Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Some Favourite Outrigger Canoe (OC6) Technique Related Videos (Wed 28 Jan 2015)


Team Hawaii training for 2010 Havaiki Nui Vaa (Vimeo Video)

Just watch this one - Seat 3 is amazing!! - Team Hawaii Preparing for Havaiki Nui 2010 from Dolan Bros. on Vimeo.

Kamini Jain talking about Paddling Stroke Technique

Kamini Jain talking about Paddling Stroke Technique (Vancouver Outrigger Conference -Nov 2010)

Manny Vincent on Outrigger Canoe Technique - bapuiii (05 Nov 2010)

Manny Vincent on Outrigger Canoe Technique - bapuiii (05 Nov 2010)

A few other good ones include: [Just click through the links above each video to see the original posts here at eljeiffel. Not sure if all the embedded videos will render properly on this page.]

Friday, January 16, 2015

The Beauty of Life - Brooks Jensen (Wed 12 Jan 2015)

Just Married - Jenny and Geoff - My Favourite Photo of Jenny: What a smile!! And I love the way she is holding my hand - South Cronulla Uniting Church (Sun 30 Apr 2000)

Brooks Jenson (*) writes On Life (*):
One never knows in the midst of life when The Moment will happen, but if we are lucky, happen it does, and a new life begins.
via I Am Born (*) by Brooks Jensen (*).

I've been lucky enough to have experienced this in my Life with Jenny. I have lived. Thank you Jenny.

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Give it Everything - Cameron Wurf (Thu 25 Dec 2014)

PD's Open - Five Islands OC6 Regatta / Lake Illawarra (Sun 19 Oct 2014)

Cameron Wurf (*) writes on Giving it Everything (*):
give it everything you have to get the best possible result you can achieve. That way when you cross the line you have no regrets because you've given it all you have and you can now relax and enjoy what you've just done, win or lose.
via Socal ing with Cal! (*) by Cameron Wurf (*).

Happy New Year.

On Riding a Bicycle - Ernest Hemingway / Garry Loughlin (Wed 23 Oct 2014)

Untitled - Quai de la Seine / Paris (Mon 15 Sep 2014)

Ernest Hemingway (*) writes on bicycles (*):
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. Thus you remember them as they actually are...
via California (part 2) (*) by Garry Loughlin (*).

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

I'm Nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson (1891)

Self Portrait - near Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation / Paris (Thu 18 Sep 2014)

Emily Dickinson (*) Poem (*):
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Seen in Eye to Eye: Photographs by Vivian Maier (*)

On Instagram - Stephen Shore / ASX (Tue 30 Dec 2014)

Nibbles - Ealing / London (Sat 13 Sep 2014)

Stephen Shore (*) writes on Instagram (*):
One thing is it’s fun. I like the quality of conversation that goes on, where there’s a group of people who I know are looking at my posts every day, or whenever I do it, and I in turn am looking at theirs, eagerly, waiting to see what they post. And it’s a very different kind of communication than what goes on in a book or a gallery, where you just put the work out there and there’s no sense of dialogue.
via Stephen Shore ‘Likes’ Instagram (*) by Stephen Shore (*).

Happy with my little nook here on the Internet. No need for regular viewers or constant feedback. I had that opportunity on photo.net (*) a long time ago - well before Flickr (*) and Instagram. I learnt a lot, but mainly watched. Not really my thing. It's too hard to be engaging in critiquing and providing insightful feedback. Might be lazy or untalented (*), it's just who I am. I don't expecting to be signing up to Instagram in the near future.

Monday, December 29, 2014

On Recognition - artlyst (Sat 27 Dec 2014)

Untitled - The Met / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)

artlyst (*) writes on Recognition (*) and Vivian Maier (*):
After a lifetime in domestic servitude, secretly documenting the streets of America through 100,000 photographs, Maier had died in great old-age, and in poverty - just on the edge of global recognition - never to know that her work would even receive a glimmer of praise, or understanding.
via Vivian Maier: The Secret Photographer Gets A Retrospective In Amsterdam (*) by artlyst (*).