create something beautiful

I went clicking through a bunch of random blogs last night, just for the heck of it and came across a few I’ll be sure to bookmark. They have pictures and paragraphs that say what I’ve thought or felt about so many things, but never said out loud or been able to capture. Or they’re otherwise, just great. Here are a few:

via thresca

The Meantime Girl via rara avis

via this is my heart. it is a good heart.

snow and dirty rain by richard siken via unicornology

via Loveless Ramblings and Other Cynical Musings

via Pictures of Walls

Ever.

…they’ll totally understand exactly what this person is talking about (Please Note: I am not sad, depressed, lonely, etc. right now. I just find these pieces to be incredibly heartfelt and relatable. There have been times when I’ve felt this way, and thought I’d never feel any other way, but not right now. I just admire the pure, simple emotion expressed here.)

(Discovered via ffffound.)

Ever since I unknowingly came across it in Chicago several years ago, You Are Beautiful has continued to be one of my favorite art project of all time. And I believe it always will be. You can’t deny something with such a beautiful, positive message. Here, another sighting:

With the death of Polaroids on the horizon, more and more people seem to be becoming nostalgic for the ancient discolored little instamatic images. And I’m completely ok with that. I’ll be the first to admit I wish I’d hopped on the trend before it became campy cool to carry around an SX-70 to parties. Now I just feel like a bit of a tool doing so and instead bring mine around to places like the beach or random camping trips (images to follow someday from my current forays into the use of various slightly vintage film cameras of varying formats).

Today I stumbled across another Polaroid-focused blog that I’m now in love with and just have to share. It’s called Tokyo Polaroids and I have no idea what the rhyme or reason behind the site is since it’s all in Japanese. The only explanation I can find is the tagline up top “Five polaroids are better than four.” But I do know there are some pretty great shots on here, a lot of them involving cats oddly enough. And I can’t wait to check back on the site periodically to see what new images they update it with.

Then of course there’s My Polaroid Blog, which I already fell in love with several months ago because of her oh so pretty, dreamy images she manages to capture.

*Sigh*
So many pictures of Paris. It makes me want to go back desperately.