Labedzki-Art

Here I am in Hawaii listening to the waves pounding on the shore. It is Christmas day! It is very strange to see Christmas decorations in the middle of the summer! While vacationing I am still trying to be creative. Photography and video making have become my latest passion although I will always be a painter first and foremost. I have taken over 1400 photos in Hawaii and of course half of those should be deleted but I can never bring myself to throw away or delete my art. I seem to learn a lot from the work that isn’t perfect.
Hawaii is absolute paradise and a wonderful way to end the year. We went on an eight hour tour; stopping at the highlights of Oahu. The President and family are arriving today and it would be great to look up and see Air Force One (which I didn’t).
I enjoy photography immensely. I created hundreds of shots per day here at the beach in Waikiki. I journaled the events with my camera; I studied the actions and characters of the mass amount of people walking by. I sit here under my blue umbrella and have become a voyeur! I am photographing people as they walk into the New Year. Please take a moment and visit my website at  http://www.Labedzki-Art.com Artists may join for free. If you would like to view my videos please visit my youtube channel at  http://www.youtube.com/user/annettelabedzki100 Thank you!

I wish you all the best in the New Year.
regards,
Annette Labedzki

This image was created in Adobe Photoshop 7.
The image contains 6 layers. I started with a
photo taken here in Vancouver, BC. Then I applied
an image of a hand stitched fish, covered with
mother of pearl buttons. The fish image was
distorted. I added an overlay effect to create
a crackled appearance on the buttons. For layer
3 I applied a photo of a very old letter with
an overlay effect to create a feeling of a strange
and ancient land. In Layers 5 and 6 I added the
earth and its reflection and again manipulated the
effects to create the final piece.
If you would like to see more work please visit
my website at www.Labedzki-Art.com

Recently I have been creating “How To” videos;

including tips and techniques for various arts and

crafts projects. To view the videos please

click here: www.youtube.com/user/annettelabedzki100

Thank you and All the best,

Annette Labedzki

I’m just having fun with photoshop!

I recently decided to enter the world of video making.

It has been a huge challenge, however also a lot of

fun! Here are a few samples:

Why Record Your Life’s Work?
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow

It is well known that most of someone’s life experience, thoughts, innovations, or even inventions do die with them when they leave their life experience. Worse, we all suffer having to re-live these hardships or never realize the potential of their innovations. Thus, this is one of the travesties of life and death and a challenge for the future of humanity. Perhaps, this is why I recommend writing down your thoughts, ideas, concepts, and innovations for future generations.

Not long ago someone asked me why I was doing so much writing in early retirement; “Are you recording your thoughts because you know how fragile human life and health is.”

Luckily I am in perfect health, and mind, and yes, this could be one of the reasons I am writing it all down, although I generally never do anything for only “one” reason as I like to line up 100s of ducks and shoot them all with a high powered laser. This saves time, as you can solve problems with many components with simplicity.

Indeed, to answer your question, “YES” that is one of the major reasons, as I read something that Leonardo da Vinci once said, “I only have one regret, that I might die before finishing all my projects or writing down all my ideas” yes, that really is a bummer. Much like the burning of the ancient Alexandria Library; Terrible. In the future this problem will be solved, by downloading one’s brain or like the theory of recording an entire life.

Imagine how many great minds took it all with them, and how much further humanity could be ahead, had we had this information? Think on this.

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On Friday April 3 at 2:45 pm there were so many sirens and police about a half block away from our house. The day before I had seen a very long police escorted caravan of dark cars and I was curious which important person might be in town. I decided to walk half the block to the police and ask them. To my horror there were ambulances, yellow tape and police everywhere. They said that someone discovered a dead body; a sudden death. The whole city is shocked by the news and every eight hours or so the media reveals more information about the murder. A woman went for an afternoon jog and was killed and we still don’t know how and why. The RCMP and the media are surrounding our house. I really feel like I’m living in a horror movie right now. The large Crime Scene Investigation Unit arrived and police dogs. All traffic is blocked off and in a very sad and ironic way it is very peaceful here. The University Endowment Lands consist of 750 hectors of land and the police are doing a thorough grid search right now. My heart goes out to the woman and her family.

I have a web site in which I am able to invite other artists and I was wondering if you would like to join. The address is www.Labedzki-art.com It’s quite simple to join, when you ar on the site click on “register”, “login” and “create/order album”(this is where you give your album a title only,) then “upload images”, I usually only load two or three at a time .Once you’ve loaded you can go to home page click on “user gallery” and you’ll see your images! Of course there are no fees and your image upload is unlimited!

Thank you so much and I really hope to see your work there

Regards,

Annette Labedzki

I cordially invite you to join my fan page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Labedzki-Art/48646610147?ref=ts

The Frozen Tongue (A Very Short Story)
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dennis_Siluk_Ed.D.]Dennis Siluk Ed.D.

((A Chick Evens, Episode, 1957, St. Paul, Minnesota)(a very short Story))

The sidewalk around the garage was scattered with broken, long and heavy ice icicles, once frozen onto the rim of the garage roof. I was but ten-years old back then, back in the winter of 1957, and I had heard how cold metal or iron, would freeze a person’s tongue onto its surface, as quick as the clap of an eye. I was born with a curious nature indeed, and this was quite fascinating, yet to me unproven. So of all things, I put my tongue onto the door knob of the garage door, it must had been five below zero out. And it froze onto it, quicker than I could spit.

I started to pull, or try to pull away, but my tongue would not release from the metal knob, and so there I stood, like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, crouched down nearly on bended knees, praying my brother Mike would come along soon and save the day (I needed no more proof, it worked).

As I remained in this position for eons it seemed, this raised the question, that surely my brother Mike would ask, “Why… would someone do something as silly as this.”

I mean it was harsh weather, a Minnesota winter is nothing to laugh about, for it is an enduring experience, each and every year.

I hadn’t the answer other than, ‘To see if it worked.’

When my brother did show up, he said, “Don’t you have better things to do,” a rhetorical question of course.
And I just prayed he’d hurry up, and go fetch some warm water, which he did, and pour it over my tongue, but instead it went allover my face and mouth and then onto the knob, “Oh!” I cried “It’s free!” and that was worth the additional wetness I had to bear.

My brother, who is two year older than I, looked at me with his intense eyes, carefully, “How long you been like that?” he questioned.

There came a mysterious pause from me, then a succession of “I don’t know (s).”

We both exchanged a humorous look, I think my face apologized mutely for taking up his time, and as he walked up the stairs, his back to me, on the path to our house, he laughed shaking his head, to the right and left (and likewise, so did I).

Written on the roof, Lima, Peru 1-19-2009, Dedicated to Mike S.
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See Dennis’ web site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com

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