Beach Girls: 

Delia and Ava at Wenderholm. First beach day of the new decade. Awesome.
Beach Girls:

Delia and Ava at Wenderholm. First beach day of the new decade. Awesome.

Andy Warhol on doing stuff. Kinda elitist but I still like it.

Andy Warhol on doing stuff. Kinda elitist but I still like it.

… the reality that the All Blacks come in two forms: the Brazil of the oval ball game, and the panicky, exasperated fumblers of many a World Cup anticlimax. Given licence to play, New Zealand will smash your dreams. Assailed from the first whistle, they will scramble for their patterns and resent the interventions of lesser beings. This is a fault line in All Black rugby…
Paul Hayward, the Guardian
Fanatic ethnic or religious or national identifications are a little difficult to support when we see our planet as a fragile, blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
Carl Sagan
My future starts when I wake up every morning. … Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
A Solemn Boy: 

Kade looking very serious.
A Solemn Boy:

Kade looking very serious.

Henna Princess:
Ava with her henna tattoo, while at the Diwali Festival at Auckland Viaduct Harbour.

Henna Princess:

Ava with her henna tattoo, while at the Diwali Festival at Auckland Viaduct Harbour.

Diwali Stilt Walker:
One of two cool stilt walkers cruising around at the 2009 Diwali Festival at Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour.

Diwali Stilt Walker:

One of two cool stilt walkers cruising around at the 2009 Diwali Festival at Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
Photo from the refurbished Hubble telescope (via Megan McIsaac)

Photo from the refurbished Hubble telescope (via Megan McIsaac)

Flickr find. Awesome photo from the red dust storm in Sydney.

Flickr find. Awesome photo from the red dust storm in Sydney.

Loving this photo of Marilyn. Via overflowing

Loving this photo of Marilyn. Via overflowing

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.
Adam Dedman for KALINA Magazine #3 (Via noahkalina)
Amazing timelapse video of the LA wildfires by photographer Brandon Riza.

Amazing timelapse video of the LA wildfires by photographer Brandon Riza.