So yesterday I spent the afternoon with this freaking talented photographer, covered in “fake b…
So yesterday I spent the afternoon with this freaking talented photographer, covered in fake blood with my face squished up in wire. Can I just say, holy crap the woman has vision. Kimothy, your neighbors may never make eye contact again, and my face is a little bruisy, but far out… well worth every second of it. I’d do it again in a heart beat. best not to click if you just ate Gore and horror is hardly mainstream. Actually quite a few people are actively against it. But I am absolutely fascinated by how far and hard we can push ourselves as humans. The finished pieces are not just confronting but dissolve into layers the longer you contemplate them. Anyway enough waffle from me.
Neil Boucher just put up a “Wow” journal asking who would want to buy a card of frozen barbed wire...
Neil Boucher just put up a “Wow” journal asking who would want to buy a card of frozen barbed wire ... I responded probably the same person who, today, bought a card of my Collaboration – Beauty and the Barbed Wire (and Cloud Art which also features barbed wire!) Hmmm maybe we have uncovered a fetish … !!! Whoever it was, THANK YOU!!! It is so much fun watching the images that people like and are willing to buy – it is not always the ones you’d imagine. xx
Who would buy a card of a frozen barbed wire fence? Thanks to whoever …
Who would buy a card of a frozen barbed wire fence? Thanks to whoever it was :-)
I am so excited that my photo On a wire made the feature page…
I am so excited that my photo On a wire made the feature page. This is my first feature on RB. Thank you so much RB! Please come and have a look!
Now there’s an opportunity you don’t get every day… Your unique opportunity to hear me give MY OPINIONS! Hoooray! Check it out..
Now there’s an opportunity you don’t get every day… Your unique opportunity to hear me give MY OPINIONS! Hoooray! Check it out
Just came home to find that my poem Insane or Wired or Brilliant? was featured in this fabulous new group I discovered Midnight Ramblers….
Just came home to find that my poem Insane or Wired or Brilliant? was featured in this fabulous new group I discovered Midnight Ramblers. Thank you so much LisaG and Matthew Mitchell. This is certainly a wonderful end to my hectic week. Anthea
Thank you so much Suzanne German for featuring my poem Insane or Wired or Brilliant ? in your wonderful group All Things Poetic, Artistic…
Thank you so much Suzanne German for featuring my poem Insane or Wired or Brilliant ? in your wonderful group All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical. Insane or Wired or Brilliant? is also featured in Freedom to Shine. Thank you so much for this feature Julie Alexander. Insane or Wired or Brilliant? Brilliant Plath disappeared in her Bell Jar / Intense Vincent Van Gogh was labelled insane / And when he cut off his ear they cried he had gone too far / They cut poor Frances Farmers emotion out of her brain / And made her placid benign boring and dull / Angelina was considered already dead / Vulnerable girl interrupted accused of a lull / Her hurt was cold but her blood was red. Insanity was thrown in my face at 17 / When the high school boys shouted / My favourite artist Van Gogh was insane… / ‘He is not’…I found my voice / ‘He is sensitive, passionate, intense, / misunderstood…and Don Mclean had / it right on that Starry Starry Night / He took his life as Lovers often do… / I could have told you Vincent this world / Was never meant for one as / Beautiful as you. Ah the eternal debate… / There is a fine line between / genius and insanity…they say / and how closely do we step the tight rope / With so much mental illness today / Exposed…Depression, Anxiety, / Bi-polar…Obsessive Compulsive / Disorder…A mental health professional / recently advised that 9 out of 10 have / a mental health issue. / Are so few exempt…are these figures really true? With so much stimulation in the media, mobile, data / Sensory overload with iPods linked to our brain / Texting 24/7 with our mobiles we sleep instead of our lovers / Is the cyborg fantasy becoming a reality…? / in this wired generation? / Constantly on…we must be or we miss out… / We become fed by instant gratification / and stimulated by virtual admiration. / Addiction to this constant contact means that our / heads are overloaded with stimulus but / not given as much time to reflect, to think, to feel. We are becoming overdeveloped in responding to stimulus / and underdeveloped in knowing our own heart. / Strangers and outcast to our own feelings / Dependent on the hit and the high of the new / and losing sight of the bravery of the subtle and simple. / Craving perfection and the eradication of foibles / we photoshop out our character lines and faults / so that we fit into some kind of ideal of the neo post notion of beauty. Are not faults far more defining then some sanitised notion of perfection? / Are not our faults the real indicators of our