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"One Of These Things Is Not Like the Other....."

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:54:22 -0800

What more can you say? The comparison between the two photos is just plain FUNNY. Such love....such longing....such howling and hissing from Ginger in a second! Lol

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9/11: Interview From A Witness To People Jumping

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:49:56 -0800

9/11: Experience of Seeing People Jump

This interview is with a gentleman who was filming the twin towers while people jumped. Nothing is shown in this...he is sadly describing a couple of scenes that will remain in his head forevermore. Don't watch this unless you will be okay to watch this man crying

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Only bxw Could Do This Photo Justice

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:47:01 -0800

Beauty Of A Wooden Floor

How can anyone not appreciate the beauty of this photo? If it had been taken in color, all the emotions of the scene would have been diminished considerably, and it would have just become another nudie picture. But black and white photos bring out the grain in the wooden floorboards, the beautiful shadowing on the woman's body, and turns the scene into a work of art. There is nothing sexual about the shot. Old wooden floors and an innocent pose of a lovely woman makes this black and white one of my favorites. A sense of serenity prevails.

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Just-in-time Conversion: Elegant Partner 1 to Girl Friend 1

nobody@vox.com(Patrick Ng) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:09:10 -0800

Normally I don't change gadgets as often as people thought of me, but this year I had a rewarding experience converting from Olympus E-P1 to Panasonic GF1, both micro four third cameras.

Panasonic GF1 + Voigtlander 35/1.2

Lucky me got a Korean friend's help to get an Olympus E-P1 20% off from retail, I even made a leather strap for it myself, but soon I found the sex appeal of this PEN died off fast because of its lack of built-in flash, electronic view finder and slow focusing speed. Having tested Panasonic's GF1 from a colleague, I decided to switch. I sold my white PEN at a good price over Yahoo auction just when Olympus announced an upcoming E-P2.

Olympus E-P1 + Voigtlander 35/1.2

An ex-colleague happens to work at Panasonic so I managed to get discount again while most other people are still waiting for stock to arrive. GF1 exactly won over E-P1 for features I thought I didn't need. Then, a few days ago Panasonic GF1 is awarded "Best of What's New" in gadget category by Popular Science. So smooth.

Olympus E-P1 and Traveler's Notebook

In case you want to know, that leather briefcase from the first photo is from Saddleback Leather and I love it. If you need something more modern, 78% released a series of handsome leather/canvas briefcases.

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The Seven commandos beach

nobody@vox.com(Sergio) — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:14:46 -0800

The seven commandos beach situated at the South West of El Nido is only reachable by boat. During the day It is a deserted beach offering a postcard view but when the sun begin to decline it is the final spot for the boat trips where people can take a final bath before going back to El Nido. Protected against the cliff a coconut plantation gives generously shadow at the warmer moment of the day.

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La plage des 7 Commandos située au sud-ouest d'El Nido ne peut être atteinte que par mer. Pendant la journée c'est une plage déserte offrant une vue de carte postale mais quand le soleil décline elle devient le point final des excursions en mer où le public peu prendre un dernier bain avant de rejoindre El Nido. Protégé contre la falaise une cocoteraie donne généreusement de l'ombrage au moment le plus chaud de la journée.

La partie Est de la falaise est verticale bloquant le passage au marcheur qui a uniquement la possiblité de nager ou de lever les yeux au ciel. Je choisis la second option parce que la plage de Corong Corong était éloignée et parce que j'avais mon appareil photo entre les mains.

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On the Est side the cliff is very vertical blocking the way to the walker who has only the possibility to swim or to look up at the sky. I choosed the second option because Corong Corong beach was to far and also because I had my camera on hand.

