måndag 9 december 2013

SNOW FALLING on Google+



When I was, some weeks ago, learning how to make animated gifs  it was so difficult to make a good snowfall and it took such a long time.

I was thinking that I wanted to have a perfect moving snowfall ”already made” that I could place on new animated gifs.

But how would that be done? Maybe other people can make such a thing? Maybe I can invent it in some way? But for a little thing like the two bears it would have to be 45 different transparent layers with snow and they would have to be placed upon 45 other pictures in the right order.

I gave up and I thought that there are maybe other things to do in this world than to be focused on how to make snowfall on a moving gif. It seemed to require too much effort and it was hard for the eyes and maybe I was using the wrong method.

On December 5 the first snow was falling here and yesterday, on December 8, it was quite a thick layer of snow. The big machines, the scrapers, have now taken it away from the roads.
Some snow is still falling.

While I was making all my experiments with my snow-gifs I constantly told Karsten about it and I sent him all my experiments. (He is living in Copenhagen, but we know each other because he has a old house here in the forest).
During the last weeks I have sent him so many falling-snow-pictures that he must by now be quite tired of digital snowfalls.

Yesterday evening I talked with him on Skype and he sent me a photo that he had made of some brown flowers in the snow.

It was a good picture, but ”the thing” was that the photo was covered by a very nice and soft moving snowfall. It looked good! I would never be able to make it in such a nice way!



I know that he cannot make a moving gif because he has never even tried, so I thought that now he had suddenly got the idea and learned how to make it. Or maybe he had found some program that could make good snow?

-How did you do that, I asked him.

-I didn´t do anything, he answered.

-Hey! Come on! You got a normal jpg turned into a moving gif with a nice snowfall without doing anything???

-Yes!

-No!

-Yes!!!

-No!!! You must have done something!!!

-No Google+ did it.

-And you did not clic on anything???

-No!

-OK How come? Why? Do you get snowfall on ALL your pictures now?

-No. Google can recognize a picture with snow and if you put a snow-picture on Google+ this picture will automatically be turned into a moving gif with snow falling.

-Really? How long have you known that?

- It happened now, so it seems to be something new.

I googled on it and I found information that said that Google+  now has got something new: they can turn your photos into moving gifs by putting snowfall on them or by making them glimmer. This service seems to have started on May 15 this year.

I was then trying it, but I could not understand how to do it.
I managed to get snow only on one picture and two other pictures also started to move in other ways. I could not choose a photo. Google+ insisted in using 3 photos (that it picked out from different albums) and nothing else.
Not even a new photo with snow would work.

Karsten said that this is something that is so new that probably they have not yet made it work properly. In time they will fix the problems and make it easier to use.

But... I think that half a year would be enough to find out how to create an easy way to use it.
No, wait... here i see that "Twinkle" and "Snow" are their new effects.

http://www.hngn.com/articles/18914/20131206/google-introduces-two-new-auto-awesome-features-make-photos-more.htm

 I could download the gif from Google+, so here it is.


Actually it never snows from a bright blue sky.
But... it looks good anyway.


I had wished for an automatic snowfall to put on pictures and suddenly it was just there!
Amazing!

But I think that people would prefer to handle the effects by themselves, by using some easy clic-function, instead of just automatically getting snows and twinkles on a lot of photos.

lördag 7 december 2013

TWO BEARS




When I had finished the memoriam about SwiftDeer I continued with the new project that I had started some weeks earlier: to make good looking animated gifs.

I had made a moose that was standing in the forest looking at a Christmas tree. It is snowing on this gif but it was very difficult to get the snow right. I did not really like it this way and I thought that I would have to make several layers with snow-flakes that are falling in a steady pace with different speed.




Now I wanted to know how to make the falling snow in a nice way. The snow is made on transparent layers but I needed a winter picture to put in the background.
I searched among my pictures and the best one was a winter landscape with a brown bear walking in the snow.

Brown bears are usually sleeping in winter, but I had made this one to my friend Mona some years ago just because she wanted such a picture to illustrate a story that she had written down.

 That seemed to be a good picture to use for my experiment so put it into the GIMP together with some layers to make the snow on.

When all the pictures were made it took me six hours just to move the snow layers and place them on 45 different pictures. It required a lot of concentration and it was a bit hard for the eyes.

As this is a ”moving picture” I thought it would be a little bit boring to have a bear just standing still. So I made a copy of the bear and with this I now had a new bear that could move around in a way that the picture became a little bit more fun to look at.
I just let the bear walk by because it was the easiest way to move him.

