And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography,
it’s as though I’ve neglected something essential to my existence, as though I had forgotten to wake up.
I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.
Words & Photography by Richard Avedon
Sunlight’s Kiss by Octavio Ocampo
Even Nature yearns to glimpse that which it has never seen
To taste that which it has never tasted.
Even Nature is desperate to experience the thing for which there is no proof of existence
But is utterly convinced
Is There.
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Creation knows when something devastatingly paradigm shattering is about to happen.
I’m learning to read the signs of the times.
This show is going to mess with my musical paradigm.
7 Days and counting.
Bring. It. On
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We will always remember.
We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Ronald Regan
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By Ben Giles
I love this about Music.
When it is created and then shared with pure motives, it is like the releasing of beautiful birds born to explore far flung skies, or the throwing of multicoloured confetti on that fateful, life altering day.
I love it when Music is expressed with the hope [not the expectation] of appreciation.
I love it when the releasing of a Sound gives wings to both the creator and the created.
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Calvary by Octavio Ocampo
Palm Sunday by Octavio Ocampo
Surrealist painting ‘To Run With The Herd’ by Octavio Ocampo
Today I was thinking.
In the cacophony of different sounds and ideas floating around in musicdom, everything can kind of sound ‘same same but different’. As a musician you are often either imitating what you love or what you think works, or you are trying with all your might to go against the grain and be different. The thing is I haven’t found either mode of creativity particularly inspiring or fruitful.
What to do.
Truth is I do want to be innovative and break new ground musically, but when that’s my aim it all seems to get a bit weird.
Then I had a thought. (Not an original thought mind you. Loves me some irony.)
Just try to be me. Uniquely me. Writing lyrics that truly originate from my own thoughts and heart, creating melodies that spring from my own well.
Being impacted by outside influence is inevitable and I welcome it.
But creating that which honestly flows from ones own being is the way we will stand out if we so desire.
Because when it’s all said and done, there’s only one me.
And there’s only one you.
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You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy International Women’s Day
Portrait – ‘Marlena Dietrich’, by Octavio Ocampo
