#small pond

[geopsych]

4 years ago at the small pond.

#pennsylvania #landscape #small pond #august #cardinal flower #joe pye weed #native wildflowers

[capiolumen]

Spring Musings 2022 iPhoneXR Hipstamatic Photography Original Photographers Photographers On Tumblr Lowy Lens, Rijks Film, No Flash

#hipstamatic #original photographers #photographers on tumblr #small pond #bass fishing #spring #art #capiolumen #iphone #iphoneXR #iphotography #lowy lens #rijks film #no flash

[whisperthatruns]

Small Pond

We were softly enormous. Hooked on lengthening light, healthy calves pedaling to the trailhead. We knew everyone in every grocery store. We knew the code to the high school tennis shed. We learned language for the world around us, dogwood, larkspur, pointed to ants and said head, thorax, abdomen, back when we imagined the world narrow enough to name. Squatting above our reflections, we filled Ziploc bags with minnows, never considered the ways a body might change in its container. Last week in Brooklyn, coming down or hungover, I floated through the park with a friend. Magnolia he said. I put my left foot in front of my right. Gingko. Think of all the directions a life can take. It’s true I love spooning pâté and telling white lies, spinning while the first birds blow their trumpets and the budding world feels like mine again. I want wildness anywhere I can find it, in flowerless hours, the city a thicket of unnamable parts. I return to my corner of girlhood shrunken, shocked by the crabapple’s pink and the unapologetic dandelions, the way they remind me of yesterday’s concentric world. Throw a rock and the water will ripple further from where it started, each ring bewildered by the shape that came before.

Natasha Rao, Latitude (Copper Canyon Press, 2021)

#natasha rao #small pond #latitude #poetry

[mizelaneus]

#ancient alligator #small pond

[eightsunshowers]

Traditional Landscape New York Ideas for a sizable, traditionally landscaped front yard with partial sun.

#natural stone waterfall #waterfall #exposed red brick #small pond #green shrubs #front yard pond #natural stone pond

[chie3chie3]

生徒作品　平松さん。

独自のタッチと画風をすでに持っていらっしゃるので 制作過程もスイスイと進めていました。

構図も何枚かの写真から組み合わせて 自然になるように仕上げていく。

かなりのアレンジ力が要りますが スイスイと。

達人の域ですね。

#colored pencil #carp #art #small pond

[bloodtohold]

Landscape Fountain Montreal

Summertime landscaping ideas for a medium-sized, contemporary, full-sun backyard.

#oval lawn #landscape #water feature #bluestone pavers #small pond #architecture #garden

[clancymatthiesen3]

Big fish in a small pond. In black and white.

#big fish #small pond #nature #nature photography #fish #water #black and white #black and white photography

[veganstrider]

Embark on a thrilling journey as you witness adorable ducks gracefully swimming in a serene small pond. Join us on Vegan Walks YouTube Channel and experience the beauty of nature during our exciting walks. Subscribe now for captivating content that will leave you inspired and in awe.

#veganwalks #ducks #swimming #small pond #nature #water fowl #pond life #quack quack #feathered friends #peaceful scene #water #wildlife #YouTube #vegan #walk #walking #healthyfeet #walking in nature #pond paradise #duck life #duck tales #duck adventures #cute ducks #hidden gems #the beautiful of nature #nature walks #nature hikes #hikes #nature heals #youtube channel

[geopsych]

Autumn at the small pond.

#pennsylvania #landscape #autumn #october #small pond #2019

[fyeahcindie]

We mentioned some upcoming 大象體操 Elephant Gym gigs in the post a few days ago (Singapore & Malaysia this week), and they also just announced on Instagram:

elephant_gym_official 🔥Big news🔥 Elephant Gym will be participating in this year's SXSW @sxsw music festival, see you in Texas in March! 今年也獲選台灣代表隊！我們會有台灣官方的演出，以及我們在美國的廠牌 @topshelfrecords 的showcase ，請讓大家在美國的朋友知道這個消息☄️ - ⚡️SXSW_Timeline: https://reurl.cc/vmlm1l ⚡️Get the Badge https://schedule.sxsw.com/2023/artists/2064846

The Elephant Gym sxsw page is HERE, but it doesn’t have any dates listed yet.  I think they are playing a Taiwan Night and a Topshelf Records showcase?  Or maybe what they mean is that they will be the TW representative act at the Topshelf showcase? Anyway, the Topshelf Instagram hasn’t posted anything, but I know some of their acts are playing sxsw, including Sobs from Singapore. By the way, Sobs tour poster has the wrong date listed for Brooklyn - it’s actually on Sunday, March 12 (not the 10th.  They are supposed to play a set at New Colossus festival in NYC on the 10th, but no venue details have been posted yet. 椅子樂團 The Chairs (TW) and Shanghai Qiutian 上海秋天 (China) are also listed for the fest. which runs March 8-12)

the sxsw showcase schedule has all the bands listed, but no dates announced. Check it out HERE.

