(See it on DeviantArt)Even when life is hard, friendship is always somewhere. Harmony in perfect duos never ends. It's precious. These are photos I recently took while I was walking in the streets of Sousse, in Tunisia.
Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friendship. Show all posts
No matter the reasons or the circumstances, I love you today more than yesterday!
A quick sketch I made while I was in Spain some time ago. That dog was standing there, alone, looking at me. So cute. I thought he needed some good company... If you wish, you can view a detail below and the full series here. The above picture has been shot with the Samsung NX11.
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He is a very good friend of mine. His name is
Rami, he is such a kind and honest man.
I took the photos with the Samsung NX10, which has
been provided to me by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
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Come On In - Silent Night
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A poem by Peter S. Quinn
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Come on in with your singing on so bright
The carols of love and every bearing
Bring forth peace with harmonious interfering
So we me catch the highest of clear light
Come to my heart and take out its senses
With melodious in its wondrous beauty
Like the northern lights twilight's sequences
The newborn in their destiny are free
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A silent night comes to each man heart
With twinkling stars and the wishes that call
For harmony and prospect to this earth
Let each you’re inspiring from inside start
And be like the stars that for wishes must fall
To celebrate again Jesus Christ's birth
© 2010 - Ben Heine
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(See it on Flickr)This is dedicated to Sebastian, my best friend
since almost 20 years, he is an awesome
person and a talented lawyer.
© 2010 - Ben Heine
Ben Heine by
J. Bosco
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J. Bosco is a Brazilian cartoonist
(Many thanks Bosco!)
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Ben Heine by
Bissan Nohra
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J. Bosco
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J. Bosco is a Brazilian cartoonist(Many thanks Bosco!)
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Ben Heine by
Bissan Nohra
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Ben Heine by
Xavier Salvador
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Xavier Salvador
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Ben Heine - Jean Paul De Moor - Rolando
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.Jean Paul De Moor is a painting Master and
was my professor when I was at the
"Académie des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles"
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Some of his art: chrisgallery.be/JPDeMoor/index.htm
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Rolando is an artist from Brussels
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Ben by Other Artists
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Ben Heine by Menekse, Turkish artist
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Ben Heine by Zed, Croatian artist
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Also this very nice poem my soulmate
Peter S. Quinn made for me:
.Through the Sweetness
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By Peter S. Quinn
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Peter S. Quinn made for me:
.Through the Sweetness
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By Peter S. Quinn
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Through the sweetness of your smile
There is love in every beat
Doesn’t matter what is your style
In its inner most of treat
Feeling changes in what is real
Healing time close and near
You are everything that I did feel
Through emotions they did steer
Inside aching from the changes
Of pretending not to care
Tomorrow an opportunity rearranges
Of all clearances be aware
Time is precious through our waking
With so much to do and like
Never get enough in your making
When fate your beat will strike
Love is climbing through the sky
Every morning when you awake
From the low you will reach on high
With something better in the stake
Open wide like the opening books
You will find what you are looking for
In their prospects and their outlooks
In their layers and fresh metaphor
Through the sweetness of your smile
There is love in every beat
Doesn’t matter what is your style
In its inner most of treat
From the freshness of your inside
Where love pages open up wide
And your feelings are forever a guide
Through the days your emotions glide
You are love to find and give
With the dreams that go on by
Every waking up to again relive
In your realization out and try
Through moments that haven’t had enough
In their search and dialogue feel
When they start to become rough
In your hours that are for real
Love is climbing through the sky
Every morning when you awake
From the low you will reach on high
With something better in the stake
You are love with day and night
Turning on in the set off morning
Everything that the day shall light
Through its ways and in its yearning
Through the sweetness of your smile
There is love in every beat
Doesn’t matter what is your style
In its inner most of treat
Of coming hours and in their go
So much is still there to be seen
Anything that our differences know
And still lies there in between
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Peter also made this nice melody
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Thank you all!
