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Shortening Days
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It is still dark at 5:30 when I wake up, and leaves slowly start to turn yellow and brown, but the air keeps burning with the heat of the summer. Hope the cold weather will be delayed this year, and will pass quickly. Hope winter will never come.
Summer work is going OK and right now I really like it, though it takes up quite a lot of the day. By the time I get home, all I wish to do is to lie and stare at the ceiling. I'm fighting idleness though, and keeping up with uni revision, sports, and hobbies. On weekends I meet up with friends, and sometimes go on longer hiking trips. I posted some photos I made these last two months (and would like to thank you for the favourites and the kind comments).
I saw the changes on dA (such as the new look deviation page, journal editor etc) and I do not quite like them. Staff should have rather invested their time in more sensible things, for instance enforcing rules or fixing problems. Photography(!) and Digital Art is flooded with video game screenshots, Literature is swamped with anime fanfiction, and most searches return "error - try again later". Okay, these were issues in the past as well, but now they reached a new height.
How are you all?
Summer work is going OK and right now I really like it, though it takes up quite a lot of the day. By the time I get home, all I wish to do is to lie and stare at the ceiling. I'm fighting idleness though, and keeping up with uni revision, sports, and hobbies. On weekends I meet up with friends, and sometimes go on longer hiking trips. I posted some photos I made these last two months (and would like to thank you for the favourites and the kind comments).
I saw the changes on dA (such as the new look deviation page, journal editor etc) and I do not quite like them. Staff should have rather invested their time in more sensible things, for instance enforcing rules or fixing problems. Photography(!) and Digital Art is flooded with video game screenshots, Literature is swamped with anime fanfiction, and most searches return "error - try again later". Okay, these were issues in the past as well, but now they reached a new height.
How are you all?
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Checking In
4 min read
Hey all!
Holidays have started - actually almost half of them have already passed. Things are okay on my side. My uni grades were acceptable, and right now I have a full-time job for the summer. That, and sports, take up quite a lot of time, and I miss friends and family, but I'm happy for the job, and sometimes it's even enjoyable.
I still visit dA regularly, and even if I don't interact much, I post photos and text now and then. I got my second DLD, and my work was featured in journals, including a DailyLitDeviations Saturday Spotlight article. Thank you so much for letting me know that my work is still appreciated.
Hope your summer is nice - take care and have fun.
Holidays have started - actually almost half of them have already passed. Things are okay on my side. My uni grades were acceptable, and right now I have a full-time job for the summer. That, and sports, take up quite a lot of time, and I miss friends and family, but I'm happy for the job, and sometimes it's even enjoyable.
I still visit dA regularly, and even if I don't interact much, I post photos and text now and then. I got my second DLD, and my work was featured in journals, including a DailyLitDeviations Saturday Spotlight article. Thank you so much for letting me know that my work is still appreciated.
Hope your summer is nice - take care and have fun.
Features: Enjoying Summer
this is our summerremember our feet
hanging off the dock
cheesecake for breakfast
the ducks quacking for more bread
plastic, neon orange kyacks
falling into the river
the lazy afternoon in the hammock
singing love songs to each other
showing our love to each other
tracing the outline of your face
to memorize it in my dreams
when I had to go away again
walking through the zoo
like excited little five-year-olds
proudly holding your hand
lacing your fingers in mine
'what's your favorite fish?'
we just couldn't decide
stuffed puppy for you, old
fennec fox for me, new
'this is her 'friend', Kari'
'those boys better watch out'
stinging pang of irritation in my heart
for the lack of acceptance
your hand in mine
every step of the way
Cirrus BreakersSo feeling breakers
pass the edge
of a cirrus strewn and circular sky
In another summer
in another place
I have that bed on which to lie
In grass and thoughts; a fading trace
Of watching you
alone, asleep
behind an eastern air.
No ancient halls of Rome did speak
of beauty like your hair
That fell in spells and drew me down
still closer to your mouth
I keep these passing moments held
Of summers in the south
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Spring, Again
5 min read
Winter gets worse each year. Darker, colder, longer. I can't remember a winter with snowstorms in early April, not even when I lived in more northern cities. Sometimes I wake up from bad dreams in the middle of the night and the first thing is to look out the window, expecting to see everything covered in ten-inch snow.
