Holi - a celebration of color!

I was listening to NPR this morning when a story came on about the Indian festival of Holi.  Basically, people gather together on the streets and paint themselves with beautiful pigments in celebration of the welcoming of spring and good overcoming evil.

I found the ritual so fascinating and dug up some photos from last year's festival in preparation for this coming Sunday's Holi celebration that will go until March 1st. I only wish I could be in India on this day...

npr story here

photos courtesy of Gemunu Amarasinghe





























photo from here

Simply amazing.

blender blunders

this is my life story. i need a new blender

originally from marc johns

stolen from hrrthrr

unhappy hipsters

i just found this blog, unhappy hipsters, and have fallen for its poetic design style.

taking everyday images of humans immersed in architecture, the author paints a different melancholy story for each space that reflects the people involved. and visa versa.

We’re not ready to go out there yet, honey. And besides, didn’t I do a pretty good job bringing the outside in?

(Photo: Christopher Sturman, Dwell, November 2009)

It was comforting to know that the neighbors had stopped speaking.

(Dwell magazine, April/May 2004)

She had this uncanny way of making him feel so, so small.

(Photo: Daniel Henessey; Dwell, November 2006)

Maybe naming him Rimbaud wasn’t such a good idea.

(Photo: Ake E:son Lindman; Dwell, February 2009)