AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Rising - for Writer's Island















The House of the Rising Sun has been recorded by Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, The Animals and Joan Baez PLUS The Doors of course (for Paisley)- to name a few.













Pic by Zabelle, Portland, Connecticut - Originally Charles Washington's house in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He lived here for 20 years before moving to Charlestown. Now it is Rising Sun Tavern.

The Rising - album by Bruce Springsteen. Half the songs were written by Bruce Springsteen in response to September 11, 2001. Paradise, You're Missing, Empty Sky, The Fuse, Into the Fire, Worlds Apart and the title song The Rising were written post 9/11.

The Rising Sun is the longest yacht in the world - 452 feet. 82 rooms on five stories with a total living area >8,000 square meters.

On Christopher: Artist Blog Press release, April 3, 2007 - Canadian solo artist Christopher recorded a 27 minute re-interpretation of Jimmy Page’s notorious `Lucifer Risingsoundtrack...Page’s 23 minute soundtrack was scrapped from the same-titled Kenneth Anger occult-themed film and has never been officially released.“The film and music is shrouded in mystery, mishaps, a curse; and excess. They were ripe for re-interpretation and the invocative nature of the music and film resonated with me.”
“The soundtrack Page created was ahead of its time. The unsettling tibetan chants and the even tempered tambura that carries the whole soundtrack were used in a way that would be only looked into several years later by other composers. It’s a shame that the ideas Page employed were not committed to the final edit of the film. It truly does live up to its name.”The re-recording is a tribute to a great piece of truly `underground’ and `unsettling’ music. (The Page soundtrack is usually found on various Led Zeppelin Bootlegs and recently was a feature in UK’s Classic Rock Magazine)


Rising from the pumpkin patch This one, sent to us by David Fowler of uC Hobby, uses printer mechanics, a BASIC Stamp, and a Park Zone light (an ultrasonic proximity detector used for tight-space garage parking). It senses when someone is close to the front door and triggers a pumpkin to rise from the planter box on the porch.

From Elmwood Magic comes Rising Coin Castle. You ask a spectator to sign a coin, and put this coin in the drawer at the bottom of the Tower. The coin now visibly RISES in the Tower's window! Suddenly the coin vanishes and at the same moment a click is heard. You have the spectator open the locked box at the top of the tower. Inside the small Locked Box is their coin!
And YES - the Tower's drawer is now EMPTY!
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Rising damp
Rising bread

Rising hope
Rising tide
Rising heat

Rising to the occasion

Rising storm
Rising wind
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Rising star
Rising moon

Then there is Spirit Rising - Paula Richards website. (This is her pic!)
The vast, creative potential of the universe resides within each of us. It connects us to an infinite source of energy, wisdom and inspiration. Through uplifting artwork, motivational speaking and writing, I rejoice in inspiring others to embrace their natural, creative abilities and joyfully share their unique gifts with the world.

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Rising poverty means rising sickness
Rising fear means rising threat
Rising anger means rising stress
Rising war means rising death

BUT

Rising care means rising calm
Rising happiness means rising peace

Rising sunlight means falling darkness

9 comments:

Joyce Ellen Davis said...

Good post. You've put in a lot of effort and skill into this interesting piece!

anthonynorth said...

And a rising star in blogland :-)

paisley said...

how could you not list the doors on house of the rising sun... that is the only rendition of it i have ever heard... so i guess that is why it stuck out so in my mind....

Tumblewords: said...

Fascinating assortment of connections - lovely photos, too. Enjoyed the time here!

Gemma Wiseman said...

I must thank you all for returning to my blog so regularly! It feels so good to be read!

And Paisley! The Doors now get honourable mention!

Crafty Green Poet said...

Excellent post, I like how you put it together

gautami tripathy said...

It is like a collage!

little wing writer said...

how terrific a response to prompt... the pumpkin was a great piece... and the poetry lovely... i did a post on the song too.. that was the first thing i thought of and didnt realize there was so much controversey associated with the song...

ren powell said...

let's hear it for rising happiness!

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