#Rb140Plus | Artist / Designer / Storyteller

Freedom Park Short Walk

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:02:00 +0000

Charlotte's newcomers and visitors quickly learn that Freedom Park is the nicest spot in town to find quiet areas and safe walking. When I'm in the neighborhood and have time for a stroll... this is where I go to stretch the legs, collect my thoughts and exchange smiles on the walk by. Next time, or your first time check-in, at Freedom Park look for me in the foursquare check-ins.

When in the neighborhood... Nice place to walk (@ Freedom Park w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/QQtPbu2less than a minute ago via foursquare Favorite Retweet Reply@Rickbischoff
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Check-in here: foursquare

Seeking Wisdom | Study

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 05:01:00 +0000

This was the first study for Seeking Wisdom. After some basic composition was established, I started to play with color; that is what's shown here.

Geotag/Google Map Your Flickr Photos | iMapFlickr

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:39:00 +0000

Create custom Google Maps from your geotagged Flickr Photos to embed in your website or blog, or for sending to Facebook, Twitter or your favourite website. Its quick, non-technical and free.

Check-in At Your Favorite Venues | foursquare

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:09:00 +0000

What is foursquare?

Foursquare is a location-based mobile platform that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. By “checking in” via a smartphone app or SMS, users share their location with friends while collecting points and virtual badges. Foursquare guides real-world experiences by allowing users to bookmark information about venues that they want to visit and surfacing relevant suggestions about nearby venues. Merchants and brands leverage the foursquare platform by utilizing a wide set of tools to obtain, engage, and retain customers and audiences.

foursquare by the numbers (last updated April, 2011)

Users: Over 10 million worldwide

Check-ins per day: Over 3 million, with over 750 million check-ins total

Businesses: Over 500,000 using the Merchant Platform (more information at foursquare.com/business)

Employees: Over 75 between headquarters in New York, NY and an office in San Francisco, CA

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I've enjoyed using four since ...

Wilderness Society Labor Day

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:41:00 +0000

Eco-Spirit Wilderness Labor Day 2011, a photo by Rickbischoff☼ on Flickr.

Wilderness Society's Labor Day Weekend Activities!

#7 Send us your Labor Day weekend photos! Labor Day weekend is also my wilderness weekend, part of our national awareness campaign to celebrate wilderness. Make a handmade sign with six words about why you love wilderness. Bring the sign with you to any of your favorite wild areas and take a photo of yourself with the sign. Add it to our my wilderness weekend Flickr group, and we’ll use it for a photo slideshow of the my wilderness community.
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Rt - tweet
foursquare ✔

I'm at McDowell Nature Center and Preserve | Charlotte, NC
One of my many favorite places to connect with nature.

In my heart I stay connected with the awareness of our oneness;
walks in nature support and nourish that awareness.

...where in the GeoLocale am I ??

Labor Day weekend activities! 12 ideas for fun in the wild | The Wilderness Society http://t.co/V59Tibg - @Wilderness l'm doing no. 7Sun Sep 04 17:42:22 via HootSuiteArtist / Designer
Rickbischoff

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#eco #nature #EcoSpirit #oneness #wilderness #parks #MyWilderness

Season's Emergence | Fall

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:40:00 +0000

Share: http://youtu.be/Ku6EJxfNXy8

+ Now is the time of Fall's emergence - Refering to the northern hemisphere:

Listen to Mother-Earth's voice. In the fall temperatures begin to cool down, wildlife begins it's transitions too with, migrations, nest building, etc.

To hear her language, shift into awareness of earth changes; natures cycles, season's change. Let awareness of our natural world speak to you.

What you learn by just by being aware, could be of extreme value to you. You may not connect with a reason at the moment, however this is your intuition which is an unspoken language of the heart. Intuition is like the most primal; ancient of laguages, the ability has always been available, we need only reconnect with its ways.

...cycles

a seasons emergence

Her language is clear

...to only a trained ear

A disconnected offspring

may re-learn its mothers voice

- @Rickbischoff

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Creative Writings; Musings | Posterous

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:09:00 +0000

I've created this posterous to be a space to create and share my creative writings; musings from an ecospirituality perspective.

Gabriella Kortsch Ph.D. On Being Observed

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:34:00 +0000

REWIRING THE SOUL with Gabriella Kortsch, Ph.D.: Changing the World: One Person At A Time

So what happens if you change something about your character ?Perhaps you become kinder, more considerate, or as I discussed in yesterday's post, less critical, less impatient, less judgemental, etc. Is there not also someone observing this? Perhaps that someone isn't necessarily an individual who knew you the way you were before, but who is merely observing you now, and who has decided that they like the way you are, and want to be like that too. And so they change - at least in this regard - thanks to something they observed about you. - @GabrielaKortsch

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::: Live; inspire by action. :::

Some of the greatest 'Teachers' in my life had no intention of fulfilling the role; they would've probably turned it down had I verbally offered it to them : ) Their 'teaching by example' has inspired the same in me.

