There is So Much About my Fate...

"There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life-whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts."

Elizabeth Gilbert

Do Three Things Today

Do something creative – even if it does mean making hand prints!

Leave the gym behind and dance or run through the woods!

Set outrageous goals for yourself and then celebrate when you achieve them!

Source: persimmonimages.com



To Touch, to Move, To Inspire

"To touch, to move, to inspire. This is the true gift of dance."

-Aubrey Lynch

Making Music for Film

We're in the post production phase of our short films at school and I have to do the music for five films! Yes, it's stressful and is probably making me old before my time (especially when the editors decide to take their time - you know who you are), but with inspiration from the masters I have examples of below, making  music for film becomes magical and truly an enjoyable experience. I just love it when the timing falls into place and the film comes alive with sound that creates that ideal emotion.

Clint Mansell is, without a doubt, a musical genius. His Requiem for a Dream soundtrack is one of my favourites:



Where I Want to be Today: A Jane Austen Countryside

I want to walk through it

Dream in it

Imagine life in it

Write about it

Be free because of it

...but most importantly

Get lost in it...

Fun with Purple and Paintings

I am working on a one minute piece for a project where I should combine music, art, architecture and color to show how well they can blend. Here are some photoshopped images I'll be using...

The painting is based on a 2007 Eugene J. Paprocki work - I love the impressionist style!

Learning all the Time

"I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma." ~Eartha Kitt

Today

Life is Funny

Life is more funny than anything else, so laugh you way through.

Don't forget to dance.

Don't forget to be silly.

Don't forget to do what no one expects.



In the Rain

When sadness overcomes you... walk in the rain...

When anger consumes you like fire... run in the rain...

When nostalgia controls you every thought... shower in the rain...

When happiness finally greets you with a smile... dance in the rain!

Such an Extraordinary Thing

Photograph: Ben Hassett

 "It’s such an extraordinary thing, music. It is how we speak to God finally – or how we don’t. Even if we’re ignoring God. It’s the language of the spirit. If you believe that we contain within our skin and bones a spirit that might last longer than your time breathing in and out – if there is a spirit, music is the thing that wakes it up. And it certainly woke up mine. And it seems to be how we communicate on another level."- Bono

A Drop in the Ocean

We either make Ourselves Miserable or...

Today I Want to be a... Sailor!

I draw inspiration out of alomost everything, whether it be the creativity of design, the drama of acting or even the freedom of flying, so when I took these photos of these beautiful ships at Cape Town harbor, I couldn't help but dream of sailing around the world with the sea as my best friend and the stars as my guide. So today I want to be a sailor, tomorrow it will probably be something completely different...

Far Away in the Sunshine

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott

Welcome to 2011!

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

"The Old Year has gone.  Let the dead past bury its own dead.  The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.  All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!"

~Edward Payson Powell

Dramatic Kids

"Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music."

~William Stafford

Christmas In...

Roma...

 Rio de Janeiro

Johannesburg...

Amsterdam...

London...

Paris...

New York...

"This, the spirit of Christmas, that forever and ever endures. May it leave its richest blessing in the hearts of you and yours."

- Author Unknown



Love me in December

"Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?"

- James Walker

In the Mood for... Something Beautiful

Zhang Jingna, only 22 years of age, was an expert with an air rifle at 14, but became an expert with a camera at age 20 and now shoots for countless high profile clients, such as Harper's Bazaar Singapore, Elle, Lancôme and Random House Publishing. She is the youngest ever recipient of Fellowship in the Master Photographer's Association and divides her time between Singapore and Los Angeles.

Her photographs are romantic, intriguing and fantastical. The magical, mysterious and almost ominous atmosphere in her work is what grabs every viewer.

Visit her website at http://www.zhangjingna.com/

Or go HERE for her blog