There is love in every beat
Doesn’t matter what is your style
In its inner most of treat
Feeling changes in what is real
Healing time close and near
You are everything that I did feel
Through emotions they did steer
Inside aching from the changes
Of pretending not to care
Tomorrow an opportunity rearranges
Of all clearances be aware
Time is precious through our waking
With so much to do and like
Never get enough in your making
When fate your beat will strike
Love is climbing through the sky
Every morning when you awake
From the low you will reach on high
With something better in the stake
Open wide like the opening books
You will find what you are looking for
In their prospects and their outlooks
In their layers and fresh metaphor
Through the sweetness of your smile
There is love in every beat
Doesn’t matter what is your style
In its inner most of treat
From the freshness of your inside
Where love pages open up wide
And your feelings are forever a guide
Through the days your emotions glide
You are love to find and give
With the dreams that go on by
Every waking up to again relive
In your realization out and try
Through moments that haven’t had enough
In their search and dialogue feel
When they start to become rough
In your hours that are for real
Love is climbing through the sky
Every morning when you awake
From the low you will reach on high
With something better in the stake
You are love with day and night
Turning on in the set off morning
Everything that the day shall light
Through its ways and in its yearning
Through the sweetness of your smile
There is love in every beat
Doesn’t matter what is your style
In its inner most of treat
Of coming hours and in their go
So much is still there to be seen
Anything that our differences know
And still lies there in between
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Peter also made this nice melody
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Thank you all!
Marcin Bondarowicz
- i d e a m a n -
- i d e a m a n -
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© 2009 - Ben Heine
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Marcin is a professional Polish painter and illustrator. He lives in Poland as a freelance artist. He regularly publishes his highly elaborated cartoons on several websites and collaborates with a wide range of renowned magazines and newspapers.
Please visit his website for more info: www.bondarowiczart.republika.pl
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Please visit his website for more info: www.bondarowiczart.republika.pl
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Wow !
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New portrait of me by
Marcin Bondarowicz (*)
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The technique is incredible.
I'm looking better than in real life!
Marcin Bondarowicz (*)
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The technique is incredible.
I'm looking better than in real life!
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Thank you, Marcin.
That's another unique
birthday present!
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That's another unique
birthday present!
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(*) Marcin Bondarowicz is a professional Polish cartoonist and illustrator. He is also a specialized painter and photographer. He was born in 1976 in Starachowice, Poland. He lives now in Poland as a freelance artist. He regularly publishes his cartoons on several Websites and collaborates with a wide range of magazines and newspapers. Read his full bio
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She Thinks You're Too Tall
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sHe, bAres anD
broWns for yOu
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By Kristine Buenavista (*)
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she is a dying bridge
that coils at night to
hide your bicycle traces
because at dawn,
the pedals are owned by a circus.
R
she's told that you climbed a mountain
between Antique and Igbaras
and picked a grass,
named it after her.
S
you begged to learn poetry
but she pinched your nose and exclaimed:
"Paint your face on my skin. Your heart on my cleavage."
T
you gave her an anklet.
she lost it because she was jumping
up to the ceiling.
A
she thinks you're too tall,
that's all.
F
fcuk you.
Oops.
broWns for yOu
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By Kristine Buenavista (*)
D
she is a dying bridge
that coils at night to
hide your bicycle traces
because at dawn,
the pedals are owned by a circus.
R
she's told that you climbed a mountain
between Antique and Igbaras
and picked a grass,
named it after her.
S
you begged to learn poetry
but she pinched your nose and exclaimed:
"Paint your face on my skin. Your heart on my cleavage."
T
you gave her an anklet.
she lost it because she was jumping
up to the ceiling.
A
she thinks you're too tall,
that's all.
F
fcuk you.
Oops.
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(*) Kristine Buenavista is a poetess living in the Philippines.
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From Guevara to Chavez
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Pink Tide,
A Revolutionary Is Born Again
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By Rory Carroll and Lola Almudevar
Pink Tide,
A Revolutionary Is Born Again
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By Rory Carroll and Lola Almudevar
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When the haggard and broken figure was laid out on the slab and displayed to the world it was not just Che Guevara that had died. The dream of socialist revolution in South America was over. His image and name would continue to inspire millions, but on the continent he wanted to transform he was a political failure, a defeated guerrilla on the wrong side of history.
Bolivia's peasants spurned Che's rebellion, leaving the Bolivian army and the CIA to capture him on October 8, 1967, kill him the following day, and rid South America of Cuba's revolutionary spirit. The soldiers reportedly drew straws to determine who would have the honour of shooting Che.
"And so he is dead," wrote the Guardian's Richard Gott, one of the few journalists at the scene that day. "As they pumped preservative into his half-naked, dirty body and as the crowd shouted to be allowed to see, it was difficult to recall that this man had once been one of the great figures of Latin America."
