Your new photos are really cool. I really like the use of geometrical patterns, like in the scaffolding, the stone wall, and the bridges.

Speaking of Germany, I was looking at this lady's pictures the other day and thought they were lovely:

http://flickr.com/photos/madameisdead/se...

And since I still don't have new Deviant Art, here's something weird and abstract of mine I already had for in the meantime. LOL
http://lyrisin.deviantart.com/art/Candle...

And my face photo-manipulated to look all artsy:

http://lyrisin.deviantart.com/art/Swirly...

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 5:26 pm (EST) den Aug 26, 2008

"i think shawnalea looks great."

Wow, thanks so much. I'm very flattered! :) (I think that might be the first positive comment I've had on one of my paintings, except from relatives LOL) I did use a brush to create it, it just reminds me of a fingerpainting because of its simplicity. Yes, I photographed the painting as it hangs in my living room. :)

If I ever can get my camera flashcard to work right, I'll have some photographic artwork up soon.

"i´m looking for an digital camera"

I hear the Nikon D40 is a good choice. I'm very fond of this lady's photographs, http://minnaloushe.deviantart.com/galler... and that's what she says she uses. My digital camera's a Kodak DX4900, but I wouldn't really recommend it - the lense can't be changed, the resolution could be bettter, and lately it has a strange propensity of turning everything it photographs slightly green. ;) (that could have to do with the fact that I dropped it once, though.) ;)

Mata ne,
- Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 5:32 am (EST) den Aug 18, 2008

Your new pictures are really cool. This building is so precious! I want to move to it. :) http://flickr.com/photos/29145524@N08/27...

And this is too lovely for words http://flickr.com/photos/29145524@N08/27... It reminds me of a picture I saw in a book of a town square in the Netherlands, but I can't remember the name of it.

"oho, i like the dungeon-, lacoste- and fly girl-pictures" -

Yeah, I particularly favor the fly girl ones, so much so that I ordered a postcard-sized print of the two of them. :)

Fortunetly there was no great damage in the earthquake, and no fires. Just things falling off of shelves, etc. But this was the strongest one we've had in sometime - It was felt all the way out in Las Vegas.

I'm really disappointed right now - I had a whole flash card full of digital photographs that I was going to upload onto DeviantART.com, but the card is corrupted somehow and I can't get any of them to upload. :( I'm going to see if the guy at the camera store can fix it, otherwise my deviantart gallery will remain pitifully low on photos. Right now it just has stuff like this, my silly fingerpainting. LOL http://lyrisin.deviantart.com/art/Shawna...

Mata ne,

- Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 7:08 pm (EST) den Aug 11, 2008

Hallo Oliver,

ich habs nur einmal probiert die DVDs einzugeben.

Mit dem Regisseur hast du vollkommen recht - ich habs mit "Fargo" (wirklich cooler Film) ausprobiert:
ohne Regisseur - 14 Mitglieder mit meinen Büchern,
mit Regisseur - 64 Mitglieder.

Also ist es empfehlenswert den Regisseur miteinzugeben - außerdem kann man auch kombinieren etc.

Grüße
Günter

skrevet af lintschi33 kl. 6:00 am (EST) den Aug 7, 2008

Thanks for the link. I was able to find it alright. The pictures of Frankfurt and the other towns are very lovely. I envy how crisp and they are and the good composition.......when I take a picture, half the time I'm lucky if I can even tell what it is of when I'm done. ;) Is that you in the Thalia Wetzler one?

I only have a few pics on DeviantArt, but they're all crap so far.... I have collected a lot of 'favorites,' other members' artwork which I like http://lyrisin.deviantart.com/favourites... I collected a lot that are based on my favorite movie, 'Quills,' and De Sade because I'm ever-so-slightly obsessed with it LOL

In regards to that article, yeah my "American Dream' is simply to just get by... ;)

I wholeheartedly believe that the quality of the economy can be gauged by how much stamps go up in price without me noticing, LOL. (okay, I'm being irreverent, but just the other day I sold a book on Amazon Marketplace, figured in a certain amount for shipping, forgetting it had been awhile since the last time I'd mailed a book, and wound up losing money instead of making a profit on the sale. LOL.)

