sim but different

mama's

always right.

pure feeling

2:00 to 2:12 is what i'm alive for.  seriously.  honestly.
it's why i'm still here to write words into the darkness of the internet.
that absolute raw emotion that knows no words, no images,
it is just feeling.
it is raw and real and it can be painful or joyful or more often
it can be beyond emotional categorization.
that
is
being
alive.

that is being human.
that is what we're here to experience.
that
right
there.

oh ellen & lewis (hah!)

love & progress

to teach

Brendan Wenzel

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
~ Khalil Gibran

i am missing you

so, so much.  there goes HansPeter, there goes G-daddy in Touchstone.
l-o-v-e love.

Timelapse: Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta from Roadtrippers on Vimeo.

i can not wait to get back up, to pilot, to share flight with others,

to win competitions?

yes, maybe.

cobalt blue

the cyanometer: a 225 year old tool for measuring the blueness of the sky

via up like toast

strings and flight

Jamie did you photoshop this or was that light really happening?!

artist book/performance piece from 2012

roots

are we born with deep rooted desires, or were they given to us through repeated exposure?  it's so hard to watch the people you love, share with you something that they truly love, and keep from falling in love with it yourself.  either way, I've been missing it.  

and coming up with a way to make it work.

crowdfunding...

is popping up everywhere. to fund a honeymoon, the competition…and our future business? perhaps...

balloon book x 1.5 million =

maybe this

is why my hands and brain work better in 3d.  because i've been admiring this aircraft from childhood...

I Have Seen the Future

 

 Norman Bel Geddes' Costume Designs for The Miracle (1924)

 Float for a Macy's parade, Oct 12, 1926. Pencil, ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper.

"I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America" on view at the Harry Ransom Center (UT Austin) until January 6, 2013. He designed, predicted, dreamed up, and rendered some amazing things...an artist indeed.

flight

The Invention of the Balloon
1784
Terracotta, height 110 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

something

Odilon Redon "Eye Balloon" (1878)

Charcoal, 16 5/8 x 13 1/8"