The song Shell is on their 2018 Underwater album, sung by Cudjiy Ija karivuwan. Bandcamp album page doesn’t list the lyrics, but it sounds like an indigenous language or dialect.  I’ve tried every search I can think of, but I can’t find Cudjiy Ija karivuwan under that name.  

EG Links:  Official,  YouTube,  Bandcamp,  Spotify,  E. Gym Instagram,  KT Instagram

#大象體操 Elephant Gym #sxsw 2023 #Sobs sg #sobshaha #Topshelf Records #椅子樂團 The Chairs #Shanghai Qiutian 上海秋天 #New Colossus festival 2023 #taiwan #singapore #music video #small pond

[hvit-ulv-16]

Pretty sure I always miss being by water

#mountains #small pond #look at her

[luuurien]

Natalie Evans - Movements

(Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter, Dream Pop)

The London-based singer/songwriter's sophomore album shows her softer, sweeter and more heartwarming than ever, putting greater emphasis on colorful chamber arrangements and tender, dreamy songwriting. Though Movements eschews the big, heart-tugging compositions of its predecessor, its more minimalist sound is a total win for Natalie Evans here.

☆☆☆☆½

Movements is courageously tender. It's the kind of mellow, unspoken beauty that when it comes around you can't do anything but watch it unfold from a distance: how the sunlight can reflect off someone's face so beautifully that the moment seems to last a lifetime before the sunrays move past them, or the soft waves rolling across a lake can make every movement in the water seem absolutely remarkable. It's the kind of thing perfectly fit for Natalie Evans, the London-based singer/songwriter whose 2018 debut Better at Night stunned with its impeccable musicianship and Evans' ability to make songs that were warm and deeply sentimental without turning saccharine. With her sophomore album Movements, that's now even more the case, Evans trading the dreamy acoustic rock and huge orchestral swirls of her debut for a lighter instrumental palette largely consisting of her own signature harp, piano and guitar alongside dashes of strings and percussion that gives her music less weight to carry while pulling just as much - oftentimes more - emotion from it all as she could before. It's undoubtedly one of the best sounding albums this year, and supported by her thoughtful writing, there are few things Movements struggles with. Across these twelve tracks, Evans follows the format closer to the deeper cuts of Better at Night like the sparkly Almost Flying and acoustic-lead Hard to Forget more than the soaring crescendos of Lyre Song or In Trees, though that doesn't mean her music has lost any of its potency. She's always been skilled at taking minimal instrumentation as far as she can, and by approaching the songs for Movements with a more pastoral, almost fantastical level of brightness and color, it doesn't feel like anything has been sacrificed in the process. It's how each soft piano chord swirls around Evans' soft fingerpicked guitar on Pencil Drawn before soft vocal harmonies and ambiance paint the song's background in lovely shades of sunset pink and orange, or the breezy backbeat played by Martin Ruffin on highlight To Go On adds a new pulse and sense of motion to the music that picks up the energy one final time before the album comes to a close - Evans knows her sound and has near perfected it here. In its especially empty moments, the album risks losing your attention, but her uniquely lush instruments of choice prevent that from becoming a reality: Under the Moon's moved forward by only Evans and her harp, but the sprightly bounce she gets on the higher end of it is nothing short of mesmerizing. But where this earnest sound can oftentimes lead to songs that are just a little too sappy, Evans keeps her music grounded in her emotions and mindstate, often singing of the gloom and melancholy that seemed a permanent fixture of life the past few years and letting it inform both her writing and the sounds of Movements: a song as vast and freeing as Sun Song or simplistic as Five Positives not only sound wonderful, they feel earned, the kind of respite and calm that leaves an impression on you long after it's finished. And at just a short 32 minutes, Evans charms with her songwriting without having to say a whole lot to get you on her side. Oftentimes, her writing in Movements relies on descriptions and memory: in Guest Room she's lying on the floor reminiscing on the past; in Movie she's opening the curtains in her room to regain some sense of connection with the outside world before shutting them again on To Go On when the desire to get back into the world that she's been missing these past few years. It's no surprise that she wrote most of these songs in the same night with how present and in-the-moment she feels performing each of them: the heavenly vocal layers and soothing guitar leads of Between the Ground and Sky push her story of the unbreakable connection we all have with the natural world to a brilliant emotional climax that makes the comedown of Pencil Drawn and Colours Fade feel just right as she digs into more sentimental stories of desire and acceptance, but what never falters is her spirit and optimism throughout. Album centerpiece Sun Song is a fleeting, magical moment of euphoria and release, Evans' trip to the beach rendered a glorious break from the monotony and glum that came from lockdown with speedy runs up and down the harp among a noble string orchestra and plush vocal harmonies that make her simple revelations of "It feels so right" and "I’m just spending time out / In the sun" feel incredibly genuine and empowering. She never pushes herself to try and be too poetic or wordy to make a "serious" statement, and through that Movements brings a humanity to itself few other albums are able to achieve. Natalie Evans keeps her heart open and her music inviting, Movements an album that is next to impossible not to fall in love with once the songs have a hold on you. She sings of the most basic human desires - to connect with the world, to express, to feel - with such conviction and passion that the true value of those simple acts are fully revealed. Her music brings out the inner child with its comforting atmosphere and shows what it means to take care of yourself on the most basic level, something that's unreasonably easy to do, without making it feel like she's trying to treat it all as anything but. She knows Movements both inside and out, and allows its mellow nature to bring to light everything that Evans has been dealing with these past few years without getting her mind in a knot. She's never sounded more at ease and observant in her music than she does here, and Movements reaps all the benefits that come with letting your music be a repose for your mind. Movements is a simple kind of beauty, and that's all it needs to bring you into Evans' world.