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BEHIND THE SILENCE... Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist

nobody@vox.com(Aszalos Family Art) — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:29:11 -0800

Dear Everybody,

I am Andrea Angelika Aszalos, writer of the novel

BEHIND THE SILENCE... Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist (published by Bastogi - 2008 - Italy) and I am presenting on this Blog site a very important part of my life: my Mother's, Éva Aszalós and my Sister's, Hajnalka Aszalós', works of art of porcelain-painting, and the oil paintings of my Mother. Synopsis of the novel and link to the story of the Moonlight and the Eosin glaze follow below

My mother and my sister are porcelain-painter artists and have made many sacrifices so that could be born that singular world that I am presenting on this blog-site to you. For these ”sacrifices” and struggles for the survival that are behind this World of Beauty, I’ve written the novel by the title ”Behind the Silence”, which has been published in June 2008 by an Italian publishing house.

I recommend the Synopsis of this revealing Novel and every world of my letter with all of my belief in the moral force, to your attention and to the attention of everybody who has love in their heart and who are thirsting for the rarely appearing pure mirror of the naked truth about a world that is not allowed to seen by some interests.

Artistic Album of the Familiar Collection

Published in November 2009

Artistic Album edited in 2009

The Artistic Album, that includes 148 pages, and many photographs about the Familiar Collection, is published in English and in Italian languages in this month (november 2009) thanks to a sponsors, and I am so gald to can share it with you as for my family it is a very great gift from life and from God!

Over presenting the works of art of porcelain-painting, it introduces also my Mother's and my Sister's oil paintings, some biographical informations about my Mother's artstic career and important words about Feelings and Thoughts regarding some of the works of art of the Familiar Collection. ... and of course through the synopis of my novel "Behind the Silence... Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist" it brings closer to You and to the Readers of this marvellous book including so many miracles, the atmosphere in which these talkative works of art had been born.

It will be possible to order this beautiful Album before this Christmas in Italian book-shops, and from my family as well, and I am so glad to can share it with you.

With much love:
Angelika & Family

Film with music about the Aszalós Porcelains

About three years ago I promised my mother that a day I would take a pen, and write down the situations, that so many times has crossed our life - and also in themselves could be material of a sketch or a short story - and which are derived from my mother's and my sister's rare profession and from the strange social and "art-political" atmosphere, by which is characterized this little country. At that time I didn’t thought that this "moment" would come so early, and could become pressing for our life.

Horse among poppies

I can present on this site only a little part of the work of a whole life, and so the Familiar Collection made up in the long years, which contains more than 700 works of art. Among these works of art that has been being internationally signed on the world for more than 10 years, there are many irreplaceable items, presented at that time also in the National Museum of the Applied Arts of Budapest.

Behind the Silence... Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist

The novel I have written (Behind the Silence… Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist, - June 2008 Bastogi) elaborating real events, is based on documents and correspondences, and touching some personalities of huge influence, presents, through my Mother’s life, the defenceless situation of the contemporary artists of our days for the economic policy, and how do the fights of interests, arising from this, ruin the life of some wonderful artists and persons.

For the last years’ happenings neither for moral points of view nor for other reasons there was no other choice for my family but to disclose to the World all that things that my family had to live through this singular and rare field of art in the peculiar social and ”art-political” atmosphere that characterize Hungary. …and so to describe all those things that are hidden Behind the Silence.

Moonlight

The events written in my novel affect my family’s life even today in a very hard way and I am recommending to your attention the story of the Moonlight glaze – so the story of the pair of the world-famous Eosin glaze, that my Mother after 100 years discovered again and whose technology, just like by the Zsolnay family at that time, also by my Family is kept under a secret.
See more details about the Moonlight-glaze's importance and story :

Moonlight and the Eosin - Paralells and History,

In my Family's collection there are included also the works of art belonging to the category of the art treasures, made with the technolgy of the ”Moonlilght” glaze (so with the pair of the technology of the world-famous Eosin glaze that the inheritor factury of the Zsolnay manufactury of one hundred years ago, by today can’t reproduce in its originally form).

