guiding me through this strange trip of heartbreak tied together with amazing times

its funny how some songs just pop up in your brain out of nowhere - probably haven't heard this for 5 years at least

life changing

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AHHHHHHH

Creative Compulsive Disorder: Remembering Zina Nicole Lahr

This short clip about artist and maker Zina Nicole Lahr may be as tragic as it is beautiful. Earlier this fall Lahr approached her friend Stormy Pyeatte and asked if they might shoot a quick video for her portfolio. The video was shot and edited in just two days and demonstrates Lahr’s insatiable desire to build, invent, and “bring life to something inanimate,” a process she called her “creative compulsive disorder.” Almost unthinkably, Lahr was killed in a hiking accident in Colorado on November 20th, a few weeks after this was shot.

I didn’t know Lahr, but if this brief glimpse into her life is any indicator it’s clear she possessed an extremely rare spirit that feels completely genuine and infectious. It seems she was involved in practically every genre of creativity we normally cover here on Colossal. Make the most out of every day, folks. Lahr certainly did.

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Brewing Change

 

As some of you may or may not know - I have been involved for the last few months with the Brewing Change Campaign to open the first Blessed Coffee Cafe in Takoma Park

Right now we are reaching out to our networks to help make this a reality

Why? - Because you love coffee. And some of the best coffee in the world comes from Ethiopia. And the farmers there are getting a raw deal. Blessed Coffee intends to fix that.

Big Corporations have clout, and are ubiquitous enough that they come to mind first - but claims of responsibility sound better than the truth.

Being in the U.S. - the #1 importer of coffee in the world - we have an opportunity to make a dent in the imbalance caused by corporate economics… and stop treating our sources as “margins”

Check the link out - read up - donate - SHARE - thanks :)

Here we are on Indiegogo