This is obviously tweaked, but I thought it was pretty cool - A friend of mine took this in Chicago last weekend:

This was taken a few years back during a trip to Albany, NY. Good times

Splendid! We like wobbly pics.

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Originally posted by Farside:

This was taken a few years back during a trip to Albany, NY. Good times

OK SEE Albany is the center of the freakin world - I swear. I didn't believe it before living there - but it IS.

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Originally posted by Ava:

OK SEE Albany is the center of the freakin world - I swear. I didn't believe it before living there - but it IS.

Come to think of it, I really don't remember how I ended up there. But I do remember it was my first experience with a toll road ever.

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Originally posted by Maeve:
This is obviously tweaked, but I thought it was pretty cool - A friend of mine took this in Chicago last weekend:

Are you saying that the picture is tweaked,
or that your friend was tweaking when he took it?

I've been seriously wanting one of those Nikons with the Zeiss Perceptual lenses on 'em, but I have to wait 'til my neurals are paid off

The picture is tweaked, Den is just odd!

He said it was a reflection from the Bean and he used bubble on Photoshop. If that means anything to anyone other than me. I have no idea what camera he used though.

They've washed these off now but arn't they sweet!?

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I think of this everytime I sign out

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Originally posted by Motley Hippie:


I think of this everytime I sign out

ooh. i like that.
and i have to admit, i sniggered at the traffic lights.
and since i'm here, wildlife from lyon:

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Originally posted by Farside:

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Originally posted by Ava:

OK SEE Albany is the center of the freakin world - I swear. I didn't believe it before living there - but it IS.

Come to think of it, I really don't remember how I ended up there. But I do remember it was my first experience with a toll road ever.

you got sucked into it by the forces that keep it in the center!

A Nyao warrior dancer


and the local supermarket

they're not working here murph! *is saddened*

how are things?

nope, i too get red x's

i also think murph and the bear should link their blogs in their sigs....

A sand mandala, created by Tibetan monks over the past few days in the Palace of Westminster. It was blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama yesterday.

Tibetan monks spend days creating something like this and then ceremoniously destroy it - symbolic of the idea that all material things are transitory. It's going to be struck, and the sand cast into the Thames, at 10am today.

Cool mandalas, Mark! I didn't realize sand mandalas are so incredibly detailed. How big are they?

I knew the basic principle of sand mandalas, but I didn't know they're destroyed ceremoniously - for some reason, I thought they are just wiped away the moment they're finished, after days of work. Strange perhaps, but that idea always gave me the chills much more than any ceremony could.

That said, I wish I could see it...

Well that's what I was told, it could be the ceremony is literally sweeping it away

It was about a metre square in area.

Throwing it in the Thames will set a bad example. Next thing you know it will be full of old tires and shopping trolleys!

I saw one being created ...almost 20? years ago. They did two of them, one was finished, one was about half finished... and yeah, it was incredibly intricate. Gorgeous thing. I don't have pictures though. I was also astonished that it just gets destroyed/swept away! I also thought that was just awful, to create something so beautiful and then willfully destroy it. The monk did try to explain, and I did try to understand, but it just didn't filter through.

I said the same thing, Maeve.

The person I spoke to simply tutted and said 'that is typical western thinking'.