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@codybeastman

22, circus artist, richmond, virginia. i'm a flow junkie, a multi-prop fire performer and novice acrobat, big fan of art in all its forms, practitioner of zazen and moving meditations, and am dedicated to finding the dance in everything that i do. i once was lost in darkness, until i found myself, enveloped in flames of salvation. family means more to me than blood, and am a firm believer in the art of church through party, as a member of the richmond, va based party liberation front. praise acideonious! i try my damnedest to guide my life according to my own principles, which just so happen to coincide quite often with the ten principles of burning man.

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might not be able to change in a few weeks, but habits can change enough to make me feel like a different person. of course, time will tell, but the point is, i’m not saying i’m changed; i’m saying i’m changing.

and lord forbid you actually wanna keep doing this… this new perspective, mine and yours as well, will help prevent things from ever getting this bad again.

but that takes work and a want to continue so it’s not likely to happen.

i feel like i’m waking from a coma though.

itscolossal

Photographer Spends 20 Years Documenting How We All Dress Exactly Alike

vid of a warmup from last week. some new techniques i've been working on.

#contact staff #circus #juggling #firespinning #flowarts #fire staff

thekidshouldseethis

In Kazuhiko Okushita‘s Red Thread (2010), an animated line stretches and curls from scene to scene, visualizing moments of youth, growing up, and circling back around again.

Watch the video.

nubbsgalore

photos by matt smith from the Illawarra coast in new south wales of bluebottles, violet snails and blue dragons.

despite its resemblance to the jellyfish, the bluebottle is more closely related to coral. known as a zooid, the bluebottle (or portugese man of war) is a colonial animal composed of many highly specialized and physiologically integrated individual organisms incapable of independent survival.

the blue dragon — a type of nudibranch, here no larger than a thumbnail, with its own potent sting — is able to eat the nematocysts (stinging cells) of the bluebottle without discharging them and internally relocate them to the tips of each one of the fingers you can see in the pictures.

for their part, the violet snails also feed on the bluebottles.

notes matt, “despite their potentially dangerous sting, the bluebottle is an amazingly beautiful creature. with strong winds, hundreds of these cnidaria are blown into the bays around my home town and trapped overnight.”

this allows him to capture the above shots, which he creates with use of a fluorescent tube in his strobe light and a homemade waterproof lens dome.

1000drawings

by Grant Snider

codybeastman

that last one kills me.

joemerrell

darksilenceinsuburbia

James Ostrer

Photographer James Ostrer documents our obsession with sugar in a series of grotesque real life portraits of people covered in layers of sweets and junk food. Speaking largely on the to the global food production and increasingly dangerous methods of mass production, Ostrer’s photographs conjure tribal images that are both fascinating and repulsive. Via the press release, “This adornment becomes a mask of what we eat which then becomes entwined with a hyper-pop sensibility and an obsequious inquiry into the great volumes of sugar that flow through our bodies.”