Now

"Don't wait until everything is just right.  It will never be perfect.  There will always be challenges, obstacles and les than perfect conditions.  So What.  Get started now.  With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident, and more and more successful."

- Mark Victor Hansen

5 Things I Know To Be True

I know that I want to always be on the look out for inspiration. 

To have open eyes and an open heart to recognize when it seeks me out.

And to have the motivation to go in search of it when it seems scarce. 

I know that I have a sink full of dishes that, if I don't wash them tomorrow, will probably start making my kitchen smell funny.

I know that I usually talk too much, in too much detail, for too long, about things that the person listening has only a moderate interest in hearing. And that I usually don't realize it until I'm finished.

I know that the walls in my house are too white. But that no matter my intentions, and love of interesting and contrasting colors, the likelihood of me painting them before I move out sometime in the next year are slim to none.

I know that I am loved. And that I want to never again believe the lie that I am not.

The girl who waited

Waiting weighted with wonderings within and without. Wistful, yet wary of wandering.
Willfully wanting a way forward that would whisk away the distraction of longing, whilst remaining resolute in aforementioned affections. Applying wisdom, weeding out and wiping clear the waning warmth with which my appetite had been whetted. Whistling a wily tune of when and why, my weeping washes the windows of my soul. I reside where I am in this world, both wonderful and weary, worse for the welcome but content to contend for now. And so I wait.

Note to self:

When I start to feel lost or directionless, I have to seek out inspiration.
It's the most important thing.

Autumn

Magnolia leaves shining like satin as they tremble in the breeze.

A single dandelion bud standing tall and proud amidst the bark and wilted grass.

The tiniest black spider craftily sneaking up the mountain of faux leather, only to be rudely flung into the wind.

Sticky drippings of sap lazily making its way through the grooves of the roots.

The quivering tones of birds and squirrels speeding through the branches, blending oddly with the whoosh of traffic that sounds more distant than it is.

Feeling both numb and alive, grateful for the pricking painful reminders, and yet longing for rest.

Alpha...

The arrival of bountiful creative desires.
Energetically falling gracefully into hopeful intensity.
A journey kept living by moving nominally onward.
Perceptively questioning reason,
striving toward unity in various ways,
to examine the yearnings for zen.

Links to other cool stuff archive

10/19/11

"Synesthesia, from the ancient Greek, σύν (together), and αἴσθησις (sensation), is a neurologically based condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway."

How to Steal Like An Artist

Ladies and gentlemen, the practically inhuman Gillian Murphy

Would love to hire this guy to play music for us to dance to

Post-Katrina, graffiti said it all

This list is about things that inspire us...this blog is a constant source of both entertainment and inspiration

Considering our obsession with collaborative work, this is one of the coolest ideas/projects we've heard of in a while (full disclosure: the crush we've had on Joseph Gordon-Levitt pretty much since Angels In The Outfield, should in no way count as a bias towards this project)

Proof that dancers can be superheros

Like father, like son...both equally awesome

A world where people are just trying to connect

9/1/11

A day in the life of a Tibetan monk

Ok Go = awesome. Pilobolus = extra awesome. Therefore, by our calculations: Ok Go + Pilobolus = the awesomest thing ever

We could (and do) spend hours reading these

Zoe Keating...we have no words

The most brainy wedding photos ever

"Chinese super beautiful modern dance"...pretty much says it all

Dare you to watch this and not smile

The smallest, and largest stop animation films ever made...and both shot on a phone (be sure to also watch the "makings of"...it is seriously mind-blowing)

"Hey Ladies", an incredibly intriguing survey, put together by NPR, of women musicians from around the world

Can't decide if these make childhood monsters more scary or less...

Ballet is hard

7/2/11

The genius that is Radiolab

Currently kind of obsessed with Rodney Smith's photography & blog

"Life's too short for the wrong job"...we couldn't agree more

Brazil is beautiful

The lovely & brilliant work of Story Vessel Books

Timelapses videos that create eerily beautiful living photographs

"Her morning elegance"...stunning

You can thank us later for this

A vast plethora of design inspiration From Up North

"Jayus", an Indonesian word that means "A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh"...and 19 other awesomely un-translatable words from around the world

When the magic of dance and the magic of film collide, it creates something that neither could on their own

3 words...Indian. Pole. Gymnastics.

Neil Gaiman should rule the world