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  • Photographing Orbs

    I'm reading this book called  The Orb Project  which is about the relatively recent phenomenon of photographic orbs that have appeared in photographs since the beginning of photography, but only very very rarely, until the invention of digital photography.  Now they are appearing everywhere and causing quite a debate as to what exactly they are.

    Digital Cameras can see some of the spectrum that traditional film cameras cannot detect, and of course the naked eye cannot detect.

     Of course hundreds of thousands of so called "orb" photographs are bugs, raindrops, dust particles, however, aside from these, there is physical evidence to suggest the photographs of many orbs are actually capturing something which is visible beyond the limitations of the human eye.

    I purchased the book without much perusal, on a whim, having photographed a few of these orbs myself,  and assumed it would go into the spiritual and ghostly side of the matter but I have been amazed to find that the first part (two authors),  although somewhat out in the left field,  is really all about quantum physics and the ideas presented are scientific in nature.

     I did not know, for instance, that the digital camera is capable of capturing ultraviolet light, easily demonstrated by pointing your television remote control at your camera and looking at the view screen.  All cameras are different at the amounts of the spectrum they can detect but they can detect more than the human eye. 

    There is also information on the physics of these orbs,  the colors they emit (Fluorescence) or reflect,  the ideas that they may be physical things unseen by the human eye,  but captured by the camera.   The first author suggest that rather than being spirits,  if they are beings, are separate beings in themselves,  some type of occupants of a parallel universe.

    There are many examples of these orbs being captured by more than one camera, from different angles at the same time,  orbs photographed in succession showing movement,  and they are all individual with a unique fingerprint.  They can be tracked.  

    Rather than moving,  as floating through the air, as we think of things, this quantum physics guy suggests that they move through planes in succession and that they emit their own light and colors.  

    If you blow the orbs up and look at them close up they seem to have markings and some sort of structures.   People have said they see faces in them but that may be too odd for me.

    I'm at the middle of the book where the spirit guy is now telling his theory that they are spirits or beings.  

    Also, some people,  people who tend to be sensitive,  have a tendency to take more of them.  I seem to have a few.

    The thing with the physics, is that you can rule out bugs, dirt, reflections and stuff by these colorations and patterns. They can measure refraction and rule out 'backscatter', etc.

      I have these three good orb photos that I took myself.  They are currently being inspected by two people I sent them to. .Just for the fun of it.

    I have ruled out dust, raindrops and insects with these three, as much as I can with no scientific instruments (banjo plucks out 'born on a mountain top in tennessee')
    I'll let ya know what the so called experts think.

    I'm not usually one of those National Enquirer types,  although I have had own share with the unexplaned and unfigured out enough to believe there is something else out there yet to be tapped into.



    This orb did not convince me it wasn't a raindrop at first until I blew it up real big. No flash was used. There should be other raindrops though if it were raining.  If it were a drop of water falling from the tree,  it would seem it would not be moving sideways but down.

    This orb was taken in the subway.  I just snapped the trax,  without a flash.  It has an intricate structure and is quite multicolored if you blow it up really big.  



    This is my very best orb.  was photographing the rocket ship on the building that didn't really come out.   Here it is blown up below.  No flash here either.

    It strikes me now,  after posting these, that of all of my unusual and otherworldly photos, these three are all of specifically nothing in particular.  Each time I snapped and no central subject in mind,  just basically background, which is also something I don't usually do, and of course I did not see the orbs with my eyes when I took the photos. All of the other photos taken during these times were normal.

    I wish I understood the scientific part more,  it's really complicated to me.  Stuff about if these colors were from this spectrum then that spectrum would be indicated..... stuff like that, and wavelengths, oy vey,  wavelengths up the yin yang.

    I know nothing about visible light, but apparently evolution has given us just enough to get by but there's tons more out there.  Animals know but aren't telling. You have to cut them up to find out.

    Oh well.
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    .This orb clearly has a spherical shape and it is between me and a rope and you can see the rope through it.  It's like a little burst of light.
    Something about perhaps flash causing something else to fire, but no, there was no flash here, this one has light and color of its own, and the color seem to be in layers.

    When I blew it up really big it looked just like the eye of god and go ahead and save it and blow it up yourself.

     You know you want to.

    According to the first scientist, even if they aren't 'alive' we are on the brink of discovering something we don't yet know about the physical world that is beyond our perception.  Tracking them moving through a room and shooting the same one with different cameras from different angles is really spooky. 

