Juliana Santacruz Herrera celebrates the potholes on the streets and sidewalks of paris with vibrant color ... How joyful!! Via NotCot
Title Quote: Richard Kehl
2011.04.27
2011.04.26
2011.04.21
If the wind means me, I'm Here! Here.
I love the delicacy and darkness of these paper sculptures I want to toucch them but would be afraid to, I like that. By BrowneHsieh
Title Quote: Theodore Roethke
Learning words have the blood of birds.
This is absolutely magical. I've always been enchanted by the idea of the birds next. I love the natural ones made from twigs and leaves but I especially marvel when our fragments end up woven in. I remember findind a mouse next outside of my house once and in it were little remants of silk and yarn that the little guy acquired when paying a visit inside my creating space. It beautiful, using what you have. Birds The Ultimate DIY Architect + Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them, via NotCot
Title Quote: Paul Carrol
2011.04.03
The heart is a strong shore and the ocean has many moods. // Mark Nepo
"Thousands of wooden prayer tablets, ema, hang outside Meiji Jingu, a Shinto shrine. Japanese are not normally religious, but during times of crisis they often revert back to traditional beliefs. Prayers for disaster victims and the nuclear crisis are written and hung around a divine tree. In a special ceremony, Shinto priests burn the prayers as an offering." // Susie Rain
2011.03.18
I disregard the proportions, measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women...I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy...when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Oil Paintings by Lee Price ::: I was stunned by Lee's work. It took me a few moments to learn and believe that they are actually paintings and not photographs. I was struck with the humor I saw first(I laughed out loud)then quiet and taken with the voracity ... the hunger of this woman (consuming) and the suffering (being consumed) of such improvidence.
Title Quote // Diary of Anais Nin
via notcot via don't panic
2011.02.27
To die more fully, if dying is what must be done.
Title Quote // Guillvec
Hold the map close to your face. Breathe into it and you will hear a river start.
Link: Experimental Travel - Lonely Planet Online
Anyone up for a little civic caravan?? I've wanted to try one of these adventures for so long ... this spring, no excuses!!
Title Quote // Greg Kuzma
"Experimental Travel is for those people who like their travel a little less formulaic. Bored with coming home sporting a souvenir tea towel and a 'My Mum went to Cardiff and all I got was this lousy t-shirt' t-shirt? Then Experimental Travel is for you. Experimental Travel is not about checking off the major sights or following your guidebook to the letter; it's a playful way of travelling, where the journey's methodology is clear but the destination is usually unknown. Experimental Travel renders all destinations equal - be it a burger shack or the Taj Mahal. 'Experimental Travel is travel with constraints, that at the same time liberates you from the limitations and expectations of classic tourism. By travelling with the constraints of Experimental Travel, you conversely have more freedom'. Joël Henry, founder of Latourex (Laboratory of Experimental Travel)" -ET
2011.02.26
Moved enough to write my own product review ...
I'm an Apple so I'm surprised to be compelled to post about a Microsoft product. However, their new Arc Touch mouse is noteworthy. Place your hand over it and you will appreciate it's softness and sense of delicacy. It is partially sheathed in what 'feels' like a rose petal - I don't know, it was a little heartbreaking. Yet, it's packaging is embarrassing. Of course that's not news. Now the Apple mouse packing ... Sublime. The glassy gizmo protected only from your touch. The next best thing to no packaging. No waste of materials, nor waste of your time in figuring out what it is or why you would want it.
(I am not a product/packaging design critic but I play one on weekends) :)
2011.02.23
You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.
Boy Of Blue Industries: The Photography of Wayne Martin Belger
Each of these handmade one-of-a-kind cameras are designed to photograph for study a very specific thing or kind of things, from a people suffering from HIV to the beauty of decay to mothers who are at least eight months pregnant ... The HIV camera has actual HIV positive blood used as part of the process...Fascinating.
Title Quote: Sylvia Plath
2011.02.21
Caught between the tounge and the taste.
Tomi Hirokono ... My lovely friend Jenny turned me on to this provacateur ... I couldn't post this fast enough! And deciding on which images to share was difficult indeed ... Enjoy his masterful ability to create and compose beauty while tugging at something deeper inside - tangling it up even.
Title Quote: Anne Carson
2011.02.15
The cage is open: you may go.
Link: Early 20th Century Industrial Cage Lights.
