Amy Friend

it could be anywhere



more, Dare alla Luce. via

a show of hands

http://janejune.deviantart.com/art/Fye-Night-Ver-282891079, via

140531

Turn off celular data on your phone and learn one thing or two about yourself and your compulsive addiction to your smartphone.

140530

This is so incredibly true:

I've learned that people will forget what you said & forget what you did, but they'll never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

140529

Javier Bardem does NOT play in "P.S. I Love You".

[yoga]

Bad Things

We get together feeling strong

The story is simple and is a typical "ys and them", you can even hear Pink Floyd giving it shape.

midnight, memory, map

Neon lights / Shimmering neon lights

Made online with gifmaker, using the two previously drawn cutouts. Neon lights are on, the city is alive and the dance starts.

Kraftwerk, obviously (Neon lights / Shimmering neon lights / And at the fall of night / This city's made of light)

That memory is a map about a way out

140528

Apple Beats.

Just draw something

Cutout

Haiku, cut out words Austin Kleon style, but with drawings. Brushes on ipad.


first:

Where do you get your inspiration?

“Where do you get your inspiration? What sorts of things do you fill your head with? What do you read? Do you subscribe to anything? What sites do you visit on the Internet? What music do you listen to? What movies do you see? Do you look at art? What do you collect? What’s inside your scrapbook? What do you pin to the corkboard above your desk? What do you stick on your refrigerator? Who’s done work that you admire? Who do you steal ideas from? Do you have any heroes? Who do you follow online? Who are the practitioners you look up to in your field?

Your influences are all worth sharing because they clue people in to who you are and what you do—sometimes even more than your own work.”

Excerpt From: Austin, Kleon. “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.” Workman Publishing Company, 2014-03-06T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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Rip Gulliver

http://feedly.com/k/1nRL55h

140527

Get your low carb, gluten free drawings here.

pill selfie

Productive

Coat of arms

Street in Krumau

egon schiele

What to Copy

“What to copy is a little bit trickier. Don’t just steal the style, steal the thinking behind the style. You don’t want to look like your heroes, you want to see like your heroes.”

Excerpt From: Steal Like an Artist. “Austin Kleon.” Workman Publishing Company, 2012-10-11T05:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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fix it

dark sun

Overnight success

“Overnight success is a myth. Dig into almost every overnight success story and you’ll find about a decade’s worth of hard work and perseverance.”

Excerpt From: Austin, Kleon. “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.” Workman Publishing Company, 2014-03-06T00:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
This material may be protected by copyright.

How Matisse and Picasso turned old age into art

In March 1946 Pablo Picasso paid one of his fortnightly visits to see Henri Matisse in Vence, a few miles inland from Nice. Five years after the medical crisis that had nearly killed him, Matisse, at 76, was still an invalid: he had endured radical colon surgery and much of his work was now done either from a wheelchair or in bed. But, creatively, he was phenomenally fertile in the midst of what he called, with undisguised gratitude and wonder, “his second life”.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/59192b0c-b994-11e3-b74f-00144feabdc0.html#slide0

Nude with Oranges

http://www.wikiart.org/en/henri-matisse/nude-with-oranges-1951

every now and then, remembering to be Civilized

140526

Last night I had a dream about shit - maybe it is just a sign to start a career in politics.

[yoga]

140525

Infinite choice / "I can do anything" is killing it, it is literally freezing you. You have to put yourself in a corner, all limitations included: "I have to do •this•".

140524

Rainbows that appear after dark are called moonbows.

Check-mate bible.

[swim]

let's art baby

140523

Most people are born between July and September (quite long labour, I might add).

[yoga]

17:17

the Walker

140522

The bad thing is that I made judgement mistakes and even acted on some. The good thing is that I am still alive and can change course.

I think.

[swim]

filed to •morgue file•

the King

140521

One day you will know for sure that it's time to move on. And you will understand it's pointless to fight that certainty, all you can do is make a plan, pack, bow and thank then leave without looking back.

[yoga]

the bits of the beats

building upon yesterday

140520

O'Connell Bridge in Dublin is unique in Europe as the only traffic bridge wider than it is long (50m vs 45m).

[yoga]

140519

Star, star teach me how to shine, shine
Teach me so I know what's going on in your mind
'Cause I don't understand these people

Who sayin' the hill's too steep
Well, they'll talk and talk forever
But they'll just never climb, oh

(Star, star - the Frames)

[yoga, swim]

Can you see what I see?

140518

Don't be too competitive: if your facebook friends are too successful, just unfollow them. Not unfriend, unfollow (best for a passive agressive stance).

140517

The best iPad game for my kids is no iPad.

[swim]

afternoon

140516

"I'll drink it if it has alcohol in it": just found my middle name.

[swim]

140515

The best way to be cool is to use very old software on very old computers not connected to Internet.

[swim]

let's art baby

140514

Spent few days in Dublin and around but it was enough to fall in love with it / them. There've been countries and places I lived before for years, months or weeks but this never happened before to me.

Just watch this (lyrics here) and you'll understand why Irish will never be defeated.

140513

I asked my tour guide Rob today about bands that are interesting but not yet mainstream and I got this list of three:
- Coronas
- The script
- Japanese popstars

140512

The question is not "why would anyone want to use facebook?" but "why would I want to use facebook?".

this is Luma by Petroniu

the wall

140511

I am readier than yesterday.

140510

Religion brings comfort to so many people, but that doesn't make it one inch more true.

a (stereo)typical image of a woman's mind

Mme Amelia

140509

Moone Boy.

140508

There are usually one or two handguns on board the International Space Station. The guns belong to the Russians, but “anybody has access to them”.

140507

I bet Peter Gabriel looks like a Native American call center operator now after all those Red-Rain-Please-Talk-to-Me years.

140506

Most of my right-side pain faded or went away - somehow I am making peace with the world.

[yoga]

Sometimes I get (too) emotional

I shot the raw of this, then I cut and edited it, played a bit with the sound, adjusted the transitions, faded a bit here and there, found a title then exported it to 720p - all these on my all too powerful phone.



Then I streamed the movie to a big TV and that very first time I saw it, I cried.

There *is* endless beauty.

here's the link (don't forget to set your player to 720p).

140505

Dream harder my boy, dream harder.

[yoga]

140504

So you just went through a 11:35h surgery and first thing you do after you wake up is use your smartphone to post on an internet social network, thanking your god. Not to the doctors or the advanced technology and science but to your god and to the people who prayed for you.

You'll Always be Remembered

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Petroniu was here, 4 May 2014

Pairs with this

140503

I like converted churches, very very much.

140502

Jeff Bridges turned down the role of Indiana Jones.

The unofficial name of this is *the Petroniu tree*

"Petroniu tree" by Petroniu (don't worry ma, it's just "personal branding")

140501

"Not enough" is a default setting of our brain.