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Make Life an Adventure
Cheryl Murphy Writes

Yesterday I said goodbye to someone tremendously special. If you’ve ever been to the funeral service of someone you love, you know what that’s like. Awful. Glorious. Painful. Hard. Loving. It was my first. Not my first funeral or death; my first time saying goodbye to someone that played a very real and meaningful part in my life. As far as firsts go, it’s not one a person appreciates having. No one goes around celebrating their first real loss, marking it on their calendars and having My First Death parties. Still, as far as firsts go, it’s one of the most profound. Probably second only to having a child. On some level, it may not even be second. There’s no changing it for the better, no making up for mistakes, no learning curve. There’s no do-over. It simply is. Forever is a long time. The survivors have to live with it. I know my pain, I know how completely and totally devastated I feel. Waking up this morning after tossing and turning all night long and crying all morning, even as

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Midwest Mamacita I have been so busy the past two and a half months that I have literally been living day to day.  No, seriously.  Literally.  Two of my best friends got married within five days of each other, so not only was I in those, but I was also very involved in co-hosting their showers and bachelorette parties (ended up being six weekends in a row, total).  The day after the second wedding, I drove to Kentucky with my boyfriend, where he lives now.  I like to believe he still lives in Nashville, even though he moved an hour away to a town in Kentucky a few months ago, haha.  I got to spend two wonderful weeks with him and then made the 11 hour drive back to Oklahoma this weekend to arrive in time for Mother’s Day.  Remember the movie, ”What About Bob?”  Baby steps?  Yah, that’s been me.  But hey, it’s been a great crash course in living in the moment! Now that I am settling back into a normal pace, I can focus on…on yah, the fact that I’m turning 27 thi

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има някакви неща, които те карат да се усмихваш. има някакви неща, които те карат да мечтаеш. има някакви неща, които те карат да се чувстваш жив/а. има някакви неща, които ти напомнят за красотата и разнообразието, в които живеем и които ни заобикалят. има неща, които просто си струват. това е едно от тях. както и да го погледнеш.

Bathtime for Yurtzes!
Scott Mauer

While I was at Flipside, several helpful people unloaded the roof rafters of my yurt directly into poison ivy.  It’s quite likely that I threw the first batch in there myself.  There’s certainly a lesson about leadership in there somewhere.  At any rate, after getting 5-6 very annoying ivy tags on myself at Flipside despite my best sanitation and Technu efforts, the last thing I wanted was to share the experience with future yurt helpers.  As you can see from the Instagram posts below, the plan of taking it to the carwash worked out beautifully.  For a grand total of $3.50, both my car and yurt have now been pressure-soaped-and-rinsed.  I set the pieces out in the sun to dry, and came over to Strange Brew for a kombucha, conversation, and AC.  In less than an hour, everything was dry enough to re-load into the Metro.  Hopefully that was enough to get all of that evil substance off, because I’m going to set the yurt up in the yard as soon as I get home, and will be sta

Hot Summer Music Festivals
RyTheNewsGuy (Ryan Ernde)

As posted on DailyBuzzNation.com Throw summer, skin and sick beats together, and you have yourself a music festival! Here’s a rundown of the steamy summer shindigs no die-hard music fan and lover of sweaty, good times should do without. 1. Bonnaroo; Manchester, TN June 7-10, $259 More than 700 rolling acres to get lost and wild on. Major acts include Radiohead, The Beach Boys, and Bon Iver, but that’s not the only goodness going on at this fest. There’s yoga classes, hair washing, plenty of libations, and, of course, the annual charitable clothing drive. What’s that you say? You can’t make it this year? Check it out YouTube for free. Here’s an idea, hook your PC to a projector and hold a backyard Bannaroo party! 2. Hard Summer; Los Angeles, CA Aug. 2-3, $119 Hard Summer defines the west coast electronic music scene (not saying you should forget about the Electric Daisy Carnival though). There are more than 50 beat pounding acts you’ll completel

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Victoria Core Project 2012
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NAKED BLACK JUSTICE CAMPAIGN
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Lasers sparkle at Funk & Flash clothing store in Sebastopol, California
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Peter Hudson’s CHARON Animated Progression Film featuring Music by Lee Coombs
leecoombs

