Dulcie is Dreaming

Dulcie on the way home in the car after running around Alfriston all morning. ~2013 ©Louise Fryer (facebook site).  Posted with kind permission of both Dulcie and Louise.

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry

 

For more phenomenal photos by Louise Fryer

please visit her website:

http://louisefryer.com/

HUG

hug from sakiiyori on Vimeo.

"hug"
Direction, Animation&Editing by Saki Iyori
http://sakiiyori.tumblr.com
Music by Yuki Sato
https://soundcloud.com/yuki-sato-1
GraduationWorks/3min8sec / Japan / 2013


Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. ~Leo Buscaglia.

Postcards from Paradise: Happy Easter Everyone!

FREESIAS  © 2008 THOM BROMMERICH with kind permission

No One Knew the Name of This Day

by John O’Donohue

No one knew the name of this day;
Born quietly from deepest night,
It hid its face in light,
Demanded nothing for itself,
Opened out to offer each of us
A field of brightness that traveled ahead,
Providing in time, ground to hold our footsteps
And the light of thought to show the way.
The mind of the day draws no attention;
It dwells within the silence with elegance
To create a space for all our words,
Drawing us to listen inward and outward.
We seldom notice how each day is a holy place
Where the eucharist of the ordinary happens,
Transforming our broken fragments
Into an eternal continuity that keeps us.
Somewhere in us a dignity presides
That is more gracious than the smallness
That fuels us with fear and force,
A dignity that trusts the form a day takes.
So at the end of this day, we give thanks
For being betrothed to the unknown
And for the secret work
Through which the mind of the day
And wisdom of the soul become one.
-John O'Donohue

Post by Kay ~ black and white girl with dress

Have a Wonderful Easter Everyone!

May You Be Safe

May You Be Well,

May You Be Happy,

May You Be at Peace,

May You Feel Loved and Supported,

And May Life Rise Up to Meet You!

~(Loving Kindness Meditation learned at a retreat. The original third line is “May you be Free from Suffering”)

~Noelle Renee

Orange Tulips© 2008 THOM BROMMERICH

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

For other Postcards from Paradise See Recuerda mi Corazon! Happy Easter!!

Bach Air by Libera Boys Choir

The Open Road

©2013 Louise Fryer

AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road,

Healthy, free, the world before me,

The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I myself am good fortune;

Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,

Strong and content, I travel the open road.

 

~Walt Whitman from Song of the Open Road Excerpt

 

About Louise Fryer

Hello, my name is Louise Fryer; I am from the South East of England. Much of my spare time is spent pursuing my love of mobile photography, particularly black & white street photography.  During the past three years I have been working with Sony alpha dslr cameras. I now prefer to concentrate on shooting with iPhone, I love the challenge of thinking outside the box, the practicality of always having my camera with me & not needing any other equipment to process my images other than my phone or iPad. I post new work regularly on the following sites:
http://louisefryer.com/
http://louisefryer.tumblr.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/louise-fryer/
IG @loufryer
Eyeem @louisefryer

Happy Life (film)

HAPPY life from mojebory on Vimeo.

A short film about life... about human beings.
Location: Europe
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I am very excited If I have chance to capture 'ordinary' people in their natural environment
They just inspire me and moves... I see a harmony in ordinary activities - joy and sadness at the same time. Everything around us is magical. When I take pictures or shots I look at the world through the eyes of a child ... everything seems so interesting and unusual ! I'm 'hungry', I want to grab everything !
In this way I gathered shots and took some pictures over 5 years.
Now I have quite huge library of footage with people, places, nature, animals etc.

The film is directed only at the stage of editing !
No man in this movie wasn't forced to do anything.
There is no acting,
no dubels,
no studio lights,
only one camera (5D MKII),
no sponsors :D,
unrestricted creativity,
completely without crew - just one person - me ;)
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Beautiful Music: Max Richter & Dinah Washington - This Bitter Earth
http://www.maxrichtermusic.com/en/index.php
voice over: Dalai Lama
Sound FX: mojebory

Directed: mojebory
Edited: mojebory
Shot: mojebory
Color grading: mojebory
facebook.com/borytucholskie

ten sam Film z polskimi napisami [captions]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqOge4J9Aj0

Used Canon 5D MK II, couple of lenses and some other stuff

When I Was Young ( graduation film)

graduation film "When I was young..." from Kaori Onishi on Vimeo.

UCA Farnham (BA)Animation 2011 Graduation film.

