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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fleeting Moment
Sunsets, like childhood, are fleeting … here now and gone in an instant.
Posted in Photography, Stephen Kelly Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Child, Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Ocean, Orange, Silhouette, Sunset
30 Comments
The Gentle Washi Scupltures of Kyoko Okubo
Tokyo-based artist Kyoko Okubu does amazing things with the traditional Japanese paper called washi. Simple yet provocative, her delicately handcrafted miniature scenes realistically portray intimate moments from a gentle world inhabited by passive and enigmatic animals mysteriously bonding and interacting … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Japan, Weekly Art
Tagged Art, Japan, Japanese, Kyoko Okubo, Traditional, Washi
14 Comments
A-Z Archive: Z Challenge: Zany!
Hello, fellow A-to-Zers! If Webster’s defines zany as “ludicrously comical, clownish,” then the entrance to Sydney’s Luna Park amusement park is truly zany (or maniacally scary, depending on your point of view).
Posted in A-Z Archive, Australia, Photography, Stephen Kelly Photography, Travel
Tagged A-Z Archive, Amusement Park, Australia, Luna Park, Night, Photography, Stephen Kelly Photography, Sydney
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Alien Invasion Caught On Film!
Grainy footage bears witness to actual alien invasion in San Francisco! The mothership beckons! Oh, the humanity!
A-Z Archive: Y Challenge: Yoda
Hello, fellow A-Zers. This week Y is for Yoda, seen here doing a little Christmas shopping in San Francisco last December. “Offer me a discount, you will.”
Essay: Psychic Occurrences
Lately I feel like I’m developing psychic powers. I don’t mean like I can see into the future and predict events in history. I can’t read minds and I can’t see dead people. I also don’t babble in tongues when … Continue reading
Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Secret Places
This is Gordon’s Bay in Clovelly, right outside of Sydney along the 3-mile coastal walk between Bondi and Coogee, and it’s my second favorite secret place on earth. If I showed my first place, it wouldn’t be a secret any … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Close
You can’t get much closer to people than on a Tokyo subway train at rush hour … … unless you get off at Shibuya Station.
Posted in Japan, Photography, Stephen Kelly Photography, Tokyo, Travel, Weekly Photo Challenge
Tagged Commuter, Japan, Japanese, Shibuya, Station, Subway, Tokyo, Train
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The Playful Cartoon Art of Dela Longfish
Art doesn’t always have to be a subject for naval gazing or instigate a serious search for some kind of hidden meaning. Sometimes it just wants to be fun, like the cartoon art of Dela Longfish. Obviously a child of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Weekly Art
Tagged Art, Artist, Batman, Boba Fett, Cartoon, Dela Longfish, Hellboy, Star Wars
9 Comments
Photo Essay: Haight Street Fair, San Francisco
During the 1968 Summer of Love, San Francisco became a mecca for the counterculture, hippy-dippy movement of free love and free thinking, and Haight Street was Ground Zero, a place where Jack Keroac, Jerry Garcia, Janis Joplin and Timothy Leary … Continue reading
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