Some days earlier I had made the moose in the snow and I had been thinking that a moose goes well together with SwiftDeer (Lightning Strikes) because it is the ”Keeper of Thunder and Lightning”.
I have many pictures of mooses because earlier I made them on hand-painted postcards.
I have many cards with a surprised moose staring at a Christmas tree so it was easy to take one of them and turn it into a moving gif.

When I had been working half the day with the bear-gif I thought about all those strange synchronicities that usually come here and there.
I was thinking that I would not be surprised if also this picture had some symbolic meaning but I could not see any. A bear in the snow? Or, two of them.  So what? It was not even Batty because he is supposed to be only one bear.

But then... Two Bears? Sounds familiar...
Two Bears!!!! But that is Tom Wilson, it is don Genaro! I had not been thinking about that. My intent had absolutely not been to make any kind of symbol because I only wanted to train on making falling snow on a moving gif.

In the following night I woke up by a sound. It was like the sound of a drilling machine. I had ear plugs but I could still hear it. I tried to ignore it, but it stopped and came back, stopped and came back over and over again just as a drilling machine usually does. Or an alarm clock.

To me it was night because I was in the middle of a dream, but in reality it was very early on a Sunday morning, which is a time when people never use drilling machines.

I went up to see what it was about and... It was the printer!!!

When I came to it the sounds stopped but the lamps were on. It was as if it had received a fax but there is no telephone connected to it so that was not possible. The laptop was off. The writer has never done this before.
Of course it is still possible that it should make this noise once in a while, but I had never heard it do so.

I got quite awake from this irritation and could not easily go to sleep again. Then I slept till half past eleven.

Later in the day I went up to the table where the printer is because I should charge a mobile phone there. When I came up to the printer the lamps went on again. I had not touched it!

Later I told someone about it, but he had not seen the picture of Tom Wilson so I sent it to him.
Doing that I immediately saw that I had spelled his name wrong. I had written Rwo Bears instead of Two Bears. I had to change that!!!
Then I discovered that there was one more spelling mistake under this picture. I changed it.

Then we were joking about this and we said that maybe it had been Tom Wilson who did not like to have his name spelled in the wrong way.
The printer had called me twice and there had also been two spelling mistakes.

”Maybe it was just Tom Two Bears who walked by”.
Yes, why not?
That was a funny story.

Then, yesterday, I got a film about bears on facebook, on the starting list.
It was about a bear in China who killed her cub and then committed suicide  to save both her child and herself from the cruelties of the Chinese torture they were exposed to.
I do not want to re-write this horrible story. Here is the link:
http://livefreelivenatural.com/mother-bear-kills-her-cub-and-then-herself/

I could not fall asleep. I was thinking: ”Why cannot God save these bears” when I got an answer that said that we, the people on earth, we are the hands of god here. We can also act with our mind, with our intent and focus and then we become small parts of god, like small cells in a big body.

I concentrated on these bears in China and I visualized these cages braking into pieces.
But... sorry, bears....I cannot do anything....
I cannot say that I believed that it would be possible for me to save bears in China just by thinking about it, no matter what people say about maditation and mind power.

Maybe I could ask someone else?

I told my friend Mona and I asked her if she could maybe make a ceremony or a drum journey (or so) to ”send something” to help these bears in China. Because she is quite clever in these things and I am not.

First she said that she did not want to see the pictures of the bears, but she could make a drum journey about it anyway.
I said that the picture just showed a bear that looked as if it was asleep so it was not so horrible to look at. And maybe it would be good to look at it to get a connection with it.

She looked at it but then she sounded as if she had got a chock from it anyway. She exclaimed  (in a mail): ”Oh, MY GOD! How horrible!!! I will make a drum journey!”

Mona´s story

When I had seen this I decided to make a drum journey to see what I could do and if I could focus my mind on it.

First I asked my dog Tordön to assist.
The day before I had made a little ceremony with her and an old Thor´s Hammer that I had found in a drawer. Now I took this hammer and I hanged it in a ribbon around her neck and I asked about blessings from Thor and God and other helping spirits.

Now I got a strong feeling of her being in connection with an energy or spirit  that could be of use for nature and especially against animal abuse and such cruelties.

Then, quite immediately, in my ”inner corner of sight” there was an enormously  big brown bear!
Either she was the bear that had killed herself or she was a ”leader bear” in another dimension.
Later I got a sensation that this bear was ”having a mission.”

