Love the watercolor effect and the beautiful balance of light and shadow, density and space.
Dust Tracks On a Road: Gulf Coast Blues and More: Barbara Lynn & Belton Richard
Tune in for the words and music of two storied artists of the Gulf South. First up, the Empress of Gulf Coast Soul, Barbara Lynn, of Beaumont, Texas. Ms. Lynn recalls her days as the Black Elvis, playing left-handed guitar and penning and…
Love learning about this kind of Americana history. Will have to check out the radio show American Routes:
American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music — blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical.
Aida Overton Walker
She was an American dancer and choreographer at the turn of the 20th century. What a dress! This image makes me wonder about her life story and all the adventures she must have had.
A beautiful sandy shore landscape. Would love to take off my shoes and walk through it.
Great use of positive and negative space. Especially love how the tree trunks turn from black to white based on the background, but the eye does not lose the continuity of their form.
Zack Griffin built this 112-ft tiny house to spend six weeks bumming across the west with fellow skiers Molly Baker and Neil Provo in search of great snow and good people for Outdoor Research’s Sidecountry Sessions.
Completely ridiculous and awesome at the same time.
Baie des dunes, Madagascar
Would love to see this view in person.
“The universe is not made of atoms; it’s made of [tiny] stories.”
-Muriel Rukeyser [& wirrow]
I just bought this small book yesterday (1/2/12) at Barns&Noble and I absolutely fell in love. It’s so charming—like a small book of smiles.
Directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, each page has a tiny one page story (no more than a few sentences like the ones above) accompanied with an original illustration put together for that story. It features about 60 artists and there will be 3 volumes. I can’t resist but to plan on getting them all. I highly recommend you do too. ♥
“The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1 brings together art and voices from around the world to unite and tell stories that defy size.” -Hitrecord
This reminds me of my favorite game designer Digital Stoneworks, who write: “The cornerstone of our architectural design and the plumbing behind our products, the Digital Stoneworks Story Platform is organized around the concept of Story as atomic unit of culture, enabled by the power of digital media to convey those stories.”