#natalie evans #movements #small pond #art pop #chamber music #chamber pop #dream pop #indie pop #modern classical #pop #singer/songwriter #2022 #9/10

[little-pondhead]

On the supervillain Danny au, can about Jazz and Dan? I would love to see the JL think they finally have the trio pinned down before a strange amazon and a god-damned demon storm in and start throwing people through walls.

Well, I just made this post about Jazz to answer another question, but I didn't think about Dan! However, I was going through my sketches, and I think this old one would be perfect for him. Dan's still a demon; he's just a little man now :) The JL Dark is terrified of him.

#pondhead replies #doodles from a pond #supervillain danny au #the trio were caught but Fenton managed to call for backup #the heroes brace as a portal opens up #out comes a giant of a woman with a baseball bat and dressed like a punk #and on her shoulder is this #a little baby man Dan #despite his small size he is the worst of them all #superman has to ask them not to bring dan around too often #insurance companies can't keep up with the property damage fees #danny phantom #dark dan #dp x dc #dc x dp #justice league #dpxdc

[redrobin-detective]

Listen, we know Bruce was traumatized by his parents’ death but I hold that even before they were killed Bruce Wayne was a little weirdo. Like his paranoia and difficulty with emotion and attachment are from that terrible night. But I imagine 8 year old Brucie was OCD as hell and painstakingly arranging and rearranging his things to his satisfaction. He was meticulous, even as a child, very detail oriented. Highly intelligent, showing a boundless curiosity and determination to understand everything from a young age. I bet he was hell to enforce bedtimes on, always to do much to do and too little hours in the day. 

Bruce was that kid who dragged bugs in the house for study, pulled down all the books on one shelf so could arrange them in height order, skittered around the house’s many passages like a little rat. He was the kid who was happy and cheerful but a bit awkward from growing up a Wayne, he would much rather squirrel away somewhere with a book considered too old for him than talk with people he didn’t know. He loved the macabre in the way weird little kids too, he wanted to see Zorro for the action and the violent fight scenes. Thomas and Martha Wayne had to listen to their precocious son ask them time and again how they thought they would die and listen to his speculations.

I want the Justice League to have to go back in time for whatever reason and they expect Bruce to be a delightful, happy, normal child. Instead, they find a kid with a lovingly worn Sherlock Holmes omnibus under one arm, an entire bag of raisins in the other, dark circles under his eyes from late nights reading and he’s covered in dust and debris from getting stuck behind the drywall again. 

“You’re not mom and dad’s friends,” he’d say in a petulant voice with a familiar set of his mouth. “I’m gonna call my butler and he’s going to kick your butt.” And the whole League loses their mind because Bruce really has always been Bruce.

#Bruce being a perfectly normal child is broke #woke is Bruce was a Weird Little Girl before he ever had trauma #Alfred knocks on his door to call him to dinner and Brucie Wayne is performing a seance to raise his great great grandfather to find treasur #he definitely wrote on the walls and floor when he was thinking too hard and needed to write something down #DEF was that weird kid who liked sneaking up on people and hide in small odd places #No robin can hide from B or Alfred bc baby Bruce absolutely found all the good weird ass hiding spots a small child can wedge into #he carries weird shit on him at all times in case he needs it #he works so hard to be seen as smart and mature #he's a bit of a brat but in kind of a charming way bc he's so sweet and thoughtful #he gives his mom a frog he found in the pond for mothers day #he's still dripping wet and covered in pond scum and grinning so proud as he deposits the frog in her manicured hands #we need more weirdo baby bruce wayne

[amybugz]

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#art #fish #fish friday #wet beasts #wii play #king of the pond #fishies #stickers #shop #commissions #support small artists