It took her a while to fully accept that the wheelchair wasn’t just temporary. She thought she was going to get better. But with time, she had to accept the fact that the wheelchair was her new normal.  She was not going to get up and out of it, probably ever.

But she wasn’t about to give up dancing, wheelchair or not. Dancing was such a huge part of her life and she would do whatever it took to keep it a part of her life.

Luckily, she found a new community—the wheelchair community. The wheelchair users in LA were a tight-knit group and they accepted Chelsie with open arms. And in that community, she found other wheelchair users who wanted to dance. So she formed a new dancing group—the Rollettes.

The Rollettes are not your ordinary dance club. These are professional dancers who scorch the dance floor with their wheel and leave walking dancers in the dust and with every dance routine, they prove that there’s nothing you can’t do if you really want it.

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Sarah and Gabriel come from wildly different backgrounds. Sarah has always loved history and dreamed of becoming a writer one day. Gabriel, on the other hand, loved technology and signed up for the computer science program at his university. But it was during his time at university that he came to realize he did not appreciate the effect of 21st-century technology on his life. He felt like a cog in a machine and thought that instead of bringing people together, computers were starting to alienate everybody around him.

So after university he and Sarah, now his wife, decided to try something new. Between Sarah’s love of the past and Gabriel’s fear of the future, the only way forward for the couple was going back to the past—the 1890s, to be exacted.

They started researching life in Victorian times, and bought a Victorian house in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, took out any piece of modern technology, and simply started living life as a Victorian couple. Sarah wears corsets and writes historical novels, and Gabriel rides 19th-century bicycles wearing a top hat. Life as a Victorian isn’t always easy— modern technology can be so convenient—but, Sarah and Gabriel wouldn’t trade their quiet Victorian existence for anything in the world.

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“Li Longlong, who is from the Henan province of mainland China, has held the record for most consecutive stairs climbed on the head since 2012 – and he makes it look so easy!,” we read along with the video posted by the Guinness World Record Youtube channel.

What even makes a man want to climb steps with his head?

We’re not really sure, but Longlong is the best in the world in this unusual discipline. It may look easy when you’re watching him do it, but even trying to do a simple headstand is difficult for most of us. Longlong needed to follow a specific set of rules in order to set the new world record. For example, he couldn’t pause for more than five seconds before moving to the next step and he couldn’t touch the steps with any other body part, just his head. Check out how he did it in the video below.

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Together with Christina Koch, the two spacewalked for seven hours and 17 minutes in total. Currently working onboard the International Space Station on her first spaceflight as part of Expedition 61 and 62, she has also participated in research flights on NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft and served as an aquanaut in an underwater habitat for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).

“For me, coming up here, it just was the most amazing experience of my life, coming to the International Space Station, something that I had dreamed about since I was a kid,” she remarked in an interview with wbur. “And let me tell you, I thought it would be amazing. I knew it would be amazing. It is even far, far, far more incredible and impressive than I ever imagined. And that’s saying a lot.”

Luckily for us, we get to admire her magnificent work, as well as her travels into space, from the comfort of our home – whilst scrolling through her official Instagram page. With more than 150k followers, you’d want to join in. It’s not every day that you get to follow an astronaut around.

The post Follow the Adventures Into Space of NASA Astronaut Jessica U. Meir appeared first on MobiSpirit.

On their Practically Together website, the ladies introduce themselves as “bunch of coconuts, single, but practically together.”

“We are young and not so young. We have different backgrounds, sexual preferences, and spiritual beliefs and we have chosen to live as a family. We have laughed and cried and protected one another from life’s wicked storms. We are wiser, stronger and braver together,” Houghtailing shared with Bored Panda.

If you want to follow their hilarious adventures, check out their Instagram account and give them a follow.

The post These Four Totally Different People Decided to Live Under One Roof appeared first on MobiSpirit.

