Lykki Li - Melodies & Desires

New album coming in MAY! 

Cutie and the Boxer

I watched this documentary today & enjoyed it to the last drop. Yes!

Alison Krauss & Union Station - The Boy Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman

 

I love looking at pictures of this couple. 

Janelle Monáe - PrimeTime ft. Miguel

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm in a dress and wearing lipstick...  all ready for RoboCop IMAX! xo 

Jack the Fox

The Act of Killing

This documentary... I am speechless after watching it. Incredibly disturbing and eye-opening. You have to see it.  

Watch parts 1-3 of The Daily Show interview with director Joshua Oppenheimer here. 

E. E. Cummings

xvii.

Lady, i will touch you with my mind.
Touch you and touch and touch
until you give
me suddenly a smile, shyly obscene

(lady i will
touch you with my mind.) Touch
you, that is all,

lightly and you utterly will become
with infinite ease

the poem which i do not write.

-E.E. Cummings 

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Claire Morgan

Go away streetlight glow, I'm trying to catch the sunset. 

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THIS artist! It's not often I feel wholeheartedly inspired by an artist, like feel it from my head to toes kind of inspired. But THIS artist! Claire's work does this to me.  

London-based. Installation artist. Maker of "Blood Drawings".

"My work is about our relationship with the rest of nature, explored through notions of change, the passing of time, and the transience of everything around us. For me, creating seemingly solid structures or forms from thousands of individually suspended elements has a direct relation with my experience of these forces. There is a sense of fragility and a lack of solidity that carries through all the sculptures. I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy... 

Animals, birds and insects have been present in my recent sculptures, and I use suspense to create something akin to freeze frames. In some works, animals might appear to rest, fly or fall through other seemingly solid suspended forms. In other works, insects appear to fly in static formations. The evidence of gravity - or lack of it - inherent in these scenarios is what brings them to life, or death."

Fluid /  Strawberries, taxidermied crow, fishing hooks, nylon

Fantastic Mr. Fox / Torn black polythene, a taxidermied fox, rotted rabbit meat, fishing hooks, nylon, lead, acrylic

A Part at the Seam / Taxidermy Jackdaw, thistle seeds, torn black polythene, lead, nylon, acrylic

A Part at the Seam 

The Colossus / Torn polythene, a taxidermy mute swan, nylon, lead, acrylic

Gone To Seed / Thistle seeds, a taxidermy carrion crow, nylon, lead, acrylic

Untitled / 2 weeks after installation, Approx. 2000 strawberries, nylon thread

Love Will Tear Us Apart / Residues of the taxidermy process, pencil, watercolour on paper

Over & Out / Residues of the taxidermy process, pencil, watercolour on paper

Downtime / Residues of the taxidermy process, pencil, watercolour on paper

*** All images come from www.claire-morgan.co.uk/ and Claire's facebook page.

St. Lucia - When the Night

Can't sleep! Can't wait for the fun ahead this weekend! Can't decide on my next nail color! Here we go, wheee! 

Today, Thursday

Feet up, the day's responsibilities are complete and so I treat myself to a little drink I like to call the I Love My Sister. It's one part seltzer water, two parts Christmas schnapps-- a vodka schnapps infused with spices and fruits that my sister and I made in December. 

A few share-worthy posts from around the web:

• A blog post on traveling light from the blog Queues in Haskell

• Motorbike Girl Gangs in Morocco

• My roommate just introduced me to the app "Flappy Bird" on his phone. I can't resist telling you about it. 

"Flappy Bird is a condition of the universe. A condition in the sense of a circumstance, but also in the sense of a blight, a sickness, a stain we cannot scrub out but may in time be willing to accept. A stain like our own miserable, tiny existences as players, which we nevertheless believe are more fundamental than the existence of bird flapping games or machine screws or the cold fog rising against the melting snow in the morning" - CNN

Hehe! 

Broad City

down with everything else... 

UP with BROAD CITY

Not only do they have their own Youtube page found here, but they also have their own show on Comedy Central now. Watch the first episode here.

The Knife - Like a Pen

If you make workout playlists, add this song to your next one. 

It's snowing again. Highlights of today: driving the girls and their friend home from school and listening to their conversation titled How I Like to Flirt. Reading this article. Hugging a buddy goodbye before her departure for a 4-month trip to Taipei. Feeling the day-after soreness from a solid workout (hopped on the  bike in preparation for RAGBRAI!). Remembering to laugh and keeping my calm while instructing multiple classes of 45 kindergarteners-3rd graders (we were down two coaches at the school today).