[[ I wanna be like that ]]

I thank the those 'Teachers' in my life for inspiring me to live by their example, "to live by example". - @Rickbischoff

your thoughts ?? comment below

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Chief Seattle Eco-Spirituality

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 05:33:00 +0000

Chief Seattle (c. 1786 - 1866)
When I'm feeling caught up in today's paradigm of racing to live... When I begin to feel disconnected
...it's Chief Seattle's wisdomAll things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
-Chief Seattle, quoted on this page,
that grounds me; returns me to what's most true, Oneness. Chief Seattle's wisdomAll things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
-Chief Seattle shared in these words is EcoSpirituality in pure actuality. The spirit or energy or chi vibrating through these words are unbound by time and space; All - being oneness, does not discriminate, from the physical to the ethereal; is all the whole. The wisdom then is the wisdom now, and the wisdom when will always be.
Chief Seattle reminds us of that. Everything is spirit.

Eco-Spirituality : Singularity Ecology

Inspired by this wisdom, I think of Eco-Spirituality as Singularity Ecology.

singularity:
1.the state, fact, or quality of being singular.
2.a singular, unusual, or unique quality; peculiarity.

ecology:
1. the branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.

your thoughts ?? comment below

All things share the same breath - ..beast, ..tree, ..man, ..air shares its spirit with all the life it supports -C.Seattle #EcoSpiritualityMon Aug 29 02:53:10 via HootSuiteArtist / Designer
Rickbischoff

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Posterous | A Few Great Uses

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:08:00 +0000

Slideshows For Sites

I've enjoyed using posterous for over two years and have now found another use for it. Posterous launched the "Slideshows For Sites" in January 2011.

"We launched Posterous in July 2008 because we loved sharing thoughts, photos and videos with our friends and family, but we didn't like how hard it was."
via: posterous

What seems really cool to me is this tag:

#!/slideshow

Add this tag to the end of the image's anchor link:

<a title=" link title" href="http://your site.posterous.com/post#!/slideshow"><img border="0" src="http://image-auto-posted.jpg" alt="all about image" /></a>

I'm adding this little magic to media that's been “auto posted” via posterous. When images posted here via posterous are clicked, the viewer is sent to the slideshow on posterous. Makes for a much better experience than just viewing the image source.

Multiple Accounts | Multiple Uses

This is my posterous for daily mobile blogging, which auto-posts to the #Rb140Plus. If you're already familiar with posterous then you probably
already like how the bookmarklet works. Because of my having multiple posterous profiles, I stay logged-in to this account, so clipping pages via the bookmarklet, posts to the #Rb140Plus with ease.

For sharing my sketches. The images shown here are the most raw of sketches; done quickly, like taking a note, to later jar the memory.

Getting away from the computer and into nature. This site was build with the intention of sharing my time in nature, where I connect and gain inspiration.
Watch for mini Land-Art creations, painting, sketching... follow @RbGeoLocale on twitter to find my location and some of the most awesome trails in other parts of the world.

I've created this posterous to be a space to create and share my Creative Writings; Musings from an Eco-Spirituality perspective.

Try posterous out for yourself ...makes for enjoyable blogging.

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#posterous #autopost #SlideShow #mobile

Animals Migration Climate Awareness

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:13:00 +0000

Animals Moving More Quickly From Warming : Discovery News
Thu Aug 18, 2011 02:51 PM ET
Content provided by Ted Aljibe, AFP

THE GIST

- Animals are fleeing global warming much faster than they were less than a decade ago.
- A study found about 2,000 species are moving north at a rate of more than 15 feet a day.

Monarch butterflies. New research shows that a range of species are migrating north at an alarming rate to flee warming. Click to enlarge this image.
iStockPhoto

Climate change appears to be forcing many of the world's creatures to migrate to more favorable locales up to three times faster than previously believed, a study said Thursday.

Researchers compiled past studies on species migration and combined them into a meta-analysis that showed a clear trend toward cooler climates, with the fastest moves in places where heating was most intense.

"These changes are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the equator at around 20 centimeters per hour, for every hour of the day, for every day of the year," said project leader Chris Thomas, biology professor at the University of York.

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::: Wildlife is much more in tune with our natural world, then we sophisticated humans. Many of us sense when there is need for change, though we don't understand where it comes from. Let's say we are experiencing or feeling a need to move to another city. This could be a suggestion picked up from our subconscious, which still knows the language of our earth. Being consciously disconnected from this language, as most are, could bring confusion. We may feel anxious because of this unknown stirring inside us.

