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THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON

2012-11-07T00:44:00.003-08:00

maven's note:In this artistic composite/illustration of the false prophecy "Doomsday, December 2012", 32 NASA images and 26 MavenFilters have been used. The Planet X that is colliding with earth was created from the scratch with IRET® (Iris Range Enhancement Technology)

We Can Still Be Free

Cool breeze and autumn leaves
Doomsday's Eve
Slow motion daylight, this day will never go
A million pair of watchful eyes, we live among the forest of evil
And we stare each other down on the way to Armageddon
Despise the living, like victims in the grind under heavy downpour
Probing all the weakness, pointing out sinners
We twist and turn where angels burn listening to people
Like fallen soldiers we will learn
That once forgotten, twice removed
Faith will be the death...
The death of us for we must have been trusting a fool
Come alive tonite, feel the presence all around
Tortured souls, broken hearts, anger stole the faiths away
And faith has left us bare, skeptical
Made us cry...
These tears of pearls
A wound unhealing
No regrets or promises
The past is gone, forward to the present, the future
Hey, biggots leave us humans free
We want to be free ,we will not live in fear of what may be
I'd rather be in hell than watching you spinning the evil wheel for me
If time will set us free
Time now to spread our wings, brace wisdom
To take to flight to the rationale
The life endeavour
Aim for the burning sun
We're trapped inside false prophecies and lies
But we can still be free
If time will set us free
But it's a long long way to go

Keep moving way up high, blend with the universe
You see the light
It shines forever, no darkness and no hell
Sail through the crimson skies
The purest light
The light that sets you free unconditionally
If time will set us free

Walk through the wind and rain tonight
We're free to fly tonight
And we can still be free
If time will set us free
And going higher than the mountain tops
And go high like the wind don't stop
And go high
Free to fly tonight
Tomorrow will still be here
Why YOU MONKEYS can't you set us free
Do you love the monkey or do you love me
Have had of enough of danger and hypocrisies
Just let us go...
All we have to do now take these lies and make them true
No darkness, no HELL
Freedom!

Inspired and built on the Lyrics by:Savage Garden
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THE ROAD TO ARMAGEDDON

2012-11-04T01:14:00.000-07:00

US ROUTE-101

2012-10-28T22:56:00.004-07:00

ROAD DOES NOT END

2012-10-28T22:52:00.002-07:00

GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE

2012-09-28T23:10:00.000-07:00

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FELTON BRIDGE with BEFORE and AFTER inages

2012-09-26T00:20:00.001-07:00

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maven's note: When Clint Eastwood, during the filming of Bridges of Madison County, arrived in Iowa to the location and saw that the previous director had been spending money to build bridges, he said, "Wait a second, doesn't Madison County already have bridges?". Someone informed him that they were too dark to shoot inside. His answer was, "Well, shoot outside, then".
And I say, "Now, with IRET, you can shoot inside, Mr Eastwood"
BEFORE

FELTON BRIDGE

2012-09-21T05:33:00.000-07:00

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maven's note: When Clint Eastwood, during the filming of Bridges of Madison County, arrived Iowa to the location and saw that the previous director had been spending money to build bridges, he said, "Wait a second, doesn't Madison County already have bridges?". Someone informed him that they were too dark to shoot inside. His answer was, "Well, shoot outside, then".

