Truth & Beauty Sawhorse

I snapped a few shots of this construction sawhorse that I walked by one day a while back. Someone had worked on it and set it on the sidewalk in a high-traffic area. It inspired me.

Teachers

The best teachers stay with you and continue to teach you long after you've left their presence.

I miss my teacher.

- Want

New Photo Work Posted - Check it out

Photography|People|Royal Velvet Series
http://www.VisualSyntaxOutput.com/PhotoRoyalVelvet.html

Serato Scratch Live

This is a great tool for doing something I've been interested in seeing and playing with for a while - Instead of samples of other peoples output, taking YOUR OWN digitally recorded output and cut and scratch it. More specifically, instead of taking your work created for a different purpose or project and cutting that up and scratching it, etc.,... instead, a tool like this actually gives you the ability to record a bass line, a guitar line, a drum beat, etc. for the specific purpose of creating a cut and scratched piece. This allows a turntablist to embrace a more modern technology and musical instrument, while moving away from sampling and that area of stealing other people's work and chopping it up for your own purposes. Feel me? I'm not in "the scene" where one would have heard about this when it first came out, so I guess this blog out of date. Still, I just heard about it and wanted to mention it. I've grown to appreciate the ability of the turntablist and the nuances of the instruments used. But, have had a strong disdain for the rampant, unrestrained and irreverent sampling/stealing that goes on. A tool like this allows one to get into this new technology/instrumentation while not compromising the integrity of the musician.

Definition

For•swear |fôrˈswe(ə)r|

verb ( past -swore ; past part. -sworn ) [ trans. ] formal
agree to give up or do without (something) : he would never forswear the religion of his people.
• ( forswear oneself/be forsworn) swear falsely; commit perjury : I swore that I would lead us safely home and I do not mean to be forsworn.

ORIGIN Old English forswerian (see for- , swear ).

Sowing The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears

High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man
And the lovetrain rides from coast to coast
D.J.'s the man we love the most
Could you be, could you be squeaky clean
And smash any hope of democracry ?
As the headline says you're free to choose
There's egg on your face and mud on your shoes
One of these days they're gonna call it the blues
And anything is possible when you're Sowing the Seeds of Love
Anything is possible - Sowing the Seeds of Love
I spy tears in thier eyes
They look to the skies for some kind of divine intervention
Food goes to waste !
So nice to eat, so nice to taste
Politician Grannie with your high ideals
Have you no idea how the Majority feels ?
So without love and a promise land
We're fools to the rules of a Goverment plan
Kick out the style ! Bring back the jam !
Anything...
Sowing the Seeds
The birds and the bees
My girlfriend and me in love
Feel the pain
Talk about it
If you're a worried man - then shout about it
Open hearts - feel about it
Open minds - think about it
Everyone - read about it
Everyone - scream about it !
Everyone
Everyone - read about it, read about it
Read in the books in the crannies and the nooks there are books to read
Chorus !
(Mr. England Sowing the Seeds of Love)
Time to eat all your words
Swallow your pride
Open your eyes
High time we made a stand and shook up the views of the common man
And the lovetrain rides from coast to coast
Every minute of every hour - " I Love a Sunflower "
And I believe in lovepower, Love power, LOVEPOWER !!!
Sowing the Seeds
An end to need
And the Politics of Greed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cUpqc6p0BY

Running

Went to bed pensive. Wrote this in the morning.