This Week’s Giant Winner – Frankster
This week’s Giant winner of the Choose Your Favorite Giant Lens Contest is Kartick Satyanarayan – Champion of India’s Dancing Bears by Giant lensmaster Frankster and before I begin telling you about it, let me just say – WOW!
The lens was made for the Superhero Charity group and donates to Wildlife SOS , a charity that Frankster introduced to Squidoo that works to save these beautiful creatures from the tortures they are forced to endure. It’s about a man named Kartick Satyanarayan who has dedicated his life to animal rescue and saving the dancing bears of India. The lens is gorgeously designed and the topic is extraordinary. I can see why you picked it as a favorite!
You’ll want to read Saving the Dancing Bears of India (This one was this week’s runner up in the contest that’s why I’m featuring them together. ) to get the entire picture of just what the plight of the dancing bears is all about. (Caution: It will upset you. This is a tragedy beyond belief.)
The thing that really blew me away upon reading these two unbelievable lenses is contained in the following statement taken directly from one of the lenses:
“Karen de la Carriere of Thomas Kinkade fame, inspired and turned over the making of the Dancing Bears lens to me, even though it was dear to her heart because of my connection with Bears.
We’re going to India! That’s right, this summer, Karen and I are going to visit with Geeta and Kartick and the rescued Dancing Bears ~~ we are on a mission to get the last Dancing Bears off the streets ~~ and we will be back with so much more info. We can bear-ly contain our excitement!
We’re going to India! That’s right, this summer, Karen and I are going to visit with Geeta and Kartick and the rescued Dancing Bears ~~ we are on a mission to get the last Dancing Bears off the streets ~~ and we will be back with so much more info. We can bear-ly contain our excitement!”
I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to see the lenses these two awesome and inspiring lensmasters make when they return!
July 11, 2008 - 6:27 pm
Thank you all for the votes and RMS for the wonderful write-up. I almost never cry. Having said that, I cried when I learned about these bears and throughout my research; I cried when a benefactor offered me a trip to India to help Wildlife SOS; I cried when I wrote the quoted section above in the lens. Again, I almost never cry! Then I read this and I held it together when I read the excerpt about the trip, but when you repeated it in black and white below, I lost it again. It’s finally sinking in and I’m so overwhelmed by emotion. OMG what’s going to happen when I meet Kartick and Geeta and the rescue bears face-to-face?!
I’ll get back to you on that. I’m starting my trip blog this weekend and will continue on the trip with photos and stories. Thank you again. Bear hugs, Frankster