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Project Photog #8: Reinventing the Pink

By Ry M. Sal on May 23, 2011 2:14 PM | 1 Comment

According to the Internet, The Color Pink might just have all the answers…

“The color pink represents compassion, nurturing and love. It relates to unconditional love and understanding, and the giving and receiving of nurturing.

A combination of red and white, pink contains the need for action of red, helping it to achieve the potential for success and insight offered by white. It is the passion and power of red softened with the purity, openness and completeness of white. The deeper the pink, the more passion and energy it exhibits.

Pink is feminine and romantic, affectionate and intimate, thoughtful and caring. It tones down the physical passion of red replacing it with a gentle loving energy.

Pink is intuitive and insightful, showing tenderness and kindness with its empathy and sensitivity.

In color psychology, pink is a sign of hope. It is a positive color inspiring warm and comforting feelings, a sense that everything will be okay.

Pink calms and reassures our emotional energies, alleviating feelings of anger, aggression, resentment, abandonment and neglect. Studies have confirmed that exposure to large amounts of pink can have a calming effect on the nerves and create physical weakness in people. Violent and aggressive prisoners have been successfully calmed by placing them in a pink room for a specified amount of time. Exposure for too long can have the opposite effect.

The color pink puts people in touch with the nurturing side of themselves, through either the need to receive or the need to give, nurturing and TLC (tender loving care!). Be aware of this if you have a friend who constantly wears pink as it may indicate a need for acceptance, support and unconditional love!

Pink is a non-threatening color seeking appreciation, respect and admiration. It doesn’t like to be taken for granted and just loves to hear the words ‘thank you’.

Pink can signify good health, being ‘in the pink’, and success as in ‘everything’s rosy’.

The color pink represents the sweetness and innocence of the child in all of us. It is the color of uncomplicated emotions, inexperience and naiveté. A constant and exclusive use of pink can often lead you to become immature, silly and girlish, abandoning your adult responsibilities.

Pink can also remind you of earlier childhood memories, associated with nurturing and comfort from your mother or a mother figure.

Pink, from a negative color meaning, can represent a lack of will power, a lack of self-reliance and a lack of self-worth. It can indicate an overly emotional and overly cautious nature.

Combining pink with other darker colors such as dark blue, dark green, black or gray, adds strength and sophistication to pink.” — Borrowed without permission from Empower Yourself with Color Psychology (which, coincidentally, is badly in need of a makeover)

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And now for something completely different, Gibby Goo Bop

By Ry M. Sal on February 10, 2011 9:34 PM | 10 Comments

Is it a coincidence that on the same day I realize that it might be time to think about a few changes for the future, I also find myself the recipient of  a viral email from Gibby Goo Bop?

I think so.

And while I was going to start ending the week on this blog with a list of fun links, I think I’ll hold off until next Friday… BECAUSE, Did you get it too? Right? Because I know that only something like 65 billion internet users are also the proud owners of email accounts… The email, just dripping with all kinds of viral anecdotes, reads:

hi ry!
your almost-daily observations are more than almost-true!
your blog’s not for the birds…  ry, i thought you knew!!
everybody will snooze blue
so I made this video just for you…
ENJOY!!!
love,
Gibby
So personal, yet so NOT that I immediately became panicked and concerned that my relatively new email account had been hacked to death with a kitchen knife or, better yet, ruefully pillaged in the name of free internet. Because what’s worth doing it if it isn’t done with RUE, right? And don’t worry. I don’t feel that special.

So while I’m sitting here trying to trace out the new master plan… which includes all kinds of fun things like career changes, babies, and of course MARTHA (and the lack thereof)… The goal of all goals. The way things are GOING TO BE, it wouldn’t hurt to waste a good three minutes and fifty seven seconds… because WHAT ELSE are you going to accomplish when you could be watching this? I MEAN REALLY?!?
I think I liked it, but then I didn’t… it’s all kind of like the weird piece of chicken… What do you think?

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Nana Inspired #5 – It looked like a fiesta on a hanger

By Ry M. Sal on July 27, 2010 4:55 PM | 3 Comments

But once I put it on it was simply demure…

And as I entered the market, it was clear that I was unexpected.
The clerks had not paid notice to the unkempt shelves.
Apparently restocking was not a priority.
Clearly, I had missed the mayhem.

And as I glided through the aisles, I hummed Shoplifters of the World Unite,
thought about making pesto, and tossed bogos into my cart with glee.

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Made for Each Other…

By Ry M. Sal on March 05, 2010 9:34 AM | 10 Comments

Blogher 2010 is only weeks away.
0-587-21893-2.jpgOkay, so maybe months. But what is the harm in PREPARING? Are you going? What are you wearing? Are you hosting something? How will I find you? And – is there anything else I should know before we meet? If so, let me know — because I’ve decided to set aside a little time to find out more. Tell one, tell all. Let’s JUST KNOW so that we don’t waste precious time FINDING OUT. What do you think? Not going? Well – I’d still like to know. So tell. Spill. Dish. GO.

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Dear Cocoa Cupcake,

By Ry M. Sal on February 25, 2010 2:02 PM | 4 Comments

How are you?

