Rumi + A Movie: Black Swan

Shatter open my skull, pour in it the wine of madness!
Let me be mad, as mad as You, mad with You, with us.
Beyond the sanity of fools is a burning desert
Where Your Sun is whirling in every atom; drag me there,
Beloved, drag me there, let me roast in Perfection!

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)

Swervey

(Guido Mocafico via Feature Shoot)

Austin Power on my birthday

"Caroline 2", Nov 13, 9:36 PM

"Kristine" Nov 13, 10:52 PM

"Self-Portrait 2", Nov 13, 11:37 PM

(From Austin Power's November)

baby love

baby love

will you come back in the morning

and bring me some of that very special coffee?

i want to let you know i'm gonna let you down all over again

but you mean something to me

something that i never thought could be real

-unknown

Color blind

what does it mean??? (click)

(via Bruce van der Kooij, here and Things That Are Rectangles)

I've Been Trying

Spineless

(Sea of Shoes via because i'm addicted)

Flow

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. A leading researcher in positive psychology, he has devoted his life to studying what makes people truly happy: "When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life." He is the architect of the notion of "flow" -- the creative moment when a person is completely involved in an activity for its own sake.

(via Ted)

3-day Cleanse

This cleanse is self-designed. It’s pretty much just a raw food situation for 3 days for the purpose of giving your body a chance to slow down, eliminate toxins and allow for a subtle reboot to the system. It is generally advised that one do this type of cleanse during a time that you can otherwise take things easy. It’s normal and expected that you may find yourself to be more emotional, irritable, etc. as your body eliminates toxins over the course of the 3 days. It’s also normal that you may experience headaches if you’re used to having a lot of caffeine or sugar in your system.

Personally, I find the reintroduction of various foods/drinks after the 3 days to be among the most beneficial aspects of cleansing, as you become aware of the various effects experienced from specific items.

Immediately upon waking-up:
Cup of warm water

Breakfast:
Green smoothie
Ingredients: Spinach, Kale or Chard, Banana + frozen mango or other fruit(s) of choice, Water or O.J., Oatmeal

Mid-Morning Snacks (as needed/desired):
Vita Coco water
Fresh fruit

Lunch:
Leafy salad with nuts and/or grains (quinoa is a great addition to bulk up a salad)

Afternoon Snacks (as needed/desired):
Raw veggies and/or fruit
Nuts

Dinner:
Fresh veggie juice

Before bed:
Warm water

Things to avoid: Coffee/caffeine, sugars, alcohol, dairy, meat, processed foods

"Mural"

Eighty feet long by twenty-three feet high, Julie Mehretu’s “Mural” dominates the entrance lobby of Goldman Sachs’s new steel-and-glass office building in lower Manhattan. Hundreds of precisely defined abstract shapes in saturated colors—small dots and squares, straight and curving lines, larger geometric or free-form shapes ranging from several inches to several feet in length—move across it in an oceanic sweep. “It took me a long time—six months or so—to decide I wanted to do this,” Mehretu told the writer. Mehretu is thirty-nine, friendly, and open. “One reason was this wall, which is so clearly visible from outside the building…I could never make a painting this scale anywhere else.”

(via The New Yorker March 29, 2010)

Truth

600 years Anniversary of Prague's Astrological Tower Clock

The 600 Years from the macula on Vimeo.

Knot Now

knot (n.)
1. a. A compact intersection of interlaced material, such as cord, ribbon, or rope.

b. A fastening made by tying together lengths of material, such as rope, in a prescribed way.

(via Sealair)

2. A decorative bow of ribbon, fabric, or braid.

(Michael Kors SS11 via Hanneli)

3. A unifying bond, especially a marriage bond.

4. A tight cluster of persons or things: a knot of onlookers.

5. A feeling of tightness: a knot of fear in my stomach.

6. A complex problem.

7. a. A hard place or lump, especially on a tree, at a point from which a stem or branch grows.

b. The round, often darker cross section of such a lump as it appears on a piece of cut lumber. Also called node.

(Tule tree via DailyCognition.com)

8. A proturberant growth or swelling in a tissue: a knot in a gland.

9. a. Nautical A division on a log line used to measure the speed of a ship.
b. Abbr. kn. or kt. A unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.85 kilometers (1.15 statute miles) per hour.
c. A distance of one nautical mile.