It was difficult to feel his ideas would die with him, Gott said. He was right. Forty years later the anniversary of the death is looming and the scene is transformed: the Cubans are back, socialism is back and Che is a hero.
Che's rehabilitation has been borne on the region's "pink tide" of left-wing governments, especially in Bolivia and Venezuela, where efforts are under way to promote socialism, deepen ties with Havana and roll back Washington's influence.
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, echoes Che's desire to wean people off capitalism by moulding a "new socialist man". The Argentine-born rebel's writings have been widely distributed in Venezuela and a government-run work and training scheme was recently named after him. Chavez has devised an ambitious scheme that ships Venezuelan oil to Cuba in exchange for 20,000 medical personnel who offer free treatment to Venezuela's poor.
About 800 doctors have moved to Bolivia since its President, Evo Morales, an ally of Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro, was elected in 2005. Others are on their way to Ecuador now it has a socialist president, Rafael Correa. The scheme has widened so that poor patients from as far afield as Brazil, Chile and Nicaragua can fly to Venezuela and Cuba for free treatment.
"They have treated more than 120,000 [Bolivian] patients for free, without any conditions at all," Morales says. "What has Cuba asked of us? Have they asked to take ownership of a mine or to be partners in petrol? No."
Bolivia's President contrasted that with US aid, which he said came with strings, such as concessions for corporations that would perpetuate the neo-liberal economics, which he blames for impoverishing the region. "One wants to subordinate and impose conditions, the other gives unconditional co-operation."
Che envisaged violent insurrections against South America's ruling elites as part of a global fight against US imperialism, with the war in Vietnam just one front. Even Castro was said to be taken aback at his vehemence.
What Che would make of socialists who take power through elections rather than the gun no one can know. Not even Chavez, the reddest tinge in the pink tide, advocates communism. Nor is it certain the tide will endure. But there is no doubt it has swept Che back into political battle after decades when he was little more than a handsome face on countless T-shirts and posters.
His name still inspires loathing among those who attend anti-government protests in Bolivia and Venezuela. Che was an enthusiastic executioner of the revolution's opponents in Havana, they say, and his elevation to secular saint bodes ill for democracy in the Andes. "He was a bloodthirsty Marxist who died and failed for a good reason," says Ignacio Baretto, a from Caracas. "We don't need him back."
Momentum is with those who revere the guerrilla. Chavez, flush with oil money and popularity, is building what he calls "21st century socialism". Morales has nationalised the energy industry and is ploughing through heavy resistance to rewrite Bolivia's constitution. Both presidents openly scorn the US.
Analysts agree that Washington has hemorrhaged influence over a region once its backyard. The dispatch of a US navy hospital ship to treat the poor has been viewed as a belated, feeble reply to Cuba's doctor army.
"Che was fighting for dignified societies, where no one is in the street, where no one is exploited and where people have the same opportunities to study and live," says Loyola Guzman, a member of Bolivia's constituent assembly and one of the few remaining guerrillas who fought next to Guevara. "That is what we are fighting for now."
Bolivia's peasants spurned Che's rebellion, leaving the Bolivian army and the CIA to capture him on October 8, 1967, kill him the following day, and rid South America of Cuba's revolutionary spirit. The soldiers reportedly drew straws to determine who would have the honour of shooting Che.
"And so he is dead," wrote the Guardian's Richard Gott, one of the few journalists at the scene that day. "As they pumped preservative into his half-naked, dirty body and as the crowd shouted to be allowed to see, it was difficult to recall that this man had once been one of the great figures of Latin America."
It was difficult to feel his ideas would die with him, Gott said. He was right. Forty years later the anniversary of the death is looming and the scene is transformed: the Cubans are back, socialism is back and Che is a hero.
Che's rehabilitation has been borne on the region's "pink tide" of left-wing governments, especially in Bolivia and Venezuela, where efforts are under way to promote socialism, deepen ties with Havana and roll back Washington's influence.
The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, echoes Che's desire to wean people off capitalism by moulding a "new socialist man". The Argentine-born rebel's writings have been widely distributed in Venezuela and a government-run work and training scheme was recently named after him. Chavez has devised an ambitious scheme that ships Venezuelan oil to Cuba in exchange for 20,000 medical personnel who offer free treatment to Venezuela's poor.
