queen by day

[witchinghour]

“We knew we wanted it to be beautiful and disturbing, often concurrently within the same shot. In the end, a lot of it was just from nature. We found images that were atmospherically relevant. One I remember was of a vapor trail behind an airplane, and in the sort of vortices, light was reflecting through the water droplets and creating rainbow shapes. That became relevant to how we created the look of The Shimmer. Another was a tree that was covered in thousands, hundreds of thousands of spider webs. The spider webs in the branches made the tree like a tree, but not a tree, and that sort of became the crystal trees at the end of the film. It was that kind of thing.” – Director Alex Garland on the inspiration behind The Shimmer in Annihilation (2018)

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

Her Garden🌿

https://www.instagram.com/sweetgalegardens

[shakespearenews]

Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey 

Wandering down a side aisle, I was pursued by a distraught Ophelia, who clutched my sleeve with a cry of “My lord” and, addressing me as if I were Polonius, described Hamlet’s unnerving entry into her chamber. I had to resist the temptation to respond: “Go with me, I will go seek the king.” Later, I was confronted by an Othello who knelt before me as if I were the Duke of Venice and cried: “Most potent, grave and reverend signior”: not the kind of thing I’m used to hearing.

[safeintheforest]

[browndresswithwhitedots]

[floralls]

[theotreptos]

Womanhood is the process of understanding your mother.

[disc80s]

[artist-pissarro]

Orchards at Louveciennes, Camille Pissarro

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-pissarro/orchards-at-louveciennes-1872

[sashayed]

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

— Howard Zinn, ‘A Power Governments Cannot Suppress’ (via scientificphilosopher)

[huariqueje]

The Opal mist   -     Robert Zakanitch

American, b.1935-

gouache on paper, 45,7 x 61 cm.  18 x 24 in.

[franzkavkas]

“I am separated from all things by a hollow space, and I do not even reach its boundaries.”

— Franz Kafka, 1911 diary entry

[shakespearean]

Cate Blanchett as Richard II in Sydney Theatre Company’s 2009 marathon eight-hour performance of The War of the Roses, directed by Benedict Andrews. Photograph: Tania Kelley/Sydney Theatre Company

[philosophybits]

“I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

[nemophilies-deactivated20190428]

“Jacques Lacan reminds us, that in sex, each individual is to a large extent on their own, if I can put it that way. Naturally, the other’s body has to be mediated, but at the end of the day, the pleasure will be always your pleasure. Sex separates, doesn’t unite. The fact you are naked and pressing against the other is an image, an imaginary representation. What is real is that pleasure takes you a long way away, very far from the other. What is real is narcis­sistic, what binds is imaginary. So there is no such thing as a sexual relationship, concludes Lacan. His proposition shocked people since at the time everybody was talking about nothing else but “sexual relationships”. If there is no sexual relationship in sexuality, love is what fills the absence of a sexual relationship. Lacan doesn’t say that love is a disguise for sexual relationships; he says that sexual relationships don’t exist, that love is what comes to replace that non-relationship. That’s much more interesting. This idea leads him to say that in love the other tries to approach “the being of the other”. In love the individual goes beyond himself, beyond the narcissistic. In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary the mediation of the other is enough in itself. Such is the nature of the amorous encounter: you go to take on the other, to make him or her exist with you, as he or she is. It is a much more profound conception of love than the entirely banal view that love is no more than an imaginary canvas painted over the reality of sex.”

— Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love 

[grizzlyking-deactivated20250914]

Mushroom season has been good to me this year. During a week up in the Lake District, I came across several of Britain’s best shrooms. Including at least ten of the famous Amanita muscaria.

[english-court]

Sir, that’s just my emotional support 3,000 year old water Nymph