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10 faces of happiness

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golden happy waves in ocean of life

by bovinacowboy

What colour is the happiness? How it looks like? Where does it hide or flourish?

In pursuit of happiness I went to flickr and found these 10 brilliant faces of happiness.

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I don’t want to name this anything but pure happiness

by Harraz

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hearty hug

by Moranga

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candle light

by Cvalentine

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radioactive happiness – it is! -face it!

by netsrot

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just kidding yaar!

(in Hindi-slang ‘yaar’ means friend)

by daphnakadabra

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let the sun shine in

by crazee-loki

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lawful enlightnment

(it has beautiful meaning, go to the link and read it)

by cloudman82

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wheels of life

(just adore this rich, old, spinning patina of life)

by Linee

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the end of the garden, anyone?

by Zalita

Excellent photography and brilliant moments -I don’t want to miss any of these! When you click these links see their other photographs too. I promise you won’t be disappointed!

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spams – you are such a bad design!

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I did not plan this post today. In fact I have a lovely post about a stunning architecture slotted for evening publishing. And six drafts posts about good design.

But as my Akismet (anti-spam software) says :-

It‘s your lucky day. 🙂

(most wordpress bloggers would know this.)

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I also say IT IS MY LUCKY DAY! 🙂

First if anybody is having competition of  bloggers who have got largest amount of spam comments than count me in.

Not just count me in consider me the winner.

Hurrah! I have got 5,000+ spam comments since my inception in last week of June last year!

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Once I added a beautiful word like love to one of the post about an Indian festival and that attracted a large number of spammers. I made changes and added the word bond to it instead of love. And ultimately I had to close the comments section on that post!

I love my Akismet software!

I hate my Akismet software! ( For that matter every anti-software too.)

Love it because it stops all spam comments in spam box! And ultimately deletes it!

Hate it because I have to do a quick scanning of my spam comments everyday twice as sometimes it gobbles up pingbacks and blogger friends’ comments. And every time I shudder doing this though it is quick! This is still ok.

I hate it more because spammers are unnecessary and so the anti-softwares too!

I wonder what spammers achieve! Their march is almost always stopped midway and they meet their fate in delete box! They do achieve a little bit of my irritation and my screwed eyebrows!

Sorry to sound such a cynic but don’t spammers keep alive all the employment arising from making new anti-spam etc. softwares!

Spams and anti-spam softwares both are fabulous examples of bad designs!!

A design which comes not from a need but from a created problem, I consider bad design!

And today is my spam email LUCKY day too!

Phishers? have taken advantage of one of the Indian social network site and a large numbers of bloggers have been affected and I think, not knowing the source: they are SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER.

I made this mistake!??

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I confirmed the email!

Did You?

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I have been thanked for the blog visit – I have never made!

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And the bombardments of “shouting’ mails!

(Have blurred or white-washed the email ids so that spammer couldn’t take more advantage.)

(please do not consider this post against Akismet- I do not know the name of any other anti-spam software. It has just been used for example purpose.)

And some day we will have to talk about BAD DESIGN! Why not today!

knock, open the window

dreams and fears of 2008

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the path

                  What holds for me and you in the year 2008!

Will the road be winding, too long and dark? Will I not be able to see and gauze what is in store for me?

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                Designer Lovorika Banovic:herbladder @ Menu

Or the green and bright ladder of success is already been laid!

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I love my job ( sent to me by a coleague via e-mail)

                     Will there be a continuous viscious circle?

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a video snap captured from a French film

           Or I will be leaping with joy and energy at every step!

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                                  Will time be confusing?

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Design : Rnd_Lab via Scifi

                               Or it will just fly away and away!

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Craftisan Rupandeben @ Craftsbridge

                  Will I have enough time to stroll and swing?

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(image via one of exotic hotels of India, sorry could not trace which one)

                           Will the swing be colourful too?

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                                   Designer Johannes Gille

                Will I be able to walk properly without slipping?

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terracotta pen stand @ craftbridge

                Or I will just stand still and see the life walk by!

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cane elephant and cane frog basket @ Sasha

                         Or the dreams will arrive basketful!

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cane duck and owl basket @ Sasha

                                     And the inspirations too!

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palazzo bag by Fendi @ eluxury

                              And a bag full of opportunities too!

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                         image courtesy yuanzhou via flickr

Or the desires will be crushed under a feathery looking stone!

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equation @ Estudio Breder

                                  Will I get my equations right?

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Torafu architects

            Will I be able to arrange everything in its proper slots?

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(will find out the source of this image soon)

 Will I be able to discover and connect to my innermost roots!

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via house of pictures

  Or the life will bring in every postive thing in grand measures!

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Or in small amount!

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‘being led’ water colour collage (wish somebody can point out to me who the artist is)

Whatever it will be! I know I will be happy, happy in my struggles, happy banging my head in getting things done, happy with small amounts!

 Because that is my nature, or so the people says! Happy donning a laughing hat for I am not a joker but a happy joker!

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fragrance by B Singh

Fot it is in my nature to dream of lovely flowers dangling from sky even when I am most depressed!

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(This rug is so beautiful I refuse to walk on it, want to have on my wall.  Sorry again that I have lost the source. Please let me know if you know.)

And in darkness too I think of only millions of stars!

I do not fear to dream!

This is me. Do let me know your story too!

design screw, here now gone tomorrow

not an entrance, not an exit

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nothing and now here

Graphic designer Ravi Hampole

This is creation of New York based graphic designer Ravi Hampole – a book – Nothing and Now here.

Go through the pages of the book to override fine line between real world and illusion, erase the line between interior and exterior spaces and feel lost between spaces.

Interior imagery is cut and juxtaposed with exterior imagery. Book is developed from an excerpt in the Tao of Pooh.

Beautiful and meditative! nah?

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More of his interesting work here.