Darn

"... I darn and am looking for holes in people’s clothes and the stories that accompany them; repairing these holes and returning the mended garments. It is a way to briefly make contact with strangers. I am interested in the spaces the body occupies, the tenderness of touch and the ways in which we go about day to day life."

Celia Pym, Hope's sweater, 1951. 

Quote and images from Celia Pym found via Selvedge 

the impulse to understand the immense

A large square is marked with black paint on the gallery floor. The edge pointing true north is curved, and acts as the horizon. Placed on this surface are small limestone and quartz rocks collected from the Keewinaw Peninsula in Upper Michigan, in an arrangement that reflects the stars above San Francisco at first visibility on the night of the reception. This reflecting pool serves as a record of one moment in our trajectory through the universe.

Claire Nereim, Reflection. As on view at PLAySPACE.
(found via evencleveland)

Overview

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.

The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.

‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.

STUNNING.

"But I do know, that many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and grow. we must all hope we find them.” 

― Mark Rothko

Phrases

I've been thinking a lot about transitions in my own practice recently, like really really precise foot work when climbing and noticing the subtle shifts in weight when doing floor work, and how important awareness in those small linking movements improve the quality of the shapes with bigger demands on the body.

It's been a really nice theme for my classes this week too. To prepare for class I've been making little 'movement riddles' for my self. I'll start with a particular asana or pattern (I think of it as a phrase) and then break that phrase down to the most basic elements try it with pauses, linked with more fluid movement,  then reversed and maybe inverted...I end up holding acres of movement in my head, what I'm going to teach always starts like a broken jigsaw. In getting students to use these phrases to inquire about their own movement we learn together. I love that. 

 

How To Listen To The Space Between Your Thoughts

Yumi Sakugawa

Transitions

“In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.”

― Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places: Stories


 

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom. 

--Viktor Frankl

The Sun never sets flying parallel

  behold the first Vine from outer space. The Earth's surface cycles through two solstices and two equinoxes in its annual, metronomic dance.

Upside Down Day

An ode to those times when everything seems backwards.

Upside Down Day (public library), 1968
Illustrations by artist Kelly Oechsli and written by Julian Scheer (the head of NASA’s Public Affairs Office, responsible for enchanting Americans with the space program)
If you like this then check out  Weight and Weightlessness, another spacetastic illustrated gem from the same era, and the story of how Scheer and his team marketed the moon.

(Found via brainpickings)

(Found here)

Àngels Ribé
Six Possibilities of Occupying a Given Space, 1975

(Source: nicoonmars, via sundryedtomatoes)

Bones and space!
Perfect swimming costumes

Space

One of the basic principles of every single art form has to do not with what's there- the music, the words, the movement, the dialogue, the paint - but with what isn't.  In the visual arts it's called the 'negative space' - the blank parts around and between objects, which is, ofcourse, every bit as crucial as the objects themselves. The negative space allows us to see the non-negative space in all its glory and gloom, its colour and mystery and light. What isn't there gives what's there meaning. IMAGINE THAT. 

-- Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

Sunday Tune

Ruben Brulat

“Paths” by Ruben Brulat

Stardust

From Skreened

Overview

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.

The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet and mankind’s place upon it. Common features of the experience are a feeling of awe for the planet, a profound understanding of the interconnection of all life, and a renewed sense of responsibility for taking care of the environment.

‘Overview’ is a short film that explores this phenomenon through interviews with five astronauts who have experienced the Overview Effect. The film also features insights from commentators and thinkers on the wider implications and importance of this understanding for society, and our relationship to the environment.

STUNNING.

Finding Space

When we practice yoga we are learning to find space.

There are actions we can make during asana practice that create space in the body - space for the body to function to its optimal level - and there are those that don't, in most cases if you collapse or compress you make things tighter. Sometimes the line between these two actions is a fine one.

Give yourself the time your body needs to experiment with what works for you.