Joyas Voladoras

This essay, despite how well written it is, always makes me feel horrible.  It brings back the thought that we all die some day, and makes me feel very pessimistic. I guess my favorite line would be " Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise, and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old."  Live life while you can.

My favorite peice of advice from the song "Everyones free (to wear sunscreen)" was "Accept certain inalienable truths; prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders."  I think its a very ironic peice of knowledge, and that remembering that all of this has and will continue to be true throughout history would keep a person from believing that there was some kind of socialcatacalisimic collapse, and thus becoming a complete pessimist as many old people have.

If I had to write a peice of advice for this song , it would probably go along the lines of "You may be lucky in life, but always remember to quit when your ahead."  That applies mostly to gambling, but to pretty much every risk oriented activity.  Even criminal activies.

Quotes

Man's real life is happy chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. - Edgar Allen Poe

I choose this quote because not only is it true, but it has a really deep meaning, and it really connects to me.

Knowing

Knowledge corrupts humans.  When a baby is born, without any knowledge, its completely innocent.  It has no formal ideas or concepts, or morals.  As it matures it learns about the world, and it slowly begins to corrupt the child’s brain.  Slowly through introducing different concepts it learns about crime, and punishment.  It develops a conscious and a personality through what’s introduced to it.  Too much knowledge is a dangerous thing, it protects us from learning about things outside of us.  How to abuse the rules and bend them to our will, so we can do what we want.  What’s worth knowing? Nothing, nothing is worth knowing at all.

Ps: Here's a better question, whats not worth knowing?

Cancer

Cancer is one of the most depressing ways to watch a person die, it eats away at their body, and then their personality bit by bit until they pass away.  I've had the unfortunate experience of having a family member die of cancer, and I will say its not a pleasant experience.  The photographs we viewed today, are barely an example of the hell these people go through.

Only in America

So the other day I came across a few bumps in the english language.  The first of which was something called a "Time Machine"  This confused me as I perceive a time machine as a machine that manufactures time.  #Onlyinamerica

Picture 105

BARACK OBAMA HOSPITALIZED AFTER BEING ATTACKED BY A ROUGE GROUP OF NINJAS THAT LOOK LIKE 10 YEAROLD GIRLS

Brazil

If anything I would say the artists journey to America. I learned a little more about the different way of life, and how different people hold themselves.

I'm not sure, but I would think they would feel proud, and then start to think of themselves differently depending on how their art did. 

I would feel ashamed to be working in the dump.  I'm not sure how that would turn out, but I think I would go with piles of paper, with different numbers of words on each page laid on the floor to make a picture of myself.  

I hope you have a nice day! 

Outside.

Boston Big Picture

I chose this photo, purely because of the pattern between the boxes.  To find it I looked through all the pictures until I found one I liked.  It's a picture of colorful boxes containing cargo,  You might miss the fact that there is no given explaination for the un covered boxes.  It tells a story of a snowy day, and to me it means mystery.  I still wonder how there is snow on some, but not on others.

ROGATE 2-21-13

"TEXTURE" - A photo prompt for Rogate
I took this prompt in more of a metaphorical aspect, I see texture as a difference throughout an object, so I represented that feeling with cans.

Rogate 2-20-13

"UNDERNEATH" - A Photo Prompt for Rogate
The picture below is of an undescribed location, it's meant to emulate the feeling of being under something, or just the feeling of under.

Rogate 20%

For my Rogate 20% project, I am going to create a short photo animation.  And... It's going to be awesome!  I have plans with a small oil tanker, and plastic green army men.