daily drifter

daily drifter: encounter

December 13, 2018daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. ‘Time’ for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”

— Roman Payne

“Reconhecer-se nos olhos do mundo” by Tuane Eggers

“Moving clouds, Machu Picchu” by //sarah — “**Moving clouds, Machu Picchu” by** //sarah

“Analogue double exposure” by martine.es

“Indolente e muto. Presago di flutti” by nonplusultra22

“August blues (again) “ I'm from Caravaggio

“Valley of Fire State Park, NV” by Ivan Echevarria

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daily drifter: aventurine

November 20, 2018daily drifterTaylor P.Comment

“You have to be transparent
so you no longer cast a shadow
but instead let the light pass through you. ”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Pequenos guardiões dos nossos caminhos” by Tuane Eggers

“Crystal Springs Reservoir, CA” by Ivan Echevarria

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daily drifter: roam

March 23, 2018daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“The world is as large as I let it be. Each step I take into the unknown reveals a thousand more steps of possibility. Earth may not be growing but my world certainly does with each step I take.”

— Avina Celeste

"Boiler Room x Viva Festival" by Giuliana Massaro

"Troodos Mountains" Kathryn Young — "Troodos Mountains" Kathryn Young

"Que seja leve o sentir" by Tuane Eggers

"E se tu fossi qui, adesso, ti abbraccerei con tutte le mie forze" by nonplusultra22

xoxo,

Ally

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daily drifter: holly + zen

November 30, 2017daily drifterAlly R.1 Comment

AHHH! THE HOLIDAYS ARE HERE!

Holidays for me are the equivalent of being in a super-scare-your-balls-off haunted house. If you're also in a bit of a panic this month, feel free to chill out with a stiff drink and rest easy dreaming of these sunny vistas and beautiful destinations.

xoxo,
Ally

"Hamburg 2017" by Giulia Micheila Azzalini

"Lago Verde, Parque Nacional Los Alerces." by Saitam Baro

""La mia terra è donna" 04" by ylenia comi

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daily drifter: stranger things

November 2, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

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"Prefață după Dumas.15" by Şerpaş însetat de zăpezile Everestului

"Parco della Murgia, Matera" by Chiara Baldassarri

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daily drifter: the zion

August 11, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”

— Omar Nelson Bradley

"The spark, has died and now you're just too late" by Ririii

"Condor-dos-andes, o voo mais deslumbrante que já vi" by Tuane Eggers

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daily drifter: diorama

July 8, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

di·o·ram·a

ˌdīəˈramə,ˌdīəˈrämə/

noun

a model representing a scene with three-dimensional figures, either in miniature or as a large-scale museum exhibit.
- historical
  a scenic painting, viewed through a peephole, in which changes in color and direction of illumination simulate changes in the weather, time of day, etc.. (source: google)

We find ourselves longing for this little finite space that can be controlled. This diorama, this little box, a glimpse into our world or someone else's. In this place we are kings/queens. In this place we seek divination. We can go wherever we want to go, do whatever we want to do, and be whoever we want to be. In a world that is constantly in flux we stare into the abyss of this life that contains us, longing for the simplicity of childhood daydreams and seasons in the sun. But are we three-dimensional or just flagellating our vices for the masses? Are we a carving etched on history or a living, breathing real boy/girl living inside a scene that replays itself in a myriad of ways into dusk? Today we are searching for answers to whether we live inside this fragile frame or outside in a wild sea of ignorance.

xoxo,

Ally

"allthingsredfrog" by Magdalena Bodzioch

"Love Tester and Physical Fitness" by Oliver Liria

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daily drifter: freedom circa 1984

April 6, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

— George Orwell, 1984

"Dos imensos dias em que fomos tão grandiosamente pequenos" by Tuane Eggers

"Entrance"  by Chang-Yeol Choi — "Entrance" by Chang-Yeol Choi

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daily drifter: dusty clockless hours

April 4, 2017daily drifterAlly R.1 Comment

"As montanhas também dançam, lentamente, a dança do desintegrar" by Tuane Eggers

“Even the damned in Hell have the community of their suffering.”

— CORMAC MCCARTHY, Suttree

"Malteze.24" by Şerpaş însetat de zăpezile Everestului

"The Village in the Mountains" by Lucas Marcomini

"Jesus Christ Superstar" by Piero Donadeo

"Portland OR . 2017" by gilbert terrazas

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daily drifter: feelin' fine, feelin' good

April 2, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”

— Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

"Noa | Worthy Is the Lamb" by michel nguie

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daily drifter: the accolades

January 19, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity.”

