Veleda

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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." - Henry David Thoreau

  • Veleda

  • Female
  • The Pacific Northwest, US

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Interests

  • General

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    Nature
    Art
    Music
    Cinema
    Photography
    Bass and Cello
    Exploring the unknown
    Darkness
    Being alone
    Thunderstorms
    Snowfall
    Autumn leaves
    Animal lore
    Plant lore
    Ossuaries
    Decay
    The Hávamál
    Desolate Beaches
    The Kalevala
    Shamanism
    transcendentalism
    Sharing a silent moment with a friend
    Odinism
    Languages
    The smell of old books
    Rune lore
    Mythology
    Folklore
    Mead from a drinking horn.
    History
    Felines and goats
    Briloner Waldgeister (Kräuterlikör)
    Reading
    Forgotten places and buildings
    The smell of woodsmoke on a crisp morning
    Traveling
    Quantum Physics
    Experiencing life to its fullest
    Wine making
    Gin & Tonics (thanks Jeff ;)

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    He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.~Tad Williams



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  • Music

    Agalloch
    Vindensång
    Bathory
    Thule (Norway prog)
    Dornenreich
    Beyond Dawn
    Negura Bunget
    Blut Aus Nord
    Lunar Aurora
    Alter of Plagues
    Deathspell Omega
    Fall of the Leafe
    The Iditarod
    Darvulia
    Funeral Mist
    Peste Noire
    Kroda
    Silencer (Swe)
    Bethlehem (old)
    Reverence
    Moonlit
    Vermillion
    Svanat
    Arvo Pärt
    Hagalaz' Runedance
    Sculptured
    Nest
    In The Woods
    Ludicra
    Fauna
    Satyricon
    Dysperium
    Vento Negro
    Windir
    In Gowan Ring
    Thurisaz
    Orplid
    Naglfar
    Nagelfar
    Krohm
    Menhir
    Tenhi
    Neun Welten
    Nothing
    Gruntsplatter
    The Waking Cold
    Waldteufel
    Sunn O)))
    Forseti
    Changes
    Die Verbannten Kinder Eva's
    Comus
    Xerxes
    Landberk
    Anekdoten
    Amon Duul II
    Noekk
    Algarnas Tradgard
    Anglagard
    Dark Sanctuary
    Diamanda Galas
    Angizia
    Dissection
    Venom (old)
    Sol Negra
    Enslaved
    Poccolus
    Master's Hammer
    Thy Primordial
    Abigor (old)
    Ulver
    Gehenna (old only)
    Enslaved
    GYBE!
    Silver Mt. Zion
    O Paradis
    Swans
    This Empty Flow
    Einsturzende Neubauten
    Peter Murphy
    Seigmen
    Of the Wand and the Moon
    Blood Axis
    Steve Von Till
    Allerseelen
    Death in June
    Current 93
    Fire and Ice
    Neun Welten
    Canaan
    Katatonia
    Primordial...
    Parnassus
    Burzum
    .Amorphis
    Autumn Blaze
    Decoryah
    Love History
    Boards of Canada
    Loreena McKennitt
    Throes of Dawn
    Darkthrone
    Graveland
    Forlorn
    Taake
    Falkenbach
    Drudkh
    Lik
    to name a few...



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  • Movies

    *Werkmeister Harmonies, Damnation, Sátántangó (Belá Tarr)

    *Lea (Ivan Fíla)

    *The Old Believers (Jana Sevciková)

    *Valley of the Bees, The White Dove, Adelheid (Frantisek Vlácil)

    * Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergei Parajanov)

    * Stalker, Nastalghia, the Sacrifice, the Mirror, My Name is Ivan (Andrei Tarkovsky)

    *The Wicker Man ...Original!!..(Anthony Shaffer)

    *The Man Without a Past, Juha, Drifting Clouds, Leningrad Cowboys, Take Care of Your Scaf Tatiana, The Match Factory Girl, Ariel, Calamari Union (Aki Kaurismaki)

    *House of Fools (Andrei Konchalovsky)

    *A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)

    *Forbidden Games (René Clément)

    *The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, The Silence,Cries and Whispers, etc(Ingmar Bergman)

    *Faust, Little Otik (Jan Svankmajer)

    *Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)

    *The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)

    *The Fall of the House of Usher (Jean Epstein & Luis Bunuel )

    *Faust (F.W. Murnau's)

    *Dead Man,Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Coffee and Cigarettes, Night on Earth, Mystery Train, Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch)

    *Rivers and Tides, Touch the Sound (Andy Goldsworthy)

    *Noi (Dagur Kari)

    *Ratcatcher, Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)

    *Ordet (Carl Th. Dreyer)

    *The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)

    *Letters from a Dead Man (Konstantin Lopushansky)

    *Fando and Lis, Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky)

    *Begotten (Elias Merhige)

    *City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie (Marc Caro/Jean-Pierre Jeunet)

    *Me You and Everyone We Know (Miranda July)

    *Mother and Son, Russian Ark (Alexander Sukurov)

    *Northfork, Twin Falls Idaho (Mark and Michael Polish)

    *The ballad of Jack and Rose (Rebecca Miller)(don't let the name fool you, this is a devastating movie!))

