DARE TO UNRAVEL: inspiration

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this'll do

I'm not going to tell you what I've been up to, I'll just let you draw your own conclusions based on these images--all of which I love and kinda sum up life these days. I know the writing has been moderate lately but I'm so enamored with all things off-line that my beloved blog has been shuffled down my list of priorities. Regular scheduled blogging and all other digital self-indulgent practices will resume soon enough. Thank you for checking in consistently regardless of the lack of updates. Love y'all.

images via http://thethinkingtank.tumblr.com/ http://dumdumgrrrl.tumblr.com/ and comme de garcon installation

throw back

Slightly obsessed with the photographer Lina Scheynius these days.

don't stop.don't change.stay beautiful.

You create your own reality. You chose how you feel about the outside world, other people.. you’re even free to chose how you feel about yourself--although, we often forget that.

You don’t have to be down today, you don’t have to be regretful of the past, you don't have to be the version of yourself that others like and you can't stand. Don't stop. Don't change. Stay beautiful. Sometimes, happiness is much simpler than we make it out to be.

images from inspiration folder

start this shit up

My friend just sent me this video and I couldn't help but repost it. Holy smokes! This was the best digital kick in the ass to start my day.

the process

Think about it. Scratch it on paper, a napkin, the back of your hand. Let it keep you up all night. Grab the materials without thinking. Lay it out. Lap it up. Cut it. Destroy it. Mend it. Reunite everything. Peel away the layers slowly. Rip into the meaning quickly. Tag it. Scrutinize it. Hang it on your wall. Try to ignore it. Wake up in the middle of the night and look at it in the dark. Take a picture of it. Take 20 more pictures of it. Edit. Re-edit. Keep it simple. Kiss it goodbye.
That's my process in a nutshell.

|image Judit Reigl, Outburst, 1956. Metropolitan Museum of Art|

pink

dream space

adrian ghenie

so inspired by this painter

...mmhmm...

love is in the air

image via nonenus quarterly

“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”

— Paul Auster, Moon Palace

blah

I want jaw dropping, eye popping, head turning, body shocking--but that's not what I have today. Feeling opposite of that in fact--uninspired and BORED. I need new something: music, a piece of literature, a new route....something! Wish me luck while I try to bust the eff out of this funk.

this is what I'm talking about

“Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy.

Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool.”

Tom Robbins

most nights I go to bed

tony sleeping by elizabeth peyton| random tumblrs| cecily brown|still from les enfants terribles

Guys! It's ten o'clock sunday morning and I haven't slept yet. Seriously. I wish I had some Janice Joplin-inspired story to blame my lack of slumber on but unfortunately that's not the case. I have been glued to my computer for the last 15 hours working. Blah blah blah. I know everyone works. Everyone is busy. Lack of sleep due to one's job is nothing new. But I just hit send! send! fuuck yeah SEND! and emailed this ridiculously lengthy project that I've been working on for the last few days for my writing job. Now I should be high-tailing it home to my snow white bed, but I figured my blog hasn't seen some love from me for a few days and I'm here and my fingers are in strapping condition after all this typing...and...yeah...that's all I've got. Anyways, stop reading my feeble attempts at writing. Look at these sleepy pictures instead and listen to this dreamy song by Band of Horses. Nighty night!