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Early 20th Century Industrial Cage Lights USA Early 20th Century Three metal cage lights from 1915-1920s. Shown with Edison bulbs. Lights measure 7-9" h x 4-5" Dia. Priced individually."Title Quote: Roethke
2011.02.06
Piet Hein Eek ::: Reclaiming, giving new context. Modern and nostalgic. I love upcycling.
2011.02.04
When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate.
Pick A Jewel ::: "These series of accessories don't include jewelry.
Anything you find and put up becomes your own "Jewelry".
Find wonderful jewelry in your daily life." ::: I can't say how much I love this idea. Reminds me of this ::: Originally seen at the ever marvelous Sub Studio Design Blog
Title Quote:Nick Sagan
2011.02.01
It is a joy to be hidden, but disaster not to be found.
Valeria Meng ::: Old Polaroids
2011.01.31
... then laugh, leaning back in my arms for life's not a paragraph / And death i think is no parenthesis
I admit that I had to stop and think about posting this, wondering if it was too morbid. I have never much cared for taxidermy but when i think of it I think of the deer heads and the like that I have encoucntered over the years ... But when i saw Polly Morgan's melancholic and provocative work I was taken, I was moved ... I felt.I wondered of stories inspired by by (probaby) unrelated to the animals, of the trembles of love and grace and sadness. I also recalled memories of childhood involving birds and my confusion and curiosity about death. I wasn't afraid of the dead birds I would find in our yard, I would hold, look at them long trying to understand what it was like to die and what it is to be alive ...There is certainly something marvelous in death, bittersweet at best but beautiful. Polly's work celebrates something more than, and the best part of life ... wonder.
Originally discovered in the currentn issue (38) of Selvedge Magazine
Title Quote: e.e. cummings
2011.01.29
Trust what moves you most deeply.
::: Inspirations + Constellations :::
Title Quote: Sam Keen
1 :: Art ::: Tadeusz Deregowski
2 :: Helmet ::: Les Atliers Ruby
3 :: Mouthwash ::: Bigelow Apothecary // (Photo taken by me)
4 :: Red Swimming Pool ::: Hotel Unique
5 :: Girl with Striped Swimsuit + ::: (Think I scanned the image from) Cookie Magazine
6 :: Red Shoes ::: Laura Marling * New Romantic
Joy - a beginning. Anguish, ardor. / To relearn the ah! of knowing in unthinking. / joy. the beloved stranger lives.
Title Quote: Guillevic
2011.01.24
2011.01.20
I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Combining two of my loves ... words and art. To be able to carry the poetry as a talisman, how precious. Ever on my wish list is Janine Payers poetic gems.
Title Quote: Vincent Van Gogh
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Link: Vito Drago :: England & Co.
"Vito Drago is an Italian-born artist who studied firstly in Milan and then at Central St Martin's School of Art, London. His work reflects his obsession with the materiality of books."
Title Quote: Lao Tzu
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths.
Jean Shin.
Title Quote: unknown
found installations (found beauty)
via dear ada
2011.01.17
Some rages save us, love, / therefore I raged at you, / And dared you not to move ...
** I WONDER ** By Marian Bantjes. (I wonder ... how long it will take for it to arrive on my doorstep once I place my order in a couple minutes ....?)
Title Quote: Roethke
2011.01.15
There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion...
http://www.rosalindwyatt.com/
Title Quote: Edgar Allen Poe
2011.01.12
She led me to a painting called Spell, an intricate hieroglyphic structure in shades of yellow. I felt called to read it–not to decipher it but to follow where it lead. What I read in it was a powerful wish for transformation...
"...She led me to a painting called Spell, an intricate hieroglyphic structure in shades of yellow. I felt called to read it–not to decipher it but to follow where it lead. What I read in it was a powerful wish for transformation. What I read was that art can be a means to enter the “Great Aloneness” and know what is hidden to others. Such people and such works are clues to me that we can be seekers–and maybe even shamans and fierce warriors of awareness–still." - Tracy Cochran Parabola
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The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
"ROBYN RAINES Mixed media artist Robyn Raines explores ideas surrounding what it means to be a collector. Referencing the long, rich history of textiles and expanding the notion of the book form, Raines creates structures that capture and remember the small, but often momentous details of daily life. Combining the familiarity of found objects with newer pieces made by hand, her work incorporates a wide variety of materials including paper, fiber, glass and steel. Robyn Raines is a graduate of Moore College of Art in Philadelphia where she studied textile design. She recently completed the Core Program at Penland School of Crafts. "
via apparts.sw.edu
Title Quote: Ben Okri
Kariann
There is not a particle of life that does not carry poetry within it. -Gustave flaubert
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