Artistic Album of the Aszalós Porcelains

I am presenting on this blog also some of the photo-documents belonging to our references beside the titles of the chapters of ma novel that you can read below.

Unfortunately by today my mother has been suffering in a serious, incurable auto-immune disease for four years, and she is kept in life by very hard medicines, and so, also due to this fact, many things in her life have a deeper meaning for her.

Many Thanks for your attention and for your comments on a Whole Life's Work filled with heart, lived with the passion of an Artist who has given her life entirely to her work and to her loved Ones:

Andrea Angelika Aszalós Write to me to My e-mail

Synopsis of the novel Behind the Silence, follows below

Message to a kind friend: For a while I can't receive all of my e-mails! I thank you if you try to contact; me in an other way !!

PHOTOGRAPHS & ARTISTIC ALBUM of the Aszalós Porcelains

Words of Éva Aszalós:

I believe that God cares for Everyone and will care for, and think also to us, to my

dear family!

Synopsis of

Behind the Silence…

Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist.

Behind the Silence... Confessions of a porcelain-painter artist

My novel, which I have written on the basis of documents, correspondences and my mother’s memories, stands on a lived life’s real events.

It’s about my mother, about a beautiful, but by today broken person’s feelings, of a peculiar lot, and about the events hiding behind them. In the mirror of these, I show how the Politics – demanding part also from the values of Art – make impossible and sentence to death a family in the country of a tragically incompatible nation with its own sons. Through the peculiarities of the Hungarian society’s different strata, I present the contemporary art’s position in our time; the condition of the contemporary artists, who are at the mercy of the ”Fews’ interests”; and the invisible court of law, that shutters some wonderful artists’ life, annihilating them in their human quality. Within the contemporary art, I introduce my readers into that rare branche of Art, on which nearly three-hundred years ago emperors and bishops spent enormous wealths, and which even now is famous for its prestige all over the world: in the unbelievably colourful World of the Porcelains, full of intrigues, which is honoured by the name „White gold”;.

My novel, as I’ve written, is about my mother, about a delicate woman’s tempestuous course of life full of vicissitudes, whom God has given a present to, with some very exceptional endowements, and filled her heart with many love, belief and spiritual force, so that she could struggle against the dams ruining with slow death of a soured society by its own poison. Her singular sensitivity and the special field of art where her unusual skill has carried her, made her know and see many human faces, which meetings has brought in her life many pleasure, but also many suffering.

In one of the highland villages of a strange and formerly leggendary nation, settled in the Center of Europe not much more than one-thousand years ago, is born in the january of 1956, in the year of the revolution ended in massacre, that young girl, who is forced by her environment to escape already when she is a child, at hardly thirteen years old, so that she could ”arrive” as far as possible from the reality which has conducted her family to tragedy that cost her mother’s life. For her mother’s desire expressed in her ultimate letter, she is raised further on, in a small town at her uncle, where she has to face many cruelty alone. Notwithstanding, this town brings her also those meetings of her life, which give her a spiritual force which seems invincible, and a belief which doesn’t know impossible, for her further struggles. Two loves, lived for a life, carry her on in a two-faced world’s maze: the Porcelain-pinting, whose art she acquire in this place, and a strangely ”double-souled” Man, with whom she forms the most holy bond, and founds a family. Her first daughter, Hajnalka is born here, just like her desire, becoming into decision in her soul, to breake with her past again and definitively.

She moves into the beautifully situated Szeged, in the Great Hungarian Plain’s loveliest town, famous for its cultural life and for the high standard of the musical education, so that she could give to her children everithing that she missed in her youth. Andrea, her second child is born here, and she is seduced by an other very nice profession, by the fashion, which she start in with the same enthusiasm and pleasure, with which at that time she did the painting of pictures and porcelains. After the alternation of relatively balanced and tempestuous periods, after successes and enormous failure at the end, finally she returns to the Porcelain-painting, to that her dream which has been always living in her. The financial conditions to found an independent porcelain-painter studio are given to her only by this time.

