Bi Polar People

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

"The Net" does not mean profit!

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

Labels: internet, net, world wide web

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

The 2nd city tour

Labels: As seen in the TV series "The Beast"

Labels: that's a U boat., Thats not a my boat

Labels: "That was a very good year..."

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Labels: Married - Picture of Sandy

Labels: The Baby Boomers mantra.

The Hill of Pots

The sand, wind blown, nothing said for thousands of years,
Nothing dead for thousands of years, but the word of Him,
Who was, and is, and will be the sand tomorrow.

How can man ignore this and His dead who are not dead.
Who was once them and continues to be, ever changing like the dunes.
Who comes back from the hill and gives us warmth.

In my simple mind and tangled life I know Him.
But He knows me better, and we laugh together.
The sand changes and is the same. It is here.

It is here and we are the spun powder, moving and changing too.
But all at once, to form and uphold the work of Him.
Broken vessels spill the Word and no one knows.

Why shouldn't we laugh together, the sand and I?
Verily, nothing matters even when the sand spills again and again.
From today and from tomorrow we live on. We die to become Him.

The Hill of Pots is a location of religious historical significance found near Qumran.

Here are the reported oldest remains of the written bible referred to as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Sunday, October 03, 2010

England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Cedric Hardwicke

Labels: music is my mistress., Photography is my passion

Another grand daughter shot

Location Charleston - on vacation

Labels: Photography

Joseph Haydn - Masses by American Bach Soloists

Saturday, September 11, 2010

"And when it is said to them, `Believe as other people have believed,' they say, `Shall we believe as the fools have believed ?' Remember ! it is surely they that are the fools, but they do not know." THE HOLY QUR'AN

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

An expensive look at the digital camera

Do not drop your digital camera, or get it wet. The manufacturer is not responsible for accidents and will not fix it if negligence is suspected.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

The little smoke pays a visit while a Boniva commercial appeared on the Tele.

I told Sandy there is no such thing as calcium loss in women. The mineral simply redistributes itself to another location in the body.

Over the years CA is collected and secreted by the vagina to form multiple rows of piranha like teeth - probably the reason why elderly women refuse to participate in sex. Medical text call it the Bobbit Syndrome.

Trojan http://www.trojancondoms.com/Product/FreeSample.aspx condoms have developed a product made from a thin layer of Kevlar. Those protected in this fashion have not to this date reported the dreaded geriatric penis-ectomy.

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Oh Holy One

In the snow, lights dance and shine
In the glow, colors are clear and fine

Snow falls down to cover
Every shape makes wonder

Anything in the way is wrapped
In dreams from clouds were angels napped

Sleepy eyes make form from time
White crystals a restful rhyme

Footprints in the snow
Prophets pattern in the cover

No one knows these feet from Thine
Why they came and why they brother

Born to lift the light on high
Like a diamond in the sky

From heaven they fall
Now they gather

On holy ground
The Child is matter.

Merry Christmas

Thursday, December 15, 2005

My grand daughter's birthday with funny friends

Amazing Grace

There are only so many logical conclusions a person or a people can draw upon. Knowledge alone does not extend the possibilities, and we permutate to escape the obvious, Truth. When truth is evident then comes the obligation to create icons and laws that generations will hopefully uphold. In this idea religion, and culture are born. Sin became a necessity to test the hypothesis of man - to prove him both fool and victor, the explorer and valiant hero, who over the ages over and over again saves himself and his people.

A mind run rampant can't know truth, only approximations there of. Occasional the light is seen, the eyes widen and a stab at the rational becomes momentary release from abandonment. This is the definition of mankind who has forgotten the rules laid down by countless ancient generations, who were set free from their own vanity, only to be reunited with self bondage and despair. Heroes, kings, presidents and popes are no less fallible When you live in the age of dead leaders, there is chaos and small personal victories amount to nothing because they are rarely shared.

