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Origami Around
Love Begins
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
JBB: An Artblog!
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Peter Solarz
Sade Olutola
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i don't do bad sauce passes
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we're not kids anymore.
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@incurablenecromantic
Are you still bitter about it sometimes?
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everything you see on tumblr is biased towards the perspectives of the types of people who post a lot on tumblr. this is essential to remember
Agnès Varda in Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema/Filmer le désir: Voyage à travers le cinéma de femmes, dir. by Marie Mandy (2000)
New insane unwarranted paranoia to snap your eyes open at night: do I somehow have untouched secret student loan debt I don’t know about
I don't, by the way. They're all closed. Experian said so. Maybe it's time to seek medication.
New insane unwarranted paranoia to snap your eyes open at night: do I somehow have untouched secret student loan debt I don’t know about
Vintage Donelan cartoon from the 1980s.
Happy Pride!
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Yknow what. I should write some gay-ass M.R. James stuff. Parkins waking up in a cold sweat after a nightmare of a scarecrow, rolling over to cling to the Colonel's very brawny arm for comfort. Some of those professors getting a pornographic mezzotint. The ladies of the Wailing Well lezzing out, perhaps.
its interesting how the people who say "my trauma made me funny" are never actually funny just uncomfortably self-deprecating
just one time i’d love to hear someone say “my trauma made me a dour unfunny serious bitch” like please
'Death of an actor'. Karolis Strautniekas.
Rene Lalique
what if we all explode
This very production of Orpheus & Eurydice is now available to stream, free, for the month of June.
Part of the plan with regard to the cut is to hire a boudoir photographer once I'm at or close to my max visible muscularity. Goddamn if I'm going to be an aesthetically inclined gay person and not have some highly artistic nude photographs of myself to print large and frame and hang in the living room when I'm 80.
Never stop hating
Bob Fosse and Roy Scheider on the set of ALL THAT JAZZ
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Bellini Staffers. Need to write about the Bellini Boys. Don't have a clue what I'll say. But I gotta.
its the year 2013 and you can 3dprint a dildo that is also a bong and Dennys has a tumblr and most phones have TWO cameras now, one on the front and one on the back and there is a nonzero chance that we will have a reality show set in space within 5 years.
it appears that gentle death still stands sentinel at the end of our lives and casts a shadow back over us as if he were interposed between us and a fantastic radiance but OTOH crowdsourcing has made it incredibly easy to buy a “minimalist wallet” made of aircraft-grade aluminium weave and hey
dennys has a tumblr, so you can keep up with dennys, and new dennys developments, in realtime
Come and See is a movie I was scared of. This is in part due to the Youtube Video Essayist Industrial Complex but also because a lot of the conversation around the movie positions it as the number one antiwar film ever made, which is high praise, and maybe not a ranking I'd agree with.
Come and See was the closing film in my film group's Kill Yourself January series of the bleakest films you can think of, and it fully deserves this spot. The movie is a bleak reflection on the Nazi massacres that depopulated 20%-30% of Belarus, on the ravages of war, on what to do with your own countrymen who burnt your village to the ground. It's a beautiful, haunting reflection on WWII in the aftermath of extreme inhumanity, but nothing about this film made me not want to go to war.
A lot of this has to do with the fact that the movie intentionally does not put you the viewer in combat. The entire film is shot from the standpoint of Flyora, a young boy who finds a buried rifle and joins up with Belarusian Partisans to fight the Nazi occupation. He doesn't actually do much fighting, being the youngest member of the resistance, but through his eyes we see mostly the shattered remains left behind after Nazi atrocities. In some ways the movie is a lot like Jarhead inasmuch as combat is always distant or offscreen.
The lack of combat is what I think the poindexters latched onto with this film. It's overhyped as the most antiwar movie ever because it doesn't put you into the trenches but rather leaves you to walk around them after the smoke clears. And I don't blame them, it's a gorgeous film, and this hazy, avoidant portrayal of WWII is a purposeful, impactful strategy. It works really well.
I don't think the egghead video essayists are necessarily wrong about the combat angle. To reference Jarhead again, one of the most iconic scenes in the film is when the Marines are shown the Valkyrie helicopter attack scene from Apocalypse now, another film with an anti-war message, a move meant to rile them up for war and prepare them to kill using a movie focused on how pointless Americas foreign war du jour was at the time. How many times have you seen Full Metal Jacket (another patently antiwar film) touted for how cool the toughguy quotes in it are?
My point being is that both the youtubers and I can clearly recognize that guns and explosions are the coolest things on earth and a full auto burst fired in anger, no matter the conflict, absolutely rules. Come and See intentionally avoids all this (except for on distinct occasions) which I feel is the reason that people who talk about what war movies you should be allowed to like online really glom onto it.
Maybe it's my, uh, hot blooded heritage* or perhaps I'm just less of a weenie than other people who talk about film on youtube, but the message and portrayal of cold blooded massacres in Come and See did not turn me into some sort of pacifist. When I see Nazis dragging people from their homes this doesn't make me want to put down the rifle at all. And I think this is the issue I have with the greater conversation around the film as the *best* antiwar movie out there.
Regardless, you have to watch Come and See. I'm obsessed with the cinematography, the acting, the haunting soundscape of war. It's dreamlike and nightmarish at the same time. I can't stop thinking about it and not just because of the bridge scene. In fact, I deeply enjoyed it, which is a weird thing to say about the War Crimes In Belarus movie. Even if it isn't *The Best* of the antiwar movies, it's certainly up there.
A haunting film. A triumph of cinema. A movie that is also portraiture. Go watch it.
*Read: Italian and the grandchild/Great-grandchild of Italian partisans. Which is to say that this film was particularly up my alley. If you want me to hammer the sword into a plowshare there are other movies that function as pure distillations of how much war sucks no matter how cool the guns are.