    *Suspiria (Dario Argento)

    *Withnail and I ( Bruce Robinson ).

    *Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring (Kim Ki-Duk)

    David Lynch has his moments as well...

    A few films that have shaped my life...

    Bela Tarr - Werckmeister Harmonies

    Jim Jarmusch - Dead Man

    Andre Tarkovsky - Stalker
    Lars Von Trier - Antichrist

    A short by Jiri Barta - Balada
    Andre Tarkovsky - The Mirror
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  • Television

    Not much. Dexter. Black Books. The history channel. TAPS. ...

    For the most part I would much rather be watching the squirrels chase each other around the tree in the back yard.

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    I don't believe in omens or fear
    Forebodings. I flee from neither slander
    Nor from poison. Death does not exist.
    Everyone's immortal. Everything is too.
    No point in fearing death at seventeen,
    Or seventy. There's only here and now, and light;
    Neither death, nor darkness, exists.
    We're all already on the seashore;
    I'm one of those who'll be hauling in the nets
    When a shoal of immortality swims by.

    If you live in a house - the house will not fall.
    I'll summon any of the centuries,
    Then enter one and build a house in it.
    That's why your children and your wives
    Sit with me at one table,
    The same for ancestor and grandson:
    The future is being accomplished now,
    If I raise my hand a little,
    All five beams of light will stay with you.
    Each day I used my collar bones
    For shoring up the past, as though with timber,
    I measured time with geodetic chains
    And marched across it, as though it were the Urals.

    I tailored the age to fit me.
    We walked to the south, raising dust above the steppe;
    The tall weeds fumed; the grasshopper danced,
    Touching its antenna to the horse-shoes - and it prophesied,
    Threatening me with destruction, like a monk.
    I strapped my fate to the saddle;
    And even now, in these coming times,
    I stand up in the stirrups like a child.

    I'm satisfied with deathlessness,
    For my blood to flow from age to age.
    Yet for a corner whose warmth I could rely on
    I'd willingly have given all my life,
    Whenever her flying needle
    Tugged me, like a thread, around the globe.
    -Arseny Tarkovsky
  • Books

    "Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book does not shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we'd be just as happy if we had no books at all; books that make us happy we could, in a pinch, also write ourselves. What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we had been banished to the woods, far from any human presence, like a suicide. A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. That is what I believe.”...
    Franz Kafka, January 27, 1904

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  • Heroes



    Those who live life on their own terms, regardless of how the world may view them.


    Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance;
    they make the latitudes and longitudes.
    Henry David Thoreau

    Pledge to Fight Animal Cruelty

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About me:

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I am a photographer and Artist now living in the Pacific Northwest. A recluse by nature I prefer having a few close friends as opposed to an entourage of acquaintances.

I find fascination and beauty in the decay of abandoned buildings and areas that are being reclaimed by nature and will always seek them out to explore and photograph.

For me there is nothing quite like the sound of thunder, exploring forests and woods, crickets, cloudy desolate beaches and the still silence that comes with snowfall.

I am greatly interested in the study of certain cultures, ( Romanian, Eastern European/Slavic, German, Native American and Scandinavian), their history, music, myths and folklore.


"There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea and the music in its roar;
I love not man the less, but Nature more." — Lord Byron


"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." — Henry David Thoreau


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Who I'd like to meet:



Those who would inspire me...





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Comments

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  • Jan 6 2010 8:19 PM

    Thanks for the add :)  Mighty Hails to you !!!
    Damon Krieg
  • Jan 6 2010 2:45 PM

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  • Jan 5 2010 2:47 PM

    THANKS FOR SUPPORT
    HAGAL

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  • Jan 5 2010 2:47 PM

    Very special thanks to you!

    Have an impressive 2010!

    All the best



    Lord Agheros
  • Jan 5 2010 3:37 AM

    Hows miss V doing this evening, how was your nye? 

    A
  • в r e n d α.♥ Online Now!

