Floranova
Tuesday, 14 December, 2004
A return to flowers.
Flowers don't look like this in the real world. I was given a Floranova iris card by work as part of a farewell present. And then when I was in Canberra, I stumbled upon a copy of Artlook and read this article on beautiful books:
Orme treats his subjects with the reverence one would expect of these natural beauties, using fashion photography techniques of back-lighting, shooting-oh so intimately-close-up, and cropping the photograph so that there is nothing extraneous. In doing so Orme turns his subjects into almost surrealistic images, some of which burst off the page in a colourful whirl of energy, while others, more elegant and restrained, disappear demurely into the white of the page. “Magnolia” is a swirl of white with three centres of yellow and “Gardenia” is but a cluster of shades of translucent white on the white page.
Current:
Bible: Isaiah (ESV) 28/09/2010
seen: Tropic Thunder 26/09/2010
seen: The Life of Mammals 24/09/2010
seen: What a Girl Wants 19/09/2010
seen: Jerry Maguire 19/09/2010
seen: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 06/09/2010
seen: Tomorrow Never Dies 05/09/2010
seen: Nanny McPhee 28/08/2010
read: Mercury (Hope Larson) 27/08/2010
read: Spellcheckers Vol 1 (Jamie S Rich, Nicolas Hitori de, Joelle Jones) 16/08/2010
read: Solipsistic Pop Vol 2 (Solipsistic Pop) 16/08/2010
read: Chiggers (Hope Larson) 15/08/2010
seen: Josie and the Pussycats 14/08/2010
seen: Mr & Mrs Smith 14/08/2010
seen: Step Up 2 13/08/2010
Blinks:
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
Online magazine that publishes fairy tales that are not reworkings of old tales.
Journal that publishes fairy tale writing.
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Beautiful, beautiful books indeed!
Hello, Karen
This is Kathleen’s mom. I was just reading her blog and read your comments or questions about Sydney Anglicanism and Qld. Presbyterianism. I wasn’t sure how to write an answer back to you so I went to your page.
Yes, I probably would agree with your friend’s assessment. Both K.‘s dad and I became Christians through a Presbyterian house church out west. Mark, her dad, went onto to Presy theological college in Brisbane and I got a P.T.C. from Moore College via correspondence. Except for so much more ritualism in the Anglican church, theologically the two are very similar. We too have heard both Jensens’ speak and are very good friends with Michael and Marion Bennett of Christianity Explained fame. Of course Presbyterianism as the name denotes is not hierarchical as is the Anglican church which can be a good thing. Anyway this is just my 2 cents worth. Greetings in our Lord
Mary
Note the hours to which my mother stays up surfing the internet.
Thanks heaps Mary for clarifying things! And you’re welcome to visit my blog any time!