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“Want to enjoy a night full of jazz at Mary Lou.”  -Pengpeng

#16

Me at the moment. #sotired

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Though I’d be careful quoting Oscar Wilde… wouldn’t it be wonderful if this wasn’t necessarily the case?  

selfinspiration:

untitled (by savvysmilinginlove)

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cowbirdy:

The story behind the image

We find the best stories are usually not those that talk about the photograph (how it was taken, what kind of camera was used, color, composition, etc.), but those that talk about the life the photo represents.

Think of the image and text working together as equal partners.  Not so much a caption supporting a photograph, but a story standing on its own, enhanced by the presence of an image.

You can ask yourself the following questions:

What do you know about this image that other people don’t? Did you have a conversation with the character in your photograph, or overhear a bit of dialogue? What did the room smell like? What did the place feel like? Consult all your five senses.

What’s the story behind an object?  One woman talks about a pair of gifted scrubs, another describes a postcard from 1915.

What’s the story behind a landscape? Where is it, and what does that place mean to you?  One storyteller recalls a trip to Alaska that became a turning point in his life. Another finds her inner voice through a stark photograph of South Dakota.

What do you want the viewer to see? Through language, you can guide people’s eyes to details in the photograph, like the most-viewed story on Cowbird, which begins with direct instructions to the viewer: “Look at her face.”

It doesn’t take a lot of text to make an image come to life. One woman describes her experience with motherhood in a few lines about a rubber band. Another quickly turns a portrait of two dogs into a portrait of their owners.

There are many ways to do it, but when text and image play together, Cowbird stories really sing.

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Left brain: the scientist.  Right brain: the artist.   But really, you can be both.  Art can be methodical.  Science can be beautiful.  

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ilynn359art:

“I just can’t get the poetry of the trees,” he said.

“don’t worry,” she said.  ”You will someday”

How could he explain [that] he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page?    - Bridge to Terabithia 

I feel like this quite often: when my fingers try and clumsily capture the beauty before me. 

But other times, I find that some fossils can be quite beautiful.  

The Pride of Busyness

Oh.  This is a good thing to find my first day back on campus:)  A balanced last semester: go! 

timtimedin:

Guilty here. Thanks for the share Daisy.

autumnpetals:

“There is hope for the overcommitted, though; we don’t have to live this way. We can balance good hard work with rest and play; in fact we were created to live in that balance. And the sooner we realize that, the sooner we can all stop playing the game of bragging that we are so very busy.

So the next time you catch up with a friend, refrain from contributing to the cycle. Refuse to brag about busyness as if it were a virtue, refuse to act like making time to rest is a mark of shame. If the very God who designed us thought that balancing work with rest was worthwhile, perhaps we should give it a try.”

ilynn359art:

Home gazing upon familiar unfamiliarity 2012

Found this while tinkering with my art tumblr tags. I’d forgotten I’d written it - finding myself going: now what website did I copy this blurb from? 

ilynn359art:

Jason de Caires Taylor’s work is rather breathtaking.  When viewing his work, I see the harmonization of controlled technique and slow abandonment.  You can never be sure what exactly will grow onto the cement sculptures… or who/what will swim by.  But you[I] can be sure that these pieces will come alive - literally and metaphorically - over time. 

But the sentiment hasn’t changed.  I suppose my mind had forgotten about this artist and his work - but my heart   soul  I hadn’t.   

I’ll have to trust, for now, that I can enjoy something just at that moment.  That pleasure and inspiration isn’t wasted if I don’t immediately record it in a journal or snap a portrait of it.  It’ll return.

ilynn359art:

POP. enclave. BURST. threaded. gated. awaiting. 

words are failing me today.  

I think this is why I like this particular image so much.  When I get to a point where I’m simply unable to form coherent word associations to describe the shot… that’s when I know I’ve got the one.