We live about this earth day to day making decisions influenced by suggestions from our collective consciousness, which in this era has been mostly influence by media. Just as we are tapped into whats happening in popular culture, Like what's the popular dress, TV shows, social networks, the language of our natural world is still within us. The first step back to reclaiming our conscious "Earth Speak" is being aware that it is available to us. The second step back is actually a tie to the first; that's Looking to wildlife, as they have never disconnected from the language. They become our teachers.

I appreciate the men and women who create and share the studies, mentioned above. Articles like the above inspire us to become more aware.

Watch Wildlife | Become More In Tuned.

We learn a lot by watching animals. Every Species has it's particular traits.
Did you know certain animals will lay down before a rain. This is just one small example of how we could be tutored back to knowing "Earth Speak". Next time you happen to see a field of cattle laying down, stop and take note, it may rain soon after.

Unfortunately it's no mystery why these creatures are migrating early, we've all been feeling it heat up lately. Not to just beat the heat, but seriously, start watching the animals more closely and you'll begin to thank them for all the messages. :::

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Wibiya Custom CSS

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:03:00 +0000

Experimenting with the Wibiya Toolbar.
This is a great tool for any blog or website. It really increases engagement. I've used the Wibiya bar before - though it's a bit limiting on what you can customize, I knew there had to be a way. So I began to Google.

The best results came from this search term: .wibiya toolbar important!

The Wibiya toolbar you see below has been conceived and contrived from countless hours reading and experimenting ...trial and error.

So, here's the code I've worked-out for this toolbar.

<script src="http://cdn.wibiya.com/Toolbars/dir_XXXX/Toolbar_XXXXXX/Loader_XXXXXX.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<style> .wibiya_toolbar_holder
{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 570px;
}
.wibiya_toolbar_BG {

background: url(http://YOUR FAVORITE IMAGE.png) !important;

}

</style>

For those of you who may not understand what this code says...
I will break it down a little.

But first I must tell you I AM NO EXPERT ...I've just recently began learning css so I know, to a few of us, it does look confusing.

The first part, install

via Wibiya: "Choose Your Website / Blog Platform"

I chose: "Install on websites and other blog platforms."

<script src="http://cdn.wibiya.com/Toolbars/dir_XXXX/Toolbar_XXXXXX/Loader_XXXXXX.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

This is the bit of code you get from Wibiya when you install.
Add this to the body of your template.

The Next part, CSS

<style> .wibiya_toolbar_holder
{
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: 570px;
}

This piece of code above controls the width.

Lastly, the code below controls the color or background image.
Mine is set for background image.

.wibiya_toolbar_BG {

background: url(http://YOUR FAVORITE IMAGE.png) !important;

}

If you would rather use a background color...

REPLACE THIS: url(http://YOUR FAVORITE IMAGE.png)

WITH THIS: #000000
...the zeros indicate black,

For more color codes

CLICK HERE

Check out this Wibiya Custom CSS Tutorial | #Rb140Plus: http://t.co/1bwRCSX Thanks @Rickbischoff - excellent work!Mon Aug 22 16:02:35 via Tweet Buttonwibiya
wibiya

...and so that's the basics, hope you find this helpful.
Like I said I AM NO EXPERT just paying it forward.
...peace☼

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An Accomplished Creator | #Musing

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 14:36:00 +0000

Upon bliss's highest crest; under despair's deepest cesspit, sits an accomplished creator.

You are choosing the experience. Though it seems at times everything is coming at us and we are merely being subjected to realities resonance.
Even if you think it's this way.

...still, you decide how you're going to experience it.

Good or bad, it's yours

...only you control your inner dialog, which could be looked at as a filtering system. So even if you believe that reality is happening with out your control...

"whats going on out there..." flows through the inner dialog into
YOUR experience of choice.

I am co-creating my reality, are you ??

"Upon bliss's highest crest; under despair's deepest cesspit, sits an accomplished creator" -Rickbischoff

Rock Outcropping Shelter #RbSketch

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:57:00 +0000

pencil / paper

Mother-Earth providing shelter

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth) is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother. via Wikipedia

Always with us; a mother ...beyond matter, space and time ...from the very essence that which evokes consciousness into light.

This is a potential scene in my story OwlsJourney. Conveying the nurtured and the nurturer. The oneness that we share... No journey are completely alone ...the whole amount of that which is, we are.

Raven Mist Tree Silhouette #RbSketch

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:13:00 +0000

pencil / paper

...working out depth with a sense of atmosphere.

