The Wizard in the Spiral - this is a collection of biographical pics, as well as self-portraits and photos of various artworks in progress. Sorry about the face - most of the actual pics of me are hidden for that reason.
I just realised how amazing the on-line caption and keyword editor is in SmugMug's Tool Kit. Whoever dreamed up 'Select All' and 'Deselect All' feature and multiple fills with Cut and Paste gets the Samuel Johnson Award for Digital Mastery. To you i gift 'Desert Gallery' - the original and framed seen in my Faces of Earth gallery. Let me know where i can get hold of you.
Some of the pics illustrate the artist in action; that is a moment we usually share alone - if that sounds right! Someone must have taken the photograph - hey Miles from Nowhere - where are you?
inanga
Please contact me at any time - Google 'jeff jville'.
I just realised how amazing the on-line caption and keyword editor is in SmugMug's Tool Kit. Whoever dreamed up 'Select All' and 'Deselect All' feature and multiple fills with Cut and Paste gets the Samuel Johnson Award for Digital Mastery. To you i gift 'Desert Gallery' - the original and framed seen in my Faces of Earth gallery. Let me know where i can get hold of you.
Some of the pics illustrate the artist in action; that is a moment we usually share alone - if that sounds right! Someone must have taken the photograph - hey Miles from Nowhere - where are you?
inanga
Please contact me at any time - Google 'jeff jville'.
![Marty and i learning Life Mastery Mary-style
I had the pleasure recently of meeting the most gentle of men. One was named Marty and he is centered above. He taught me about reptiles and the ancient Eastern Martial Arts. I promised to provide him with information on Aotearoa's ancient creature - the tuatara. Hey Marty this is as good an opportunity as any, so here goes.
The tuatara is old, very old. It predates the dinosaurs that perished in the Jurassic, and is reliably reported to be 260 million-years-old and yet still survives as a distinct species. It is the only survivor of the Sphenodon Class. It has a third-eye that is still highly photo-sensitive to light and fully operative.
[Marty, they spend hours staring directly at the Sun because it activates calcite crystals in their pineal-gland-equivalent initiating a second harmonic generation process whereby incoming and splitting photons leave with equal frequency and third-phase entangled.]
As I said Tuatara is a Class of its own, similar to Reptilia. I suspect that Sphenodon punctatus, still living, was the only member of TUATARA Class.
The correct taxonomic sequence is: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Vertebrata; Class TUATARA; Order Sphenodontia; Family Sphenodontidae; Genus Sphenodon; and one species only of the entire Class SPHENODON PUNCTATUS. I agree with you, tuatara are more dinosauric thus birdlike than reptiles, hence the exposed vertebra.
Curiously, the diet of tuatara is Clematis (a local climbing plant), kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) with properties similar to the indole alkaloids of kavakava, and several weta species (the largest insect in the world and also endemic to NZ).
I will send some pictures to www.northernberksreptileshow.com and you can use them if you wish. I got some great pics of Henry, currently imprisoned in Invercargill, New Zealand, when I was working there for Lonely Planet. Wiki gives this news:
"Tuatara eggs have a soft, parchment-like shell. It takes the females between one and three years to provide eggs with yolk, and up to seven months to form the shell. It then takes between 12 and 15 months from copulation to hatching. This means reproduction occurs at two- to five-year intervals, the slowest in any reptile.[11] Wild tuatara are known to be still reproducing at about 60 years of age—"Henry", a 111-year-old tuatara at Southland Museum in Invercargill, New Zealand, became a father (possibly for the first time) on 23 January 2009.[50][51]"
The oldest living creature on earth - the tuatara - is considered here to be the Keeper of the Twelve Kete [Baskets] of Knowledge, an appellation it shares most probably because of its manipulation of serotonin, melatonin and epitonin in third-eye visualization - SUN, MOON and SOMA as discussed.
I treasure the chance to meet you again so we can do some Sufi spinning and enjoy a laugh.
Jeff
thanks to Helen Gale for the great photo of Marty and I.](http://www.hogproductions.com/Portraits/inanga-Smug-Ugly/i-kc48wGh/0/Ti/Marty%20and%20Me-Ti.jpg "Marty and i learning Life Mastery Mary-style
I had the pleasure recently of meeting the most gentle of men. One was named Marty and he is centered above. He taught me about reptiles and the ancient Eastern Martial Arts. I promised to provide him with information on Aotearoa's ancient creature - the tuatara. Hey Marty this is as good an opportunity as any, so here goes.
The tuatara is old, very old. It predates the dinosaurs that perished in the Jurassic, and is reliably reported to be 260 million-years-old and yet still survives as a distinct species. It is the only survivor of the Sphenodon Class. It has a third-eye that is still highly photo-sensitive to light and fully operative.
[Marty, they spend hours staring directly at the Sun because it activates calcite crystals in their pineal-gland-equivalent initiating a second harmonic generation process whereby incoming and splitting photons leave with equal frequency and third-phase entangled.]
As I said Tuatara is a Class of its own, similar to Reptilia. I suspect that Sphenodon punctatus, still living, was the only member of TUATARA Class.
The correct taxonomic sequence is: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Vertebrata; Class TUATARA; Order Sphenodontia; Family Sphenodontidae; Genus Sphenodon; and one species only of the entire Class SPHENODON PUNCTATUS. I agree with you, tuatara are more dinosauric thus birdlike than reptiles, hence the exposed vertebra.
Curiously, the diet of tuatara is Clematis (a local climbing plant), kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) with properties similar to the indole alkaloids of kavakava, and several weta species (the largest insect in the world and also endemic to NZ).
I will send some pictures to www.northernberksreptileshow.com and you can use them if you wish. I got some great pics of Henry, currently imprisoned in Invercargill, New Zealand, when I was working there for Lonely Planet. Wiki gives this news:
\"Tuatara eggs have a soft, parchment-like shell. It takes the females between one and three years to provide eggs with yolk, and up to seven months to form the shell. It then takes between 12 and 15 months from copulation to hatching. This means reproduction occurs at two- to five-year intervals, the slowest in any reptile.[11] Wild tuatara are known to be still reproducing at about 60 years of age—\"Henry\", a 111-year-old tuatara at Southland Museum in Invercargill, New Zealand, became a father (possibly for the first time) on 23 January 2009.[50][51]\"
The oldest living creature on earth - the tuatara - is considered here to be the Keeper of the Twelve Kete [Baskets] of Knowledge, an appellation it shares most probably because of its manipulation of serotonin, melatonin and epitonin in third-eye visualization - SUN, MOON and SOMA as discussed.
I treasure the chance to meet you again so we can do some Sufi spinning and enjoy a laugh.
Jeff
thanks to Helen Gale for the great photo of Marty and I.")
SmugMugly
a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug
courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009
all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug
courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009
all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
SmugMugly
a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug
courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009
all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE
a collection of my paintings around my smug ugly mug
courtesy of Picasa 3 (especially), SmugMug (especially also), Google and Mozilla Firefox August 2009
all in all a fun exercise on inanga's Big OE