individuality? / Is not our vulnerability a sign of our sanity? / Does not our sensitivity reveal that we still belong to humanity? / Taking time to celebrate and know the individual in their idiosyncrasies / Surely this is worth the effort rather then striving for some standard of / fantasy that can never be translated? I shudder when I think where we are headed / Man machine…woman machine…cyborgs half man half machine / I pray that disposable people, relationships that end with a click / of the key and people racing to rejection will never be the accepted. / And that the human mind, heart and soul will pause…think and / move the emotional muscle so that sensitivity can still survive / and link us together through heart and mind / right through to the end of time. So Vincent, Sylvia, Frances, Angelina and Girl Interrupted / Insanity does not seem to be able to define, / What really was going on in your mind, / As far as I can tell…you all could see, think and feel, / Oh that you suffered and were misunderstood / This cannot be denied but you were / real raw and achingly human in your pain / and there was no question of your humanity / Even if there was and still is a question over your sanity. To me you were brilliant, free, sensitive and intense / And by all indicators ahead of your time. / And I bow to your courage / to follow your own voice and live the / passion that was raw in your heart… / To me it is as if you just knew right from the start. by Anthea Slade 26-4-09
I want to say thank you to the buyer who purchased a card of “Bird on a Wire” from me. I really appreciate the purchase. You brought a …
I want to say thank you to the buyer who purchased a card of “Bird on a Wire” from me. I really appreciate the purchase. You brought a smile to my day. :) Thank you…. Thank you….. Thank you!!!!! Have a great holiday. Sher
These are NOT my works. Please be certain to click on each photo and go to the Artist’s portfolio. Thanks. !http://images-2.redbu…
These are NOT my works. Please be certain to click on each photo and go to the Artist’s portfolio. Thanks. -
I would like to thank the person who purchased a card of On a wire...
I would like to thank the person who purchased a card of On a wire I hope you enjoy it. Thanks again.
Many thanks to the hosts of the above group for the feature. Always a thrill when my work attracts attention but even more so when its el…
Many thanks to the hosts of the above group for the feature. Always a thrill when my work attracts attention but even more so when its elevated to the level of being featured in a group.
MCLEAN, TEXAS The sun was dropping on d…
MCLEAN, TEXAS The sun was dropping on down when we arrived at McLean. In the downtown area, the road split into one-way east and west bound segments, divided by a city block. Although closed for the day, we saw a dual museum called “Texas Route 66 Museum / Devil’s Rope Museum” The term “Devil’s Rope” referred to barbed wire as there were two gigantic balls of barbed wire perched on concrete columns. Where else but on Route 66 would you find a tribute to barbed wire? It is a wonderful country we live in! A great photo opportunity was the tiny cottage-style Phillips 66 gas station all decked out in fresh tan and orange paint. The sign on the street corner indicated the station was originally built in the 1920’s and was the first Phillips 66 station in Texas. An antique Ford tanker truck was parked to the side, also painted a bright orange with the Phillip 66 emblem on the door. The gas pump showed a price of 19 cents per gallon! As we drove west through McLean on Route 66, there was the smell of something delicious cooking! We followed our noses to the Red River Steakhouse. Once there our stomachs began to do the Route 66 rumble… We were greeted at the door by a very friendly hostess who had the same southern accent as we did. For a tiny town like McLean, the parking lot was packed when we arrived. A full parking lot at a local restaurant is always a good sign. We were late-comers for supper and people began leaving while we were eating. Everyone knew everyone else as there were shouts of goodbye from across the room and farewells that included “be careful driving home”. It was obvious that this was a very friendly ranch community on Route 66. As my daddy used to say, we must have “popped out like a sore thumb” as visitors because the waitress immediately wanted to know where we were from and the hostess later brought out the guestbook so we could sign it. A big ole salad was served first, heaped high with crisp, cold lettuce and lots of fixin’s. Then our 8 oz. steaks were placed before us, completely covering a large platter. The steak was so big that it was nudging the baked potato out of the way! Both were tender and cooked to perfection. The complimentary dessert of homemade peach cobbler was delicious. For $1 more, we added a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. If you are anywhere near McLean near supper time, don’t miss the Red River Steakhouse.
