he's even friends with the furbies

nomnom salmon, beansprouts, rice & black bean sauce ommnom

 

Forgotten spotify playlists.. 

 

Tomorrow's To-Do's

Nice walky in the parky

Make a big cake for girls 

Be a super woman and get tough work stuff done

Snuggle

Raise another $50 for birthday campaign

♡

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream."

Feeling all inspired and forward - looking back almost always proves to be such a good push forward, as I feel how far I've come and how much more confident I feel and the future seems more exciting than daunting, because I know in a few years i'll be using this day as a reference point for how far I have again come! 

www.postsecret.com

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/4od#3327867

http://collectiveagency.us/blog/darkside

Take me back - both my flatmate and i dreamt of beaches as we were waking up to the frosty barn that is our flat. I dreamt that i was back here, on 'Castaway Island' (LOL) Vietnam, except it was so hot this time, and all the girls got naked because it was paradise and they just didn't care. Probably something to do with the fact getting undressed from PJs in the morning is HORRIBLE. 

I can't believe i was ever on this beach. The whole experience was surreal - it was the night we stayed on this island and swam topless in the light-up plankton and played 'I Have Never' until the wee hours that back near our anchored party boat in the bay, a neighbour boat sank and around 17 travellers died. We didn't hear the news until we were back on dry land and turned our mobiles on.

♡ knitting the holiest scarf ever ♡

" Lit from within, the hue and brightness of each varies as time passes, reflecting the transit of different planets. In a 9-minute cycle, Mori has condensed the movements of the solar system over the course of a year.

The familiar imagery of ancient stone circles anchors the movements of the heavens to our own human history. "Our life was inherited from our very remote ancestors and given to us now, and we will transfer it to future generations," Mori says. The chain of life reaching back through history, and our ancestors' reverence for the natural world, are strong themes in the artist's work - reminding us how interwoven we are with our environment. At the entrance to the gallery, a sound installation makes the point explicit. "We are nature," Mori's voice echoes. "We are sustained by nature."

"I was using the formula of how a black hole has been fed, a circle stretched into a spiral form," she says. Yet her aim was not to create a true depiction of a white hole - if such a thing even exists - but to convey the idea of a place where the "spirit or soul of the star is born again".

Conceptually multifaceted yet aesthetically simple, Mori's art is informed not only by physical sciences and archaeology but also her explorations into the workings of the mind. "When you come to a deeper consciousness you acknowledge your life, other living beings, atoms and subatomic particles. Those things are all here in our bodies," she says. "I try to visualise how we are connected in the physical world from the very small primal particles to a greater universe."

And she succeeds: Mori's works not only illuminate connections across all levels of existence, but they put that existence in context - urging us not just to take care of our world, but to savour our time in it. "

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/mariko-mori-from-stone-circles-to-stardust.html

How can this relate to the convergent media module? Convergence of different technologies - the technologies themselves do not show convergence but the brain's interaction with them and how they are utilised.

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs."

Banksy

http://beta.18daysinegypt.com/#/

"I am, I have, I can. I am, I have, I can.

I am, I just am. I don't need to identify anything beyond that - I just am, I exist, I'm here, I'm present, I'm grateful. I am. 

I have, I have. I have enough, I am enough.

I can, I can, I can. I can do anything I set my mind to, I can be fully engaged and fully present here and now. I can shine my light in a bolder way. I can be free, I am free, I am."

"You are magnificent. You don't have to do anything to prove it, you just are."