    The part about the speed at which they must naturally travel making it seem as if their being captured by the camera is intentional is also giving me the willies.
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    Well, the pope says we can believe in aliens from other planets, and Mexico, Japan, Canada and I believe France says there ARE UFO's that we have studied and known about but have not disclosed to the public.

    Will the enlightenment come in my lifetime? 
    I've been waiting?

    So when am I gonna hear it?
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    I just wanna know stuff.

    I think I'll try start dreaming again try to have another out of body experience too.
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    Am I the only one who thinks about stuff like this?  Remember when you used to KNOW how many planets there were and animals like these were not an every day sight?
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    Why,  I see these all over the place, don't you?

    I'm sarcastic.  What the FUCK is this?  It appears to have an extremely large mouth with sucker lined lips.

    When I say "doesn't it look sad?", It's a good thing I know I'm only projecting my inner interpretation of how I THINK IT LOOKS, and am able to remain objective.

    I look HORRIFIED.  This is know is TRUE.

    I can't tell if it has tentacles.  It has fins where the ears are.  What if it only has one big tentacle, is it a unipus?   Or just big orapus?  I will call it a DUMBO fish because it does have a cute side.

     Good god, I wonder if it has TEETH?! 

    Vagina Dentata UP THE YIN YANG!

    I used to be able to name all of the animals.
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    Of course just becuause there are monsters in the ocean doesn't mean there are monsters in the sky or god forbid, in the same atmosphere but in a parallel universe.

    Einstein thought there were.

    ...I've got to go eat my baked potato and precooked, breaded chicken cutlet.
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  • What are your thoughts on assisted suicide? Is it in any way acceptable?


    I got up too late to blog so I thought I'd just answer the featured question,  but you had pick one that is not easy to make a joke about.   Needless to say my thoughts on this subject are limited here as it always depends on the circumstances and there are too many circumstances to get into at the moment.

    I once shot a bird with a pellet gun and it fell to the ground, wings flapping, obviously fatally injured...

    I smashed it with a rock to put it out of its misery and yea, I felt really really bad for a long time.

    I'm sure there is a place for assisted suicide.  I'm sure it shouldn't be just an everyday thing.

    Why are there no Xanga surveys?

     Just when I hope to make Xanga credits up the yin yang,  they don't seem to have any Xanga Surveys for ME at the moment.   Should I take this personally?  I did scoff at the surveys when they first came out.   Perhaps they remember me.   I don't know.  I have tried for a few days now to answer Xanga Surveys and they seem to have ended them prematurely.  I don't know.

    I dreamed my cell phone got wet and ruined.   As you may not remember.  This happened a month ago when I dropped it into the toilet.   I hope this dream does not come true.   In the dream something was spilled on it.

    Anyway,  I got up too late to have a leisurely morning. I got up too late to write a decent blog. 
    The weekend was nice I transplanted several houseplants.


    I hope everyone's week is getting off to a good start.   I can't complain.   Well, I can, but there really isn't anything to complain about.  Well, there is,  but I don't have time.

       

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  • Exotic Dancing Girls

    Every Japanese  parent wants to make sure that when their daughter makes a trip to America,  she is safe.  Here is an English Lesson with a safety lesson to go with it.


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    When I first moved to Manhattan from the West, I learned a lot about misconceptions and incorrect perceptions that had been influenced by television and movies and the media. 

     I was afraid to leave my apartment at night for about 6 months, until I figured out that my perception of the big dangerous city was basically that, a perception and nothing like reality.  

     I can imagine how the rest of the world must think about us Americans; that there are constant gun battles in the streets of America,  how the West was won... 

    If you are an American,  how do you feel about being viewed as a gun toting wild person who only lives for pleasure by the rest of the world?
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    If you are from another country,  how do you really view us Americans? 
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  • Do you believe that teenage mothers can still be successful at life? Why or why not?


    This is a STOOPID question.  Everyone is an individual and it always depends on the circumstances.  Some people will have help from family and friends,  perhaps even the teenage father.   People can do what they want to do.

    I think teenagers who become pregnant are making a mistake because I'm sure it adds an element of restrictiveness....

     but everyone is an individual and blanket statements like this are kind of silly...

          Who picks these questions to be featured anyway?????

    And what does being successful at life mean anyway???

    I'd say if you are breathing and your heart is beating you are successful at life.

    WHO PICKS THESE FEATURED QUESTIONS?????

