I enjoy organizing, appending, and annexing. It's inspiration and a form of appropriation. It's the same with photography. I collect what piques curiosity, prompts questions, what scares me and then I try to organize and append it.

For a while, I was scared of capturing myself. Scared of my appearance. I suppose I still am in many ways. The vulnerability of the self, or at least my approach to it, is unnerving.

I've tried to embrace the idea of hesitation, the act or gesture of pausing. Highlighting lonely, awkward, but overall, very quiet moments. Sometimes they are staged, to expose the strangeness within. At times, this works, and at other times, it does not. My creative process is a work in progress. It has gaps in its redundancy, in its lack of movement, it nonetheless posits an effort of understanding that every viewer is free to exercise.

Below are inspiring images from Laurie Franck. It's a wonderful moment when I find someone who is working towards a similar visual end.

source: images by Laurie Franck

This yoga video has been making the rounds in a lot of places. Just watch it, and you'll see why.
(I like to think when I do yoga I look this good.)

I firmly believe information and education should be at everyone's fingertips. It's why I love Open Culture so much. The site's mission is to...

bring together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community... centralize content, curate it, and give access to high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Free audio books, free online courses, free movies, free language lessons, free ebooks and other enriching content...

Below are videos that, essentially, reaffirm one of my favorite quotes by Jim Jarmusch, (from his Golden Rules):

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”

First video I've listed is Part 4 and gives an overview of Technology, but if you have the time, all are worth it.

Everything is a Remix Part 4 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

Everything is a Remix Part 1 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

source: Open Culture

We are living in a storm where a hundred contradictory elements collide; debris from the past, scraps of the present, seeds of the future, swirling, combining, separating under imperious wind of destiny.

–Adolphe Retté, La Plume, March 1, 1898

source: Old Chum's Flickr

Betty Grable as cupid.

sources: The Thinking Tank, Smoke and Ochre

This is a pretty good reason why I love the internet.
Go ahead and call me a crazy cat-lady. I just don't care.
With all the mindless drivel, with all the crap that can easily make me depressed, it's things like this that make me stop, smile, and just puts me in a really good mood. I need more animated gifs like this. I haven't made a cats, paws and poofy-pants post in a while. Very behind. Hopefully, sometime this week, with pictures of Atlas and Enzo.

Therapy, or analysis, is not only something that analysts do to patients; it is a process that goes on intermittently in our individual soul-searching, our attempts at understanding our complexities, the critical attacks, prescriptions, and encouragements we give ourselves. We are all in therapy all the time insofar as we are involved in soul-making.

James Hillman — Re-visioning Psychology, 1975

source: UrbanNautica