British graphic designer Ruben Ireland uses mixed media with the fusion of traditional techniques and digital processing to create thoughtful, dreamlike images that carry emotional weight as well as a relevance to our daily lives.
Dead Meat by Conor Harrington
Ruined Polaroids by William Miller
1.5 hours run-walk session
Planned to do another 5km, but as I’m with my family away from home I don’t really know where I am, so I got lost. I don’t know how many miles I did but I got lost and it took me 1.5 hours to get home. However I did figure out the biggest bane of winter running… takes forever to warm up and you don’t really start running properly in pace and rhythm until like 20 minutes into it. That’s pretty much half of a 5km circuit.
Star jumps at home tomorrow to warm up it is then!
5km, 43 minutes.
For a couple of months now I’ve been trying to get back into training (running.) I had a massive break before this attempt, over a year. And then a mini break for about 7 weeks, due to injury. First time since a year and a half ago that I feel any kind of fitness and ability to run.
It’s a pretty shit time, but it’s my PB since September. (PB ever is 10K 48 minutes, so my pace has nearly halved!). I had to take quite a lot of breaks because struggling with breathing more or less throughout because of asthma (I’ve been really bad at taking steroid meds too. Oops. It will take a good 2 months before the meds take effect now, IF I take it consistently.
Anyway.
Shower. Pub. :). And then coming home to wrap presents in the middle of the night.
(So much of health and fitness…)
I’m crap at this…
All this trying to be an artist stuff and doing work and photographing work and uploading work to laptop and uploading work to websites and blogs and Facebook and telling people about it. My GOD. How do you all have the time?!?!
TINY GIRL, BIG WORLD: Hug
After 5 weeks of living out of a suitcase, taking care of my aunty, I am finally home. I flew into LAX last night and just seeing the city lights as we flew over the LA basin made me get that “ahhhh home :)” feeling. I know it’s only been 5 weeks, but I went from a non-stop uber busy daily routine…
I’m reblogging this because I’m currently working on a piece featuring “the embrace”. For me, getting a hug, a hug that means something (I’ve missed you, I love you, I’m here for you… and the other one she said) is something very special and something that often lingers at the forefront of my mind for days or weeks or even months after the moment. It’s nice. But, however nice it is it’s equally terrifying to succumb to that embrace. You’re accepting something deep from that person, something signifying care and thus you become vulnerable. Vulnerable to something so transient - the hug. It might represent something permanent (that person’s love for you) but equally these things are unreliable. People. Are unreliable.
However, it is only when you succumb to this embrace, this vulnerability that you are really able to truly make the hug that you give mean something. This is not always easy. This is why there are so many “loose” hugs going around.
I don’t like these hugs either. But they’re reliable. Reliably shit, but reliable.
Mime and the art student that forced her into it. Haha!
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating…and you finish off as an orgasm.
—George Carlin (via atomos)
(via hannahsweetstimpulse)
Hello Prints
My cousin’s work in Seattle :).
Album Wishlist
1.) Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
2.) Foster the People - Torches
3.) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
4.) Jonathan Benisty - Abdominal
5.) John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea
La libertad solo existe cuando el amor esta presente
I’m still getting my thoughts together about a particular experience I have recently had. It’s disturbing because it has turned all of my belief and foundations about the nature of love and my ability to accomodate it on it’s head - and the funny thing is what I did was a classic action of the beliefs it overturned.
Thanks to the Irish I suppose.
(I’ll write in more detail when I’ve finished travelling.)
Astonishing Music Video: Table Beggar by Loose Fit
Watch the making of video here.