And I say, "Now, with IRET, you can shoot inside, Mr Eastwood"
Well, how dark can it be inside a felt covered bridge? To the naked eye it's it's nothing but shadow. To a camera, well, see for yourself:

RODENT MEWS

2012-09-14T00:38:00.001-07:00

                                                                 PART TWO

                                                 KILLING CRAIG HAMMER

Let’s order a pizza, Craig says, wiping vomit from his mouth with his back hand.
You just barfed, man, I say.
That’s why we’re ordering pizza, dude. I’m hungry as fuck. Here, he hands me the iPhone. This guy is a total Apple-freak. Punch in one for speed dial.
I don’t take the phone, the stupid symbol of laziness.
The sun is still shining and birds chirping above in the oak tree.
Let’s walk over there, you lazy pot-head! I raise my voice. Man! It’s just on the corner!
California Pizza Kitchen was less than four hundred feet on Las Palmas and Sunset Boulevard and, this spineless All-American lazy fuck, wants to order pizza on the phone. It was in the yard; after all, this was the Mews, the first shopping mall in America, and probably in the world.
It’s less than four hundred feet, man.
It’s 0.6 miles, dude, he corrects
Thanks for the precise measurement genius. Forgot you’re the map guy. Commo, get up, Surf.
This is so un-American, dude, he starts to whine.
Stop whining, man, I say, standing up.
Nobody walks in LA, dude.
In Europe people walk to the stores, I say. People walk to fucking everywhere. Only in America people drive the four hundred feet distance.
We’re not in Europe, dude. We’re in America. In California…and we’re American.
Lucky you, I say.
And it’s 0.6 miles. I’m not walking, dude. Let’s just order.
You’re gonna walk, Surf.
That’s so un-LA, dude, he keeps whining as he staggers behind me. You’re so un-LA, dude.
That’s why I’m proud of myself.
Yeah, you’re so unique, dude!
I gotta be me.
Marina Egypt, I read the name tag of the olive color face girl behind the counter. That your name or you're in the Art of Identity Protection Program?
No, it’s my real   name, she says proudly. Her large deep-brown eyes and her compact shape nose, despite the Arabian cinnamon color of her complexion, are clearly a product of a Western-Middle East descendant.
Well, hello, Marina Egypt, I say. A very unique name.
Thank you, she says, sheepishly.
I turn to Craig, Surf! Say hello to Marina Egypt here.
Craig gives me an annoying oblique look, rolling his eyes goonily and says tiringly, Let’s just order, dude.
It’s this moment when I decide to kill Craig.I can’t explain why that look angered me beyond belief.
Craig has lost belief in manners, I tell Marina Egypt. He’s a minimalist.
The word ‘minimalist’ doesn’t register with Marina Egypt.
And it’s his first day learning to walk, I continue, ignoring the baffled expression on her face. Sorry about that.
It’s okay, she says in a rehearsed, accustomed tone. What can I get you, guys?
I started at the slice of the jerky chicken pizza back at Craig’s place, at number 1586.
You shoulda said hello to Marina Egypt, Surf, I say, chewing slowly.
Sorry, I was rude to that fucking Arab, dude, he says, sniffing and stuffing more than a half of the pizza slice into his mouth.
She wasn’t Arab. She was an American.
She was an Arab, dude, he says, slurping beer noisily from a Heineken bottle as if it was a soup bowl.
A jet engine roars as it descends into Hamburg-prefrontal cortex of my brain.
The sound of his smacking and sucking lips…he won’t stop making that sound. I hate that sound. The jet ascends and descends ascends and descends and…
And you’re a fucking tight cunt, I say. You’re gonna get bruised if you don’t soften and relax, man.
Craig growls mockingly and says, I like it when you talk so bluntly, dude. He won’t shut up. This cunt likes everything and anything but he doesn’t like the name. Her name.
Marina Egypt, dude? Craig goes on, laughing. Seriously? What kinda stupid name is that? He tries to make the name sound more ludicrous.
Craig shovels another half slice and chews hurry-the-fuck up-edly.
This is delicious as fuck, dude, he says, smacking his lips.
What a pizza should be and taste like, I say and stop mid-sentence, because going into details with this dense head would be useless.
The noise of sucking his fingers…he won’t stop making that noise.
I lose my appetite and I stop eating the rest of the pizza slice and put it back in the box.
I take a swig from the Heineken. I'm deep breathing Zen-style, studying his face, eye-mapping the line and shape of his features in HDR, (with the hallmark grungy look of HDR that was not loved by everyone and I know the final product will be garish and gruesome and the post-production will be loved by everyone) his marble blue eyes; those fucking vacuous eyes which increases my annoyance with this fucking guy, seals his fate, his death, but not the only reason. Craig met death the minute we met in the laundry room a week or so ago.
Craig sniffs a coke- sniffer habit and wipes a hand across his nose.
The noise of his sniffs…he won’t stop he won’t stop he won’t stop sniffing, making that noise; sniffing and snorting pig noise.
Fucking snorting pig.
The sound of a jumbo jet stifles the small jet and It crashes down into LAX of prefrontal cortex of my brain, a TNT boom thundering in my ears, its spinning engine’s rotors blades, shrapnel and debris slicing the soft tissues in all directions.
It’s this moment when I decide to kill Surf for a second time.
High-low pitch of police sirens come from outside. There is always fucking police sirens in this city.
I rinse my hands impatiently and look at myself in the mirror. I look good. I’m twenty six but I look younger. Smooth skin except for a few damn crow’s feet raying on both sides of my eyes; ok, and slightly bulging pockets under them. I should go easy on the booze, the dope.
Craig’s ankles and wrists are tied to a chair. Why, dude? He asks, writhing.
I check the ropes. The knots.
All secure.
Tightly.
Craig is good to go.
Stay still, I say, pressing the point of the scattering knife against his lower chest. The more you writhe, the tighter the knots will get.
Another high-pitch of police sirens come from outside, suppresses Craig’s voice and I can only hear, “…dude?” and I’m certain it is, Why, dude? Fucking broken record.
Know why they call this place Rodent Mews, Surf? I ask

