Pattern Recognition
by Dhamaka
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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"........ Albert Einstein
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........ Ben Moor
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"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race"
........ H G Wells
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better"
........ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck favours the prepared mind"
........ Louis Pasteur
"Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery."
........ Rebecca Solnit
"Give, give, give -- what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine."
........ Isabel Allende
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
........ Harold Thurman Whitman
"The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes...."
........ Marcel Proust
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.. you have no such accurate remembrance of a country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle...."
........ Ernest Hemingway
"Ambition leads me not only father than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for man to go."
........ James Cook
"The grand show is enternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapour is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls."
........ John Muir
"The bicycle is the most civilised conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart."
........ Iris Murdoch
"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your picture...."
........ Don McCullin
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tonight I should have been out photographing jle but my arm has swollen up and I'm trying to rest it :(
Sprocket says:
did you take these snaps on the Monday? I was too busy working out how he managed to defy gravity to take any pics.
Lyzardly says:
The shots are all lovely - and now have me thinking of David Bowie in Labyrinth. :)
Dhamaka says:
thank you all - and thanks for the HL too!
Sprocket - no, I reviewed all 3 of the series and took the photos at the following one
taniwha says:
Liketeh clarity of the world reversed. I was thinking Bowie too ... but not of his tights.
mysocalledmoblog says:
i'm thinking of saawaahhh and her awesome dress she had for the ball that i always wanted. definitely not of the bulge in bowies tights. and hoggle. poor hoggle.
mat says:
Contact juggling is one of the most visually stunning (not to mention immensely difficult) forms of juggling.
What's really impressive about Labyrinth is that behind Bowie, reaching under his arms and unable to see what he was doing was a chap called Michael Moschen, manipulating those (extremely heavy) crystals like they're made of air wrapped in silk.
jle says:
they are hard. when they drop onto the floor it sounds like lightning.
it scares you so much!
beautiful - was the fella who performed tall, skinny with fair hair?
Sprocket says:
you mean there's no hokey pokey cheating going on with this? I thought he had a hidden wire somewhere
mat says:
Sprocket - no tricks, just a LOT of practice. a LOT.
Took me three months to learn a passable butterfly (that's a basic front-of-hand to/from back-of-hand transfer). I've never known a single move take so long, and it's a relatively easy one by contact juggling standards.
Dhamaka NLI says:
thank you all
jle - it was Matt
Mat - I can imagine. Matt talked engagingly about the training, how he learned, how he encourages other people to develop their own styles (like just doing it wasn't enough) and all the time kept the ball moving..
FilbertFox says:
i want a shiny ball like that, but found decent sized ones to be more expensive than was prepared to pay - I just want to take pictures through it!