Beautiful Arts

musings about audiovisual media, literature, their theories - and more

[kari-shma]

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bill Cosby  (via theseloversofthelight)

YES

(via texastrav)

[marauders4evr]

Halloween just wouldn’t be the same without Tim Burton

(From top to bottom: Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeny Todd, Dark Shadows, Frankenweenie)

[theoverworld]

[the-absolute-funniest-posts]

theoverworld:

Terrifying Sculptures by Mark Jenkins

Imagine walking around the corner and seeing one of these. American artist Mark Jenkins is fond of installing sculptures in public that hurtle you screaming into the uncanny valley.

[andythelemon]

Oh my god, the one sticking out of the bin looks exactly like me from that angle. I’m not kidding. Guess I might as well add… I really love artwork that’s creepy and unsettling like this.

[slashfilms]

31 days, 1 alphabet of horror tropes → D is for Daylight Horror    → A trope that describes terrors in places with 100% visibility. It is the opposite of the “Darkness Equals Death” trope and is often placed in films to play on the viewer’s false sense of security about light. The trope applies not only to films that take place outside in broad daylight, but also to scenes shot in brightly lit rooms.

[slashfilms]

31 days, 1 alphabet of horror tropes → E is for Everybody’s Dead, Dave    → A trope that describes the most dire results, where there are more casualties than there are survivors. To fit this trope, a film needs to have at least one living person but can have as many as a small group of people who are usually the last survivor(s) of a mass killing spree or wipeout, such as a deadly viral plague. They do not necessarily have to be the last remnants of humanity, but the trope still fits in that case.

[slobbering]

[w-ormboy]

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[geologise]

SUBMISSION: Wadden Sea - 2013 by Henrik Emtkjær Hansen

[whispering-n-winds]

[unpardeojitosnegross-blog]

Confidence is being able to say “Fuck you, I’m the shit" without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being.

Tati-Ana Mercedes (via werew01ves)

[questionableadvice]

~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners; or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book, a Guide and Manual for Ladies, by Eliza Leslie, 1864 via Open Library

[belle-de-nuit]

[braiker]

same

[explore-blog]

Books taught me to how to live. In their pages lived a complex language of emotion that felt absent from my childhood home, where my parents were too busy working and getting by to have what some might call “intellectual discussion.” Whether knowledge was gleaned via one of my grandmother’s romance novels, through Oliver Twist, or an illustrated edition of D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths, in reading I adopted a psychological filter, through which I learned to interpret myself, the world, and my place in the world.

A wonderful conversation with author Julia Fierro, who echoes philosopher Judith Butler on how reading makes us human and Norah Ephron on reading as “escape, and the opposite of escape.”

Complement with Virginia Woolf on how to read a book.

(via explore-blog)

[pickledelephant]

Stanley Kubrick while making Full Metal Jacket

[regibean]

When patients were committed to the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York, they arrived with a suitcase packed with all of the possessions they thought they needed for their time inside. Most never left. The mental hospital had an average stay of nearly 30 years. When patients died, they were buried in nameless graves across the street of the asylum. Their suitcases, with all their worldly possessions, were locked in an attic and forgotten. In 1995, an employee of the mental hospital discovered the suitcases, 400 of them. They date from 1910 to 1960. Now, photographer Jon Crispin is cataloging each suitcase and opening a window into the lives - and the minds - of the people deemed too unwell to be allowed in society.

Go here for more information and to sign up for notification on further development of the project

http://www.willardsuitcases.com/ If you wish to donate to the project go here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/265363123/willard-asylum-suitcase-documentation/posts

[captivatingcataclysm]

[thecunningcock]

[laughingtillweredead]

Fuck, I can’t love this movie enough

[nathanschock]

The word ‘deconstruction’ was a translation of [Martin] Heidegger’s ‘destruction’, which was a translation of [Martin] Luther’s ‘destructio’, which was a translation of I Corinthians 1, when Paul cites Isaiah, that ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.’ It’s a biblical expression for the emancipation of genuine wisdom from false wisdom.

Dr. John Caputo in response to a question at Subverting the Norm 2 as relayed in a recording by Homebrewed Christianity. (via nathanschock)

Martin Heidegger