Faroe Island

The bell

by Dmitry Isakov

Playa de Benijo, Spain

Rainbow Mountain, Peru by Jeroen Fransen

by Uldis

january diaries: 孤独

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.

Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

This is the primordial illusion:

People think that the world is ancient.

Actually, it rises with your consciousness.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

this can't be true can it

been playing around more with carved and glazed critters. this one can hold something for you! like a tooth!

Transbaikal Region, Russia by Armen Zakharov

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

Franz Kafka

2010-06-09

Adventure complete! Arriving back to their truck after 16 days on the John Muir Trail.

Sierra Nevada, California

1990

btw with art when people say 'youve got to do it scared' 'youve got to draw bad' 'youre not gonna know how to do it until you do it' it sounds like bullshit but its true. 90% of art is just getting over the fear that it's not going to be good enough to deserve to be made in the first place. but you're here. you're alive and, with no need to justify that, you're going to make art. it's just part of being alive. you'll spend so long worrying you aren't doing it good enough that you'll look back and realized you didn't live a single day of it.