— Lemony Snicket

In matters of meritocracy, sometimes we haven't the faintest idea what is going on. We humbly oblige some more moderate version of ourselves to demonstrate how to behave in modern society, yet our current society is full of upheaval and a future that has yet to be determined. We call them the accolades, these momentary glimpses of privilege and centrifugal forces that we often take for granted. Some call it divination or intervention. We walk blindly or swim into their seas, letting the current and the windswept sand direct us where we're meant to go and where we belonged all along.

xoxo,
Ally

"Selfie underneath the stars" by Matthijs Bettman

"My city through my eyes" by Maria Evgenidu

"Portland OR  .  2016" by Gilbert Terrazas — "Portland OR . 2016" by Gilbert Terrazas

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daily drifter: burning bridges

January 18, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“How can you rise if you have not burned?
”

— Hiba Fatima Ahmad

The theme this week around here has been a poignant one. We ask ourselves two questions:

1) How far do we persevere to lose ourselves for love?

and 2) When do we know when to give up?

There are no simple answers. Situations are complicated-- relationships are complicated. We live in a digital age where friendship is often a shell, a guise, surrounded by fragile bridges. We strike those matches, say that we have had enough, and let those fires of Babylon burn.

In order to rise above we must fall below. It takes great adversity to often build the best character and sometimes takes burning bridges to find other routes to our destination. The journey of life is a series of layers-- we are constructed of stars and finer things. But beneath our sordid frame lies a fire that burns ever brightly, ready to engulf that which needs transcending. I am the Phoenix. Watch me burn and live again.

Have you ever burned a bridge? Did you strike the match and never look back?

"A luz saindo pelos olhos" by Tuane Eggers

"Di nuovo verrà l'estate V" by nonplusultra22

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daily drifter: everything is alright | everything is finite

January 10, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”

— Wisława Szymborska

President Obama spoke tonight for the last time as President. Regardless of your political leanings, I know many of you feel the difference in the air. The world feels unsettled and listless but full of sparks of energy and hope. The future is full of confusion and exhilaration. We wake up every morning saying a silent mantra of "I'm OK" but are we really? We're sitting on a thin line between war and peace and we're worried about when and where the other shoe may drop.

Yet on some levels we are at war within ourselves. We sit on the precipice of change yet we stare into the brightness of our screens and drink our caloric maximum to dull the sensation of having no control. We have faith or lack it but there is this air of difference that permeates everyone and everything. We distance ourselves to stay intact and fear being vulnerable to the dangers and pleasures that life brings.

I'm OK. You're OK. Everything is alright. Everything is finite.

What does yesterday, today, and tomorrow look like for you?

<3, A

"Sadness is a blessing" by Sacha Bertrand

"periferia" by Alexander Gonzalez Delgado

"Somos um pedaço de cada possibilidade" by Tuane Eggers

". | barracks without soldiers" by I'm from Caravaggio

"When the summer heat dissolves memories" by AirSonka

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daily drifter: day + age

January 6, 2017daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark: the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ”

— PLATO

It's a new year and things feel vastly unstructured and unsettled. The weather is unpredictable and so is the political climate. Yet there is hope in the light as well as in the shadows. The energy and vitality of singular moments and of tangible dissonance seem to echo as much from our past as of our future. We are in the golden days of opportunity and in a new age of collective synergism. We are in a time of alternate universes where seemingly real things appear surreal. Now is the time to be everything that you are and to walk into the light sans blindfold. Welcome to the Parallel.

xoxo,
A

"Se un dì di novembre andassi in Grecia" by Maria Evgenidu

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daily drifter: impossivel

June 30, 2016daily drifterAlly R.Comment

“Only if you are possible, everything will be possible.”
― Santosh Kalwar

As we let go of the old and embrace the new, we embark on a journey of great magnitude. We become ourselves in the realm of possibility. Somehow the future is always such an abstract concept and then suddenly we wake up and realize the future is now. We dance into the realm of impossibility and carve out our own niche of what is possible and real. What are some of your possible (or impossible) plans?

xoxo,
Ally

"oblong hobnob 1 - 14'' x 20'' - 2015" by Harold McNaron

"New York State of Mind" by Hayden Williams

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