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Friday, July 30, 2010

Resort Spas

From time to time, the self needs solitude, space and peace to recharge its batteries. Our spa retreats are designed to be sanctuaries for the inner self, to refresh and rejuvenate your spirit as well as your physical being.

Privacy and tranquility allow you to shed the cares of the world while we pamper your body, as well as your mind, with our invigorating treatments.
Better still, experience the Angsana spa with a loved one and rediscover essential sensory pleasures - from the pleasure of touch to the aroma of exotic oils like rosemary, lavender, jasmine and frangipani wafting the air. Feel your muscles being kneaded and the tension seep away from your body as you drift off to soothing music and enter a realm of blissful happiness and total relaxation.

pictures in the clouds...








































oh look... I see a fish in that one...

Cyclo Drivers, waiting for Tourists

Daily Life-Hue Vietnam

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

cloud nine+









































gotta love those beachy cloudsmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
can almost taste them.
puffy and sharp
makes just enough shade to put a little "cool" in the breeze.
there's always more where that came from.

Monday, July 26, 2010

the toys are alright...




























backstage at the toy museum exhibit.
handmade toys from around the world.
standing in ready-ment.
great show.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

desert gardens .........



those desert gardens seem to have a mind of their own,
nice bloomers


THE JOURNEY

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...The gray thread of an uneasy vigil and its consequent gray sleep awakes in my mind.


Effectively: sometimes we wake up with our mind in blank, it takes some long seconds to realize who we are, where we are; our name...


These irrelevant seconds are -in this situation- like years of anguish; until the veil of sleep is completely unveiled.


Sometimes -often- does happen as corollary of a heavy and worried sleep. That happened to me today, right now (while I stand up from my bed, I start to put these pieces of the puzzle in order): actually: it's strange: I seldom remember what I dream, perhaps two or three times a year, no more; and my dreams are always objectively involved with the reality, they are never whimsical.


I almost could...swear they aren't dreams.






I prefer to take them as perceptive experiences in subliminal connection with my reality, maybe with the past...I'll try to recapitulate and settle these pieces on a rational order while I dress myself up, let's see...










I was in an oval parlour (I know that my dream was long), I was sitting close to a huge-rectangular table. This room was large and white, with a dozen...no: half a dozen burning chandeliers hanging from the slightly oval ceiling. This high stucco ceiling ("bone" was the color) it was admirably decorated with rampant gargoyles...I could note the detail about some almost imperceptible threads of spider webs shining like long-silvery needles in the light. I saw this detail in my dream...






The table hadn't anything on it, I was alone in the hall and I got surprised, realizing I was all dressed in an impeccable, latest XIX century's fashion.


I'm sure I was waiting for something to happen there, I didn't feel comfortable there, though...for some reason I couldn't leave.


In dreams, we do things that look like incomprehensible, but these things we do always have a reason. The reality of our dreams is different to the reality of our vigil, but isn't unreal.






The only furniture pieces seen in that enigmatic place were this large table, and the chair where I was sitting down, a comfortable wooden chair, with huge back, and a red cushion.






And another chair.






The walls were decorated with Arab carpets of delicate manufacture. One of the carpets, the biggest one, featured golden arabesques of a peculiar beauty, and its value should be very high...under different circumstances probably I would have felt the serious temptation of stealing it; but I was too nervous and uncomfortable there; and in spite of this, I was incomprehensibly drinking a cup of tea. Presumably laudanum.


The only connection with the outside world, at least as far as I could see, was a big-black door, wooden and carefully polished.


The parlour was intensely impregnated with a mysterious smell, like an admixure of vanilla and gas, the silence was absolute.






While I was looking at the curious, pale-green floor, which looked like a rare variety of emery, the black door was suddenly opened with violence, and an indescribably, horribly fresh breeze came in filling the room, a breeze with a certain taste of menthol, and behind the breeze, a man came in. I didn't move...






...With a slight violence he closed the door, the carpets of the walls were shaken in a spasm: he looked at me.






II)






He was dressed like a gentleman, all in blue velvet, wearing a blue, silky shirt, according to his appearance, he looked like an old, strange man...his hair was white and long, combed in an extravagant way. His eyes had a cold stare, and caught particularly my attention the color of those eyes, dark yellow, like gold of centuries. Gold.


After a tense, short while, he walked in my direction, his steps, his whole figure showed something vaguely aristocratic...under his thick-grey eye brows the eyes had a singular look, mixture of rage and irony; his face featured one too many grooves.


Grooves.






