John McCracken

"I find and I know that painting from nature is meaningless for me. I'd rather create paintings from memories, as visions of a landscape - I now mostly observe the bodily movement of mountains, water, trees and flowers. They are all reminiscent of similar movements in the human body of similar stirrings of joy and pain in the plants. Painting alone is not enough for me, I know that one can create qualities with colors - in the summer you feel an automnal tree deep inside, with your essence and your heart, it is this wistfulness that I want to paint." 

-- Egon Schiele in a letter to Franz Hauer, August 1913

friday cartoon

richard long

marks made by walking

Saturday Cartoon

(The Valen Hoihjelle crew getting back to nature via Miss MariValen)

Fell Runner

“Time is an illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

All images by me.

(Source: julietjardin)

if you leave

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

Found here

Robert Kinmont

From the series 8 Natural Handstands by the artist Robert Kinmont.

Pronking!

Did you see Africa on BBC1 this week? The Springboks 'Pronking' was my favorite bit! Watch the clip here.

"We still don't know exactly why they do this. The simplest answer is that they are dancing for joy."

 --David Attenborough 
(I want to be David Attenborough when i grow up...)

image by willievs

Rick Rubin: Music and Meditation

Rick Rubin: Music and Spirituality on Nowness.com.

Recording artist whisperer and all-around wizened sage Rick Rubin contemplates life and art on the stunning cliffs outside his Malibu residence in this short film by Alison Chernick. The mogul ruminates on living in harmony with nature, the importance of recreating its perfection in art, and the transcendental power of sound before leading us into a guided meditation, a practice he has followed since becoming fascinated with yogis as a teenager.