(Source: observando)
And I found that I can do it, if I choose to—I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together, different from before but whole once again.
—Oriah Mountain Dreamer, The Invitation
Just a little something to make your day a little brighter. We hope it makes you smile and laugh like it did us. Enjoy.
Photographer Christophe Jacrot believes that there are only two ways to adequately photograph the world: capturing its pain or turning the beauty in the midst of it. In his work he aims to find the beauty in the storms, allowing his images of the rain in Hong Kong to evict an emotional, and almost romantic, response from his viewers.
This video shows the traditional Thai sky lanterns being released at the Yi Peng Festival. Historically, the lanterns symbolize a release of your past problems and worries, allowing you to start anew.
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
— Bliss Carman
Tom & James Draw is a unique collaboration between two brothers: James and Tom Hancock. The collaborative project is special in that Tom was born with Down Syndrome, adding a distinctive creative voice to James’ own, more artistic style.
Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you’ve been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
—H.G. Wells
In my work, I use a sewing machine to create thread drawings and installations by sewing into a fabric that dissolves in water. This fabric makes it possible for me to build up the thread by sewing repeatedly into my drawn images so that when the fabric is dissolved, the image can hold together without a base. These thread images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the works actual raveled strength.
I am interested in the vulnerability of thread, its ability to unravel, and its strength when it is sewn together. I am interested in the connections between process and materials and the way that they relate to images and spaces. Tracing actions and environments through a process of repetition, translation and dissolving, I hope to trace absence. My work is a process of making as a way of tracing and preserving things that are gone, or slowly falling apart.
Statement by the artist, Amanda McCavour.
“Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter — to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.”
― Albert Schweitzer
Oscar Loreto is from LA and was born without his left foot, left hand, and several of his fingers on his right hand. He hasn’t let that get in the way of him pursuing skateboarding dreams, though. Instead he has partnered with Adaptive Action Sports to help raise awareness and expectations for those living with physical disabilities in the action sports community.
(Source: adacs.org)
