Friday!

How could I not post this on a Friday?



This is the best version I've seen of Rebecca Black's Friday


(if you haven't heard of it, it's a song that went viral, due to poor lyrics and over-auto-tuned vocals - unfortunately the original has been removed from youtube)



Have a lovely weekend :)

Where did I go?

So can you try and guess where this photo was taken?

yay to a new month of photos and a new watermark :)

snow-covered trees

so this is the end of my first month (but not quite a month's worth of photos..)

and for april i'm going to be posting a whole photo series so, stay tuned!

love love

thanks for watching :)

Theo Jansen.

The first time I watched this video, I got to 0:17 and started shrieking, it's walking it's walking!

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor who creates these amazing skeleton things out of plastic yellow tubing, that walk. by. themselves, powered by the wind! on the beach (and detect things to avoid, like water)!

AMAZING work!

I know this post contains terrible grammar but I wanted to articulate the amazing-ness of the work. I know, shame on me for ignoring basic English rules. But I can't help it!

The snow flakes.

I recently had an assignment at uni based on nature-inspired design, mine of course was inspired by snow, and used this photo to show the delicate, almost crystal-like aesthetic of freshly fallen snow.

Al Batt

 

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

Burnt wood.

Okay, not quite burnt wood. Lots of houses in Switzerland are made of wood and when they're newly made, the wood is still soft and pale. As they age, the wood becomes darker.
This house shows the darker wood, near the bottom, further away from the roof and therefore exposed to more rain.
I just think the texture of wood is absolutely beautiful.

ducks

These ducks were so beautiful and friendly! They walked really close, one even came close enough to kind of sniff my shoe. So cute, and to get across the frozen lake they have developed their own way of ice skating by sliding their feet across the ice instead of exhausting precious energy to waddle normally. :)

The mountains

 














A simple photo of the mountains that I was very privileged to wake up to every morning for a week.

the water

this is such a lovely, beautiful song.
brooke fraser is an amazing singer who has such a wonderful voice