As told by bunnies

Found today, a very silly site on which well-known films are parodied, with the assistance of a supporting cast of thousands ;-)


Take a look at the Angry Alien site, and judge for yourselves...

Keep well ;-)

Several thoughts, in passing

The following gave me a lot to think about...
(snipped from Time magazine

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez caused a stir this week during his visit to New York City, denouncing President Bush as "the devil" in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly and, during a visit to Harlem the following day, calling him an "alcoholic." In an exclusive interview with TIME's Tim Padgett, Chavez defended his controversial rhetoric as a necessary part of his leftwing revolution's effort to counter what he calls Bush's "global imperalism."

"Bush has called me worse things — tyrant, populist dictator, drug trafficker, to name a few," Chavez said. "I'm not attacking Bush; I'm simply counterattacking. Bush has been attacking the world, and not just with words — with bombs. I think the bombs he's unleashed on Baghdad or Lebanon do a lot more harm than any words spoken in the United Nations."

On the growing support in Latin America for his brand of "21st-century socialism," Chavez said: "After seeing the failure of Washington-backed capitalist reforms in Latin America, I no longer think a third way between capitalism and socialism is possible. Capitalism is the way of the devil and exploitation. If you really want to look at things through the eyes of Jesus Christ — who I think was the first socialist — only socialism can really create a genuine society."

Chavez expressed confidence that the U.N. will vote to give Venezuela a non-permanent seat in the Security Council next month. "It's because of the moment we're living right now, the need to block the cannons of the U.S. empire," he said. "The U.N.'s members believe we can have the most impact on that debate. The U.S. fears Venezuela's presence on the Council because it knows we'll be an independent vote for the Third World."

Chavez also had some pointed comments on his country's role as the hemisphere's largest oil producer. "Bush wanted Iraq's oil and I believe he wants Venezuela's oil," Chavez said. "But the blame for high oil prices lies in the consumer model of the U.S. Its reckless oil consumption is a form of suicide."

I've tried to avoid partisan commentary up to now, even though I honestly feel that the body language George W. Bush projects displays the utmost contempt for anybody and everybody outside the "inner circle" of the decision-making circuits in U.S. politics.... there is much to be changed in the land of "e pluribus unum" so that the people who are affected by policy also get to (audibly) say their piece and be considered in the decision-making process...

I feel so sad for the people who inhabit the greatest country on earth, whose rights have been compromised by corporate interest and political manoeuvering, who have little to say besides elect representatives who are subsequently sidelined, manipulated by party/corporate/military interests and who in the long run are unable to let the people who elected them be heard...

I despair for you people at moments, sincerely, but I can't do anything you can't or won't do for yourselves...

Keep well, sleep well, look around you, listen well and learn to the best of your ability... you are not alone, sincerely ;-)

Take care ;-)

Would you like to dance with me?

Hey, where did she go...?

Lost and found

An enlarged view can be found here.

The world is a strange place, our own minds and the depths of our own psyche even stranger and deeper, yet the search for the Grail continues in myriad forms and fashions... the treasures we seek may be before our eyes, yet unseen for whatever reasons...

Keep well...

Post 747

I was going to post a blathingly long post on personal commiserations, things that were bothering me, what's been happening and/or the absence thereof... things that suck but which aren't helpful in the long run...

In one moment, I see that this is my 747th post on my blog, which deserves a totally different twist to which I'd intended :P

When I was a child, the Boeing 747 was probably the summum of aviation technology... introduced at the end of the 1960's the airplane and its successors are still important forces on the aviation scene...


In Australia, the QANTAS people decided to give an added dimension to the 747 phenomenon... during the years, it had become fashionable to restyle the planes in whatever ways necessary for gratuitous national profiling and they decided to repaint three of their 747's to represent some of the core values of the Aboriginal population of Australia...


Wunala Dreaming
Varying themes and different colour schemes were used to promote the messages of the Dreamtime, the Aboriginal way of describing the different reality which exists alongside the perceived and accepted modes of daily existence.


Nalanji Dreaming
As a child, even though I was a child of the immigrant newcomers, I was brought up in a strictly Anglo-Saxon tradition and although I lived in a country where the native and traditional values were ridiculed when compared to "Modern Progress", I always sensed there was a value and a truth beneath the surface that we newcomers were unable or unwilling to understand.

