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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 02:52pm PT
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Carleton Watkins (U.S.A., 1829-1916)
The Yosemite Valley from the “Best General View”
1866
From the album Photographs of the Yosemite Valley
Albumen print
Lent by Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
But wait, there's more.
http://artblart.com/tag/yosemite-valley/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:23pm PT
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I could not make this shot work as a color image.
This sucks.That's some feat of Mr. Bunyan, the ArtBlart blogger from Australia.
Imagine determining all the things he must while having to see the photos upside down in Down Under Land.
Seriously, thanks for the link. I noticed several iconic images that came immediately into my memory...
the Edward Weston shot of the bell pepper was the most jarring. Zap!
I did not see Tom Frost's name mentioned once, nor any climbing photographer,
but Mr. B. is more concerned with the dead than the quick--
maybe his shutter speed's too slow?
But of course, climbing is an arcane activity, with very small numbers of people who actually look at climbing shots.
There are between seven and eight billion people alive today,
each with their own tastes, or none,
or whose taste may be only found inside their mouths,
who might be impressed if some images of climbers came their way.
I did not see one mention of George Fiske that I recall.
Babble babble babble.
When each pic is worth one thousand words, a person should just STFU
and look and even look again, then fade away.
I WONDER why it is that we humans need to assign "best" or "greatest" to artists.
Each talented person who creates images has a different appeal for each person who views their work.
It is mostly a subjective game, though the mechanics and precision do count for those
who are convinced that they are experts.
I like Ram Dass' advice, which is that each of us is his own guru.
Each of us is presidential material, in that case, because WE are the DECIDERS,
not some academic or critic.
Their input is important in establishing our own values, however.
One needs a reference point or baseline or standards and teachers are there for such.
I am being schooled by some experienced and talented people here at the kindergarten.
The painters seem to get more oohs and aahs because of the nature of their games,
while we photographers, poor devils,
must toil on the keyboard once the shot's filed, suffering carpal tunnel and bony fingers.
It's a twitch here, a twist there, and a bit more saturation overall, OK!
It's still a crap shoot sometimes, unless it's been a shot in the planning for a long time.
By the Unknown Photographer.
Dude gets around as much as Watkins did.Cheap printing is as cheap printing does.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 18, 2015 - 05:54pm PT
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Well snowed most of the day and it is going to be down below zero Fahrenheit tonight. I am huddled near my one tiny electric heater trying to stay warm. Kinda like being in the cave again without the sound of Yosemite Falls. Or in Toad Hall where I used to bake chocolate chip cookes so we could stay warm and melt the ice off the ceiling above our bed.
My son adopts homeless people. There are three or four of them camped out in his room eating up the homemade apple pie I made this evening. Cheers
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:13pm PT
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Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me ?
It's alright Maru, I'm only bleeding
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 18, 2015 - 06:21pm PT
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Maru - 20 million plus views. Taco views - unknown
Special guest appearance at 2:40
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 07:05pm PT
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Gypsy...
So cold in China the birds don't sing.--Leo Kottke song
Your cave was a niche.
You belonged there then.
It's natural that you hark back to that time as a comparison to today.
"The word niche as ecologists use the term, has a twofold meaning.
It is an organism's address, the territory it occupies within an ecosystem....
Niche also refers to an organism's occupation, what it does to make a living at its address.
Bees, for example, make honey for themselves by visiting flowering plants
and returning to the hive laden with pollen.
Correspondingly, people visit Yosemite to make an emotional living.
While there they gather the kind of pollen that will sustain and expand the human spirit.
Human beings track nourishment in Yosemite almost exclusively by sight.
Sound plays a role occasionally, and the sense of smell, so effective
for other animals, is hardly ever used.
Views and vistas are what these hunters are after."
--Introduction to Yosemite As We Saw It by David Robertson
Overdose of catnip.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 18, 2015 - 08:19pm PT
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Pretty durn fast!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 02:22am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 19, 2015 - 03:28am PT
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Karma is work, and work is life. The word Karma means also ‘sacred work’ and is connected
with the sacrifice of the Vedas: the ritual of religion. This meaning has to be considered in
reading the Gita. Karma, work or action, is often contrasted in the Bhagavad Gita with Jñana,
or contemplation: external ritual is set in contrast with inner spiritual life
drivel in a sentence.
This was the great
spiritual change that took place in the Upanishads: from external ritual they went into inner life.
This contrast is also found in the Gita, but in the Gita the word Karma has acquired a far
deeper meaning, and this leads to one of the most sublime conceptions of man.
All life is action, but every little finite action should be a surrender to the Infinite, even as
breathing in seems to be the receiving of the gift of life, and the breathing out a surrender into
the infinite Life.
Every little work in life, however humble, can become an act of creation and therefore a
means of salvation, because in all true creation we reconcile the finite with the Infinite, hence
the joy of creation. When vision is pure and when creation is pure there is always joy.
KARMA
A WORK in progress all your breathing days when I said it I caught the Biggest FISH
so far!
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When I die DO not Pass My atom smasher to my children or the world
Burly bag that can not be killt,
is what to pack me in
and wrap-pit in wrapt prayer flags
and Toxic warning tape and send it to
FISH Products
HC1 Box 696
Joshua Tree, Ca. 92252
Phone: 760.394.6665 to leave a message
Fax number is 760.666.3950
email is FishProductsInfo@gmail.com
If you are sending FISH OR something, something via UPS or FedX, email us for a street address.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 19, 2015 - 04:46am PT
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Cross-threading.
Inspired by a little old lady from Pasadena.
Ain't nobody meaner.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Just what the truth is I can't say anymore.
