… by the video bug. Which is no surprise to anyone who knows my history. I mean the first kiss ever shared by my husband and I long before we were husband and wife is captured on video and that is how we got together. I was lugging around a huge camera, directing scenes and capturing it all and he was kind enough to rub my back and wrap me in warmth after hours of standing freezing in the night air to get the scene. I abandoned it all years ago in favour of the still image but lately, i’ve been bitten by the bug and I think I like it.

This oh so adorable video conjurs up such lovely magic, fun and watching it makes me feel the romantic joy of summer sun and bubble smiles,

This is a fairy tale winding its way into my heart and honestly makes me want to abandon all my projects and sketch out storylines and attempt to create my own beauty,

My Favourite Things from kidswithcrayons on Vimeo.

(thanks vivienne)

I recently acquired a Canon 5d, Mark II and it shoots video and I have all these great lenses so I really do have a toolkit ready to go but its going to take some time for me to clear the learning curve to really do what I want to do. That makes me excited and I suspect I will be sharing a lot more snippets of video over the summer. So much so that I couldn’t resist creating a bonus video response in the form of a long photograph for last Sunday’s The Four.

I really do love feeling that excitement when you start doing something new, even when that something new is an old love, it still feels new and beautiful and fun and exciting. I am giving myself permission to share it all here, to make things that don’t work, to get messy, to have fun and to just play and see what happens. I love that.

peace.

i’ve been in a bit of a funk over the past couple of days, the endless re-evaluation of my life has lead me down a path of thought that is so very illuminating as these things often are. funks are good it seems. but if i do decide to share, it will be another time because …

… today is my friday and the sky is blue, the sun is shining and i had an awesome bike ride into work this morning and tomorrow morning i have a phone date with one of my bestest girlfriends and then an afternoon trip to our brand new, one of the few in canada, anthropologie stores. i have a lot to smile about, dance even.

i stumbled across this video a week or so ago from i can’t even remember where and it thrilled me to no end and i’ve watched it more times than i care to admit because it makes me so happy and gets my feet twitching and makes me want to dance around in bikini bare feet on the hot sandy beach of my teenage years but i’ll settle for my cubicle which i have danced in more times than i care to admit because i refuse to be confined by beige conceptions. i march to my own little drum and thankfully i am not the norm in my very busy area which attracts a certain kind of rebel i think.

enjoy,

(via wayfaring wanderer)

(via daisy)

all the more reason perhaps, to sit quietly. i wonder how humanity evolves within this sort of construct of change, how we process it all and find our value within such a quick moving need for adaptation. change takes time when it concerns daily practice and emotional growth and yet technological change has us moving far faster than perhaps we are able to fully comprehend within our views, points of reference and ethical value system.

there is a lot for me to digest within this video, thoughts around media influence and power and the amount of time i spend on the internet; thoughts around my life and how as technology advances, i find myself sinking deeper into the natural world even though i embrace the new technologies and surround myself with them but wonder whether it all truly does enrich my life. i have no answers only questions and more questions.

i think we can embrace change but at the same time we need time to realize what that means, how we live within that, who we are as humans. we all might need just a little more time to really think without the influence of constant stream of information. i really don’t know. i need to think about his some more.

(vlog no. 3)

i breathe in the green of you
the tangled life
grown out of freedom
a clandestine thought
forwarded in the rain
of a lush breathe

and peace fills a heart
weathered.

and i listen to the song of the rain
deepened by the breathe of flight’s
whisper across an open sky.

(music is the wind and the birds)

(music is follow me by silence)

“Bottom line about this “collaboration with the universe”– it is our mission and intention to find the most lovely stuff floating out there, and if you are the creator/maker of it, we want the world to know about it and you.” (amy krouse)

(thanks to an enchanted life)

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” (johann wolfgang von goethe)

go out there and do something bold this weekend, go on … i dare you … ’cause really who do you think you are?

*(thank you jamie and violet for the introduction to this documentary ~ so inspiring!!)

smeared light
windows to my soul
lost behind your lens
searching for truth

memories of the future
lies stolen
small moments
of truth

smeared concrete
cracked
bleeding ants
in the shadowed light

of a warm spring day.

and because i can’t resist smearing a little light on my walls and i see the flickr video as an opportunity to extend the photograph a bit, i may play with video more, it is an old love which i like to indulge on occasion, i may even have to do a video poetry reading given it is poetry month …

*music by almost leather band (my husband is the drummer)