Big Sky Lonestar

A couple of weeks of collection and it’s time to share my favorite links and goodies from around the Internet. Enjoy!

Unlocking the salad code, or how to make a good salad, with a chart of components.

1. Take a bowl of the lettuce of your choice.
2. Sprinkle on a sweetly savory component, such as roasted red peppers or cherry tomatoes.
3. Chop up an herbaceous component.
4. Add crumbled/diced cheese or boiled egg.
5. If you wish, add cooked beans or a diced protein.
6. Dress with a harmonious vinaigrette.
7. Toss and serve.

Techniques for taming pet fur tumbleweeds

If your pet routinely uses a bed, drape its bed with a fleece blanket. If there is a favorite spot where he likes to curl up, lay a fleece blanket in that location. Fleece blankets act like giant magnets for pet hair because of their inherent static nature. Roll up the blanket and throw it in the washer once a week, and for extra pull, dry it without a dryer sheet.

Moneygami
Origami is the art of paper folding; here we have a collection of cute creatures folded out of money.

Cues & Tattoos Belly Dance Festival

Troupe Hipnotica is proud to host the first ever workshop event focusing entirely on the use of Improv Choreography within Tribal Belly Dance. Workshops will range from beginner to advanced and will address many of the topics that arise when learning and applying improv choreography. This is an amazing opportunity to learn from those who pioneered this style as well as up and coming troupes.

In the park by 11 am by Oh Happy Day.

My grandma tells the story that the nurse was very strict and said “there is no excuse not to have everything done and be in the park by 11:00 am.” So everyday my grandma would get up, feed the baby, clean up, do laundry, etc. and be in the park by 11. I always think about that and in turn try to be out of the house doing something by 11.

Photo Essay: Alison. Stunning and moving. Check it out.

The significance of these pictures emerges in retrospect. I realize as I look at them, that I created a visual life story of Alison, capturing moments in her metamorphosis from infant to woman-her relationships with friends, her rebellion, and underlying it all, her relationship with me, a constant throughout her life. I wanted to photograph her in all her extremes, and to be part of these times in her life without judging or censoring. Only in this way would I have a true portrait of Alison.

Guerilla Gardening

The guerrilla gardening phenomenon is currently sweeping the globe as folks are finding innovative ways to come together for the optimization of neglected land and paved surface area. It’s a turf war for some, or a poetic gesture for others, but either way, citizens are rolling up there sleeves to create gardens in the most unlikely spaces and places.

Amelia Lalala Human Steps
Found through Neatorama. The dancers are from Montreal dance company La La La Human Steps, the music is composed of Lou Reed lyrics with music by David Lang (a major contributor to the score for Requiem for a Dream) and the wooden stage was created just for this piece.