Talent Ambianced1

For Don "The Hawk" Blakeborough (submitted 29 days ago)
Writing

Dear Hawk,
So sorry for the acknowledgements in a row..but I had to! I Love Love Love! your new work! God is Nigh: I was suspended in the moments you created there. How pungently sad yet beautifully webbed the loneliness you portrayed. I do hope that it was only a poem and not a self description as you my dear are a catch! I will give literary references if you should need them. :) Wyatt? What can I say, but that it was wonderful. As a person who based her wedding on the movie Tombstone, I should know. You described the man so well and I could taste the dust of the town with your words. Life is a Game was yet another glimpse into the recesses of your mind. Your ability to make art out of the everyday phrases and entwine them with your own sense of perception and knowledge is made abundantly clear. I just love them all.
Wonders never cease with you...and it's inspiring! YAY you!
with love,
ora

For Don "The Hawk" Blakeborough (submitted 29 days ago)
Writing

My dearest Hawk,
I have just finished reading The Presidents and I am amazed. Amazed at your knowledge, amazed at your ability to make the great lineage of our countries leaders poetry, and amazed that you once again have taught me without even trying. I am not sure how you possess the knowledge and craft that you do, but I must say, I am so wonderfully surprised each and every time I read a syllable you put to paper. What a wonderful way to start my day; filled with appreciation and admiration of country and you. You are "wicked" smart.
With love
ora

For Dr Mizanur Rahman (submitted 2 months ago)
Photography

My Dearest Dr. Mizan,
How wonderful it is to again to be afforded the blessings of viewing your uncanny art and insight. I found your pieces wonderful as in the celebration of your Durga Festival. I appreciated whole heartedly your wonderful knowing that I had no idea what it all encompassed and offered such a wonderful explanation of the festival. I find it so amazing how in the festival photograph we are worlds apart...but then humorously, I found in the 2 prior photos, how much in common we all are. As the first indicates, Wait! Dont take the photo yet! I see everyone I have ever photographed as well as myself in that...and Exam time was priceless. The concentration and the prayers of help were thick as captured as only you can. Here too...Even though there are legally "no prayers" in school...There is not a student sitting before an important test or exam that doenst pray for knowledge and help. You caught both your religion and the common thread that binds us all together...humanity. I am so grateful that you have waited for my return to this forum. I so appreciate the friendship and fellowship that we share as regular next door neighbors enjoy. I am truly blessed by your continued efforts and I am so happy that you are still capturing life as only you can do.
With much admiration and continued blessings to you and yours,
Ora :)

For Tiffany Gholar (submitted 3 months ago)
Writing

Dear Tiffany,
First let me welcome you to the Talentdatabase! It was such a pleasure to visit your site and read your words. In your piece Even In Death...I was very moved by the portion of the poem that relayed that as you viewed pictures of your aunt at 16 and of you at 16. "Your pictures were of my own life as it would have been if I had grownup in your time." A very striking and defining moment that speaks more than what it states. Wonderful. My Love for you is a Weed was an exposure of many relationships worded with an analogy that I have never imagined before. It is quite vivid.
"My love for you is a weed
neither one of us can uproot it
and though you never tend it,
still it has the audacity to live

It is awesome in it's imagery and it is undeniable in its emotion.
Song of a Dandelion...is absolutely amazing. I personally have viewed Dandelions that way..the bravest of all flowers that dare to bring their hopeful resilience and its will to live to an environment that no other flower has the courage to brighten. "Our beauty compared to the misery.....Something that a city needs" Beautiful. I am so encouraged by your writing and hope that your voice will be strongly represented here at the TDB. Again Welcome and Thank you for the insight that is solely represented by your extraordinary ability..
God Bless,
Ora

For Zarishi (submitted 3 months ago)
Writing

Benjamin,
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed X. Your writing has not altered in its pure expression of emotion and I am grateful for that. I also like the new photo that with your writing shows a maturity beyond your years.
My best to you.
Ora

For Don "The Hawk" Blakeborough (submitted 3 months ago)
Writing

Dear Hawk,
Hoorah suits you and it is quick and to the point. I especially like the line of Washington keeping his eye on the pyramid. However, personally, I dont want you to go...but that's only because I am a sissy-mary. :) My best hopes and support go with you.
With much respect and admiration and a tinge of fear,
Ora

