fly fish, FLY

I ponder, confess, and escape here. It's nice to have a place to come back to, to remember.

[seasonofhorror]

AMERICAN PSYCHO

2000, dir. Mary Harron

[ccrleone]

MICHAEL CORLEONE ↬ study : faceless ( 4/ ?? )

[roaldamundsen]

so the louvre's cctv password was "louvre"

[theimpossiblecool]

10 Portraits by Anton Corbijn

[talkgentlytome]

[dank-morpork]

And when a six-foot tall Persian priestess with a fucking GOLD EYE speaks, you know you damn well listen to what she has to say.

[shirojikimattari]

LOOK WHO HAS SOMETHING DRAW. IT IS ME, MY GAY BITCHES.

[shirojikimattari]

Finally had a tiny break time.

So…. Anyone still up for golden eyed six foot tall priestess??

[strugglingqueer]

Oh, you better listen to her!

[captain-lonagan]

i’ll listen to her, give her my food, worship her, do her laundry, and generally be extremely gay

[consistantly-changing]

Okay but this is so cool.

This is the earliest prosthetic eye ever recorded, and the surgery was a success. It appears that it was held in with thread and was worn regularly, with signs of infection in the eye socket showing that it had possibly been worn too much without cleaning.

The whole eye was not gold, instead mostly being made of bitumen with the golden lines inscribed into it in a pattern that some archeologists suggest may be an imitation of the sun, the 8 radial outward lines being sun rays, to represent light. There are also hints of white pigment on the surface, indicating that once part of the eye may have been mimicking the sclera (white bit of the eye).

Some suggest that her eye elevated her status, and based on the responses of everyone here, that’s easily possible.

Golden-eye and the Burnt City: The earliest known ocular prosthesis from the city of Shahr-i Sokhta

Shahr-i Sokhta (sometimes written as Shahr-e Sukhteh), meaning The Burnt City, is the name given to a substantial Bronze Age walled urban se

Bonus, the eye itself (which resided in the left eye socket):

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

Reblogging this version for the revelation that this ancient priestess prosthetic eye had a golden sun inscribed on it.

I’m not sure if that’s cooler or equally cool as a fully gold eye, but I feel like people need to know! Especially artists because I want to see that illustrated!

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

[punk-squirrely-ghost]

Explain.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

try and tell me literally any one of these would not fit above a short story about two wholly random men from the MCU fingering each other, or possibly 12 chapters of one or more characters from a CW show being in high school while having a photogenic but terminal kind of cancer. try.

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

ok so i want to say in hindsight i think i could probably have been clearer

[imimmortal4-deactivated20170713]

[charlesoberonn]

This post today is more than twice as old as Tumblr itself was when this post was originally made.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[kleinergeist]

Hey. Don't cry. Weird teenage girl somewhere out there reading Frankenstein for the first time. Ok?

[flyfishfly]

Miles Teves's portrait of Al Pacino as the vampire Lestat. The actor was briefly considered for the role.

Miles Teves concentrated on concepts for Lestat, a crucial role that remained uncast for a long time. A seemingly endless series of names was thrown into the hat as possible contenders, only to be rejected. “The craziest one was Al Pacino,” Shane Mahan said. “I remember Neil Jordan coming into the shop one day and asking, ‘What do you boys think of Al Pacino?’ And we said, ‘For what?’ ‘For Lestat.’ We couldn’t believe it. He was too old for the part, for one thing. In the book, Lestat was a twenty-four-year-old French guy! But, apparently, Al Pacino really wanted to do it, and so we did drawings of Al Pacino as Lestat.”

“Every week, we’d get a new name,” said McCreery, “and Miles and I would go back and do another drawing of Lestat, sketching it over that new actor’s face. One week, it was Jeremy Irons. The next week, it was Daniel Day-Lewis. The next week, it was Val Kilmer. Finally, it was announced that Tom Cruise was going to be Lestat — and everyone at the studio really got behind that idea.” (x)

Al Pacino as the Vampire Lestat? Hoohaah! That was my reaction back in the spring of 1993 as production for Interview with the Vampire was ramping up. Those of us in Stan Winston's shop were hoping they would cast Daniel Day Lewis, hot off of his heroic turn in Last of the Mohicans. Anne Rice wanted a young Rutger Hauer, but no time machine was yet available. Out of the blue Al Pacino tossed his hat into the ring and aggressively pursued the role. Things got strange. Many questions were asked. Suddenly Tom Cruise expressed interest, the studio got happy, and all bets were off. During the handful of days when still Pacino was a contender, I was asked to draw this design. Funny shtuff, but all true! (x)

[tomdestry]

Blue Velvet (1986) dir. David Lynch

[2087]

Heat, dir. Michael Mann, 1995

[maryxglz]

Tom Hiddleston by Andy Gotts (2015)

[flyfishfly]

Photography by Andy Gotts (2008)

I shot Al in his Beverly Hills home. When you see lists of the greatest actors, Al Pacino is always in the top two, normally alternating with De Niro, so when I was driving to his house I was expecting this Hollywood mega-god in a lavish palace, drinking Bailey's out of a shoe. I had visions of a mix of Michael Corleone, a hint of Tony Montana and a dash of his Oscar winning Frank Slade. So when I trundle up to his modest house I was pleasantly surprised. I was even more taken aback when I discovered this 69 year old guy had [twins] that [were] 8 years old...good lad! The shoot with Al was amazing, but the most bizarre thing happened...Al Pacino did an impression of Robert De Niro, the 'you looking at me?' routine. It's going to take a lot to top that! (x)

Gotta love this quirky little shot of iconic actor Al Pacino doing a little improv of #Salvador Dali. Quite a huge part of photography is luck (despite what us photographers will have you believe!). We cannot plan exactly what will happen at a photo shoot, nor predict the mood or high jinx of the subjects being shot. When I was heading to Pacino’s house in Beverly Hills did I expect Al to be all jovial and want to be silly? Of course not!! I was expecting the ‘Godfather ‘ wanting to make me an offer I couldn’t refuse rather than a Kenneth Williams impression, which Michael Sheen would have been proud of! (x)

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[mismedleym]

recollections

[mrporg]

[panda-pal]

"Life goes by too f**king fast, it really does." The Chair Company: Season 1, Episode 1 (2025)

[latinasfordalecooper]

THE CHAIR COMPANY S1E2: New blood. There's 5 Rons now.

[whimsicalsanctuarymaelstrom-dea]

Someone took a camcorder to a screening of HEAT in 1995 and recorded one of the first audience reactions to Al Pacino's now infamous "great ass" line . The kind of film history we must preserve