CROSS ROADS OF THE WORLD

2012-09-13T02:29:00.000-07:00

CANON EOS 5D MARK III-LEGEND IN THE MAKING

2012-09-05T02:59:00.002-07:00

"It's more about evolution and revolution in the digital SLR realm right now" says Daniel M.East at Photoshop User magazine. I have to agree; however, as in "Beauty in the eyes of the beholder" saying goes, I'd say, 'DSLR cameras are in the hands of the users". I think, you already know what I mean by that; if you don't, stop reading! This is definitely not much of a use to you except muddle your mind, or even, have you frown upon what I'm about to say.
Ok, here it is: keep it simple, stupid! I love that phrase. Upping, upgrading is not always is the solution to photography, or to any better something!
Again, it's all about what kind of photography you're after or doing right now.There is nothing more unnatural, even annoying, to see such a camera, a bank breaking one, in the hands of a snapper; a tourist, traveler or casual shooter who could do (and be much better off) with a Rebel T4i that cost 1/3 of this beast. This dude, this snapper could go around shooting and get much better result with the Rebel series.
The snapper: Rebel T3i. 18 magapixels; this your camera; this is your limit and zone.
Pros Articulating Rear LCD screen
Additional Movie options compared to T2i including digital movie zoom
High Quality, great low light performance of the 18 MP sensor
Remote off-camera flash triggering capabilities

Cons Limited controls, features, menus and Custom Functions compared to 60D and 7D
Smaller, less rugged construction than 60D and 7D
Slower continuous frame rate than 60D and 7D
Less precise Auto Focus system compared to 60D and far less precise and sophisticated.
Forget the cons! Why? I'll explain step by step...remember, before we go further, this is for the snapper!
It's a fact that images taken with more magapixels look sharper. But, not if:
SHOOTING FOR HDR:: Since sensor type affects dynamic range, a single full frame CSMOS sensor 5D Mark III with 22.3 magapixels is a no-no for this type of photograpy for:
1-Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compared to charged-coupled device (CCD) sensors have less dynamic range. Why high-end cameras have them? Cheaper to producromatice.
2-Contrarary to believe, the less megapixels the better quality of the combined images, for exemple, in Photomatix (Currently, best HDR software out there), will force the tone mapping engine to deal with too many unnecessary pixels load that will produce a poor quality image suffering from burnt highlights (gray whites and muddy blacks) flat midtones, digital noise and chromatic aberration. I will demonstrate this by processing three images taking with different (underexposed, metered, overexposed) with Rebel T3i. 18 magapixels in comparison to single full frame 5D Mark II 22.3 magapixels.
3-Big files, ranging from 80MB to 100MB 16- bits TIFF filess as opposed to 69MB 16-bits file, that will not fill up much more storage space, they are simply unnecessary.
Will continue...If you're interested in finding out what camera is right for you, what camera can do wonders for you, please bear with me...

