Hand Painted Typography

Hand Yoga!
A typographic experiment by designer Tien-Min Liao found via thisiscolossal

Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time. 

 -- Brenda Ueland

Pablo Genovés, Precipitados

Face Reality as it is by Thomas Quinn. 
Found at thisiscolossal

From here

From here

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? 

 -- M.C. Escher

Stillness

from here

The Tenenbaums (and Co.)

Criterion has shared the book and magazine covers that appeared in The Royal Tenenbaums.  My favourite is Henry Sherman’s adorable Accounting For Everything!

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

--Bob Dylan

Images from here and here.

Found here

Light filled public library

This public library is situated on a campus of public school buildings in Gando, a village in the west African country of Burkina Faso. The library, along with the surrounding school buildings, were designed by Kere Architecture, a firm led by Gando native, Diebedo Francis Kere.

Found via designboom

Belly

Belly from Julia Pott on Vimeo.

"I can feel you in my belly"

A weird and wonderful coming-of-age tale. Belly, by Julia Pott, is a film about the difficulties of having to leave things behind. Make sure to put seven and half minutes aside today and watch this film!

Human Made from RSVP Gallery

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.

-- Charles Dickens

1. The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.
2. Resin cast of a human heart
Found via pinterest

i want to live here.
found via apieceapart

Donald Sultan
Etching and Aquaint

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Floating savasana!
'Edge' by Antony Gormley

found here

found here

image found here

Dubstep Dressage

Loving the horse dancing at the Olympics!

Spencer Tunick

All images belong to Spencer Tunick

Pose of the week

Parighasana(Gate Pose) Parighasana (Gate Pose) really stretches and lightens the side body and invites the breath to become truly three-dimensional. The pose stretches the intercostal muscles that connect the ribs (and much more...) When these muscles are tight, which commonly happens when we cough and sneeze repeatedly or have poor posture, the rib cage's movement is restricted, and so is respiration. Elongating the intercostal muscles improves breathing; consequently, Parighasana helps respiratory problems usually associated with asthma, allergies, colds, and flu. It's a pose i like to practice before exploring the breath with the three-part breath exercise.  

Sequencing Parighasana can be used as a preparation for many of the standing poses, including Utthita Trikonasana (Extended Triangle Pose)and Utthita Parsvakonasana (Extended Side Angle Pose). It's also a good preparation for Parivrtta Janu Sirsasana (Revolved Head-to-Knee Pose) and a nice addition to an asana practice that is preparing the body for Pranayama.  

Benefits Stretches the sides of the torso, intercostal muscles and spine, Stretches the hamstrings and iliopsoa, Opens the shoulders and frees the breath.  

Cautions With any serious knee injury, kneeling might be difficult or impossible. In this case, perform the pose sitting on a chair. Arrange your legs either in front of your torso, with knees at right angles, or stretch one leg out to the side, mimicking the full pose.

Chiharu Shiota

WOW!
 Chiharu Shiota