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.
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(Video link HERE). Shipping pallet creations are among our most popular posts and we’ve featured A LOT of them over the years. Tomáš Moravec‘s re-purposing of the simple pallet may be the most inspired of all: “A new transport vehicle brings change into the spatial perspective of a passenger in motion and generally changes the life of…
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(Video link HERE.) This morning first thing, we listened to J.S. Bach’s Herr Gott, Dich Loben Alle Wir Chorale (BWV 130): PERFECT music to start the day. And along with it, as we went our morning routine, was the vision of musicians performing it. There is something remarkable about having the performance “live” even if we…
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(Video link HERE.) Fifth grade students at W. A. Porter Elementary School in Hurst, Texas came up with a stupendously imaginative entry for their talent show. They HAD to have watched a lot of videos to get was synchonized swimming was all about. But whose BRILLIANT idea was it to do AIR swimming. It made us…
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(View video HERE.) Susan Dworski sent this as an antidote to “Blues”. Hamburg-based classical quartet Salut Salon perform “instrumental acrobatics” that push the limits of what violin, cello and piano are SUPPOSED to do. The inherent question that each new unexpected use of an instrument asks: WHY NOT?
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(Video link HERE.) Canadian Les Beaux Frères are part of the burgeoning contemporary circus arts movement coming out Quebec. Their clever towel dance made us LAUGH. via The Dish
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(Video link here.) Whenever we are in Saks or Barney’s, we make a point to check out what’s going on at Commes des Garcons, fashion designer Rei Kawakubo’s line of consistently imaginative and unexpected clothing. It always shifts our thinking about what a shirt, dress, pant, coat can be, indeed what even constitutes men’s or…
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Somehow Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report managed a combination of deep respect and humor in his commentary on the Boston bombing: And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So here’s what I know. These maniacs may have…
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(Video link here.) Mike Breach never knew he was an artist, until he started working as a barrista. He discovered that the foamed milk inspired him to draw in cappucinos and lattes. The way he found his unique expression seems like kismet to us. If you’d like to try your hand at drawing in milk froth…
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(Video link here.) We don’t know when we’ve seen any living being taking delight so completely as this young elephant frolicking in the surf. Somehow, watching it makes us feel its uninhibited, wholehearted, in-the-moment refreshing pleasure in a simple thing — the sea. It’s a fine reminder for the first day of the week: go…
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(Video link here.) We especially love the kid at 1:30 min. While we watch all these wildly ACTIVE people, we think of all the people doing awesome things unobserved. via Kottke Related posts: danny macaskill’s new video: what he thinks as he rides 94-year-old matilda klein’s gracefully defiant dance weekend fun: new danny macaskill…
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The forecast for today: a wondrous pink sky and an ocean full of ideas… via 40licks Related posts: an evening gif: gratitude… practice makes! what have you been making today? peep show gif: funny, risqué, slightly x-rated color/pattern meditation break gif-inspiration: devise, invent, create…try something new
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(Video link here.) The latest video from cyclist Danny MacAskill has an added feature: insight into MacAskill’s thinking and interior approach to his challenging stunts and excursions: JOYRIDE. Related posts: joy ride: practice makes wondrous perfection danny macaskill’s joy ride danny macaskill’s bike lesson (setbacks + difficulties + perseverance = mastery) gifts + inspiration for bikers…
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‘back to the future’ by malte jäger, 2011 Reminder to self: this perfect flying move was the result of A LOT of practice and falling flat on face… via Gif me Berlin Related posts: skateboard in style! (1974) practice flying (via the uganda skateboard union) skateistan: skateboarding as antidote (to war, poverty, sadness…) joy ride: practice makes…
Read MoreOur friend Fast Forward sent us an illuminating post from Gilttaste called “What Makes Sushi Great”. It’s about newly released film, “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”, about Jiro Ono, 85 years old, a revered sushi chef and one of Japan’s Living National Treasures who runs a tiny, legendary restaurant inside a Tokyo subway station: “…the movie…
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This video came from a CD/book called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying. It’s read by Thich Nath Hanh and chanted by brother Phap Niem. Whether you’re Buddhist or Not, it’s full of riches. Watch full screen…or just listen (here). Thanks Maria!! Related posts: reminder: shooting stars all around us (gif) insta-perspective: this is where we are travel…
Read More(We advise watching with sound off.) Every once in a while, if we can’t actually get a dose of REAL nature, we turn to a video of some crazy wonder of the natural world to shift our view. This owl’s identity changes radically depending on his perceived threat level – kind of like many humans…
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(Video link here.)…yeah, people are AWESOME. via Kottke Related posts: weekend fun: new danny macaskill video danny macaskill’s joy ride danny macaskill’s bike lesson (setbacks + difficulties + perseverance = mastery)
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(Video link here.) We’ve been at a loss for words to write about Steve Jobs’ passing, so thought we’d publish a few really potent ones from our friends and colleagues, along with the original “Think Different” ad from the 90’s, sent to us by Pamela Hovland: “…it expressed his vision for the company (Apple) but embodied…
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