Then I saw a man from a native people and he had a big bear skin (fur) over his head and his body. He was dancing and he was strongly stamping on the ground to evoke ”earth power”.
It was to take the energy of anger and to channel it to the areas around these bears to create an effect  on them and also on people who want to help them.
I felt something that could be called “anger of justice” going from the drum sound to my body and through it. That is a force that can also influence the nerves and create sudden movements of my body.
I knew that energies had started to move now, in the direction of the bears.

I got a strong feeling that I should continue to focus on helping animals in my ceremonies.
Then the color red was coming up to me from the inner of the earth.
End of Mona´s story

When I had finished this writing I went into my sleeping room to do the bed.
Then I noticed that I have two bears on the bed. Of course I knew it, but I had not thought about it until now.

Yes, I know that if I now see two bears everywhere it is called “selectiv perception”, but anyway.... I don´t have any other things on my bed and they have been there for years out of no reason at all. I got one of them from my son.
So that counts as one more synchronicity!




TWO BEARS
Part 2

Now I got a new mail from Mona and she wrote that she had focused on those bears again and “this time it was really strong”.

Mona´s story continues.

First came the mother bear that had killed her cub and she was a giant brown bear filled with power and goodness and now I knew that she was the bear that had come during the other drum journey.

Now she kind of “grew into me” and then she held me with such a strong feeling of love that I started to cry. The power of love was so strong and it expanded and embraced also those other bears in China so the difference in space disappeared.

Then I saw her child and I saw that they are now working on this from their dimension. She is not at all just a common mother bear.

And then came the dancers!

The dancer with the bear fur was there together with many other dancers from native tribes  and they all danced with a furious anger and power. They were tramping, jumping and stamping with intense energy to make the energy move to the bears.

I almost felt as if I was there and I experienced a powerful but holy anger and wrath which should now be connected to that place and if there are any people who want to help the bears they can draw upon this energy to make an action possible.

There was also an explosive energy directed towards the people who torture these bears.  They will have to answer to God for this and they will have a heavy karma to deal with.

Now I got an extra boost of energy and suddenly I was at the place together with these native dancers and now we were dancing and stamping outside of the building as if we wanted to shake the house into pieces and also shake apart the whole foundation for this business.
It was a mighty experience and a holy moment!

Then I saw something that looked like angels´ wings and they were sweaping over all these cages bringing love and bless.

Now I asked for the energy of Christ to intervene  and then I could see “Christ spirits” being present and they were similar to angels .

I now made a cross of light containing the Christ energy and I went into the building where I used this cross to illuminate the whole place with the purpose of putting an end to the darkness of evil.

May God help! So I thought while I was walking around with the cross spreading it´s light everywhere.

But I was also walking with sadness.

There were helpers from different levels and the whole place was vibrating from holy anger, light and power.

May the holy gods watch over and influence the outcome of this!

End of Mona´s story.

PS
The name of Mona´s dog is Tordön, which means Thor´s Roaring. When Tordön was newborn she got the name Bless by the owner of her mother. Her brother got the name Lightning.


onsdag 13 november 2013

Ignis et Spiritus

Uppdaterad / revised 2017-08-19

Black and cold,
empty and alone.
Nobody home.

Fire is the life-giving heat 
in the black stove,
the spirit of the house.

Here was the place 
of telling long stories
and fairy tales 
during dark winter evenings.

Fire is light and closely connected with
all kinds of Divine Spirits

but also with burning horror
for those who have done something wrong.

Fire can be the soft candle 
in the dark room,
the tiny flame 
that helps you find your way.

Fire is the mighty sun
and it is the campfire
when the sun has gone to sleep

and the bright stars in the night.


Fire likes to be 
happily dancing in the wind.

The fluctuations of your inner fire
are felt in the heart.

What does the sun feel
when it casts out its solar flares?

The most strong and sudden fire in nature
is caused by Thor, the god of Thunder.

First, we have the low-pitched singing of the thunder
when it is hovering over the horizon.

The dark sounds make an echo
that is bouncing between the mountains.

Actually, nothing happens, 
nothing at all.
It is just a sound 
that is rolling over the sky far away,
but one can feel 
that there is a possibility 
for something to happen.

Just wait and you will see...

Boom!
Lightning strikes!

and maybe something catches fire!

The next day the air is fresh
and the whole atmosphere
has changed
for the better


... or the worse.

It depends on whether you feel
cleaned up, having new energy,

or simply cleaned away
having now no place to live.


Thor has his own preferences.