PHOTOS These photos have been a recent project. I don't like the photography groups in which people just enjoy ripping the piss out of what you've done. I don't care if I've used photoshop or I've got the composition/light/focus wrong. I just want photos that make an impact or make me smile. Have a look at "My Pics" and let me know what you think. Here's my most recent:
**Groups**
Coffee Lovers
Pre-Raphelites
Fiction Files
Feminism
Photography
Pro-Choice
"Her complexion is of a glowing bloom,
with a superior degree of fairness;
the contour of the face, the form of the mouth;
the nose, that between Grecian nd Roman,
is lovelier than either; the etherial smile on the lip,
and the bright glance of intelligence and joy."
~Anna Seward
"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings a tune without words
And never stops at all.
And sweetest, in the gale is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That keeps so many warm.
I've heard it in the chiiliest land
And on the strangest sea
Yet, never, in extremity
It ask a crumb of me."
~Emily Dickinson
I'd like to meet:
People who are passionate about a cause. People who are creative. People who are optimistic. People who are thoughtful.
You?
Music:
Beth Orton,
Jose Gonzalez,
Joni Mitchell,
Gomez,
Paul Simon,
K.d. Lang,
Sufjan Stevens,
Yann Tiersen,
Imogen Heap,
Ryan Adams.
Judi Dench performing "Send in the Clowns" from Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" It doesn't matter how many times I watch it, this clip doesn't fail to give me butterflies
I also love a little bit of Opera especially Puccini's La Boheme. And the ballet music of Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev
Audrey Hepburn singing Moonriver,
Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush - So bad and yet so good. .
Movies:
8 Women.
Yet another one that is so bad and yet so good. I'd love to meet the choreographer and ask what they were thinking.
.
Stealing Beauty.
Flashdance (for Jennifer Beals - "Wielder by day, stripper by night"...ahh..brilliant!)
Cinema Paradiso.
La Dolce Vita.
Before Sunrise
Before Sunset
The Hours
Orlando.
The Dreamers.
Breakfast on Pluto.
Stand by Me
Center Stage
Girl on the Bridge.
Fame (for the leg warmers and sweat bands).
Y tu Mama Tambien.
The Edukators.
Dr. Strangelove
Hideous Kinky.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
My Summer of Love.
Venus
Sophie's Choice.
Books:
Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson
Death in Rome
Wolfgang Koeppen
The Horse Whisperer
Nicholas Evans
Veronica Decides to Die
Paolo Cohelo
A Picture of Dorian Grey
Oscar Wilde.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee.
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir.
The Dreamers
Gilbert Adair.
Love in the time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Daisy Miller
Henry James
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh.
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Ariel Levy.
Mrs Dalloway
and
Orlando
Virginia Woolf.
Indeed, anything by Woolf
Heroes:
Get back to me on this one.
Am I really a finalist?
Will I really have to leave soon?
...but it is beautiful...