    I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHY AMERICANS EAT ANIMAL CRACKERS AND JAPANESE EAT PEOPLE CRACKERS?????

    AND I'VE SUGGESTED IT BEFORE TOO.

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  • What is the greastest life lesson you've learned so far?

       That death is not the answer.

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  • I Want Lifetime Xanga, Can You Give Me Some Credits?

    I haven't really been paying attention to these Xanga Credits and Xanga Minis.  I recently learned that you can get Lifetime Xanga for like 45,000, credits.     Can you give me some credits, or leave Minis so I can build up toward that goal,  the goal of getting Xanga lifetime.

    I could be asking for real money. 
     But could you spare a few credits for an unfortunate sole?

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    .I got the idea from .quiltnmomi, good idea!.  I didn't think the credits had any real use.
    Shows how much I resist change and ignore new stuff.

    I only have 2,700 so I have a LONG WAY TO GO!

    And don't forget to say a prayer for the terrible situation in China.

    peace

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  • In your opinion who is the greatest actor of all time?

       President George W. Bush,  however,  others in that role have done a bang up job as well.

    Oh, here's another one,  did you see the headline

    Vatican: Belief in aliens OK

    That is a real "news" headline.

    I'm sure hundreds of thousands of people can  breath a heavy sigh of relief that they won't burn in hell for etertinity because they saw a UFO.

    Whew,  man I mean,  people are on the ball!

    Or is it "on the stick"?  I can never remember...

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  • Chicago World's Fair Erased from Public Memory Vast Expo of Capitalistic Greed


    I just finished reading   The Devil in the White City,  and have been dumbstruck at how a population could have seemingly forgotten two enormous events in our own history,  the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which gave us electricity,  and made Wrigley's, Westingouse,  and many others household names and seemingly changed the course of history,  and the serial killer, Dr. Holmes,  who disected and tortured possibly 200 people,  in favor of Jack the Ripper....  I rave about it....   I have been doing some research and it seems that I am not the only one who sees that certain things, events, relationships and otherwise connections are not that easily made.

    I'm no genius,  but I consider myself well read and not knowing a lot of this stuff amazes me but what amazes me is the stuff I do know and how some parts of history are not always retold or are replaced with other stuff.

    The older I get,  the more I see....  I don't like what I can see.  I have said this before.

    It seems that people are making their own independent videos and putting them on YouTube and here is one which expresses some of my concerns.
    An interesting lesson in unspoken history...

    School kids are making these historical essays and they are good.

  • Exotic Dancers Videos

    Videos of some Dancing Japanese Hat Ladies at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens last Staruday.
    Cherry Blossom Fest
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    It took a week to get them uploaded.
      It was a long week..

    GUNG HO FRONT RUNNER JUMPS GUN:

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    I brought all of the plants in from street side ledges.

    AA went to visit his mom.  I'm not sure what I'll do.
    It seems to be a sunny, blustery day with possibilty of some rain showers.
     
    I heard them on the radio, then went to 1010wins.com to see and there are all these festivals happening today:
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    Incidents (MANHATTAN) BROADWAY BETWEEN W 65TH ST AND W 60TH ST
    CLOSED FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND DEVELOPMENT
    FESTIVAL, SUNDAY 11AM UNTIL 6PM ++ WATCH FOR DELAYS OR DIVERSIONS ON
    THE M5, M7, M10, M20 & M104 BUSES +
    10:02 AM
    Incidents (MANHATTAN) AMSTERDAM AVE BETWEEN W 96TH ST AND W
    106TH ST CLOSED FOR THE VALLEY RESTORATION LDC FESTIVAL, SUNDAY 11AM
    UNTIL 6PM ++ WATCH FOR DELAYS OR DIVERSIONS ON THE M7 & M11 BUSES
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    10:02 AM
    Incidents (NEW YORK) BROADWAY BETWEEN 14TH ST (E) AND E 6TH ST
    CLOSED FOR THE FRIENDS OF CB#2 FEAST, SUNDAY 11AM UNTIL 6PM ++ WATCH
    FOR DELAYS OR DIVERSIONS ON THE M6 & M7 BUSES ++
    10:02 AM
    Incidents (QUEENS) SANFORD AVE BETWEEN UNION ST AND MAIN ST
    CLOSED FOR THE FLUSHING DEVELOPMENT CENTER FESTIVAL, SUNDAY 11AM UNTIL
    6PM ++ WATCH FOR DELAYS OR DIVERSIONS ON THE Q12, Q13, N20, N21 &
    X51 BUSES ++
    10:02 AM
    Incidents (BROOKLYN) CORTELYOU RD BETWEEN MCDONALD AVE AND OCEAN
    PKWY CLOSED FOR THE TOMCHEI TORAH FESTIVAL, SUNDAY 11AM UNTIL 6PM ++
    WATCH FOR DELAYS OR DIVERSIONS ON THE B23 BUS ++
    10:02 AM
    Incidents (MANHATTAN) E 60TH ST BETWEEN LEXINGTON AVE AND 5TH
    AVE CLOSED FOR THE 19TH PRECINCT COMMUNITY COUNCIL FESTIVAL., SUNDAY
    11AM UNTIL 6PM ++ WATCH FOR DELAYS OR DIVERSIONS ON THE Q32 BUS ++

