The ability to make us stop and contemplate an image is just one of the reasons Dubai-based artist Abdulla Elmaz has become a rising star...
Two years ago, San Diego photographer Edward Honaker was diagnosed with depression—that moment represented the beginning of an arduous process of coming to grips with his own self-defeating tendencies and representing them in his art. As he told the Huffington Post, “All I knew is that I became bad at the things I used to be good at, and I didn’t know why. ... Your mind is who you are, and when it doesn’t work properly, it’s scary.” His self-portraits have a pleasingly elemental quality reminiscent of Magritte or Escher, but with more piercing emotional content than either of those masters. “It’s kind of hard to feel any kind of emotion when you’re depressed, and I think good art can definitely move people,” he said. Honaker, who also has done fashion work for Doc Martens and Armani Exchange, hopes that his project will goad viewers into accepting those who struggle with mental illness. “When I was making the portfolio, I asked myself if I was the kind of person whom others would feel comfortable coming to if they were going through a difficult time and needed someone to talk to,” said Honaker. “Truthfully, at...
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This series is all about one piece of art in San Francisco. Charles O. Perry sculpted this piece, titled "Eclipse," for the Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero in San Francisco in 1973. Here's Mr. Perry's biography from his website, www.charlesperry.com: "Charles O. Perry is a creator an artist of many dimensions who ponders the wonderful mysteries of the universe. His large scale and monumental sculptures celebrate and question the laws of nature. It is his intuitive investigation of nature's variables that provides the springboard for many of Perry's concepts. Believing that sculpture must stand on its own merit without need of explanation, Perry's work has an elegance of form that masks the mathematical and scientific complexity of its genesis. Perry has always extolled the beauties of nature and the nature of materials. Beginning with watercolors of his native Montana, inventing equipment to improve his tour of duty in Korea, celebrating Japanese reverence for natural materials in architecture and returning to America to study art and architecture at Yale University in 1954, he has embraced the "what if's". While Perry was at Yale it was the Chairman of the Art School, Joseph Albers, who encouraged Perry to play with materials and to "discover their true nature". As a student, Perry invented a complex building brick that needed no mortar and was unrestricted by the limits of size. This mathematically based form was the result of wonder whether the rhombus shape could be changed to become something else. The concept was intuitive, the result was visual art. The piece was later shown at Spoleto's Festival, 1969, in Spoleto, Italy. After graduating from Yale, Perry practiced architecture from 1958-1963 in San Francisco, California with the firm of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill. During his architectural career he had developed many sculptural models and was offered a one-man sculpture show in San Francisco. At the same time, he won the Prix de Rome, a prestigious award granted by the American Academy in Rome for two years study in Italy. Prior to leaving for Rome in 1964, he had secured two major sculpture commissions. "The basic difference in the discipline of architecture and sculpture is that I can't force a solution in sculpture, where in architecture, one can arrive at an apparent 'rational' solution through continual work." For Perry, the appropriateness of the form is the final goal or criteria. Since 1964, Perry has concentrated on large scale public sculpture, the most prestigious of which stands in front of the National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C. The piece, "Continuum", began as an exploration of the Mobius strip, a product of pure mathematics formed by joining two ends of a strip of paper after giving one end a 180 degree twist, thus creating only one edge. The center of the bronze sculpture symbolizes a black hole, while the edge shows the flow of matter through the center from positive to negative space and back again in a continuum. "When I set off to be an artist, I would avoid the arbitrary, esteem the orders of God in Nature, make things that were