If you were the light, happily I would be the darkness on the palate. Embracing the alabastar shine of your stark whiteness with rich hues that contrast the depth of bright. I'd loan you my darkness to complete your radiance. They do say that opposites attract. - - - "Always find your opposite epiphany" Lady once told me. - - - My biological theological logical daddy always taught me, "in the darkness are treasures stored in the secret places. Beyond light's warm visible reach that's where God is sometimes. On the dark lonely roads and painful valleys, we may never know or understand," courage becomes king. Finding in the valleys the treasures everlasting. ~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 5.4.12~
TREASURES EVERLASTING – 4.4.12
EBONICS POEM 1.4.12
Ebonics Poem: Yo’ Backpack Black
Brotha. - - - You all hip ridin' yo' bike from downtown 'long Santa Monica Bowlevard. - - - You be whistlin' 'dem 'ole hollywood movie toons passed down from yo' momma Silva Screen. - - - Somewhere o'er de rainbow - - - Watchu peddlin' brotha? - - - Is it dat glint in yo' coco brown eyes dat lemme know you got 'dem grown up candy? - - - Yo' broad shoulders so heavy laden by yo'backpack black. - - - I hear Ali hustle in yo' whistle. Your job to make 'dem blue birds shine. - - - Draped in a suit you could bee one helluva big farmer. - - - Brotha.
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 5.4.12
PINNACLES MONUMENT PARK
At pinnacles monument park, a truck provides a platform to photograph the horizon.
Bottlecaps & Broken Bits Blogging.
~Posted 2.4.12~
DIRECTORS GUILD AMERICA – JAMES CAMERON 1990
Visiting Sunset Blvd at the Directors Guild of America’s annual hui a year ago, I snapped this pic of who Hollywood most looks up to as a box office director.
It turned out to be James Cameron, on set of Terminator 2 with Arnie.
[Photo – Author’s own].
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 30.3.12~
PEOPLE LIVING AT EVERY TURN THROUGH CAMERA
Smoke and mirrors, tinsel gold. People cameras cameras people. Colorful people living at every turn through camera… words from the novel, Wood.
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 30.3.12~
RUSSELL CROWE CASTING NEWS – MARCH 2012
Russell Crowe is set to star in Darren Aronofsky‘s flick of Noah’s Ark. Russell will play Noah.
Russ is the first person of Maori descent to a) win an Oscar and b) be awarded a Hollywood star on The Walk of Fame. In a way he’s a Hollywood Maori King.
Whenever you see an ark as a symbol appear on a media landscape it always warns of impending danger.
The movie is being pitched as a timless tale of passion, perserverance, faith.
Casting News Source: Fox News. Photo: AP News.
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 29.3.12~
SOME OF MY MOST FAVORITE NEW ZEALANDERS ARE…
… prisoners.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 29.3.12~
SONGS FROM THE INSIDE – TEACHING SONGWRITING IN NEW ZEALAND PRISON – MAORI TV’S AMAZING TV PROGRAMMING!
Every now and again, TV programs are made combining music as a form of: freedom.
Lately, I’ve been waking up in the night. The thought keeps occurring: You are not a celebrity in New Zealand today unless you are actively committed and involved in some way in emancipating Maori prisoners into restored opportunities of equality, creative ingenuity and fair wealth access and distribution.
If we choose to ignore Maori prisoners as New Zealand citizens of value – we weaken Maori peoples ability to appear strongly in the world’s future.
New Zealand has one of the highest incarceration rates in the OECD nations. With a hangover of colonization’s systems that acquired land and assets (illegally from Maori), there has been a tendancy to lock Maori men up as a part of this dark past of New Zealand. It masks an unrepentant spirit to keep exploiting from Maori people – as long as these incarceration rates remain so high.
In fact, Maori men more so than any other people group in New Zealand are in jail. Maori women are not too far behind these stats with prison inmate figures in New Zealand. Continue reading
GRACE. ART. LIFE
Paisley Jade’s Grace Billboard is kinda bringing out the gratitude in me. She pops!
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 28.3.12~
THINKING HAPPY THOUGHTS – A SMILERS TWEET
“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.” – Buddha.
As shared by Miley Cyus on twitter.
Hmmmm deeeeeep! 😉
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank 28.3.12~
SWIFTY LAZAAR’S STAR BADGE
Yes. This really is Irving Swifty Lazar (Lazaar’s) star badge.
When I see this photo I am reminded of friendship and of Hollywood hospitality where the brat pack used to dine in LA.
Location: Hamburger Hamlet – The Sunset Strip – West Hollywood & Beverly Hills.
[Photograph – Author’s own].
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank 28.3.12~
TIM TEBOW MOST EXCITING BREAK OUT STAR 2012
[Photo credit: Charles Krupa Associated Press – UK Guardian]
Q. Who is the most exciting new celebrity in your opinion for 2012?
A. Without a doubt it would have to be Tim Tebow who recently signed to the New York Jets joining Mark Sanchez and team.
Why? Tim prays when he wants to. He retaught an entire generation what John 3:16 means too. He reminds me a lot of New Zealand’s Michael Jones when MJ rose to rugby football fame switching from basketball to rugby. He was very similar to Tim Tebow in that he taught New Zealand it’s okay to throw a football around and be spiritual too.
Q. Who is the most annoying star 2012? I’ve seen her in concert before she earned her $90 million in a single year. She was good enough. However across 2011 she became so annoying with the ridiculous press headlines she did. As today is her birthday, perhaps Stefani Germanotta can redeem herself in 2011. She’s a fan of Tim Tebow joining the Jets, so there’s a start for her getting back in peoples good books.
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 28.3.12~
FIBRE-OPTIC DNA POETRY
bound together by mobile phones we kōrero our brown words through fibre-optic, satellite networks of tukutuku DNA.
–poetry of global Maori life 2012-20’s.
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank 28.3.12~
MARKETING FOOD PRODUCTS TO FEED THE WORLD – TRADER JOES & ELVIS
Rice drinks blended with dairy products and grain extracts could quite possibly feed the world in the future one day.
And yes… this is really the way grocery items are sold on shelves in Los Angeles.
[Photo – Elvis at Trader Joes supermarket Hollywood. Photo: Author’s own].
~Posted by Sam Cruickshank. 28.3.12~
WATER AGRICULTURE
In the years ahead water shortages will become more of an issue.
Agriculture will be the new gold in the world.
How are we as global people looking out to grow more produce for humanity not only now, but also in the years to come?
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Aotearoa New Zealand, Polynesia Asia-Pacific. 28.3.12~
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