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Blog Entries Blog Entries http://ouropenmic.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:09:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 First Attempt at Photography index.php?option=com_myblog&show=First-Attempt-at-Photography.html&Itemid=10097 <p>Recently, I ventured for the first time into the medium of still photography.  I haven't posted here in a while, so I figured the results would be a good chance to contribute.  Tell me what you think.</p><p><img src="http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/428/1emjly6.jpg" alt="" width="500" /><br /></p><p><br /><img src="http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/3888/3emjps1.jpg" alt="" width="500" /><br /></p><img src="http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2338/14emjfu1.jpg" alt="" width="50 [...] emilio8605@gmail.com Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:00:00 +0100 photography Photography #2 index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Photography-2.html&Itemid=10097 <p><img src="http://ouropenmic.com/images/blogs/graffiti.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://ouropenmic.com/images/blogs/jjcandid.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://ouropenmic.com/images/blogs/doubble.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://ouropenmic.com/images/blogs/tc.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://ouropenmic.com/images/blogs/noclue.jpg" border="0" alt="" /> </p> skatz1989@gmail.com Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100 photography Life art Week 2: A Challenging Challenge! index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Week-2-A-Challenging-Challenge-.html&Itemid=10097 <p>Thanks for all the great comments from last week!</p><p>Just to note: Any registered user has posting access, not just commenting access.  So feel free to not just comment, but make your own posts in response to the challenges!</p><p>Also, if you have something interesting or inspiring that you want to share, please feel free to do it any time - it doesn't have to be related to the current challenge! </p><p>Speaking of the current challenge... <br /></p><p>--------------------------- [...] angela.patton@asu.edu Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100 a challenge ... Oops (Challenge Response). index.php?option=com_myblog&show=...-Oops-Challenge-Response-..html&Itemid=10097 <p>So it's technically past a week... by a few hours.  But here's my response to the challenge:</p><p>  Something that made me pause. This Shabbos, there was a farbrengen (a gathering of souls).  One of the things said there struck me.  Within Judaism, there does exist the concept of asceticism, of self-abnegation.  There is that which is inherently holy (required), that which is inherently unholy (prohibited), and then there is that which is inherently neither.& [...] angela.patton@asu.edu Mon, 15 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Spirituality re: challenge Judaism A Challenge! index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-Challenge-.html&Itemid=10097 <p>Hey you!  Yeah, you, reading this site but not commenting.</p><p>Obviously, this site does not make you pause.  So I have a challenge for you:</p><p>Post something here that does make you pause.   Pause in thought, confusion, epiphany, humor... whatever it is, just something that makes you pause.</p><p>You have 1 week.</p><p>(and, to be fair, I'll be doing it, too) </p> angela.patton@asu.edu Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100 a challenge Late-night Ice cream Insanity index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Late-night-Ice-cream-Insanity.html&Itemid=10097 <img src="http://www.ihateregistering.com/Late-Night_Ice_Cream_Insanity.jpg" alt=" " title="Late Night Ice Cream Insanity" width="400" height="400" /><br /><br />Inspired by a bowl of ice cream, late at night.<br /> angela.patton@asu.edu Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Phew index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Phew.html&Itemid=10097 <p>So, guys, I would really like to do my idea, but with my new job and commitments, I simply don't think it would be a good idea for me to.</p><p>I really would like to see OOM continue, but I have noticed a hardcore lack of interest recently.  Is anyone interested in taking the mantle and continuing the site?  If someone wants to help the site grow, please tell me, and I will be more than happy to work with you to turn the site into something great.</p><p> Hit me up, guys. < [...] eladthegreat@ouropenmic.com Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Reincarnation index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Reincarnation.html&Itemid=10097   <p>I would very much like to be</p><p>Bukowski</p><p>Old and </p><p>All too aware</p><p>Hunched, miserable, </p><p>Alive.</p><p> </p><p>I would very much like to be</p><p>That 5 year old I saw in the Art Institute</p><p>Writhing in his mother's lap with boredom,</p><p>Not caring that his shirt was pulled up to his armpits because the bench he lay on was </p><p>Cool</p><p>I would very much like to be</p><p>My lover's cat</p><p>Haughty and </p><p>Also old,</p><p>Tolerant of our [...] hadouken2society@live.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Random thoughts confessional Still, Lukewarm index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Destructive-Boredom.html&Itemid=10097   <p>I think I would like to glow red hot</p><p>With madness</p><p>Something to talk about, you know?</p><p>Instead of forging conversation</p><p>Upon general concerns</p><p>I don't have much to say, anyway</p><p>I don't watch sports,</p><p>Have no perilous habits,</p><p>And follow the forged path of teenage angst</p><p>(Nothing too detrimental)</p><p> </p><p>I guess its just as well,</p><p>This contentedness with the contrite-</p><p>I can't be in trouble</p><p>For blending [...] hadouken2society@live.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Life Learning and Growing a challenge Paternal Instinct index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Paternal-Instinct.html&Itemid=10097   <p>I swear about my father</p><p>While lounging, sporting his pants.</p><p>Pausing for a moment, I realize that in this </p><p>Worn, tattered,</p><p>Aged</p><p>Pair of pants,</p><p>I am him</p><p>A disgruntled old man,</p><p>Frustrated</p><p>A born again defeatist.</p><p>I know that he is, in turn,</p><p>His own disliked father</p><p>Who festers, rots in his armchair at the home,</p><p>Snaps at nurses who sneak longing glances at the ticking clocks between waiting</p><p>On ungrateful, fes [...] hadouken2society@live.