    Jan 4 2010 6:46 AM

    Hey!Thanks for the add.
    I found you on Agalloch's page and check out some of your stuff.
    I really really like it;It's just....beautiful.
    One of the most interesting projects i've ever seen ;)

    Oh!Happy New Year btw.
    Greetings from Mexico.
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  • Dec 21 2009 8:07 PM

    Enjoy the longest night of the year, tomorrow the light is on the rise again!

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  • Dec 16 2009 3:44 PM


     
    Have a nice week, heils from Slovakia
    M.M.
  • Dec 15 2009 4:21 PM

    I tell you again, you make the most amazing photograph, the kind of work that i want to make and see! Hails veleda you are a great dark artist!
  • Nov 29 2009 10:38 PM

    Thanks for the support we really appreciated it!!! Nature-Worship



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  • Nov 26 2009 10:10 PM

    Heilsa Veleda,
    Thanks for the add
    Darkest German Regards...
  • Nov 24 2009 1:32 PM


     

    greetings from Slovakia

    by MM
  • Nov 22 2009 5:31 PM

    Thank you very much, yep, the weather is way better as in your part of the world (sunny, 12deg. cent.).
    Hope you wont get any trouble with breaking trees!!
    I hope you and John are fine (KiKi and I are...), greetings from KiKi as well..take care and best regards from sunny Antfeld!!
    A+K
  • Nov 18 2009 5:51 AM

    Hails.

    Cultus.-

  • Nov 14 2009 9:36 PM

    The Wild Hunt is loosed! May you be kept and protected under the eye of the furious host, Wassail!
  • Nov 10 2009 2:10 PM

    Hello,
    thx for add...good luck

    HV
  • Nov 8 2009 2:56 PM

    Happy Sunday Mornin!
  • Nov 5 2009 9:53 PM

    Cheers! Thanks for the friendship!





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  • Nov 4 2009 8:37 PM

    Thank you very much for the compliments, I am glad you enjoy my music.

    Your photography is very inspirational!

    Take care...
  • Nov 4 2009 5:21 AM

    Thank you very much for commenting the pics Veleda, I'm really glad you like them!
    I suggest you to visit Trentino and South Tyrol if you can, their lands are absolutely gorgeous in my opinion, I was speechless in front of such beauty
  • Nov 2 2009 1:49 AM

    Happy (belated) Samhain!
  • Oct 24 2009 6:07 PM

    Thank you for the add, again.
    Best regards.
  • Oct 15 2009 11:05 PM

    How wonderful, autumn has arrived! I wish you lots of wonderful pictures!
    All the best to you!
    Dana
  • Oct 8 2009 5:33 PM

    Thanks for the add
    Greetings from Slovakia

     
    morr

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  • Oct 7 2009 7:43 PM

    Thanks for adding us!

    Skål!!!

    Regin Herjar
  • Oct 7 2009 7:43 PM

    A Soundtrak for your Pictures

    thank you
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  • Sep 24 2009 5:05 PM

    THanks for adding us!

    Skål!!!

    Regin Herjar
  • Sep 6 2009 1:52 PM

    Thanks!
  • Sep 6 2009 1:52 PM

    Just stopping by to say hell...o!!!





  • Aug 7 2009 12:06 AM

    Happy Birthday from Jens, Marion and me!
  • Aug 7 2009 12:06 AM

    Veleda, I wish you all the best for your birthday! Hope to see you guys again real soon.
    Best wishes, JENS
  • Jul 20 2009 8:05 PM

    Greetings. Have a dark one !


    fucken kill yourself


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  • Jul 10 2009 2:55 PM

    Best wishes this summer,hoping the days bring much inspiration.
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  • Jul 5 2009 5:08 PM

    Happy 4th of July
    Hope everyone has a safe a wonderful weekend
    Peace
  • Jun 16 2009 7:59 AM

  • Jun 14 2009 1:47 AM

    Thank You!

    We just dropped by to say Thank You for the Add and wish you All The Best!

    Gary & Ruth
    The Celtic Myth Podshow

  • Jun 7 2009 3:07 PM

    I will visit Externsteine today again. I will miss you so much!
    AV
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  • May 24 2009 6:16 AM


    Der individuelle Wille, der zugleich ichhaft und zerstreut
    ist muss umgewandelt werden in den allheitlichen Willen,
    der konzentrisch ist und das Irdisch - Menschliche übersteigt.
    (Frithjof Schuon)
  • May 20 2009 1:29 AM

    you rule
  • May 20 2009 1:29 AM

    Fauna flyer..
  • May 19 2009 10:31 PM