BEAUTY: Photography--Natsumi Hayashi

On her site "yowayowa camera woman diary" (yowayowa means weak or feeble in Japanese), photographer Natsumi Hayashi takes charming self portraits of herself going about her daily activities while floating over, levitating in, and flying across various locales in Japan. She's just a girl who can fly, and that's anything but feeble.

Regular readers know that I am a sucker for any image of anyone floating or flying since I have had near-nightly flying dreams my entire life.

http://yowayowacamera.com/

BEAUTY: Art--Ethan Murrow

Ethan Murrow calls this series of graphite drawings "Zero Sum Pilot Drawings: A flawed aerial experiment." They are fantastical and the titles give them a slightly humorous spin, but ultimately they seem a bit anxious-making. I have had flying dreams my whole life, but if I fly too high, results are sometimes disastrous (in terms of Jungian dream analysis, this little dream phenomenon in my head is rich with meaning).

Top to bottom: Foot is still cramping up,results otherwise positive; Landing crew unaware of descent,protocol to be reinforced; Negligible frostnip during Baffin Bay freefall; Release point adjusted down to 165th rotation; Sled is responsive,soft landing in doubt; Small gap between goals and accomplishments

http://www.bigpaperairplane.com/