We read the stories, but failed to comprehend, we learned of the traditions spanning millenia past but failed to see them for what they were worth because the messages passed on were of a world and time totally beyond our own.


Yananji Dreaming
The giants that rule the air, returning to remind of us of our own insignificance, redecorated in ways which we would do well to heed, to remember that we belong to the earth and that we have no claim to this planet of ours besides the fact that it gave birth to us and to which we will return in our own time...

It's sad, a message I need to keep on repeating to myself, lest I forget...

Keep well...

Mathematical universes

Zilla and Loloma asked recently, how I managed to generate the images I've been planting in my blog.


The truth of the matter is that it's really quite simple, but it requires time (which I usually don't have), patience (which I do have, but which is usually compromised by the noise which accompanies adult life), some understanding of mathematical functions (yay :D ) and a willingness to trust one's intuitiveness... that, along with some sort of (mental) logbook of what you've been doing will lead you down a path to discover the most beautiful and the so very beautiful extremes of abstract harmony...


This is an image created by Dzeni, who inspired/inspires me and who is light years ahead of me in generating the most beautiful of fractal images...


Fractals in nature...
For the record, I use two different programmes... on my Mac I've got EasyFractal (version forgotten, it's at work) and on my PC at home I'm using Tierazon which (for me) is an interesting way of confronting confusion. In the future, I'll probably progress to other, better and different programmes but these offer me a open door to start my journey through the fractal freakiness which is part of all of us...

Keep well...

Reality check

Chickens of the world, unite... you have nothing to lose besides your illusions...


... and I suspect you humans don't either...

Cows with Guns

Long, long time ago...
I can still remember
how the music used to make me smile...

(cough... sorry, wrong intro here... will try again...)
A good number of years ago, I heard a song which left me laughing my sad ass off at a moment I really needed it... a brilliant parody on much of what's going on in our dislocated western experience of reality, as well as just providing some good moosic as well :P


Take a look at Dana Lyons' home site, who as creator and perpetuator of the "Cows with Guns" phenomenon has provided so many of us with so much to laugh about... terrible puns, excruciating associations, totally silly approaches to the everyday nonsense around us... excellent...

Incidentally, I have absolutely no idea of who provided the animation on YouTube, but it's been done in such good taste and in total keeping with the song itself... whoever you are, thank you :D

Keep well...

Yet another quiz...

I nicked this one via the Mischievous Muse, a quiz I rather liked given my fascination for Nordic legends...


Which Norse God or Goddess are you most like?
created with QuizFarm.com

Aware

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Fluttering to and fro in the light,
knowing but not comprehending,
seeing but not understanding...

The hands of the clock, tick tock...

Take a look at this site, an interesting variation on a well-worn theme, excellently done :D

Keep well...

Wake-up call

Does this sound familiar ( :P )?...

The Gatekeeper

It's been a rather tiring couple of days with colleagues taking time off or claiming sick leave, with too few people to do ever so much in as short a time as possible... I'm feeling rather ragged but just wanted to fiddle around with fractals for a short while, they offer me a way of escape into mathematical and implied metaphysical jungles through which I can roam at my leisure...


One of this evenings better attempts which I instinctively called The Gatekeeper, because it looked so much like a moment in a dream I had a few months ago, the intensity of which left me puzzled but euphoric at the time...

Keep well...

Guardianship

We search for meaning in myriad ways, we try to find comfort in some form of togetherness in our surroundings, we forget that we are the guardians of an incomprehensible world around us and of the fellow souls that inhabit it...


The world is fragile, the people around us likewise and perhaps even more so... "reality" is a desperate trap for the unwilling and unable, for those who cannot see for so many individual reasons...


Treasure the world, for the loveliness and the nourishment it gives at all the right moments... treasure your fellow man/woman, for the connection and the inspiration they can give is a gift beyond measure... treasure your interaction with nature around you in the most intuitive of ways, for this is the way man was meant to be in the Garden of Eden... knowing, accepting, undemanding... being...


Keep well...

Autumn dreaming

Summer is fading quietly, autumn is approaching in its own gentle and unobtrusive way... the leaves have been yellowing for a week or so now, the little ones that live so near us and yet so far are busying themselves with the things needing doing...


The garden is filled with webs, every morning one needs to take care not to disturb the gifts left behind in the course of the night...


Such precision, such dedication and such eloquence... who would have the words to describe the treasures contained in the cycles of existence...

Keep well...

The light within

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