James, The Night Before - Volume 1

JAMES, the mighty magical soundscape of glittering sparkle release Volume 1 of new songs on Nadzia's 1st birthday, 19th April 2010.
YOU can hear 5 selected tracks on this page until the 5th April. Mmmm, tasty, enjoy and feel the natural forces swirl ya...carried across the oceans from brother to brother and onto another. James
While you wait on the album celebrations you could also seek out WAH WAH. WAH WAH
Experimental jams are best served with soul.....love it.

Magnum Photos

MAGNUM PHOTOS.
Magnum
The mighty agency founded in 1947 to champion "their independent natures as both people and photographers". Into the 21st Century MAGNUM flourishes and inspires. May you rest your head and know that somewhere in the world a MAGNUM photographer changes a lens and looks for the truth to enlighten the masses.
It's Sunday, visit Humankind.me when you can. Peace. Noel

Society

A PEACEFUL demonstration of Remembrance and Humankind united in their compassion and intelligence and free right to speak their mind. This is a powerful point of access to what may counter act the annexing of human rights. Dignity across the generations and a demand for such V O I C E to be acknowledged. 50 mm and lit by candlelight

Amnesty International

REPRESSION of HUMAN RIGHTS takes place globally and on an unprecedented scale in the 21st Century planet Earth.
YOU can make a difference and extoll your V O I C E by signing up on line at Amnesty International website.
Here's the link to Hong Kong's homepage,Amnesty
STOP violence against Women, aid Human RIghts Education, aid Refugee work, there are many worthy causes out there which need your heart behind them.
The fight is now for humanity and I urge you to join up and take action by writing letters, donating and lending support to these profound causes. Help those peoples who have no freedom of rights that you do. Change the way the world works by your actions and support. Seize control and make a difference. Peace.

Home Heart

HOME is where the HEART lies, wherever Home may be. This is our Home on the sea. We shall be moving shortly the ocean having rocked us to zzzzzz's and gently wakened us in the dawn. Sunsets of great glorious shine and fishermen at work noon and night. It's been a thrill, but hungrily we move on ever evolving and carrying the mighty ocean swell within our stride.
NIju Niju will depict the poetry of the motion. Rock yourself to sleep my sweet. Noel & Nadzia & Thanyalak Love

Erik Satie (1866-1925)

ERIK SATIE will turn your day into a new angle it seems, if you allow his music to flow throughout your living space and in & around your being. That's how Nadzia starts her day, in the cradle of creation and mystique provided by Monsieur Satie. Before she has a little nap ready to take the day apart in the after noon hours in the garden so called 'The Green Patch'
Satie was born in Honfleur, Northern France, moving to Paris at the age of 4. Of Scottish Grandparents, Satie lived with them once his Mother passed away in 1872, he stayed with them back in Honfleur until they passed also.
By mid-1896 all his financial means had vanished. I speculate this allowed him some clarity and purpose in life and it was so 2 years later that he had created the two first sets of Pièces froides in 1897.
Satie's compositions so shaped by his life and reflected in their moods, forms and feelings. Bon Courage Erik!

William Turner (1775-1851)

TURNER is accepted by the 'art establishment', whatever that may be, as a groundbreaking Impressionist who influenced the Expressionists while giving birth to the Surrealists in their most earliest form.
I surmise this is because he choose to paint what he saw and felt inside, and enhance it with his technique into a new dimension. Turner's POV has that 'floating' sensation that I aspire to achieve in my photography, and which offers the sensation of weightlessness in witnessing the scene. I further suggest this is 'Spirit' reflecting his/your soul. Haa!
TASCHEN, the progressive publishing house are releasing a lovely book on Turner's history as per usual filled with excellent reproductions of the major works and chronological summary on the artist's life and works. Enjoy!
TurnerTaschen

Bob Dylan in Asia March 2010

THE LEGEND that is BOB DYLAN gears up for a visit and tour of Asia this month and possibly into April, though yet unconfirmed reports of Beijing, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
14 nights in Tokyo will yield a total audience combined of 33,563 peps. an infinitesimal 0.002% of tokyo will view the species "bobo dylansan"...from a population 12.8million. Hai!
No word on wither China will be enlightened by the Maestro. Check out the dates here:
Bob Dates in Asia

180mm on John Simpson

180mm 2.8 was the lens of choice for the above shots, lit by television lights in the darkness it allowed me to shoot wide open with Tri-X 400, sure I pushed that 1 stop.
Recently I have been taking more shots with the 180mm and will run a small series on them shortly. Today WInter has arrived for a day or two, wild and wet and the ferry should be fun on the waves this afternoon.

Niju Niju

SHIPS ON THE SEA. In the fog. Captain John Carpenter at the helm as he whistles a ditty dare it be told, the tale of sailors, robbers and thieves, scallywags & ghouls, who venture to the island to drift onto land and steal your soul.
NIJU NIJU is like that in the opening dawn. A shattered dream thrown onto the sands of time and the wet trails of sorrow to whip around your heart and leave you down and out....Only to return mightier than the time before, with a steel of spine to take you once again into the heat of the lion's breath.

the view from winter depression
seen by balcony &
cast asunder by humidity
spring/summer 2020

B&H New York

THE largest and most competitive and most comprehensive outlet for all things photographically surely must be the legendary B&H in New York. Tell me otherwise, please do. Here, you will find the complete up to date models available on the market and indeed any historical variations available. Film, Digital, Video, darkroom, accessories, bags, blah blah blah.
Check it out if you visit New York. Everyone should know how to get there. Spend some time, then get a slice.
B&H
The above photograph is of Leon Katachi. Photographed by Lorna Carmichael. Roaming outta Tribeca N.Y. looking for lunch & Bobby Dee . We found lunch in a fashioned cafe, enjoyed and wen-a-wandering later on throughout the 'burough, where I turned a corner and encountered Denzel Washington, signing autographs, stopping traffic and laughing outside his theatre where he was performing Julius Caesar. You betcha!