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“When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

+ We Are The Junction

The body is the herb,
the mind is the honey.
The heart, the heart is
the undifferentiated.
The mind touches the body
and is the sun.
The mind touches the heart
and is music.
When body touches heart
they together are the moon
in the silently falling snow
over there.  Which is truth
exceeding, is the residence,
the sanctified, is the secret
closet and passes into glory.

—Jack Gilbert, from The Dance Most of All

+ + Carlo Van Se Roer and the Portrait Machine Project

http://www.theportraitmachine.comom

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Tennyson

+ Yang Yongliang - Sleepless Wonderland

http://www.yangyongliang.com/

excerpt from Inside the Design Mind IV....

By Andrew Caruso

 Monday, February 11, 2013 8:00 am

AC: You intricately weave worlds of reality and constructed absurdity (fantasy). Visual clues and representational objects suggest the uneasy way these two worlds collide in your work, with viewers searching them as if reading a map. Why have you chosen to engage the viewer in this way?

YY: Because I am very complicated. My character can be divided in two parts, like Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [sic]. This piece of music has both a passionate and a peaceful side. I think I’m very similar. I like fantasy and passionate things as well as very peaceful and logical things. You can see that all of my works also have two sides: peace and danger, tradition and modernity, all combined.

I think my works are trying to express a great deal of information to the audience, but I don’t want everyone to understand my work in the same way I understand it. I want the viewer to interpret it in his or her own way. I think good artists should be inspiring and sensitive, rather than imposing their own concepts on an audience.

+ Ecospheres

Closed ecological systems are ecosystems that do not rely on matter exchange with any part outside the system. Although the Earth itself fits this definition, the term is most often used to describe much smaller manmade ecosystems. Such systems are scientifically interesting and can potentially serve as a life support system during space flights, in space stations or space habitats. In a closed ecological system, any waste products produced by one species must be used by at least one other species.
http://www.eco-sphere.com

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“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.” -Rachel Carson

+ saturns return

This Cassini Spacecraft image shows Saturn's north polar hexagon in the Sun's light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn's signature rings, which appear to disappear on account of Saturn's shadow, put in an appearance in the background. Picture: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/AFP

+ penabranca +

"Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence."  -Alan Watts

http://penabranca.tumblr.com/

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"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder" E. B. White

+ inspired

its so easy to spend hours online looking through cooking blogs, fashion, style, art, and that for me is tenfold times more rewarding than anything on television.  i am grateful for the positive creativity that is communicated online and know that while my realtime community is the real deal and most important, i get so many ideas and inspiration from creative creatures around the world that put their dreams and designs out there.  as a young girl who loves thrifting, costumes, burning man, and DIY fashion i decided to start cataloging outfits and clothing pieces that ive put together, altered, created ad a way to contribute, and be a part of that online community that i usually just look at rather than participate.  here are a couple photos for now.

+ thomas jorion

takes photographs of abandon spaces.  it is so fascinating and beautifully haunting to explore his site and the lost rooms and buildings that whisper stories of forgotten moments.

http://www.thomasjorion.com

+ A Hero Emerges on The Eve of The Apocalypse

 by Ron Zakrin

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+ quote of the day

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory" Dr. Seuss

+ Keith Haring

- Untitled, 1982, sumi ink on paper

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Street Art by NemOs in Milano, Italy