    so I could go take pix.  I probably won't.   It is 57 and Sunny in New York.

    I  thought of making a journey to a cemetary and a photo essay on headstones than say "MOTHER",   old Victorian ones and crypts.... but I probably won't do that.

    I need to groom myself,  a haircut, a buzz is necessary as well as a mustousch trim and Hillery Clinton is also in town.

    I need more coffee.

    Part II Procession in Native Costume:


    (Hey dat goil ain't japanese, she's from Queens!.)

        on the last chapters of this book,  this part of American History should be HOUSEHOLD KNOWLEDGE<   WHAT HAPPENED?????

      An event designed, created by and attended by the arguably most ifulentual people in history,  with an attendace of more than any previous event in human history and an american DOCTOR serial killer with up to 200 victims.

     THE event that opened the 20th century and paved the way toward TODAY,

     Hmmm,  no wonder they burned it all down at the end...  

    ..I did not know that the first sky scraper,  in Chicago, was a Masonic Temple,  did you?
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      this is they type of history that should be in history books, but of course we wouldn't be in the mess we are in if it were.

     cigar breath,   gag gag gag     tycoon,   fat and  with 'offensive feet' the popular malady of the day.

     drink strong coffee to clean up onion breath...

        don't let me be born or go near Chicago at the turn of the century.  Dear God had no mercy there...

    .......okay, believe it or not,  I'm going crosstown to meet a friend for lunch, to eat our way and take photos at a street festival,   all i gotta do is shit, and shower,  walk half a blok and jump on a city bus...   then i'll come home early,  take a nice hot healing bath with soothing music, not hav to worry about Dancing With The Stars,  and groom myself for the week,  i can relax until late.

    ... dad gum it,  i have a plan,  and i better get crackin'.    I don't have the urge to stay indoors and while away the time in the apartment,  i'm not sure what is wrong, I seem better without wellbutrin, but then it is mother's day, and my mother is dead, and i have not paid my taxes,   i'll worry about it later..  time,  this time,  is of the essence,  i've got one day to waste away and enjoy and i better enjoy while i have the good enjoyable feelings to go right along with it,  otherwise i might not want to go outside, i bet.
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  • A Wasted Blog


    I have nothing to say,   yet am compelled to blog.
    I thought I was blogging for posterity's sake,  until I looked up the meaning.
    I don't give a shit about the following generations.

    Yes it is happening in the world.  People no longer see a therapist,  we blog.  I saw an article in the news. 
    DUH!

    I'm glad it is Thursday.
    I look forward to weekends in general.
    This will be the second Mother's Day without my Mom,  I feel a bit blue about that.   I seriously considered and felt compelled to send an actual card to the house anyway with magical hopes that she just might be there and almost cried on the street the other day but didn't.    She is in a grave which also sickens my gut.   Sadness with an urge to vomit.  At times it is unreal.

    It is supposed to rain and I hope it rains like hell.  I hope the days are dark and grey and constant downpours and wind up the yin yang.  

    I'm looking, on Ebay for a real Southwestern, Native American Thunderbird because you can put them in the window sill and make it rain.  My sister had one when I was a child.  It always worked.

    She'd say  "Thunder ROAR and lightning CRASH broke Grandma's washpot ALL TO SMASH!!!" and scare the shit out of me.  And it would rain.

    If it isn't I might be tempted to go outside and enjoy the city,  or take photos.

    I believe I am having more episodes of comfort leaving the apartment,  but I suspect I may be avoiding something in the apartment,  or some things I need to do.