Film by Kaori Onishi
Music by MICHIRU
Sound effect by Koichi Shoji

UCA Farnham 2011

Kaori Onishi
website: http://www.kaorionishi.com/
BLOG: http://kaorionishi.blogspot.com/

MICHIRU
website:http://michiru.jp/
myspace: http://www.myspace.com/michiru.jp

Koichi Shoji
website:http://www.koichimney.com/


shortlisted for the British Animation Awards 2012 Best Student Film category.
第17回学生CGコンテスト最終ノミネート選出(Japan)
弟６回TOHOシネマズ学生映画祭アニメーション部門 準グランプリ (Japan)

Screened
Canterbury Anifest 2011(UK)
NEU/NOW online film festival
Flip international Animation festival 2011 (UK)
Animated Dreams 2011 (Estonia)
第５回こどもアニメーションフェスティバル(Japan)
新・鎌倉映像フェスティバル2012(Japan)
女子美こどもアニメーションフェアinすぎなみ(Japan)
2012 Future Film Festival (UK)
Holland Animation Film Festival 2012 (Netherlands)
Annecy Animation Film Festival 2012 (France)
ひめじ国際短編映画祭2012 (Japan)
International Short Film Festival Detmold (Germany)
那須ショートフィルムフェスティバル2012 (Japan)
KROK international animated film festival 2012 (Ukraine/ Russia)
London International Animation Festival 2012 (UK)

The Raven that Refused to Sing (animation)

linked with Postcards from Paradise: The Color of Hope from Recuerda mi Corazon

Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing (from Steven Wilson - The Raven that Refused to Sing (and other stories)) from Kscope on Vimeo.

The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories) will be released on 25th February 2013, for more info visit http://www.kscopemusic.com/stevenwilson or http://www.stevenwilsonhq.com

For more info on Steven Wilson's albums on Kscope, visit: http://www.kscopemusic.com/stevenwilson
For Steven Wilson videos: https://vimeo.com/channels/stevenwilson

Promo video for The Raven that Refused to Sing, from The Raven that Refused to Sing (and other stories), the new album by Steven Wilson, to be released on Kscope on 25th February.

Directed by Jessica Cope & Simon Cartwright
Produced by John Cope & Tom Kaye
Animated by Jessica Cope
Editing and special effects - Topher Holland
Additional animation - Simon Cartwright & William Powell
Storyboard - Simon Cartwright
Puppets & sets - Jessica Cope
Additional artwork & puppets - Simon Cartwright, Beth Jupe, Paul Davies, Alison Cross, Louise Smurthwaite
Based on a story by Steven Wilson & Hajo Müller
Special thanks to - Mackinnon & Saunders, Steven Wilson, Hajo Müller


The album was written between January-July and recorded in Los Angeles in September with Steven's current band line up of Guthrie Govan - lead guitar, Nick Beggs - bass guitar, Marco Minnemann - drums, Adam Holzman - keyboards, Theo Travis - saxophone / flute, and engineered by legendary producer/engineer Alan Parsons. The 6 tracks on the album are all based on stories of the supernatural, and the deluxe 4 disc edition comes in the form of a 128 page hardback book containing lyrics and ghost stories illustrated by Hajo Mueller. In addition to the deluxe edition there will be regular CD, CD/DVDV media book, Blu-Ray and 2LP vinyl editions, with the DVDV and Blu-ray editions featuring a 5.1 mix of the album and other bonus material.

Pre-order date for the limited deluxe edition will be announced soon. The tour to promote the album starts on 1st March in Europe, and will continue throughout the rest of the year visiting many other countries, see confirmed dates on Steven's website.

Track listing:
1. Luminol (12.10)
2. Drive Home (7.37)
3. The Holy Drinker (10.13)
4. The Pin Drop (5.03)
5. The Watchmaker (11.43)
6. The Raven that Refused to Sing (7.57)

Order your copy from the Kscope store: https://www.burningshed.com/store/kscope/

Steven and his band hit the road touring in support of the new record from March 1, kicking off in the UK and moving into Europe. The tour will continue throughout the rest of 2013, visiting many other countries for which the dates are yet to be revealed. Shows are currently announced in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and the Netherlands.



To buy tickets, visit: www.stevenwilsonhq.com/sw/tour-dates/

The Raven That Refused To Sing (and other stories) will be released on 25th February 2013, for more info visit http://www.kscopemusic.com/stevenwilson or http://www.stevenwilsonhq.com