What is it about Kinfolk? They just get it right. Their magazine, their photographs, their films.
I want to be at this campfire baking my twisted bread over it, while laughing with friends, passing around a knife laden with butter to coat my fresh baked bread with dairy goodness, as sparks from the fire fly into the night sky.
Have a wonderful weekend!
A beautiful pinecone we found on a walk.
I showed this to Mr. Michie the other night and smiled at him, as he told me what moves he used to be able to do on his skateboard.
I never thought I would be married to a little skateboarding man, but he was pretty cool growing up he tells me, he could even do the handstand move! This was almost like watching a ballet on wheels. His body strength and composure was beautiful to see.
I am just amazed at how this park has been abandoned and that they still have footage of what it actually used to be like, with people enjoying it!
Kilian Martin: Altered Route (a Skate Film) from mb! by Mercedes-Benz on Vimeo.
I saw this last night on, Colossal. I watched it 3 times. I was mesmerized! Enjoy:
“Kinetic Rain” Changi Airport Singapore from ART+COM on Vimeo.
(Article found here)
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days – three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
(Image film still from Bright Star)
It is raining here today. It has been raining and cold most of this week, it always does when we have a break from school. I know on Monday morning, it will probably be streaming with sunshine, but that is okay, when the weather is like this, we just stay inside a little more and stay cozy.
I found this image this morning and thought, this would be a nice spot to stay for the day. To pack a picnic, fall asleep in the little treehouse to the sound of the water, cool your feet off, while you swing and stay just late enough to see the fireflies comes out. Yes, this would be a nice spot to just be.
Hope you all have a lovely weekend and get to find at least one nice spot to just be in!
(image found here)
If this little bunny doesn’t say, “Spring”! I don’t know what does!
The bunnies are out, I have seen them munching away on clover while on my way to yoga in the evening.
The sunshine has come out to play this week, but it is still cool in the evenings, we are slowly moving in to what my Grandmother would call: “Blackberry Winter”.
(Image by Jennifer Murphy)
I have had this film sitting in my Instapaper “box” for about two weeks now and as I was catching up with reading through everything yesterday, I finally watched this film.
I was extremely touched by this story. It is beautifully shot. I appreciated their desire to preserve something old and this passion for preserving interlaced with his background in Architecture has turned into a career in conserving minkas. What a blessing to be able to do something that you truly love!
These two men’s lives have been intertwined within this house and with this house. Their memories join all the others that have occurred under that roof and that have been ingrained in the wood during the lifetime of this minka.
This is a story about passion, about preserving our past to preserve our future and most importantly a story about love and the people we encounter that make our world all the better for knowing them, for our journey would not have been the same without them, that road might never have been taken.
I have finally taken down all my twinkle lights and did a little “Spring Cleaning” in the house last week, but, it is still Winter time to me. There are still frosty mornings yet to come, chilly nights and starry skies yet to be had and I thought it only appropriate that my little winter birds continue to stay out and grace us with their presence.
They make me smile every time I look at them and they are particularly cozy to look at, while listening to Classic FM on my old radio, watching the candle flicker and drinking tea. Happiness is a little pair of winter birds…
Maybe it is because I am a child of the 80’s, I grew up watching the Karate Kid and seeing Mr. Miyagi carefully tend to his bonsai trees, or maybe it is because I love all things miniature, or maybe the answer is simply because gardening is in my blood and I have a thing for trees, but the art of bonsai has always fascinated me.
I spotted these today while reading one of my favorite artsy blogs, Colossal. I think they are unbelievably beautiful, artful, imaginative and if I was the size of Goose Girl & Foxy they would be the perfect little hideaway.
Created through a variety of materials they come out of the imagination of Japanese artist Takanori Aiba. Who has combined his talent and knowledge of labyrinth design and architecture to manipulate the trees and bring these scenes to life.
