ice cream is nice cream

Mary Oliver - Starlings in Winter

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:25:00 +0000

Chunky and noisy,
but with stars in their black feathers,
they spring from the telephone wire
and instantly
they are acrobats
in the freezing wind.
And now, in the theater of air,
they swing over buildings,
dipping and rising;
they float like one stippled star
that opens,
becomes for a moment fragmented,
then closes again;
and you watch
and you try
but you simply can’t imagine
how they do it
with no articulated instruction, no pause,
only the silent confirmation
that they are this notable thing,
this wheel of many parts, that can rise and spin
over and over again,
full of gorgeous life.
Ah, world, what lessons you prepare for us,
even in the leafless winter,
even in the ashy city.
I am thinking now
of grief, and of getting past it;
I feel my boots
trying to leave the ground,
I feel my heart
pumping hard. I want
to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome.
I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,
as though I had wings.

[protect and guard]

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:24:00 +0000

When I was a kid/teen, I often felt overwhelmed by my parents' protectiveness and their attempts to control my behavior and activities. While I do think it was excessive... I think I understand it better now.

It has to do with loving and needing someone. Over the past couple of years, I have felt these surges of protectiveness and it is accompanied by an unconscious sense of the helplessness I would feel if I lost certain people in my life. I have not acted on the impulse of protectiveness... but now I get it.

It's come to me only after I've lost people who I love... after becoming unhappily acquainted with grief beyond theory. I feel the wave of wanting to hold on and the fear of loss. But I stand back and will try to appreciate what I have more.

awesome

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Ikea Stonehenge: "

…..

Published in the QI H Annual. Co-created by Stevyn Colgan, Justin Pollard and John Lloyd.

spectacular

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:07:00 +0000

Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo.

unofficial thing a day

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:35:00 +0000

, originally uploaded by ingridf_nl.

other people's stuff

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:37:00 +0000

Photos I favorited on flickr. :) Other people are awesome. :)

not nice. no.

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:02:00 +0000

[gabedelahaye.]

frogs, birds, mack trucks...

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:05:00 +0000

You know the recent bird and frog death thing?

Well last night I dreamed that huge Mack trucks were falling from the sky. I could see it happening on the horizon, like an approaching rain storm.

In the dream, I decided to be brave and I went to the site of the wreckage. For some reason all of the drivers were OK (?!) and as my "charitable act" I went around picking up hub caps and handing them to truck drivers, who were weeping beside their trucks.

As I was walking along, I met up with Jack Black (rhymes with Mack?) and for some reason I thanked him for helping out. He said, "Anything I can do, man."

Um. Analyze that.

Welcome to my dream life.

a cone filled with happiness

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:12:00 +0000

via the dieline

shine on

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:57:00 +0000

via http://theuberblog.tumblr.com/post/2104168354

undercity

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:30:00 +0000

UNDERCITY from Andrew Wonder on Vimeo.

For updates and more adventures follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/andrewwonder

"This is a film I made after some adventures underground with Steve Duncan (http://www.undercity.org) last summer. We also have a teaser video which you can watch on my vimeo page (http://vimeo.com/5752275).

For more information about the video and our other adventures please contact Andrew Wonder (Director/Cinematographer) at andrewwonder@mac.com.

Steve and I just completed another underground expedition with Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erling_Kagge). It was featured in a three page article on the front page of the NY Times metro section and was written by Alan Feuer (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/nyregion/02underground.html). We were also covered by NPR's Jacki Lyden whose report will be aired on 1/2/11 and posted on NPR's site (http://www.npr.org/2011/01/02/132482428/into-the-tunnels-exploring-the-underside-of-nyc).

Shot on a canon 5d mkii with canon 24 f/1.4 (version 1) with the zacuto rapid fire, Zoom H4N and a sennheiser g2 wireless lav. The zacuto was really great at being there when I needed it but also staying out of the way."

the character project 2011: new year's resolution prêt-à-porter

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 11:16:00 +0000

Do you write stories? Would you like to try? Come and visit the Character Project to find out more. Weekly writing prompts, a friendly community of fellow story tellers and the chance to explore your creative side.

I post a new writing prompt every Monday. Everyone participating writes a story based on this prompt through the week and then I publish the stories from that week every Sunday.

No experience required! You can be as anonymous or as notorious as you'd like.

More information:
About the project
How you can participate
This week's writing prompt

nye 2010

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:06:00 +0000

amsterdam: new year's eve/day 2010-2011 from ingrid f on Vimeo.

miracle on 22nd street

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:34:00 +0000

Miracle on 22nd St from sarah klein on Vimeo.

are you happy?

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:11:00 +0000

INFOGRAPHIC: A simple decision flow-chart. So… Are... - Poptimist: "

via http://poptimist.tumblr.com/post/196108799/infographic-a-simple-decision-flow-chart-so-are

laughing...

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:38:00 +0000

via the always fabulous ze frank.

merry

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:50:00 +0000

merry, originally uploaded by ingridf_nl.

:)

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:22:00 +0000

Via the Daily What.

flight

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:37:00 +0000

flight, originally uploaded by ingridf_nl.

incredible

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:57:00 +0000

the thing is

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:09:00 +0000

via say la vee:
:

The Thing Is
to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you’ve held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.

Ellen Bass

Fight Club for Senior Citizens

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:23:00 +0000

cyclops glasses

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 10:28:00 +0000

via http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9jul1Zt9z1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg

fallulah: use it for good

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:07:00 +0000

absurd

noreply@blogger.com (ingrid) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:03:00 +0000

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”

- Fernando Pessoa | Bernardo Soares, The Book of Disquiet (via happycollision)"