Sam Fleischner

I love this video for Panda Bear, so I looked up some other work the director Sam Fleischner created and was intrigued. Worth looking at more of his work!

Pictures of Love

all images from tumblr

USA Nail Art

all images found on tumblr, and all appropriate for July!

Afghanistan photography

A U.S. marine in Afghanistan has been documenting his deployment on his camera phone. He is clearly passionate about photography, by his talent and the amount of pictures he's been able to take. It's the same to me as a beautiful artwork done in a ball point pen. If you can make compelling portraits on a camera phone, you really have skill. His work is here on flickr.

 

 

I sent the link to my dad who is a retired marine pilot who has a few trips of Afghanistan under his active duty belt, but is now currently flying a contract job back in Afghanistan. I was surprised what he had to say via email, only because he seems to talk more in email than he does when he's home, especially in terms of this kind of topic. Here's what he wrote me:

     I like the photos............but they make me sad.  It is really hard here for these people and I am not sure we are going to help them in the long run.  I think they want us out and that most are still stuck in such dispair..............I fly over farmers who are cutting wheat with a sickle (by hand) that is probably 100 years old.  We are the fat Americans with the technology and money.  They are so poor and live such a hard life that the photos can sometimes be such a negative when I look at them.  Where I am located, they do want to still kill you...........don't tell your mom but the place is pretty hot at times.  The Shank Valley is just south of Bagram and Kabul, which is much further north then Khandahar.  It is also closer to the Packi Border where the tribes have little loyalty to the government here.  So, you don't see the money being distributed here towards the people.  OK, enough geopolitical stuff.  Have fun on the interview and show em what you got.  I am off today.........going to help out flight line and wash some aircraft. 

Love ya, Dad

Evil Beaver vs Miller Lite

Eviiiiiillllllllll Beaver!
Good advertising, and still in my theme for posting: Amurica.

A.HEIRLOOM

A.HEIRLOOM, an Etsy shop! My friend Meredith wrote about them in her blog for Rose Bredl, a flower shop she works at! They're cutting boards, and you can have your hometown put on with a heart or star! How cute, and patriotic for a 4th BBQ! 

July!

I love that I grew up in the west, but I went back to find my roots in college in the mid-west. Neither seems more american to me than the other. I love the grass roots feel to the midwest, with farms, classic tradition and good people; but what's more american than going west and forging a new life - where you're free to create your new life and identity? My road trip west made me realize how beautiful America's landscape really is. We have everything; mountains, desert, plains, canyons, and gorgeous coast lines! I am so proud to be an American, where I am free.

Thank you to all the soldiers who support us, 

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA! 

also my dad just sent me this video to give me a better idea of what he is flying nowadays and doing, pretty cool