Posted by Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) on March 13, 2010
Edgar Mueller Super Artist
Great Crevasse Edgar Mueller. Hard work: Together with up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The picture appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town’s Festival of World Cultures.
He spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the 250 square metre image of the crevasse, which, viewed from the correct angle, appears to be 3D.
He then persuaded passers-by to complete the illusion by pretending the gaping hole was real. “I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see,” he said. “It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun playing on it and pretending to fall into the earth. I like to think that later, when they returned home, they might reflect more on what a frightening scenario it was and say, ‘Wow, that was actually pretty scary’…”
Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada , said he was inspired by the British ‘Pavement Picasso’ Julian Beever, whose dramatic but more gentle 3D street images have featured in the Daily Mail.
.
This guy is amazing no matter how you look at it!
Posted by Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) on March 12, 2010
This week’s “Fun and Games with Jenners” sounded especially fun, so I’ve decided to play along! This week she has asked us to write a story incorporating as many song titles as we possibly can. I have the song titles in bold, and the list of songs after the story…enjoy!
Their love was like Romeo and Juliet. They loved each other more than anyone could Imagine. They were perfect for each other. Jack was All Shook Up when Jill told him she had to leave for a while; she was Going To California to tend to her ailing mother.
“Remain True To Me, Jill.” Jack told his love. “All I Wanna Do is take you as my wife and I Can’t Hardly Wait until you return so I may Hold You In My Arms once again.” He knew Jill was fiercely independent, he accepted the fact that She Moves In Her Own Way but he loved her because she was beautiful inside and out.
“Oh Jack,” Juliet replied. “There’s Nothing Like You And I together, and I will wait for you Faithfully, My Love. Without You, I am lost. I wander around Like A Rolling Stone. While I’m gone, The World Spins Madly On and we will be together again soon after. I’m looking forward to our wedding day – I Wanna dance with Someone Like You even if you do have two left feet!”
Jack grinned. He had a Secret – he was taking ballroom dancing lessons so he could surprise her for their wedding day. He was determined not to have two left feet as they Move To The Music. The Last Dance With Mary Jane, his dance teacher, proved that he would certainly be able to overcome his clumsiness on the dance floor.
“When I return, there will be no more Waiting For The World To Change. We are only Wild And Young once, and I look forward to becoming your wife,” Jill said, bringing his attention back to her. “Promise me you’ll limit your outings with the boys while I’m gone – keep it to One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer and no more.”
Jack nodded his assent. “Or I’ll keep it simple – Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses,” he joked. “I do tend to get carried away sometimes, I’m Sorry For The Nights I Can’t Remember. I’m getting old. If I Were a Boy again, it wouldn’t be so bad.”
Jill smiled wickedly “Don’t Worry Baby, on those nights I Turn My Camera On to save the Love And Memories…even when you’re Wasted and Naive.”
Jack grinned at his future wife, knowing that she will always keep him on his toes. He watched as she took The Climb up the steps to the waiting plane. She turned and waved as he blew her a kiss before she disappeared from sight. After All This Time for some people Love is a Battlefield, but for Jack and Jill Love Remains The Same.
List Of Songs And Artists
Romeo and Juliet – Dire Straits
Imagine – John Lennon
All Shook Up – Elvis Presley
Going to California – Led Zeppelin
True To Me – Metro Station
All I Wanna Do – Sugarland
Can’t Hardly Wait – The Replacements
Hold You in my Arms – Ray LaMontagne
She Moves In Her Own Way – The Kooks
Nothing Like You and I – The Perishers
Faithfully – Journey
My Love – Justin Timberlake
Without You – El Presidente
Like A Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan
The World Spins Madly On – The Weepies
I Wanna – All American Rejects
Someone Like You – Van Morrison
Secret – Maroon 5
Move To the Music – American Bang
Last Dance With Mary Jane – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Waiting For The World to Change – John Mayer
Wild and Young – American Bang
One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Whiskey For My Men, Beer For My Horses – Toby Keith
I’m Sorry – John Denver
Don’t Worry Baby – Beach Boys
For The Nights I Can’t Remember – Hedley
If I Were a Boy – Beyonce
I Turn My Camera On – Spoon
Love and Memories – O.A.R
Wasted – Carrie Underwood
Naive – The Kooks
The Climb – Miley Cyrus
All This Time – Heartless Bastards
Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benatar
Love Remains the Same – Gavin Rossdale
Posted by Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) on March 11, 2010
I consider it my ‘guilty pleasure’ watching shows like Ghost Whisperer and Medium. I’m intrigued by the fact that Medium is based on a real person and portrays her and her family. Do I buy into that whole “I see dead people” bit? Not so much. But who am I to knock what other people believe? I don’t, however, have patience for the people that call themselves psychics using their ‘gift’ to make money off of innocent bystanders, when in most cases it’s all a sham and a scam.
All that aside, I do strongly believe in “Mother’s Intuition” or the sixth sense that most mothers seem to have. There are things we know that we don’t know we know. It’s called instinct, intuition, a hunch, gut feeling, or sixth sense. Intuition is an insight that comes to us out of the blue.
Legitimate intuition is sometimes also confused with everyday worries or fears, which might be motivated by anything from the news, to a comment made by a well-meaning friend, to your mother-in-law.
While some moms never question their inner wisdom, others may find they have to rediscover it. It’s not like a switch you flip, trusting your gut is something you have to be conscious of. Like a muscle you exercise whenever you struggle with doubt. By the same token, you have to be careful not to over think a situation and truly just go by your gut instinct.
I myself had to ‘rediscover’ my sixth sense, my mother’s intuition, my gut instinct when Princess Nagger was born – since I had pretty much ignored it, which turned it into just another flabby unused muscle. But when she arrived, it seemed that the dial was turned up just enough to remind me to utilize it when necessary, and it came in quite handy in one particular instance when she was about 3 years old.
I was sitting on the back porch steps one warm, sunny summer day watching Princess Nagger explore the back yard with the dogs while I was on the phone with a friend. I noticed she was getting precariously close to the pond in her exploration, and called out to her to stay away from the pond. My gut instinct was that since she’s so much like me, she’s going to want to do the exact opposite of what she was told. Which was to move closer to the pond.
Which of course she did.
The next few minutes seemed like an eternity when in reality they lasted mere moments – Princess Nagger, delighted by the sparkling water as the sun reflected off the surface of the pond, took two steps closer…then one giant step like she was going to walk on water. It was almost identical to what I had seen in my minds eye, only now it was as if I was watching in slow motion.
Luckily the pond isn’t very big nor is it very deep. But you read or hear horror stories of children drowning in just inches of water. I don’t even remember racing to the edge of the pond and yanking her out of the water, I only remember kneeling with her standing in front of me, soaking wet, her big blue eyes searching my face for a reaction.
Rather than succumb to the panic mode my brain was desperately trying to transmit, and since her instincts had been to immediately stand up when she fell in (which pretty much kept her head above water, save for the initial baptism dunk), I decided to squelch the panic and with a smile asked her if that was her way of telling me she needed a bath. So instead of her freaking out to mirror how I was freaking out on the inside, she started to giggle and gleefully say, “Again, again!!”
Needless to say, she never took another dip in the pond again after that, and I did learn to exercise that instinct muscle so I wouldn’t second guess my intuition or gut feeling in the future.
This Intuitive Spin Cycle was brought to you in part by Jen, who I sense is always kept on her toes as Sprite’s Keeper. Head on over and check out the other spinners – I see some excellent reading in your future!
Silly Saturday – Could You Drive Down a Street Painted Like This?
