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Playing around with my new thermal printer camera. It does great black and whites, deep shadows. Having fun.

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Hi Tumblr. It’s been a while. Hope you’ve been well.

Took this one in 2022 when I was playing around with clip on lenses for my old iPhone 5S. Upgraded to the iPhone 12 mini now, but still love some of the shots that happened with that old phone. Something about photography with easy automatic exposure cameras that always just works. At least for me.

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“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”

— Geoff Dyer

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Wow. Absolutely enamoured with this images 🙏🏼

A nice spray of hydrogen plasma at the edge of the sun today.

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Tackling some new concepts and different ways to think about the signs of the zodiac today. Thanks Chris Brennan for the recommendation. The challenging task of learning traditional astrology solo continues.

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Yes...

Famous authors, their writings and their rejection letters.

Sylvia Plath: There certainly isn’t enough genuine talent for us to take notice.

Rudyard Kipling: I’m sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don’t know how to use the English language.

Emily Dickinson: [Your poems] are quite as remarkable for defects as for beauties and are generally devoid of true poetical qualities.

Ernest Hemingway (on The Torrents of Spring): It would be extremely rotten taste, to say nothing of being horribly cruel, should we want to publish it.

Dr. Seuss: Too different from other juveniles on the market to warrant its selling.

The Diary of Anne Frank: The girl doesn’t, it seems to me, have a special perception or feeling which would lift that book above the ‘curiosity’ level.

Richard Bach (on Jonathan Livingston Seagull): will never make it as a paperback. (Over 7.25 million copies sold)

H.G. Wells (on The War of the Worlds): An endless nightmare. I do not believe it would “take”…I think the verdict would be ‘Oh don’t read that horrid book’. And (on The Time Machine): It is not interesting enough for the general reader and not thorough enough for the scientific reader.

Edgar Allan Poe: Readers in this country have a decided and strong preference for works in which a single and connected story occupies the entire volume.

Herman Melville (on Moby Dick): We regret to say that our united opinion is entirely against the book as we do not think it would be at all suitable for the Juvenile Market in [England]. It is very long, rather old-fashioned…

Jack London: [Your book is] forbidding and depressing.

William Faulkner: If the book had a plot and structure, we might suggest shortening and revisions, but it is so diffuse that I don’t think this would be of any use. My chief objection is that you don’t have any story to tell. And two years later: Good God, I can’t publish this!

Stephen King (on Carrie): We are not interested in science fiction which deals with negative utopias. They do not sell.

Joseph Heller (on Catch–22): I haven’t really the foggiest idea about what the man is trying to say… Apparently the author intends it to be funny – possibly even satire – but it is really not funny on any intellectual level … From your long publishing experience you will know that it is less disastrous to turn down a work of genius than to turn down talented mediocrities.

George Orwell (on Animal Farm): It is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA.

Oscar Wilde (on Lady Windermere’s Fan): My dear sir, I have read your manuscript. Oh, my dear sir.

Vladimir Nabokov (on Lolita): … overwhelmingly nauseating, even to an enlightened Freudian … the whole thing is an unsure cross between hideous reality and improbable fantasy. It often becomes a wild neurotic daydream … I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.

The Tale of Peter Rabbit was turned down so many times, Beatrix Potter initially self-published it.

Lust for Life by Irving Stone was rejected 16 times, but found a publisher and went on to sell about 25 million copies.

John Grisham’s first novel was rejected 25 times.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) received 134 rejections.

Robert Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) received 121 rejections.

Gertrude Stein spent 22 years submitting before getting a single poem accepted.

Judy Blume, beloved by children everywhere, received rejections for two straight years.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle received 26 rejections.

Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected 20 times.

Carrie by Stephen King received 30 rejections.

The Diary of Anne Frank received 16 rejections.

Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rolling was rejected 12 times.

Dr. Seuss received 27 rejection letters

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Trying to engage my Taurus sun today, and brainstorm bringing in some gold.

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Joe Brainard, “People of the world: Relax!” from The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard

Filed under: Joe Brainard

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“I tried making sense of it, and then I realized I should be trying to make sense as to why I was even trying to make sense… “ 

#trippy  #psychedeliclife  #art  #lsd  #acid  #dmt  #love  #psychedelicart  #music  #hippie  #shrooms  #peace  #420  #trip  #goodvibes  #psy  #abstract  #weed  #dope  #high  #artist  #trippyart  #rock  #mushrooms  #meditation  #psychedelics  #marijuana 

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What a great conversation (via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdgyxOWO9Sk)

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Saturn seen from Titan, illustrated by David Egge, 1978.

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I’ve let a lot of scientific ‘STEM’ type people get in my head lately about astrology being ridiculous and not real. Today, I’m letting Rick Levine bring me back to somewhere much more reasonable and wonderful.

Quantum Astrology: Science, Spirit and Our Place in the Cycles of History by Rick Levine (DVD)

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“Work” by D.H. Lawrence

There is no point in work unless it pre-occupies you as well as occupies you. When you are only occupied, you are an empty shell. A man needs to be independent at his work, so that he can put his own self into it.

When a man puts his own self into his work he is living, not merely working. When men wove with their hands and their soul’s attention the cloth they wore, they lived themselves forth, like a tree putting out woven leaves and it made them happy, and the woven cloth of their hands came from them living like leaves from the tree of their life and clothed them with living leaves.

And as with cloth, so with all things, houses, shoes, wagons or cups, men used to put them forth sensitively like boughs, leaves, fruits, flowers from their tree of life, and villages, whole cities lived, lived as true bowers of men

It will be so again, for man will smash all his machines again at last, and for the sake of clothing himself in his own leaf-like cloth, issued from his life and dwelling in his own bowery house, like a bird in a bush and drinking from the cups that have flowered from his own fingers he will cancel again these machines we have got.

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Astrology books I actually trust at the moment. All coming from different perspectives, but all allowing me to trust their words, and learn.

#stevenforrest #chris brennan #astrology legends

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”The Air is on Fire” - David Lynch. Looking forward to reading this one. Currently scouring my local libraries for a copy.