Some Photos I Took : )

[Don Gin and Ton]

little post it note type things top right?! im usin firefox!?

 

[CrackerJax]

My bad.... I'm using SeaMonkey... i go back and forth with them.

I can clearly see some influence from dali. very nice stuff....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

seamonkey eh not heard of that one might give it a whirl

yeah some really weird stuff in his workits kinda hard to show but the drawings are actually huge and really intricately drawn, takes him months for each piece

 

[CrackerJax]

Not sure if it is this one... I think it is.... but one of my fav's at the Rijks Museum in Adam. Van de Velde the junior painted this with a single camel hair brush.....one stroke at a time. Up close....it will blow you away. I stare at it every time I go for 20 minutes or so....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

1 single hair! thats bonkers mut have taken him an age

 

[CrackerJax]

He didn't have to waste time texting and talking on cell phones or watch TV ...

Yah.... crazy stuff....up closeyou can see the millions of single strokes....and he was there at the battle. He paints himself into the scene in the small ship on the right in front. he drew on paper during the battle...sketches, and then created this awesome masterpiece later in studio.... but he was there risking life and limb....for a painting. FUK TV....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

damn straight man the conversation killing cyclops is no friend of mine

 

[CrackerJax]

Like any addiction.....once you break its back...you are free....and feel that way too.

I haven't personally turned the set on for weeks. When my company arrived for Easter.... they kept 4 TV sets on all day!!! Like a Sports bar in my abode. I adjusted to it.... and even watched an hour of basketball with my Brother In Law.

I do read a book a week however....

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

i do have a tv now i moved in with my girl but before that i just had my beloved hifi and a monitor for the xbox.

anyhoo heres a pic i took

sensi purple star

 

[CrackerJax]

Nice....

here's a sunset pic from last night.... I love snapping this tree/snag.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

your always rocking great pics man the nearest patch of grass to me without a tower block near it is like 20 miles

 

[CrackerJax]

I keep mulling around an idea to put up a 40-50 foot view tower on my property. Floriduh is so flat and out here, there are no cities.... the sunset pics alone would be worth the cost and bother. I'd have to be able to lock it down as well, to keep poachers out of it.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

not trying to make me jealous again much haaha i guess your not the hunting type eh?

 

[DST]

Cool pics as usual CJ. I have been checking out my neighbours roof terrace across the way, there was some strange metal structure/frame on it. So I took a peek across the other day (no, I am not a nosey neighbour, honest, haha) and to my surprise the metal frame that i saw was actually a life guards chair! They have a wall in front of their roof terrace which blocks out the sun after like 4 oclock or something, so he must sit up in his Lifeguards chair smoking his cigars (ok, I am a bit nosey, haha) taking in the last of the sun for the day....to cut a long storey short...why don't you buy a Lifeguards chair CJ, sit up there and snap away....or pehaps you need something higher.

Peace, DST

 

[CrackerJax]

This is what the Forestry Service uses........ a few years ago...they were closing a station and this tower was sitting in about 6 sections.... I begged them to SELL it to me. Name your price I told them grinning widely. they laughed back and told me this is property of the govt., so the chances of you buying it within ur lifetime is..... I cut them short and said ......nil to none..... uh huh the main guy said. We all stood there and shot the sh*t for 20 minutes....

I think a lifeguard tower isn't tall enough. My Oak trees alone go 30+ feet up....and the Pines...forget about it.

If I could trust a big Pine (they aren't strong trees) I would rig up a rope pulley chair.....but I don't trust them that much.

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

man i reckon you could build it with scaffold for under a 1000

 

[DST]

man i reckon you could build it with scaffold for under a 1000

A bag of sand, you reckon, Don. Scaffolders get paid about that on a daily rate alone, hahaha. They are mad bar-stewards though!!

 

[Don Gin and Ton]

hahah not any more man you could get a suasage roll to put it up for a bottle of voddy n a half ounce of baccy but it would more likely fall doon by friday...

 

[DST]

hahah not any more man you could get a suasage roll to put it up for a bottle of voddy n a half ounce of baccy but it would more likely fall doon by friday...

Forgot the Sausage Rolls had invaded the UK. Just getting their own back for eveyone invading them I guess!!!

 

[DST]

So we went on a trip on Easter monday up to the Afsluitdijk that runs from Harlingen up towards the northern part of the Netherlands (Leeuwarden/Groningen) It's 32 km long, construction was started in the 1920's and was finished in 1932. This was in the times when men where men I guess It was a nice day when we were there and it was freezing and windy as hell.

So you have the Sea on the left and the IJsselmeer on the right (a now non salted lake that feeds into different parts of The Netherlands via a system of dykes.

This is the info on the build materials, we thought it was quite cool how they done it.

And this is a funny letterbox we saw in Leeuwarden

Peace, DST