Into the secrets of this splendid craft, which preservs tradition, but still includes in itself renewal, she introduces her first-born child, Hajnalka, and in few years is born a promising, fabulous and rich world by their hands. Spellbound by the Secessionist style, she works out colours which, with their profundity and peculiar light-refraction, are entirely unique on the world, and in the years, she discovers the producition-method of the world-famed glaze named Eozin, which has been being kept as secret since one hundred years, and to which she gives the name of Moonlight (Holdfény) because of its mysterious glittering of metallic lustre, shining in the most beatiful tints of the green colour, and for her respect for Vilmos Zsolnay.

She has high hopes for the porcelain-painting: she feels from the ”beginning” that it means for her the ultimate possibility of put in order her daughters’ and her own life. And she doesn’t think that, with the beautiul craft, she is happened in a ”viper’s nest” climbing until the highest social strata, which is invisible, far and maybe incredible for many people, but for her is inevitable, mortal and mortally real. Her Mother-country, this country unable to restore itself to health maybe for ever, whose history was full of vicissitudes, cause her more and more disappointment. In other form: slipped into more decorated garment, concealed behind new faces’ new masks, but she meets the same forces which has exiled her from the little highland village.

Under the burden of an incurable disease, forming in her meanwhile, and because of the glacial air of the shutting doors’ wind, her great belief and spiritual force leave her more and more.

The last year’s struggles mean for her, life or death in the real meaning of the word.

Written and translated by: Andrea Angelika Aszalós Phone: + 36 20 311 3800

Published by Bastogi Editrice Italiana in June of 2008

Chapters and some of the Photo-documentations:

The Tragedy ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The years of Kalocsa: two Loves born to living for a life,,,,,,

Visit of the Premier in 2000, Szeged & Exhibition in 2007 - Szeged

A new chapter in my life

The town of Szeged and my second-born child, Ancsa ,,,,,,

Love: Redemption or Cross ,,,,,,,,

The dream and the reality

The limits of the Nature ,,,,,,,

The Lot sealed ,,,,,,,

A wrong decision and their consequences ……

Foundation of a porcelain-painter studio …

Exposition in the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, in Vienna …

Ray of hope

Exclusive Gallery of the Aszalós Porcelains …….........

Prize of "Master's of Artisan Artists of the County of Csongrád"

”The_Moonlight” …………

Shine and tears

A beautiful porcelain exposition at the Days of Szeged and the visit of the delegation

of the government …………..

A tiny fruit of the struggle of power: the Prize of ”Honoured artisan-artist’s” of the County

of Csongrád …………………………………………………………………………

The Prize of the ”Honoured artisan-artist’s of Hungary”…………………………….....................................................

Calculations

My life on the ”chemist’s scales” of my husband …………

Newspaper articles and diplomas of appreciation

Touching of the Past ………………

The fatal contract …………………………

A mysterious man or fight for the life ……….

Gift from a person wasn’t known ………

The hand of God ……

The human dignity …

Refusal and Hope ……

A morsel for the Survival !

I offer the works of my life ……

The Madam Judit

An old dear acquaintance of mine ……

Visit of the Ambassador of Mongolia at our exhibition in Kunszállás

An art-patron billionaire in Hungary ………

Cry for help ………………

The Support …………

Questions and answeres ……

The Mask thrown ……

The telephone-call at late in the evening ……

The fight of the Billions ……

The Christmas saying good-bye …........

Memories from the Past

Some present thrown away and some other which cannot be taken away ….......

Dietro il Silenzio...Confessione di un'artista di pittura di porcellane - INTERNET_BOOK_SHOP. it

Artistic Album of the Aszalós Porcelains

Horse among poppies

Death of Christ

"One builds sand-castle on the shore only if he or she believes that waves can be domesticated."