For me the importance of a sketch is to quickly capture the points of interest
or inspired feelings ...local atmosphere is the fastest way to set mood.
In my work conveying mood is much more important then technique.

Here the Raven swooping upward suggest an elevated feeling while the
atmosphere being darker and misty, suggests a calm mellow drama.
Like with color, opposites ...in expressions, will be complementary.
...creating enough interest for the viewer to delve deeper into
the journey before them. If for only a moment the viewer tries to determine
the set mood ...you got their attention. They've entered that feeling
place. That's where I like to take my viewers. So when sketching, worry not
of technique, only of quickly capturing and casting the fleeting impression into expression.

...fleeting impressions ...cast into expressions ...creating an artist

@kaskadia I'd add #CriticalThinking 2 that

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:19:00 +0000

Twitter / @kaskadia:

@kaskadia Kit R
I'd add #CriticalThinking 2 that (as did he?) RT @ourPotential: The only real valuable thing is intuition.-A.Einstein.. iwise.com/C0mRE

Like As In:
the earth being #intuition ...as the moon being #CriticalThinking
...keeping intuition rational - @Rickbischoff

pondering that...

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."-Albert Einstein

David Wilcock: The Source Field Investigations

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 04:17:00 +0000

note: This video becomes more and more interesting about 0:10:30 min. / into it.

David Wilcock reveals the stunning scientific proof that DNA and biological life emerge directly out of the Source Field... a universal matrix of energy creating all space, time, matter, energy, biological life and consciousness -- and we are indeed about to experience the Greatest Moment of All Time. Learn about the pineal gland, Illuminati, government conspiracy, UFOs, DMT, the Mayan Calendar and more!

::: Amazing, great connections, I can't believe this video is free to watch ...very thorough, a lot of cross science research. Hope attending one of these talks is in my near future. I appreciate Davids insight, he inspires questions... the more we learn the more questions we create. :::

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Ecospirituality #Eco #EcoMonday #EcoSpirit

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:08:00 +0000

Shift Into A New Understanding

Ecospirituality is not a religious walk. The very foundation of this movement teaches that nature is as of a sacred gift as our own bodies. Regardless of your doctrine, a small shift in your awareness will conclude that everything here is connected; part me, part you, part sea, part mountains, and yet at the same time nothing is part, it's whole. We are not separate from the universe.

While the treasures of engagement into this emerging movement will be felt of peace, by you, wellness will be inherent universally.
Peace to the whole.

Ecospirituality - While the treasures of engagement into this emerging movement will... http://bit.ly/ogA0Sr | #Eco #EcoMonday #EcoSpiritMon Aug 08 18:16:06 via Rb140plusArtist / Designer
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Creative Fantasy C.Jung #quote

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:00:00 +0000

RT @ourPotential

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. -C.Jung #quote http://iwise.com/3XUzN

RT @OwlsJourney Conversation R.Emerson

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:10:00 +0000

Rickbischoff @OwlsJourney

Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
-R.Emerson #quote http://iwise.com/P2cIT

Thoughts S.Vivekananda #quote

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:58:00 +0000

RT @OwlsJourney

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are seconda..-S.Vivekananda #quote http://iwise.com/xkKoW

Oneforty Toolkits

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Oneforty.com is one of the most valuable sites for any self marketer.

As of now I'm a self marketing, self producing visual artist with the understanding that utilizing the right tools for the job is the best way to optimise your efforts and time.

Anyone in the creative field, not to exclude marketing and advertising, knows it's demands on time; to the extent of it finding its way into every part of your life. I'm not complaining, I love my life and my life's work.

Discovering the right tools for the job, if you don't know where to go to find them, is a lot like winning a lottery. Having the right Toolkits can greatly increase your production rate. That's where Oneforty.com comes into play.
Before I even mention Oneforty.com I have to say that twitter, because of it's unique concept, can fit into any Social Network; because of that, it is one of the most powerful and proven marketing tools online. Oneforty.com must agree with me.

Click to discover Toolkits created by the webs top marketers. These Toolkits may not be the absolute best match for your current needs; that's ok, because now you have at least found the right tool store.

Enjoy your your discoveries !!

Check out the tools I use: My Oneforty tools

Sand Abstract-Active Day

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:04:00 +0000

Photo taken on Oak Island, NC
during a busy summer afternoom.

Experimentation With G+ Circles This update...

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 02:57:00 +0000

Experimentation With G+ Circles

This update is to post to my 140Plus DailyBlog
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I have created a circle totally dedicated, using
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Calm Blue Sea Horizon Photo

noreply@blogger.com (Rickbischoff - Rustic Contemporary Spirit) — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:30:00 +0000