CROSS ROADS OF THE WORLD

2012-09-05T00:14:00.001-07:00

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Briefly: Crossroads of the World has been called America's first outdoor shopping mall. Located on Sunset Boulevard and Las Palmas in Los Angeles, the mall features a central building designed to resemble an ocean liner surrounded by a small village of cottage-style bungalows. It was designed by Robert V. Derrah and built in 1936.

Once a busy shopping center, the Crossroads now hosts private offices, primarily for the entertainment industry. It has been used for location shooting in many films, including L.A. Confidential and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, in TV shows including Dragnet and Remington Steele, and in commercials by McDonald's, Ford and Mattel. A reproduction of Crossroads' iconic tower and spinning globe can be seen just inside the entrance to Disney's Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Florida.

Today, Crossroads is the creative home of a variety of music publishers and producers, television and film script writers, film and recording companies, novelists, costume designers, publicists and casting agencies-Wikipedia

RODENT MEWS

2012-08-31T22:11:00.000-07:00

                                             RODENT MEWS

                                                  PART ONE

                                                 THE YARD



"Acid Drop, dude," says Craig. "It was radical, man,"
"Whaat?" I say.
"The Acid Drop Dude,"
"You already said that. What the fuck is acid drop?"
"When you take off on a wave and suddenly have the bottom fall out as you free fall down the face. Radical wave, dude."
This Craig Hammer guy…this fucking whole American-guy down at number seven-five-six, he is a like big kid but at his early thirties, so it’s kind of weird, talks surfer lingo and drives a foreign car, a Swedish-Polished-Brick SUV Volvo XC90, for ratfuck’s sake, the whole cliché thing.
   This is Hollywood and its fascination with the cult car Volvo.
   He offers the fatty, Como, dude, go high’ he says choking.
      Davy.
      Wha?
     Or Dave. Mr Jones would be great but that would make me feel old. I’m only eleven, I say, giggling. I’m not supposed to get high.
     You live once, dude, Craig says.
    Almost sixty- per cent of cars used in Hollywood movies are fucking Volvos, I say, taking a long drag.
    What?
   It’s a fact, I say, but it sounds ‘effect’. There is this beat old Volvo, this Swedish fucking Brick in every movie. I take another long drag before I hand it to him, and I say,That's factually fucking crazy, man. This Polar Bear featuring in every flick.
What are you talking about, dude? He says.
What’s wrong with Chevy? I say, even though I know what’s wrong with Chevy.
Dude?
   Don’t call me dude, I say and hand him back the joint.
   I don’t mind Chevy, Dude. I don’t like Dodge.
   Same difference. And now, now, it’s the new models…just made the Brick more acceptable, that’s fucking invasion, man. The V.O.L.V.O Invasion.
Are you talking about my Volvo, dude? He asks, staring at some graphics on his Mac and he’s talking like he is on five- hundred-twenty-six torque speed. Torque? Fuck if I know what it means! It’s as complicated as Einstein’s Relativity. So, I don’t understand a fucking thing he is saying. He has a surfer tan and sounds gay, gaycious, and I’m sure he’s gay. But I don’t judge.
    I’m only eleven.
    Yeah, I am talking about your fucking Volvo, I say in between drags. Your new black Polar Bear. You’re a cliché, man. Fucking cliché.
      He is a cartographer.
      I know, he says. Fuck, I shoulda bought a white color. Have to wash the damn thing everyday.
      That’s gay, man, I say. So totally gaycious.
      You drive an Audi TT, dude.
      So?
      Audi is not American.
      I take along breath. What is wrong with you, man? You're missing the point. I'm talking about Hollywood's fascination with the brick. How many movies you've seen with an Audi in it?
      Transporter. Jason Stetham drove an Audi.
      Jason Stetham is British and probably it was his choice.
      Any other?
      Fuck me if I care, Craig shrugs. He takes a little plastic bag full of cocaine and tears the side with his teeth and pours all on the glass coffee table. Grabs a balloint pen and disassembles into two parts: the part where a button at the top and powered by a spring within the pen body, the other lower screw part. He makes a line with a gift card and half inserts the screw part into his one of nostrils and sniffs vacuum-like sniffs two, three times for each nostril and makes an annoying hollow sound and leans back, shutting his eyes. Then, he takes another plastic bag, goes through the same processes and hands me the hollow pen part.
      Omitted for further revision.

