20 April 2012

BELIEVE: It Gets Better


The Lounge is all about photography, but we're also about intelligent thought and connectedness,
so we would like to give you a link to the ITGETSBETTER.ORG site.

If you are feeling alone and in despair, please DON'T HURT YOURSELF.

For help, call the Trevor Project Help Number at
866-4-U-TREVOR (866-488-7386)

(my door is always open, and I am here for you as well! :)


There are thousands of videos posted by the famous and non-famous. Here's an example:




18 April 2012

THINK: Alan Watts

"You can't be spontaneous within reason."


"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."


"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."


"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."


Alan Wilson Watt (6 January 1915 - 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker.


His home site HERE.

17 April 2012

LOOK: Gavin Hammond (Londoner)

The Lounge recently stumbled upon a British photographer/artist by the name of Gavin Hammond. In his own words he is a "Writer, producer, musician, Lomo photographer, cartoonist, lo-fi filmmaker, poem-maker, internet junkie, and Londoner." Having once been Londoners ourselves, we were struck immediately by his beautiful black-and-white photographs of London reflected in puddles. (Links below)

Even more inspiring is that he "creates a little every day."  That is the true spirit of an artist.  Create something every day. Make yourself create. Be inspired by the things that would normall bore you. Make them your inspiration. Andy Warhol said, "You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you." Perfect.
 

16 April 2012

LOOK: Eric Franklin

Ok, so this is officially sculpture, but the Lounge thinks the photographs are beautiful enough that you need to see it anyway.