My boyfriend tipped me off to this awesome duo. Super dreamy music and this video is truly a heaven-sent, enchanting present to your eyes and ears…do yourself a favor and give them a listen.
Wish I coulda seen them at Coachella this year!
How stunning would a giant version of these look on a wall? Aerial photography always gets me, and these beauties from Steve Back are fantastic whether they are bright or subdued. In fact, I can’t decide if I like the punch of color in the pink lagoons (top) or the neutral tones of the salt flats better. Hmm… maybe I just need them all.
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There’s no hiding the fact that I have a thing for astrology and all things cosmic. This has been a crazy month of events in that arena already: Mercury retrograde, a new moon on the 11th…the impending MONSTER MOON — which admittedly has me a bit nervous. I know, I know…that makes me sound like a nutcase. But I feel like I’m really tuned into the universe (digging a deeper hole here).
I love this photo. When I look up at the night sky, it really captures the essence of what life means to me: endless possibility, wonderment, mortality, fate AND free will (yes, these two things exist harmoniously for me, despite the antinomy). It also reminds me of my dad, who used to point out the constellations to me and taught me a good balance between science and spirituality.
Space is a beautiful, fascinating thing.
Weekends are wonderful too. I’m looking forward to mine…cheers!
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Last week, after I posted some of my abstract photos, I thought it fitting to share this series by Taisuke Koyama that I love so much. It’s amazing how fragments of surfaces and their textures can make for such intriguing and artistic subjects. I’d highly recommend buying his book, which showcases the whole series. Truly stunning.
Here is what Taisuke says about his work:
“Life and matter, the city and the nature, micro and macro, moment and trace, I sense equal things which is in a process of a change and the circulation. And I shoot superficial phenomenon.”
I’m hoping to take and share more photos soon :)
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This has been one of those weeks where I’d like to do a mind-wipe. Forget who I am and start over with a new identity. Maybe I’d be a gal named Adelheid milking cows in the Swiss countryside which I’d later make cheese from (the milk, not the cows — and, second time I’ve mentioned cheese this week; clearly an essential part of my diet). Maybe I’d be a garbage lady.
I am just feeling like I need a change of scenery. Boredom has started to creep into every part of my life, yet I am so fixed in my routines… I have this stupid notion that I’m stuck in this career path and sometimes I wonder if I chose wrong, though I feel too far in (which is dumb). Don’t get it twisted, I love being a graphic designer, but it does bum me out how much of my life is spent sitting and staring into a backlit screen. I wish I could be more active. Maybe I should just get one of those treadmill desk things.
Bear with me here, stream of consciousness in full effect. My mind has been overactive lately. I think I’m starting to feel old, which I KNOW is crazy (only 26). I have tendencies to think too far into the future and overanalyze what I’m doing with my life. Will I have time to accomplish all my dreams? I still would love to make furniture, learn metalsmithing and a different language or two…travel for extended periods. I want to see the world, create in all kinds of mediums, appreciate nature constantly…hopefully have a garden someday, make more of my own foods. I realize there is plenty of life left (hopefully)…but with only two weeks of paid vacation a year (which doubles as sick leave) I wonder how I will ever have time to see out all my goals. And then that leads into me being frustrated with this situation we’ve created for ourselves as human beings (er, Americans)…this whole workaholic mentality. I get sad thinking about it. Do you? Or am I just an idealistic freak?
Well, there was another scattered rambling, courtesy of many sleepless nights this week. Happy weekend! Any plans?
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Take me away to the tropics and slice me up a cantaloupe. These images make me wish I could jet off to a resort immediately…
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Ahh, Mercury retrograde. I can always feel it immediately. Things just don’t seem to move forward easily at all, starting new projects is a complete nightmare, things break (especially electronics). In fact, as I started to write this post, I discovered that our refrigerator stopped working…bye, bye brand new block of Beecher’s cheese that I just bought. Go figure!
Anyway, I have decided I’m going to spend this month working on developing those tips and tutorials I talked about sharing, so I can take some time to refine the content and present them in the best way possible. March is looking like it’s going to be a wild ride…so taking one thing at a time seems like a smart move.
This is a photo I took of a glass; it came out looking really abstract and cool to begin with, and I went to town editing until it ended up looking like what you see above. I have been really into arty photography lately, especially still life and more conceptual pieces like this. I find it very soothing (and fun!) to take a seemingly ordinary photo through a series of manipulations…always yields interesting results.
Would love to have that top one in my home. Matthew creates such great textures in his work!
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My plan is to start sketching in Photoshop more often. Every time a project at work pops up in my queue where I get to do renderings (which admittedly is WAY less often than I’d like, but hey, small victories) my 10-year-old self high fives me and we laugh at the naysayers who scoffed, “you can’t draw for a living!” when I would inform them of my career aspirations. I figure I ought to just do more at home for fun.
Check out this awesomely done PS sketch by Francisco Jose Albert Albusac. Very spiffy.
Typically, I live in Illustrator…but I’ve gotten super cozy with PS since starting my current job. If you can dream it, you can do it with Photoshop. That’s the cool thing about design…there are endless paths to take to achieve one result. And I do like options.
While we’re talking about Adobe stuff, I’ve been thinking about bringing a few little tips and tricks I’ve picked up throughout the years to the blog. Could be fun, eh? Sharing is caring. :)
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Sometimes I think trying to explain a thought or feeling makes it less profound. Interpretation will take you where it may…
That’s the fun in self-discovery after all.
Hope your week is off to a great start!
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