If you read my blog you’d have wondered why postings had dried off a bit lately?

“Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you’re at!’
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.”

– The Hatter, Alice in Wonderland

My blog has a bit of imagery. And most of it my own. I shoot as often as possible, catalog & process and then post a handful online. The operation though simple takes a bit of planning and a certain amount of good oopmh and mojo. Given all of this is an avid hobby I pursue it with vigour yet there are times when I feel languished for no good reason — perhaps old age. Not a spring chicken anymore! The life of a creative artist(of sorts) is very flighty and temperamental. I have moments of clarity when all I want to do is write and write more till there is no more to pen. And then I hit the bend in the road and look back and wonder if it was me who wrote all along. This ebb and flow of creativity is also a great ride for it often brings a lot of interesting perceptions to mind that would otherwise be lost. Consistency is great but remember that adage ‘Change in the only constant in life’ — ain’t that the truth!

“It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

– The Red Queen, Alice in Wonderland

Expect more soon, or…

“Off with her head!”

– The Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland

Do you believe in Luck? Well, I don’t but I don’t mind if you do, although I have sometimes found myself using phrases like…. “you lucky thing”, “Oh so lucky!” But they are merely expressions of half-hearted self-centred joyfulness. I neither believe in luck, yeah I said that a second time nor do I advocate anyone reading this… so you are on your own if you read this on Friday the 13^th and a missile goes through you head and you die and land in Hell in Devil’s bedroom lying naked next to his warm skin on his fur bed surrounded by the fires of Hell and Devil’s slippery green mossy tail hissing over in slow meandering manouvers over your face? Chances are you’ll never come back to planet Earth to design a Web Standards compliant website nor talk of Web Accessibility or bitch and moan about the shitful IE or even take the micky out of ya mates on Flickr, what a shame — but then you would have Devil’s undivided attention wouldn’t you just and I’m sure he’ll keep you entertained!

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A funny visual went past my mind just then… imagine you lived in a high rise building in a populated city.. .well hence the high rise… real estate was a premium and obviously you lived close to the train station… just that in crowded places you rather commute by train than your own wheel-barrow. Now think that the station was really close by… probably so close to the building, no scratch that… it was right under the very building you lived in… so every time a train went past you’d hear the noise… just enough to let you know of approaching and departing trains… hmm, wow doppler effect comes to mind… alright… you were having dinner with your buddies hmmm well with people… strangers… you had picked up off an internet chat.. and … a train came by and the building shook up a little bit… like a tuning fork on low frequency… and while at the table, well I hope, seated with your honarary strangers — stuffed plates in front… and the plates moved in a synchronised bouncy twitch and went on over close to the person on your right… hmmm… okie I am going nuts! But.. it was funny… *cracks up*.

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The search for the answers to life and its laws,
is rooted in everything, since effects have their cause.
It’s as easy as saying when words hit a wall,
they come back at the speaker like a red rubber ball.

The Great Illusions has always intrigued me, its been one of my favourites since I found it back in 2001 if I have that right. Everytime I read through the prose it seems to make a lot of sense.