A minuscule orchid has blossomed with very little attention.
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“And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We’ve managed to muddle through the awkward stage of I like you and you like me, but when we both finally said ‘yes’ life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. And, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. Lady, I don’t have to study you to be sure. You’re the choice I made before I knew what the other choices were.”
— Shane Koyczan
(Source: infelicific)
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Vintage streetlight, Market Street. San Francisco, CA
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at Japanese Tea Garden
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Vintage bicycle Sunday across the golden gate.
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Angel in my heart.
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An unabashed fan of artist/illustrator/writer Maira Kalman (I have a copy of “My Mother’s Beautiful Map” hanging in my cubicle here at work), I offer you this pre-assignment Kalman has given illustration students in a class she is teaching this summer.
… take a half hour walk every day for ten days. Without cell phones, just walk and observe what’s around you for half an hour. And I am sure—I’m very sure—that asking them to spend half an hour without a cell phone is like asking them to take their clothes off. No cell phones, no cup of coffee—just take a solitary walk. If you want to be pretentious about it, Immanuel Kant is famous for taking his walk everyday at 3:30 P.M., so I suggested that time to them. It’s a good time of day; it’s a little bit tired, a little bit sleepy time of day.
It’s good advice.
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A month ago, when I featured this photograph by Mitch Dobrowner, I didn’t make the connection that I’d already come across Dobrowner’s work at the Look3 Festival in my hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. It was this past summer at a nighttime slide show featuring the work of a couple dozen or so photographers in an outdoor pavilion. Dobrowner’s work was among the first up. I was with my sister and we were both wowed. His photographs featured at Look3 were from a series he did on storms, and they immediately popped to mind as I was listening just now to tomorrow’s interview with New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis. It’s all about climate change and extreme weather. Behold, the power of the skies.
Who has real power? Mother nature!
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue. -Artist Andy Goldsworthy
(Source: brentslightpollution)
