90 posts tagged “vox hunt”

Book: Show us a book that has helped or inspired your writing.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art (Wheaton Literary Series)

Madeleine L'Engle

Madeleine L'Engle is a Christian whom those on other paths can respect. She is truly a hero to me. Nearly all her books have inspired me, stories and meditations alike, but this one is specifically about creative energy, and it's a book I highly recommend to everyone I like.

Show us some fireworks.

I made this video last year. I have another post to do today, but it will take awhile. I don't think as well on this iMac as I do on my iBook, for some reason.

Show us a logo you really love.

This is from my old website, which I may resurrect after we move back to Comcast.

Show us your favorite photo from last summer.

All last year's photos are on my computer, which I still can't use for a few more days. Here's one I posted a few months ago that I really like, though, so it can bear repeating.

Show us something (or someone) old and beautiful. 
Submitted by falcon.kmc.

Show us something you love but everyone else hates. 
Submitted by AKA Vasquez.  

So far I have thought of premium gin, which people would love if they studied it as I have, and eggplant, unless it's cooked improperly and rendered soggy, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, even in the Dork years. Surely there's more. But I've been clicking around to see what others have listed, and so far I don't really hate much of it. Who hates kim-chee, for instance? That is one delicious relish.

If I think of anything better, I will report back.

 

Show us a minor indulgence.
Submitted by Elisheva Chana.

Video:  Share your favourite small-budget movie of 2007.
Submitted by ciathegreat.

Uh...

How about you get back to me on that in six months or so, okay, babe?

Show us a photo of you from when you were in grade school.

Here's me at 9, and 8, in school photos.

I don't know why someone didn't show me how to close my mouth over my teeth. They were so focused on getting me to smile, instead. Witlings. Anyway, I left the scan completely untouched--it's crooked because a careless kid did it for me. In the first picture, my mom had been sick with mononucleosis for many months--I think this is called glandular disease in Britain, something like that. Anyway, my dad cut my hair, badly, as you can see. Also, that top I'm wearing, (which we'd call a pinafore or jumper, completely different than either of those in Britain, again,) was one my mother made for me when I was 7. It was ankle length, made for a party. I wore it for several years, because I kept getting taller and taller, but no bigger around. In the 9 year-old photo, it was a short dress, and I wore it another year after that as a blouse-length smock. I just really liked it a lot.
 
The dress in the 8 year-old photo was also one of my favorites, and I believe it actually came to me used. It wasn't that I couldn't have new clothes; my mom was just very frugal, made many of my things, and wasn't averse to buying good pieces from thrift sales or consignment shops or whatever. I wore that dress with white clogs that had an ankle-strap.

I was always made fun of for my teeth. I had them straightened in my late teens, but they didn't stay straight. They're really unattractive now, difficult to care for, and I'm very unhappy about them. At least I know how to close my lips over them, though.

Show us a Polaroid picture.

Polaroid

Some things to note, though. It has to be a url file name that ends in .jpg, .gif, or .png, so I don't think a Vox url will work. If you want to back up and do it again, you have to refresh the page. And set the angle to 0 degrees if you don't want a jaunty angle added to the picture. Then you, too, can recapture the glory of the days before digital technology rendered obsolete those poorly-exposed, soft-edged images bordered in white. Only better, because no Polaroid photo ever had as much clarity to it as this photo, shot with a medium-quality digital camera, using a night filter in bad lighting.

You can also do this with Photoshop, but my question is, why? I guess it's charming, or something. We still have a Polaroid camera around here somewhere, but the film has always been mad expensive.