Holiday

I'm off to Norway, camera in hand, posting will resume in a week (or so...)

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Holiday

and THIS is how I feel about it.
EXCITED!
I'm off to Norway to visit some beautiful friends of mine, camera in hand and fun on the brain.
Posting will resume in a week (or so...)

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Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Saturday Poem

Found here

The Trews

Watch these!
They are quiet brilliant.

Found here

Are you scared? Or are you not ready? There is a difference. 

(Source: uniquequietness)

Scratch's Revelation

Lee Perry Shares Some of His Personal Philosophies via nowness

(I LOVE the bit about his hat)

Lee “Scratch” Perry is one of the most innovative and influential producers of the past half century. After working as a salesperson and engineer for a series of soundsystems in Jamaica, he set up his first record label, The Upsetters, in 1972 and subsequently built the legendary Black Ark studios in the back garden of his home in Kingston, Jamaica. Here, using a series of bizarre techniques (burying microphones underneath palm trees, sampling crying babies and endlessly overdubbing tracks on rudimentary equipment) he produced some truly out-of-this-world recordings for artists including Bob Marley and the Wailers, The Heptones and Max Romeo, inventing the Reggae sub-genre of dub in the process. Perry has been known as something of an eccentric all his life (he burned down Black Ark in 1978 to banish evil spirits) and, now in his 70s, he has lost none of his strange, visionary conviction, religious fervor (he’s a devout, though somewhat agnostic Rastafari) or musical adventurousness. We caught up with him (interrupting a beard-trimming session) to find out more about his latest album, Revelation, from which we present new track “Psalm” today.


In the bible, Revelation is a vision of the apocalypse, which the Mayans predicted as coming in 2012. Do you believe in end of the world, the end of the universe?
The end of the third world, not the end of the universe, that’s right. After the end of the third world, the first world comes again. Then we will have not a second world and a third world, we will have one world. The Angels' world.

Is there a revelation you’d like to share with us?
The revelation I would like to share with people who love God and love justice is maybe that the third world is finished. The heads of government are finished, the council of churches is finished. There is no church but you. You, me, we are the churches. The kingdom of god is living in I and living in you.

Can we talk about your garden?
In Jamaica, the garden is where you communicate with God. God didn't make the church to communicate, he made you in the garden to communicate, through the trees, through the plants, through the flowers, through the roses, through the earthworms: earthworms are very important as well.

What do you think  of the internet? Do you download music?
I often download music. People need special music from me. People have tracks that they stream off my own Myspace. But when I get requests for songs from somebody, I can make it possible.

What was the last record you bought?
I’m trying to remember. Something like Lady Gaga. I was listening to why people like her and I wanted to find out.

Did you like it?
The thing is that she does original…

Outfits?
Yeah, they’re pretty wonderful. Disco music is really important and I like the disco music that she does. I love reggae, but I love disco music and soul music and I like pop music. I want to start to make songs after Revelation is finished, I want to make disco music and pop music and soul music.

You’ve got a pretty amazing sense of style. When did you make your hat?
I have the same hat and every year I add something to it. It’s become my signature cap. My brain says it wants to see what goes on outside. So my brain demands that I make a mirror cap so I see what goes on outside.

What’s your attraction to mirrors and crystals?
The crystal is a thing that forms the colors violet, green, gold and red. That’s a rainbow, and the rainbow power is a mystic power. I believe in the mystical power of the rain. The rain and still water will give you that vision of maybe five or six different colors. You put some water on a mirror in a drinking glass, and put it on your table when the sun is coming up, and you can see the crystal rainbow coming out of the glass.

Is this why you dye your beard too? Why purple?
The purple is a color that brings heat, a special fiery power. It’s my favorite color, because I think I have a purple heart.

Sarah Moon

Sarah Moon prints currently showing at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London.
The colours are incredible.
Go see!

But it wasn’t some catastrophic moment that taught me one of the most powerful lessons of my life. I learned that unbelievably awful things can and do happen. In truth, they are not such rare, isolated events. Each of us has a story that would break someone’s heart. Despite the grief and the unfairness of it all, we keep going. There are chores to be done. There are people who still need our care. There is a life to be led. 

-- Aldra Robinson

The Wave Pictures: Like Smoke on Nowness.com

Sarah Moon

I've been pinning... iartrachel

Taurus

This week, you might feel like a tangle and you might feel like a mess and this is okay, this is good. It’s a week for trying to embrace your tangled core, for working to embrace your bright messy brain. This is where your best thoughts can come from; this is where your best work can come from, this is what can light you up. Tell stories that don’t have an end and stories that don’t have a plot; sing songs that don’t make sense; draw pictures with so many colors you could almost get a headache.

-- Madame Clairevoyant 

"spring is the time of plans and projects"

-- Tolstoy

Recommended Read: You are not so smart

Currently reading this by David McRaney and it's very smart. I recommend you read it too!

Where are you?

Where are you? You are in your chest. Researchers “asked ten blindfolded adults to use a metal pointer to motion at ‘themselves.’ Most people indicated their upper torso area … ‘the torso is, so to speak, the great continent of the body, relative to which all other body parts are mere peninsulas. Where the torso goes, the body follows.’

... I wonder whether the ego doesn’t just go wherever you are focusing your attention. When I concentrate on my pinky finger, for instance, it seems to contain more ineffable selfhood than the kneecap I am ignoring. Also, do certain qualities of character lead us to affiliate more strongly with different body parts? Would a jock situate his soul in his bicep? Would a smart, geeky teenager identify as a brain? And, also, what exactly do we mean by “self”? I would certainly place my intellect inside my head; when I’m nervous, I can feel it in my stomach; as a white woman, I often benefit from the color of my skin. I am tempted to table this topic of inquiry as far too nebulous to ever invite the application of the scientific method—but, then again, what do “I” know? I’m just a pair of boobs."

--  Katy Waldman

 (Image from The Paris Review. Descartes thought the seat of the soul was in the pineal gland. He was so wrong.)

if you leave

Photos from if you leave by cora álvarez, ksenia burnasheva, hadar ariel magar, valerio boncompagni, carter murdoch, eugenia gor

-- Robert Hunter (by Lee Crutchley)

Sunday Tune

Youth Lagoon - Montana from Tyler T. Williams on Vimeo.

Sunday Tune

Love the church.
This song is like a prayer.

Saturday Poem

Rupi Kaur

Found here

 

La Nageuse by Sabrina Arnault and work by henri matisse

Happy Weekend!

Go and listen to fuzzy radio stations and dance like you are KING!

(gif found here)

Anish Kapoor

Space as object (Acrylic)

Have a great weekend!!

from abfabgifs

Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #72: The Future Has An Ancient Heart

Mughal dancers

"the beautiful vulture"

"you look at yourself
and see pieces.
are you not whole?
do you not grow tired of
picking yourself apart."

— Della Hicks Wilson

Learn to love yourself.

Andre Brasilier found via vendredi

If you leave

images from if you leave by by nina ahn, zweifellos mondbetont, tina sosna, nicolas scarpinato, laurence tarquin von thomas, ekaterina pronina, chayamai