Sunset

One good thing about the early time change. 

Plants

A drawing of a plant. An actual plant. An art project that looks like a plant (a pineapple). 

Visiting The Coco Set-Up At Disney California

Boyfriend

We've been painting the bedroom and you know I have to document that shit. 

Annie Clark

Recently I found a collection of photographs of Annie Clark of St. Vincent that were taken before she went on tour to promote her insanely popular album St. Vincent. My mood has changed about her music. I still love her and truly think she is an artist but sometimes things change when your favorite musician all of sudden gains this huge amount of popularity, for both fans and the artist alike. Either way, love these photographs and found them inspiring. 

"Obviously my favorite thing is playing music, writing music, working on putting a show together, being on tour—anything that’s actually the art. The other stuff I just approach like a professional. Everyone has parts of their job that are not their favorite thing in the world, but you know, whatever, suck it up and do it."

See all photographs HERE. 

Happy Belated National Sibling Day

To the brother who drew this when I was pregnant with my daughter. 

Easter Project

Uh, duh!

Project HERE

Photoshopped

Weird, right? Recently photographer and editor Lauren Wade decided to take monumental works of art and photoshop them to today's beauty standards, not to defeat the purpose but in fact prove a point. 

"Throughout art history, painters from Titian to Rubens to Gauguin found beauty in the bodies of women who would never fit into a size 0." 

Because of the scarcity of food at the time, you could tell who was wealthy by the fullness in their bodies. These women were considered the models of standard beauty (no pun intended). To see more of Wade's work with photoshopped art or to recommend a piece you would like to see photoshopped, click HERE. 

Photos credited to takepart.com and Wikipedia Commons

"Slap Her"

Hardly do I share videos on here but this was just too sweet. Perhaps it was because little children were speaking Italian or their romantic reactions to this young woman. But ultimately, it spread a decent and gratifying message and i truly enjoyed it. I hope you do too. 

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UPDATE: Since this video has surfaced on the web, it has gotten many mixed reactions. After reading articles that convey the flaws within the video, my opinion has changed yet I will not remove this post because despite my changed opinion, I do not find the video offensive. If you have any opinions on the matter, i would love to hear them below, good or bad. 

The Blog is Back On

And here is why...

• The school semester is over. 
• My birthday is over. 
• My camera is fixed. 
• I have more free time this winter break. 
• Why not? 

The Pumpkin Patch

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Lukasz Wierzbowski

Not to be a re-blogger but I first saw Lukasz Wierzbowski on the blog Miss Moss (which I am always coming back to for creative advice and inspiration). He (I want to say "he") photographs in ways that his models envelope nature. I have never seen anything like it and I am fascinated by his work. For the most part, I have been photographing portraits, capturing nature and people in their natural surrounds and trying to get emotions that people wouldn't otherwise realize. But I've been yearning for more artistic mediums. Not so much to play with photoshop but to display a concept that is out of the ordinary yet conveys an emotion that everyone can recognize. Its not easy to do. 

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Sacramento Flea Market

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Reading To Keep You Occupied

 A Day In The Life Of A Ballerina

Life lately as usual has been a little stressful. Its pass the stress of the beginning school but now it moves into the stress of the daily routine and the ever appearing midterms. In the last month, I have also been dealing with constant neck pain which only recently I started seeing a chiropractor for and has been improving. Before it made literally everything from sleeping to driving to just watching a movie with my daughter or boyfriend one hell of a task. Along with that, it is almost the end of the month, which means as the new month arrives, so do the due dates to pay bills, times to set my calendar for parent teacher conferences, setting up my tutoring schedule to start working, along with a million other personal plans to put into motion. 

I don't know about you but the end of the month is alway stressful for me just because of the load of things I need to wrap up. But I look forward to the next month. I look forward to feeling better physically, enough to start running again and even have time to work on my music which is a big stress reliever for me personally. 

Have you ever been one of those people who on the bus or walking down the street, looks at someone else and wonder what life looks like through their eyes? Well recently, I was reading one of the blogs I follow A Cup of Jo, and she found an article on the life of a ballerina. I have always been fascinated with dance since I was a little girl and has always tried to incorporate it into my life. I found the article to be very glamourous. Here is something for you to read to keep you occupied while I work elsewhere for this blog and such...

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Voices of Old People

Voices of the Old People - "Art Garfunkel recorded old people in various locations in New York and Los Angeles over a period of several months. These voices were taken from those tapes." 

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The New Kinetics Part Two

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