TLLT

1/9/09

1/8/09

Pink World

Can you believe some people don't like Pink?

1/6/09

Tiny Dancer

From the BBC, "Lily Howes, 14, a student at London's Royal Ballet School, poses beside a sculpture by Edgar Degas to be auctioned at Sotheby's and is expected to fetch £9-12m."

1/2/09

12/31/08

Have Fun and Happy New Year

Celebrate the New Year!
Originally uploaded by Malingering.
It's already 2009 in some parts of the world! Have a great New Year and may all your wishes and dreams come true!
:)

Happy New Year!

12/29/08

When in San Diego, EAT HERE :) :)

Pierre's Place
Originally uploaded by happylolday.

Pierre's Place 2
Originally uploaded by happylolday.

Eat! :) Bring joy to worthwhile people
http://www.pierresplace.org/homepage/homepage.html

A classmate of mine is the director of an amazing program for homeless teens in San Diego. It gives them an education, self esteem and job skills, along with an appreciation for music and the arts.

Pierre's Place is a gorgeous cozy place with great food that will help raise money for them and also teach admin skills for running a business. So you know you love to eat great food- go here whenever you are in San Diego.

Make your tummy happy and help fund the future of homeless teens who just want to be a part of the world and live good lives and get a great education.

Sproutly

Love a sprout? Not everybody does, read of the plight HERE of unwanted sprouts and other assorted objects... :)

12/27/08

Purple Fingers

12/26/08

That Santy Look

So yesterday a guy was seen flying about in a sleigh and some creatures have adopted the look. It's a new fashion trend! :)

"I'm naturally Santy looking!"

"Me too, well mostly :)"

"I wanna try!"

The Santy Look, you're doing it wrong.. but you still look cute!

12/24/08

Animals Look Like Happy People

Happiest Dog in the Universe!
Originally uploaded by Padrone.

Do you know a happy animal? Take some pictures!

From Anna Dove of the New York Bird Club
Hi,

Dr. Jonathan Balcombe is writing a pictorial book to be published around late 2009 by the University of California Press.

This volume will feature high-quality photo images of animals in pleasurable contexts: Play, Food, Touch, Love, Comfort, Companionship, Euphoria, etc. The book will be a celebration of the rich experience of animals (both wild and domesticated). And following on the message of his book Pleasurable Kingdom, readers will see that their lives, like ours, are worth living.

For more information on Dr. Balcombe's work or Pleasurable Kingdom, please see the websites below.

If you have or plan to take any animal photos that you think might be suitable for this project, please contact:

Jonathan Balcombe
jbalcombe@pcrm.org
202-686-2210 x331
www.jonathanbalcombe.com
www.pleasurablekingdom.com

"What's a Book?"

She's so cute!!
Originally uploaded by Padrone.

Alix

Alix and Child
Originally uploaded by happylolday.

The first ghost story I wrote.. Alix
Anytime is a good time for a ghost story :)

12/20/08

Fire Maiden

Please come read story I just posted called "Fire Maiden"
click the photo

12/19/08

F8

12/14/08

Banana Slug

Banana

Slug

Banana Slug!

12/12/08

Birdmouflage

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