TLLT: 10

10/31/08

10/29/08

10/28/08

Optical Girl Illusion
Originally uploaded by happylolday.
This was a great collage created by accident by a shop window having torn images stuck on the window from a past magazine, and a new magazine placed behind it. I first thought it was a magazine with great art on it's cover but it was this great temporary illusion. Had to capture this ghostly girl. :)

Waves

We'll Miss Your Smiling Faces

I don't mind the rain, but today in NYC the rain is as drear as it gets. Made me want to see some pretty faces. Goodbye happy flowers we'll see you on the other side when the Sun comes back close enough to keep you warm! :)

10/27/08

Links

10/26/08

Don't Lose Your Head!

10/17/08

OT Spooky and Starry Eyed

Now on the Ember Heart Web :)
Newly added: My new ghostly holiday blend Spooky. Spooky made its debut at FaerieCon and is now available on the Ember Heart website here:

Click the photo for my new blend Spooky!

Also Starry Eyed now available to everyone, the special incense blend made for Kat Von D:

Click the photo for Starry Eyed

10/15/08

My FaerieCon 2008 table

FaerieCon 2008 table
Originally uploaded by happylolday.

Still trying to get all my things sorted and back on to other things waiting for attention.. but here is a small pic of my table from FaerieCon. The complete result of what I spent so long working on -stock (close to 7000 individual sticks of incense hand created! Yes ouch! LOL), hand packed, labels printed cut and packages labeled and stapled, display pieces, textile covers, necklaces strung and hung (I made the necklace display from found objects), all the "things" you need for this bags, sales book, tissue paper, basically a small traveling shop single handed created in and on my art table with cats lurking about :) ! It was immense and intense and looks so behaved and together there in the photo.. I suppose that means you succeeded if it looks like it took no effort :) Click the pic for more rambling if curious. Something quite dramatic happened to my table, but calmness reigned shortly after.. :)
Ember Heart

Hope you are having a great week!!!!

10/13/08

Back!

miko and toru + monkey makes 3
Originally uploaded by shianlotta.
And it's still crazy around here. Boxes and bags to be unpacked, sleep to be caught up on.. it took me the same amount of time to get through the Holland Tunnel last night as it took me to get to Philly! LOL It was an adventure. Hope everybody had a great weekend and those who had Monkey Monday off, hope it was fun!

10/9/08

I'll be back!

Car driver
Originally uploaded by Hanafan.
The Ol' TLLT will be back on Monday once I get back from my vending adventure. Off into the wilds for me tomorrow and the weekend I'll post pix when I get back. Have a great weekend!!

TLLT, How it started

photo, syncros

I have always been told I have a unique way of seeing the world and have fun weaving stories connecting one part of nature to another.
Through Flickr and its vast collection of photos I have been able to make these connections come to life visually and to gently expand the view of the earth we share. We are so interconnected in shapes and colors, we live on a single floating rock, maybe that's why.

I like to think of the man in Africa and the woman in the US who have come together with others through their pictures to tell one whimsical story. Will they ever meet? Probably not. But in one small space of web they are unexpectedly side by side becoming a part of a visual tale or poem.

This way of seeing the world blend always makes me smile.

Click the photos to go to the individual photographer's sites on Flickr
"Blog This" I only use Flickr pictures where the blog function is enabled. This means the photographer has allowed their pictures to be used in blogs. I only want to include people who don't mind being brought into a web world like this. I do not just take what I see.

# C Merry Website
# C Merry MySpace

Guidelines

This style does have guidelines:

These are just guidelines of course. There are plenty of other places to get straightforward stories, this is just another way to tell a tale. The journey to find it is part of its magic.

Avoid the Obvious The reason for this style is to appreciate how the world is connected by nature and chance. Don't use something with a smile face painted on it for example, use something that seems to have a smile face on it by total coincidence or a frozen moment in time that was not planned.

Colors, Textures and Forms Use shapes and colors that are similar to weave a tale. You'll be amazed at what shares similar features.

Searched For and Chance Finds Don't go out and take a picture of a blue texture if you need one to connect images in a tale, find it "out there". Part of what is amazing is sharing your vision and assembling it from the world's vision.

Text and No Text The picture should do most if not all of the storytelling. If telling a tale with text it should enhance the image not explain in excess detail why it's there. It should be clear what it's illustrating.

Top to Bottom Scroll Align your tales to begin at the top of your picture list and end with the last. That is of course if they do have a beginning and end, they don't have to. But as in everything there will be exceptions. If presented on a webpage side to side indicate whether it's to be read from left to right or not since not all countries read pages from left to right. What is great about this style is almost everyone can see what you are saying.

Change the World You can depict fact but use this form to expand the world by imagination

TLLT

10/31/08

Alien Form

10/29/08

One Path

10/28/08

Optical Girl Illusion

Waves

We'll Miss Your Smiling Faces

10/27/08

Links

10/26/08

Don't Lose Your Head!

10/17/08

OT Spooky and Starry Eyed

10/15/08

My FaerieCon 2008 table

10/13/08

Back!

10/9/08

I'll be back!

TLLT, How it started

Happy LOL Day

TLLT Story Styles

About Me

Guidelines

Blog Archive

Fun Semi-TLLT

Mentions and Thoughts about TLLT

Cool people