P.S. We had a earthquake here the other day. A 5.4! :(

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 1:40 am (EST) den Aug 5, 2008

" i like your courthouse. why? I really like the works of the architect le corbusier, one of the founders of "modern architecture"

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, no modern, no modern.....(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) No offense, though. ;)

But in an age when so many places look like this http://tyszko.deviantart.com/art/abandon... and this,
http://lodgecity.com/places/usa_90007_lo...

it's easy to wish that there were more buildings like this http://numarislp.deviantart.com/art/Dres... and this
http://ficus.deviantart.com/art/La-Seine...
even to the point of me becoming a bit fixated on it. Oh, well, at least I'm aware of my problem.... ;)

"wow, from what i read costa mesa is a nice town. weekends at the beach. ;)"

My favorite local beach is this one:
http://jablesthejake.deviantart.com/art/...
Laguna Beach is a little artist's village with lots of galleries. They also have an expansive nature preserve in Laguna Canyon, and the annual Festival of the Arts.

Most of the photos I used here are on the website DeviantART.com. Lately I've been working on putting up my own DeviantART page, and hopefully I'll have that up soon! :)

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 9:13 am (EST) den Jul 28, 2008

Hola,
na ja ich hab doch gesagt, dass ich es selbst noch nicht gelesen habe ;] vielleicht sollte ich, hmm vielleicht nächstes mal wenn ich in wien bin... das problem ist nur, dass tokyopop scheint sich in letzten zeiten nicht für light-novels zu interessieren, ich warte für die neue kinos reise und boogiepop -bänder seit, hmmm... ein halbes jahr ist her und es gibt nix neues :[

die guten alten final-fantasies waren doch 4 cds, ich bin absolut sicher dass ffvii 4 cds hatte, und ffviii vielleicht noch mehr.

anime-marathon 2009 scheint gut zu sein, wir werden's sehen...

ich bin mit dem x360 sehr zufrieden. über bluray: ich denke jetzt an eine bluray-*brenner* zu kaufen, ich hab unglaubliche mengen von dateien zu archivieren (die meisten sind fotos & art-projekte), aber die preise für disketten sollen noch ein bisschen tiefer senken... :O ;_;

skrevet af prezzey kl. 12:23 pm (EST) den Jul 25, 2008

Wow, you're very thorough. :) Thank you for all the links. They were very interesting to look through. Your town looks like a lovely place.

Here is some stuff about where I live:

Costa Mesa, CA. is a suburb about an hour's drive south-west of Los Angeles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Mesa We're about a fifteen minute drive from the Newport Beach coastline. Generally, Costa Mesa is not a town that people have heard of, but we are known for two things - One is the Orange County Fair. It comes around for 3 weeks each summer, and is going on currently.
http://www.starling-travel.com/wp-conten...

To draw customers, they offer crazy things like this: http://noname4you.deviantart.com/art/The...

That's a sandwich made out of a chicken patty and a Krispy Kreme donut as a bun. :(

We're also known for this particularly ritzy mall, South Coast Plaza, where about half the stores are normal, and the other half sells designer clothes so expensive I don't understand who buys them. ;)
http://www.southcoastplaza.com

Your town is known for Goethe, my town is known for a mall. Hmm, you can tell this is California... ;)
We have a very nice performing arts center. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Coun... I've attended their performances of 'Les Miserables,' and 'Fame.'

This is part of our courthouse. It's one of the ugliest buildings I've ever seen:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

This is the house I grew up in. I miss the big tree. :)
http://lyrisin.deviantart.com/art/House-...

That pretty much sums it up.

Hee, that was fun - I feel like a tour guide or something. ;)

Mata ne,

- Lisa

P.S. Sorry I tool so long in responding. Ironically - considering the subject of this post - I was out of town. LOL.

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 5:28 am (EST) den Jul 20, 2008

"I spent a whole day in Paris searching for the Le Corbusier-Museum and when I found it it was closed."

