Death

"Death is hunting you three.
Death is cunning, so be fast little children.
Death is starving for your breath all these years past.
Death is hunting you three.
So be wary until the end,
Or he will find you."

Kim Edwards

Photography is all about secrets. The secrets we all have and will never tell.
-Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper’s Daughter)

Green

-via Flickr 

To Build a Home

Rainer Maria-Rilke

“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the question now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” -Rainer Maria-Rilke

Warrior Queen

-via Kali Ciesemier

“Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank. Its name is time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against “tomorrow”. You must live in the present on today’s deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success. The clock is running. Make the most of today.”

Bon Iver - Holocene

Be right back. Moving to Iceland.

Find Yourself

-via Meteor

Wax and Wire

Wax and Wire - Loch Lomond

Breathe Out

-via Politefight

Once

“Once upon a time there was a boy. He lived in a village that no longer exists, in a house that no longer exists, on the edge of a field that no longer exists, where everything was discovered and everything was possible. A stick could be a sword. A pebble could be a diamond. A tree a castle. Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”

-via Goodmorning and Goodnight

Emily Dickinson

Fog

-via DA

Go Forth

Because I love these ads.

Fly

-via Beauty in Everything

Neon Tiger

Neon Tiger - The Killers

Colin Firth

John Green

Whales

-via Bookspaperscissors

Because I love whales.

Bubble

This reminds me of Scotland.

Bubble from Elliot Dear on Vimeo.

the quiet place

the quiet place

For a relaxing experience and a bit of enlightenment in the process.

Longboarding

Hold Your Hand

"Holding hands may seem like an innocent gesture, but they show more than a simple interlocking of fingers. Your hands are one of the most essential parts of your body: you build with them, feed with them, hold with them, touch with them, fight with them; they are the tools of the human body. To take a hold of another’s hand is to break from living individually. It is to link yourself to another being, to momentarily entwine your life with another’s, to promise, for a moment, that you need not face the world alone. More simple, more aesthetically naive than other forms of affection, i.e kissing, hugging, sexing, the act of holding hands is often trivialized in its true implications. As the Beatles once said: ”All I want to do is hold your hand.”"

-Unknown

Scarlett Schmaus

“I love this part. This is the part where your heart races a bit, your stomach feels like it’s free floating, and your face has a slight smile on it that can’t be wiped off. This is the part where things are about to get really good, and you know they’re about to get really good, and sometimes that’s more satisfying than when you get whatever it is you’re waiting for.”
-Scarlett Schmaus

3 guys, 44 days, 11 countries, 18 flights, 38 thousand miles, an exploding volcano, 2 cameras and almost a terabyte of footage... all to turn 3 ambitious linear concepts based on movement, learning and food ....into 3 beautiful and hopefully compelling short films..... = a trip of a lifetime.

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Fall

-via Shoplifting in a Ghost Town

This makes me want for the fall. And the shoes in the pictures.

Ira Glass

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

Brilliant advice for anyone who does anything creative.

Emerson

-via leilockheart

Gusts of Wind

-via Rose Hardy

Welcome Back

Universes

"There are universes beneath our skin"

Cream

-via Melanie
Ford Wilson

Negative Space

More here

Going to School

What's this, another commercial? What is this blog coming to?
Anyways, I put this here, even if it's a bit older, because I find it wonderful that her feet never touch the ground through the whole thing. That and her braids are wonderful.

Bubbles and Bokeh

-via Laura Kok

Ashley Montagu

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
-Ashley Montagu

Go Do

Not a big fan of the car, but I adore the commercial.

Muffins

-via Worries to Give to the Sea

Somewhere Only We Know - Keane

I love the little creatures that are scattered throughout the video.

Harry Potter Minimalism

Harry Potter minimalist posters. I'm going to go die of happiness right now. See all seven of them here.

Chuck Klosterman

“I have never understood the concept of infatuation. It has always been my understanding that being “infatuated” with someone means you think you are in love, but you’re actually not; infatuation is (supposedly) just a foolish, fleeting feeling. But if being “in love” is an abstract notion, and it’s not tangible, and there is no way to physically prove it to anyone else… well, how is being in love any different than having an infatuation? They’re both human constructions. If you think you’re in love with someone and you feel like you’re in love with someone, then you obviously are; thinking and feeling is the sum total of what love is. Why do we feel an obligation to certify emotions with some kind of retrospective, self-imposed authenticity?”

