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VISIONS OF VISIONARIES WITH ERYKAH BADU from MADE on Vimeo.

"Creativity is freedom...it's the absence of fear."

Tai Chi

Gráinne Quinlan’s series White Crane Spread Wings capturing the elderly community of Hong Kong practising Tai Chi throughout the city.

(found via it's nice that)

Repetition

“Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.”

—Kiki Smith, quoted in the Daily Princetonian, December 11, 2003.

The Art of Block Printing

 

 I found this little gem on honestlywtf. The film was produced by West Elm after meeting hand-block printing artisans on a recent trip to northern India’s Rajasthan. The process is so full of intricate movement and the results are beautiful...I'm itching to have a go!

Rumba Abierta (1960)

Henri Matisse, Dance

"As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. "

--Yo-Yo Ma

Rhythm and Soul

Northern Soul

Langston Hughes: The First Book Of Rhythms

Found here.
To read the complete The First Book of Rhythms see this Flickr set.

“Organize yourself & bring rhythm to your life: Because you have things to do, habits to break, dreams to achieve, peace to discover and one life to live”

― V.V. Rao

FOLI

There Is No movement Without Rhythm

The Strongest Woman in the World

By Yumi Sakugawa
 (via therumpus)

I love the rhythm of Yumi Sakugawa's comic strips. Read more on her blog.

“Queen of Monmartre”

La Goulue - She was the first major star of the Moulin Rouge and credited with creating the can-can. She’s also immortalized in many Toulouse-Lautrec paintings.
(Found here)

“The art of yoga is creative, rhythmic in practice and individualistic in nature."

-- BKS Iyengar (The Art of Yoga)

Although there is rhythm to this practice, there is no formula. Tailor practice to your body and don't let the attention become dull.

Source ellenbee via therumpus

“If you repeat a single word over and over again, it becomes nonsensical. The same applies to body parts—repetition disassociates them from their real function. They may create an interesting shape, but they have no actual use.”

J. Mae Barizo on artist Alvin Booth’s newest exhibition, Come to Your Senses.

(From theparisreview )

Become the rhythm of your breath.

Folk Dance (1928) | Cyril Edward Power linocut from iswasandwillbe

"This is a week for being careful, for being intentional, for keeping your ear to the rhythms of the ground you walk on, and the rhythms of your tender beating heart."

-- Madame Clairevoyant