Media, a modern curious marvel turns the sharing of these personal victories into profitable commodities. The idea of another's struggle comes across as entertainment, a diversion from one's own mundane life. Rarely do we suite up with the armor of knights to forge ahead and slay dragons unless there is smoke from hungry nostrils pouring into our homes and hearts. We continue to pay bills and mortgages and homage to spouses come and gone because there is no other way. We are surviving, not living, because we have forgotten truth.

An aged revered lady dies slowly from a cancer, both personal and cellular. She slowly accepts the inevitable and is angry that her life is ending. Her equally aged husband is upset that his normal limited existence is changing and he must adapt and give attention to the person who can no longer provide the simple comforts of a clean household and a warm meal. He does not see a failing mate but the loss of a normal life with the slow passing of his wife. This is vanity personified. It is just as painful for people to change their lives as it is for others to loose theirs. Have we forgotten the laws of truth and the responsibility that comes with it? Or do we succumb to a sin that leads us away rather than within.

The choice is ours. The mother's children are born over again and return to nurture while strangers take the place of soul mates who are equally failing.

Grace was introduced to marijuana and she accepted it out of desperation for relief of nausea and depression. Medicinal doses will help her breath and keep her spirits aligned by removing doubt and agony – to wit, anxiety. Since Grace is from another era she looks upon the street drug as a degradation of self, not knowing that modern culture embraces it as both escape and reassurance. Those who love her hope she can learn to use this life sustaining drug. It has removed nausea brought about by chemo. It will open up small capillaries that are already collapsing and allow blood to flow. The need for oxygen from a machine will be diminished and her self assurance will be enhanced. Medical marijuana can be a necessary life sustaining reality. And the overall experience remains one of those personal victories that can't be shared except with those who care, those who embrace the Truth.

Sunday, July 17, 2005

The Carousel Of Dreams

A child, a tiny thing in blond banana curls and cut-off genes walks with her dad, or rather dad walks with his vivacious daughter. He is still wearing his fatigues and is a bit weary but a promise is never forgotten when your daughter asks… The carnival was one of those rent a rides put up by the local church to gather money for things like the leaky roof on a steeple that had seen better days and for food that would feed the many in a parish that was just as poor as it’s parishioners. The brightest, loudest, fun thing in the parking lot was the carousel. Parked among the hawkers of fish bowls and stuff animals it twirled and howled a calliope of show tunes only those from the past would remember, but everyone still enjoyed the lively sounds. A tug or two on a pants leg sent father and child into the thick crowd of the curious. The event had invited many in this small town to do something different, or do something at all. It was just another reason to gather and chat with neighbors and relatives, people everyone new. The carnie people raised their patrons to new heights of social significance. They gave everyone an opportunity to be better than they were, until it came time to ante up for a chance toss at games that made all but the very lucky, losers.

Dad had enough time and energy to just sit and speculate at what he remembered from his childhood as a wonder. The intelligent adult he prided himself at being wasn’t impressed, but the glow on his little girls face was worth the farce. After all it was her first encounter with another world and people who had nothing better to do than giggle and gaggle. The line to the carousel was long because the spinning monument to 19^th century ingenuity was indeed a wonder to behold. It had been reconstructed from parts of a handful of it’s kind. The man responsible for this reconstruction was a retired engineer who had run out of things to fix around the house. His ambition to make something that was fun for all took him almost twenty years. It cost him no more than his time because money was not an object to the visionary who had pushed his generation far into the computer age. He yearned for the simple and relished working with gears and levers rather than micro chips and lines of code. All the while, parts found or made begin to fit together or point to another problem that research and patience would remedy. The entrance of grandchildren, or the loss of siblings did not slow his project. The revolving stage with grotesque creatures that moved up and down and round and round to the sounds of by gone days was mesmerizing, being a perfectionist new life was being born. This was no longer a machine; this was the past made present, and presentable. A monument to dreams and good will that would never die.