The Instagram star went viral thanks to his poignant poetry. Based in New York, his creative journey took off in 2014, using first a different online platform – Twitter. According to Holmes, Twitter has taught him how to say less and still make a point. “I think a lot of people in my industry are content with the ‘struggling artist’ ideology,” he says. “I’m not. On any given day, my account brings in 600,000 to one million ‘likes.’ The object is to be seen or heard, and I make a lot of noise.”

“Your account should be growing, you should also be growing. Evolving is the point,” he relayed. “People bulls**t in our niche, they say follower count doesn’t matter but how in the hell do you expect to reach this generation if they’re not following you in some form or capacity?”

Much like his persona, his poetry is straightforward and unapologetic. Just the sort of encouragement we need this day and age.

The post This Instagram Poet Tells It Like It Is appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“When I first started sharing my work online, I wasn’t very serious about it and I really just wanted an outlet for the things I was too afraid to say,” Reddy shared with Isaase. “My poetry is very much a reflection of who I am,” she adds.

Her poems are just the right length for this day and age, cutting to the chase fairly quickly, but in a way that is both delicate and quite moving. “Some days I am the flower; Some days I am the rain,” reads one poem. While another asks: “Must the moon be full in order to be loved? And what of the heart?”

“I started writing as a kid, simply as a way to verbalize feelings I didn’t know how to talk about – and while my writing has definitely improved since – I still write for the same reasons,” explained Reddy.

The key to understanding her words? Opening your heart and listening.

The post Pavana Reddy Writes Her Poetry With a Full, Heavy Heart appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Since launching her website in 2009, her brand has grown into a viral phenomenon, which includes a YouTube channel, an Instagram page, and online courses. Her tips and tips differ in size and shape, sometimes coming in the form of wholly fleshed books, other times resulting in a catchy mantra or meme.

“Someone once said, ‘If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.’ Positively Present is that quote come to life online,” reads DiPirro’s website. According to DiPirro, “living a ‘positively present’ life means staying in the moment while focusing on the positive in every situation, which can often be difficult when facing the pressures and challenges of everyday life (not to mention the particularly tough times of loss, stress, or heartache!).”

But her uplifting quotes might just be the thing that inspires you to love yourself a little. Here are some helpful reminders courtesy of her Instagram page:

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Having studied within the Interdisciplinary Program of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and the New York Studio Program, she focused on several disciplines: weaving, art history, printmaking, and installation art – all which inform her tapestry work and teaching philosophy today.

Her work calls for a looser, more experimental approach, and she admits that she very rarely uses a sketchbook, preferring a more intuitive approach to art. “For prep work, I’ll often start with a simple image in my mind or a photograph which then leads me to a palette,” she explained in an interview with Textile Artist. “I’ll also do some random shape collages if I’m feeling very stuck for inspiration, basically just shuffling roughly cut scraps of colored paper around on a black background until I come up with a sequence that ‘works’.”

As for her inspiration, she is informed by her environment as well as the lore surrounding it. “I’m always inspired by my surrounding landscapes,” she relayed. “I feel very fortunate to have lived all across this huge country, literally from coast to coast and in between, and I still draw inspiration from my memories of these places.”

Take a look at some of her incredible works:

The post Lucy Poskitt’s Textiles Walk the Line Between Traditional and Contemporary Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I built a guitar with barcodes instead of strings – but it has a few extra features including programmable buttons, pitch bend, and octave and channel shift, which are all controlled by retro game controller joysticks and buttons. It’s based on an Arduino MEGA with a USB host shield and a MIDI shield,” Bruton wrote along with the YouTube video.

If you were wondering, he made this unique guitar using 3-D printed parts and, of course, plenty of creativity and time were involved. Watch the video below if you want to see more. We’re sure you’re gonna love it just as much as we do.

The post This Unique Guitar Uses Barcodes and a Scanner Instead of Strings appeared first on MobiSpirit.

It took her a while to fully accept that the wheelchair wasn’t just temporary. She thought she was going to get better. But with time, she had to accept the fact that the wheelchair was her new normal.  She was not going to get up and out of it, probably ever.

