silfarione:

Sunset in Oropos, Greece. Sept,30. 2009

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grace-like-an-ocean:

I just finished reading Passion & Purity! Such an amazing book written by a truly inspirational woman! The book really opened my eyes to mission work. I have not felt called to dedicating my life to full-time mission work but my eyes have been opened to experiencing it even if for just a short…

ithinkwecanagree:

Today I watched the movie WarDance with my Uganda team. Naturally, I cried. Throughout the whole movie, I felt this huge surge of warmth on my whole body, almost like a tingling compression. It might have been God, I don’t really know. But it was something, and it reminded me of how unworthy I am in general for everything I have.
I had a typical Westerner response, of course. I felt stupid. We sit comfortably on our couches eating brownies and watch movies about people suffering, feeling bad for them and feeling bad about ourselves.
The movie itself was beautifully done. It focuses on children of the Acholi tribe who were abducted, forced into child soldiering, then saved by government armies and put into refugee camps. Their stories are horrendous. I won’t even elaborate.
There was a particular image in the movie I found extremely beautiful. A 14-year-old boy named Dominic was playing his xylophone under a huge tree in the middle of a field. It was just him and the xylophone, and he was happily pounding away at the rectangular wooden blocks. You would never know that Dominic had killed for a living years earlier. But here he was now, under the radiance of the African sun and under the shelter of a living tree, with the sole consolation of his musical instrument. 
I think to me, the shot was a metaphor for redemption and protection.
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devidsketchbook:

Andres Bedoya   “Ultra Madre”   [Video]

In 2009 Andres Bedoya organized a haunting performance installation “Ultra Madre,” in which 57 women lay still on the scaffolding of the main arch of the Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia. For one hour the women did not move, their long, black hair cascading down the 15-foot structure. The jarring image of the soft hair against the rigid architecture stirred a quiet but lasting sense of unease.

Installation and Performance - mixed media, approx. 8’ w x 15’ h x 5’ d, National Museum of Art, La Paz, Bolivia, 2009.

tacticalshoyu:

French artist Mademoiselle Maurice who creates stunning geometric figures on urban surfaces using rainbows of folded origami figures. via

myedol:

Stills From Electrabel - Happy New Year (2009) by Famous

This is possibly the best stop motion animation I’ve ever seen. Created using 300,000 candles.

Must Watch:

…no seriously watch it

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iamqueennzinga:

1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish”, i.e., frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, “You acting womanish,” i.e., like a woman. Usually referring to outrageous,…

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laylali:

Life can be so much fun. 

unknownskywalker:

Tidying Up Art by Ursus Wehrli

Wehrli takes everyday scenes of disorder and rearranges them into neat rows, sorted by different attributes such as color, size, shape, and type, etc.

Canvas  by  andbamnan