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A Very Big thank you to the Two people who have purchased my new T-shirt design you have made my day!!! Also a BIG thank you Red Bubble for featuring this design in the clothing section!! Here are some other new Designs #
Cynicism, pessimism and all those other “downisms” are convenient shields against what seems to be a pretty fucked up world. The media a…
Cynicism, pessimism and all those other “downisms” are convenient shields against what seems to be a pretty fucked up world. The media are big fans of downism. Downism rewards by feigning intelligence (things can fuck-up, its the way of things, the Downist gets rewarded time and time again by calling the fuck-up) it also feigns “worldliness” (as long as you consider being worldly always looking for fuck-ups – it’s not my idea of worldly). All those illusionary rewards seem to drive the media to be card-carrying Downists. I make a point of scanning through online media each morning. The Age (I reckon they need to pump anti-depressants through the air-conditioning at The Age – those people are in real trouble I think), the BBC (addicted, like a lot of media to hyperbole, but nowhere near as Downist as The Age) and Wired. Ah, Wired. (Link here) The mass media refuge against the depressing infection of Downism. Time and time again the people at Wired (ostensibly “just” a new tech magazine) see the wonderful things happening out there in the world. And what impresses me is they dig deep and find the unusual wonderful things. Case in point is a photo essay in the current online Wired on the salvaging of the Airbus that did some boating on the Hudson River back in January. The Downist media wouldn’t give a rat’s about the fascinating business of getting a huge plane off the bottom of the river. Wired was. And they found a photographer who was just as fascinated and did a photo series on the process….I loved it. Stephen Mallon recorded the salvage operation. Weird and sexy shots he did. Love this steampunk look. The punchline? Go and take refuge at Wired, a genuinely worldly media source.
...or as I like to call it. “MicroChip Porn”. / A huge set of macro photographs taken of a high end $5000 Panasonic Editing Deck. / Except …
...or as I like to call it. “MicroChip Porn”. / A huge set of macro photographs taken of a high end $5000 Panasonic Editing Deck. / Except for the electronic boards, no piece is bigger than a golf ball. The / smallest piece, is about an 8th of an inch. All to often we see macro photography of electronics, and frankly, it bores me. So the goal here was to approach the style in my own perspective. / For the real guts of the why’s and how’s, each picture has a nice detailed / description. / Below you’ll find a link the entire mega set! / http://www.flickr.com/photos/jefharris/sets/1075445/
Well, me and my laptop are in bed. DSL connect keeps getting wrapped up in the covers. I’ve orders to “stay in bed,” which is a very di…
Well, me and my laptop are in bed. DSL connect keeps getting wrapped up in the covers. I’ve orders to “stay in bed,” which is a very difficult thing for me. I notice that my help uploaded more of my T-Shirt designs, converting them to redbubble specs. I’ll have to thank her when she gets to the office. So, between naps, I’ll be surfing the bubble, and maybe trying to do a bit of writing or artwork. This “disease” which is running rampant through the schools and the community here, is nasty and ugly. Goes from a head-cold to a chest-cold, and attacks the inner ear making walking a dangerous activity as suddenly the world turns sideways without you even realizing it happened except for the fact that you’ve got a sore face from landing on hard floor. According to health folks, this thing just keeps going round and round. You get over one bout of it, then it comes back later via somebody else, a changed creature and the fight begins all over. Needless to say, I’m NOT amused.
