It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War
War photographer Lynsey Addario recounts over two decades of shooting photos in war-torn countries in her memoir. She goes from shooting amateur photos to becoming a prominent photographer as a Pulitzer and MacArthur Genius Award winner. At a young age, Addario was introduced to photography while grappling with drastic family life: the extravagant parties hosted by her parents, her father coming to terms with his homosexuality and the family business losing customers as the bills stack up. Addario escapes from one chaos to another, as [...]
How to Gracefully Own Making a Public Mess of your Passion Project
Image via Pinterest Inspiration comes to us in the craziest ways. Anyone who has ever embarked on a creative project has experienced that midnight rush that has you sitting bolt upright, throwing on the light, and reaching for a pen, or a phone [...]
Envision Festival: The 70’s are still alive…
10 months ago. I’m landing once more onto my favorite Island; Bali. I know I’ll be here for a quite a while this time and this is only day 1. I’m ecstatic. I remember that night so clearly. This homecoming feeling. The joy of getting [...]
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Everyone can agree that everything related to surf is pretty cool. So are surf competitions. They're fun to watch, they connect us to our surfing inspirations and it's pretty nice to see people killing [...]
Research shows that women’s pleasure is often more multifaceted and responsive to emotional, contextual, and psychological factors compared to men’s. Studies have found that women’s arousal and satisfaction tend to be influenced by a [...]
Have you ever met someone who was just so full of life, it felt like they were radiating? Someone that had a perceivable magnetism, and therefore seemed to be attracting all the good into [...]
Marie-Christine on being in Ecuador During the Earthquake
Four hundred and thirteen people (at time of writing) have been killed and a further 2500 have been injured after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit coastal Ecuador around 7pm (GMT) Saturday night. Salty Souls co-founder Marie-Christine Amyot was about 160 miles from the epicentre in the town of [...]
You Can Only Lose what you’re Holding On to.
I’ve lately found myself questioning why letting go of what hurts us is such a difficult process, only to realize that it’s often because we don’t want to. We too often choose to tightly grasp to suffering because it is comfortable and validates our pain. [...]
How to meditate if you’re bad at meditating
I'm bad at meditating. There. I said it. We know we should do it. We know it reduces stress, anxiety, promotes clearer thinking, enhances self awareness, lengthens your attention span, makes you a person that says 'namaste' a lot (optional.) If you took one look [...]
“I Crave a Love so Deep, the Ocean would be Jealous.”
L.O.V.E. That shit is fucked. We say that “in the end, only 3 things matter: How much you’ve loved How fully you’ve lived How gracefully you’ve let go of the things that were not meant for you.” This nomadic lifestyle, I’ve chosen it, as others [...]
Renae Saxby: Globe-Roamer, Photographer, Makeup Artist, Travel Writer and Renegade Badass.
Interview by Caitlin Creeper Renae Saxby used to own a day spa. She was good at it, had beautiful clients, and had a spa set on 100 acres in a major, scenic wine-growing region in New South Wales, Australia. She had a good income, and [...]
When Breath Becomes Air
Motivation creeps in on us at the most inconvenient times and inspiration comes from the strangest places. Plans often need altering as we try to tell ourselves to expect the unexpected. No matter how much we prepare ourselves for the unpredictable thing called Life, we [...]
Costa Rica : Realizing that I’ve become THAT girl
Here I am, back in Costa Rica, 5 years later. It is always a funny feeling, coming back to a place where you’ve been before. Memories come back to mind. You think of who you were with, and how things were at that moment. It allows you to measure [...]