But she wasn’t about to give up dancing, wheelchair or not. Dancing was such a huge part of her life and she would do whatever it took to keep it a part of her life.

Luckily, she found a new community—the wheelchair community. The wheelchair users in LA were a tight-knit group and they accepted Chelsie with open arms. And in that community, she found other wheelchair users who wanted to dance. So she formed a new dancing group—the Rollettes.

The Rollettes are not your ordinary dance club. These are professional dancers who scorch the dance floor with their wheel and leave walking dancers in the dust and with every dance routine, they prove that there’s nothing you can’t do if you really want it.

The post Meet the Rollettes: The Wheelchair Dance Group appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Sarah and Gabriel come from wildly different backgrounds. Sarah has always loved history and dreamed of becoming a writer one day. Gabriel, on the other hand, loved technology and signed up for the computer science program at his university. But it was during his time at university that he came to realize he did not appreciate the effect of 21st-century technology on his life. He felt like a cog in a machine and thought that instead of bringing people together, computers were starting to alienate everybody around him.

So after university he and Sarah, now his wife, decided to try something new. Between Sarah’s love of the past and Gabriel’s fear of the future, the only way forward for the couple was going back to the past—the 1890s, to be exacted.

They started researching life in Victorian times, and bought a Victorian house in a small town in the Pacific Northwest, took out any piece of modern technology, and simply started living life as a Victorian couple. Sarah wears corsets and writes historical novels, and Gabriel rides 19th-century bicycles wearing a top hat. Life as a Victorian isn’t always easy— modern technology can be so convenient—but, Sarah and Gabriel wouldn’t trade their quiet Victorian existence for anything in the world.

The post This Couple Live Like It’s 1890 appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“Li Longlong, who is from the Henan province of mainland China, has held the record for most consecutive stairs climbed on the head since 2012 – and he makes it look so easy!,” we read along with the video posted by the Guinness World Record Youtube channel.

What even makes a man want to climb steps with his head?

We’re not really sure, but Longlong is the best in the world in this unusual discipline. It may look easy when you’re watching him do it, but even trying to do a simple headstand is difficult for most of us. Longlong needed to follow a specific set of rules in order to set the new world record. For example, he couldn’t pause for more than five seconds before moving to the next step and he couldn’t touch the steps with any other body part, just his head. Check out how he did it in the video below.

The post Chinese Athlete Sets Guinness World Record by Climbing 36 Steps With His Head appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Together with Christina Koch, the two spacewalked for seven hours and 17 minutes in total. Currently working onboard the International Space Station on her first spaceflight as part of Expedition 61 and 62, she has also participated in research flights on NASA’s reduced gravity aircraft and served as an aquanaut in an underwater habitat for NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).

“For me, coming up here, it just was the most amazing experience of my life, coming to the International Space Station, something that I had dreamed about since I was a kid,” she remarked in an interview with wbur. “And let me tell you, I thought it would be amazing. I knew it would be amazing. It is even far, far, far more incredible and impressive than I ever imagined. And that’s saying a lot.”

Luckily for us, we get to admire her magnificent work, as well as her travels into space, from the comfort of our home – whilst scrolling through her official Instagram page. With more than 150k followers, you’d want to join in. It’s not every day that you get to follow an astronaut around.

The post Follow the Adventures Into Space of NASA Astronaut Jessica U. Meir appeared first on MobiSpirit.

On their Practically Together website, the ladies introduce themselves as “bunch of coconuts, single, but practically together.”

“We are young and not so young. We have different backgrounds, sexual preferences, and spiritual beliefs and we have chosen to live as a family. We have laughed and cried and protected one another from life’s wicked storms. We are wiser, stronger and braver together,” Houghtailing shared with Bored Panda.

If you want to follow their hilarious adventures, check out their Instagram account and give them a follow.

The post These Four Totally Different People Decided to Live Under One Roof appeared first on MobiSpirit.