For Andrija Ilic (submitted 3 months ago)
Photography

Dearest Andrija,
Please accept my gratitude for your bookmark. I humbly accept your bookmark as it proved to be a ultimate gift to me that allowed me to view your most solemn work. I have spent the past half hour inside the naked truth that your photographs capture and I was left ashamed yet honored that I was allowed to see reality as portrayed by your lens.
I instinctively knew from your profile photograph that your eyes have seen many tragic things and that what I was to view would be through the eyes of a man who felt each image. Thus I entered in and became a witness to the intrinsic sadness that is now viewed as common and there in lies the shame.
Beginning with the Monk in Decani Monestary, you captured what I find to be the closest image of worship that I have ever seen. The spirituality was thick and the image pure and it set my mind to view the following images with that sense of spiritual sight.
The LA Ghetto child, the deadened, seeking eyes of the homeless man with the woman in the same ghetto was renewal of recognition of our own disposal of human life and the lives that seem easily overlooked when we so callously lump these individuals into the classification of Homeless without seeing each of them as a person with heart and soul, hopes and dreams. They were images that forced me to see my own guilt in not seeing the person as just that.
The images of the Fishermen, Serbian delinquents, the Old city of Jeruselem with the older men playing a board game while soldiers stood watching was so in conflict with what should be. The Mother of the kidnapped son holding his picture was so gripping and heart rendering. The Servian soldier, Isaeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, the crash of the regime served to cement the image of the Jewish woman with her crying baby being removed from her home and land. The boy in Belgrade standing there half dressed standing near the large boots reminded me that he will one day grow and have to fill those boots and the hardships that he faces now will also fill those boots with memories of war, hunger, desparation and the process will continue through him if a change is not made. The Nato bombing although catastophic somehow was sickenly beautiful, the contrasting Amusement park in Belgrade, the sunset on the beach of the Gaza Strip and the beauty of the cursed fortress were so beautiful yet the duality of that beauty and the surrounding suffering were difficult to absorb. Beauty of the areas incapsulated with the victims of the wars, poverty, hopelessness, desparation, and the innocence of the gypsy children and the homeless boy left me anxious for hope. And in that search for hope, you left me with the Frozen nature piece and in that solemn icy foggy scene I was brought back to the Worshipping monk and knew that the ultimate contrast is What we were first given and the horrors we have inflicted on this given world. Thank you for allowing me to see what your piercing yet compassion filled eyes have seen. I cannot thank you enough.
Forgive my lengthy acknowledgment, yet with your photographs I can do no other.
My prayer for you is resolution in what you view so that in the difficulties you capture, you can make more of us aware that a change must come.
My best to you.
Ora/Ambianced1

For Eightysworst (submitted 3 months ago)
Writing

Dear Ron,
Its funny how you happen across a poet when you really need a poet. Normally I have my most favorite poets but somehow today, I felt the need for the estranged and happened across your works and was better for it. Depth you do not lack...it swallows you up. I like your work.
Ora

For Coco Mason Designs (submitted 3 months ago)
Art

Dear Carie,
Welcome to the TDB! I hope that you find much success in marketing your designs and art. I am excited to visit your listed web presences and see all makes up Coco Mason Designs! Again welcome and enjoy your stay.
Ora

For The Subtle Arts (submitted 3 months ago)
Art

Dear Rorie,
Welcome to Talent Database! I saw you pop up as new and was instantly intriqued by your title Subtle arts. I may not know much, but your art is anything but subtle! Although the band logos are quite harsh in full view as I am sure they deemed necessary per their genre, the art you manage to captivate in those dark images are quite intricate and almost delicate in form. As for the diseased living corpes, It must be an acquired taste but I would have to say it though maybe a bit dark to see clearly the detail of your work has achieved just what it was intended to do...gross me out. :) I am glad you have joined us here at the database and I feel that with the right networking skills on your part, you will find bands, graphic designers, artist galore that would jump at the chance of working with you. My best to you and your success. Again. Welcome.
Ora

For LCarol (submitted 3 months ago)
Design

Carol
Welcome to Talentdatabase. I hope you find your being here as insightful to you as we expect you to be to us. :) I am at a loss not knowing if your snapshots are your work or photos that have been taken since your portfolio is empty just now. Please let me know when you have posted work and I look forward to viewing that thing that you do. Again, Welcome.
Ora

For Don "The Hawk" Blakeborough (submitted 3 months ago)
Writing

Dear Hawk,
Alone and Aids are absolutely shattering and depth defying. It is an amazing thing to read your work and to live in your multilayered mind. Yours is a talent that defies definition as there are none to compare you to. Other poets are either dark, romaticist, political, whimiscal, or maybe abstract in their art, however you are the rareity that combines either one or all in such a way that you bleed it. You amaze me.
Your biggest (not figure wise....A girls gotta keep in shape) fan.
Ambianced1
PS. I wrote a piece that and it is second in my portfolio. It is where I am right now so dont follow too close.
Much grace upon ya
ora