Happy Friday!!!

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

~Bill Watterson

You Are Beautiful

Adventure or Nothing

Beautiful Autumn Street

Photograph: Danielle Retief

Ominous Skies

The clouds are becoming creepier everyday, but make for some cool photos. Do they predict a coming Armageddon? Does it mean an evil force has been born? You can make up your own ghost story while admiring the eerie beauty...

Some Fun Polaroids

Making polaroids out of random photos is like a bug that bites you and you can't get enough. It just creates this vintage, artistic feel which I love...

Ghostly

It is interesting how light and darkness can make something as simple as a boy in front of a mirror look so incredibly eerie and mysterious...

Bridge of Clouds

Isn't this bridge covered in cloud wallpaper beautiful?

Hope your Friday brings you to your cloud 9!

Enjoy the Rain

Photo: Ben Hassett

"The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain.  This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. "

~Susan Allen Toth

James Blunt's Tears and Rain - a perfect song to go with these rainy days...

Purple Art and Melody

Here it is: the video with Eugene Paprocki's La Madeline, Johannesburg architecture and the incredible Yann Tiersen song, Comptine d'un autre été: L'apres Midi (heard in Amelié and Goodbye Lenin.)

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!

The Road...

Sand, Shadows and Some Friendship

Like footprints...

...and Names...

...and Shadows in Sand...

...Friendships can be Short and Sweet...

...but that does not make them less Beautiful,

less Necessary,

or less Memorable.



Where I want to Be Today...

On that Horizon...

Around Me

"I'm the type who would be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I was not going to. I'm the type who would like to sit home and watch every party that I am invited to on a monitor in my bedroom."

- Andy Warhol

Love is in the Paint

I am not the girl who falls in love more easily in February or paints hearts on her face with pink lipstick on the 14th, but sometimes it's funny how the world encourages you to embrace some of the fun in the strangest of ways. I mean look at this paint I was working with the other day. It's a mix between watery purple and silver, which later rose to the surface to make this "love"ly shape...

 Not a broken heart, just an incomplete one... (am I going to deep into this?)

For the more abstract minded: it could also be clever shading...

Little Red-Hooded Boy

I love taking photos that are "not so good" and warping them into something a little more interesting with the gift that is photoshop.

This cute little boy becomes a mysterious, urban warrior who swaps taking pastries to grandma with spying on innocent passers-by...

Beautiful Views for Your Sunday

Some Memories

"Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose." 

~The Wonder Years

One of my memory walls.

Happy Friday!

Some Brightness in Nature

These almost look like detailed Monet paintings rather than photographs (probably because of the slight blur)