tame impala : elephant

... and it feels like an elephant shakin' his big grey trunk for the hell of it.

amy hamilton : animal spirits

her moose originally caught my eye with the lovely long drawn and lingering antler strokes.  couldn't resist the eloquence of the rest of this sequence. feels like wild fall in the softest way possible.

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thee oh sees : meat step lively

lucky to have caught these groovy guys at the Doug Fir Lounge here in Portland a couple weeks ago. yeah, i grooved.

mara hoffman : "fall campaign"

my love of mara has come back to haunt me again.  her newest campaign eerily yet playfully sets in. dark,caped desert beauty riding by while black birds fly through sacred winds winding primal patterns.

The Mara Hoffman “Fall Campaign”
Photography: Olivia Malone
Styling: Richard Ruiz
Makeup and Hair: Katie Wedlund
Jewelry: Kria
post production: Kimberly Dulaney

the badlands

driving through South Dakota has its perks.  the Badlands National Park offered an afternoon exploration of a naturally created fractal city.  500,000 years ago, when the glaciers began to melt at the end of the last Ice Age, new streams began to move across the area, cutting through the rock layers over time.  now this breathtaking wall of seemingly painted geometric shapes divides the upper prairie from the lower.  i imagine the Sioux Indian tribes scouting the grassland from their perch on the wall, locating the herds and getting a head up on their enemies.  this is their land.  the Sioux crossed through a pass of the Badlands on their way to the Wounded Knee Massacre.  i bow my head to them.

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buddha : zen pencils

gone surfing

crisp sea breeze whips around my body. whistles of the wind in my ears.  cold breaks crash upon my soul.  i glide, i ride, i run.  wet sand stomps beneath my feet.  smoke rises through twisted beach wood sculptures.  we salute the sun again, today.

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heading west

west-bound roadtrip.  driving into the sunset day after day.  seeing the country around us steadily changing.  the plants, the animals, the people, the music, the wind, the energy is shifting.  the unfolding process is the adventure at hand.  we're out there, in it.  open your eyes and see the beauty.

ohio

illinois

minnesota

badlands national park

south dakota

the big sky state

montana

missoula

coeur d'alene

coeur d'alene

oregon

mt. hood

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