Reality Postponed...

Perspective is Everything

Gigi Irvine

Gigi Irvine
Location
Los Angeles, California,
Birthday
June 08
Bio
I am a artist in my heart (writing, photography, painting) and a Scientist and Mathematician by profession.

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JULY 6, 2011 8:40PM

Size 8

red keds
 

Size 8

 

You can tell a lot about me, from the shoes I wear day in and day out. This is odd as I am not a fashionista in any sense of the word. As a child, I swore by my red Keds with crisp white laces.Read full post »

MAY 29, 2011 7:14PM

Evening Tears

 (This is a true story and dedicated to my dear neighbor who at 91 is still spry even with a broken heart).
 
It was a dark, star-filled night in January. I was ensnared in the semi-upscale catacombs of a city that is never quiet. My exact position I didRead full post »
MAY 23, 2011 5:51PM

My Los Angeles

My LA LIFE

Concrete juts

Faces pass

Palms sway

Sun warms

Lights change

Horns sound

Busses carry

Signs proclaim

 ~

Alone amidst

But not Alone 
 
 
 
Photo by Gigi Irvine from the Reflection Series  Read full post »
MAY 16, 2011 3:08PM

In Just Four Quartets...

Warm updrafts from the heater lifted the window shade upwards like a bird’s wing…gliding lithely in the dusty room. Julia sat alone and unaware of the delicate flicking of the shade, deep in thought, with her hand gripping the pen with too much intensity.

 

The rumble of the old fur… Read full post »

MAY 14, 2011 6:07PM

Have Scapel Will Travel....

Walking into the large expanse of the frigid lab was a bit overwhelming for me. Dr. Chin was going on and on about procedural stuff that I was sure I was going to need in the very near future, but all I could focus… Read full post »

MAY 11, 2011 9:53PM

The Whole Patient

Dr. Austin wheeled the gurney into the lab where I was working on dissecting out the pituitary gland of a patient who had suffered from extreme Acromegaly. I looked up from the disturbing expanses of white matter in his brain to see Dr. Austin motioning me… Read full post »

MAY 10, 2011 1:19PM

The Lizard King

 One

Rising forty feet into the air, in cylindrical massiveness, they stood… my mountains.  These steel clad tanks filled with the remnants of ancient dinosaurs my landscape. I clung to and climbed on their cold metal ladders-absolutely forbidden-reaching up into tanks of dark

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MAY 9, 2011 6:02PM

The Touch

 Prison of the mind

 

It was beautiful to look at… in a way.

 

Row after row of objects arranged in precise lines filled the front room of her tidy bungalow. Similar objects grouped, lined up with care and exactness, a mathematician’s play land.

 

When she began to have that fe… Read full post »

Guilty Pleasures
 
Cigarettes, bongs, soft-core porn magazines… welcome to the Smoke Shop where you can get a piece of your own particular brand of sin for only a few dollars and a quick stop.  When I walk by this store, nestled between the Drycleaner Express and a 24-hourRead full post »
MAY 3, 2011 1:12PM

Strings of Limerence Linger....

 

He was a man, strong in his ways

When stars sighed, he would wink back at them;

And when he dreamed, he dreamed in more dimensions than one:

The specters of his mind as bright as a painting can contain!

Of his temperament only the universe can

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MAY 2, 2011 9:21PM

A Wizened Old Man...

A wizened old man is how I thought of Zach. He was crinkly and hunched, and quoted Monty Python when he was nervous. His fingers were crooked and his glasses were always ajar on his angular tiny face. He always wore a belt, one of… Read full post »

MAY 1, 2011 2:36PM

Workaday

Sunrise

Silence is shattered at dawn.
Slim fingers of red reach across the dark sky-
Metal beasts rumble loudly on their way.
Small chirps make a chorus of angry horns
Overshadowed by a siren which deafens in the midst.
Tucked away in warmth… I/
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APRIL 30, 2011 2:00PM

You're Just Cheap Chocolate...

 (Installmet #1 of my Novella-"You're Just Cheap Chocolate")
Dalia
Just earlier this week, I discovered much to my utter horror, that I was responsible for the nearly 60 earthquakes that have struck Arkansas since Feb. 15, 2011; it was all over the news.
 I did not eatRead full post »
APRIL 29, 2011 12:16PM

Madness in Mind

 

 Hillcrest

 

She finally had to be taken away.  Distant relatives had arrived and found her and the House in such a state of decay and squalor that there was no other choice but to institutionalize her and place the house for sale in the hopes of getting something

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APRIL 27, 2011 8:43PM

Shadow Art!

Cool Reflections.... art
 
10 Feet Tall
Leggy
 
Shadow Tree
Tree
 
Legs...  Shes got legs
 
Photo Op
Shadow Tree
 
Green Thumb...
Green Thumb
 
Art  Art

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APRIL 27, 2011 12:50PM

The Haunted and Fragile Child...

Water 

She was a slight child.

Skin so pale you could see the tiny framework of blood vessels under her cheeks. Her hair was the color of pale sunshine and it fell in razor straight strands to her narrow hips. She had a quality that is not of this

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APRIL 26, 2011 10:55PM

Crimson Ramblers

 Bed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Redcoats, wall louses, mahogany flats, crimson ramblers, and heavy dragoons you fascinate me.  Feeding on us warm -blooded victims under the covers of our personal oblivion!  Gestating in sheets of our forefathers and livRead full post »

Light

Taking a great photo is like amazing sex—to be really smashing a photo has to have the right setting, perfect lighting, and the proper subject (and good perspective doesn’t hurt!). 

Rose 

As a photographer, I am always looking at the world through the lens of a came… Read full post »

APRIL 25, 2011 2:52PM

No Sex in Space!

Moon

 

Recent press, as reported by Space.com, a source for news of astronomy, skywatching, space exploration, commercial spaceflight and related technologies has stated that there is no official or unofficial evidence from the Russians or NASA that there were ever any instances ofRead full post »

Odd places, dark places, lonely places, and broken places….they all called to me.  When I was a little girl seeing a “No Trespassing” or “Keep Out” sign seemed to me a whispered invitation.  I always felt that same welcome twinge when I would crawl under a fen… Read full post »

APRIL 22, 2011 8:38PM

Brother Can You Spare A Dime?

  Ring me on the next corner...

As a little girl my mom would always make sure that us kids had a dime or two in our pockets…just in case we needed to make a call.  Every block or so, in my West Los Angeles neighborhood, there would be at least one, a box/… Read full post »