I finished this today. To say it was remarkable is a tempestuous understatement. I can not wait to read more from Murakami. 

Drive to Mt. Martha, and back again;

The Bear & The Fox

A bear was once bragging about his generous feelings, and saying how refined he was compared with other animals. (There is, in fact, a tradition that a bear will never touch a dead body.) A fox, who heard him talking in this strain, smiled and said, 'My friend, when you are hungry, I only wish you would confine your attention to the dead and leave the living alone.'

A hypocrite deceives no-one but himself.

Aesop's Fables. I desperately need to find myself a copy of this book.

R.I.P.

Remembering Margaret Moth:


http://edition.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/03/21/holmes.moth.obit.cnn.html

Dream House:

Works by surrealism Russian artist Vladimir Kush

Toff in Town, 2008 

I found this today and couldn't stop smiling. I have some of the greatest memories from these nights we used to have.. 

You critters are lovely. 

When it comes to inspiration, Sebastião Salgado is one of the first individuals who comes to mind. He embodies everything I long to be in a photographer, and seems possess so many qualities that I honor in another. I quite honestly fail to express how moved I am by most of the stories and images captured by Salgado. 

Enclosed below is a very small collection of some personal favorites. I hope you enjoy.

Woman and girls, Ecuador, 1982

The Mines of Serra Pelada

Manila slum. Philippines, 1999

This song is brilliant, relevant in so many ways, and quite catchy:


Vienna - Billy Joel, The Stranger.

For you, dear creature.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

Teddy Roosevelt

Monday is Color Theory and 'Peanut Nutter' from Trampoline 

This is how I start my day:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://www.noorimages.com/index.php?id=splash

I could cry over the majority of these images. I really, really could. They are remarkable.

:)

This week has been one of the most powerful, and remarkable ones that I have experienced so far. I've felt the full might of human emotion this week; from being able to open my heart to someone I've been waiting a lifetime for, despite being so nervous, to completely letting another go without any fear of the unknown.
There are so many doors opening around me that I don't know where to look first. I welcome this new transitional phase with the utmost vim.
I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait!

1st Solo Drive in Yuroke,Victoria

"I close the curtains and crawl back under the covers, but there's no way I can go back to sleep now. My head's too full of that enigmatic girl. A strange terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cadge, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will - over and over.
I switch the light on and wait for the dawn, sitting up in bed. I can't read, can't listen to music. I can't do anything but sit there, waiting for morning to come. As the sky begins to lighten I do sleep a bit. When I wake up, my pillow's cold and damp with tears. But tears from what? I have no idea"


- Page 236 of Kafka on the Shore. Haruki Murakami has a remarkable way with words. 

Raindrops on Toorak 

"Of humanity's bent twig, nothing straight was ever made"

Kant 

Yuroke Countryside, I & II 

Cake batter, cookie dough, kit-kat.

Pass

Today was a good day. 

Correction, it was a great day.  It was filled with milestones, excitement, and giggles. 

I passed my driving test, finally being able to feel as though the world really is my oyster. I had a grand sandwich and coffee for lunch in Ivanhoe, and then saw a film after my first solo drive.

The evening alluded to yet another drive, and a few hours spent on the couch reading after cooking dinner and doing some research for class.

Today was a really, really good day. 

The Coolest - Lupe Fiasco

Borders Travel

I saw this today, and can't say I was incredibly enthralled. Tim Burton's conclusion of Alice's pilgrimage back to Wonderland really didn't do the story, or Lewis Carroll, any justice. Then again, I'm not the biggest Tim Burton fan. 
I honestly prefer the striking Pan's Labyrinth when it comes to tales of this sort. 

This is my favorite image from the Spring/Summer 2010 Hermès ad campaign 

One month till New Zealand! 

Edward Hopper's Nighthawks 

Astrophotography, astrophotography, astrophotography! Dear god!
This is a field that I certainly plan on learning more about..

Beards from 2009