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: 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: the hours

September 16, 2014Ally R.Comment

"

Violence in the flowers where they found you

Can I wait the hours

Would it be untrue

Climb up to the tower

So that you can see

All across the hours"- BH

I found myself walking down North Williams the other day and even though it's still warm outside, you can feel summer starting to go into its deep annual slumber.

You can feel it in the air and in the sunlight and everything around you-- this waiting and tension that makes us so impatient for pumpkin spice lattes, cozy pullovers, and leaf pile rambling . We're all waiting for something. We're waiting for the kettle to whistle, or the bus to arrive, or a multitude of other events that could occur in an otherwise linear day. What are you waiting for?

xoxo,

Ally

"untitled" by

deda.

"caught in a flower's hue" by

rapidheartmovement

"effetto farfalla." by

"untitled" by

"birth" by

"inertia creeps" by

"this beautiful creature must die/a death for no reason/ and death for no reason is murder" by

martyna zglenicka

"grrrl" by

roco perna

"my little geisha" by

maria von staa

"21840024" by

matsuki narishige

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DAILY DRIFTER: metropolis

September 11, 2014Ally R.Comment

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“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”

-jane jacobs

Living in a city always has its share of "strange." The metropolis tends to have a cultural ambiguity-- a series of extreme refinements and likewise extreme dereliction. Yet the fabric of the city is so much more vibrant than that comparison. The "metropolis" itself is very much centered around the people. Even if you live in a small town, some part of you can relate to the "human" scale of the metropolis. Just like any great empire, it is based on people-- people who are fragile and fallible. Like any Ayn Rand creation, we breathe life into our city and our city breathes life into us. I believe the following artists have captured the essence of this beautifully.

xoxo,

Ally

"untitled" by

nick swift

"untitled" by

lisa indigo burns wormsley

"quanshen3" by

"lives" by

"--" by

"36650013" by

"in my head" by

"after biking" by

"glastür-- french door" by

albrecht schlotter

"mytubenyc" by

gediminas jankevicius

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DAILY DRIFTER: quanta

June 20, 2014Ally R.Comment

DAILY DRIFTER///

Beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder, but today we are focusing on the tiny universes that exist inside our own. Sometimes the eye is the opening to someone's inner world. Sometimes the world wraps itself around us and beckons to us in all dimensions. And oftentimes even a picture can capture an artificial world or a fleeting thought that would be lost to the wind. Today we go to the cosmos and back in search of what is.

xoxo,

Ally

"Jade" by

"Untitled" by

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"London/Taxicab" by

"Untitled" by

"StandingHereTillTheEndOfTime" by

sebastian stadtkind

"Máscaras Experimentais" by

mattheus mo

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"hola invierno" by

roco perna

"transcending" by

jessica lia

"Untitled" by

tang jiaqi

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DAILY DRIFTER: blue jeans on fire

June 19, 2014Ally R.Comment

DAILY DRIFTER///

Blue jeans, bonfires, long nights, rock 'n' roll. We are always pushing the envelope by going above and beyond those who came before us. We are the dreamers, the doers, and the radicals. These are the people that burn the bridges and start the fires, all while looking radiant and innovative. Today we pay tribute to those timeless folks without whom the world would be a boring place to live.

xoxo,

Ally

"Untitled" by

"Savanna Singers" by

"Coastin'" by

"*" by

"Untitled" by

"still from my music video" by

annique johnson

"90/365" by

m

aría hernández

"Defending Our Brave Martian Explorers" by

"karahindiba" by

"love box" by

"Untitled" by

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DAILY DRIFTER: waiting for the summer

June 18, 2014Ally R.Comment

DAILY DRIFTER///

We celebrated the summer solstice last night by bonfire, under douglas firs out on the coast. It's just finally warm enough to feel summer's powerful spell draping us with its warm embrace. The wait is finally over. What are some of your big plans for Summer (if you're not still waiting for it)?

xoxo,

Ally

"Ocean blue take me away" by

miguel soll

"carthasy live @ rosemount hotel" by

isadora j.

"Lisa & Sasha" by

anna laznya

"

わたしが生きている世界はまるで球体です。" by

"Lilya" by

"Adriana" by

"boiling." by

"Untitled" by

"Untitled" by

"Compact Team" by naomi of

purplewoods

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DAILY DRIFTER: some things last a long time

June 17, 2014Ally R.Comment

DAILY DRIFTER///

Historically, the photograph has been an interesting phenomenon. It is able to capture the very essence of people's souls and provides the ability to stop time just briefly. When time stops, we see a moment in the frame that conveys so much thought, meaning, and depth. Even in the digital era, the camera somehow captures the vitality of the soul. In this selection, we will see time stand still and how the subject of the portrait inhabits the frame, all the while reaching far outside the frame into our very hearts.

xoxo,

Ally

"Introvert #2" by

daniel müller

"Crimson and bare as I stand II" by

RapidHeartMovement

"new shoes" by

lux lisbon

"Untitled" by

emily savill

"

№4" by

anna laznya

"Idea of Florida as a Midwestern kid meets reality" by

MFragelFotos

"khaleesi, mother of dragons" by

joseph rustia

"Thibaut" by

Ousseynou Cissé

"The Others- Demo Portrait" by

"fall" by

"Untitled" by

"Untitled" by

"Untitled" by

"+" by

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DAILY DRIFTER: field notes

June 16, 2014Ally R.Comment

DAILY DRIFTER///

Whether we're traipsing through far-off vistas or simply walking down a country road, wife open spaces and blankets of clouds can bring us down the earth. Even if civilization is closer than we would like, there is very much beauty left untamed in the wilderness. The following selections focus on this spirit of movement and the quiet stillness of being within the belly of the natural world.

xoxo,

Ally

"2/52" by

carolina conte

"Untitled" by

judy-chen

"White Rabbit" by

silvia o.

"Jardins de Laribal" by

edwina jaupi

"devaneio cristalino" by

"stratification" by

"Untitled" by

"Untitled" by

"Kiev. Ukraine. June 2014" by

nazar gonchar

"Untitled" by

andrea di cesare

"

わたしが生きている世界はまるで球体です。" by

"Untitled" by

"Untitled" by

"elrika's mother" by

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DAILY DRIFTER: the dreamers

June 15, 2014Ally R.Comment

///DAILY DRIFTER

Lady Dreamers-- here's looking at you. With style, flair, elegance, and originality, you gals take the world by storm. You don't just make the world a better place, either-- you OWN it. You empower others simply by being brave and stylish. So this post goes out to all of you amazing dames out there inspire us just by being your awesome selves.

xoxo,

Ally