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Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Take classically trained artistic talent and stir with an unique view of the world.

Drop in a shot of wit and mix with dashes of quirkiness and skepticism to create a cocktail that is as beautiful as it is shocking…

God saw how great wickedness had become and decided to wipe mankind from the face of the earth. However, one righteous man among all the people of that time, found favour in God’s eyes.

With very specific instructions, delivered by a budgie purporting to tell fortunes, God told him to create a set of paintings for him and his family in preparation for an exhibition in a city recently devastated by catastrophic flood that could have destroyed every living thing on earth.

God also instructed him to bring into the exhibition, unclean animals, male and female.

These unclean animals and their stories resonated with Noah. They shared a special bond. He wanted to celebrate their uniqueness, and their faults, rather than making them the butt of the jokes at the bar.

People who have had a drink, find different things to be funny, lest we forget.

First he took Heidi, the cross eyed opossum born in January in Germany, soon to go display and no doubt become an internet sensation.

Then, the unnamed young orangutan he remembered seeing on a mid-afternoon wildlife show he watched hazily from the sofa whilst off sick, and never forgot…

And of course Buster, the three legged dog advertised from the RSPCA through a national newspaper.

Next up was Bobby, the one eyed cat currently missing from the very village that Noah lived in. He saw the advert in the local paper and decided to take Bobby with him, particularly given his own eyesight issues in the past.

And of course he couldn’t resist those three chihuahua puppies (with two full bodied brethren) born four years ago. Their disformities are apparently due to inbreeding, though they have benefitted from daily physiotherapy and now hop around on their back legs.

The frog he took was simply the result of an internet search, during which he discovered that around the world, frogs are found with missing or misshaped limbs, a striking deformity that many researchers believe is caused by chemical pollution. However, tests on frogs and toads have revealed a more natural, benign cause. The deformed frogs are actually victims of the predatory habits of dragonfly nymphs, which eat the legs of tadpoles. Depending on the duration of the stay on the ark, adult amphibians with one one hind limb appear able to live for quite a long time, apparently explaining why so many deformed frogs and toads are discovered.

Finally for this instalment, Noah chose Winter, a two year old bottlenose dolphin from an aquarium in Florida, who was fitted with a prosthetic tail to help her swim naturally after becoming entangled in a crab trap at sea.

The remaining ‘unclean’ will be revealed shortly…

Jay Liu

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

I met this guy on my first day of secondary school. He turned out to be the best friend there could be… All will be revealed later this week – until then, thank you, Jay…

 

My Best Man.

We met, inadvertedly, on a football pitch, when I scored past him.

Twenty years later, our friendship has blossomed, despite the thousand of milesbetween us: indeed, he was the only choice for my best man for my upcoming wedding.

So, thank you Jay. Barcelona will exist because of you and the wedding will only improve  because of your input. Love x x


John (The Past, Present and Future)

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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A thoughtful boy, John had always wanted to make sense of some of the things that had happened to him in his life so far.

It all started with the fortune cookie from Brigitta.

A random opening which led him on a journey of thought, discovery, reflection, and ‘synchronicity’ of hispast and my future, attempting to make sense of it all and perhaps, change his fate in the process.

You see, after that meal at the Chinese, strange things began to happen and suddenly he ‘got it’ – he started to understand the bigger picture. Things started to make sense.

Sharing these stories helped him. It was like a release. He likens it now to a medicine cabinet.

A medicine cabinet? I hear you ask.

Think about the scene in 13 going on 30, or even better, Big, that seminal film from our childhoods (maybe) and specifically the scene when Tom Hanks’s character Josh sees himself as a grown up. He sees himself in the mirror but doesn’t believe it’s really him, so he opens the cupboard to check there’s nothing behind it. The cupboard contains the usual medicines, nothing more.

John’s medicine cabinet shows a mysterious face. By looking inside the cupboard, unlike Josh, he finds experiences from the past that also tell the story of the face he sees.

So, writing these stories helped John. It was cathartic, and helped put things into perspective and into the past.

Explained the car crash. Attributed blame for the burglary. Solved mysteries.

As you have read, those thirteen faces he has written about, were unlucky for some. Mainly him.

But John couldn’t stop there.

The fortune cookie message had predicted something that may or may not be true. What else lay in store for him in the future? He needed to know what other possibilities were there, so that he could make the most of his future. Like Marty McFly, by going back he was improving his own future.

This time, he also had to enlist the help of others once again. He looked closely at the work of Sophie Calle and Paul Auster, who made the following comments  over ten years ago:

“Chance? Destiny? Or simple mathematics, an example of probability theory at work? It doesn’t matter what you call it. Life is full of such events… These are coincidences… Things like this happen to me all the time!”

John also wanted to discover more, by using other people’s interpretations of his story.

He began to find out how others saw him, and his future.

He followed the rules of the Psychic Reading Handbook, in which he read the following:

“Sometimes our desire to create something is so strong that we impatiently search for the outcomes before they have been created… A psychic can help you to get to the heart of the matter by putting aside your emotional blocks and pre-existing expectations”

He had his palms read several times.

Followed his stars.

Made wishes, too. Think back again to Big, and the wish that Josh makes at the Zoltar fortune teller’s booth.

His wish came true, and he had fun, for a while at least.