Oh, nooo. ;)

When I was in London, I decided to go to this decadent costume/ clothes store that I had heard rave reviews about. I mapped out how to get there, took the tube to the far edge of the city where I hadn't been before, navigated through a long tunnel of scaffolding at the under-construction train station, and took a long flight of stairs down into a basement where it was located. (No joke.) And when I got there, I found out they only sold men's clothes. ;)

"the first thing I did in Paris after checking in with the hotel was to take the metro out to La Defence."

In a way, my mind doesn't grasp that Paris even has La Defence - it's so modern and shiny, LOL. And when I think of Paris, I think of the old Paris skyline like it was in the beginning of the movie 'Moulin Rouge.' Those will always be my favorite - the older buildings.

What does the area of Germany that you live in look like? City or suburb? Modern or not? I just love the picturesque German villages I've seen pictures of. Oh, yeah, and this place in Bavaria ;) http://mutrus.deviantart.com/art/Neuschw...

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 9:18 am (EST) den Jul 11, 2008

"Yes. I was there too."

LOL, you weren't there in the fall of 2002, were you? Otherwise I'd suggest that maybe we walked past each other. ;) That would be funny. Trips in Europe seem to make all sorts of odd coincidences - when I was in Paris, for example, I met a couple who were from Newport Beach, a town just down the road from where I live. And, on a train, I chatted with a man who was from Muncie, Indiana, the town in which my mother was born. :)

I didn't get to the Madame Tussaud's in London, but I've been to the one in Las Vegas.

I really enjoyed my trip through France, especially the architecture. A few other highlights: Walking the ramparts in Carcasonne, make-believing I was a knight or something; eating steak tar-tar (which, I believe, is illegal to serve in the US because of strict health departments. Or at least very, very uncommon); and driving through viewing the Bois de Boulogne at night. (Have you heard what goes on there? That was SO amusing!) ;)

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 2:17 am (EST) den Jul 5, 2008

"it is a choise you know, die long and painful or die quickly."

In England I went to this tourist attraction called 'The London Dungeon.' http://www.thedungeons.com/en/london-dun... They had displays of wax figures of people undergoing all these different torture techniques from times past. It's really enough to turn one's stomach. (Okay, that's an understatement....) They were so 'creative' with their methods of torture, it's easy to get the impression that the people doling it out must have enjoyed it to some degree. :( Eesh, they had all these things like benches with big spikes where the seat should be, and things that looked like oversized meat tenderizers. And this was just a museum and it was scary. I'm so glad I didn't live in that those time periods....

Have you visited other countries besides England? I really enjoyed my tour through France. In the south there were some little villages that are some of the most idyllic-looking places I've seen.

This morning I bought a bunch more yardsale book for 25 cents each to trade on Bookmooch. LOL.

- Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 3:17 am (EST) den Jun 30, 2008

'Braveheart' was sort-of required viewing for me - I'm part Scottish. (On my Dad's side. I have a traditionally Scottish last name - Cunningham.) Geez, remember that part where they disemboweled him with the thing that looked like a shepherd's pole? And they told him, "If you don't say that what you did was wrong, we'll use this thing on you. Say what you did was wrong, and *all* we'll do is cut off your head." Yikes...

In 2002 I went on a trip to England and France. In England, I stayed at a hotel in Piccadilly Circus, saw London, and went on some day trips to Stonehenge, Salisbury, Stratford-on-Avon, and Oxford. I love the abundance of theatre in London's West End. (My favorite was 'Les Miserables.') And it's fantastic just how easy it was to get around, what with the tube and all.....public transportation here in CA via trains is practically nonexistent.

I hope to go back someday, and to see other areas of Europe, as well. :)

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 12:19 pm (EST) den Jun 25, 2008

I often think how lucky I am not to have been born back then instead. :)

-"farmers where no free man they where the property of lords (aka landowners)."

The most recent example I've seen of this was in the movie, 'King Arthur.' (The one with Keira Knightley.) An elderly farmer was being flogged in the fortress courtyard. His crime? Trying to keep some extra of the grain he grew, for his family.

