Largest Love Letter

After the Uplift Academy Workshop on New Media and Infectious Good, one of the participants,
Nipun Mehta, has wowed us all by embodying it beautifully and creating a wonderful site called KarmaTube.. an aggregator of inspiring videos gleaned from the net.mission:
"The world is full of wonderful and inspiring stories, some unfolding in distant places and others right next door. KarmaTube is dedicated to bringing more of these stories to light, using the power of video and the internet to demonstrate, and then multiply, acts of compassion, generosity and selflessness.

Our vision is to create -- and connect -- a global network of volunteers awake to capturing these stories, using simple digital cameras and technology. From polished and professional to diamonds-in-the-rough, these short videos have one crucial thing in common: they celebrate the work of local change agents, demonstrating the ways "do something" moments can be "tipping point" experiences for individuals and communities. To complete the circle, KarmaTube offers three simple suggestions for ways to support the action and spirit shown in these videos.

KarmaTube is an evolving project of CharityFocus (and like CharityFocus, is all-volunteer run). We hope something here moves you to, as Gandhi advised, "be the change you wish to see in the world."

I was watching a few more today with my dinner...and was especially moved by this one
World's Largest Love Letter.

Watch more inspiring videos on KarmaTube.org
and pass on the inspiration.:)

Seeing

"One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I've only touched it, just touched it."

~Dorothea Lange

Studio Fishtank

Gorton's fisherman or AvaDarlene in artstudio, who can tell?


and here's when I'm getting the leeeetle dangfuzzes out of the resin before it cures.


B amusedly snapped these pics while checking in on me from outside the fishtank (we sealed off the studio from the rest of the house so as not to have fumes).
I sat out on the back deck waiting inbetween dustchecks...perhaps my favorite part of this process....wha?rustling sounds...deer again! I've seen them so often, it's getting to be a pleasant part of my backyard adventures. One deer passes through and then one young buck with new small antlers..hello hello I wave. They stop and look at the weird bright yellow girl who makes those strange hummy songsounds...and then move on.

current continuations in explorations:
*Flickr as a search and tag game: why it's just a bunch of squares! and you can move them all around..into sets and groups and pools! some pools are quiet little ponds and some are feeding frenzies. so fascinating.
*BetterWorldIsland
*EndGames and Positive Evolution
*Digging and archiving and tagging and hyperlinking
*LoopdeeDoops in Time
*more painting the large Islands Petri Dish piece.