youth

a power division which imposes limits and produces and order to which each person must keep

a social and cultural construction immersed in techniques of control

a problem to be regulated and controlled through intervention

where is our hope?

I am currently studying youth culture and risk at university.

cupcakes.

breakfast, turkish delight, passionfruit, coffee, lemon, salted caramel, cherry

we were all pretty excited about it, so we all took pictures.

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my little room while i'm home in ohio.  

And what a story. The first thing that drew me in was disblief.  What?  Humanity sins but it's God's Son who pays the price?  I tried to imagine Father saying to me, "Piscine, a lion slipped into the llama pen today and killed two llamas.  Yesterday another one killed a black buck.  Last week two of them ate the camel.  The week before it was painted storks and grey herons.  And who's to say for sure who snacked on our golden agouti?  The situation has become intolerable.  Something must be done.  I have decided that the only way the lions can atone for their sins is if I feed you to them."

"Yes, Father, that would be the right and logical thing to do.  Give me a moment to wash up."

"Hallelujah, my son."

"Hallelujah, Father."

-Yann Martel, The Life of Pi

currently watching...

Half Nelson with Ryan Gosling.

move.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

i took this from jeremy barry randall

"Markets will rise and fall," he said. "But this is the United States of America. 
No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple-A country."-President Barack Obama

Doubt it.

gypsies.

This photo is from India when we spent a day in a day care center for gypsy kids.  They are two brothers and the one on the right is named 'Santosh', which means 'joy!'  Gypsies are a rejected people group all over and in India, they live on the side of the road and kill animals for food.  When the kids start walking, they're left on their own while the parents go to the markets for the day to sell things.  This center ran a school for the little kids who are left wandering while their parents work.  I don't often get sentimental when I meet kids in other parts of the world, but the boy on the right was a really memorable little person, and this is one of my favorite photos.

Ride Free

Element coffee house, Camarillo.

Ive just returned from a vacation that done more for my soul than the last 6 months has. 

montana. mountains

we hiked glacier national park and it was beautiful.

what to do when you get a flat tire on that road trip

 

you make a headpiece out of flowers and start to take pictures, of course. 

things you take on a road trip

• journal
• cameras (holga and digital)
• film
• sunglasses
• book
• phone
• waterbottle

yo

We travel, but sometimes there is no place like home.

raaaaaa

Purchase 'The Burley Griffin"'s new album 'You're Quite A Forest' and I (Zoe) will send you a personal card! Its all donations based but we do ask that you factor in postage & handling. 

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i want to be empty. but i don't want to be hollow.

thats a lot of sky

 

bar beach parking lot, saturday morning

purity and danger. is a book about food practices.

Blue Bottles

Camembert, Cranberry, Orange & Wine.

Work

Class.

whoah friendship

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

                                                                                    -C.S. Lewis

I took this picture from an etsy site because I wanted to paint it.  So somewhere on Etsy it might still be for sale.

the endless fields of Idaho

christina's birthday

We went to King Edward Park, ate really good food, and played bocce ball in the sun. It was a good day.  

rm 42

 

 

room 42 of the house I live in

There are no mere mortals

photo taken by a lovely swedish girl named Josefine. 

'There are no ordinary people.  You have never talked to a mere mortal.  Nations, cultures, arts, civilations-these are mortal, and their life is to as ours the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we work with, joke with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.'

-C.S. Lewis

community

neighborhood outside of Sao Paulo and one of my favorite photos.

dont rush.

 

When I think about having another 40 to 60 years more of life. It blows my mind.

Freaking out about the fact that I am 23 and only in my first semester of university(college) was something I guess kinda concerned me. In a conversation with my dad today,  I was just so taken, that although life is short.. its not short enough to even imagine the accomplishments I may have when my life ends.

I love the photo above it was taken a stormy evening in Alaska. (this photo has caused me to accumulate a lot of photos of intersections, weird I know). But love using that whole journey and direction ideal invoked by intersection, what way to go, where does it lead… if you don’t hit intersection, you aren’t traveling anywhere. I am so excited to continue to hit these moments. It’s a success even at the end when we don’t hit anywhere in particular.. lifes to be explored.. we’ll pass through and experience mant towns, build monuments and create new paths for other travelers to follow. Keep going…

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”

Henry David Thoreau

We have the time.

summer wind down

I'm over in Australia but I'm thinking about the states a lot right now and the wind down of summer.  This photo was taken at Lake Placid (though it's not the Lake Placid) after we were done climbing some mountains in the Adirondacks.  The northern hemisphere is heading into fall, one of the prettiest times of the year, and we down here are getting ready for summer.