THE FUN THEORY

TASHA WEST

Unique ways to identify your soul space always interest me. I love these Tasha West astrology cuffs...they are subtle and smooth. I'm a Ram...

SOCIALNOMICS

NOTEFOLIO

Pretty sure I'm gonna own this Poketo piece...

SHEPARD FAIREY

(500) DAYS OF SUMMER

The agony of love in this film was so compelling it actually made me laugh...

SAMUEL JOHNSON

shared by wide open spaces

MOVIE LINES

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY | ENVIROMENTAL ARTIST

2:10 "When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse..."
3:15 A moment of true contentment...
3:45 "I am so amazed at times that I am actually alive..."

MAYA ANGELOU

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."

THE STORY OF STUFF

This is just a teaser to a longer version that I hope you will share with anyone, especially a friend under 18 that can learn and incorporate the story of stuff into a story of less is more into their lives...

JIM DENEVAN | SAND ART

I had to share { high & low designs' } art find | fabulous from above | i have to wonder what the people on the beach are seeing | check out more...

CAVE DWELLING

This Missouri cave home is like nothing I have ever seen or would have thought to create | i don't know that I would go for this as my home, but the ingenuity and the idea that it fosters health and harmony encourages me to seek out the same.

OUTSTANDING IN THE FIELD

Absolutely a dream to share this farm-to-table fare in such a dream of a space | the longest linened table I have ever seen makes me think of laughter and the twinkle in the eye when bellies are full and the head is light from vino.

RADIOHEAD

This is the first time I have found a full Radiohead concert available online | it gives you an idea of the amazing light show they created to compliment music that soars.

PAUL SIMON

"Listen to the sound of silence."

ORGASMS

a one minute mentally charged orgasm | dead people can too | the reason why we haven't have bad breath | Mary Roach shares ten things we didn't know about orgasms in this TED talk | enjoy it people and laugh out loud...alot!

UNDERWATER BALLET

This film depicts the one of many definitions I maintain for grace | Liz Goldwyn has billboards in Los Angeles, which caught my attention, and Times Square | marketing at its' best for a short film | the film was shot with a Phantom Camera, which captures action at 1000 frames per second | because it records at such a high frame rate, the Phantom records all that the naked human eye cannot see and all the “in-between” moments of movement are suddenly visible | stunning.

SIXTH SENSE

I am completely speechless about this | i want, want, want this technology | listen to Pattie Maes from MIT at TED show you how wearable technology that allows you to completely interact with your environment is changing the game.

WATER | FEIST

I can't stop thinking about cleaning and conserving water these days | when I found this song and realized the lyrics stated 'the water didn't realize it's dangerous size' I felt compelled to recognize that the element that could eradicate our species and life on Earth as we know it is merely an innocent victim of our trauma | there will be many more postings on H2O in this blog so for now worship the melody and the glory of Feist.

THE WATER
The telegraph cables hung
Few can decipher who the message is from
And deliver it quietly
'Cause some don't get much company

The harbor becomes the sea
And lighting the house keeps it collision free
Understand the lay of the land
Don't let it hurt you
Or it will be the first to

The water
The water didn't realize
Its dangerous size
The mountain
The mountain came to recognize
Its steep and rocky sides
More than realized

Pale as a pile of bones
You hope for your babies and this is how they grow
Wind-battered, knocked over
The teeth by the shoulder
Watching the gray sky that's acting like a good guy

The water
The water came to realize
Its dangerous size
The mountain
The mountain came to recognize
Its steep and rocky sides
Came to recognize
Its steep and rocky sides
More than realized

HIS HOLINESS THE 14TH DALAI LAMA

“Who provides the opportunity to cultivate patience?
Not our friends.
Our enemies give us the most crucial chances to grow.”
~ Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

KEEP OR TOSS?

Food storage knowledge may not immediately click as an ecologically friendly way to help ourselves and our planet but in fact, waste not, want not | discovering the best way to store your food will keep your pockets and your belly fuller | next time you aren't sure check out Still Tasty's helpful hints on everything in your pantry and fridge from frosting to banana liquor.

VETIVER

I am always searching for my summer song | it just needs to have a beat that makes me smile and lyrics that are easy to sing over and over again while my hair blows in the ocean breeze | fanciful | Vetiver's 'EVERYDAY' is creeping towards the top of that list | i'm into everything on this band's album | check out all you need to know as well as listen to their audio player | you gotta love a band that kicks it old school...see their fashionable and uniquely subtitled video below.