About 800 doctors have moved to Bolivia since its President, Evo Morales, an ally of Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro, was elected in 2005. Others are on their way to Ecuador now it has a socialist president, Rafael Correa. The scheme has widened so that poor patients from as far afield as Brazil, Chile and Nicaragua can fly to Venezuela and Cuba for free treatment.
"They have treated more than 120,000 [Bolivian] patients for free, without any conditions at all," Morales says. "What has Cuba asked of us? Have they asked to take ownership of a mine or to be partners in petrol? No."
Bolivia's President contrasted that with US aid, which he said came with strings, such as concessions for corporations that would perpetuate the neo-liberal economics, which he blames for impoverishing the region. "One wants to subordinate and impose conditions, the other gives unconditional co-operation."
Che envisaged violent insurrections against South America's ruling elites as part of a global fight against US imperialism, with the war in Vietnam just one front. Even Castro was said to be taken aback at his vehemence.
What Che would make of socialists who take power through elections rather than the gun no one can know. Not even Chavez, the reddest tinge in the pink tide, advocates communism. Nor is it certain the tide will endure. But there is no doubt it has swept Che back into political battle after decades when he was little more than a handsome face on countless T-shirts and posters.
His name still inspires loathing among those who attend anti-government protests in Bolivia and Venezuela. Che was an enthusiastic executioner of the revolution's opponents in Havana, they say, and his elevation to secular saint bodes ill for democracy in the Andes. "He was a bloodthirsty Marxist who died and failed for a good reason," says Ignacio Baretto, a from Caracas. "We don't need him back."
Momentum is with those who revere the guerrilla. Chavez, flush with oil money and popularity, is building what he calls "21st century socialism". Morales has nationalised the energy industry and is ploughing through heavy resistance to rewrite Bolivia's constitution. Both presidents openly scorn the US.
Analysts agree that Washington has hemorrhaged influence over a region once its backyard. The dispatch of a US navy hospital ship to treat the poor has been viewed as a belated, feeble reply to Cuba's doctor army.
"Che was fighting for dignified societies, where no one is in the street, where no one is exploited and where people have the same opportunities to study and live," says Loyola Guzman, a member of Bolivia's constituent assembly and one of the few remaining guerrillas who fought next to Guevara. "That is what we are fighting for now."
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President Chavez launches
Che Guevara Mission
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By Mathaba
Che Guevara Mission
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By Mathaba
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During a ceremony that takes place in the Theater Teresa Carreño this Thursday, President Hugo Chávez officially launched Che Guevara Mission.
The new mission was created to substitute Vuelvan Caras mission aimed at strengthening the training of the new man with a socialist view of life.
The Minister of People’s Power for Communal Economy, Pedro Morejon, said before attending the ceremony: ''In this phase, we will go to strengthen the revolutionary process by creating conscience, ethic and ideology with a socialist base to build a new social production.''
Last September 10th, the mission successfully started in all the Socialist Training Centers (CFS, by its Spanish abbreviation) of the country; about 40,000 people enrolled in the mission.
Members of the President Commission of Che Guevara Mission also attend the ceremony, among them: Minister of People’s Power for Education, Adan Chávez, Minister of People’s Power for Communal Economy, Pedro Morejón and Minister of People’s Power for Higher Education, Luis Acuña.
Ideological training and constitutional reform conferences are given in the CFS of the country in order to incorporate Ché Guevara Mission’s members in the building of socialism.
Translated by Natalia González
The new mission was created to substitute Vuelvan Caras mission aimed at strengthening the training of the new man with a socialist view of life.
The Minister of People’s Power for Communal Economy, Pedro Morejon, said before attending the ceremony: ''In this phase, we will go to strengthen the revolutionary process by creating conscience, ethic and ideology with a socialist base to build a new social production.''
Last September 10th, the mission successfully started in all the Socialist Training Centers (CFS, by its Spanish abbreviation) of the country; about 40,000 people enrolled in the mission.
Members of the President Commission of Che Guevara Mission also attend the ceremony, among them: Minister of People’s Power for Education, Adan Chávez, Minister of People’s Power for Communal Economy, Pedro Morejón and Minister of People’s Power for Higher Education, Luis Acuña.
Ideological training and constitutional reform conferences are given in the CFS of the country in order to incorporate Ché Guevara Mission’s members in the building of socialism.
Translated by Natalia González
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