Thin Red Line

I didn't write the following post however it is very fitting for me at this time in my life. I have a book I purchased while living in Los Angeles and since moving to San Francisco it has been sitting in the truck of my car. The book is titled Soul Cavings and talks about what it takes for a human to be really, genuinely FULFILLED.
Thank you Erwin McManus for every.single.word.

"When You Give Up On Love, Everything Else Seems To
go with it-
joy,
hope,
forgiveness,
compassion-
they're all interconnected.
But you might wonder to yourself: What if I never find love? After all, you can't be held responsible if you've searched for love, risked in love, even fought for love, and yet have always found it unrequited. When loves does not come to you, it breaks your heart, but when you do not give love away, it hardens your heart. One thing stranger than our need to love, which agains leads me to my conspiracy theory: We are designed for love.
I remember several years ago sitting in a theater out in Westwood watching Terrence Malick's Thin Red Line. Two things stood out to me: Jim Caviezel standing quietly in the lobby watching our reactions as we exited, and a haunting monologue in the middle of a war movie about the nature of love.

"My dear wife,
you get something twisted out of your insides by all this blood, flith, and noise.
I wanna stay changeless for you.
I wanna come back to you the man I was before.
How do we get to those other shores?
To those blue hills.
Love.
Where does it come from?
Who lit this flame in us?
No war can put it out, conquer.
I was a prisoner.
You set me free."

Ben Chaplin's Private Jack Bell asked our soul's deepest question. What is this thing called love? Where does it come from? Why are we so affected by its presence and its absence?
We cannot live unaffected by love. We are most alive when we find it, most devasted when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhumane when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue. The human story seem more driven by thhe insanity of love than the survival of the fittest. When I was seventeen, rushing off without stopping for dinner, my mom would tell me, "You can't live on love." Maybe not, but you can't live without it.
Can you be honest enough to admit how love pulls you, woos you, eludes you, torments you- sometimes all in the same day? You were created for relationship. This is and always will be at the core of your being.
All of us have an intrinsic need to belong, and all of us are on a search for intimacy. No matter how many things about us are different, in this we are all the same-we all crave love. It is as if we are searching for a love we have lost. Or perhaps more strangely we are searching for a love we have never known but somehow sense it awaits us.
The most powerful evidence that our souls crave God is that within us there is a longing for love. We are all connected by a thin red line."


Love is the most organic, natural things we can possess. Give someone your heart, let them know to take care of it and in turn it will take care of you.
xoxoxox

A Review

Interpretation is in the eye of the beholder...or at least thats how I distorted the quote. Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 collection at Paris Fashion week undoubtedly will be setting standards in the fashion industry to come. The models were draped in short, reptile-patterned, digitally printed dresses. Their emaciated legs sunk into grotesque shoes. According a a press release, McQueen was "casting an apocalyptic forecast of the future ecological meltdown of the world: Humankind is made up of creatures that evolved from the sea, and we may be heading back to an underwater future as the ice cap dissolves".
The set was comprised of a sparkling, illuminated runway in which two robotic movie cameras on, what the film industry refers to as 'booms, which swiveled around in a 360 degree motion and ran the length of the runway while the girls walked.


The background showed a screen playing video of Raquel Zimmermann, lying on sand, naked, with snakes writhing across her body.

The clothes evolved from greens and browns, moving to aqua and blue which accurately mimicked the depths of the ocean. They were exceptionally executed as each dress was a work of computer-generated art intertwined with McQueen's couture touch.





You get the idea.
Alexander McQueen:

San Francisco Becomes First City to Require Composting

(via YumSugar):
If you haven't jumped on the composting bandwagon yet, now might be a good time to start: composting is slowly but surely being written into the law. Last week, San Francisco, CA, became the first US city to pass a bill requiring mandatory recycling of food scraps. The legislation, which takes effect this Fall, asks all of the city's residents and businesses - including restaurants - to compost food scraps. Although a number of dwellers and establishments have voluntarily composted over the years, it is now obligatory.

Under the new rules, companies and city residents could face $500 fines if their garbage isn't organized into recyclable, trash, and compostable categories. Since I don't have a compost pail yet, it's high time that I invest in one. Although it's an extra step when taking out the trash, I'm glad to hear that the local government is being more environmentally conscious - and I hope other cities soon follow suit. How would you feel about mandatory composting in your neighborhood?

Air Force One

Air Force One flying over San Francisco<3

Ozcollective

Ozcollective are an exciting group of Paris based designers, who are best known for their masterful arrangement of umbrellas called Abri no 177.

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Just In Case...

...you were wondering, this is the background on my computer.
I need to visit more galleries, no?

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