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JacobvanLoon.com giveaway contest

The prize: 
This is a surface texture photo taken of Madison & Kohlhase, a painting I finished in 2011. This photo was taken of a section on the finished surface, which has been a theme in the documentation of my work for a few years now. 

The photograph is printed at 8x10” on glossy archival paper, and comes framed.

To enter: 
To be eligible to win this print, you must:
1. Reblog this post, intact
or
2. Promote both jacobvanloon.com and blog.jacobvanloon.com in a post on your website (not exclusive to Tumblr), and submit the post url to me for verification. 

The contest closes Tuesday, December 25 at 11:59p. The winner will be announced here and contacted directly. Good luck and enjoy! 

12.19.12 ♥ 1768
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TWolfBlogSpot: Newtown, please forgive us.

twolfblogspot:

What is this world that we live in, where any armed man, woman or child can walk into a school, or post-office, or place of work and start blowing people away?

No.

That’s not even the right question.

There are guns, yes. But guns don’t kill children. People kill children. Without people…

12.14.12 ♥ 3
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Zoom twolfblogspot: hangry 1. hungry and angry; 2. the irrational emotional state that occurs when one has waited too long to eat; Example: “I’m sorry I flipped out when you glanced at that tree, I think I’m just hangry.” During a sound healing circle in 2005, my friend Yves, said the word “angry”. Because of his accent, the word came out “hangry”. In that moment, my Magpie and I decided that this was the perfect word to describe the phenomenon that occurred whenever one of us waited too long to eat. Ever since, whenever one of us is getting our grump on, the first thing we do is check in to make sure we’re not just hangry! Our friends LOVE this word, so I thought I’d share it with all of you…  (I used the meme tool at recitethis.com to create the graphic) Cheers, Teron.

twolfblogspot:

hangry

1. hungry and angry;

2. the irrational emotional state that occurs when one has waited too long to eat;

Example: “I’m sorry I flipped out when you glanced at that tree, I think I’m just hangry.”

During a sound healing circle in 2005, my friend Yves, said the word “angry”. Because of his accent, the word came out “hangry”. In that moment, my Magpie and I decided that this was the perfect word to describe the phenomenon that occurred whenever one of us waited too long to eat. Ever since, whenever one of us is getting our grump on, the first thing we do is check in to make sure we’re not just hangry! Our friends LOVE this word, so I thought I’d share it with all of you… 

(I used the meme tool at recitethis.com to create the graphic)

Cheers,
Teron.

12.04.12 ♥ 1
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TWolfBlogSpot: The Problem of Teaching Bi-gendered Language in a Multi-gendered World

twolfblogspot:

Recently, someone I know, who is training to become a teacher in a fairly progressive setting, posted a question on Facebook. The problem, as I understood it, was this: How does one teach masculine & feminine nouns, without reinforcing gender stereotypes and/or alienating those whose experience…

11.28.12 ♥ 3
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twolfblogspot:

You know, there is a time and place for everything, including psychiatry… That having been said, this video is officially one of my favourite commentaries - EVER!!!

Cheers,

Teron. 

10.04.12 ♥ 2
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Zoom twolfblogspot: This writing prompt inspired a haiku… inevitable another journey begins into the unknown Cheers, Teron.  writingprompts: #607  leaf feelings, cross posted at Big Universe

twolfblogspot:

This writing prompt inspired a haiku…

inevitable

another journey begins

into the unknown

Cheers,

Teron. 

writingprompts:

#607 
leaf feelings, cross posted at Big Universe

10.02.12 ♥ 91
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haiku in binary code

01110100 01110111 01101111 00100000 01110011 01101001 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01101110 01110101 01101101 01100010 01100101 01110010 01110011 00001010 01101101 01100001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101000 01100001 01101001 01101011 01110101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 00001010 01110101 01101110 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 

To translate, copy and paste to: http://www.convertbinary.com/

10.02.12 ♥ 2
base jumping (Transitions Series)

how is it exactly

that one goes about learning the ropes

when there is no one around to teach you

how to climb?

i choose to set forth

regardless

moved

by my own will

i often fail

to tie the knots correctly

i am unsure of my footing

i hold the rope to loosely

no

too tight

i am certain

that the weight of the air will not hold me

(how often

do you leap from great heights

without a parachute)

it is not only the bruises

incurred by this fall that concern me

it is the pain of each one passed

the echoes of my soul

i am imprinted

by shiny silver coins

that stick to my skin in the heat and ache

and sting

when you pull them off

relentlessly

carving my own path i am free but

i can only scrape the surface

and sometimes there is powder

on my hands

06.05.12 ♥ 4
Bonfire

believe me

when i say i love you unforgivingly

passion consumes reason

at every turn the clock ticking away

moments stolen

behind the moonlight

sneaking shadows under my pillow

breathless

but for a monstrous dream of perfection

snowing

i lit candles in the window

flickered through my lashes closing

to shut out the dust of past bellows

breathe life to fire

in brick red moments

06.02.12 ♥ 11
weeping

the tear drops

shards

splinters

to the deepest parts

of me

there it swells

until it bursts forth

a brilliant rainbowed prism

lightning beauty

of we

05.31.12 ♥ 5
anchored

it’s been over a week now and

there are worse things than your body

they are dredging from that lake:

your mother’s heart

        26 years of beating in time with yours and

        your tiny hands now grown & pointing fingers

        at every mistake she’s ever made

there are worse things than your body

they are dredging from that lake:

your father’s reflection

        26 years of himself in your eyes and

        his own arms the first to teach you

        not to fear the water

there are worse things than your body

they are dredging from that lake:

your young wife’s dreams

        60 anniversaries that are never going to

        happen and

        a nightmare of guilt

        for each harsh word you shared

there are worse things than your body

they are dredging from that lake:

your son’s only anchor

        first abandoned by his mother and

        now a lifetime of healing

        though he’s only 4 years old

there are worse things than your body

they are dredging from that lake:

the corpse of your companion

        invincible at 18 and

        his family’s grief

        running deeper than the bottom

there are worse things than your body

they are dredging from that lake:

(they found you both today)

05.28.12 ♥ 7
i will be, somebody.: TUMBLR WRITERS!

sevenreasons:

I’ll always be adding to this.

I’m trying to get everyone on here. Bare with me. However if you were one of the first ones and your blog is still not on here please message me (as I did not see your link) and I will add you right away.

Disclaimer: When these links were added they were…

05.20.12 ♥ 154
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still (‘She’ Unrequited Series)

you..

(it would never work)

but..

(it would never work)

but i..

(it would never work)

i..

(it would never work)

05.16.12 ♥ 16
free fall

these wings

are the ones you gave me

that i might learn to fly

unfastened

through a sky

big enough

to hold me.

this sky

is the one i give you

that you might learn to soar

in freedom

beside a soul

gentle enough

to love you.

05.15.12 ♥ 11