I am honored to be able to say that i contributed to one of the most mind blowing Art installations ever to be seen at Burning Man. Peter Hudson’s Charon was a huge team effort and the result is nothing short of Amazing! I have been working with Warren Trezevant who did the original animation for the Skeletons on the art piece. The film shows the progress from the very beginning of the animation process right through to the final result at Burning Man 2011. I wrote the music and wanted to give it a dark and atmospheric edge to be in keeping with the theme, needless to say we are VERY happy with the result and we hope you enjoy watching / listening as much as we did making it. Big Love and respect to Peter Hudson and all the Charon Team (you know who you are, the list is huge) and especially Warren for creating this amazing film. LC x

Oh, The Places You’ll Go!
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We’re definitely not the only ones who have taken a liking to the Dr Suess poem, “Oh, The Places You’ll Go”. It’s a bit of a long one, so here it is visually adapted in a few different ways. The last one is a parody of the original.      

Hot Under the Hood
Scott Mauer

While the Metro did great transporting the yurt frame from Austin to Dallas, the addition of 150 lbs of vinyl lead to engine overheating driving a similar distance to Flipside. While I still got 45 mpg, I was frequently forced to turn on the heater inside the car to keep the engine temp out of the red. Clearly that situation is unacceptable on 2000-mile-one-way trip to Portland, so a reduction in weight and some engine upgrades may be necessary before then. For sure I’ll be using less than half the vinyl, which will help.

Oh, the places you’ll go
- brainzzz or GTFO -

mostly i’ve managed to keep this blog for my sketches and artystuffs. but recently i haven’t managed to be very creative.. i’ve been incredibly busy, what with finishing projects, starting new ventures, and making connections that will be amazing for the future. but without the creative output that i can show and share, i feel terribly drained. normally music sees me through these times, but even that is a crumbling support at the moment. so instead i look to the written words for solace – crafted in this instance by that wisest of sages – dr. seuss oh, what amazing wordplay! and so many beautiful and cool people (although, i think a few of them know just how cool they are!). i adore the ebb and flow of this story too.. how the brilliant highs that can be experienced are indeed great, but the lows are very much present too – we go through them and eventually get through them. for me, the poem is the tale of life’s arduous but distracting journe

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Rambette’s Becoming A Sexy Girl, Mreow!
Foxfur Amused

I went up to Espressodude’s secure undisclosed location today to begin stenciling as well as to continue with detail painting. I shot the rims with ultra flat black and didn’t even get too much on the brake rotors! I was gonna mask the tires before painting the rims but hey, tires are already black, no? He also designed the official Black Rock Army logo and recently made a stencil for application to vehicles and materiel (that’s a real word). The BRA is the name for a group of 8 or so allied camps at Burning Man 2012 and we have secured an entire block of Black Rock City whereupon we will build our forward operating base. Blah blah blah, let’s get on with the picture show.   Now why would I paint my daily driver for something that’s held for 1 week per year and is 100 days away? As I told my folks when asked why I did something, “I don’t know…” Actually, I do know. It strikes my fancy and so far it’s making kids, and quit

Heels & their owners
AfrikaBurn transported…
Gaiafrique online

What’s all this ‘ere? New aloe species spotted in the Tankwa Karoo! Having recently returned from my first AfrikaBurn experience no longer an AB virgin (that’s me – hah!) – the joys of photographs and memories persist, as do the smells of Karoo rain and dust, trembling eardrums (aka tinnitus) and a deep sense of never being quite the same again. Mini moversTake your garden wherever you go… The eagle has landed!But the hallucinogenics got to it first… Mutant vehicles, floods, damp fires, many friends, happy children, glorious sunsets and sunrises, painted nipples, dayglo fuzz everywhere and a sense of general well-being are some of my lasting impressions. Almost everyone was friendly, although some were permanently (hopefully temporarily) obnoxious – mostly those whose sense of self-interest or self-expression they choose to interpret to mean they can do whatever they want – such as crap in the middle of the inner ring – WTF!!?? Than