IMG_1612.JPGI’ve been thinking about our conversation — about how you think that Picasso wasn’t really a bad guy, he just had commitment issues, and I really have to disagree with your juxtaposition on the Tiger Woods matter — but you are entitled to your opinion. Is it at all possible that the Olympics have gone to your well frosted head? Too much up close and personal?  Or are you just intimidated by Z-Germans? Because although they are undeniably günter höhne, I suspect they might be all talk and no show. But that’s just me.

You know what else IS me? Closing one company and opening another in a span of three weeks… with a 2 year old sitting on my lap, while I design logos with one eye and bake dairy and egg free chocolate cupcakes with the other. Literally. And, as I look out the window I see glops of white starting to mix in with the monsoon. With one office half moved out and the other half moved in and décor resources beginning to haunt. Because Martha I am not, and I’m kinda happy about that. But what about you, Cupcake?

Enough about me. Let’s talk about you.

How was your trip to Egypt and your journey to the center of the earth? Was it anything like the movie? And what did you and The Queen talk about? Did you dazzle her with your experience as Gordon Sumner’s Sommelier… The Peace keeping battle where you carried Bono to the sidelines in what you panicked to be near death–only to realize that it was nothing but a drunken stupor? Or did you just go on and on about America’s Next Top Model like you usually do? You really should allow yourself to take credit for all that you have accomplished… I mean you are only 20 minutes old — and I know this is just touching on half of the story.

There was the time that Lloyd Dobler stood in the rain in anguish over his broken heart… gripping his pen? One can only assume. But, dear Cupcake, the point of my letter is getting lost in the fodder of “where are we now”? Because to come full circle would require more than a burning flag, James Joyce and the Easter Bunny. No. We need something much stronger and more organized… Something to inject life into the icing on top… Something with promise and compassion… Something for completion… with texture. Beyond all cause, and hold off the guard…before I start to make sense… Because, we need sprinkles.   

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Orange Blur.

By Ry M. Sal on November 15, 2009 1:10 PM | 2 Comments
Just back from a night in the city.
Fabulous Sun Studio wedding.
Love and Laughs.

Upon return, bleary eyed as I walked through our living room.
Just had to share this fabulous light.

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Did Somebody Turn out the LIGHTS?

By Ry M. Sal on September 21, 2009 7:47 AM | 1 Comment

A few weeks ago For the Birds celebrated it’s one year mark — picture me sitting at the keyboard with a party hat on….vodka bottle rolling on the floor…  silly string still stuck to the monitor.. I mentioned in my post that FTB has built a following with over 20,000 site visitors. This is a rough estimate, because  — come on, really. You don’t think that I actually believe that 20,000+ of you are out there reading these almost daily observations… And thanks to all of the lovely comments that I received pointing this out. Side note, I am not that BOARING Ms. Kelly from Kentucky — and although you don’t know how to spell, I might have better things to do with my time but I choose to do this — and if it’s just not that interesting to you — then STOP visiting. But, keep checking in if you must, I am into all things that depreciate. 

So, getting to the point, I do know — thanks to those smart heads over at Feed Burner, that we do have a factual regular readership of 25 concrete, real-live people. That’s right – a lovely and lucky 25. And to you I am calling out. In the next few days the following will be happening:

  1. For the Birds will turn out the lights for a much needed beauty rest.
  2. For the Birds will return, refreshed and better than ever–but only viewable at the new (still shiny) URL – http://forthebirdsblog.com
  3. The old ugly domain http://designsigh.typepad.com/forthebirds will GO AWAY, so DON’T GO THERE
  4. Those of you that have the old domain/URL in your readers, you will need to change to the new domain.
  5. For the Birds will only be accessible from http://forthebirdsblog.com
  6. This has very little to do with the evil birders over at forthebirds.com 

Unfortunately, I don’t have specific timing on this event–otherwise I would fill you in. But the wheels are in motion. We’ve checked the logs, Batman, and will make a swift return… So, if you happen to be settling in for the evening, and pull up to FTB for some mild entertainment, please don’t be alarmed if you receive some sort of error message or blank screen–We are still here… we are coming back–this has very little to do with the evil birders at forthebirds.com AND, the best is yet to come… More shameless self-promotion of multiple personality abundance -  I want you to know but I don’t anxiety disorder…  have I mentioned most of us here are geminis? Any questions? Email me – rmsatbwdstudiodotcom.

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You asked…

By Ry M. Sal on January 06, 2009 10:51 AM | 1 Comment

Wow. Thanks for the many (surprising) inquiries… Here is the growing list of blogs that we peruse, discuss and often times actually read… on an almost daily basis – in true for the birds style… how obvious is it that we need to get a life?

In alphabetic order because that’s the way we play…

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Trickle-down effect

By Ry M. Sal on November 06, 2008 10:48 AM | 0 Comments

It’s not rocket science, but we will treat it as such. We work for you, at your request. You pay us. Once we are paid, we can pay those that we owe. Then the cycle begins again. If you can’t pay us, do not request that we work for you.

Sorry. Economy 2008  = Bad behavior.

On a lighter note… We have a Brent swimming in one of our ponds! Apparently rare… this quirky goose (larger than a mallard but smaller than the Canadian honker) has been checking us out just as much as we have been watching it. All calls out for a mate – we hope the Brent is here to stay.

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