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24 Sublime Dancing Goddess Gifs Share Their Joy

Animator Nina Paley created two dozen sublime early goddess GIFs, including a sassy Venus of Willendorf. We don’t know when we’ve seen so much forthright joy.

‘The Silent Friends’: An Ode to Trees

The Silent Friends is a film about trees, and how they possess the virtues we seek in those close to us.’ Whatever our landscape, they are there: friends and sanctuaries that help us navigate our world. It’s a visual ode, really, that you can also read.

Compassionate Self-Criticism, in the Third Person

When performance coach Kate Conklin was teaching me Alexander Technique via Skype a couple of weeks ago, she mentioned that she often critiqued herself in the third person when she was assessing her own actions or work. She said that it made her kinder to herself, as she is when she works with a student. I’ve been trying this…

Wondrous Daisy with A Few Wise Words

This wondrous gif is a poem in itself. And we found some other illuminating fragments…

How This Lovely Gif Helped Us Discover ‘The Future is Space’

When we found this gif, we thought “How beautiful. That is the wondrous globe we are riding around on every day.“ We started following trails and inviting connectors —the daily practice of Improvised Life —and suddenly there was a poem by Pablo Neruda we had never read before, whose last line led us full circle to perfection.

I Believe I Can…..(Gif-Inspiration)

One of the best gifs we’ve seen of late is I Believe I can… We know about flapping our arms hard to barely keep from falling in the water after we’ve stepped OFF the diving board BELIEVING WE CAN. Perhaps if we try a little harder, and shift our attitude slightly …

Wondrous Spinning Gif + Anne Herbert’s Inimitable Wisdom

We love this beauty of a gif from the great intepid gif-artist DVDP. It reminds us of the very wise words of the mysterious Anne Herbert:

5 Funny, Fab, Do-able Exercise Anywhere GIFS

Man Repeller’s recent round-up of popular workout options was peppered with wonderful gifs of exercises you can do anywhere. They take our penchant for improvised plein air exercise to a fab, curiously useful extreme. The memorable images show your really CAN be working out sans gym or special equipment/clothes.

Diane Ackerman: “Live as Variously as Possible”

For our morning read, we opened our dog-eared copy of Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of the Senses at random and found this perfect, heartening hunk of philosophical cake, a perfect accompaniment to the great DVDP’s luminous gif:

Testing! Testing! with a Fab Basquiat Inspired GIF

After a series of hair-raising technical glitches and outages, our server has been majorly upgraded. Just to make sure everything’s working fine, we’re sending this fab gif out as a test. TESTING TESTING! DO YOU READ ME? via Dezeen

We’re BACK from Yesterday’s Outage w Apologies + Thanks

In the wee hours of Monday morning, our server went down, causing the morning’s post to go undelivered and Improvised Life to be offline for most of the day. This was the worst of a number of outages that occurred during the past month. Although it wasn’t our fault (it was a DDoS attack designed to…

Gif of the Day: Flying Around (Sky Trails)

This gif, made from videographer Parker Paul‘s lovely film of seagull’s flight patterns and sky trails, is wonderful unto itself.

Gifs of the Week: Mindblowing 3D

Animated gifs have gone mind-blowingly 3D. It had to happen… OMG…. via Studio 360

It’s a New Year: Imagine!

(Video link HERE!) The lovely GIF we saw at Hedwiggen, below, suddenly made us flash on John Lennon singing Imagine in 1971, over forty years ago. The video he made with Yoko Ono, with its image of the opening up of the dark, shuttered rooms of a house to light, resonates still. We think of all that happened to…

Gif of the Week: Brain Storm Coming In!

via Hedviggen

GIF of the Week: LEGO Wave

via 31media.tumblr Thanks Holton!

Gif of the Week: Spreading Wings

If this beauty of of a gif doesn’t show in the post (gifs can be glitchy), click here. via Hedviggen

GIF of the Week: Fractal View

If the gif isn’t here, click here to view. via Holton Rower via Beautiful Decay

Gif of the Week: Roller Coaster Ride

If this gif doesn’t show up, click HERE to see it full size. Televandalist created this inspired “GIF of a Vine of a video of a flipbook of a GIF of a video of a roller coaster”. It was created using Flipbookit. It is exactly how we felt last week during our friend’s hospital emergency. Seeing…

Gif of the Week: Human Optical Illusion

Sorry, this gif just doesn’t want to stay published on our site. Just click here to make it pop out. Somebody spent a lot of creative thought, time, cardboard and energy making these seven seconds happen… Amazement! via Holton Rower via i.imgur.com

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