     Paper work and stuff,  financial stuff and personal responsibilities.
      I may have convinced myself that I have overcome some anxiety about being outside by preferring that anxiety over other building  anxieties inside.

    I change the topic.

    A psychology teacher raved about a book to his class yesterday,  if you want a real good picture of a psycho path,   so I ran right out and bought it after work,  The Devil in the White City  by Erik Larson.   It was not new to me,  I had considered reading it,  recently for that matter, and so it seems kismet to hear about it again.  In fact,  he was uncertain about the title and I reassured him and questioned him about the book.

    I am no psychopath, they just make good books.  According to this instruction, Lyndon B. Johnson  (A former American President) was a true psychopath and I will have to delve further into this when I have time and think about it again.

    Reading it (the book) is also away to avoid other responsibilities that cause anxiety....
    It is edutainment because it is both historically factual and well written prose.

    I've been up earlier than usual every day this week and on time or early to work, except I was actually 5 minutes late yesterday even though I left with enough time. 

    I am feeling bored and tinily restless these days.  

    I have a flower pot on the window ledge on the outside of the building,  I have several in fact,  and a few are directly over the stairs and the entrance to the building down below where sometimes people hang out.

    I came home to find a sherbet container with mint and a stick with Tibetan prayer flags on it gone.  It fell during the daytime, onto the sidewalk and the landlord has asked me to remove plants on the street side window ledges.  I have pretended to only understand removing the ones over the front door.... the others are over the garbage shelter and no one is in danger.

    There was accidentally a different story,  fear of inspection of the building due to an accident of a worker on the fire escape... bla bla bla..... where will I bee without morning glories on my window ledge?  

    And I had always worried about falling flowerpots,  until growing up and convincing myself that it only happened in cartoons, like blind men selling pencils from a cup, and the idea was merely parinoia,  until I remembered that I had moved to New York City and life had become a cartoon and a blind man really did sell pencils from a cup and all of the cartoon characters I'd seen as a child,  floppy eared doggy people,   pig people,   all people as animals,  TOP CAT and MaGilla Gorilla,   were all riding the New York City subway and every cartoon's inspiration was here.

    It's easy to confuse true safety concerns with paranoia,  or at least it was before 9/11/01 and the current state of the government in control.

    And so I put the fucking flower pot up there,  making a low container,  a plastic sherbet container instead of a terra cotta head breaker,  but the wind blew the prayer flags down,   and what does that tell you,   and so it goes...

    Life is really a cartoon but we all already know that.   I can't figure out if I'm depressed or not,  so I guess not.   I'm wondering if I'm even melancholy or just haven't stopped long enough to think about it...

    I watched "The Ruins" last night for free on  watchtvsitcoms.com.  Is that illegal?  Someone told me it was illegal?  I watch free movies all the time on Movie6.net and how can it be illegal when I don't do anything illegal to see it but click on the addy and open my eyes and ears?  And it's a good thing not many people read this because I'm giving away innernet secrets.

    So it's a pirate copy,  am I a pirate?  I didn't put it there, I just looked through the spy glass,  arg,  no matey walked the plank.

    No, seriously,  am I a pirate?

    I take comfort in being part of a mass of pirates, if so.

    If you get a line into something,  are you illegal? 

    There is no morality in Hollywood so nobody can say morals on this case,  I don't care if a movie star doesn't get my dime,  sorry, I just don't have that in me. 

    Perhaps Satan has turned my heart to stone,   then the prophecies would have been correct.

    If I believed in Satan I might be worried.  

    Are you an athiest if you can honestly say you don't believe in Satan?   You believe in a "God" thing but no Satan,  does that make you a half athiest?  A Satathiest, perhaps?

    I don't have cable and I watch more "tv" now than I did,  when I want and without those annoying commercials,  on the innernet!

    I don't think it's illegal if it is broadcast openly,  at least not for the person watching.  

    Please tell me if I'm wrong and does anyone ever remember getting an Internet Rule Book?  Huh?

    bla bla bla...  I'm not depressed,  it's pretty obvious to me.... I have no affect this morning.

    My affect produces no effect.

    I always confused the two until a coworker told me that easily affect was a verb and effect was a noun and so now it is as easy as day and night. 

    you could say I saw the light,  which is not the truth, but a metaphorical idea hinting at the truth,  because language itself is a lie,  disguising meaning to all but the initiated.

    How Are you feeling right now????
    Please tell me because I'm keeping stats related to the moon.

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