When Jonathan Harris ( http://number27.org ) turned 30, he began a simple ritual of taking one photo a day and posting it to his website before going to sleep, along with a short story. He called this project, ‘Today’.

This is a short film about Jonathan’s project, made a few weeks after he stopped it, by his friend, Scott Thrift: http://mssngpeces.com

Jonathan’s ‘Today’ project is viewable here:
http://number27.org/today

Music by Julio Monterrey: http://youthfaire.com

I found a FRESHLY PRESSED BLOG THAT truly helps about food before looking at mine, which is just a huge HUGE political push for NO GMO.

Read her blog here

The Double-Edge Sword of Food

The good news is that food connects us, and the bad news is that food can divide us. by Jules Fuel… ENJOY!

Prop 37 gives us the right to know… vote YES on PROP 37

http://www.carighttoknow.org

Genetically Engineered Foods versus Organic Foods

Our last several Presidents and our current President eat organic foods, yet embed Monsanto executives into the Dept. of Agriculture and the FDA.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/09/ge-food-supporters-insist-organic-foods.aspx?e_cid=20121009_DNL_art_1

HEALTH – GMOS greatly increase the use of herbicides and pesticides.

These articles tell how GMOs are greatly increasing the use of chemicals on our food crops

- 400 million more pounds of pesticides and 527 million more pounds of  herbicides.

This contradicts Monsanto’s claim that the GMOs reduce the use of chemicals.

http://www.carighttoknow.org/gmos_unleashed_a_pesticide_gusher

http://www.carighttoknow.org/stronger_weeds_fewer_butterflies

http://www.carighttoknow.org/damning_new_study

In politics, it always helps to follow the money.  - see chart below.

Starting with Monsanto & Dupont, these chemical & processed food corporations have contributed 32.5 million dollars to the No on 37 campaign. 

The Yes on 37 top donors are Dr. Mercola, Organic Consumers Fund, Nature’s Path Foods, Dr. Bronner’s Soaps and the Lundberg Family Farms.

Along with the thousands of individuals who have donated small amounts, the Yes on 37 campaign has raised a little more than 1/10th of that amount: 3.9 million. It is definitely a David against Goliath struggle. (The financial data is from Ballot*Pedia.)

FoodDemocracyNow.org states: “Already, Monsanto, DuPont, Coke, Pepsi and Nestle are running deceptive and misleading ads on the air in California. The problem is, the opposition knows that lying and deception works. After all, they did it for decades, whether it was covering up the harm to human health of cigarettes, Agent Orange or DDT.

In the past year alone 19 states have attempted to pass GMO labeling laws, but each time Monsanto and biotech lobbyists have threatened to sue [and the state legislators backed down. Note added by me.] In Washington DC, both Republicans and Democrats have voted against labeling genetically engineered foods in equal numbers; and the Obama administration has refused to act, despite a campaign promise the President made while on the campaign trail in 2007.

On November 6th, California could be the first state in the country to allow labeling of genetically engineered foods,

creating a wave across the country to achieve this right for the entire nation.

A growing number of studies have shown that there are serious environmental and health issues that relate to GMOs and their patented seed technology.

Even as the U.S. government continues to rubberstamp the approval of new GMO crops, countries around the world are banning or halting the import of GMO seeds into their country, including most recently, France, India, Egypt and China, as they are waking to the realities of this untested and unsafe technology.

In California, all we’re asking for is a simple label to appear on a package to inform consumers if their food contains GMO ingredients — a right that citizens in 50 countries already have.”

http://FoodDemocracyNow.org/

This will help and I will c/p from here to create my blog: In politics, it always helps to follow the money – see chart below. Starting with Monsanto & Dupont, these chemical & processed food corporations have contributed 32.5 million dollars to the No on 37 campaign. 

The Yes on 37 top donors are Dr. Mercola, Organic Consumers Fund, Nature’s Path Foods, Dr. Bronner’s Soaps and the Lundberg Family Farms. Along with the thousands of individuals who have donated small amounts, the Yes on 37 campaign has raised a little more than 1/10th of that amount: 3.9 million. It is definitely a David against Goliath struggle. (The financial data is from Ballot*Pedia.)

So, what does this silly cartoon have to do with this subject? Nothing. I wanted to end this with a smile knowing that you can do something about this tragedy.

source

And your next BLOG….debyemm

Yes, WE can do it !!

In this world of many artists we are uplifted and inspired by those leading the way for workable changes in bringing about a new civilization.

“As soon as we allow ourselves to think of the world as alive, we recognize that a part of us knew this all along”  ~Rupert Sheldrake

“When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape. And when you can play a real good role—when you can go down here and be the mule or be the general with equal verve, in the total spirit of play, and do it with terrific sincerity—you’re living!” “Do not allow yourself to become upset by people or things…they are powerless. Your reaction is their only power!!”

