The clap-clap of the water

 "You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words: but most of your friends do not see it at all. Again, you have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you've been looking for all your life. Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of - something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat's side. Are not all lifelong friendships born at the moment when at last you meet another human being who has some inkling of that something which you were born desiring, and which, beneath the flux of other desires and in all the momentary silences between the louder passions, night and day, year by year, from childhood to old age, you are looking for, watching for, listening for?" 

-C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain 1940

Manchitas de acuarela

Últimamente trabajando en nuevas cosas para Loup, me he dedicado a hacer patrones y manchitas.

Lately I've been painting patterns and spots, they're for the newer things we are making for Loup.

 

Así quedó este. 

This is how this one came out.

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-S

My birthday is one week away.

The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself - that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller, something as bogus as a coke high: purpose maybe, or goals, or whatever rah-rah Junior Chamber of Commerce word you wanted to use. It was no big deal; it didn't go all at once, with a bang. And maybe, Richie thought, that's the scary part. How you don't stop being a kid all at once, with a big explosive bang, like one of that clown's trick balloons with the Burma-Shave slogans on the sides. The kid in you just leaked out, like the air out of a tire. And one day you looked in the mirror and there was a grownup looking back at you. You could go on wearing bluejeans, you could keep going to Springsteen and Seger concerts, you could dye your hair, but that was a grownup face in the mirror just the same. 

-Stephen King, It. 1980

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Norman the Eco-Warrior

Creo que las grandes empresas están usando la popularidad de los videos de gatos en internet. Los apoyo 
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I believe big companies are embracing the popular cat video trend. I'm all for it




-S

 

Este año en nuestro aniversario fuimos a caminar, como cinco minutos jaja.

 

Y encontramos este arbol (¿enredadera?) increíble. No sé como se llama pero pienso enseñarle esta foto a la gente que conozco que sabe de plantas a ver si me pueden decir. ¡Quiero uno! 

Desde que llegamos hasta que nos fuimos, que debo confesar fueron más de cinco minutos, pero no estabamos avanzando en nuestra caminata; cayeron sin parar pétalos y flores.

 

 

Nos fuimos al atardecer.

-S

Clever youtubers, part II

Vi's channel showed me the awesomeness, which made me think that I could maybe, just maybe, be good at more than one thing. I always struggle internally thinking that if I invest all my energy and 'talent' in photography I'm giving up on drawing and painting or something, it is more a superstitious feeling than anything else.
El canal de Vi Hart me hizo pensar que tal vez es posible que yo pueda hacer bien más de una cosa. Siempre tengo un conflicto interno, pensando que si invierto toda mi energía y mi "talento" en tomar fotos, voy a dejar de poder dibujar o pintar o lo que sea, pero creo que más que nada es una superstición.

Perdón que no hay una traducción en este post, pero como es acerca de los videos de nuevo y están todos en inglés y sin subtitulos... :/

I originally wrote about Vi Hart on my first post, but she really deserved a post of her own.

She is a self professed mathemusician has a genius youtube channel where she shares via paper, food, drawings (super talented drawings), flowers, music and monologues her theories about math, education, music, life - but mostly math - and I love it.

I chose three of my favorite videos to share, but I strongly suggest that you check out her whole channel, to go there click here

Here are a couple of my favorite videos all the same:

 This is the second part of 3 videos!







This video has a second part!

-S