NEW ADVENTURES

Everyone should take them on. 

Although, Hood Rat Stuff has been fun, real fun. 

Please tag along on my new adventure if you thought so too:

zetaTauri

Don't mind me

The masterful DJ Ramble John Krohn, better known as RDJ2, seen here mesmerizing the masses by manipulating five turntables at once.

2 kool 4 skool

The only shots from Grimes at Bardot, because I do try to oblige their no camera policy.

KONY 2012

Despite the fact that I generally abhor succumbing to pressing play on most videos that trend on my Facebook news feed, this one got to the point that it could no longer be ignored. After incessant posts stating "Kony 2012," "Make Kony Famous," and links to the 30 minute video that has 11 million views, I finally joined the masses and pressed play.

The information presented in the video was nothing new. What was new was the message, and the approach. A short movie with video editing and graphics designed to appeal to our generation,  spread through the medium of social media with the idea that if the 750 million of us vegetating on our overpriced laptops utilized the technology at our fingertips wanted to do something beneficial for the world, we could do it.
Shortly after the video went viral, critics sprang up accusing Invisible Children's use of funds and the Action Kit cost. Invisible Children posted a response here. I read on one blog many commenters comparing Kony 2012 to Tom's, as another way for Americans to feel as though they are doing something, while not having to get up off their couches.
But isn't that, in some bizarre way, the beauty of it? Technology has advanced to such a point that a concept can spread through a global community in a matter of days, hours, moments. We should be proud that this message is a positive one, and we should be thankful that we have the capabilities to spread it. That's all it takes. And that's the point the video makes, get our voices heard. Make the issue impossible to ignore. To the cynics who state that Kony 2012 supporters aren't actually "doing" anything," what are you doing?
Kony aside, the incredible reaction to this movement has me hopeful. Hopeful that we as a people will now realize the powers of communication and technology, love and connectedness. We don't have to stop when Kony falls. So what's next?

Sounds like stars; if the stars make sounds

Nomad at Heart

My bestest recently featured a trip I once took to Costa Rica on her blog the nomadic files. It's just one installment of a new/ongoing feature, Nomadic Pals. If you're a nomad at heart, stop by and check it out along your travels:

the nomadic files: nomadic pal num. 2 : amanda webber

Time Capsule

Just developed these photos taken almost a year ago, and was instantly transported back to another life.

Your whole life's horoscope.

"The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe." Albert Camus

 first via the dream walking society ; second?

Thanks, Hal.

Perhaps it can be owed to the semester-long journey from Phlogiston theory to Quantum Mechanics that I've managed to evolve into a bit of a sci-fi fan.. okay, nerd. And perhaps escaping my formerly barren understanding of these realms somewhat lent itself to the extreme enjoyment I got out of watching Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, sprawled out on my bed, post-24-hour-finals-cram-session. Then again, it could have simply been all of the pretty colors, and Mr. Kubrick's nifty camerawork.

.. and it feels like infinity all over again

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. 

Descartes

Angelina Jolie in Mojave Moon, painting by Sea Hyun Lee via but does it float

Matters of Relativity

When you can't find your way, get lost

Old maps already bare a mysterious beauty unaltered, but with a total reinterpretation, Matthew Cusick breathes new life into them. The pictures above are a few of my favorites from his Map Works and Constellations collections. Each one is masterfully crafted from maps and little else, worlds away from any collage you made in grade school.

And speaking of grade school, below are a few pages torn from Cusick's "Defacements" collection, in which he tears pages from old schoolbooks and strips them of everything but a page number, an illustration and a few well-chosen words. These instantly captivated me as they are so simple and simultaneously complex- they had me laughing and they had me thinking. Full of double entendres, some seem to carry a message about a deep societal issue and a (somewhat childish) joke. 

In an interview with Live Fast Mag, Cusick said of these pages, "The voice behind the Defacements is that of a smart-ass 5^th grader who is possessed by an oracle, acting like a shaman, and trying to be a poet."

All images from mattcusick.com, click here to see the rest of his work.

Energy Shift

An assortment of photos from blurry nights out and about. 

Barcelona, Palm Beach and Miami.

Crossing paths with Alley Cats

Tuesday is the new Saturday