friends! Diana said it will have to waite due to what is already in the works! But thought it would give us time to get everything together! She said late February, or early March 2008, would be most likely the best time! She wanted to roll with it, and start getting it into the works! She wants me to go with her, and find supporters, and other interested in display of our work! I have started this, and did not dream it would take off, but with all the support I am getiing, wondering where it will go next! / RedBubble.com , I am a big Dreamer, without a dought! But I am begging you to help us now! I am not out for myself, I am out for the Group! Weither its RedBubble, or the VAGF, its still the artist community! I would not be here, if it was not for my wonderiful friend, Diana Moya! If it wasn’t for her I would of given up on my dreams! And she dreams bigger than me! Will you please help, and we will follow where ever this goes! I have asked for help before, and you know where my heart is at, will you please dream a little bit more, with us! Thanks for all you have already done! Thanks for all your consideration, once more! Its good for the group! And you will not make me Beg more! Your the Best! Thanks once Again, your friend, Big D! aka Darrell / Diana’s email was also carbon copied, you can communicate with her if you need! / /

• DREAM STARTED OUT BEING!
  by DarrellMoseley

  10/19/07 / After talking to kathleen thought I would post this to keep everyboy current! My dream was, and wil change as we find out w…

  10/19/07 / After talking to kathleen thought I would post this to keep everyboy current! My dream was, and wil change as we find out what all might be possible! I could not make any promises before, but think I can say now, if you just beleive there is no stopping what we will do! I will do all that I personnally can, and hopefully we will be in your town before long! / / Kathleen, do not worry about a thing, some accuse me of being all over the place! My mind goes wild, and sometimes its hard to keep up with me! Or understand what I am try’n to do! So it might not be you! I try to post into my journal for information needed to follow where I am going! Most of this started as a dream! To help promote redbubble, and some of the amazing talent here on RB! IT was in their spirit of Free, that I wanted to help promote all those who beleived in this group effort! All of those who will contribute their work towards (screensaver/ tag) would have their images show as a screensaver for promotion purposes only! I had asd that they include the text into the picture, so those who seen it, would see who the artist was, and the title of your work, and that they could be found on redbubble.com! / I was hoping the images added would show support for this project, which they have, in a big way! My friend, Diana Moya, is the President of the Visual Arts Guild of Frisco, Texas! She not only loved it, but started working out more details! She visioned it in every city in the local metroplex. North Central Texas, that is! We have plans now for a Flower Power Project Show late February, or early March 2008, for Frisco! We will work to get other cities added to the list, as we get this together! She wanted prices from RedBubble for 100 peices of art! I know she was going to love it, but she dreams bigger than me! But, she has done this many more times than me!She said, We will go get some spouncers! / I had dreamed of building a calloge with the images that were printed by the artist, that could afford to do so! I hoped we would find ways to help get others involved too! (But, I had made plans to build a virtual calloge, if that was all we could do!) / I had figured most artist could supply us with the smalls, and the mediums prints, mounted on foamboard, and laminated! To start building the calloge from all the pictures we could get from artist! Figured the large would be picked by the group for best, and have them printed by the artist who could do so! I had hoped that the best, would be able to at least print, mount on foamboard, and laminate! For protection, ease of hanging, and uniform look to calloge, at very little cost, again! But, could be used for promotion around town in stores, the mall, anywhere it was approved! To draw attention, for the artist, as well as the show! They would hang for promotion, and added to the calloge, just before the show! Where they will be rounded up, and put in the spaces saved for them in the calloge! It was a little more promotion, as cheap as we could do it! / Those picked best, who could afford more, like framing, or canvas, supply work without text, and we would tag below their work! Those would be in windows pointing towards foot traffic, through out the New Frisco Square! 30-40 might be even more! / I was working with others on RB, and had T shirts in the works too! I had even thought about putting the images into a book, as well! It is all up to the group, what all we make, or whatever we sale! It was my only hope to promote all involved, and hoped the groups would work together, for the benefit of the artists community, at large! / Diana Moya, never stops to surprize me, and her passion for Art is amazing! She is very talented herself, and know a lot more than me! I have learned lots from her, and from being involved with the VAGF! I am only a member, but volunteer my time when I can to help! It has been very rewarding, in many different ways! I hope this helps clear up what I wanted to do! Like before, if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask! But, some details will still be developing as we work this all out! I hope you will contribute what you can, because its your involvement that makes this project! I am just the guy with the Dream, you are the ones who are making them come true! So, thanks for your beleiving! This would not be happening without your talents, your support, and your passion! / If everybody agrees, I would really like the project dedicated to those eho served, and helped protect your Freedom! If you are with me stil, please add the tag ( troops)to your images! I truely have the most amazing friends, and am blessed to have each and every one! I love you, Man! / Your friend, Big D! aka Darrell M. Moseley

• Featured!
  by Sande Elkins

  Thank you, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion group for featuring “Eve…

  Thank you, Children-The Power of Raw Emotion group for featuring Even Cowgirls Get the Blues / I’m so honored:-) ~Sande Elkins

• Flower Power Fine Art Exhibit
  by Scott Ruhs

  Received this a few days ago, but wanted to get details before I said anything about it. I am quite excited about this, but living in Ca…

  Received this a few days ago, but wanted to get details before I said anything about it. I am quite excited about this, but living in Canada, I’m not sure if I could get a framed print to them in time. There is also a possibility of selling the print during the exhibit. Having never had anything at an art exhibit, I have no idea how much to sell it for. It’s all very new to me. CONGRATULATIONS Scott! Your image ‘Iris Tongue II’ has been selected among the top winners to be in the International Flower Power Fine Art Exhibit at the George A. Purefoy Municipal Building in Frisco, Texas.

• FOR SALE ! ! 5 GRATITUDE CARDS
  by Madeline M. Allen

  Hello! REDBUBBLERS , you will find now at the top of my profile my / 5 GRATITUDE CARDS ! BEAUTIFUL ORCHID CARDS to send to special peop…

  Hello! REDBUBBLERS , you will find now at the top of my profile my / 5 GRATITUDE CARDS ! BEAUTIFUL ORCHID CARDS to send to special people in your life !!!! If you want them in other sizes , they are ready for you to buy also ! / HAVE A GREAT DAY !!! MADELINE / MADDY / SMUDGEART Flower Power Project 2008 , for all those who have contributed in some form to support the amazing artist community, that wanted to help make a statement, and set a new World Record! COME JOIN US !!!!! Photography By: Madeline M. Allen Thank you for viewing my work. Image copyright © 2007, Madeline M. Allen Copying and displaying or redistribution of this image without permission from the artist is strictly prohibited

• A card sale!
  by Keegan Wong

  With the new Redbubble purchase system, artists can now identify who purchased their work…so I just wanna say thanks to Dave Aarons...

  With the new Redbubble purchase system, artists can now identify who purchased their work…so I just wanna say thanks to Dave Aarons for purchasing my card Nature’s Own Power. I am truly flattered, hope it serves you well. =) Cheers, / Keegan

• Power Station
  by Glen Allen

  Yorkshire Grit have kindley featured my image Power Station I eo…

  Yorkshire Grit have kindley featured my image Power Station I eould like to thank the moderators Glen

• Wind Power is featured in Art in Math Group
  by Lesley Hill

  October 1st. My image Wind Power is featured in art in math today !! Thanks to the group moderators. I am very pleased. = ) Made my day!...

  October 1st. My image Wind Power is featured in art in math today !! Thanks to the group moderators. I am very pleased. = ) Made my day! Lesley