Midori Snyder's Blog, page 79

Desert Heat Invites Color

Lately I have been following Terri Windling's beautiful posts of the spring awakening in the English countryside. Every where amid the lush green grass there are lovely flowers opening in cool colors of pale white, deep blue and delicate yellow....

No Job Is Complete Without the Application of a Power Tool

...Which is why I want one of these from Furukawa Kikou: (via PinkTentacle)

B-Town Elves, Eat Your Hearts Out. Post- Modern Mexico Rocks the Boot

And you thought pointy shoes were made by elves... Hard not to be fascinated by the new trend in Mexican popular culture of long, long, pointy boots used in "tribal dance" music that combines pre-hispanic music, cumbia and African rhythms....

A Few More Unruly Manes to Consider

So yesterday, I posted about an article that featured the unruly manes of male authors -- and I thought it useful to point out that there were women authors with equally unruly manes worth mentioning. So above is Terri Windling...

Unruly Manes: Writers and Their Inspirational Hair.

I came across this hilarious post with photos of writers with their unruly manes. And there are more to be found in the comments below the post. But I noticed that all the images are of men and that seemed...

Movie Fridays: The Thomas Beale Cipher

Hey, Friday is usually movie night and I seem to collect awesome videos during the week due to friends and favorite sites, so I figured it would be fun to make a regular feature of these video postings on Friday....

Snow Skeleton and Manhole Covers

Street art can be so thrilling and unexpected. So enjoy this little film of a skeleton composed of a manhole cover and snow...with heart. (via Emiliano)

Tijuanalandia: The Other Bordertown

Even as readers anxiously await the new the urban fanatasy Bordertown Anthology, I have been following Tijuanalandia, the astonishing blog/photographic journal of Jason Thomas Fritz, a graduate student working on a project to photo-document life in Tijuana, perhaps one of...

Besouro: Capoeira and Magic Comes to The Screen

Wow, wow, I can not wait to see this film Besouro, a fantastic and magic filled biography of Besouro Managangá, one Capoeria's most legendary mestres from Bahia, Brazil. Here's a bit from an interesting review of the film: Set in...

The Marian Month of May: Emblems of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

For Catholics, the month of May is associated with special devotions to the Virgin Mary and I have been waiting to share these beautiful Marian emblems I found a while back, painted in 1654 by Kaspar Meglinger. Melinger is perhaps...