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JBB: An Artblog!
Mike Driver
@theartofmadeline
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❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
Kiana Khansmith
styofa doing anything
Show & Tell
roma★
Not today Justin
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
NASA
cherry valley forever
Today's Document
Origami Around
trying on a metaphor
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@layrasparks
The problem with eternity is not that it doesn’t exist [...] but that it is undesirable and incoherent; it kills meaning and collapses value. This is a difficult truth to learn, because we are naturally fearful of loss, and therefore attached to the idea of eternal restoration.
If God Is Dead, Your Time Is Everything, The New Yorker
It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness.
Sigmund Freud, “Civilization and its Discontents”
Every production of mass culture is a public act and must conform with accepted notions of the public good. Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained. At a time when the normal condition of the citizen is a state of anxiety, euphoria spreads over our culture like the broad smile of an idiot.
The Gangster as Tragic Hero by Robert Warshow
There are many qualities one must possess to be a working writer or artist. Talent, brains, tenacity. Wealthy parents are good. You should definitely try to have those. But first among equals, when it comes to necessary ingredients, is selfishness. A book is made out of small selfishnesses. The selfishness of shutting the door against your family. The selfishness of ignoring the pram in the hall. The selfishness of forgetting the real world to create a new one. The selfishness of stealing stories from real people. The selfishness of saving the best of yourself for that blank-faced anonymous paramour, the reader. The selfishness that comes from simply saying what you have to say.
Read the full article here.
The theory, put forward by philosophers, is far from a joke, or a mere conceit.
One word: hyperreality.
Today, I attended the premiere of @contvshow, the show I'd been working on for the past couple of months. I have so much love for everyone involved. Go watch it now on contvshow.com! ❤️🎬 (at Robert Zemeckis Center For Digital Arts)
"Please tell a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. "Gets away from what, though?" "From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn't really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like 'happy' and 'good' will never find her." "You don't want her to be happy and good?" "I'm not sure what's really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin."
from White Is for Witching by Helen Oyeymi
Video is not dead. 📼🎥🎞 (at Vidiots)
CHICAGO
By Layra S.
October 2015
Hey, I was wondering if you did the video or pictures option in the USC application when you applied!
Hi! I didn’t apply to Production, so neither, most people I know chose the video option, though.
hey! Not sure if this account is still active but I was wondering if you're still planning to apply to USC'S film program? :) Since I wish to apply too and was curious of your thoughts about the school
Hi! It is active, I just don't really have time to post since I AM currently in USC's film program! So ask me anything! :)
Hello (: You have a wonderful eye for photography. I live in India and I trawl your blog qquite often because I think pictures are the best way to travel. I hope to visit the places that you see through your lenses. Instagram is far more accessible to me than Tumblr, do you post these pictures on it? I'd love to follow it. Stay beautiful, xx
Hi!!
I’m so sorry that I didn’t reply earlier, I haven’t had the chance lately to come here as often as I’d like to!
Thank you so much for your kind words, you have no idea how much they mean to me!
I do have an Instagram, which is also “layrasparks”, but I don’t use it that much and don’t really post my photography on it. That might change, however, so you should definitely look out for that!
You can find the rest of my social media links here:
http://layrasparks.tumblr.com/links
Thank you once again for messaging me, I really appreciate it!
xx
“It was easier when I just imagined you.”
~Paris, Texas (dir. Wim Wenders, 1984)
My favorite film in the entire world.
AIDA
Photo by Layra S.
November 2014
Vienna, Austria
The Buda Castle
08/18/2014
Budapest, Hungary
by Layra S.
Explore USC
I published three really, really long posts on Explore USC over on my blog:
http://layrasparks.blogspot.com/
If you paint the leaf on a tree without using a model, your imagination will only supply you with a few leaves; but Nature offers you millions, all on the same tree. No two leaves are exactly the same. The artist who paints only what is in his mind must very soon repeat himself.
~ Pierre-Auguste Renoir --> Jean Renoir
