Eve Ensler

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Share/Bookmark Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing. ― Eve Ensler
Red lipstick always. Feminist statements in this redness. You bet. Black Kleopatra hairdo. So bold you can even imagine it could be bolder.
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Some News To Come

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I have big news to announce, but for now you can watch me dancing, jumping, talking, escaping from a weasel, getting dizzy and happy.

pst! News were revealed!
Head over to WIF to find out what was this buzzzzz about.
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Sabbatical :: Time Out

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Time Out Yesterday my iPad lost wi-fi and 3G connection. I have had 3 coffees already (damn not-raw habit) and my body already started giving signals. He bothered me, she definitely needed some make-up. So much was wrong. The cat was too white. You know, this kind of anxiety.
Coffee was an aggregator for the offline turmoil. The main reason was the space I was left in, the “work from within” scary situation.
I’ve read about some people going on digital sabbaticals. Secretly, I’d love to go on one. I’ve always admired Stefan Seigmeister and his every.seven.years.timeoff.
But you need a good, stubborn, smarter than your wants muscle to pull this plug out.
So I figured, I prepare my little intro for the future full-on EMF diet.
My mini digital sabbatical : Email between 7:15-7:30. If I oversleep, no email allowed. Wait until 4:30pm. Bindu Wiles writes about Aimlessly Wander, which means going places, staring at what ...

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Looking for a mentor

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Share/Bookmark (it’s a calling, not an advice).
So that’s how it goes.
On June 7th I had a nice, little secret call with The AwesomeBlossom. Beforehand I prepared few questions to ask her thinking that discussing them will definitely take up to an hour or so. Surprisingly, I had the awakening in the first 15 minutes. Her initiating “So, tell me what’s going on?” and my broken English (that’s what happens under a little bit of creative nervousness) did the job of scooping out the clear pieces out of the mess. I spent some time rambling a little bit, but very quickly the good and calm energy started shining through my, at that time, mental pretty mess.
As she says — she’s giving the permission. (shoot, which blog post was it?)
Funny thing is I’m very not gym-like. I don’t like jumping at the same speed as everyone else. I keep my books very close to myself, because I ...

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Re.Birth

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Share/Bookmark Just happened. You are witnessing a delivery of this new baby. I opened up my blog and nothing was there. Literally disappeared. (more…)
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Quitting. Going Free-Range.

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Share/Bookmark Quitting job with Red Mug. Yesterday I slid my red mug into my computer bag and I left. Some people are just unemployable. (more…)
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Jules Verne Day.

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Share/BookmarkToday is the “Jules Verne Day”. Google went artistic interactive and blue.
He always fastinated me. Maybe not as much as Jonathan Swift, but I used to read his with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea with a watery eyes.
“You like the sea, Captain?”
“Yes; I love it! The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her three kingdoms–mineral, vegetable, and animal. The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not ...

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Listen

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Share/BookmarkHi you and you!
This video explains a lot about me and my relationship with myself. It’s dorky, but honest. I do have a huge red heart.

Untitled from Marta Spendowska on Vimeo.
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ALEXA MEADE — PAINTER OF PEOPLE

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Share/BookmarkWhile Meade has worked in a variety of sculptural media, she is known for her installations, which feature models situated in tableau scenes painted to look like two-dimensional paintings.
I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist’s interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves. Pretty cool.
 
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Cheong-ah Hwang

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Share/BookmarkFascinating work by Cheong-ah Hwang.  
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