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 A G-dly moment in the grocery store. index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-G-dly-moment-in-the-grocery-store..html&Itemid=10097 I'm in the grocery store, wandering through the aisles, looking for a potholder.  It's the last thing on my list, and it's proving elusive.  Dinner is waiting on it.  I eventually decide to go ask a clerk where they might be located. <br /><br />As I'm walking to the information desk, I think to ask for some heavenly assistance: "Please, G-d, let me find some potholders so I can make dinner soon."  My next thought is what I could do for Him.&nbs [...] angela.patton@asu.edu Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Spirituality nonfiction blog Our Open Mic Part 3 index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Our-Open-Mic-Part-3.html&Itemid=10097 <p>After some discussion with other Open Micers and some deliberation on my own, I have come to a few conclusions as to the future of this site.</p><p>Basically, the blog aspect of the site is great, it has sort of become a simple loose collection of blogs working seperately rather than a collection working together.  I don't think this is anyone's fault, but rather just a natural consequence of the nature of blogging.  I think when we were all together, it was much easier to w [...] eladthegreat@ouropenmic.com Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Our Open Mic News A Proposal index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-Proposal.html&Itemid=10097 <p>Dear Loyal OurOpenMicers:</p><p> I have thought about this for a while, and was wondering what you guys might think about it.</p><p>I think that our blog is great, and exciting, but we can make this site  alot more than it is.  I want to redesign the site so that people can display their works more individually and artistically.  I want to also make a more interactive environment.  I know that I've tried this before, with mixed results, but I think it was mostly i [...] eladthegreat@ouropenmic.com Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Featureless Love index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Featureless-Love.html&Itemid=10097 <p>I’m keeping a close eye on my lips these days, </p><p>On those careless, cheating bastards. </p><p>I’m sick of their chapped ways, </p><p>The way they speak without my permission. </p><p> </p><p>Those liars! How they bask and revel in importance when they taunt, </p><p>Beckoning, wrapped in oozing layers of glittery, shiny wetness </p><p>Its so unfair </p><p>That they would steal your attention away from me </p><p> </p><p>My lips have caught scent of my nosiness </p><p>T [...] hadouken2society@live.com Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:00:00 +0100 love Beauty Scented Sleep index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Scented-Sleep.html&Itemid=10097 <p>The scented allure of your covers has a greater appeal than my own </p><p>Yours, unlike mine, envelope and rock me sweetly </p><p>Perhaps it is the warmth that courses through your arms, but I secretly believe that it is the detergent your mother uses to wash your sheets </p><p>Which smell of us </p><p>I would stop at little to fall into dreams like I do in your bed </p><p>Instead of tossing, waiting anxiously for the tides of blissful unconsciousness to wash over me, I sink </p><p>Heavi [...] hadouken2society@live.com Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Jewish Gender Ideals and Such... Part 1 index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Jewish-Gender-Ideals-and-Such...-Part-1.html&Itemid=10097 <p>I was inspired to write a series of blogs about the view of women in Judiasm after studying Judaics for five weeks in NY. It really peaked my interest...</p><p> A couple of months ago an acquaintance of mine mentioned that he thought the morning blessing which states "Thank you G-d for not making me a woman." was chauvinistic. My reply to his statement was that this translation alone with out interpretation can be misleading. I told him that to most people who have not had the oppor [...] skatz1989@gmail.com Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Spirituality philosophy nonfiction Learning and Growing Judaism blog A (More) Modest Proposal index.php?option=com_myblog&show=A-More-Modest-Proposal.html&Itemid=10097 <p>If I ever run for office, I will build my entire campaign around one simple idea: I believe that during the course of your life, you should be able to legally kill one person. This will be called "a freebie". </p><p>There will be rules and limitations, of course. You can't kill anyone under the age of fifteen; if you do, you're disqualified, and will proceed straight to jail. Also, you can't kill with complicated chemical or machine-based weapons (including guns and expl [...] brian.m.street@gmail.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100 Random thoughts Humor fiction Creative Destruction Chicago Sunday index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Chicago-Sunday.html&Itemid=10097 Early in the day, I'm awakened by sunrays<br />Disturbing like gunplay, hit the pavement like runways<br />‘cause today is a suday, I'm packing a spray-paint<br />leave a stain on the L train, writing words on a new way<br /><br />in relation to mistakes we knew would break us into two<br />you can watch the news and choose a place to take a stand and lose<br />dude, and that's the truth, pessimism is a vision<br />I've imagined but eradicated in the wake of realism<br /><b [...] kdeepsi13@hotmail.com Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100 poetry music Lyrics Hope Hip Hop What do you call a collection of Jews? index.php?option=com_myblog&show=What-do-you-call-a-collection-of-Jews-.html&Itemid=10097 <p>Judaism.  Religion?  Race?  Nation?  People?</p><p>Perhaps.</p><p>To me, "the Jewish people" are a family.  3 fathers, 4 mothers... then going down to Egypt as a family of 70 people.  By the time the Torah is given, there are 600,000... and that's just counting the adult males!  By that point, we're called a 'nation'.  Yet put two Jews together, even ones that call themselves atheists and don't know *anything* about Judaism [...] angela.patton@asu.edu Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100 sickly sentimental nostalgia Random thoughts Life Judaism Some art on the go. index.php?option=com_myblog&show=Some-art-on-the-go..html&Itemid=10097 <p><img src="http://photos-854.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v262/22/117/10032854/n10032854_40769832_9365.jpg" alt="Art thing" width="483" height="604" /></p><p>In Crown Heights, after Yeshiva, before visiting my aunt, before coming home.</p><p>In limbo. </p> angela.patton@asu.edu Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:00:00 +0100 art