This was done in a lightbox that I made out of a cardboard box, white posterboard and tissue. The lighting was natural light and kitchen …
This was done in a lightbox that I made out of a cardboard box, white posterboard and tissue. The lighting was natural light and kitchen florescent. I adjusted the white balance in Photoshop. Any opinions on how well the homemade lightbox works?
Another great article stolen from Make. A British artist made a full-scale wireframe model …
Another great article stolen from Make. A British artist made a full-scale wireframe model of a car and “installed” it outside the gallery. Over the course of a few days it even got a couple of parking tickets. Check out the picture in the article.
Its getting a bit boring here in the old house, even with this new laptop to toy around with. My boy toy is out of town for a week or so,...
Its getting a bit boring here in the old house, even with this new laptop to toy around with. My boy toy is out of town for a week or so, and I have no one to go on adventures with. I have to remember when I was single and go do things on my own. Its the hard part of having someone there all the time, realizing how much you miss them when they are gone. its a good thing though. And a tid bit of information. UGH. I am so mad that this company around my town is buying up all the land! I actually got into a heated conversation with a lady that I work with about it. Of course, this lady did not understand anything about what I was talking about, because she does not go hiking, she does not take pictures, she does not go for walks. But I DO! I like to go and hike down to the river, and go for walks…. now this company which I will leave unnamed, is buying up all the land and posting no tresspassing signs all over this town. Some of my favorite spots to take pictures are now covered with no tresspassing signs. It makes me mad that they are blocking this beautiful world off to people. It makes me furious that people ruin these spots by posting signs all over the place. And the barb wire fence is just a nuciance to get around (hehehe).... :) / The lady at my work told me that the reason they do this is because they do not want to get sued if someone drowns or gets hurt there. WELLLLLLLL….. if they have enough money to post no tresspassing signs over only god knows how many acres then they can afford to get sued. Don’t they know that if you tell people they can’t go there they will only want to go there more????? / UGH. Okay. I am done venting. / Christina
Wired is having a photo contest . They are seeking the ‘best’ red p…
Wired is having a photo contest . They are seeking the ‘best’ red photo with the the 10 most-highly ranked photos appearing in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. I have submitted two photos, please vote for them on the WIRED site “his hour” / “ruby sky” If you submit your own, let me know and I’ll give you a vote too ;-)
Just wanted to let everyone know about a site called Wedding Wire. They are in partnership with Martha Stew…
Just wanted to let everyone know about a site called Wedding Wire. They are in partnership with Martha Stewart online. Its an easy way for clients to book vendors, read reviews, organize plans and possibly contact you to do their wedding. If you join, add me as a contact – Melissa Kosswig Photography.
Well my nose is bleeding, tumour or did I just blow too hard? It’s a cold morning south side of Adelaide, at least typing warms my fin…
Well my nose is bleeding, tumour or did I just blow too hard? It’s a cold morning south side of Adelaide, at least typing warms my fingers. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, the smart lazy dog traps the dumb quick fox in a maze of trip wires, lasers, hovercrafts and hungry hookers. Coffee for me coffee for you makes coffee for two. This morning I feel a little stranger, he doesn’t speak my language but seems to enjoy it. I need direction otherwise it all gets out of hand and a hand in the bush is worth at least two CSI detectives in the office. What I truly need is very good infrared goggles, the type that NASA would give a ungrateful, soulless spacecraft that would never experience the joy I would using them.
Thanks so much to everyone who voted for “Live Love” in the Art & Text Challenge hosted by Live, Love, Dream Group! What a great & suppor…
Thanks so much to everyone who voted for “Live Love” in the Art & Text Challenge hosted by Live, Love, Dream Group! What a great & supportive group to be a part of, thanks again, I’ve appreciated all of your comments so much! ~Chelsey
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