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awesome Arthur. Makes me want one even more…[/quote:z6v2h2a5]
Yeah, very understandable. Especially the big one is quite something. Those bigger types are used by the elderly when they cannot lift the wheel anymore, so with a longer stick they can rest the wheel on their knees. When I saw one of those prayer wheels in use during a Buddhist dance festival in the temple of Lamayuru (after a trekking of 8 days in the bare and lonely Himalaya, walking around 200 km in that period!) then I was like: finding such a thingy will be my reward for this awesome trekking… it took 4 years however to find one, and it turned out to be the reward after climbing the 6,000+ meter Stok Kangri mountain!Anyway, they both have 1,000,000 times "um mani padme hum" (*) written inside on old paper rolls covered with a red piece of cloth. The number of 1,000,000 is maybe an urban legend told by the buddhists, but the many tiny scribblings inside are certainly there, and are awesome to (sometimes) look at.
* I looked that up for you:
"Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (prayer), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, invokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion. Viewing the written form of the mantra is said to have the same effect — it is often carved into stones and placed where people can see them.
Hehe, funny you mention that wardrobe manilla. I’m quite heavily into antiques also. We should turn this into \"Show Off Your Antique Goodies\"! Got a few things to show (off
) there also…You’ve nothing to be worried about. Well, for a couple years anyway.
I really would like those Everlasting Gaze frenchies.[/quote:1bb9yf9v]
And you got my gentleman hats off + humble compliments for your Adore era promos and Live Bercy.
For a moment you scared me manilla, I was thinking your collection of French cds had become larger than mine.
But… it didn’t (yet). Gnarf.
Rows 6, 7, 8 and 9. Some not even on this older pic. More gnarf. Scrickly ha! Bormps. Hehe.
Now Arthur shoud show us more of his antique stuff
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I think I was reading your mind here Pipoka! Nice pics by the way, looks like a beautiful old city with tons of stories to tell!Anyway, here are the pics that I just took of my 2 precious prayer wheels.
I have just started in a big book from a Belgium writer called Hugo Claus: Het verdriet van Belgie (The sadness of Belgium). Tough one to start with as it jumps from here to there and back again with silly u-turns without too much clues, but it’s getting better slowly by slowly. In fact it’s funny to realize that in real life it goes the same when you jump into a new situation and have to learn the people…
Sorry, maybe I used the wrong words. I mean, they could/should have done the whole set of artwork as promotional prints. Those that come in a run of 100 each, all of them are worthwhile of having a promotional print also, like the 4 you have! Just my humble opinion…
Machina Promo Lithograph No.4/4 (Vasily Kafanov) arrived today
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Amazing stuff indeed. If I had the money I would (try to) collect them also. But why did they only 4 of the whole set as proper lithos? I mean, these are all the lithos available:I won![/quote:fbk6gzqd]
Awesome, congratulations! What happened when you saw the band by the way? Just curious you know…cool pics, and wow, who had to clean up that big mess?? and i so want a pig like that.
i used to have one of those singing bowls, but i don’t know where it went, my mom probably has it. cool stuff arthur.[/quote:f1wsow46]
Thanks & hahaha, yeah right! A pig for a pet, imagine that!
But I’m sure you would take good care of him/her, right? I am so jealous you have a prayer wheel. I want one. They are so neat![/quote:3d74fluy]
Yeah they are! The one on the pic is actually not really an antique one. Just an "oldie" for the tourist market. But I have 2 others that are really antique though. If you want I can take pics of them? 1 is the coolest prayer wheel I have ever seen, it comes with a really long shaft and with a wooden pot made of, yes sir, appletree wood. Seldom seen. One of my few antique prides, let me tell you! It was 1 of those items that I chased for many days in Leh (capitol city of Ladakh) before I was able to buy it.mayonaise, I have never been to Tibet itself, only to countries that connect to it, like Nepal and India (Ladakh) where huge groups of Tibetans live. Tibet is rather hard to visit if you want to go there by yourself, as you always need a personal guide or take a guided tour. I never wanted that crap. I want to go there by myself and discover it by myself, with only a backpack, some money and the Lonely Planet book about that area.
Those Tibet artifacts, what do they symbolize ? I think they are beautiful.
Edit: After posting this post i saw Arthurs reply above.What kinda keys are those? i mean they dont look like something that would fit in a ordinary lock.[/quote:oje6a950]
Correct, it is some sort of a rather huge metal sliding lock where they should fit in. They have threads to be hang on the hips of the people, together with some other personal belongings like spoons and knives. I used the small copper one in the middle to carry around my neck when I climbed the Stok Kangri in 2003. Some kind of a good luck token… But there’s much more on the pic, hardly visible though. Top left: old pottery (used to carry temple gifts or light a little candle inside), together with a white donkey bone & a little horseshoe I found in the Himalaya mountains during my trekkings there. Top right: Tibetan prayer wheel. Middle right: antique water-copper (special, kinda rare type of copper found in the Himalaya) glass used for tea. This one is from a little town called Alchi if I’m right. I was there to visit the famous temple, with the rarest buddhist wall paintings to be found anywhere. Always when I see pics like this… Rhaaahhh! Wanna go back there!
What is it that girls don’t understand EVER that uplifting themselves works better than bringing the other person down?
Haha, this reminds me so much of a short story I once wrote about \"how it must feel like to be a sperm cell\". I made it look like a bunch of lemming-like fish that were swimming like crazy towards their certain death, but the one fish that was rewarded woke up in a new life… Very sinister story with many killings, but with a somewhat happy-dark ending.
Anyway, well done Marcella. If you feel like becoming a more pro writer, try to write longer stories with exciting parts like this mixed in. And certainly bring them on here!
Your place looks really cozy indeed. I feel like lying down on that couch, it looks so comfortable. So if you happen to see a bulge on it next time you wake up, you know who’s there.
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Always welcome! Golden Sparklers is what the package said, yeah. Reggaeluv2000 is right!
Talking about antiques, those are old Tibetan keys. Can you imagine? Keys!
Some pics I took yesterday and today. Silly melancholy…
Our cozy living.
Snowman.
My Tibet antique collection.
New Years Eve 00:00 at the balcony.
Then all hell break lose!
Our street this morning.
10,000 people taking a New Year Swim.
The sponsor’s pig on the cold beach… (sponsor = Unox sausages )
Now PLEASE stop this sillyness, and go back collecting Smashing Pumpkins rarities. Or go listening to your favourite Smashing Pumpkins tracks. PLEASE! NOW!
what pic reggae? i don’t see a x-mas/ happy new year card on the front page.
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Yes you do. Don’t play silly, blueczarina!I might have found a rare Canadian misspressing of the Mellon Collie cd album, with both discs in the same color.
Keep ya posted… I have asked a pic from the seller first.
Update: it has both discs in the right colors, but it plays the same set of 14 tracks on both discs. Funny.
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