When you are happy, dance. When you are sad, dance.
If a famous person also said something similar, apologies to them. I also said this though.
I know sometimes it's hard to get started when you're sad, but let go... and then maybe you can happy dance again.
Thanks goes out to the dynamo in the photo who was willing to teach her moves to everyone and is the most amazing faux-breakdancer under 4 feet tall that I've ever met.
May your wounds heal. And thank goodness for all the hundreds of kind souls who've already volunteered to clean you up and help your shop owners. People destroying what their fellows have worked so hard to build seems so senseless. If it weren't for the photos and the first person accounts, I'd find this all much harder to believe than it already is. You were my home once and I'll always think fondly of you.
This time on Like That.... the word edition (which is only slightly odd for a photographer).
My Little Ponies Physics Presentation
When I saw the headline on Good.is Nerds Rule: Watch This Kid Destroy the Dubious Physics of "My Little Pony" I could not resist.
I'm a little surprised I never did anything like this in my advanced physics class back in the day. And I'm pretty sure had I watched a whole episode before, I would be using words like dubious too.
Save The Words
This is a funny little effort to raise awareness for words that drop out from common English language over the years. It's amusing (at least to me) to pop in and learn a few new words and definitions. The sample sentences tend to be a bit sarcastic. You can even adopt a word and protect it from extinction. Of course you could also argue there's a reason these words disappear. And then I'd have to tell you to be quiet and just have fun with this.
Favorite recent finds:
oporopolist: a fruit-seller
veteratorian: subtle
nubivagant: moving throughout or among clouds
http://www.savethewords.org/
(You might want to turn your sound down if you don't want to hear the words yell out for you to pick them.)
Word Art I like typography. And I like a good quote. And I like when people put them together in pretty ways.
This one on the left is actually a print available from blimpcat on etsy. I do not know blimpcat, but I like how the words are ready to burst out of their confines. It's like overflowing happiness and yet at the same time a note to just try to fit this in to your busy life.
I also like this moving typography from David Shiyang Liu over on Vimeo. It's a nice anecdote from Ira Glass about storytelling (and more about the creative process in general). Also it's true. I remember going to some photo classes thinking, "This is not it. This is getting closer but this is not yet it. It's all I have to show right now though... so..."
Oh, man. My nerd card was totally showing throughout this whole post, wasn't it?
One night four friends attended a fundraiser benefiting an organization that provides women in need with the training and resources to find economic independence. They were moved by the stories, especially those of women who had been abused and sometimes had the hardest journeys. And while they were glad they'd decided to attend that night, they couldn't help wanting to do more.
So they formed their own group to put on events to raise money to help others going through these tough economic times. And now for the third year in a row, they've put on a golf outing to raise money and awareness for the organization that originally inspired them all. Take Action Now is their mantra and they really have.
Thank you to TAN for thinking of me as your photographer. It's nice to be a part of giving back to the community. And it's really nice to see people band together and have so much fun while doing it.