Some who looked at this ride felt it had not survived the journey to the present. There was good reason to feel this way. But then it wasn’t suppose to jangle the senses of video game players. A machine that travels from the past to the present could very well continue on it’s way without permission, assuming a little imagination came with the price of admission. That was its allure. Everyone knew what it was, but no one understood why it made them feel so good.

Bright lights flashed and the crowd became eager with the whirling that gave so many others delicious delights. The lights, that was it or was it the music, something vaguely familiar without being anticipated. An unusual melody that twisted and turned with the swaying animals that galloped in place and in tune. Little Jessica held her father’s hand tight as they moved ever so slowly toward the ticket taker as his barking droned on.

Come one, come all and ride the ride of the ages. March and prance, dive and dance with animal of your choice, hurray hurray, hurray. Since this was the most lively and spectacular event of the evening the small town was consumed and more people gathered in drovers for their go round. It was almost as much fun watching those lucky enough to be on the ride than being a rider. People’s faces glistened with joy and clenched tight the rains of lions, giraffes, hippos and bear. No two creatures were alike. Even anxious bystanders seemed to move with a rhythm of anticipation that matched those on the wooden stage that went round and round.

The tall tired man in fatigues and his little blond headed Jessica where becoming impatient with the waiting procession that did not march as gaily as those who were now reluctantly leaving the wooden heard. Another look into the eyes of those who braved the unknown, who had just fancied a few minutes of mindless fancy kept them hanging on for their turn. The barker closed the gate after the lucky few who mounted and waited for the whirring, the thrilling rhythm, that wondrous calliope of cymbal smashing, organ grinding, flute twirling music that poured from everywhere as the circle of lights flashed in their eyes. What a ride!

Then something terrific took place. Something unexpected happened right before their very eyes. The carousel became a blur of movement. Nothing really fast, just a difficult sight to behold. It was hard to describe and more difficult to imagine. Just exactly what was happening? No one was scared; the shrieks coming from the riders were not distressed. The warm glow disguised as a blur was soft pulsating light from the round wooden stage…

Monday, July 04, 2005

Ok, shoot me.

I have been taking pictures since I was twelve years old. My first camera was a 35mm Kodak 3c. We go way back together. It had a flip out lens with bellows. Depth of field was easy to adjust with this camera while maintaining good exposures – something today’s digital point and shot cameras overlook. If your camera has a manual setting you can blur the background while keeping the foreground in focus, just keep the lens wide open and adjust shutter speed to the correct exposure.

The three preceding pictures are what I call strong images, because they may evoke strong emotions. This is the type of shot I look for. This is my eye’s personality. Usually such shots are deceptive. The drink in hand at thirty thousand feet is a coke, the bowl sitting on top of a wooden table is almost every kind of texture one can a capture in a single shot, otherwise it has no particular purpose, and the angel is really a manikin’s reflection in a storefront window.

They all tell a story, are not the consequence of luck and experience helps. First time shooters may not want to try this at home. When you start viewing the world through your camera’s capabilities these pictures, and much better will start appearing in you camera’s memory. The image is really never in front of you. It’s inside you. The camera captures what the mind’s eye sees. And if you use available light for exposure, it’s not what you shoot that’s so important, it’s when you shoot that makes the strong impression on all those mega pixels most of us never use.

My current camera is a Nikon Cool Pix 990 with a wide converter WC-E63 screwed on board and 3.34 mega pixels usually set for normal. See Digital Photography Review and check out the glossary if you’re new to cameras without film.

Breaking my film advance lever at a shoot and working as an industrial/mechanical photographer does not make me or anyone else a pro. It’s enjoying what you shoot and the willingness to share your good fortune, often for free, that makes the art worthy.

My Angel

No one knows

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: Name: Chuck Mistretta; Location: St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

A person with an overactive imagination who has after to many years finally found a way to enjoy life.

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