supernice

This is Vanessa's personal tumblrzine, for family and friends everywhere. I like all sorts of stuff, and I like to share.

If you'd like to see my work work, skip on over to www.vanessaholden.com.

In my real life you can find me at vanessaholden[at]mac[dot]com; in studios and meetings & offices quite (but not too) often; most happily at the beach; at Pearl Paint buying stuff for a project; at La Colombe or The Adore, & sometimes (just quietly) at Beard Papa, but then I don't like to talk about that particular addiction.

May 15
Permalink
Storm Over Everest, David Breashers’ new documentary about the 1996 Everest disaster is newly viewable online: watch. For a good time I was kind of obsessed by mountain climbers (it had something to do with Simon rockclimbing and Jon Krakaeur’s book Into Thin Air - which is an excellent read not only about the disaster, but about what makes men climb mountains): “People who don’t climb mountains – the great majority of humankind, that is to say – tend to assume that the sport is a reckless, Dionysian pursuit of ever escalating thrills. … In fact, the ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I’d been on … And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace.” I find these guys endlessly fascinating. 
Storm Over Everest, David Breashers’ new documentary about the 1996 Everest disaster is newly viewable online: watch. For a good time I was kind of obsessed by mountain climbers (it had something to do with Simon rockclimbing and Jon Krakaeur’s book Into Thin Air - which is an excellent read not only about the disaster, but about what makes men climb mountains): “People who don’t climb mountains – the great majority of humankind, that is to say – tend to assume that the sport is a reckless, Dionysian pursuit of ever escalating thrills. … In fact, the ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an order of magnitude than any other mountain I’d been on … And in subjecting ourselves to week after week of toil, tedium, and suffering, it struck me that most of us were probably seeking, above all else, something like a state of grace.” I find these guys endlessly fascinating.