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
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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…endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy, it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].
For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).
But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded).
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
And so faith, hope, love abide, these three;
but the greatest of these
Is Love.
1 Corinthians 13
The Bible
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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
Ed’s Story
“I didn’t expect another Christmas, now I’ve had ten. And I want more”
Stories like this serve to energise every dream and desire I have for myself and the future.
I don’t think it’s possible to tire of the underdog story.
Nor the victory in spite of insurmountable odds story.
Or the impossible made possible story.
I hope to add many of my own stories to this great collection one day.
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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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