EVERYDAY
Every day, I'm away from you
Shakes me up inside
I wanna be near you
Know that you are here
Lyin' just next to me
How happy we'd both be

I say it all the time
You don't pay no mind
When I tell you that I love you
Now do ya ?
I wanna be clear
All I wanna hear is your voice
Have your face to see
How happy that would make me

Do-do-do-do-do (repeat)

I always seem to make
Something out of nothing
But I can't make you appear
While I'm away
Just know I'll play this song
For you and wait

Wait for me now (Do-do-do)
Wait for me now (o-oh)
Oh wait for me now (Do-do-do)
Wait for me now
Wait for me now

MAHATMA GANDHI

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

GET YOUR VOLUNTEER ON

As unemployment rates rise, volunteerism could too | do something for the greater good with your free time | it's a great way to get to know new organizations and do some networking too | check out GOOD Magazine's online take on WHY WE CAN...

JEFF BUCKLEY

Passed to young and took with him so much talent | check out his bio and other pleasures | he left us with 'GRACE'...thankfully



GRACE
There's the moon asking to stay
Long enough for the clouds to fly me away
Though it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die
My fading voice sings of love,
But she cries to the clicking of time,
Of time

Wait in the fire...

And she weeps on my arm
Walking to the bright lights in sorrow
Oh drink a bit of wine we both might go tomorrow,oh my love
And the rain is falling and I believe
My time has come
It reminds me of the pain I might leave
Leave behind

Wait in the fire...

And I feel them drown my name
So easy to know and forget with this kiss
But I'm not afraid to go but it goes so slow

Wait in the fire...

KAHLIL GIBRAN

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

BOXED WATER

California usually leads the way, but the pressure is too great for our state to solve EVERY social and environmental issue...so GO MICHIGAN! | Plastic bottles are totally NOT PC | Recycling is cool | Compostable products are even better | and figuring out a way to consume water sustainably is our only choice | The idea for Boxed Water is BRILLIANT and makes me feel like my brain is cloudy | Get it in your hometown and cherish it like a cold glass of milk with a moustache.

DRAFT MODE

Green printing is no longer for the active environmentalist | if you don't already have a kitchy saying at the end of your email like:

$ please consider the environment before printing this email
$ save paper: think before you print
$ don’t print this, OK?
$ how many trees must be lost so you can print your e-mail? print responsibly
$ paper free = happy tree (my own sentiment and obvious favorite)

then feel free to do a good deed and add any of these green footers to your signature | but back to the point...you can save not only trees and paper, but INK, super expensive printer ink | here are a few tips:

$ set your printer (or print software) to Draft Mode and/or print Double-sided (yes, you can figure out which way the paper needs to go in to print on the back side of the page and put a nice little note on your printer as a reminder)
$ Inksaver software for Windows only lets you control the amount of ink your printer uses, helping you save up to 75% of your ink.
$ Greenprint software for Mac and Windows weeds out pages you don't want to print
$ add Ecofont to your list for a free typeface for Mac or PC that's designed to use as little ink as possible but is still readable

It takes a little to save alot so make a simple and mostly free choice to do just a little bit more and a little bit better than you did yesterday.

tipage provided by Ideal Bite who also provide literally green ($$) savings tips for recycling your ink cartridges.
















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PHOENIX

Check out his brand new song "1901" by the French band | their new album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" releases on the 25th of May | you can download the song for free on the band's site.



1901
Counting all different ideas drifting away
Past and present they don't matter
Not if you just sort it out
Watch your moving in elliptical pattern
Think it's not what you say
What you say is way too complicated
For a minute thought I couldn't tell how to fall out

Oh It's 20 seconds till the last call
Going hey hey hey hey hey
By now, you know its easy
Like we did it all summer long
And I'll be anything you ask and more
Going hey hey hey hey hey
It's not a miracle we needed
And no I wouldn't let you think so

Falling, falling, falling, falling
Falling, falling, falling, falling

Girlfriend, you know your girlfriends drifting away
Past and present, 1855 1901
Watch them build up a material tower
Think it's not gonna stay, anyway, think it's overrated
For a minute, thought I couldn't tell how to fall out

Uh It's 20 seconds to the last call
Going hey hey hey hey hey
Lie down, you know it's easy
Like we did it all summer long
And I'll be anything you ask and more
Going hey hey hey hey hey
It's not a miracle we needed
And no, I wouldn't let you think so

Falling, falling, falling, falling
Falling, falling, falling, falling

HYPE MACHINE

There are thousands of blogs in the world wide web where people write about music they love | The Hype Machine keeps track of it all for simple analysis, consumption and discovery so its easy to shift through the mess to get the best of the best | if a post contains an MP3 link, Hype Machine makes it available to preview, but not download | if you allow the links to play from one to the next, you will be exposed to different of genres, some live songs and tunes you may have never thought you would love.

