Wizard Smoke

Hey, lets grab a shit-load of colored chalk and skate around in it! Eeeepic. The song choice makes it all the better.

It’s Okay in The Land of Talk

This is how you stop time...at least for 5 min. I'm in love.

The Surreal Landscapes of Scarlett Hooft Graafland

I'm officially obsessed with Dutch artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland.

Inhabiting the border between straight photography, performance and sculpture, Hooft Graafland’s photographs are records of her highly choreographed live performances in the salt deserts of Bolivia, the Canadian arctic, or mountainsides in China.

Fascinated by the surreal beauty of the harsh natural landscape, she utilizes this as her canvas. Anthropologically curious, her ideas emerge directly from the local mythology that originates in this otherworldly environment.

Using naïve and childlike color palettes her photographs draw on the language of the surreal showing familiar objects out of context (balloons dotted across a lake, top hats flying through the desert, a man resting on an igloo). Her humorous and unsettling juxtaposition of these everyday objects with the sparse, unforgiving landscape echoes the aesthetic of surrealists such as René Magritte. Hooft Graafland utilizes the medium of photography, associated with the representation of truth, to represent the fantastic and the irrational.

Dive into her work and never come back. It’s that beautiful.

Fluff

okay, I know. could I be any more of a girl?! Kitten pics? But c'mon, they really are so friggin cute. Jeh-sus I want one.
Well, either a cat or a snake. Cus snakes are pretty bad-ass. But definitely not both. That sounds like a recipe for a whole lotta sadness, not the desired animal fun I'm going for.

far away places

Been doing a lot of thinkin lately and feeling quite good about it all. Thinking of far away places and fun upcoming mini-trips. Thinking of friends, the past, the future, and how the hell is all comes together again and again. Thinking about how fucking grateful I am and how I really just want to keep this big trip going.
Change is definitely on the horizon, which has gotten me thinking about how much I have learned in the past 2-3 years.
Creative minds really are the juicy pulp of the world's fruit and every now and again I get really cool gifts from people I admire. Faith47 has been talking about this vid for a while and it made my Wednesday upon its release this morning. I'm so happy smart, caring, fun people exist in my life. and yours.