Amazing Places

I've been dealing with a serious case of the travel bug... not the sick kind, but the I NEED TO TRAVEL kind. Do you ever have those days that you wish you could drop everything, grab your love and take off? When I was a kid, I use to spin our world globe around and close my eyes. I'd place my finger on the spinning globe and move it up and down until it stopped on a random place. "Ahhh-haa this looks like a good place to go next."

Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?

For a day?

For a month?

For a year?

These look like some fabulous places...

St. Petersburg, Russia

Istanbul, Turkey

Greece

Gourette, Pyrenees

The Wave -- Near the Coyotes Buttes in Arizona, USA

Milan, Italy

Scotland

Portal view from Hotel Punta Regina, Positano, Italy

Blue Lagoon, Luzon, The Philippines

Leshan Giant Buddha

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Hidden Wine Cellar

Need some wine? Yeah...let me just get a bottle from my secret wine cellar.

Whaaaaaat!!!?

This is insane! And I'll take it! Please install in my home...

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The Infinity Room By French Artist, Serge Salat

French artist and architect Serge Salat has created a private cosmos where visitors are invited to journey through endless layers of space mapped out using cubic shapes, paneled mirrors, shifting lights, and music. “Beyond Infinity” is a multi-sensory, multimedia experience that blends Eastern Chinese with Western Renaissance, modern, and contemporary visual culture into a singular work.

- Architizer

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This is Amazing! 50 DIY all natural beauty products! Love it!

Amazing Places...

"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live." -Hans Christian Andersen

Meteora, Thessaly, Greece

 Snow Cathedral, Norway    

Sagrado Cenote Azul, Cancun  

    

     Interlaken, Switzerland

Korakaram Highway, Pakistan

Milan, Italy

Boat Hotel, Cocoa Island, The Maldives Islands

Bridge Tea Rooms, Bradford-Upon-Avon, England



Tree Tunnel, Belgium

Takachiho Gorge, Miyasaki, Japan

Greece (Zakynthos)

Paris, France on New Years Eve

Rio Celeste, Costa Rica

Sun Island, South Ari Atoll, Maldives

Balaa waterfall - Chatine, Lebanon

Skaftafell, Iceland

Terraced Rice Field, China

Cave of Crystals, Mexico

Innsbruck, Austria

Antwerp, Belgium

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Kina Grannis 'In Your Arms' Jelly Bean Music Video

I saw Kina Grannis 'In Your Arms' music video for the first time today. It's simply amazing - literally a work of art! It took almost two years with the work of 30 people, and required 288,000 Jelly Belly jelly beans. Mmmm I love Jelly Bellies (my favorites are Pear and Root Beer)! Director Greg Jardin and his team assembled every bean, in every 2,640 frames and shot them individually! Yikes! Basically he created a music video with the same concept as the flip book.  Props to Greg and his extreme patience! Check it out. P.S. the behind the scene's clip is great too!

Thomas Doyle: Miniature Worlds

Thomas Doyle is the master of miniature worlds. His work is magnificently detailed and emotionally intriguing. This art breaks my heart. It makes me hold my breath just thinking about these poor little miniature people. Any art that can provoke such a reaction is A+ in my book. This guy is a genius. I would love to know what you think of it.

A note from the artist:

Hovering above the glass, the viewer approaches these worlds as an all-seeing eye, looking down upon landscapes that dwarf and threaten the figures within.

Conversely, the private intensity of moments rendered in such a small scale draws the viewer in, allowing for the intimacy one might feel peering into a museum display case or dollhouse. Though surrounded by chaos, hazard, and longing, the figures’ faces betray little emotion, inviting viewers to lose themselves in these crucibles.

The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, seeming to suspend time itself—with all its accompanying anguish, fear, and bliss. By sealing the works in this fashion, I hope to distill the debris of human experience down to single, fragile moments.

Upcoming work on view: Thomas Doyle's solo exhibition Surface to air opens November 12th at LeBasse Projects gallery in Culver City, California.

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