photo via 9gag
This made me laugh, hahaha.
xoxo
Ak.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.
Have you seen this movie?
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore won Oscar as the best short animation movie!
It's super lovely and cute and as I am a total book-reading-addicted, it stole my heart:).
It will take 15 minutes of your day and as today is so cloudy, windy and grey here in Vilnius, I recommend you to watch it, it will definitely give you some colors for the day!
xoxo
It's super lovely and cute and as I am a total book-reading-addicted, it stole my heart:).
It will take 15 minutes of your day and as today is so cloudy, windy and grey here in Vilnius, I recommend you to watch it, it will definitely give you some colors for the day!
xoxo
Ak.
Inspiration Monday.
photo via Lamourexiste.tumblr.com
Today while sitting in the traffic jam I just remembered the quote from the magical Amelie:
Without you today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's.
I ran into an old school friend today in the street. Actually, she just came to me, because I didn't see her, I was just crossing the street, listening to some music and she just waited for me on the other side, came to me and said hello. At first I didn't even recognized her! I haven't seen her around 6 years, since I went to gymnasium.
I always like people, who instead of walking and pretending they don't know you, come straight to you and ask how are you. I find it kind of sweet, because, you know, it's always easy to walk away.
We even laugh with my friends that there's always people, who ignore you, even when you see they saw you - but they're just like oh, look, a snowy eagle! - there's no such bird, but, you know, it's just an example, that they make something up, so they could turn their eyes somewhere. We call those people snowy eagles, it's probably doesn't make much sense for you to know that, but it's just funny, when you think about it.
Anyway, I had a nice chat with that girl today and it gave me some inspiration to chat with someone, I haven't saw so long or I don't really know them that well, someday. Just like Leah:).
Anyway, I had a nice chat with that girl today and it gave me some inspiration to chat with someone, I haven't saw so long or I don't really know them that well, someday. Just like Leah:).
spring spring spring.
photo via Piccsy
photo via Piccsy
What are you up to this weekend, my darlings? I'm totally buried with work as I have 3 tests in a row starting Monday.
Bbbhhhh.
Just like it wouldn't be enough - the weather is delightful outside! Soon everything will bloom here, like in the picture (I love that car, by the way!)! So I hope you will get out and have some fun (unlike me:).
And here some fun posts around the web I found while learning (yeah, right, that's how I learn:):
- The cafes in Vilnius finally are getting outside.
- Ooooh, someone get me this dress for spring.
- Cool vest for men.
- I was always obsessed with ocean pictures - just found one more.
- Great advice for lindy hop beginners!
- Love this song.
- About loneliness.
- Have you noticed? Finally flower shops are full of these. They smell so good!
- Cool portraits.
- My lindy hop teachers' performance!
xoxo
Ak.
eye contact.
photo via Pinterest
What do you do, when you are afraid or just feel kind of awkward looking someone straight into the eyes?
My sister once told me (her teacher at school told the students this during one lesson), when you feel awkward to look straight into the eyes, you should look right in the spot between the eyes. In this way, it looks like you're looking into the eyes! I already tried it and the person can not tell the difference, when you really look into the eyes or when you look between the eyes.
That really helps, especially, when I find someone's eyes really confusing:).
That really helps, especially, when I find someone's eyes really confusing:).
xoxo
Ak.
dressing up for spring.
Lately I don't have any inspiration for dressing up, so I think it's time to look for some!
Here's what I found in this wonderful website called The Locals:
Here's what I found in this wonderful website called The Locals:
photo via The Locals
photo via The Locals
photo via The Locals
photo via The Locals
photo via The Locals
photo via The Locals
I adore that denim dress!
xoxo
xoxo
Ak.
Inspiration Monday.
photo via Pinterest
Back in 1958, John Steinbeck, author of East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and Of Mice and Men, got a letter from his teenage son Thom, in which Thom confessed that he had fallen desperately in love with a girl named Susan at his boarding school.
Steinbeck wrote this wise and wonderful letter back to him the same day...
have a blooming weekend.
photos via Everyday Musings
My darlings, I won't say anymore that I don't have time to write the blog - it's obvious and I'm sorry.
But when I find time to write something - I'm doing it.
What's your plan for the weekend?
I had a cozy Friday evening with my lovely friend Sonata, we watched Despicable me, have you seen it? It's my favorite animation movie! These yellow things are soooooo funny and lovely, their laugh is so catching!
On the Saturday evening I'm going to this lindy hop party (for Lithuanian readers I highly recommend it:)! There will be a live playing band and some cool lindy hop dancers, who will show us some tricks. Of course, we can dance there as well, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen, as I find myself at such a low level, haha. Anyway, our group knows at least this shim sham line dance, haha (here's the global shim sham! You can see Lithuanians very very shortly dancing in Vilnius at 3:05!).
And for Sunday, I would love to spend some time with H. Murakami book I told you about - things are going weird there. I have to catch up with them.
And I will be hoping for a warm weather, although it will be perhaps one more month since in Lithuania we will see some blooming trees, but I'm already waiting for them to bloom!
Oh spring, come home!
Have a good one!
P. S. And oh, yes. Some works.
xoxo
Ak.
But when I find time to write something - I'm doing it.
What's your plan for the weekend?
I had a cozy Friday evening with my lovely friend Sonata, we watched Despicable me, have you seen it? It's my favorite animation movie! These yellow things are soooooo funny and lovely, their laugh is so catching!