I love the Gnome.
Hat or no hat.
Sense or nonsense.
Verticle world or testicle world.
Like two sperm racing each other.
Eggs Ackley and Eggs Stream.
Nights on white satin.
Riding black thoughts.
Just where the end is, I can't imagine.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I love your knotty and your nice.
Don't think twice.
Yer alright.
Fer a parrot. :0)
I MEAN...you're getting to sound like the Smokin' Duck
You silly puck.
--U. Panicked Shad, swimming in haste
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"Or maybe we just didn't want to look each other in the eye with our newfound intimacy?
The classic 'morning after' dilemma.
Once you move beyond just being friends, can you ever go back?"
--Nut Again!
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 19, 2015 - 06:40am PT
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If the Flames would have been around in the early 50's my dad would have been one for sure. He had a great sense of humor, loved a cigar and a beer, loved to tell stories and was hard working and hard partying. He is the man in the milking boots near the door sitting furthest on the right
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 19, 2015 - 06:58am PT
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C
In relation to a thread that was trending at this time . . . about Man spooning to survive a cold
night, an emergancy bivy, always trust your partner? I have the other expieriance too though,
Was left a wanting solo and alone by a skeletor, who climbed down aided by being a good
partner He was the local who could rally help, but did not, and it was cold , I was very cold,
but just kept moving, doing rope tricks, up and down as far as I could.
Looking for a way to get down, when some hours had past and it became clear that no help was coming,
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I became A Pirate Guide that Night at that spot,
California paid the price .
I a gonna say, tell Y'all
Wanna Buy a Duck!?
Where Is that Line I have called climbs that, and I was sure where i heard it Twice first.
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Duck Soup the '33 Marx Brothers movie best known probably for the mirror scene.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iQvKYs9p5A
Can't fight the good fight ifni can not find what I am looking for
don't go to extreemz,(sic) sick, I am . . .
a big homophobe and why? because a giant with agiant member all night on the streets of paltz , needed to be shut down by cute little ol' me
I told the Judge I did not know my own strength , and my Man , the Public defender said It was self defense I was Quoted thusly:
" Don't whip out any thing that big you fudge packer"
(all sorts of worse things , edited out , for decorum's sake) .!
The conventions or requirements of polite behavior?
what comes next stress that to the bursting point,
I summarily pushed him over backwards ,
flipped, by chance, a railing that he had me backed up against,
and azz cheeks to the wind dong no longer in my face
but scrapped along the rusty rail and landing in the gutter!
I stood there Laughing while he blubberberd up and cried .
"Call 911, I have just been (re) circumsized"
Now that is a share to far. ./ .
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.ducks on ice.
This to Lighten up!
and For The love of zb
who I am not to address from so far away
I from anything, I was just a groupie with a hot sister,
SORRY but the stuff I posted was Classic it:
cartoon of "Slappy Squirrel'' riffing off, Abbott and Castello's the "Who's on 1st" bit,
but about the Bands the Who and Yes and The Band, 2 minutes long and it infected or more than Likely it was the not youtube site where I found a cool show from Thae Philli fest
the Levon Helm + D Bromberg, thing, then I was put back to that strange not standard
youtube, It said Youtube2,
what ever, system sick, my life is a balancing act from the start, and on and on,
GOOD BYE ...
IT WASFUN SEE IN THE FUNNY PAPERS
HOPE NOT IN YHE OBIT> nice talking to you ,
love ya, man
out
all apologies get a smile outa something will ya. . . .!(sorry to what/who follows... my shi tt)
HO GREAT BACK TO EDIT and OF course WHO is the next poster?
why it is DMT!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 19, 2015 - 08:26am PT
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Bartonella Henselae. Never played at the Golden Bear, nor for that matter, the Ash Grove (good name for a club that (was) burned down, eh?).
Fahey played there.
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Fair play for Cuba (Old Chevy capital of the Western Hemisphre), omnipresent cigarillos, and 29 cent gas).
When travelers returning from Cuba gave talks or showed Cuban films, the Ash Grove became the target of angry demonstrations and threatened violence by Cuban exiles. A series of fires, including what patrons believed was an arson attack, led to the club's demise in 1973.
For the Pretty Peggy L (only missed O by 3) or EZ on the Eye version go ->
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/545a6ac9e4b05115df2f034c/t/545a7170e4b09756ea160887/1415213432661/Ed+on+Car002.png?format=1500w
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 19, 2015 - 08:54am PT
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Barney's never burned that I know of, despite the patronage of the light my fire crew. Probably never see photos of Freddie Mercury and Elton John bellying up to the bar. Weirdest thing, it is right in the middle of West Hollywood. Janis is rumoured to have eaten her last meal there, being found dead at the nearby Landmark Hotel the following day.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 19, 2015 - 09:06am PT
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Of course I read it wrong
OLD ENGLISH TO DIE FOR!. . . THAT SOUNDS LIKE A SONG..
this is way to long a version sorry about that
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Oh zb iam so not trying to offend any one,
BUTT,
I have a rosebud from abuse! just saying I can take it
to the
BANK. . . http://www.thewhitecliff.com
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 19, 2015 - 11:46am PT
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IXL or XLNT, one thing aficionados de los tacos tell you. To haul 'em, you need a mule, not a horse. Horsies OK for tamales, as are carts.
Hardware? You can probably go either way.
Garbage or Lower Merced Pass SuperNatural©®. Go with a mule.
Got a lot of tacos or weed? Simple, get a lot of mules.
Speakin' of guitars, forget all that macho shit!!, get yourself a Fender (invented right here in Chula Vista and endorsed by The Wolfman).
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