reinforced but not concrete

M, my fetishes are architecture, Japanese language, rambling poems, hands and shadows

[me1pomene]

Hello!

For stories, musings and reflections about my life in Japan and around the world, please read my blog Nana’s Lawson. 

I will be also posting my photo impressions on a tumblr blog called Nana’s Lawson. Feel free to follow! See you

Thank you!  

[ciao-belle]

Ingrid Bergman in Orléans, France.

[me1pomene]

[andreii-tarkovsky]

2016 - 10 Great Films Directed by Women

1. Sweet Bean by Naomi Kawase

2. Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade

3. The Fits by Anna Rose Holmer

4. 13th by Ava DuVernay

5. The Innocents by Anne Fontaine

6. Certain Women by Kelly Reichardt

7. Cameraperson by Kirsten Johnson

8. No Home Movie by Chantal Akerman

9. American Honey by Andrea Arnold

10. The Love Witch by Anna Biller

Also: Sworn Virgin / Bellas De Noche / Always Shine

Honorable Mention: Divines by Houda Benyamina which didn’t receive a theatrical release in United States or Mexico during 2016.

[artisticmoods]

Dinara Mirtalipova

[dontevenknowifthisisnormal]

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[at-hogwarts-express]

Anime rain is the best…

[magictransistor]

Jeff Wall. A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), 1993.

[ferretfyre]

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film:

87. Ida (2014, Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland)

You have no idea of the effect you have, do you?

[austinkleon]

“Most of us don’t want to change, really. And why should we? What we do want is modifications on the original model. We keep on being ourselves, but just, hopefully better versions of ourselves. But what happens when an event occurs that is so catastrophic that you just change? You change from the known person to an unknown person? So that when you look at yourself in the mirror, you recognize the person you were, but the person inside the skin is a different person.” —Nick Cave

[markmcevoy]

One more thing

[rosesinaglass]

216/365 Vast blue by M. Klasan on Flickr.

[macrolit]

[soracities]

She looked pale, mysterious, like a lily, drowned, under water.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (via soracities)

[eliseatydendivu]

[endless-unfolding]

I begin to believe the only sin is distance, refusal. All others stemming from this. Then come. Rivers, come. Irrevocable futures, come. Come even joy. Even now, even here, and though it vanish…

Jane Hirshfield, from “Salt Heart,” in The Lives of the Heart (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)