Collecting Meaningful Things

The Extraordinary Swan

2011-05-29T20:07:00.002-04:00

Every day and moment, life contributes to itself. Here is a living example that is hard to overlook in our sometime haste.

A Gift of Reflection

2011-01-24T05:06:00.001-05:00

An inspiring gift that must be shared. An amazing perspective.

Thank you SLP!

Reflections: I AM: "This tree in all it's glory took my breath away. I felt an immediate connection to the tree, but it's taken me awhile to understand why. ..."

Influencers+Authenticity+Creativity

2011-01-20T03:41:00.004-05:00

Authenticity without apology.

Be who you feel in a moment and be it to the best of your ability, everytime.

Don't be in the now, what you were yesterday, just to be consistent in appearance. Every moment demands something new and something different of you.

Authenticity without apology.

INFLUENCERS TRAILER from R+I creative on Vimeo.

What Are You Making?

2011-01-14T04:06:00.008-05:00

Are you making your life right for you?

Here's one view of the Life making process...

Every EXPERIENCE/EVENT (matter) is the raw creative materials that we build with - -

Every THOUGHT (mind) is the creative act of making/building/constructing with the raw materials aound us- -

Our HEART (spirit) is the message we wish to share through what we have made.

LIFE is the sum of what we have made.

Every life has a philosophy, something that it is communicating/saying by the way you are making/living it. Your perception is the great magic wand that transforms everything you experience in life into your scent, your colour pallette, your meaning, your heaven or hell, your transcendance, your spirit's home, your existence, your life.

A bit of advice, if you've got ot make something of it, why not make it suit you? Why not make it your art masterpiece, your love song, your #1 bestseller?

Why not inspire you?

A Man's Worth - A Man's Value

2010-12-16T16:52:00.002-05:00

How complex are the chains that bind, refine and define my sense of self and by extension you?

What expectations do I accept as acceptable and therefore satisfying when I meet your limited expectation of me. Limits allow us to know ourselves and others to know us.

To find the undefinable 'manhood' is to dare the fools search. There is no manhood, there is only men, being in every way possible, imaginable and digestible. Noting this, I truly have little worth, even less self-worth, until I behave without reward, without approval and with pain and silence .

The art of man is the art of being nothing and everything without self (pre)judgement.

If I don't know me, then I can finally be, more than me.

lloyd Pollard

Be inspired and reminded below:

In Praise of Beautiful Angels...

2009-05-14T04:14:00.004-04:00

Special.
Beautiful.
It is indeed the subtlety that betrays our beauty and possibility.
I am honoured by the beauty, grace, mystery and complexity that is the feminine that completes me.
I better understand and honour the gift of being a man thanks to your "Pretty Wings" and spirit.
Enjoy.

Esquire Magazine: The Best of "What I've Learned" [Part 1]

2009-04-18T06:53:00.002-04:00

My favourite magazine issue that I pick-up every year. Laugh and find your own observations validated. All of the experiences of the lives below were not wasted due to the morsels of wisdom that they now share. (Lp)

© Esquire 2009

The Best of "What I've Learned," Part One

Buzz up!

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. --Jimmy Dean

The bigger people are in life, the more big-league they are. That's been my experience. You meet less shits the higher up you go. --Ted Williams

Man is cursed with the ambition to be the best hunter in the tribe. When a guy came home to the village covered with blood, there was no argument when he asked for a gourd of water or a piece of ass. --Rod Steiger

Second place is really the first loser. --George Steinbrenner

Time and tide and hookers wait for no man. --Rodney Dangerfield

Dealing with adversity is like the brake pedal in the car. It just happens instinctively. You go through it or you perish. --Roman Polanski

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake. --Julia Child

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right. --Kirk Douglas

If not for me, the H-bomb would have been developed in Russia first. In the U.S., we would now be speaking Russian. --Edward Teller

Vietnam we saw as a function of the cold war. The CIA appraisal was, and Eisenhower's appraisal was, that the loss of Vietnam and Laos would trigger an extension of communist hegemony across much of Southeast Asia. This would weaken the security of the West across the world. Therefore, it was necessary to prevent that. That's why we were in Vietnam. It was an incorrect appraisal. --Robert McNamara

I got no religion in me. I could never see through it. Basically, I'm a facts man; if I can't see through it, I say it's not possible. --J.R. Simplot, billionaire, potato magnate, aka Mr. Spud

I never go to the track. I don't like horses. They take too long. --Yogi Berra

Laughing juries don't convict. --F. Lee Bailey

I hate mineral-water freaks. Drink from the tap and take what's coming to you. --Ralph Steadman

The terrible truth with which we must all contend is that the day may come when nuclear arms fall under the control of some idiot someplace in the world. And that will be the day of reckoning. --John Kenneth Galbraith

Garry Shandling always said to me, "Don't get mad, get funny." It changed my life. --Rip Torn

Since I'm one of those people who are not happy unless they are not happy, it's comforting to know that mental health doesn't always mean being happy. If it did, nobody would qualify. --Phil Spector

Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know? --Loretta Lynn

Bad dreams are more likely the result of strong cheeses than suppressed guilt. --David Brown, movie producer

The truth about foxhole humor is it's never funny when it's happening. --Larry King

Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two. --Chuck Berry

Sometimes I think there's no reason to get out of bed...then I feel wet, and I realize there is. --Homer Simpson

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. --Carrie Fisher

Contradiction exists in everyone. There's really nothing wrong with the fact that the same people who sing "Whiskey River" at the show tonight also sing "Amazing Grace." When I was back teaching Sunday school, I used to teach the same people on Sunday mornings that I sang to on Saturday nights. Nothing wrong with that, either. --Willie Nelson

Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation. --Chuck Close, artist

Profits are the lifeblood of enterprise. Don't let anyone tell you different. --Andy Grove

Monogamy? What's that? --Richard Branson

Everything is a hole. When you're born, two holes -- there's a hole at the head of your penis, and you come out of a hole. So you come out, and everything is about holes. When you eat? Hole. When you breathe, it's a hole. When you see, it's a hole. When you hear, it's a hole. And when you die, where you goin'? Right back in the hole. If you get too much money, you gonna be in a hole. If you don't get enough, you're definitely gonna be in a hole. So to me, the best thing to do is stop tryin' to stay outta the hole: Get in the hole and find out what's happenin' with the hole and try to control the hole. And then you can have the hole, because you understand the hole. --Ike Turner

If sex is a pain in the ass, then you're doing it wrong. --Rodney Dangerfield

Without money, there is no freedom. Without money, there is no art. Say what you want, but it's true: When you walk in the door with money in your hand, people start listening. --Faye Dunaway

You shall not covet thy neighbor's wife? Well, how about if she goddamn covets me? What do you think about that? --Gene Simmons

When you're young, deferring gratification is not a honed skill. As you get older, you get better at the marathon mentality. --Jeff Bezos

If you can't control your emotions, you could wind up looking at the ceiling of a death chamber from a gurney. --Jim Willett, former warden, Huntsville, Texas

A man's gift makes room for him. --Rev. Al Green

If you think you're getting bad love, that means you're giving it, too. --Roseanne

Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know? --Julia Child

When you're hiring someone to do something, you ought to first have an appreciation for what the job entails. There are certain jobs that entail very large arms and a broad neck and perhaps asocial behavior. --Gen. Tommy Franks

Some guys have it real fucked up in prison, real hard. Some guys will be doing somebody's laundry. Some guys will be on their stomach with the pillow in their mouth. Some guys will be getting stabbed. If you're a man on the streets and you eat well, you'll eat well in prison. It just might be different food. --Suge Knight

Formal education is a marvelous thing. But unless it's liberally sprinkled with plain old common horse sense, it's not worth a shit. --Jimmy Dean

Work honestly and build, build, build. That's all I can tell you. --J.R. Simplot

The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry. --Kris Kristofferson

My best pick-up line is "My name is Hugh Hefner." --Hugh Hefner

If it flies, floats, or fucks, rent it. --Conrad Dobler

If you're keeping score, win. --Red Auerbach

You may be drawing a circle for the thousandth time, but maybe it's a slightly better circle. --Lou Reed

It's easier to write songs when you're single. --Lucinda Williams

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it. --Rip Torn

Wear the cape; never let the cape wear you. --Siegfried & Roy

If you're gonna swagger, it's better to be big. --Bill O'Reilly

When I first started racing, my father, one of the first things he said, he said, "Win the race as slow as you can." --Richard Petty

No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you. --Don Rickles

It's not money, it's not politics -- it's who controls the pussy that controls the world. --Larry Flynt

Surprise is the lubrication of adventure. --Rod Steiger

A friend of mine once said, "The moment of truth is a lie." He was being funny. I keep looking for it. I've had a few. But you can't explain it. It's deeply moving, and yet then when it's over, you're back in the street again, saying, "What the hell happened? What the hell happened? What was that flash of light? I want it again." --Peter Boyle

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. --John Wooden

Some people would say that because we don't know, it can't be. I would say that because we don't know, we don't know. --Charles H. Townes, Nobel laureate, physicist

Pick very few objects and place them exactly. --Philip Johnson

Nobody repays any debts in Hollywood. Until you're dead. Then they give you the Thalberg Award. --Roseanne

If a guy hasn't got any gamble in him, he isn't worth a crap. --Evel Knievel

The good old days weren't so good when you were sitting in a dentist's chair. --Bobby Bowden

After seventy, if you wake up without pains, you're dead. --David Brown

One man's justice is another man's injustice -- depends on whose pig is being poked. And that's the final analysis. --Conrad Dobler

It's unequivocally clear that life begins at birth and ends at death. And if most of the people on this planet understood that, they would lead their lives very differently. We always try to find religious or mysterious forces to fill in for our inadequacies, but heaven and hell are both here on earth every day, and we make our lives around them. --J. Craig Venter, molecular biologist, mapper of the human genome

I'm sure you slow down a little bit, but I'm also sure that you'll probably be getting a hard-on until they throw dirt on you. --Kris Kristofferson

Stand By Me - Stand By Who You Are...

