visual training

imagine a bullfight for you alone.

[bioabsurdity]

Laure, letter to Georges Bataille, 1934 / Georges Bataille, Blue of Noon, 1935 (published in 1957)

[bioabsurdity]

I think that will be my last post on here. I don't really use tumblr much anymore. I keep trying to come back, but it's not fun like it used to be.

The kinds of things I would post on here I've now starting posting on a private telegram channel which I use as a personal archive for uploading various films, books, music, and miscellaneous art stuff that means something to me. It's both for my own quick reference and for any of my friends to view and download from, if they wish. It's not public—I put more of my personal comments in there and I don't really like to be heard by people I don't know, but if anyone would like the link you can message me about it. I also use this twitter account sparingly, but it's mainly just for retweets.

[bioabsurdity]

"Dead Daughter" by Russell Edson in The Very Thing that Happens: Fables and Drawings (New Directions, 1964)

[bioabsurdity]

Nikolai Komiagin of Shortparis, 2024. ph. Victor Yuliev

[partial-boner]

FRANS ZWARTJES Visual Training 1969

[twixnmix]

Udo Kier photographed by Andy Warhol, 1973.

[anitapallenberg]

Crash (1996) | Dir. David Cronenberg

[rherlotshadow]

Mosaic of medieval stained glass

[zegalba]

Lamp design by Carlo Nason (1969)

[honeyrosepetals]

door to nowhere

[iamwizzzzz]

[i3y1]

[mu-hnd]

"I fear that I will remain like this.. staring at the things I love.. without touching them."

[sewercentipede]

Woman of a Bedouin tribe living near the Rub’ al Khali desert in Saudi Arabia. From The Bedouins of Arabia by Thierry Mauger

[jaw8jaw]

Buchan Caves, Gippsland, Australia. 14th April 1930.

[hzned]

[fervi-g]

La Chimera (2023) dir. Alice Rohrwacher

[jinxproof]

Julia Campbell Gillies | © Jack Davison