A wonderful gift :: Ashes & Snow

A friend of mine sent me this this morning. It's a wonderful short film of still and motion photography showing some of the most amazing scenes betweens animals and humans. Mesmerizing and beautiful. It's by Gregory Colbert who I had not heard of before now.
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From Wikipedia: "... Colbert did not publicly exhibit his art or show any films. Instead, he traveled to such places as India, Burma, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Dominica, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tonga, Namibia, and Antarctica to film and photograph interactions between human beings and animals. Since 1992, he has launched more than sixty such expeditions, and has collaborated with over 130 species. Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, Antigone cranes, royal eagles, Gyr falcons, rhinoceros hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs, caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbons, orangutans, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed. Human subjects include Burmese monks, trance dancers, San people, and other indigenous tribes from around the world. In 2002, Colbert presented his work, Ashes and Snow, in Venice, Italy. An April 9, 2002 review in The Globe and Mail stated, “Colbert unveiled Ashes and Snow, an exhibition of images and photographs unprecedented in both scope and scale. Covering 12,600 square meters, it is billed as one of the largest one-man shows in the history of Europe.”

Here's a short film based on that Ashes and Snow exhibit. It's in two parts.

Part 1

Part 2

ETA: My friend had sent me a Facebook link which I could not embedded--so I looked for the video on YouTube. While the ones above are great--they are not quite the same--to see the same video I saw go here to Gregory Colbert's Facebook video.

Random :: Don't Fear the Reaper (and 6th season of SPN)

*sighs*

I have my main iPod mix on in the background. Just now "Don't Fear the Reaper" came on.

Boy that brings back great memories. This was the first song from SPN that I DL'd and started to listen to. It also was about the same time that I realized I might be getting hooked on this little TV show that I was just watching because a few people on LJ said it was good.

Basically this song reminds me of the beginning of my love affair with SPN. It makes me feel nostalgic because SPN and it's fandom has changed so much over these past few years. I kinda miss the height of the glory days.

My brother and fickleone just stopped by to pick up their kids. They were at a sci-fi convention here in town. My brother said one of the panelists was someone who had a lot of "inside" knowledge about various shows. I can't recall the dudes name (or even if my brother mentioned his name). The guy talked about many shows for a few minutes each show. Someone (my brother?) asked if SPN would get a 6th season, the dude replied basically "almost certainly." Someone asked about Kripke being involved with the 6th season and the dude replied, "Oh they're talking."

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SPN Headers & Icons

I was bored. So I made some more headers and lookie(!) I made icons (which I don't make very often.) All fromelsiecat 's Chicon 2009 photos.

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..and just because I want to see the pretty up close

See this is my problem with doing icons--my eyes cannot see the PRETTY. Hmmpph.

So just so *I* can see it...


photos by elsiecat

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