...With delicate gesture, his arthritic hands left his golden walking cane on the table, and a scroll.


Under my astonished stare, my strange man did sit down, and coughing, he started talking, with Balkanic accent...






- "Sir, you're here for a reason, now, you got to go there..."






In that moment he unfolded the scroll over the table, it was a map.


Showing me, he pointed his finger on a particular place, a village, lost in the Carpathian mountains: R.......






Then -laconic- he just said:






- "Be sure to keep each thing as it was commanded, further instructions you'll get at your arrival..."






While he said this, I felt an icy sensation of horror running down my spine, beholding minutely his mouth while he talked...his tongue...was his tongue...silvery?






Brusquely he did stand up, took his walking cane and left without looking at me, ignoring me completely...while he was walking toward the door, in that right moment, I realized this dream was more than a dream, and I was involved in it.


In my nightmare I realized this.






...The door was closed behind my aristocratic, aged dude, with a muffled sound, one second before my awakening.


Here I am, almost ready for my journey. My train departs from Madrid in 9 hours.




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The statue

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There's a tree.
Does have signs in its log.

This tree was fed with the westwinds haze, and it cries; its leaves distil drops, which falling on the ground turn into spades...nymph-eyed spades.

The spades penetrate the tree to the core. Thousands and thousands of spades, and it bleeds...

[The tree] points its light to a statue of salt, a white lady all radiance and centuries, her salt eyes are looking at the bleeding tree. Both are separated by a luminous wall of ice, which the cosmos built one night of the life.



...As the fingers of the lady of salt get bent and stretched, almost reaching the starlights, the tree buries its roots deeper down in despair, and does throw its bleeding branches toward the sideral mirror...



Once upon a time a valley, enchanted by the horror and the desolation. A valley surrounded by interminable camps of ice; the valley of the tree and the lady of salt.



The tree wasn't a tree, the statue wasn't a statue, just the Sun of his growing.

There's a mystery in that place. The constellation's ice know it...just a bird, a little bird still dares to sing over the spades. The warm herald of love, he never dies.



...And I wonder...


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Before the dawn

One day f our light...here I am, 4:49...


If I just could counted among the fortunate ones, oh My...

Many times I made mistakes, many times I wonder about the future, and I fear.

So here I am...among sleepy spiders and several questions, hanging like a noose around my neck.



In the shadows, yet...

This day

Don't go so far away from me, because the anguish it's near.


...My heart was like wax, melting down...

And my tongue got adhered to my palate, and you laid me down on dust of death.



Because dogs surrounded me...



...But you, you! Don't walk away from me strength of mine, help me please.



"...Because didn't scorn the anguish of the worried one..."

Will your heart live forever...

Saturday, July 24, 2010

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Contemplation: living this particular day to its fullest
(still sending warm, kindly messages ahead)
Enjoy this moment
Breath the air, exhale the air
take in the best of wishes sent today.
spread the kindness
kindle kindness everywhere
perform random acts of loving-kindness
watch it set ablaze ....................
loving-kindness flooding everywhere


(photo from WorldGratitude.com)


Druids' end


 








The story of the druids was the story of the Celts: magic-men, law makers and the wise reserve of the population, to consult either during the war, as during the peace, about the sacrifices and the esoteric rituals which put a mysterious astral equilibrium between the man and his environment: the blind forces of the nature, the Sun and the storm; the thunder and its lightning, the cold stars of the night, and beyond, the gods.


And the Celts (while these nations existed, because they were absorbed, and don't exist anymore), they had a strange, sick fascination for the trees...a druid could know and catalog each and every existing tree on Earth, and its derivations, the plants, especially all about the venomous and the medicinal.

And this obsession for the trees could take them to attribute those trees of the forests animal, almost human characteristics...so extravagant narrations about walking trees were told by the bards; trees that had legs and, during the Holy night that cannot be named (or whenever they wanted to), they stalked the pilgrim along the desolate path...

On the other hand, existed an usual superstition about pregnant maidens, presumably inseminated by trees: the tree followed the maiden at night furtively, stalking around her home, and when she went to bed, during the Summer nights, the tree entered on through the open windows and penetrated her during her sleep, after the intercourse, the tree escaped running along the meadows, screeching with sibilant noise...the child without a father was always called "the son of the trees", or "the child of the forests", and deemed property of the cold and humid jungles: the trees would come for him, sooner or later...the son of the forests was consecrated to be druid, only way to avoid the trees kidnapped him: the trees couldn't touch him anymore, since the natural laws did forbid it.