-Chuck Klosterman

Swimming - Florence and the Machine

Swimming - Florence and the Machine

Bottle

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Pickle

-via Jamie Ibarra

Tim Burton

-via I'm Wondering Where

I Will Possess Your Heart - Death Cab for Cutie

Pepitas

-via DA

Us - Regina Spektor

Ernest Hemingway

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
-Ernest Hemingway

Summer Time

-via We Heart It
Because it's summer time.

Jodi Picoult

"A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch."

-Jodi Picoult

Beet Cake

beet cake from tiger in a jar on Vimeo.

And the recipe;

-via Tiger in a Jar
I have yet to try this recipe out myself, but must do so sometime.

Old Pine

OLD PINE from Astray Films on Vimeo.
Lovely video and song.

Bernard Edmonds

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.”

-Bernard Edmonds

Sleep

-via Burdge-Bug

Talk To

Mulberry

Condescending

-via DA

Because sometimes you're so condescending you make me want to scream, scream and throw mirrors at your face until you realize what you are. But I won't and I'll stay, because you need me and I'm just not as cruel as you, no matter what you say.

Seneca

Richard Dawkins

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked – as I am surprisingly often – why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn’t it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it?

-Richard Dawkins

Splitscreen: A Love Story

Splitscreen: A Love Story from JW Griffiths on Vimeo.

We Are The Champions

The Sheer Lack of Existence

"I'm made of dreams and memories.

I am made of misheard whispers in the dark.

I am made of glances across crowded rooms.

Of the closeness of strangers in a line outside a movie.

I am made of the corners of your mouth.

I am made of awkward elevator rides and the lack of security one finds on a doorstep, at the end of the evening, when one has enjoyed the company of another.

I am made of the train tracks that take me home.

I am made of ghost notes, from songs you never heard.

So forgive my absence. But I was never really here to begin with, anyway."
-via I Wrote This For You

Balance

-via Rocketshiptopigfarts

Fairest of Them All

Fairest of Them All - Kämmerer

You will not see the rest of this song coming. It's beautiful.

The Broship of the Ring

I give you the Broship of the Ring, or modern-day Lord of the Rings. These illustrations are fantastic, and I suggest you check them out here.

Unicorn

-via Prancing Malfoys

Want

Nicholas Sparks

“The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”
-Nicholas Sparks

Birds

-via Psychic Disco

Crazy

"If life doesn't make you crazy, why bother living it?"

-Smallville

Something in the Water

The music video for this has so many different styles. I love it.

Evan Esar

"Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once."

-Evan Esar

Corgi

-via DeviantArt

Nancy Spain

"There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough."
-Nancy Spain

Stay the Night

The song of summer~

Howard Thurman

I Will Lay You Down

Mitch Albom

“Accept who you are; and revel in it.”
-Mitch Albom

Antimatter

Matchbox Gardens

Mermaid Parade

From the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Go here for more photos.

Banana Split Mini Bites

Because don't they look delicious? The recipe can be found here.

Use Somebody

Use Somebody from inti calfat on Vimeo.

Meant

Hurt

"You have to get hurt. That’s how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a genuine smile; those are the people who have fought the toughest battles because they’ve decided that they’re not going to let anything hold them down. They’re moving on."
-via Strawberrytelle

Je Veux

Dance

Your world is shattering around you, and your response is to dance to the music that is pounding in your head. Your world may not be safe at the moment, but that's alright. You'll just dance until the worst is over.

Coco Chanel

"There are people who have money and people who are rich"

-Coco Chanel

Dark

-via Hopeless Day Dream

Into the Fire

Lake

You Are

“You are a perfectly acceptable human being right now, this minute. You are just as valid as any other human being, without changing a single thing about yourself. That doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to want to grow, evolve or improve yourself, or you can’t do better sometimes, it just means right now this instant, you are worthy of your own self love. Even if it is hard to love yourself sometimes (and boy, is it!), or you’re struggling with some really difficult stuff in your life, you still deserve it. So dearest you, be kind to yourself, be kind to others, and give the best version of you that you can give, but know that even in the tough times, you are still valid, worthy and deserving”

-via Goodmorning and Goodnight

Bently

-via Photography Inspiration 206

Water Ink

Sigh

Let Love In

-via Deviantart

Read My Mind