Aszalós Porcelain Art - ALBUM 2009 - Feelings and Thoughts... works of art of a Life

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a small shiny steeple from a drive

nobody@vox.com(jeffington) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:53:48 -0800

shiny steeple

went on a drive and found a steeple that wasn't in my collection of posts tagged steeplechase so i parked where the rays of light hit and this shot turned out best

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Пипл

nobody@vox.com(for tut) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:28:22 -0800

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Пейшинс Филипс работает дизайнером в крупной косметической компании, которая готовится выпустить на рынок новый продукт, замедляющий старение. Но у этой революционной новинки есть существенный недостаток, который компания тщательно скрывает и о котором случайно узнает Пэйшинс. Дальнейшие события меняют ее жизнь самым невероятным образом… ...
Лондонский джентльмен Филеас Фогг заключил пари, по условиям которого он должен объехать земной шар всего за 80 дней. Вместе со своим верным слугой Паспорту он незамедлительно пускается в путь. Но по следам отважных путешественников отправляется сыщик мистер Фикс, уверенный в том, что Фогг ограбил английский банк и теперь скрывается от преследования.Наших...
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В одной из химических лабораторий Швейцарии, Фильм постал 2 контролируемой ЦРУ, закончена работа над страшным вирусом, который планируется использовать в военных целях. Спецслужбы России проявляют особый интерес к этой разработке и Скачать полный фильм новолуние поручают математику Давиду Бронштейну раздобыть образец потенциальной химической угрозы. Но во время выполнения задания случается непредвиденное: вирус попадает в кровь, и Давид сам...Посмотреть фильм звездный путь
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Strive2Be Is Back to Blog With You Again!!

nobody@vox.com(Strive2Be) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:49:51 -0800

A Webcam Has Caught Me

I'm back!! Does anyone still remember me? I used to have the Blog that was STUPID. Lol. I liked to make you all laugh. I also had the "Official Mug Shot Friday", "Music From the 60's and 70's", and even true stories from history (such as the WWII German fighter pilot who wouldn't shoot down the battered English plane, but directed them back in the correct direction to hopefully make it back to England before crashing in the ocean). I'm also the person who was attacked on a walking trail one night, and I never really got back into blogging much after that. But I remember the incredible support I received from you all when I told you and showed the webcam photos of the damage he had done to me. It's been one year this month since I received a frozen shoulder from that guy. No more pain, but I still don't have all of my range of motion back in my right arm. But I'm determined to get 100% better!

Well....from the photo....you can tell that I'm very EXCITED to be back!!!! And I've become even cuter than I was before! Just look at my freshly cut hair, my beautifully white teeth, and the excitement shining from my eyes (oops, I forgot....my eyes are pinpoints, so I must have been whacked out on drugs for that photo op!). Regardless, overly excited, paws ready to start pattering the keyboard!

It's actually going to take me a few days to get everything set up. I need to change so many things on this old Blog. If there are still people around that used to be in my neighborhood but left when I disappeared, would you mind letting them know that I'm here again? Pretty please and thank you. I can't wait to say, "HI", to everyone again. But please be patient. I have to learn all the basics again (ugh!!), and then do a lot of updating before running my Blog again on a daily basis.

It's so great to be back with you all again!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come one, come all. Let the merriment begin!!!!!

Strive2Be

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Mon amie Yano

nobody@vox.com(EntreCielesMers) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:54:51 -0800

Mon amie Yano

Cette enfant a été l'une de mes premières rencontres lors de mon arrivée chez les yanomamis .
Son caractère sauvage et espiègle m'ont conquise ..même lorsqu'un matin elle s'est amusé à me pincer les fesses au travers des mailles de mon hamac alors que j'étais encore dans un sommeil profond.
This child was one of my first contact I get when I arrived at the yanomami.
Her wild and mischievous conquered me ....even when on one morning she had a good time by pinching my buttocks through the meshes of my hammock while I was still in a deep sleep.

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