“If you give up your own integrity and only gain for yourself, you may as well be dead. Those you’ve crossed will never feel the same, and others will smell it on you and act accordingly. I have subscribed to this my entire life, and have always tried to give far more than I take, and find a way to give back either now or over time, or later. Repay your obligations and then some. You will feel whole again. My advice, take it or leave it, at your peril.” This is a silly picture but I like it for unknown reasons.  SPLURGE ON CREATING — L. Ron Hubbard  “Look, an artist has an ability to change a culture. That is a humongous ability and with it comes humongous responsibility. So to that degree, they’re pretty big beings.”

“Trust others, but still keep your eyes open.”

“On the day we can fully trust each other there will be peace on earth.”

L. Ron Hubbard

~~The Nobel Peace Prize 1989

~~The 14th Dalai Lama

~~In his acceptance speech

~~for the Nobel Peace Prize,

~~his holiness the Dalai Lama said,

“Because we all share this small planet Earth, we have to learn to live 

in harmony and peace with each other and with nature.  

That is not just a dream, but a necessity.”

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1989/lama-acceptance.html

“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.”~Abram Urban 

“Creation of an idea is a valuable commodity not to be disvalued by this bill below. Doing so will not only discourage artists from creating, but will surely result in a world where creativity dies.” 

~Heidi Thompson  ♥

One by one the guests arrive
The guests are coming through
The open-hearted many
The broken-hearted few

And those who dance begin to dance
And those who weep begin
Welcome, welcome, cries a voice
Let all my guests come in
Part of “The Guests”
by Leonard Cohen

“Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.” 

“In the vaunted works of Art,

the masterstroke is Nature’s part.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson  

LIFE IS A GIFT – IT IS A GAME – THE GAME OF LIFE…

Thanks for visiting. I am much better off now that I have met you and we touched each other in some way. .

I own a studio and Direct Films/Ads/Documentaries; create as an artist helping expansion.

lOvE AnD LiGhT To yOu, SpIrIt 

Blogging is something that you can do that doesn’t cost you anything, and it drives traffic. It can drive traffic to a standalone blog or a blog that is part of your main web site.

How does it drive traffic?

There is a network of blog search engines, and every time you post something on your blog, you have to notify these search engines and your new content will be included in those search engines. And people search and find your content and come to your blog.

WordPress blogs are set up by default to send a notification to all the blog search engines every time you post something new. For Typepad, Blogspot, Posterous or other blogs, you can send a notification (called a “ping”) to these search engines for free at www.pingomatic.com.

If you have a standalone blog, meaning one that is not part of your main site but is on a separate web address, then you have to put things in the sidebars that will get them to come back to your main web site. See one of my blogs to see how I do this:
http://www.realwebmarketingblog.com/

Notice that I have ads in the sidebars promoting my book and a free eBook, as well as links to my other sites and my various services.

I track traffic to my main web site at www.realwebmarketing.net using Google Analytics, and my blogs are the biggest single traffic source to that web site over the last two years (even bigger than Google).

Setting Up a Blog

There are several ways to set up a blog:

• WordPress: You can set up a hosting account and have WordPress installed on it. You can also set up a sub-folder under an existing web site and install WordPress in just that folder, so that the address of the blog would be www.yourmainwebsite.com/blog.
• Typepad: You can set up an account with Typepad who will then host your blog, so you don’t need a separate hosting account. You can use a custom web address that you register.
• Free Blogs: There are several free blogs, including WordPress.com, Blogger.com, Posterous.com, and Blog.com. Note that WordPress.com is a free blogging system and is different from having a hosting account and installing WordPress there. I know, it’s pretty confusing. We used to use LiveJournal.com but the site has been broken for some time, and we used to use Tumblr.com, but they got all high and mighty on us and closed down our accounts because we (gasp!) wrote blog posts with links to other sites. Recently WordPress.com has also started closing down accounts if you write blog posts with links in them to other web sites.

Linking in Your Blog Posts

One of the advantages of blogging is that you can put links inside your blog posts, to pages on your main site. And getting lots of links coming back to your main site helps its search engine rankings.

Putting links into your blog posts is very smart to do and over time will add a fair number of new links to your site. I would put a max of 3 links into each blog post.

As mentioned some of the free blogs are objecting to links from your blog to commercial web sites, which I think is idiotic and symptomatic of the general “anti marketing” bias within the IT community. So my advice is not to use WordPress.com or Tumblr.com any more.

What to Write About

The next question is what to write about and how often. You should write something new and post it to your blog at least once a month, or more ideally, once a week.

You can write an article for your blog of anywhere between 300 and 1500 words. I’ve heard people say that you should not write anything over 700 words for a blog post but I can’t see any reason for that. Pick some topic related to your industry that has helpful information in it, i.e. it is not just a pitch for people to buy something.

In addition to writing an article, you can also write a short comment about some other content on the web, with a link to that content. You can also post a video from YouTube so that it displays right in the blog. So you can see that you do not have to write a full blown article to be able to post something.

It’s a good idea to include some high traffic keywords in your blog posts, because once that post gets included in the blog search engines, more people will find it due to searching for those keywords.

Good luck with blogging.

re-blogged from John Eberhard at realmarketing linked above

I highly recommend using his services and have met him in person.

I’ve been busy being admin on several blogs and websites and discovered from him, that I haven’t been blogging enough. : )

xkcd "The Eternal Flame"