greener on the other side

George dreams of pools

Gary Floatus on Viewbug

I've entered this picture of Gary the Rockstar doing a floatus on Viewbug



It can win me one of them interesting light field camera thingies, for which they don't have underwater housing yet but could be fun anyway. So if you have a moment, please do click below and 'like' the hell out of the pic:

Depth Photo Contest

St Daan of the Bubble Rings

I might be slightly obsessed with bubble rings



-but can you blame me? They're awesome; they make grey days bright



they're very comfortable to sit on



they help you with framing



they give you something to aim for



and they're excellent hula hoops



so since there's a vacancy -i checked- i'm declaring myself patron saint of bubble rings



blessed be those who blow rings:



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the deep line

Cornelis Verhoeven, violence as inspiration

56 years ago today, my dad defended his thesis Symbology of the foot and got his doctorate. He always celebrated this day, more so than his birthday, so i try to honor this day by putting up a translation on his blog. This year i picked a passage from a book i've been trying to translate, 'Against violence', which is a magnificent brain breaker of an essay on a very worthy topic.

"In all its subtle and complicated morphology violence lies like a dark stain in our existence, collectively, individually and especially in the obscure transition areas between them. And it wouldn’t be violence, wouldn’t be ascendency, if that stain was merely put there by us and could be removed at our discretion. That’s why it is good to contemplate one’s powerlessness before speaking too strongly about violence."

http://cornelisverhoeven.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/violence-as-inspiration/

dog surfing

i knew dogs could swim





even with a ball in their mouth





i never knew they could surf, though

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