Second year of university is slowly coming to an end. I tried to do my best this semester and studies, uni-related projects and work took up a lot of my time and energy. DeviantArt was one of the things I've neglected as a result; I visit the site now and then and even uploaded some photos, but I haven't been involved in the community life lately. I attempted NaPo this year - managed to write only a few poems of course; I plan to post a couple of them here after some editing.
I hear a truck passing in the distance... sounds like a snow plough cleaning snow. I'm afraid to look out the window...
Second year of university is slowly coming to an end. I tried to do my best this semester and studies, uni-related projects and work took up a lot of my time and energy. DeviantArt was one of the things I've neglected as a result; I visit the site now and then and even uploaded some photos, but I haven't been involved in the community life lately. I attempted NaPo this year - managed to write only a few poems of course; I plan to post a couple of them here after some editing.
I hear a truck passing in the distance... sounds like a snow plough cleaning snow. I'm afraid to look out the window...
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the science of usacceleration = gravitational pull / mass
You didn’t send my heartbeat into a frenzy the first time I saw you. It was a month or two before I started feeling the little palpitations inside my chest and made sure that my hand accidentally brushed against yours every now and then.
(I wanted to make sure you got used to the feeling of my atoms colliding with yours.)
I told myself it was stupid and simply physical. You weren’t pulling my heart strings, you were toying with my belt buckle by smiling at me across the room and asking me to spend time with you on a Saturday afternoon. I was sold by the time you pulled into my driveway and my name slipped from between your lips.
(Sweaty palms and twisted vocal chords told me no one said it quite like you.)
I promised myself this was strictly a one-way thing. I feigned like I felt nothing, and in my nervousness I became the witty jackass. You laughed at my barbed-wire jokes and sped through a red light while I was watching
Escape VelocityF = G(m1m2)/r2
Black – true black – is the absence of light. Darkness is defined by what it is not, by the lack of something else. When we say a black hole, we truly mean that; black. Blacker than black. An absence of not only light, but of time, distance, anything.
The night was scary when I was little. I hated the dark, but couldn’t bear to sleep so long as the light was on, any light, burning on the other side of my eyelids. I used to have nightmares about dark things in dark corners, shadowy figures with shadowy fingers trailing along my spine. I always woke up cold and fumbling frantically for the lamp, but the aura of light just made the shadows deeper and I turned it off quickly.
F=force
Black holes are dead stars. Graves. Tombs that bury light, bury it so deep, swallow entire suns, planets, galaxies. Dead stars take all the light with them like rich men spending fortunes on alabaster monuments and marble headstones.
There are four unmarked graves
LawsYou're a son of thermodynamics, a heat engine refusing to abide by any human law.
"If two [thermodynamical] systems are separately in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other." So obvious to be added to the Laws as an afterthought, it majestically fails with you. Sleepless, I lie awake through the nights and we never reach a balance.
And I only feel your every tiny cell hatefully pushing its exceeding Kelvins on mines,
Yet I can't break our skins' contact.
i."Energy is neither created nor destroyed."There has to be something dramatically off with you, and neither Hess my friend nor Clausius my fellow could make it fit into this law. Frowning, I used to imagine that you'd eventually give up all of your heat energy… yet your warmth never, it never dies out.
And I only have in exchange puzzled looks and (jokingly) fed-up remarks,
Yet I can't break our skins' contact.
ii."Heat can s
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Oscar Niemeyer feature
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Oscar Niemeyer (1907 – 2012) was a Brazilian architect who is considered to be one of the key figures in the development of modern architecture. He is best known for his design of civic buildings for Brasília, a futuristic planned city built from scratch in the late 1950s to become Brazil's capital.
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Happy Holidays!
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Finally I have some time off - I'm planning to spend it with family, friends, and sleeping. I uploaded some photos of Provence I made in the autumn; hope you like them.
Relax, have fun, and have a great 2013.
Relax, have fun, and have a great 2013.
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