Beautiful creatures

Have you ever wondered if lightning bugs are really little futuristic spy bugs taking photos of you?  And if so, who's hired them... an anthropologist or scientist from the future?  a lost loved one or heavenly being?  Sometimes I prefer believing that reality is based more in imaginative musings than in the doldrums of "normal society".  Why couldn't lightning bugs be more?  Or every other simply accepted belief, person, or thing.  There's so much depth to be grasped!  However as much as I like to ponder and believe these day dreams, I'd prefer they not be true as the thought of losing privacy to monitoring insects seems worse than the lack of such an interesting world.  Just to dream can be enough, and plus, they are still such beautiful creatures.

audrey kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki's art is pure beauty.  I want to buy this piece so badly but it doesn't seem for sale...

 "Karasu no Jyou" close-up 

oil and graphite on wood

"Hajimari"@Jonathan Levine Gallery in NY 2009 

http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/ 

Ok Gopid

Haha, willing to leave love to chance and fate?  Why not try Okay Gopid!

Because finding true love is just as random and crazy! :)
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Daymanstep

Dayman, in Dubstep :D

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I prefer this audio to the full video but here that is for your viewing as well Daymanstep.

This Is Amazing!!

Also viewable at The Meta Picture.

Art in Action

L.E.D snowboarding with Jacob Sutton.

From BippityBoppityBoo

...and I thought the AR Drone was cool...

So many uses...

Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics.  Ref

Give up defining yourself. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Eckhart Tolle

Slackline.

Perhaps I'll start a little lower. :P

Photos by Fabrice Wittner.
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Gotta love Banksy!

 

"Banksy's 23-foot high Stained Window piece is a collaboration with the City of Angels public school in Los Angeles. Students were encouraged to write tags on panels erected in their schoolyard before Banksy adapted them."  -Ref

Son of a Gun

Beautiful video!  Gorgeous dresses!!

...think I'm past this though. and love remains.

Oh Land - Son of a Gun

Sometimes, people will surprise you.  Sometimes they just prove time and again that you were dead on with your assessment. 

Keeping with the beautiful disaster bit, I just think this is the most beautiful image. An uncontrollable, devastating, yet ridiculously gorgeous act of nature.  This occurred when Puyehue volcano erupted near Osorno in southern Chile on June 4th, 2011.

This and other fascinating photos from 2011 can be found here on Canada's National Post website.

a beautiful disaster

When floods consumed parts of Pakistan recently, spiders moved to higher ground finding homes and creating cocoons in these trees.  Such beauty would not have existed without provocation.  When life forcefully pushes you in a direction, there may be something magical behind it.  Listen to what you are called to do and do it with passion.  Be amazing.  Astonish.

 

Read the National Geographic article here. 

Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development

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