Have a BRILLIANT weekend!

Stretch (like these beauties from a gymnastics team at the 1908 Olympics), feel free and don't forget to call your parents.

"It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit." 

-- Eartha Kitt

Fearless

Jungle - Platoon from Jungle on Vimeo.
Found via Ketchum Yoga...Rebecca finds all the best stuff!

Mind and Movement

Go and see this exhibition at The Welcome collection!

Wayne McGregor is well known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science and this exhibition offers a glimpse into the process behind his work.

It beautifully shows ways in which mind and movement interact in each and every one of us. Inspiring.

we are, i am, you are.

There’s a line in one of Adrienne Rich’s best and most famous poems, “Diving Into the Wreck,” that I’ve carried around inside myself like a brain tattoo for 20-some years: We are, I am, you are. Rich wrote many lines that meant something important to me over the course of her long career, but that one strikes me as core. In those six lean words, she bound us together — the entire beautiful and ugly mass of us made, by virtue of her words, indivisible. Indivisibility is classic Rich. She was a great connector of things: art to politics, love to rage, consciousness to action, society to self, power to wound, me to you, us to her.

Article about Adrienne Rich by Cheryl Strayed for The New York Times.
Click here to read more...

Tracey Emin

Limited edition prints by Tracey Emin.

Eli Caven

Foldings by Eli Caven

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

 --Voltaire

"Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy."

 -- W. Somerset Maugham, “The Razor’s Edge”

(photo by me)

Beautiful Picture by Baron Raimund von Stillfried und Ratenitz c.1870-1890.

Found here.

Libra

This is a week for going to the beach and going to the pool and taking long warm baths. This is a week for living like your whole body is water. It’s a week for staring into oceans and lakes and faucets, for watching water swirl down the drain. This week, let your thoughts go clear, let your dreams go blue, let them all fill with salt, let them flow down mountains, let them flow to the sea. It’s a week for being loose, it’s a week for being in motion, it’s a week for being wiser and weirder than you can be on solid ground.

-- Madame Clairevoyant

Ori Gersht

Stunning.
Ori Gersht.

Une Femme est une femme

Hidden YOGA in a film alert!! Yes, i watch for this shit...luckily others do too so I have stills evidence. Thank you Staywiththebreath.

Godard’s Une Femme est une femme is brilliant. I love love love the shapes Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo pull throughout and the book scene where they wipe their feet before getting into bed. I especially love that bit.

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too-lateness

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It's a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it's no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it's time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

--Russell Hoban, Turtle Diary.
  via evencleveland

Circus tricks.
Found here.

we are, I am, you are

There’s a line in one of Adrienne Rich’s best and most famous poems, “Diving Into the Wreck,” that I’ve carried around inside myself like a brain tattoo for 20-some years: We are, I am, you are. Rich wrote many lines that meant something important to me over the course of her long career, but that one strikes me as core. In those six lean words, she bound us together — the entire beautiful and ugly mass of us made, by virtue of her words, indivisible. Indivisibility is classic Rich. She was a great connector of things: art to politics, love to rage, consciousness to action, society to self, power to wound, me to you, us to her.

Article about Adrienne Rich by Cheryl Strayed for The New York Times. Click here to read more...

lulufrost:
I am woman, here me roar

Ōri Umesaka

Ōri Umesaka

Man Ray

Man Ray — Terrain vague, 1929

“The beautiful thing about myths is that you’re never telling a myth, you’re retelling it. People already know the story. You don’t have to create a narrative structure, and you don’t have to figure out where it ends … You want to know what human mystery can be revealed by retelling it.”

A conversation with Gregory Orr.

Images by Kiki Smith.

Found here

By Jen May.

Jen May

I love Jen Mays work.
"Her artwork primarily deals with recycling and rewriting histories while offering a feminist perspective and creating a space for change."

I want the collage of a cat drinking coffee!

See more here, here and here.

Woman dancing on beach c.1920 via Retronaut

She is my kinda lady, I would like to meet her.

Backward t-shirt

"The slightly uncomfortable, ‘something-is-wrong-here’ feeling you get when accidentally you put a sweater or t-shirt on backward. It takes you a moment to realize the mistake although your body already feels it. That’s how she felt whenever he was around and she never got over it. In her head she nicknamed him BT for ‘backward t-shirt." 

--Jonathan Carroll

Sunday Tune

Sunday Tune

Found here

Found here