Omlette

Omelette from Madeline Sharafian on Vimeo.

a Thanksgiving endeavor

(Trying new things.)

I hope you have the happiest holiday, full of laughter and kindness and fancy china (or paper plates).
Love.

Vampire Gastelbrau

Vampire Gastelbrau from Hannah Ayoubi on Vimeo.

 This made my day!

together

Sometimes my girlfriends will ask me what I imagine my "dream guy" to be.
But I think that one of the few things I've always wanted is someone who will read books with me.

(Video from Foolish Oats)

on seeking

"I think God is always there, and He's always perfectly there. The issue then becomes, "Why can't we receive what is already there? Why can't we look at our mother and really truly understand how much our mother loves us even if she's unable to show it?" . . . Why do we need indications of love? Why do we need lesser symbols of love to reassure us of what we already know is there? That's what the core of the spiritual journey is. It's knowing—yet without the proof you need for your heart, you need to just wander around and figure it out . . . . If one could agree with the construct that we're here per God's grace to have an experience and learn something to come into the sublime world we live on, then there's something beautiful about the idea there's a trust from God to let us wander, stumble, fall, and pick ourselves back up."

 ~ Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins

    

The rest of the interview, with Stephen Christian of Anberlin, is deep and excellent and well worth a read.

chameleon

photo by Michael Molthagen

new girl

I watched this episode and just about cheered.
"I got something to say to you, man!"

rabbit

photo by rabbitier

:)

the beat

 

I quite love Dallas Clayton. He writes and illustrates poetry for children (and sometimes adults) that's cheerful and nonsensical and poignant and lovely. He makes days like today a little more sunny. You should love him, too.

hello

'Happy' by Maxwell Tomlinson

It's nice to meet you, 2012. 

Z.D. & J.G.-L.

I love her, I love him, I love them. 
I love this. :)
From HelloGiggles. 




(She's playing a ukulele. It doesn't get better than that.)

wheels

I loved this captivating project by Katy Beveridge. Read more here.

john and george

:)

owl

photo by Rick Wylie

fox

{found on tumblr}

This made me smile :)

the nap hat and other curiosities

This is...a nap hat. You know you want one. It's designed by Kawamura Ganjavian, and you can read more about it on their website.  

But that's not all! They make lots of other rad stuff as well! Such as this:

As far as I can make out, this is...recycled light. Read about it for yourself. 

Then there's the Oyster.

 Heat Me.

And, of course, 

The Earshell.

Check out their website. They have all sorts of projects, ideas and art profiled (and other things I'm not sure how to classify). You're sure to waste lots of time browsing through the mind-boggling array of items (and buildings and social experiments) that they've created.

validation

(My fantastic best friend posted this video on facebook several weeks ago, and I'm stealing it from him to share with the wide world. )


I only intended to watch the beginning, because it was late at night and who really has fifteen minutes for youtube, anyway? But as I watched, I involuntarily began grinning giddily from the pure sweetness and whimsy and optimism. I think you will, too.