Warning! Contains Contents of josie soho's Brain

Why wouldn't Ipernity be a place for personal postings? I mean, as long as the content is not violating the official terms of agreements, what's wrong with filling your pages the way you like?

I hope that you keep posting here :-)

i will johan . i can't help myself. ;-P
thank you for commenting. i get quite bored when no one responds to what i'm doing here. i don't need comments to produce. but thoughtful comments like yours are always appreciated and welcome. thank you. josie

Hola. Stumbled across your page, read this post and just had to comment ...... I find it ironic to say that ipernity isn't the place for personal postings. what are our pictures if not personal postings? they include just as many -if not often even more- emotions, feelings and views of our inner personal lives than the words we write. and what are words if not an attempt to describe what we see - be it with our natural or our "inner" eye.

i, too, hope that you'll keep posting here!

hello asciimo. my blogging began in 2004 as an attempt to archive my thoughts and creations on the web instead of in books in my basement which might never be found. the interactiveness of the web increases my enjoyment of a pastime that i will continue to do, i believe.

i have been doing this encouraged by an article i read early on that said in blogging one must keep on even if you think only one person is reading you. with this thought in mind i have been blogging on this site and others almost daily since december 2004.

i've made many great friends this way and have thoroughly enjoyed all of it.

my blogs encapsulate the good times and the bad...

i've blogged about my father's death from suicide, my mother's death from cancer and the loss of a child who's held beyond my reach.

often times my blogging is a journal of what i see each day. a visual diary of sorts. sometimes what i show has affected me emotionally. sometimes it's just an attempt to record how unusually the moments of the day juxtapose. with this in mind i believe the main slideshow of this site best represents my documentation visually.

additionally, i welcome others' perspective on what i see because others' perspectives inform my own. considering the availabilty of my world to the world at large through the web, i hope i can also convey the humanity that bonds us all even through our cultural differences.

regarding what i said about comments above, it stems from the frustration of knowing people are looking mostly without leaving a trace. frustration not from ego needs but stemming from basic human curiousity. such as, who are they? what do they think?
i remind myself most authors write without feedback. except of course for the occasional letter.

i do receive personal letters from time to time as well. while i am honored when people want to confide in me personally it nudges my conscience to leave my medium public and reminds me i want to keep correspondence in the open. that's why we're here!

Facebook is another dimension of me and my web life. It will never replace what i'm doing here- it only accents it. I have actual and virtual acquaintances among my friends there. it's another layer of what i'm doing on the web.

forgive me for rambling on. you're right, our images do in some way portray who we are and how we perceive our world. we should never let others hold us back because of their perceptions.

thank you for your thoughts and for reading me. i'll see you around the universe!

i love your rambles.... even if i cant relate. and besides who the hell cares what this other person said about personal blogging. isnt photography personal? this reminds me of a time to which a former worker and companion said to me, that it was morally wrong to take pictures of people in struggle, strife or of tragedy. HA!!!!!!!!!!!!! i didnt even know what to say to such a perspective. so i just walked away, after not getting a response as to why they felt this way. wow and to think this was a fellow american..... well i guess that shouldnt surprise me, but look at all the death, assult and crime that is sold through our media and movie makers. have they had their eyes glued shut since birth?

by the way keep your eyes peeled on the sky in august, especially on the 27th!!! Mars will be closer to the earth then ever recorded in history. it will appear to be the same size as the moon.

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i always enjoy your thoughts on my page. i think we relate remarkably well for man and a woman of two different generations.

photographers are documentarians as well as artists. i think it takes real guts to show the difficult side of life. doing it compassionately is the mark of a thoughtful and sensitive human being.

once i was a nanny for a very well placed family. the matriarch came into the room where i was watching a social documentary on prison life in the U.S. I was flabbergasted when she crossed the room and turned off the television while remarking, "We don't watch things like that ,dear."

apparently this type of thinking knows no bounds.

thanks for the tip, homes. i'll keep my eyes open and i hope it won't be August before i hear from you again!

facebook sucks ;]] do not listen to frustrated people ;]]
anyway, i've noticed that i won't be able to buy bra in my size in usa :D and i wonder: does americans think that boobs are something evil? and "nipple" is swearing? :O i will have to buy bras in uk and pl :P
people are strange :P huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugz lovely one!!! :) and SMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILE!!! : *
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hahaha. i treat facebook as part of a concept. part marketing tool, part communication. my status sometimes says- josie soho does the internet all wrong.

i challenge the idea that a worldwide medium can dictate one countries' values to the world at large.my friends and relatives mostly use it as intended, this is why i say i'm sure they wonder what i'm doing.

as for myself, i know for a fact, facebook's largest population (our youth) has used their sites to exhibit bad behavior such as underage drinking and partying which is illegal.

i've also seen facebook and myspace pages quoted verbatim in accounts of people who have been arrested in articles written by the American press.

i challenge the idea that an internet site is safe for anyone's real identity.


regarding the U.S. and boobs. we can have whole television episodes based around breasts and their reduction or augmentation complete with graphic images from surgeries. while breastfeeding in public till recently, in my state, was against the law. many a mother here has been in disregard of that law knowingly or not, many times over. myself included.


i wrote in a Facebook note recently-
My husband called to ask to come over. He wanted to see the wildflower bed. I agreed knowing full well it looks better on the web than it does in actual life. That's the problem. So much of our lives is virtual and we're not even aware of it. Should we take down the curtain of Oz or just go on pretending?

Firstly, i have no husband, i was referring to a friend whom i share such a close bond with, we liken ourselves to being married. i know it will never result in an actual marriage because of preferences we each have. but i still call him my husband.


Everyday we are bombarded with altered imagery that we believe is true. in the case of my garden it wasn't so much that i'd altered it but edited the subject by omission. in the case of our media they are altering every image we see and showing the subjective more often than the reality.

if we are to believe the media,in order to be acceptable as women we should all be twenty something blonds and busty while somehow fitting into size 0 jeans with flawless complexions. and we must hide our breasts until deemed appropriate. even if the way in which we show them is inappropriate.

the reality is everyone should be celebrated as the beautiful, unique human being they are. beautiful beings who come into this world with only one possesion which, we have to leave behind when our time is up here on Earth.


i smile all the time. sometimes it's a bemused smile of disbelief.



hugz right back sister! thank goodness for other countries!








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exactly!!! people are strange, some are even stranger :P i don't know if i will ever get visa but pffffffffff :)
(i call Matt "my husband" too ;]])
smiling is good :D makes wrinkles much more visible :D:D:D
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i was relating a story to bebe in the car this afternoon about a news report on dangerous people. he reminded me there are some sick people about. just as a matter of fact. he has the experience to know.


as for your visa. our new president is making lots of positive changes. he's a global thinker. i'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

i have to smile -the muscles on my chin make shadows if i don't! ;-*

i always love to read about psychopaths i don't want to meet any though ;))
i have a lot of faith in Obama :) i believe that we will dance on my wedding soooooooooon (in a year or so? :P)
ismiling is goooooooooood :D:D:D
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I think its excellent the way you are using the internet and such.............pity everyone didnt use it as creatively, glad to join you on your Journey....................

thanks for joining us! i love the web. the creative stimulation is just amazing!