KOTA The Friend - Sedona
I've been in Sedona, I don't got a phone
Honestly I'd rather if I die alone
Do it really matter what a hater say?
Higher that I go up, they just fade away
You can find me walking on the ave' any day, aye
Fuck an umbrella cause I like it when it rain, aye
Always see me smiling but I'm hella overwhelmed
I'm probably die single cause I need my fucking space
I got leeches in my phone
I got drama on my plate
I been living on my own
I been in and out of state
I been egging on the trolls
I been cooking on the stove
I been stacking my discography and plotting my escape, aye
Raincoat, sailboat, shea butter for elbows and my ankles
What the fuck you bringing to the table?
Did you pay dues? Are you grateful?
What you been through?
Was it painful?
Did it break you?
Sam Cooke reincarnation, aye
I should probably start a flower garden, aye
It's a motherfucking celebration, aye
We should probably get the party started
Yeah, I know the shortcut, rather take the long way
Hate when niggas skipping hella tracks, let the song play
Taking in the views, hit the dab while i'm looking at the moon
Got my parents and my youngin' on the four-way, aye
Arizona, Sedona (x7)
Yeah
I swear I spent this summer in the plane
I swear I spent the winter in LA
I'm hella bougie but I'm from the hood
I mix the liquor with the Minute Maid
Everywhere I go I'm the people favorite cousin
I'm the family member you wanna keep in touch with
I'm the one that see you sniffin' coke and don't say nun
Someone got a problem wit you, I be like, whassup then?
Every other week pack light, gotta get away
Niggas always got their hands out, bitch, get away
Bad bitch standing in my view, but she in the way
Main chick looking hella cute, that is what I need
Raincoat, sailboat, shea butter for elbows and my ankles
What the fuck you bringing to the table?
Did you pay dues? Are you grateful?
What you been through?
Was it painful?
Did it break you?
Sam Cooke reincarnation, aye
I should probably start a flower garden, aye
It's a motherfuckin' celebration, aye
We should probably get the party started
Yeah I know the shortcut, rather take the long way
Hate when niggas skipping hella tracks, let the song play
Taking in the views, hit the dab while I'm looking at the moon
Got my parents and my youngin' on the four-way, yuh
Arizona, Sedona
Arizona, Sedona
Arizona, Sedona
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Sunlight peak through the doorway
I tell you I love you and do it in broad day
I love you with no rules
I'm wishing you more days
I keep you in my heart
I keep you in my heart
Larkenlyre: Northern Lights
From the album: Music of the Extraordinary Voyages
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From 1990 - 1991 I moved 5 times. During that time period I moved from San Jose, CA to Phoenix, AZ, then up through Utah into Pocatello, ID. Then from there across Idaho and across Nevada to Reno, NV. and eventually back to San Jose. During that 1 1/2 year time I travelled a LOT of road. All up through Arrizona and Utah. Across Idaho and Nevada. All during those travels my surroundings were never anything short of mystical. You will never know the pulse of the ancienct heart of western America until you travel those vast highways and feast your eyes on the endless mesas under skies so open and vast you swear the clouds you see off in the distance are in the next State. Or the huge cracks left in the earth that are leftovers of an ancient sea making it's last stand each century as it slowly absorbed into the Earth. The mid-west summer storms that were so busy you couldn't keep count of all the lightning strikes.
There were moments during those drives where I was completely outside of myself and this song was exactly how I felt. I listen to this song and those summer winds and rising moon across the plains call me to return again.
Ceremony 2, Eva Olvera & Elisha Lillard Wedding, 17 March 2012 Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ
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Grand Canyon | Helicopter Tour | Williams AZ | RV Living!
After visiting the Sedona area, we wanted to move closer to the Grand Canyon! Neither of us had been to the Grand Canyon before and it was one of the first things we put on our must-see list once we knew we were going to do this RV thing!
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For this leg of our journey, we decided to stay at Railside RV Ranch ( which, you guessed it, is right beside the railway line that runs from Williams to the Grand Canyon. Luckily, that railway is strictly a passenger line and doesn't run late at night like the one in Williamsburg!
Williams is a very cool little town right along historic Route 66. There are plenty of shops, restaurants, and breweries and, of course, we frequented a bit of each.
The highlight of this location was obviously the grand canyon! We checked it out by truck, motorcycle, and HELICOPTER!
