In the Mahayana Buddhism of Japan, there is a term used: "shogyo mujo." The transience of all phenomena. It is to describe the ephemeral nature of all reality, of all things. In short it means "Everything Changes."

Well I, my situation, my LIFE, they are all changing. All of it. My reality...in part.

I've been distant lately, yes and I'll likely still be rather absent for a time as I prepare to move 3000 miles to a new home. The last time I made such a move I was fifteen. That was nearly *mumble17mumble* years ago. This will be, however, the first time my husband has moved more than fifty miles from where he was born. It's a big change for us both and not without it's stresses. But it is exciting too.

New friends. New faces. New experiences. Lots of NEW. I like New. It's shiny and smells better.

So until we head out on our cross country trek, a 4000 mile drive (as we swing south to see the Grand Canyon, a sight my husband has never seen) and until we are settled and embracing our new life, do not be surprised if you see little of me. HOWEVER any Seattle area deviants interested in art collaborations (photography, film, modeling, etc) please do send me a note. I'd really like to delve deep into the Seattle art community...it's one reason we are moving there. Not that Philadelphia is without an art culture...it's just time for a change.

Change, a little something different for cryin' out loud
Yeah a change
Even for the worse, it would be better somehow
Sometimes you just cross that line
Where everything is more of the same
When it's do or die, step aside, turn the tide
Somethin's gotta change

Artist: Sons Of The Desert
Album: Change
quote compliments of `gilad

I do plan to take photos on our trip and Verse-willing, some film footage as well. But, until I have some new photos/film of my own to share...

Today's journal is brought to you by the words "rebirth" and "change":







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Although I have been silent and lurking, I have been watching the world go by. And I must confess...

Creativity abounds.









THE NEWEST: WARNING: SEX CHANGES EVERYTHING - Teeth

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Mindwarp - Marta Alicia takes a face full of viscera
Transformers - Giant F*ing Robots Are Coming
Black Snake Moan - What's Your Heaven?
The Boondock Saints - So...what's the 'symbology' there?
SWEENY TODD - I Want You Bleeders
A Word on Bad-Ass - word, bitches
BUG - I Am The Mother Super Bug!
The Woodsman - Uncommon Beauty




Shadow of a Doubt (in Tandem with The Dark Muse #1) - DA Journal from May 20,2008
The Art of Cinema - DA journal from Sep 17, 2006
The Eiger Rating - from the first and only PRINT issue of Stitched Magazine
CERN: Outrageous Ambition in Pieces Magazine, Feb 2009





<sub>Is it still raining in the space between the raindrops?

"Art is the elimination of the unnecessary."
~Pablo Picasso; painter (1881-1973)

“I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.”
~Johnny Depp; American Actor (born 1963)

“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
~Stanley Kubrick quotes (American Film Director and Writer, 1928-1999)

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
~Jim Morrison quotes (American Poet and Singer of The Doors. 1943-1971)</sub>

I VOW NOT TO LIVE AN UNFINISHED LIFE, BUT TO PURSUE MY DREAMS, TO BE WHO I TRULY AM, TO SINK THE NINE BALL AND TO LIVE LIFE TO ITS FULLEST.




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