var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-21387861-1’]); _gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]); (function() { var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true; ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();Tumblr (3.0; @wordupward)http://wordupward.tumblr.com/<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yfP7qK0khuQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Action Bronson</p>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50925381575http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50925381575Mon, 20 May 2013 12:24:54 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/415d38253c178b36e2ea6477e6617138/tumblr_ml4w9xA8SG1qeavfto1_400.gif"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50849496702http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50849496702Sun, 19 May 2013 13:50:16 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/f9705a822f579126bae40092c62f1102/tumblr_mmwow4heQV1qeavfto1_400.gif"/><br/><br/><p>the Lister Blister</p>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50846179132http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50846179132Sun, 19 May 2013 13:10:09 -0700alton lister<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/ca1805eaf18d4ef1e60617869b8eedca/tumblr_mmn3psEZ6h1qzd7qpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>Gabriele Basilico, Beirut, 1991</span></p>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50750174151http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50750174151Sat, 18 May 2013 12:27:59 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2ab9ef2d2c284c4fe9b1965e0e9d989e/tumblr_mmysnsyKCv1qabdruo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nolia</p>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50689801689http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50689801689Fri, 17 May 2013 17:37:00 -0700<p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://stoweboyd.com/post/50656878021/bill-russell-on-playing-in-the-zone">stoweboyd</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Playing ‘in the zone’ is what many athletes call their experience of <span></span>Mihály<span> Csíkszentmihályi’s flow state, the complete absorption in what you are doing.</span></p> <blockquote> <p>Bill Russell, <em>Second Wind: The Memoirs of an Opinionated Man<br/></em></p> <p>Every so often a Celtics game would <span>heat up so that it became more than a </span><span>physical or even mental game, and would </span><span>be magical. That feeling is difficult to </span><span>describe, and I certainly never talked </span><span>about it when I was playing. When it </span><span>happened, I could feel my play rise to </span><span>a new level. It came rarely, and would </span><span>last anywhere from five minutes to a </span><span>whole quarter, or more. Three or four </span><span>plays were not enough to get it going. </span><span>It would surround not only me and the </span><span>other team, and even the referees. </span>At that special level, all sorts of odd <span>things happened: The game would be in </span><span>the white heat of competition, and yet </span><span>somehow I wouldn’t feel competitive, </span><span>which is a miracle in itself. I’d be putting </span><span>out the maximum effort, straining, </span><span>coughing up parts of my lungs as we ran, </span><span>and yet I never felt the pain. The game </span><span>would move so quickly that every fake, </span><span>cut, and pass would be surprising, and yet </span><span>nothing could surprise me. It was almost </span><span>as if we were playing in slow motion. </span><span>During those spells, I could almost sense </span><span>how the next play would develop and </span><span>where the next shot would be taken. </span><span>Even before the other team brought the </span><span>ball inbounds, I could feel it so keenly </span><span>that I’d want to shout to my teammates, </span><span>‘it’s coming there!’—except that I knew </span><span>everything would change if I did. My </span><span>premonitions would be consistently </span><span>correct, and I always felt then that I not </span><span>only knew all the Celtics by heart, but also </span><span>all the opposing players, and that they all </span><span>knew me. There have been many times in </span><span>my career when I felt moved or joyful, but </span><span>these were the moments when I had chills </span><span>pulsing up and down my spine.</span></p> <p>[…]</p> <p>On the five or ten occasions when the game ended at that special level, I literally did not care who had won. If we lost, I’d still be as free and high as a sky hawk. </p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50660217961http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50660217961Fri, 17 May 2013 09:54:43 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/6619f202a459befff6b5b593007a3b7e/tumblr_mmwmhuszQr1qb1n90o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50590486939http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50590486939Thu, 16 May 2013 11:39:00 -0700puzzle wuzzlefuzzle wits<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5664e67307dd730c133523cc7bd53d5f/tumblr_mmcweuNoNn1qhwlspo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50583938671http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50583938671Thu, 16 May 2013 09:38:25 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/088f61676bc80ec10bf79093174e7970/tumblr_mmp3q3KzDe1s1mchho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://uncommonjones.tumblr.com/post/50269917681/ngorongoro-traffic-jam-by-henriko-photographers">uncommonjones</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><small><a href="http://500px.com/photo/30567127">Ngorongoro traffic jam</a> by <a href="http://500px.com/henriko">henriko</a></small></p> <p><small><em>Photographer’s Note:</em> During a safari in the Ngorongoro crater, Tanzania, a group of 9 lions decided to cross the street and walk through the cars, making real chaos.</small></p> </blockquote>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50583739624http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50583739624Thu, 16 May 2013 09:34:34 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b74fb37e4ac7d61fe747cf43808a7d88/tumblr_mmvlqamdXQ1roaz4co1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50559415756http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50559415756Wed, 15 May 2013 22:27:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/070db1512d867201cb52e8820f5e421c/tumblr_mmvc5qE4Xj1qz7elfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50558317851http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50558317851Wed, 15 May 2013 22:04:37 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/53a5f76dd956cc13cf615f617447fbe3/tumblr_miod2webGb1s6pj9ao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50463185119http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50463185119Tue, 14 May 2013 18:29:24 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hddgQnLQ1qjjquso1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hddgQnLQ1qjjquso2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hddgQnLQ1qjjquso3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hddgQnLQ1qjjquso4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hddgQnLQ1qjjquso5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3hddgQnLQ1qjjquso6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><strong>Louis Wain</strong> (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was a schizophrenic artist whose images of cats changed as his mental health deteriorated</p> </blockquote> <p><span>“the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience.”</span></p> <p><span> - Aldous Huxley, <em>The Doors of Perception</em></span></p>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50432637489http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50432637489Tue, 14 May 2013 11:22:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6540adbf5151a48d9fbd827e5145a743/tumblr_mma68cQ57m1qc0cxpo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50403201583http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50403201583Mon, 13 May 2013 22:32:04 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/65d75ef2ef8a974cdc4b10a30287bacf/tumblr_mhzqqbR57K1qzbqf4o1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50192396218http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50192396218Sat, 11 May 2013 13:32:11 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6kfu9s0g11qgwqw9o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50181069203http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/50181069203Sat, 11 May 2013 10:52:58 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4747d9299f3c14ad950fb9a489610e29/tumblr_mh6v2zS3oQ1s40tw5o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fadingartofgrace.tumblr.com/post/41715342786/jane-goodall-1960s-british-primatologist">fadingartofgrace</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Jane <em><span>GOODALL </span></em>(1960’s)</span></p> <p><span>British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.</span></p> </blockquote> <p><span> ”I’m sure that they exist.”<br/> - Jane Goodall when asked about Sasquatch</span></p>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49868384022http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49868384022Tue, 07 May 2013 11:39:00 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m398kjyJFo1qbkpwko1_400.gif"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49842956818http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49842956818Tue, 07 May 2013 01:02:55 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/196ca3a1217495e35dde1bc07c9a0dd3/tumblr_mmcc4jjTfs1qe82y6o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49841948943http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49841948943Tue, 07 May 2013 00:27:24 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/9028d5ab3838510f106cf0238f6a5dea/tumblr_mmcms5UU1A1qasfz9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49826541147http://wordupward.tumblr.com/post/49826541147Mon, 06 May 2013 19:42:00 -0700