Since the day we started planning our adventures out west, we knew we wanted to take some kind of air tour of the Grand Canyon. Since our visit to the area happened to coincide with Tara's birthday, that seemed like the perfect time! I took a seaplane ride to the Dry Tortugas on my birthday, so fair is fair! ????
We picked Maverick Helicopter because that's just a really cool name (and they had great reviews)! ????
They are big helicopters, holding about 8 people each with great views in both the front and back seat. Luckily, we got a front seat! The tour takes off from Grand Canyon National Park Airport just inside the park on route 64. The first few minutes are fairly uneventful while flying over the forest. Forest...forest...forest... BAM!! The bottom of the world just drops out leaving us thousands of feet over the canyon! That was AMAZING! The entire flight, we were completely overwhelmed with spectacular views in every direction! There's just not much I can do to explain it in words. Good thing this is a video post! ????
We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Williams and the Grand Canyon.
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CGI Animated Short Film:Sebastian's Voodoo || Timeless Fun
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A voodoo doll must find the courage to save his friends from being pinned to death.
Creator : Created at the UCLA Animation Workshop, with music by Nick Fevola.
Format: HD 1920x1080 px, 16:9
### Awards and Honors ###
Student Academy Awards '09 (CA) - Animation Winner, Silver Medal
Festival de Cannes - Short Film Corner '09 (France) - Winner, NFB Online Competition
Annie Awards '08 (CA) - Best Short Subject Nomination
USA Film Festival '09 (TX) - First Prize, Animation
Angelus Student Film Festival '08 (CA) - Outstanding Animation Award
UCLA Directors Spotlight '09 (CA) - Award of Excellence
Aniboom Awards '08 (Online) - Grand Winner
Sedona International Film Festival '09 (AZ) - Best Animated Film: Audience Choice
Ashland Independent Film Festival '09 (OR) - Best Animated Short
Alexandria Film Festival '09 (VA) - Best Film, Audience Award
The Accolade Film Awards '08 (CA) - Award of Excellence in Animation
Phoenix Film Festival '09 (AZ) - Best Animated Short
BendFilm Festival '08 (OR) - Best Student Film
BendFilm Festival '08 (OR) - Best Musical Score
Cinema City International Film Festival '09 (CA) - Best Animation Student Award
Cine Awards '09 (CA) - Special Jury Award
Cine Awards '09 (CA) - Golden Eagle Award
ASIFA-Hollywood Student Animation Festival '08 (CA) - Emile Cohl Award, Best Animated Short
Cinanima International Animation Festival '08 (Portugal) - Best Original Soundtrack
Savannah Film Festival '09 (GA) - Best Student Animation
Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival '08 (CA) - Special Jury Award for Animation
Asheville Film Festival '08 (NC) - Animation Winner
Asheville Film Festival '08 (NC) - Animation Audience Award
Miami Short Film Festival '08 (FL) - Best Animation
da Vinci Film Festival '10 (OR) - Animation First Place
Queens International Film Festival '08 (NY) - Best Animation (International)
Puchon International Student Animation Festival '09 (Korea) - PISAF Choice Prize
August Sun Film & Television Festival '08 (CA) - Grand Peace Award
August Sun Film & Television Festival '08 (CA) - Best Animated Film
Gold Lion Film Festival '08 (Swaziland) - Bophayi Award, Best Animated Film
2D or not 2D Animation Festival '08 (WA) - Golden Pencil Award, Best Student Film
Topanga Film Festival '09 (CA) - Best Story
Macon Film Festival '10 (GA) - 1st Place in Animation
San Diego Latino Film Festival '09 (CA) - Nickelodeon Best Animation Short
HD Fest '08 (CA) - Best Animated Film
Action On Film International Film Festival '09 (CA) - Best Animation
Flatland Film Festival '09 (TX) - Preston E. Smith Award
Moving Image Film Festival '08 (ON, Canada) - Heroes And Villains Showcase Winner
Solstice Film Festival '09 (MN) - Best Animation
Tacoma Film Festival '09 (WA) - Best Short Film
Port Townsend Film Festival '09 (WA) - Best Animated Short
Sundial Film Festival '10 (CA) - Best International Animation
SENE Film, Music and Arts Festival '09 (RI) - Best Student Animated Film
Garden State Film Festival '09 (NJ) - Animation Short Winner
Louisville's International Festival of Film '09 (KY) - Best Animation Short
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Arizona Vlog 2018 | Janelle Clarke
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I Love You, Arizona
A collection of some of my own photos as well as some I gathered from the web about the beautiful state where I live, Arizona, which is more than just desert and cactus, as you will see.
