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Humans and Nature as One [JWT for Ford]

Fern — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:00:30 +0000

Brilliant ad campaign by JWT for Ford Motor Company Brasil and Conservação Internacional “aiming at encouraging and recognizing projects on the protection of nature and biodiversity.”

by JWT
Take a look at JWT’s site as well. (i.e. PLAY with it.) I love the way it works!

via Eugene at MyModernMet

In the presence of everything around me

Fern — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:08:47 +0000

There were bison crossing over the road–two thousand pound mammals crossing over the road… It was about 60 below 0. And the bison, as they breathed, their exhalation would seem to crystallize in the air around them and there were these sheets, these ropey strands of crystals kind of flowing down from their breath…

I felt like, this was the first day. And this morning was the first time the sun had ever come up. And the shadows that are being cast right now is the first time those shadows have ever been cast on the earth.

And I was all alone but I felt I was in the presence of everything around me and I was never alone.

It was one of those moments when you get pulled outside of yourself into the environment around you and I felt like I was just with the breath of the bison as they were exhaling and as I was exhaling and they were inhaling it was all kind of flowing together…

All I was thinking of was that a single moment in a place as wild as Yellowstone, and most of the National Parks, can last forever.

Shelton Johnson in National Parks, Episode 2 on his encounter with bison while delivering mail on snowmobile in Yellowstone National Park.

Happy Dogs

Fern — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:03:57 +0000

So cute it’s ridiculous. Courtesy of my sister and her happy dogs.

Fern — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:12:41 +0000

Little Italy Artwalk = food, art, and loads of squeal-worthy dogs. Like this one, perched on its human’s shoulder with its butt sticking out as if preparing to perform a grand leap. So cute.

Harpy Eagles, reactions! (At the San Diego Zoo.)

Fern — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:59:00 +0000

“What IS that?! What ARE they?!”
—Bronze haired woman who should have taken lessons from a little boy on how to use her camera. (her words!)

“Wow! Wow! Mom! Look at them!”
—Little boy in a big red shirt, pointing and looking up while walking, unseeing, down the ramp. Don’t fall!

“It’s like they have Mardi Gras masks on.”
—Sprightly but hunched old lady in a pale pink shirt and a white golf hat

“HO-LY SHH…! Look at the size of them!!”
—Stubbly skinny old man with his oldish buddies upon spotting the eagles

Fern — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:56:02 +0000

Julie aka Jurierurie, my sister’s adorable dog. Absolutely aww-inducing! (pic from my sister)