The druids, as the young Celt warrior, used to decolorize their hair and beards using quicklime and herbs taken from the soil, astonishing spectacle for the Roman erudite was the sight of those terrible red manes, which in fact were intended to scare the enemy...but as the druid reached his senior age, his hair and beards turned into snowy white; notwithstanding their appearance and outfits hadn't that noble solemnity as they usually were represented by the moden artistes: their appearance was hairy and tremendously untidy.



The Roman proconsul and writer Pomposius Erectus narrated strange chronicles about certain events related to this...near to the French coast, close to the city which today is known as Bordeaux, there was an island: Île d'Oléron; a maiden found herself lost during one Summer night, late in the forests, she felt so sleepy and tired because of the heat and the narcotic essences of the wood, that she fell asleep under a tree (botanically unknown)...

She had rare nightmares, during her sleep she saw luminous corridors opening themselves under her pace all along the forest...voices whispering words about the future, and nothing about the past...when she did wake up under the solar mildness of the noon, she knew (instinctively, unknown) that she was pregnant.

She begged to a druid to help her, and to extract this son of the forests from her womb; but the drüïd could not do that, since the natural laws did forbid it.

But she begged and cried so much, that finally the druid accepted to help her...

The ceremony started in the forest, as soon as the Sun disappeared, and the Moon was up in the sky: the druid started dancing madly backwards around the tree, throwing Holy water at the trunk, and whispering an oration, which was echoed by the night wind...after a while, he marked a pentagram around the tree, and started shaking his head like a raving dervish, and dancing madly backwards around the trunk, under the panic of the distant, cold stars: the Universe was beholding him.

He danced in ritual trance for hours and hours, and right before the dawn, when the first and thin Sun rays started painting the celestial tomb with horrid pink traces on through the west clouds, then the exhausted druid sucked the maiden's vagina vigorously, on and on until extracting the sweet sperm helped by magic, spitting it violently on the Earth, close to the tree's roots...the roots absorbed the sperm with a guttural noise, then, the solar disc appeared...

To compensate the natural laws, the maiden's womb should be filled again, otherwise it would be aberration; the process was completed with blowjobs, titfuck, cunnilingus, analingus, vaginal and anal sex all along the morning; so the maiden was replete with cum again, and the natural forces were pacified.

Nobody knows how the druids disappeared, perhaps they disappeared when their peoples were absorbed by the Roman and Germanic element; chronicles say that the last druids were absorbed by the forests' trees, turning both into a same thing: trees/druids, druids/trees.

Others say that they simply descended slowy into the entrails of the Earth, and weren't seen anymore.



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Friday, July 16, 2010

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

blind voyeur






see no evil(?)
...then make some up.



found postcard, my printed cards, collage and acrylics

Sunday, July 11, 2010

new glass art












































JELLYFISH CHIMES
part of a series...
more photos to follow

Saturday, July 10, 2010

when whales dream ...















when I dream, I really go off ... somewhere.
many places... often several major locations around the world in one night.


I'm always hard at work, the big events are coming.... lots of preparation to do.


I've not traveled underwater, ... yet.
makes me wonder if whales dream of traveling on land.
hmmmm ...

Friday, July 9, 2010

we're all made of the same stuff






















We're all made of the same stuff...
Molecularly speaking... atoms are all intertwining at amazing speed.
E•N•E•R•G•Y
I think I can feel it now.... spinning like crazy.
Don't stop now,
Let it go the full distance; and let's see where it takes us.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

oily paradise
























ahh the pretty rainbow refractions in the oily waves lapping onshore.
** soon to be at a perfect beach near you.
All this at no extra cost to you, courtesy of the oil empires.

Faces-Hanoi

Monday, July 5, 2010

Whirled Cup Soccerball




















Whirled Cup Soccer Balls.
Love those designer balls,
Gaming is intense down to the Semi-finals.
Best party ever on "July Forth"

Faces-Sapa Vietnam

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Saturday, July 3, 2010

prepping the 4th




















making some stars
making some stripes
on paper flags.
celebrations are ahead.

Friday, July 2, 2010

LAS TRES BES

Enla bida ai que tené las tres bes pa metelse enlas dó plofesiones má criminales que son los toro i errepoltaje asín vélico. Alos toros y ala fotoglafía asín vélica ai que hechale BALÓ, BOLUNTÁ Y BUEVOS como desia er Guerra y si no tienes naide te ba a conosé

Fdo. Juandedios Montoya Heredia "Pichina". Novillero sin picaores e investigador independiente dela historia dela fotoglafía gitana en españa y poltugal.