Why can't we give love
Cos love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the light
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves [..]
Under Pressure - Queen
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Love dares you to .. - King Street / Newtown (Sun 17 Apr 2011)
Why can't we give love
Cos love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the light
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves [..]
Under Pressure - Queen
Shroud - Water - Mount Gower / Lord Howe Island - 22 Oct 2001
The most amazing photo I have ever taken, though I had no idea at the time.
Saturday, April 16, 2011
City of Blinding Lights - U2 - Live - Brooklyn Bridge - 22 Nov 2004 (youtube)
Travel. Do not get stuck in one place. [..]
Whatever you do, walk over the Brooklyn Bridge.
Ken Burns (2004 Yale Commencement Speech)
Bono's preamble to the song in this video gives some idea to the meaning of the song to him. It was about:
a time in our lives when we did not know how powerful it was not to know.For me, the song reminds me of my first winter dragon boat campaign - the 2005 World Dragon Boat Championships in Berlin. Heard this song a lot while at the gym back then.
This is a song about innocence and naïvete.
Have already walked the Brooklyn Bridge way back in 1988. Will do it again later in the year.
City of Blinding Lights Lyrics
The more you see, the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now
Neon heart day-glow eyes
A city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
For people like us
And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Don't look before you laugh
Look ugly in a photograph
Flash bulbs purple irises
The camera can't see
I've seen you walk unafraid
I've seen you in the clothes you made
Can you see the beauty inside of me?
What happened to the beauty I had inside of me?
And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Time...time...time...time...time
Won't leave me as I am
But time won't take the boy out of this man
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
The more you know the less you feel
Some pray for others steal
Blessings are not just for the ones who kneel... luckily
Friday, April 15, 2011
Jenny - Indian Head / Fraser Island (Fri 26 Apr 2002)
A similar photo to this one and motivated by the same thinking.
Mangrove Tree - Trees - Fraser Island / Queensland (Sun 28 Apr 2011)
We spent a week on Fraser Island after Jenny and Jo competed at the 2002 Australian Dragon Boat Nationals on the Gold Coast with composite Dragons Abreast Teams. It was their first Nationals, and a good year and half before Dragons Abreast Sydney was formed. They enjoyed the opportunity to paddle with breast cancer survivors and supporters from all over Australia and they made many friends from the experience.
This has always been one of my FavouritePhotos. The light on the Sand Flats that afternoon was amazing (another photo to come at some stage).
Thursday, April 14, 2011
WHY CANT I BE BEAUTIFUL - Buckland Lane / Newtown / Sydney (Tue 12 Apr 2011)
Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly.
David Foster Wallace (21 May 2005)
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