2009-04-07T03:48:00.001-04:00

What is the spark that ignites the many fires that burn within the human condition? It is 'difference' authentically expressed via a singular and aligned intention.

Most things in life you must do alone. But all things you cannot.

Your intentions are yours alone.

Your physical actions belong to the world. Your spiritual actions belong to the universe.
Stand by the moment you are in. Stand by you. Stand by me.

Playing For Change | Song Around The World "Stand By Me" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Arial Nude (3) - "Moth" [Series 1]

2009-04-05T06:44:00.001-04:00

Arial Nude (3) - "Moth" [Series 1], originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard.

Who we present and represent does not necessarily reflect who we truly are and what is within us.

Our shadow often carries the mysterious, unconscious, powerful and fearful aspect of our essential nature.

"Dare to look outside of the light."

? In who's image...In my image?

2009-03-15T07:45:00.001-04:00

Branded Head © Hank Willis Thomas
(Hank Willis Thomas tells a story. From a brilliant perspective. With wit. With ingenuity. With flare and creativity. His vision and visuals stops and arrests us on the expressway of human stereotype. What are we thinking? What are we missing? What are we really seeing? What are we really creating? Hank Willis Thomas tells us, as all messengers should. With honesty and spirit.)

There are so many ways to see me, know me, experience me, filter me, hate me, love me, respect me, ignore me, silence me, celebrate me, laugh at me, enjoy me, create me, blame me, worship me, praise me, f*ck me, idolize me, dismiss me, exploit me, heal me, destroy me and hold me. What is your choice? What is my hope? What is our fate? (L. Pollard)

Flames of Desire - "Pele adorned"

2009-02-14T07:02:00.001-05:00

Flames of Desire - "Pele adorned", originally uploaded by lloyd.pollard.

tr.im/g80d

To all things must come a time of fire, where death and rebirth create anew our passion for life.

The gods will not lead us or define us, they will only inspire us beyond our common humanity.

Love Robot Lover...

2009-01-14T04:55:00.001-05:00

The future is now. Here is a preview of something and someone (ZAMAK) you will being seeing mainstream shortly. When we become expressed through our machines this is what it will look like. Count this as a prototype that is bang on. It's hip, design friendly, practical, visual and can't you just hear the sound?

Zamak has caught a line that streams right through our imagination into the future that we are.

A Supreme Meditation...

2009-01-04T06:36:00.001-05:00

This video is about John Coltrane. It is a magical and insightful moment into his music and his belief, as artfully combined by Connie Chung. It is a moment where the music rises to the level of the sacred as it is married to his poetry. This is a Sunday morning church prayer. It is an opportunity to experience a divine communing moment between Coltrane and God via his words and music.

It is inspiring and a reminder to express ourselves daily - whether in thought, action or words - in a manner that is reverent, authentic and aligned to our personal belief.

Love indeed is Supreme.

Amen.

John Coltrane's Psalm Recitation from connie chung on Vimeo.

#7 - My Funny Valentine...

2008-12-19T21:55:00.002-05:00

A seance of soul stirring improvisation that holds the spirit entranced and mesmerized in a hypnotic daydream of passion and creativity.

Gentle soul unfold.
Brilliant mind unwind.
It is your time.
Now you must be.

Slow down, see and be seen...

Keith Jarrett

#6 - A wise truth...

2008-12-01T05:31:00.000-05:00

These are someone's words.
Now tattooed to someone's body.
And sharing someone's truth.

This is a public secret.

#5 - "down" by gender...

2008-11-26T05:14:00.004-05:00

"The virgin martyr st. cecilia"
© kehinde wiley 2008

Where is the danger?
Somewhere in the light of my perceptive fears?
Somewhere in the shadows of my unexperienced experience?
Somewhere in the dark mysteries of another?

Where is the danger?
Somewhere beyond my accepted 'space'?
Somewhere in the unknown existences that are not my own?
Somewhere in the 'blackness' of other?

Where truly is the danger?
Safe on the pyre of my unexamined indifference to myself.

#4 - Relentless Creativity...

2008-11-25T05:20:00.004-05:00

"Christ the Redeemer"
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

The ant is one of the most relentlessly creative creatures that we have the privilege of sharing this world with. This image of wonder reminds me that there is no difference in or natures despite our perception of such. The wonders generated by our human creativity has not arisen from the aspiration of one individual but from the communal ambition of all mankind from the dawn of our desire to survive.

And so we are...

#3 - Meditation...

2008-11-15T01:33:00.002-05:00

silent . ancient . ritual . worship
(mike hewitt/getty images)

#2 - ubuntu

2008-11-13T06:41:00.004-05:00

I am nothing without you.

#1 - Black Magic

2008-11-13T05:36:00.005-05:00