beautiful, try to make things that appeared to have no author, things you thought you had seen before; entwined with mathematics, geometry, topography, spinning, interlocking, always saying thank you God." Perry's sculptures are located in public spaces at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Harvard University, Boston, MA; University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT; Zeimu University Tokyo Japan; Indianan University Museum of Art, Bloomington, IND; General Electric headquarters, Fairfield, CT; IBM Headquarters, Charlotte, NC; Shell Oil, Melbourne, Australia and Singapore. There are about ninety major commissions throughout the world. As an industrial designer, Perry had invented three unique IBD prize winning chairs. His patents on chair design are licensed to Krueger International, Virco, and Steelcase. On occasion, Perry designs other objects of art such as a collection of jewelry and silver for Tiffany, NY and puzzles sold through the Museum of Modern Art. A chess set composed of two tubes that when taken apart contain all the game pieces is in the Design Collection of MoMA. In recent years, Perry has lectured on mathematics and art in conferences throughout the world. " SF0704-45007-HyattRegency
I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. Sadly, not once did I ever catch one of the nuns who taught at my school behaving “badly” or “out of character” for someone married to Christ, but boy do I wish I would have. These nuns gave detention left and right for the dumbest, most innocuous shit ever (like my socks being the wrong shade of blue or my skirt being 1/4 of an inch too short). The nuns had it out for my ass. I was convinced they were evil robots not nice ladies doing the Lord’s bidding. Nuns still make me nervous to this very day… So to my surprise, I found these vintage photos of nuns “letting their habits down” and even a few of them being slightly naughty a turning point in my appreciation for nuns: Apparently they’re not ruler-slapping robots after all. I could hang with some of these nuns!
Self-portrait, 1927. Her shirt says, “I am in training, don’t kiss me.” While David Bowie will always be my very first cultural touchstone of avant-garde androgyny, it’s Claude Cahun that’s my absolute favorite. And I’m sure Bowie would approve. He once said of Cahun, “You could call her transgressive or you could call her a cross dressing Man Ray with surrealist tendencies. I find this work really quite mad, in the nicest way.” You don’t really get much of a better recommendation than that, and looking as alien and draggy as anything Mr. Rebel Rebel ever dreamed of, her many photographic incarnations are just mesmerizing. Born in 1894 as Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob in Nantes, France, she was from a family of artistic Jewish intellectuals. Cahun chose her pseudonym for its unisex ambiguity—the surname was her paternal grandmother’s, who raised her, as Cahun’s mother struggled with mental illness. Her life-long artistic collaborator, romantic partner, and step-sister, Suzanne Malherbe, went by Marcel Moore, and together they fostered a true avant-garde community, hosting salons in their Paris home. (André Breton, author of Surrealist Manifesto, was a regular attendant.) Though photography is her most famous medium,...
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Donna San Francisco has changed both rapidly and radically over recent years. As it’s become more appealing both for cosmopolitan urbanites and the exploding tech sector, gentrification has blessed The City by the Bay with the most expensive one-bedroom apartment in America, even surpassing New York. Many mourn the loss of an earlier San Francisco and its formerly affordable counterculture and queer subculture, while San Francisco documentary photographer and filmmaker James Hosking manages to actually catch some of the twilight. For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. The notoriously seedy Tenderloin has managed to mostly resist gentrification on the merits of its reputation and a concerted effort by inhabitants. Still, without the surrounding culture of a former San Francisco to sustain it, the once vibrant queer scene has faded. Hosking’s photographs are intimate and unflinching, but the mini-documentary is also an amazing portrait of three drag foremothers. Their reflections and reminiscing are complex but disarmingly at peace, and their performances and beauty rituals are (as...
