matt connors

timber



julian kyl
via my pal
swiss miss

diving for gold

and mermaids

ray: a life underwater

watch it

in full screen

and you'll want

to get a pint of beer

with ray afterwards

dir: Amanda Bluglass

filmmaker: Danny Cooke

dip dyed

the mixed emotions
of our sheltering sky

paintings by
JMW Turner




we're always at a loss for
words when trying to recall
a sunset or that feeling
before a big storm



and after...



when the
clouds lift


and the light
becomes more
magnificent than
on a clear day.



even though we
think we have control,
we spend every moment of our
waking lives trying to express,
understand and articulate what
we're feeling or experiencing
on this foreign planet



and
in our own
minds



to confront that chaos
we use whatever we can
get our hands on to
make sense of it



and people still ask
"why does art matter"?



ps:

"I couldn't
possibly tell you.

It's here.
Can't you feel it?

everything is
in color and I can
feel the air"

love these
images posted
by ensuite



you know
sage green/red
is my favorite color
combination


weird, eh?


my sparse apt.
decor plays off of


red
white
green


it could very easily
go the wrong way,
and look holiday



I love working with
color combos that
walk the fine line.



ps:


new blood
by peter gabriel

maria moyer


a friend and
a great mentor.


see her work
in a person


@ rogan
330 bowery
nyc

the white chimp

I saw a great doc
on Jane Goodall at
the Sausalito Film Fest



I remember seeing Jane
speak when I was 15 or so.
She gave one of the most
inspiring lectures I've
heard in my life



without a doubt,
I think she is the most
influential woman
in the world


an advocate
for chimps and thus
an advocate of humanity




2 or 3 things
you might not know:


Jane's mother
left her provincial
life in Britain to journey
with her to africa and
live in the jungle.


for the 1950's,
it was pretty rare for two
women to do something like that
especially considering Jane was 23
and had no field experience.



the photos above were
taken by national geographic
photog Baron Hugo van Lawick
who was sent to Gombe to photograph
a young woman he heard was
living with the chimps.



they fell
in love.



I can see why.
look how beautiful
she was and still is.

i did not mean to
leave you hanging




you must assume
from my last post
that I'm on a very
long vacation


and you're
becoming a bit bitter
that I'm living such
a life of leisure



or maybe
not



but to clear the
rumors and afternoon
tea gossip, I am in fact
not in new york.


because
I am working
on a project



and I'm missing
2 or 3 terribly.


I promise
to get in a better
posting routine
this fall




ps:

you're summer
been good?


what's the
best thing you've
done? the best day?





jonas lindstroem

nantucket

lots of
grey shingles
and bougainvillea


polar opposite
of where I live
in brooklyn



ps:

another earth


interview
with brit marling
writer/actress


keep her on
your radar

ronald chase

drawing, photography
and folded paper
2009

went to sea
to beat the heat

saturday's dinner
was fresh blue fish
with chopped tomatoes
and basil butter sauce




there's nothing
better than catching
your dinner.



keeping only
what you
can eat



when you
watch the last pass
of air through the gills
of a fish you find yourself
making a promise with the order
of nature to take responsibility
for the life you've taken.



if we all knew
the source of what
we consume, we would
not consume as much
as we do.




life is precious




and I'm guilty
of not taking this
seriously everyday

le voyage creatif

+

wooden beads



shells too

what my mid summer
looks like in colors
and stripes



and late
mid summer
dance parties
sound like this



pad morrison

ernst caramelle


and


tembea bags
ph: nao shimziu


via the blue hour's
pinterest boards

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night
at the least sound in fear of what my life
and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light.

For a time I rest
in the grace of the world,
and am free.



–

the peace of wild things

wendell berry

on the subject of frames


photoshop
in a physical form


via thing organized neatly

shelframe


for framing objects


bahbak hashemi-nezhad

sacos de papel


and mobiles


anve

power, corruption, lies







Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour


&

peter saville's
new order’s 1983 album
‘power, corruption & lies






the weight and
darkness of flowers.



via the blue hour

” English is for business,
Spanish is for working,
Italian is for fighting

and French is
for lovemaking”



Gian Franco Brione
costa careyes, mexico



Gian Franco
photographed by
nancy neil



it's been 3 years now
since nancy photographed
my sister's wedding



she is
the best!

more of this






2 painters
have been on
my mind


alex kanevsky

chelsea bentley james