drowning beautiful..

these pictures are so eerie, so quiet, so beautiful...

(via http://www.underwatersculpture.com/pages/gallery/evolucion-silenciosa.html)

maggie and milly and molly and may
By e.e. cummings

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

--

My favorite line in this poem is "as small as a world and as large as alone"... the magnitude of

 loneliness can feel so much larger than the world we live in... 

on a lighter, more theatrical note..

just a handful of favorites from my Mike Reid shoot :)  

 

  

Mike Reid is the one responsible for these fantastic photos. I have never felt more confident or had more 

fun with a camera capturing every angle. 

seeing something so beautiful even more beautifully..

(via http://www.artcyclopedia.com/hot/tilt-shift-van-gogh.htm)

How did the idea come about to tilt-shift Van Gogh's paintings?
The actual concept came from John Malyon (my father), the founder of Artcyclopedia. He was playing with software that could simulate the tilt-shift effect and had the idea to try it on a painting. Together we tried it with some paintings and it we realized that the tilt-shifting looked especially cool on Van Gogh's work, so we gathered up a bunch of images of his paintings and I got to work.

Were you surprised by the reaction it received?
I was very surprised by the reaction it received. We just thought that people who knew Van Gogh's work would find it interesting and somewhat amusing to see it transformed in this way.

Why did you choose Van Gogh's paintings to tilt-shift?
I had already tested out a few paintings and Van Gogh's really stood out. I think they work really well because his painting technique already has a lot of depth to it, the way he uses line describes form beautifully.

His work was also really interesting because his paintings include a number of interesting details that we could focus in on and make that the centerpiece of the painting.

Do you have plans to tilt-shift other paintings?
Yed, we've experimented with lots of different artists from different periods, we just haven't published them yet.

One of my all-time-ultimate-super-plus-ultra favorite art pieces ever.

if walls could speak..

(Room 107, by photographer Lyndon Wade)

I love this project, not only because it's funny but because it brings light to the fact that the moments we find ourselves in are only fleeting, yet the walls of our lives still remain.