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This oft-seen wonderfully weird photo depicts Hugo Gernsback wearing his "teleyeglasses" in 1963. Gersnback, an inventor of such innovations as a combination electric hair brush/comb and a battery-powered handheld illuminated…
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I didn't think the day would ever come but I'm here, and I'm falling in love with meditating. I'm a busy woman, mid-twenties. THERE'S A LOT GOING ON HERE. On a day to day basis without really realizing it or even stressing about it, I'm working out, going to work, working on my passion, soc
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There’s nothing as simple and powerful as the breath. It keeps us alive; it keeps us balanced, and if we can tap into it – it’s the one thing that keeps us connected to the present. Anyone who has ever graced a yoga or meditation class has been introduced to the importance of breath in spiritual practice. But, the breath can be its own practice when you turn to conscious breathing. Harness Spiritual Healing Healing breath is becoming big news. From Holotropic breathwork to the Wim Hof Method, the simple practice of breathing has bloomed into a whole range of healing techniques, calling on us to harness the power of the breath to aid our own spiritual healing. Release Long Term Tension When we are babies, we breathe deeply and fully taking all that delicious air into our bellies. As we grow into adults, our breathing habits change and we tend to breathe thinly and shallow. We hold tension in our bodies more, and when we are stressed or anxious – we even hold our breath. A lot of body breathing practice works with the belief that ‘the body keeps the score’. It’s a practice that can hold a lot of somatic healing beliefs – acknowledging that our stressors and traumas get locked in the body, and through the power of breathing – we can release that long-held tension. Detox the Body Breathwork is all about increasing the oxygen supply to your inner systems. This practice increases energy levels, activates your brainpower, expands awareness, and also works as a powerful way to detox considering that 70 percent of our toxins are released through the breath. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Balance Out the Nervous System Participating in conscious connected breathwork has been proven to have major positive effects on the body. Not only does it relax the heart rate and lower your blood pressure, which both lead to a sense of calm flooding the body and the mind, but it also helps get your adrenal gland in check and balances out the nervous system. Raise Your Consciousness Beyond the body, breathwork is known for its deep healing for the soul. The process of clearing out old traumas through the breath can reduce the negative effects of depression and anxiety, help us overcome lethargy and creative blocks, and can raise our consciousness, spiritual understanding and love for the self. Making Room There’s a saying in breathwork that ‘everything is welcome’. The healing process of breathing brings a thousand different responses as your body clears out the junk that it doesn’t want to house anymore. People in breathwork sessions report screaming, crying, laughing, singing, making up mantras and affirmations, feeling sexual, and all of it should be most welcome. Trust that your body knows what it needs to do. Some people will also experience tingling in their hands and other bodily parts as more oxygen flows into the body. While this can be uncomfortable it is normal. Make room to welcome in any response your body feels the need to give – as this is all part of the healing. Remember that great shifts also don’t happen immediately and while at the time you may not feel anything, it doesn’t mean that processing isn’t happening beneath the surface. Staying Safe While breathwork practice is generally considered safe, it helps to have a support network in place for something like Holotropic practice. When working with any kind of trauma healing, having a safe space, people you trust, and a nurturing environment is essential. Breathwork can bring to the surface old pains, and without the right support measures in place, you don’t want to risk becoming retraumatized. Find a safe recommended breathwork practitioner or ensure that you have the inner strength and ability to hold space for your healing before delving deep. Have you ever tried breathwork before? What was your experience? Share thoughts with us in the comments.
There are light beams you meet and inherently know you've crossed paths in another lifetime. That's how I feel with Jules - worthiness coach, captain of the cheer squad, magic maker and deep space holder. She's a force, putting down the truth for you to pick up (if it serves you) and leaving a posi
Join me as I capture the beauty of yoga photography with Tarryn (@namastarryn) against the stunning backdrop of the Gold Coast. From rain to rainbow, we got an amazing variety of photos that showcase Tarryn's incredible poses.
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Loren is serving up all of the Autumnal vibes with these colours today! I’ve worked with Loren once before when I first moved to the United Kingdom. We’ve met up a couple of times since that first meeting, but this was the first time that we’ve worked together again. Since our first photoshoot together in early 2017, Loren has completed her 200hr yoga teacher training and is now regularly teaching private and group classes in London. You can find out more about her classes on her Facebook page.
If you're interested in meditation, you may feel a bit daunted because there are so many meditation techniques out there. The first time I tried meditation, I mixed together various types of meditation and it was
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Marla's portrait photographed in Hanalei, Kauai. Marla is a wellness coach born and raised in Kauai. Captured around Hanalei Organic Farm.