The Instagram star went viral thanks to his poignant poetry. Based in New York, his creative journey took off in 2014, using first a different online platform – Twitter. According to Holmes, Twitter has taught him how to say less and still make a point. “I think a lot of people in my industry are content with the ‘struggling artist’ ideology,” he says. “I’m not. On any given day, my account brings in 600,000 to one million ‘likes.’ The object is to be seen or heard, and I make a lot of noise.”

“Your account should be growing, you should also be growing. Evolving is the point,” he relayed. “People bulls**t in our niche, they say follower count doesn’t matter but how in the hell do you expect to reach this generation if they’re not following you in some form or capacity?”

Much like his persona, his poetry is straightforward and unapologetic. Just the sort of encouragement we need this day and age.

The post This Instagram Poet Tells It Like It Is appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“When I first started sharing my work online, I wasn’t very serious about it and I really just wanted an outlet for the things I was too afraid to say,” Reddy shared with Isaase. “My poetry is very much a reflection of who I am,” she adds.

Her poems are just the right length for this day and age, cutting to the chase fairly quickly, but in a way that is both delicate and quite moving. “Some days I am the flower; Some days I am the rain,” reads one poem. While another asks: “Must the moon be full in order to be loved? And what of the heart?”

“I started writing as a kid, simply as a way to verbalize feelings I didn’t know how to talk about – and while my writing has definitely improved since – I still write for the same reasons,” explained Reddy.

The key to understanding her words? Opening your heart and listening.

The post Pavana Reddy Writes Her Poetry With a Full, Heavy Heart appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Since launching her website in 2009, her brand has grown into a viral phenomenon, which includes a YouTube channel, an Instagram page, and online courses. Her tips and tips differ in size and shape, sometimes coming in the form of wholly fleshed books, other times resulting in a catchy mantra or meme.

“Someone once said, ‘If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.’ Positively Present is that quote come to life online,” reads DiPirro’s website. According to DiPirro, “living a ‘positively present’ life means staying in the moment while focusing on the positive in every situation, which can often be difficult when facing the pressures and challenges of everyday life (not to mention the particularly tough times of loss, stress, or heartache!).”

But her uplifting quotes might just be the thing that inspires you to love yourself a little. Here are some helpful reminders courtesy of her Instagram page:

The post Love Yourself a Little This Holiday Season appeared first on MobiSpirit.

Having studied within the Interdisciplinary Program of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University and the New York Studio Program, she focused on several disciplines: weaving, art history, printmaking, and installation art – all which inform her tapestry work and teaching philosophy today.

Her work calls for a looser, more experimental approach, and she admits that she very rarely uses a sketchbook, preferring a more intuitive approach to art. “For prep work, I’ll often start with a simple image in my mind or a photograph which then leads me to a palette,” she explained in an interview with Textile Artist. “I’ll also do some random shape collages if I’m feeling very stuck for inspiration, basically just shuffling roughly cut scraps of colored paper around on a black background until I come up with a sequence that ‘works’.”

As for her inspiration, she is informed by her environment as well as the lore surrounding it. “I’m always inspired by my surrounding landscapes,” she relayed. “I feel very fortunate to have lived all across this huge country, literally from coast to coast and in between, and I still draw inspiration from my memories of these places.”

Take a look at some of her incredible works:

The post Lucy Poskitt’s Textiles Walk the Line Between Traditional and Contemporary Art appeared first on MobiSpirit.

“I built a guitar with barcodes instead of strings – but it has a few extra features including programmable buttons, pitch bend, and octave and channel shift, which are all controlled by retro game controller joysticks and buttons. It’s based on an Arduino MEGA with a USB host shield and a MIDI shield,” Bruton wrote along with the YouTube video.

If you were wondering, he made this unique guitar using 3-D printed parts and, of course, plenty of creativity and time were involved. Watch the video below if you want to see more. We’re sure you’re gonna love it just as much as we do.

The post This Unique Guitar Uses Barcodes and a Scanner Instead of Strings appeared first on MobiSpirit.