nimfaru

.... yaaawwwwwwwwwwwwg. mnep, nep nep. starting to re-awaken to t'internets. updates coming sometime in the next couple months, if i can get access on a decent connection. i'll upload several photos from the last couple years each time, until i'm caught up. looking at close to 20 photos apiece, maybe 300 total? haven't counted in over a year, so may be more. next time on, there will be new pics!

i really really want to remain a child. i can't stand the thought of growing older and losing my imagination. i've lost so much of my innocence and joy just over the past three years it would send me flushing my eyes for a week to think of the vast amount of time that was wasted on petty games and television. the most wonderful gift in the world is the imagination and innersight that is given to children. imagine a world of numbers and graphs, a world where there is no laughter, but heckling and bidding, bartering and arguing. this is the world we have created for our adult selves. a time and place where imagination is no longer life, but a waste of time. dreams are no longer seen as a wonder that can be expanded and followed. our knowledge and minds are not growing as we age, but slowly shrinking. we are backing ourselves into a cave, pushing further and further down the whole until we can no longer see the light that made us happy as a child. please, don't let me grow up; don't make me watch as children are forced to abandon their hopes and friends for a dull grey book. the paper is to show you a size and be a place to plan your escape into the wonderland of imagination; do not let it's size restrict you. a hundred times over dinosaurs have wallowed in my tub. i've watched faces smiling and laughing from the chalkboard as a professors gabbed on. fairies flit about on the shoulders of the mindless passer-by. the world slowly fades into the jungle, with monkeys and colorful birds leading me away. the masts of my pirate ship rock and pitch as the bellowing cannon fire gives chase to a floundering merchant...

i've complained for a while about the inadequacy of the camera i have used for the past couple years. i really should have let it rest since it wasn't actually my camera to begin with, but i can't stand the grainy pictures. then graduation came. i had no idea i knew so many giving people. so, yeah, now i have my very own digital slr!! that almost killed me right there, but on top of that, i'm on a trip in the mountains. what better place to have fun with a new camera? i'm not quite used to the wonderful new images yet, but the possibilities are opening before my eyes.

on the drawing-based art side: bumpy roads suck. i have attempted drawing several times during our long stints on the road, to try to get some practice and not lose whatever miniscule drawing talent i have; again. but the roads are too bloomin' rough! that seems to be almost the only time i have to draw. now is the exception. every other free time i have, i try to catch up on sleep. slap monkeys, i really need to finish a project i've had standing on my desk for 3 months now. and the other one that i never should have started.

well, po-tay-toes, enjoy your summers!

nobelity

just saw a locally made movie, by a friend of my family actually, that was very moving. its called nobelity  because it is a mans search for answers to his questions on the world through meeting with nobel laureates of physics, chemistry, economics, and peace. the film was independently made by a writer, featuring his travels and thoughts when finding the answers to his questions.

site: www.nobelity.org