Paint it Blue
This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
For his series titled “Drift”, photographer David Burdeny traveled along roads in Canada, France, Japan, England, Belgium, and the USA, and captured the shifting light and color of the diverse landscapes by shooting at slow shutter speeds.
to be a good and meaningful person,
to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was,
happy.
And during the course of each day
his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach.
By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right,
or nothing was right for him,
and by the desire to be alone.
By evening he was fulfilled:
alone in the magnitude of his grief,
alone in his aimless guilt,
alone even in his loneliness.
I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over,
I am not sad.
As if he might one day convince himself.
Or fool himself.
Or convince others—
the only thing worse than being sad
is for others to know that you are sad.
I am not sad. I am not sad.
Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room.
He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed,
like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all.
And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage,
having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping.
And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire
to be somewhere else, someone else,
someone else somewhere else.
I am not sad.
Louis vs. Rick : Episode 7 : Sweater and Forget Her
- --------: 12:21 PM
- RickDickens77: Lou, are you there?
- RickDickens77: Ok I know you're there, but when are you planning on telling me what's wrong?
- RickDickens77: It's been more than a week since you even looked at me.
- --------: 12:43 PM
- RickDickens77: I think I know what this is about. Emily is a good friend of mine, ok?
- RickDickens77: I know you might be feeling a little bit intruded upon. I get that.
- RickDickens77: But I need you to be mature about this.
- --------: 2:07 PM
- LouisTheCat: im not angry
- RickDickens77: Then what's with the silent treatment?
- LouisTheCat: i mean im not angry anymore
- RickDickens77: So tell me why you've been angry, at least. Is it Emily?
- LouisTheCat: she was in my spot
- RickDickens77: So it's about her spending the night.
- LouisTheCat: thats my spot
- LouisTheCat: i dont know why you would just let some tramp lay in my spot
- RickDickens77: She's not a tramp, she's very special.
- LouisTheCat: special tramp
- LouisTheCat: so you mean whore
- --------: 2:46 PM
- RickDickens77: Ok, well anyway...
- RickDickens77: I'm glad you're not angry anymore.
- RickDickens77: I just want things to be back the way they were, ok?
- LouisTheCat: so do i
- RickDickens77: Emily is going to be part of my life and you need to learn to deal with that.
- LouisTheCat: oh i dealt with it
- RickDickens77: So are you two getting along?
- LouisTheCat: shes gone
- RickDickens77: Gone? But she was sick, I thought she'd probably be there all day.
- LouisTheCat: she probably went to the cleaners
- RickDickens77: ...and why would she do that?
- LouisTheCat: probably to get the cat pee out of her sweater
- RickDickens77: LOU! Why'd you pee on her sweater?
- LouisTheCat: it was in my spot
- RickDickens77: Lou, you can't be reacting like that to something so stupid. So let me get this straight, you peed on her sweater while it was on your spot? So you basically peed on your spot...
- LouisTheCat: not really
- LouisTheCat: she got up
- LouisTheCat: fast
- RickDickens77: Tell me you didn't pee on Emily
- RickDickens77: Louis.
- RickDickens77: LOU
- --------: 3:15 PM
- RickDickens77: I just spoke with Emily.
- LouisTheCat: oh really
- LouisTheCat: hows she doing
- LouisTheCat: tell her i said hello
- RickDickens77: She's really, really angry Lou. I don't think she's going to come back to the house unless I can promise her you've settled down.
- LouisTheCat: wow
- LouisTheCat: just wow
- LouisTheCat: thats childish wouldnt you say
- RickDickens77: I'm very upset. You can't interfere with my personal life like this.
- LouisTheCat: all i want is my spot back man
- --------: 3:37 PM
- LouisTheCat: she didnt say anything about her purse did she
- --------: RickDickens77 has gone offline
Salvador Dali and Walt Disney: Destino
We watched this in Underground Music Society today, it left me speechless. I cant believe that I had never heard of this short film before.
I thought this installation piece was amazing. At first glance I wasn’t sure what it was made of but when I read the description I realized that it was carved out of glass to loo like scenes from nature, such as a coral reef.
Shany Leib produces glass components for her work (the process of their formation can be viewed on her website). Then she makes them beautiful, looked like a coral reef cut from the work. I did not think that such a beautiful, undulating installations could be done from glass, the colour within them is stunning.
