Truth-Seeker

I take back my detest towards the internet, I will hereby try to embrace it.

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Immersion, Léo Quievreux, 2018 disponible ici  /  available here

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Immersion, Léo Quievreux, 2018 disponible ici  /  available here

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"And I'm floating in the most peculiar way. Far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do." #spaceoddity #davidbowie #Singapore #marinabaysands #float #canon6d (at Marina Bay Sands)

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"And I'm floating in the most peculiar way. Far above the moon. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do." #spaceoddity #davidbowie #Singapore #marinabaysands #float #canon6d (at Marina Bay Sands)

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Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. And the Pharisees and scribes complained, saying, “This Man receives sinners and eats with them.” So He spoke this parable to them, saying: “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing. And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’ I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. Luke 15:1‭-‬7 NKJV

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Photos from Johor. Surreal dainty coloured buildings, gorgeous rainbow and great weather.

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My favorite frames from Garden of Words

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In many of Shinkai’s films, sad endings resulting from misunderstandings and unrequited feelings are common. According to Shinkai, his stories are intended to encourage teenagers as they learn to cope with these commonplace experiences. In an interview, he admitted that he had been accustomed to being turned down by women, and felt that his stories were encouraging because his characters continue to try, despite being unsuccessful at love. The Garden of Words also illustrated how people do not mature as linearly or elegantly as we often assume. Shinkai himself could relate with Yukino in not feeling as smart or mature at age 27, stating, “We’re all still just children at age 27,”

The original idea for The Garden of Words came from Shinkai’s desire to capture the beauty of the daily scenery in modern Tokyo and showcase it in a film. Having lived for ten years in Shinjuku, he selected it as the location of the film and set about taking thousands of photos, upon which he created his storyboards. Wanting to share the peace and harmony of his favorite locations in Japan with the hope that it would encourage people to visit, Shinkai modeled the garden in the film to match Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden in Tokyo. Following the earthquake in March 2011, he was worried that it could be destroyed and wanted to preserve it in an animated film.

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“Lonely sadness is a state of solitude that deprives people of the most basic need for companionship. To call Garden of Words a simple romance story is to undermine the entire theme, cast away the significance of the message, and belittle the pain of those it is meant to depict.”

— Kaze, Beneath The Tangles

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Tanka

なるかみの, すこしとよみて, A faint clap of thunder, さしくもり, Clouded skies, あめもふらぬか, Perhaps rain will come. きみをとどめむ? If so, will you stay here with me?

なるかみの, すこしとよみて, A faint clap of thunder, ふらずとも, Even if rain comes or not, わはとどまらむ, I will stay here, いもしとどめば。 Together with you.

- Man'yōshū vol. 11, verse 2514 - 2513, from the movie The Garden of Words -

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Citylights done right

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Too beautiful

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John Stortz is a 26 year old illustrator from the United States, specializing in pen and ink. He’s been developing his earthy and detailed style of drawing ever since he was young:

“[I’ve been drawing] since I can remember. I was a latchkey kid and an only child so I spent a big chunk of my childhood drawing by myself. I still really dig this drawing of an island covered in reptiles and birds I did in kindergarten. I think the main influences I had were these books on urban legends and monsters I found at the library. There was also this book about Greek and Norse mythology that I got during summer camp that I loved. It was filled with these beautiful and strange illustrations of creation myths and creatures. The other big influence was the sci-fi and animated films I’d watch with my dad.”

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The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

Kermit the Frog gives a talk on creativity and creative risk-taking

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did a puppet just fucking give some of the best advice ever.

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I hope you heard this in Kermit’s voice, just like I did.

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Some v good advice from our favorite friend Kermit. 

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Mid to (very) late Afternoon #pascalcampion

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On forming your own idea of morality

Morality is not based on the occurrence of actual sentiments, which are non-

rational feelings we may or may not have. It is matter of seeing, a sort of seeing that is

a combination of intellectual understanding, appropriate feeling, and responsive

action, a sort of affective and responsive knowing. To learn to see justly and respond

appropriately is itself a training in morality. The reasons for moral action do not, from

this point of view, lie in sentiments people happen to have. They lie in forms of

apprehension and attitude, in seeing what is really there and, arising out of that

apprehension, in undertaking a commitment in appropriate response to what is seen.