A similar thing to this was the droit de seigneur or droit de cuissage, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_se... (although it's debated whether it really happened.) where the landowners had the right to sleep with any of the women on their land. I tried once to write a story involving this as part of the plot. (emphasis on 'tried to.' I never finish my stories...) ;)

- "except ... if we were lords ;)"

LOL, I think I would make a rather benevolent dictator. Of course I would still arrange debauches, mind you, I'd just keep it limited to *consenting* participants. ;)

Mata ne,

- Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 1:28 pm (EST) den Jun 22, 2008

The paintings are very cool, now that I see them up close. :)

Kloster. Ah, like 'cloister' in English, I take it. That's actually *very* funny. She must relish the irony in that. ;)

Yes, I've read Eco's 'The Name of the Rose.' It was kind of hefty and hard to plough through, but nevertheless, enjoyable. I liked the ambiance of it, being set so far back in time as it was. (1327.)

Mata ne,

- Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 7:33 pm (EST) den Jun 16, 2008

The painting is very cool, but very crowded. :)

I hadn't heard of "Heart of Darkness" before. It sounds intriguing. Right now I'm reading "Hannibal Rising," by Thomas Harris, and "Foucault's Pendulum," by Umberto Eco. The latter of these is starting to make me feel dumb, it's so incoherent. When I read a book, I like to make a list of the words I haven't seen before and look them up - this one's provided a lot of them so far. ;)

Have you been to this site? http://www.doriskloster.com I was browsing it the other day. I just love her photographs - some of them are in that "Fetish" book I have by Tony Mitchell I told you about once.

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 8:52 pm (EST) den Jun 8, 2008

Heh, and I already have gotten a few points to use for trade. Problem is, I can't decide what to order with them. ;) Nothing on my wishlist that I really coveted is available, so I just wait for people to add more books to the site. I'm thinking about requesting Doug Wright's play, 'I Am My Own Wife.' Have you read any of his stuff? His 'Quills' is my all-time favorite play and movie (for which he also adapted the screenplay himself.)

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 7:11 pm (EST) den Jun 5, 2008

Yeah, I'm the same way - I hardly ever give away a book once I've read it. I was sneaky, though, with the Bookmooch: I bought up a handful of really inexpensive books that I wasn't particularly interested in, at a yardsale, and used them as my inventory. I have high hopes of trading them for something really rare and expensive - or at least saving a couple of dollars off what something costs on Amazon Marketplace. ;)

Mata ne,
- Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 10:48 am (EST) den Jun 4, 2008

Regarding the cathedrals, they're tremendously beautiful, but I can't visit them - I melt if I set foot on hallowed ground. ;) Nah, they're very cool. We certainly don't have any of them around here. I was briefly in England once, and I went in an Anglican Cathedral in Salisbury. (I don't know if that counts as Gothic. It looked similar.) The thing that stuck with me after I left, was that they said there were people buried inside the church, *under the floor.* That struck me as vaguely creepy, I was walking on people without even knowing it. ;)

Have you been to this site yet? www.bookmooch.com It's pretty fun. It's a book-swapping site. I just put in my inventory the other day, and already I got requests for 2 books. :)

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 11:38 pm (EST) den Jun 2, 2008

Regarding the link: Very, very cool! Really edgy artwork. I like it a lot. You have a great eye, as always...

I'm fascinated by the Victorian era. It's sort of a paradox - so much prim-and-proper-ness on the one hand, and all the famous debauchery and fin-de-siecle decadence on the other. (Of which, of course, I prefer the latter...) :) The architecture from that time period is some of the most beautiful I've ever laid my eyes on. (My favorite, however, is still Gothic castles, but I digress. I could never be an architect, because I would annoy everyone by putting so many towers, and turrets, and parapets on everything I built. ;) Not to mention the gargoyles....)

You wrote: "As for the nudes, I definitely prefer todays work "

I was going to post some pictures from my Victorian collection here and say, 'C'mon, what's wrong with that?!' But I can't post pics on the comments board, so I guess you luck out in not having to see them. ;)

-Lisa

skrevet af Zz9pluralzalpha kl. 2:45 pm (EST) den Jun 1, 2008