Two of the best music styles: jazz + classical:
Category Archives: Inspiration
Amen, child.
Landfill Harmonic
Just incredible. This stuff gives me hope:
Landfill Harmonic film teaser from Landfill Harmonic on Vimeo.
Two Sides Of The Same Coin
I Always Wonder
Life Is So Full Of Unpredictable Beauty
“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you.”
Happiness
90 years old and married 62 years. We should all aspire to be like these two:
The Only Ones For Me
Motivation.
We should all begin our days reading this:
Lady Gaga
One of the things I love about going home is of course being able to spend time with family & friends. I love love love Austin, but nothing can replace time spent with these people!
As I’ve mentioned, many of the friends I have back home I met through various music groups. Because we’re friends through music, when we get to hang out now, we usually end up doing something music-related.
…which means, when I was home a few months back, my friends and I ended up going out to karaoke. (yes, karaoke can be used as a verb)
My friend Ben opted to sing “Bad Romance” by Lady Gaga. The truth is, I really do not like much of today’s pop. “music” (I quote music, as I don’t think much of today’s music qualifies as real music). However, Ben completely rocked his rendition of “Bad Romance” and for this, I momentarily enjoyed the song. Here’s Ben:
Dear 7 Year Old Child…
You have put me to shame:
Digging This
Chris gave me a few songs as reference points to the inspiration behind his music. This being one of them. I’m really really quite digging it:
“Bells Of Harlem” by Dave Rawlings
Heart in Oregon: Katy + Ryan
The last storyteller was from Luckenbach, Texas, now we’re back to the Northwest.
As soon as I saw Katy + Ryan pull up in their Subaru with a giant Oregon Heart sticker on the back, I knew they’d be a great pair to interview. (=
Nurturing Creativity
I read Eat, Pray, Love a few years back and really enjoyed it – just watched Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk – makes me feel a little better and certainly reminds me alot of the great minds in the j. school:
cell phone photojournalism project
During the past year or so, I’ve been collecting images for my cell phone photojournalism project – here’s a sneak peak:
and…welcome to Eugene (building owners should have known better than to tempt fate…)
Maxs – love it, love the music, wish they’d go back to being a beer only bar
Rooftop dinner in Athens – difficult to see from cell phone pic. but the Acropolis can be see in the dark space between the two buildings
installation art at UO??
While I was there, I found out that Anvil had a Chia Pet growing contest…
Santorini
Eugene sidewalk art