      Google is not a problem, he says changing the subject. With this hyper-head ADD there is no subject. We’re two grasshoppers smoking grass.
       Google is a problem, man! He is practically out of job. Unemployed. But, I don’t say that.
       I want to obliterate him, stop him from jabbering, instead.
    Stupid fuck.
    Give me patience.
    Give me tolerance.
      I’m tolerant. I am ‘The Tolerance of Jesus’… ‘Of God!’
   I should fucking have my statue in the Museum Of Tolerance.
      Listen! Commo, pay attention, freak, I say. I’ll be your inspirational brother. It’s a journey you don’t have map for.

Chillax.

Listen.

What do you think about my new Retina Mac, he asks.

   I dohn’t. Fuck your Retina Mac, I say. I’m a PC person.
   I put your lighthouse image as a desktop. It looks fucking awesome on Retina Mac screen.
   My image looks fucking great on every screen, you fucking yuppie hypocrite. It looks fucking great on Playstation.
   Yeah, dude. You are a great photographer.
   Yeah, well, I’m only eleven.
   No, dude. You’re twenty-six. You keep forgetting that.
   Whatever, man.
   Craig vomits on the gray cobbled yard.
Welcome to the yard…

THE YARD

2012-08-31T05:11:00.001-07:00

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BEFORE

ROCKWALK HEROES II

2012-08-27T01:53:00.001-07:00

ROCKWALK HEROES

2012-08-26T05:31:00.002-07:00

PUT TO PASTURE II

2012-08-26T05:05:00.002-07:00

SANTA CRUZ BEACH

2012-08-21T23:14:00.000-07:00

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maven's note:

THE SHUTTLE

2012-08-21T06:36:00.001-07:00

INDUCTION

2012-08-21T05:49:00.003-07:00

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maven's note:Briefly::The Sunset Boulevard location in Los Angeles hosts Hollywood's RockWalk, a hall of fame honoring musical artists. Artists are invited to place their handprints into cement blocks that are put on display at the Guitar Center

THE SHUTTLE

2012-08-19T05:48:00.001-07:00

THE SHUTTLE, a photo by mavenimagery® on Flickr.

PUT TO PASTURE

2012-08-05T17:44:00.001-07:00

PUT TO PASTURE, a photo by mavenimagery® on Flickr.

HOLLYWOOD UNDER

2012-07-28T13:43:00.001-07:00

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HOLLYWOOD UNDER

2012-07-28T05:53:00.001-07:00

HOLLYWOOD UNDER, a photo by mavenimagery® on Flickr.

DAWN OF THE WEST

2012-07-25T13:15:00.002-07:00

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TAM O SHANTER

2012-07-24T01:46:00.002-07:00

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