Good Afternoon, my Angel,
I just took Pearl home after Golden Agers, and now I am home until 4:15. Yeah, those are some cool photos of Chelsea Wolfe. I like the black & white, and the double exposures! I would be interested to know how the photographer achieved the colors in the leaves of the photo you posted, while the subject Wolfe appears to be b&w. I am guessing he or she is using film, because.......I don't think you can do double exposure in digital. I mean, can you? Oh, I guess with an expensive SLR you probably can; they may have that option programmed in. But even if you can, I like the option better in a film camera, because then you have a physical, mechanically produced double exposure. The Human Effect, you know.
They used to have these really cool filters made by a company called Cokin. Now, I suppose you could consider that cheating, too, lol, but they were fun to use in certain situations, for color effects, star filter, etc. Me and my friend Dave used them from time to time during the 90s. Anyway, that photog who took the Chelsea Wolfe pics looks like she may be using "old school" (not my favorite term, haha) techniques and effects. I like that!
Neige was wearing a Chelsea Wolfe T-Shirt at the L.A. show, and I was wondering who that was. I guess she is a Joshua Tree musician. That is an artist's community out in the desert; you'd like it. I will have to give her a listen. I have liked some of the Mammifer stuff I've heard. I'd call them an Abstract Listen, just as I described with the Ives comments last night. Music that is best absorbed passively rather than actively. Now, it was different when I saw them live, because it was so loud that it commands your attention. But I will give Chelsea Wolfe a listen. Neige really likes some Gothic stuff. He has a different taste than you might expect, but then they all do, like Mikael of Opeth with his folk and jazz.
Well........I did have one cricket last night. He must be like those few Japanese soldiers who hid out in caves after World War 2, because they didn't get the message that the war was over. So, I am gonna super-duper reinspect all possible cricket entryways, and probably spray a little more Raid before I head back to Pearl's. The war isn't over just yet........
I'll be back this eve at 6:45. Hope your day is going well. I Love You! xoxoxoxoxo :):)
10pm : Ahhh, Elizabeth.........I love that photo you just posted. I love it because that is exactly how I am feeling lately, like I am flying and so, so happy. There is such a good feeling in the air lately. Tonight on my walk - just a little while ago actually - I was really connecting to it - to you .
I like when I am on my walk and up near the athletic fields at CSUN, because then there are no buildings in the way, and I can see the San Gabriel mountains to the northeast. I like to imagine an exact straight line of connection reaching over those mountains and all the way to Wisconsin. I even like to mentally adjust the line, using psi, to the exact location of Middleton, and to you. It's fun to do, and when I look toward the San Gabriels and project my thoughts and feelings over them, and to you, it feels like there is no distance between us at all.
When I can see those mountains, with nothing in the way, and I establish that line arching over them to you, it feels like you are right next to me. I can feel your happiness, too, and it gives me extra strength inside, which comes in the form of my own gratitude. I have found that the gratitude itself is an incredible blessing, just to feel it, to send it out is so wonderful.
The whole thing is a cycle of great love and strength. And I feel like I'm flying. Your happiness is my greatest blessing of all!
I wanted you to know these things right away. After I eat, I will be back in a few minutes.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
11:15pm : I am enjoying the Halloween season, and one of the things I love most about it is the anticipation, all the days leading up to Halloween. You probably have at least one really cool Halloween house in your neighborhood, where the owners have decorated it to the max. We have one in a neighborhood I lived in as a kid, the neighborhood where our Big White House was located. This Halloween house is already lit up every night, so I have altered my route home from Pearl's, just so I can drive by it each night. I am also having fun with those old Halloween TV clips from The Flintstones, Gilligan's Island and The Addams Family. The passage of time is a big phenomenon with me - really fascinating - because almost fifty years have passed now since the time I first saw some of those shows (that's half a century, supposedly a long time), and yet they have an artfulness and sense of fun that belies their age. I am always saying that we live in an era of One Continuous Generation, ever since..........well, I was gonna say 1960, when I was born, but I guess it may go even further back, to the late 40s. Or even the 1920s, if you think about it. People were pretty hip in the Roaring 20s. I suppose there have always been a quotient of "modern" people in any generation, and you can go back to Isaac Newton or even Aristotle to see that thinkers have always been with us. But in the post-WW2 era, ever since TV became a household item, every generation has been culturally connected to the next one. Especially since the 60s.
It has only been in the last hundred years or so that we Americans have been able to really document the way we live, our customs and habits, and we can see that we people of the current time are not too different culturally from people of the 1920s. We can see it in movies and pictures.
But I have always been curious to think what people might have been like before there were pictures to represent them, and widely available printed books to read what their lives were like. In the earliest photos from the 1830s or so, people appear to be heavily clothed, formal and stiff. People in those photos look like they lived in a different reality, and in some way the pictures of that era make those depicted seem more antiquated than the lively-described people from a century earlier. We always hear about the sophistication of the 18th century and the Rennaisance before it, and yet there are no photographs to depict the reality, so people a century later, when photography was first available, look more dilapidated, by contrast, to the earlier people who were merely written about, but not depicted, except in paintings, and then only for the wealthy. Certainly people were sophisticated in the 18th century, my goodness, the classical music, art and science is testament to that. And there were books then, and autobiographies, histories. People have always been sophisticated, to a certain percentage of the population, throughout history. But I have always wondered about how they were culturally. What would a person from 1850 think of a 2013 Halloween house, for instance. Not the difference in lighting, in decoration or technology, but just in the display.
How does the line connect, from people who came before, to those of us who are here now? It's interesting, because in history books and classes, we study it as "the past", a seperate thing. History is "separated" from "now", and so is thought of as something ancient. But it's really not, when you think of each day as connected to the one before it. And so, for me I like to think of how people from a century, two or three centuries ago, or even further, might connect to our culture, and how their culture led up to ours.
I like the way in which "then" ties to "now", and how that sensation can reverse direction in the mind and connect us in the present to what has come "before" us.
Halloween is really a celebration of that, if you think about it. Little kids know this instinctually, and we adults hold on to that connection, because we realize it's importance.
That's all I know for tonight. I will see you in the morning, my Darling. Sweet Dreams until then.
I Love You, Elizabeth. :):) (super happy!)
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