Julie Farias Photography

A Day In The Life

Life Inside My Dream
To cast off all that is known...

To choose that which is desired...

To live knowing each choice matters in the end...




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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 6/1/2008 10:50 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
More Musings on the Magic That is Filoli

To be the accidental tourist and wander into a paradise once heard of so many lifetimes ago.

Sometimes the greatest journeys  are those we take by mistake.

Wander with me for this moment in time into...


















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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 6/1/2008 5:55 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Musings on Filoli
Make Haste in the Garden Slowly...






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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 6/1/2008 12:39 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
In Search of Lucinda
I stop to ask the musician standing next to me what he thinks about Townes and he asks me "What town?"
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 6/1/2008 11:41 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Big TakeAway
When you walk away from everything that owns you

and everything that you know...

You end up playing a cosmic version of a zero sum game...



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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 5/28/2008 2:57 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
The Click Clack of High Heels
You can take the pup out of the dog house, but you can't take the dog out of the pup.

Danger is enjoying his crossing dressing assignment and ready to rock.

Look for him at a theater near you.

Danger Out!

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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 5/22/2008 7:55 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Auggie Danger Redeployed
And finally, he begins his intense second round of training at Quantico - he's heard something about drug dealers is coming down in his next assignment. Somebody told him that his next firearm would "grow him a new tail." He's still trying to figure that one out, but thinks it sounds like a good thing.
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 5/21/2008 8:09 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Want to read more about the adventures of Danger Dog?
All Danger - All The Time...

www.DangerDog.us




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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 4/29/2008 5:54 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
A Peppermint Tea Morning (Organic of Course)
I sit here post sunrise and listen to the birds greet the day and I am thankful for having this time to unwind some of the threads of the past.

This journey has been a long time in coming and I want to be ready to enjoy every last moment. 

I just love swimming in the sea of possibility.

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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 4/14/2008 9:01 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
This is how the story goes... One sea lion says to the other, "You can kiss my cotton tail goodbye..."
I tried to tell their mothers that they weren't talking nice...



And then the next thing you know, the fur - it was a'flyin.



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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 4/3/2008 8:29 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Talking Bananas and the Whole Foods conundrum...
One of the things about living in Austin is that you experience a sort of diversity unique to Texas.  It is where the queens and kings of life collide and it is also the birthplace of so much that is truly an Austin original.

So last night while heading to my favorite macrobiotic restaurant for dinner I decided instead that I would head off to Whole Foods and pick up a few things that I needed and grab something to eat there.  Basket in hand, with my environmentally friendly Whole Foods grocery bag in tow, I wandered through the produce aisle trying to remember what if anything it was that I needed and then I spied to bananas.

Ah, the bananas - feeling very much a part of Groucho Marx at the moment, but I digress.  A banana is no longer just a banana any more.  And as I stood before the display and began to read all about the various types and their pedigrees, suddenly I was enveloped in a veritable verbal sea of banana propaganda.  You see, I had stood on the very spot that was right underneath a suspended cone of banana propaganda - it fell forth from it's own small black speaker right down on to my head.  It surrounded me and took me totally unawares and jump I did to a whole other spot to get out from under it's cacophony of words.  You see, I couldn't understand it since it had no context to reality whatsoever.

And then, someone who must have witnessed the whole event came over to ask me what had happened.  I explained the banana propaganda phenomenon to him and told him that I merely wanted a banana and had managed to get a lecture instead.  The spiel was still rolling and we both shook our heads and then I wandered off to find the organic frozen fruit.  What would happen next was anyones guess but with bananas in the basket, I felt safe for the moment.

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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 3/23/2008 11:43 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Gone Analog - Part IV Of Chaco Canyon and mystical questions. Why does the same dog always get to drive?
The miles are vanishing beneath my wheels so slowly that I fear I will have to walk the rest of the way home. Leaving passed so quickly. Returning and all of the desire that entails make this a very tedious journey indeed. I will be there soon and shall sort things out and witness the beauty and the vision of this journey as it was captured on my film.
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 3/10/2008 3:45 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Gone Analog - Part III The Rock Man and the woman who follows. File this one under Julie didn’t read all the signs quite right and was the Rock Man full of it or not???
And by this time he is telling me that he grosses big bucks in his business. Alarm, alarm, alarm. This is a male preening behaviour that I am very familiar with. He explains to me how he has read these Petroglyphs and predicted things.
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 3/9/2008 2:41 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Gone Analog - Part II Parallel Circumspection, dunes, electronic leashes and a day of small frights...
Oh, and I did notice after I got back from the pub (redneck pub) that I had left a white trail of gypsum leading from my car door to the door of my room. I made sure to park my car in another spot lest someone think that I am such a slob. Of course the floor of my room is also guesting a number of personalized footprints and I suppose it might not take a rocket scientist to figure out that the person leaving the tracks is in fact residing within Room 21. Of course there is probably a surplus of rocket scientists in this town so any way that you look at it, I am essentially sunk.
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 3/7/2008 2:30 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Gone Analog - Part I - Drawn to Flashing Neon Lights
I don't like doing the same thing too often, preferably never, most of the time. I looked at the map when I got in the car and tried to decide where to go. I love Carrizozo, the name alone just does it for me.
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 3/6/2008 8:00 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Zen and the Art of Portrait Photography
My purpose, my art is reflective of both my subject and myself. I am the mirror that allows my subject to convey themselves through my eyes. People are so completely vulnerable and exposed in front of the camera. It is a fundamental belief of mine that to look inside another, you must be willing to look just as deeply within yourself. To expect honesty from another, you must be honest yourself. To expose the naked emotion of a subject, you must be naked yourself.
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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 3/6/2008 7:28 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Detours and Exits - The City of Angels




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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 2/29/2008 8:35 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
Living in the City of Angels
Here for a few more days - enjoying the long walks on the beach and contemplating all that has passed and what is yet to begin.

And in the interim, remembering what it is like to live in the Land of the Beautiful.

Implants of all sorts...

Women discussing everything to death because they have nothing better to do...

And...

Leashed pocket dogs that resemble nothing so much as a pigeon on a leash - dear me.

Back in Austin soon and welcoming our own flavor of living...

See you on the other side -

Julie

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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 2/29/2008 5:55 PM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
A Green Tea Morning
Back in the Land of LA catching up on the past.

I always travel with organic green tea - don't ask me why, it's just one of those things.  The particular brand that I seem to have on hand most time has sayings on each bag - usually they repeat, ad nauseum.  They make sense and have a certain profundity that over time, with repetition, seems to wear down the impact of the wisdom.

Well, this morning I almost didn't bother to read the message and alas, it was something completely new and profound:

"When you act on your own choices, you define your own future."

Are those not words to live by?

To be continued...

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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 2/27/2008 9:44 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
I have of late taken to wearing a watch - in the hopes that I can convince time to pass more quickly...

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Posted by Julie Farias Photojournalist at 2/11/2008 8:33 AM | View Comments (0) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (0)
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