WE ARE SO SMALL

Hoping we all learned our lesson as children, I've always felt like we must share our home with plants, animals, energy...and that our egos are making it a challenge for other species to share the space with us, when in reality, we are SO SMALL compared to beautiful, floating creatures like whales | i am captivated by the voice over in this video and the well chosen music for the moment when the baby blue interacts with the crew | if you aren't already paying attention to how your actions affect our Earth...just imagine Goliath taking little David down for simply not learning his lesson.

DR. SEUSS

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”

RACHAEL YAMAGATA

i tend to find an artist's song i love and play it on repeat...REALLY LOUD...again and again until i know every word and every emotion has been extracted | this artist has had me hooked for over two months | i keep find her songs and falling in love with new ones...and playing them on repeat | Rachael plays the piano like a legend and sings with Mr. LaMontagne...another heart stealer | check out www.rachaelyamagata.com | i'm still sorting out how to deliver my media so excuse the unusual you tube visuals and simply listen | email me if you want clues to mp3s



COLLIDE
I’ll fascinate you for awhile
My hands in wait to please, so well
When I wake to realize, all I’d done
I’ll be breaking strings
And all you’re gonna feel
Is undone

I will not stay if you ask me to stay
Do not ask me to stay because I will not stay

Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides

No resignation, don’t simplify
Its not always about
Your love
What I wake up to find
All I’ve done is unkind
All you’re gonna feel is untied
Untied

Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides
Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides
Why do we always collide
Stuck on two different sides
Why do we all
Why do we all



FASTER
I can't talk to you
You think I'm lost inside my mind
You're like an old tattoo
And I know you'll fade in time

I'm not the girl you think you know
I'm not the girl you waited for
I'm not the one for you
It's just one thing left to do

Why don't you let me be?
'Cause I'm a million miles away
Why don't you set me free?
You don't treat me like you said

I won't tuck you in one last time
I'm taking back what is mine
For me, I belong to me

And I'm going faster, you're going backwards
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
I'm going faster, I know what I'm after
I should've been after it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

That's the last black eye
I hope I ever give to you
Yeah, I had a good time
But what's a girl supposed to do?

Take the pictures off the wall
They don't look like us at all
They don't look like friends
I've got new things to begin

Why don't you let me be?
'Cause I'm a million miles away
Why don't you set me free?
I belong to me

And I'm going faster, you're going backwards
You're gonna miss me when I'm gone
I hang from the ceiling, I feel what I'm feeling
I should've been feeling it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster

I'm going faster, you're going backwards
You're going to miss me when I'm gone
I hang from the ceiling, I feel what I'm feeling
I should've been feeling it all along

I'm going faster
I'm going faster



DUET
(feat. Ray LaMontagne)
Oh Lover, hold on
'till I come back again
For these arms are growin' tired,
And my tales are wearing thin

If you're patient I will surprise,
When you wake up i'll have come

All the angerwill settle down
And we'll go do all the things we should have done

Yes I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
I'll be here if you will only come back home

Oh lover, i'm lost
Because the road i've chosen beckens me away

Oh lover, don't you rome
Now i'm fighting words I never thought i'd say

But I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
I'll forgive you oh
If you just come back home

Hmmm mmmm
Hmmmm mmmm

Oh lover, I'm old
You'll be out there and be thinking just of me

And I will find you down the road
And will return back home to where we're meant to be

'cause I remember what we said
As we lay down to bed
We'll be back soon as we make history.



THE REASON WHY
I think about how it might have been
We'd spend out days travelin'
It's not that I don't understand you
It's not that I don't want to be with you
But you only wanted me
The way you wanted me

So, I will head out alone, hope for the best
And we hang our heads down
As we skip the goodbyes
And you can tell the world what you want them to hear
I've got nothing left to lose, my dear
So, I'm up for the little white lies
But you and I know the reason why
I'm gone, and you're still there
I'm gone, and you're still there
I'm gone, and you're still there

I'll buy a magazine searching for your face
From coast to coast, or where ever I find my place
I'll track you on the radio, and
I'll sign your list in a different name
But as close as I get to you
It's not the same

So, I will head out alone, hope for the best
We can pat ourselves on the back
As say that we tried
And if one of us makes it big
We can spill our regrets
And talk about how the love never dies
But you and I know the reason why
I'm gone, you're still there
I'm gone, you're still there
I'm gone, and you're still there

So, steal the show, and do your best
To cover the tracks that I have left
I wish you well and hope you find
Whatever you're looking for
The way I might've changed my mind,
But you only showed me the door

So, I will head out alone, hope for the best
We can pat ourselves on the back
And say that we tried
And if one of us makes it big
We can spill our regrets
And talk about how the love never dies
But you and I, you and I, you and I know the reason why.