A Song For Judy (Bonds) Beautiful
I thought this song deserved another shot.
Judy's Song (Beautiful)
T. Paige
It's so beautiful to see you here
On the path that Judy walked
Let your heart be free
Your steps be light
On every mountain that you cross
(Chorus)
And if you want to be beautiful
You got to walk like Judy walked
You got to walk like Judy
Talk like Judy
And you'll be beautiful
Beautiful.
She was beautiful
With eyes of fire
and she walked on through the flame
Did she take you to the mountain top
Where the wind whispered your name.
Repeat chorus
In this world so wide
You can't run and hide
You got to find the beautiful
In this universe with its pain and hurt
You got to choose the beautiful.
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Arizona Police Department Releases Body-cam Footage of Punching Incident
Renee Armenta was pulled over by a Goodyear Police Department officer on Sept. 6, 2018. She said that the officer punched her after accusing her of resisting arrest.
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Glass art techniques and tutorial with CarrieAnn Therese I Colour In Your Life
In this fine art TV show episode CarrieAnn Therese is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops, art tips and art techniques.
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CarrieAnn Therese has had a love affair with glass for as long as she can remember. She has always had an overabundance of creative energy, working in various mediums as well as music her whole life, but always knew glass was the medium she wanted to focus on. CarrieAnn loves the dance of color and light in glass, saying it's like playing with rainbows...how can a person not love that?
Though certainly, some of her work is functional; it is primarily sculptural and distinctly Contemporary.CarrieAnn loves to bust things up and experiment with textures, giving a very organic quality to her pieces. It's not just how the glass looks but also how it feels. In addition to maximizing it's textural qualities, working in abstracts, she works with the light, and the ongoing dance between light and glass that creates magnificent shadow-plays of color, shape and design in a space. She also enjoys poking around hardware stores and salvage yards looking for interesting shapes that can be repurposed and combine into sculptural pieces with the fused glass.
Nothing she does is about production. It is ALL about heart, soul and inspiration; which is how SOUL FUSION ARTS got its name. Everything around her, be it natural, industrial or entirely spiritual; she sees as a creation in glass. An emotion can evoke an entire concept for a piece. Glass is like a living organism andCarrieAnn finds that very exciting. Every type of glass has a personality all its own, and sometimes it decides what it wants to be. You have to respect the glass and all its characteristics, in order to coax it into something new and unusual.
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This glamorous and hugely popular actress raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her fifty-year career, she made over eighty films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
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She was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1904 (or 1906) in San Antonio, Texas. Her father soon disappeared and she took the name of her stepfather, calling herself Billie Cassin. When Cassin, too, vanished, Billie did menial work to help her mother and brother survive. Ill-paid sales jobs bought dancing lessons and the clothes she needed to enter amateur contests. Then came a night-club contract as chorus girl – $25-a-week and eight routines a night. And so she made it into show-business, but the humiliations and insecurities of those early years would never entirely leave her. Spotted by an MGM scout, by 1925 she was under contract in Hollywood. She made the usual publicity appearances and did Exhibition Dancing at night. Her vitality, charm and dancing talents earned her many admirers – including some powerful enough to advance her career, like William Haines, Paul Bern, Jackie Coogan, Sr. and Louis B. Mayer. After bit parts and a small role in the film Pretty Ladies, a studio-sponsored competition found her the name she at first hated: Joan Crawford.
As Crawford’s acting skills developed, she became known for her independence and her resilience despite some less-than-successful roles. Her vaguely pretty and plump early looks were soon replaced by the svelte, hard-boiled beauty of hollow-cheeks, thick brows and overpainted mouth that would be her permanent image. Her capacity to inspire and wear with flair the creations of the dress designer Adrian was legendary. But most of all, she was known for her hard work on the set. Joan Crawford’s personal life was characterized equally by self-discipline and the determination to better herself, banishing forever her unhappy beginnings. Four husbands included actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, Franchot Tone, Phillip Terry and businessman Alfred Steele. Plagued by innumerable miscarriages, she adopted four children, one of whose account of Joan’s unyielding perfectionism has succeeded in blurring memories of the remarkable life and career of a Hollywood immortal.
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