On the Saturday evening I'm going to this lindy hop party (for Lithuanian readers I highly recommend it:)! There will be a live playing band and some cool lindy hop dancers, who will show us some tricks. Of course, we can dance there as well, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen, as I find myself at such a low level, haha. Anyway, our group knows at least this shim sham line dance, haha (here's the global shim sham! You can see Lithuanians very very shortly dancing in Vilnius at 3:05!).
And for Sunday, I would love to spend some time with H. Murakami book I told you about - things are going weird there. I have to catch up with them.
And I will be hoping for a warm weather, although it will be perhaps one more month since in Lithuania we will see some blooming trees, but I'm already waiting for them to bloom!
Oh spring, come home!
Have a good one!
P. S. And oh, yes. Some works.
xoxo
Ak.
Inspiration Monday.
photo via piccsy.com
photo via Pinterest
Every now and again it comes the day in my life, when I have to read one book of Haruki Murakami (have you read some of his books? I adore him! The wind-up bird chronicles is my favorite:).
I can't explain it, but I can't read H. Murakami books in a row - it takes time after reading one and then taking another. It seems like it has somehow to settle in my mind.
Now I'm reading Hard-boiled Wonderland & The End Of The World - great great book.
But today I will share a quote from the book Sputnik, Sweetheart, I loved it as well very very much.
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful travelling companions, but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.
Have a inspiring week!
xoxo
Ak.
have a jazzy weekend.
photo via 1940s.org
What are you up to this weekend, my darlings?
I don't have much plans, only to study and prepare for seminars - I have soooo much to do for university, that's why the blog posts aren't appearing so regularly as I would like to.
Anyway, on Sunday my best friend come to visit me from Bremen and I'm sure, we are going to have a wonderful evening all together with my besties as we also have to celebrate her upcoming birthday!
Funny thing, last year her birthday was legendary, haha! Her aunt told her earlier that she's going to get married in 2011, so we all made her birthday with the theme Lithuanian wedding - it was so funny, because she didn't expect that! We prepared all traditions of the wedding and we even sang a Lithuanian song for the wedding and one friend played the accordion! I believe that it was amazing surprise for her:).
And one other thing that keeps me from writing the blog more often is that I started dancing lindy hop!
Have you heard of that?
It is an African-American dance that evolved in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time.
I love love love it!!!
I'm starting being obsessed with that!
Actually at first, I was really lazy to go to the first class. I registered while being in Germany and when I came back I was slightly sorry that I did.
But after the first lesson, I'm glad I tried it!
I'm not really good at it, because others have already learned the whole month and I have to catch up with all they have learned, but you know, I try my best:).
I like it because it is so free, you liberate your body and there are lot of space for your imagination, but at the same time it has a strong structure.
I like it because it is so free, you liberate your body and there are lot of space for your imagination, but at the same time it has a strong structure.
Here's a very nice performance, take a look!
And have a jazzy weekend!
xoxo
Ak.
tebowing.
photos via tebowing.com
Remember planking game?
Now there's a new one called tebowing! Have you heard of that?
Haha, looks easy after trying planking:).
Now there's a new one called tebowing! Have you heard of that?
Haha, looks easy after trying planking:).
xoxo
Ak.
München.
As I promised before, a bit late, but still I'm sharing the photos from Munich.
Lovely lovely city!I don't have much to say about it, except that somehow it reminded me a bit of Riga - but I'm too in love with Riga to say that Munich was more beautiful:).
Anyway, usually I say something more, but this time - I don't know - maybe it was because I knew I was leaving home in two days, maybe it was because of Thursday or maybe it was only the weather in the air..
spring of the cinema.
photos via Dansu
My lovelies,
have you seen the new posters of Vilnius international cinema festival all over town?
I absolutely adore them!
have you seen the new posters of Vilnius international cinema festival all over town?
I absolutely adore them!
They look so cool, creative and - most important - they bring spring to my heart every time I see them!
Have you already chosen the movies you want to see?
I definitely want to see the new short movie Ticking boxes (directed by my beloved filmmaker Tadas Vidmantas), which will be shown on the 19th of February, 18 o'clock in Vingis cinema.
I didn't have time to check the whole program of the festival (as you can see - I don't have much time for blog either..that is a bit sad), but I'm planning to read it as soon as possible!
Spring (of the cinema) is coming!
xoxo
Ak.
Inspiration Monday.
photo via with every rotation
Good morning, my darlings,
nothing can be better than to wake up in a sunny city, in a sunny home!
This Monday I want to share a creative video - this guy used iPhone and iPad to record the sounds of Tokyo and remixed the city.
Crazy idea!
But it's so amazing, the sounds in the temple, the robots,.. I just loved the sound of geisha shoes walking!
I couldn't help, but wonder - what would be the sounds of your city?
I couldn't help, but wonder - what would be the sounds of your city?
For Vilnius, I would say, most of all - trolleybus sounds, the bells of the cathedral tolling, coffee machines making coffee, the traffic lights sounds, the pigeons cooing, the sound of the broom sweeping the streets, the women voice in the bus saying "next stop: [..]"..
It's funny when you start thinking, what sounds do you hear everyday! And it somehow is an inbuilt part of a city picture in your mind.
Have a good beet week!
xoxo
Ak.
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