Daniel DeMoss

The Sunday before Memorial Day in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife...

Sun, 27 May 2012 20:00:33 -0500

The Sunday before Memorial Day in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge

While out on a bike ride, I snapped this picture of some old...

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:02:15 -0500

While out on a bike ride, I snapped this picture of some old cars in Oklahoma City’s Hubcap Alley district.

It’s funny how beautiful a thing can look as its being...

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:40:09 -0500

It’s funny how beautiful a thing can look as its being torn down. (Taken with instagram)

Photo

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:47:34 -0500

Mat Kearney - Ships In The Night (by MatkearneyVEVO) Wow. This...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:43:03 -0500

Mat Kearney - Ships In The Night (by MatkearneyVEVO)

Wow. This is such a cool video for such a beautiful song!

Asylum (by Drew Geraci) I love this virtual urban exploration....

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:21:00 -0500

Asylum (by Drew Geraci)

I love this virtual urban exploration. It shows the beauty and chaos of abandonment. There are so many things that we, as a people, have chosen to forget. From buildings and people to ways of living, we’ve relegated many things to the slow death of decay.

Mental institutions are particularly intriguing to me. The more I research and read about them, the more I learn that the history of asylums is a long and complicated one. This video documentation of the visual aspects of the asylum is, itself, somewhat revealing. Seeing the different items within the building, like roller skates, slightly changes my perspective on the idea of mental institutions. Even the word “asylum” has come to mean something much different over the decades since our society worked to build beautiful and ornate places of refuge for people tortured by mental illness. It has come to be associated with pain, mistreatment, archaic medicine, decaying buildings and horror films. But there’s more to the story. The idea that we could provide places of asylum is a very interesting idea. Perhaps the issue of state-provided psychiatric hospitals is more complicated than we’d like to believe.

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:06:14 -0600

Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Trainwreck by Mat Kearney

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:50:17 -0600

I’m past the point of returning
For you I’m ruined and broken
There is no way of me turning
You’ve got my heart in the open

I see it shrink in the distance
In the glow of your glory
And I never will miss this
Bottom line of the story

I see the ocean come crashing
Under lavender skies
I see clouds come flashing
Now tell me, who am I?

Your’re the air that I’m breathing
While I’m lying there sleeping
You’re the cool of the evening
Now you got me believing,
Singing…

Trainwreck, I’m a trainwreck for
Trainwreck, I’m a trainwreck
Trainwreck.
I’m a trainwreck for You

I’ll kiss it all with a farewell
Goodbye, how you doing
And let it echo in stairwells
All these songs of my ruin

Now watch me climb my own cross
Without a loss for these words
As I motion a moment’s silence
Let it fly with the birds

All else I got without you
Is much ado about nothing
I’d rather stand by you gone
Than on the throne of another

You had me all from the start
I count it lost every part
I’ll sing it out in the dark
You’ve got a grip on my heart

Where could I turn from you
The darkest nights, you know you’d find a way
What else have I to do
What words are there left to say

You are the air that I breathe in
Here is my heart I give
You are all of my reason
You are my reason to live

This looks awesome! I must find a way to do...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:25:51 -0600

This looks awesome! I must find a way to do this!

slackline:

setup (by Valerio Soncini)

I had a good swim today. I very much enjoy swimming laps at my...

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:09:14 -0600

I had a good swim today. I very much enjoy swimming laps at my YMCA.

Bwa bwa bwa ba ba baba

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:21:18 -0600

Me: Did you just sigh in dub-step?
Tony: Yup, drink it in, boys.

Working with my friends, Tony, Alex and Ben from Elemental...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:17:16 -0600

Working with my friends, Tony, Alex and Ben from Elemental Coffee in Oklahoma City

The sun slowly set on a beautiful day of hiking at the Wichita...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:40:33 -0600

The sun slowly set on a beautiful day of hiking at the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma.

The Bricktown canal in Oklahoma City gets drained and cleaned...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:58:00 -0600

The Bricktown canal in Oklahoma City gets drained and cleaned out once every few years. I decided to jump in.

"…God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without..."

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:12:00 -0600

“…God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.”

- A. W. Tozer in The Pursuit of God

Into the Wild (live) - LP This song was featured in a pretty...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:19:00 -0600

Into the Wild (live) - LP

This song was featured in a pretty epic Citibank commercial. It’s such an enjoyable song to listen to! You can listen to the studio version on YouTube. Enjoy!

We Are Augustines - Book of James (by WeAreAugustinesVEVO) I...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:13:21 -0600

We Are Augustines - Book of James (by WeAreAugustinesVEVO)

I really love this song. It contains so much love, pain, joy and resolution. The story of Bill McCarthy’s brother inspired this song. It is a tragic story, but one that McCarthy tells with a depth that can only come from having lived through so much. If you don’t know the story of We Are Augustines and McCarthy’s brother, take a few minutes to read it here.

I celebrated the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 with...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:07:08 -0600

I celebrated the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012 with fireworks along with tons of other people on Chicago’s Navy Pier. It was awesome!

Here’s to a year filled with challenges, change, joy and adventure. And to a new year, with a...

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:01:05 -0600

Here’s to a year filled with challenges, change, joy and adventure. And to a new year, with a journey as yet untold. A bright future awaits.

Where did your hair go!? :-O

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 10:28:11 -0500

I shaved my head! I’d been wanting to do it for a while and right before the Dirty 30 Race seemed like the perfect time to try it. I’m enjoying it. :-)