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First big multi-pitch climb in the Cathedral Spires in South Dakota ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

The Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Wilderness contains over a million acres of unspoiled forest and waterways you can travel through. Here's a New York Times Article for your reading pleasure: In August

My climbing crew and I hit up Peterfest 7 in Sandstone, Minnesota. I learned that ice climbing is still fucking really hard for me , you guys. The difference this time is that I actually made it up a fucking

Vatnajökulsþjóðgarður - Vatnajökull National Park. This was a brutal 16-mile (almost 26 kilometers) round trip hike to the remote Kjós campsite. We were the only intrepid ones, willing to deal with the

Share with me your sexy times playlist! Here's mine: 1.) Portishead - Glory Box 2.) Portishead - Western Eyes 3.) Christian Rich feat. Angela McCluskey - Real Love 4.) Gabriel Garzón- Montano - Six Eight

Ya girl got qualified on Monday! It's not the biggest deal to long-time climbers, but I've overcome the biggest barrier in one of my hobbies. I can finally belay my friends at the gym! Haha. I have yet

I'm fucking BUSY. All the time! This is about as far as I went. My weekend was crammed full and I didn't have any time to sit down and paint: I had to go to the gym went bowling with @ghostfish and

Man, I feel like I've missed out on so much and I've only been gone 5 days. I must admit it has been kind of a rough week but I'm not going to get into that. I got to see Adult. at 7th Street Entry in

I honestly don't know what in the living fuck I am doing. painting my boyfriend's face. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

The finished piece hanging up in our house: I don't really have anything intelligent to say about this particular piece, but Japanese culture and imagery has forever inspired me. (Thank you, Akira Kurosawa.

The initial sketch. My take on Lucy Westenra in the film Bram Stoker's Dracula... as imagined by the exceedingly brilliant Eiko Ishioka. I saw this film as an impressionable 11 year-old and it has never

@ghostfish contemplating the misty, jagged landscape of Morsárdalur. "Morsárdalur is the 10km-long, flat-bottomed glacial valley west of the Skaftafellsheiði plateau; you can get here either by following

Pardon my cocktail sausage thumb. :( Pigma Microns Dr. Ph. Martin's Radiant Concentrated Watercolors ©Ivy S. 2013

Today marks 11 years @ghostfish and I have been together. I've said all I could so I'm going to repost what I wrote on our 9th anniversary: Here’s to all the hard times, and hard learned lessons in sustaining

Sorry for my weird faces. D: I'm embarrassing. Sometimes I play guitar and murder some songs. ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS

So, a few days ago, I resteemed the work of the incredibly talented @davidcheifetz: His piece inspired me to try oils again, after an extremely long hiatus. I ALSO had to try because the talented @leoplaw

I painted this particular piece from one of my favorite movies, Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) directed by Georges Franju. This piece was completed for a horror film themed show called Gods and Monsters VI:

I have always been a fan of poetry, and I am a hopeless romantic. Somehow poetry and romanticism just go hand in hand...it doesn't seem right to have one without the other. I was reading a lot of Charles

I completed a series of illustrations for Choke Cherry Zine in 2014. It contained short stories, art, and even stunning photography by the extremely talented @kommienezuspadt. I don't have a name for this,

Wolf This night was heavy with yearning hips swayed in velvet waves to the gravel of his voice He laid her to waste like she wanted a beast never needed to beg for a kiss ©Ivy S. 2014