One of the things I love about NY is the public art - it is everywhere!
Below are two of my favourite projects as the (solarly constructed calendar) year rounds up
1. The Bubble Project
A counter-attack to our overly advertised and branded world, artist Ji Lee set about sticking 15,000 empty speech bubbles all around the city (and he has now printed [...]

Think about it: 24 little signs can be rearranged into everything and anything!
"But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place?
And with no greater difficulty than the [...]

"The shortest answer is doing." - English proverb

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
- Edgar Allan Poe, poet and short-story writer 1809-1849
A dear friend, Martin, sent me this quote today and I couldn’t help but grin upon reading it. But as I went to put it online for you to experience the same joy [...]

There is something deeply seductive about reflecting while looking at glass…

…this is just one of many stunning glass images captured by Pia Davis 
Some other favourites:
Reflections in Amber
Amber Sky
Curious
- you can buy prints and cards as well. Thanks Pia!

You have a magic carpet
That will whiz you through the air,
To Spain or Maine or Africa
If you just tell it where.
So will you let it take you
Where you’ve never been before
Or will you buy some drapes to match
And use it
On your
Floor?
- Shel Silverstein

Thanks to the Live Music scene in NY I have discovered a love for Banjo’s and their sound…I will try find a good piece of banjoy music to share - and in the meantime here is a beautiful image to tide you over. Enjoy!
Image Source Michael J Miles The Magic Banjo (C) The Smithsonain Institution 1997

This piece was delivered by The Elders, Oraibi, Arizona, Hopi Nation:
"You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.
There are things to be considered:Where are you living?What are you doing?What are your relationships?Are you in right relation?Where is your [...]

Source: Tre (C) Jorn Endresen

The Magician
He collects drops of light
and juggles them with laughter,
so we know it doesn’t matter
if they fall
- Karla Andersdatter, Naked in the Garden, 1998
 
Thank you Paul - what a delightful poem to read this morning!