Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus and, Written by Carl J. Santoro #9

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I waited all day.
my apologies still
fresh in my mind.
I know your machine
heard them,
I pressed to hear
them myself.
I waited all day.
maybe you would've
listened to them.
I asked you to
call my cell
as I was on
the road and moving.
The silence lasted
all day.
The silence spoke
loudly of the end
of a relationship
happy with love.
The day now at end
I throw my cell
on my bureau
and see it is off.

Make Your Own FURL

You Can Make Your Own

I did!

Be a Picture Maker Not a Picture Taker

Explore the World
Be a picture MAKER:
Start with an idea in mind and work toward making that come alive.
In contrast, a mere picture TAKER, is thinking only about recording what is in front of them.
DISCOVERY
Like Charles Darwin's sketchbooks or the electronic images transmitted back to us from the Voyager space probe, the images we make are part of our voyages of discovery.

Paris Hilton - Jealousy

Thanks Christian. You found the only one I would have wanted!

Hello Christian...this one's for you!

This One's 4U!

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus and, Written by Carl J. Santoro #8

Window>Paths
I am a human hyperlink.
Touch me and
I can take you
to another place.

Niceness is a Skill Set!...click this link

Sarah Brightman - A Question Of Honour (Live - Harem tour)

Once she's up there...she surprises us even more!

He Coined the Term-"Reverence for Life"

I thought it would be interesting to introduce you to a fine human
being who once journeyed with us through the trials of life-
About Albert Schweitzer

Here is an excerpt from one of his books titled
From Civilization and Ethics

"You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much. Whatever more than others you have received in health, natural gifts, working capacity, success, a beautiful childhood, harmonious family circumstances, you must not accept as being a matter of course. You must pay a price for them. You must show more than average devotion of life to life.

Open your eyes and look for a human being, or some work devoted to human welfare, which needs from someone a little time or friendliness, a little sympathy, or sociability or labour. There may be a solitary or embittered man, an invalid or an inefficient person to whom you can be something. Perhaps it is an old person or a child. Who can enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of working capital, a human being, can be employed. Search, then, for some investment for your humanity, and do not be frightened away if you have to wait , or to be taken on trial. And be prepared for disappointments. But in any case,do not be without some secondary work in which you give yourself as a man to men. It is marked out for you, if you only truly will have it."

More Yellow Observations

The Astoria Street Fair was rampant with yellows!

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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Down by the River

A wonderful vintage CSNY clip, which must be from

David Steinberg's show Music Scene

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#7

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It was a perfect blend of ice cream truck music and leafblower humming
that found its way from the neighborhood street into the church
during Maria's wedding ceremony.
Everyone moved uncomfortably in the pews, fanning themselves
with the newlywed's freshly-printed program.
Father Larry knew he needed to speak louder as the guests continually
searched the cathedral ceiling for signs of any kind of a fan which might be
swirling air down to relieve them of their "heat of sin."
All was lost as the videographer's tripod- on-wheels ran over the bride's
grandmother's left foot and caused the camera to fall forward,
rendering the flower girl unconscious.

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#6

Edit>Purge>All
Layer>New Layer>Dissolve
Windows>Arrange>Cascade

entry: Nov 1983
time: 10 a.m.ish
place: kitchen

Karen is cleaning my ears with a rubber syringe.
She has just finished the left ear, leaving it wet and drippy.
She begins the right ear, squirting warm water forcefully.
Jeanette (age 3) enters and says, "Uh-Oh, mommy,
it's coming out the other side!"

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#5

Window>Animation

On a bike
you can feel
the sand tickling
your bare feet
as it is kicked up
by the wheels.
And the sensation
is as though
you are bike-riding
over a glass of ginger ale,
just slightly
above the surface.

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#4

Layer>New>Layer

The heaviness of a cold, pewter-colored sky challenged him

as he struggled to get up from a fall on the slate steps.

It was as if he were the entertainment section of

a sandwich, lying there between gray slate and graying sky,

waiting for teeth to tear through him.

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Fred Volume begins his Monday September 4, 2006

"yellow experience", at the 30th Avenue Astoria

Business Association Street Fair. Astoria is amazing!

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Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#3

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"Can I help you?" the voice pleasantly inquired before I could actually see her. She walked towards me smiling with red freckles and redder hair. A short woman, very thin in a tight black and white leotardy thing, I know I felt her bright green eyes focus on me as I turned to respond.

She could have been either a helpful clerk or actually the store owner. I never did find out.

"No thank you. I'm just browsing. I know if I walk around, I usually see something that I realize I need."

Her voice gently faded as she glided past me, "Well then, walk on...walk on," and her feet could be heard shuffling like fine sandpaper over these old story-ridden wooden floor boards.

This is a triumphant moment, at least for me, as it strengthens the illusion of limitless, unfettered browsing with the possibility of questions of assistance never to be offered again until perhaps when I place an item on the counter at the check out.

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#2

Healing Brush Tool

I laughed but

I felt hurt

as I raced up the steps.

For there was little

1 1/2 yr. old Jeanette

crying in shock

from an accident that just happened.

It seems a statue of St. Francis of Assisi

fell and his head

came off.

She trembled as she handed me

the head.

Only seconds ago

she had been kissing it gently.

Adobe Photoshop Short Stories-Inspired by the Menus andWritten by Carl J. Santoro#1

Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation>Edit>Yellows

As Fred Volume stared down at his orange juice, while chewing on an almost stale corn muffin, he followed a fallen crumb floating clockwise on the juice surface.

It was at this moment that he realized that orange juice is really more a yellow than an orange.

As pleasant and as startling as this discovery may be, it was only a minor addition to the already established world of yellowness which Fred absorbed daily.

Daily, monthly and in two days for up to a whole year. He was obsessed with yellow and he did not know why.

He got up to leave Lemon's Diner and made sure to collect at least two yellow Lemon's Diner napkins after leaving a tip. For the past 363 days he followed this same 7 a.m. routine. The corner grocery near Spring and Broadway would be his next stop.

Exiting, he paused to trace the sound of a horn and he looked over his shoulder only to fix his focus on a yellow cab.

As he placed his yellow iPod earphones over his graying thirty-five year old hair he noticed two women exiting the cab.

They both were wearing yellow.