The Restless Moon

[brblacksheep]

[wordswilling]

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler, “Furor Scribendi” in Bloodchild and Other Stories (via wordswilling)

[wetheurban]

Stunning Aerial Landscapes, Niaz Uddin

Niaz Uddin (aka @neohumanity) is a photographer, filmmaker, certified scuba diver and computer programmer currently based out of Los Angeles. Using the earths many beautiful landscapes as his subject, each of Uddin’s colorful aerial shots perfectly capture the best visual inspiration our planet has to offer. 

Instagram.com/WETHEURBAN

[therestlessmoon]

Quartz cobalt to ease depression and a celestial bell to keep the bad at bay.

[therestlessmoon]

(via Photos that bring mental health issues to life from DazedDigital)

Q: “The current ‘sad girl’ aesthetic/trend is also an artistic representation of depression (especially female depression). What do you think about this trend and how do you think your series relates to and/or rejects that approach?”

A: “Steph Wilson: I hadn’t thought about it before the shoot at all, and I certainly didn’t intend to create a link to the sad girl aesthetic (nor reject it), although I think it’s an interesting link to make. I wouldn’t opt to create work that romanticises mental health issues in that way, personally – to create yet another ‘damsel in distress’. To me, my anxiety dictated almost half of my life and, to be honest, it can fuck right off. What I’m saying is, this shoot isn’t paying homage to my anxiety, but attempting to distil it in a series of images. I feel that the sad girl trend is ornamenting the notion of being sad – maybe because the cinematic potential of teenage girls in their pastel adorned bedrooms with a gem-drop tear is so high: a modern-day Ophelia lying, motionless, in their en-suite bathtubs. Anxiety, however, is ugly and prickly and hollow. It doesn’t deserve a fashion trend.”

[therestlessmoon]

From Love, Lust, and Loss by Billy Howard

[seka-seka]

Music by Tom Via Flickr: Outdoor theater, Kjosfossen, Norway. Its total fall is around 225 metres (738 ft).

[aphrodisiacart]

MADELINE VON FOERSTER PORTFOLIO

http://www.madelinevonfoerster.com

[oldpainting]

Amazing.

[therestlessmoon]

<3

[slobbering]

[lifeinpoetry]

Grew up on self improvement: endless Beauty pageants and daily ballet. The commonplace cruelties of imperfection. This is the story of how I burned it down.

Cynthia Cruz, from “The Great Destroyer,” Year Zero (via lifeinpoetry)

[therestlessmoon]

Today was all about moon shrines and moss.

[austinkleon]

“Self-help,” from Matt Haig’s Reasons To Stay Alive

[oldpaintings]

Phantom Crane, 1891 by William Holbrook Beard (American, 1824–1900)

[therumpus]

We arrive when midnight witches one day into another. We set up camp in the first empty spot and I don’t know where my family is. Kateri, Wayne, and I drove six hours to be here. We carry sleep to our camp. Three young men help us set the tent, chatty and kind. I feel welcome but not safe. There is a static crackling, a murmured, frantic voice. A man wearing a walkie-talkie strapped to his shirt is here. A truck is whipping around, probably Dakota Access LLC. I watch the taillights rush over the hill. The three young men assure us that it’s okay, and that DAPL have been trying to agitate the camp. The static crackle again, and then there is a fire spreading in a field. You can hear the tension rise and the three young men try to soothe us—not to placate but to instruct. People are told not to go to the fire. There have been snipers in the area and we need to avoid being targets. I remember earlier a police officer had smiled and told us to be safe at their checkpoint, four miles away. The fire burns all night with no response from the police and no fire trucks. Panicked campers wake us up twice during the night as the fields burn. It is a dry night and the wind is heavy. There is no response. We learn later that multiple people called for help and were laughed at, hung up on.

THE SATURDAY RUMPUS ESSAY: Woman At Standing Rock by Millissa Kingbird. (via therumpus)

[salvius]

[dltnart]

#supermoon #montauk

[memoirsofagaysh-blog]

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents (via

memoirsofagaysh-blog

Parable of the Talents is one of my favorite books.  Today--among other things--I am thinking about how eerie it is that our new reality echoes the America of this dystopian novel.