Hey! It’s The New Year! Aren’t you excited? I am! This video of Swoon and her friends transforming the SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine warms my heart for the new year.

It’s about collaborating with like-minded souls, working with people you love, making the “ugly” “beautiful,” creating something from nothing, and living your life holistically. If you’re thinking “I don’t have time to watch this,” then play the video and just listen to what they are saying.

It’s a clarion call to the fact that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder, finding what makes your heart beat fast, revelling in creativity, loving your friends and discovering where your work overlaps theirs. Remembering that a good chunk of creating comes from love, in all its myriad forms.

(The film is by Budget Fabulous Films.)

What’s been making my heart beat faster lately:
*Antarctica
*Sprayblog
*Just Seeds
*Orly Cogan
*Ghar Sita Mutu
*Dorie Millerson
*Embroidery as Art
*Where the Heart is
*Weaving Art Museum
*Beefranck’s Emporium
*SNIFF: public interactive projection
*Flickr: Diastema (tiny things made big)
*National Geographic Photo Gallery: Svalbard
*Sinead O’Connor: Mandinka (1989 Grammy’s)
*Communicatrix’s “The Boulder: a New Song for the New Year”

Oh, and hey there, Happy New Year!