he was a tater tot, she said see ya later thot

to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, mean to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting - e.e. cummings

[the-bear-woman]

The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every

[the-bear-woman]

It’s just this and her court pushes her around the stage on wheels and every act it gets taller until she towers over everyone

[the-bear-woman]

Also in act 3 (I think) it swings open at the front and her husband is sitting inside reading a newspaper

[the-bear-woman]

I saw this again on Tuesday so here are some things I’d forgotten about:

This is the only Alice adaptation I’ve ever seen that doesn’t cut the caucus race

The mad hatter wears taps throughout and it’s so jarring and surprising it’s perfect

The executioner shadows almost everyone who dances with the Queen

Lewis Carroll is a character in the ballet and becomes the white rabbit who leads Alice into wonderland which is bad and wrong because Carroll is the dodo but does work very well

They started dropping rose petals from the ceiling onto the audience when Alice looked through the door to the garden and it was utterly magic

The Cheshire Cat is made of about 10 different puppets that dance around the stage

Which reminds me Alice is styled after Alice Liddell rather than the John Tenniel illustrations

I don’t think the king of hearts actually dances he just wanders around looking confused

[paraphernaliawagon]

here’s a video

[paraphernaliawagon]

more. (btw this is a parody/reference to the very famous “rose adagio” from sleeping beauty)

[paraphernaliawagon]

the Caterpillar is pretty neat too

(all of these videos are from the Royal Ballet’s productions in 2014 and 2017)

[catrinecat]

Finally an adaptation that makes feel like I’m going to have stroke, it’s perfect

[themummersfolly]

This looks fucking bonkers, I love it.

[elf7knight]

Wow fascinating!

[kummatty]

What Resulted When a Photographer Gave Rural Children Cameras

Twenty years before the term “socially engaged art” entered the lexicon, Wendy Ewald realized that, when she gave cameras to children, they

[kummatty]

“My little sister is praying,” Mounia Betioui, Morocco, 1995.

“Here is my cousin, Miry, with the skulls and fruit for the Day of the Dead,” Juan Jesús Murillo, Mexico, 1991. 

“My lame cousin-brother is dressed like saint Sadhu Hari,” Kalu Rupsingh, India, 1989-90. 

“The chickens run behind my mother,” Carlos Andrés Villaneuva, Colombia, 1982-85.

[naamahdarling]

That last one is so well-balanced. Extraordinary.

[flowerfulandbright-blog]

[golyadkin]

talking to your parents in your 20's moodboard

[celadonlonghorn-archive]

[gunsandfireandshit]

[toastbutteregg]

[allmyknivesaremadeoutofbutter-d]

what if i stopped trying to understand what i look like. live laugh love

[binches-deactivated20220521]

[imeverywoman420]

Defining yourself by your romantic relationships is so unhealthy like what if he dies sis what then

[djpaulyd]

the friar to juliet when she came to talk about romeo

[loversdreamersandyou]

[apicturewithasmile]

“I’m much happier at 53 than I was at 23.” (x)

[t-aash]

i love you guillermo del totoro

[night-dark-woods]

[ID: Four gifs of Guillermo del Toro in an interview. He says, “I think the sublime confusion is from 19 to 29. You think you are late for everything, you’re a has-been, nothing is happening, there’s no opportunity for you, the world is closed, everything is a disaster, you wanna die. And then you’re 30.” /end ID]

[freedom-and-books]

He once gave a class in Guadalajara and said “Ustedes los jóvenes están en la edad exacta de la desesperación. Yo nunca me sentí más acabado y viejo que a los veintitantos. Decía ‘ya me pasó la vida y no hice nada’. Pero estoy aquí para decirles que no: tienen un chingo de tiempo”

Which translates to “You young people are in the exact age of desperation. I never felt more done and old than in my twenties. I’d say ‘life has passed me by and i did nothing’. But i’m here to tell you that’s not true: you have a lot of fucking time”

[sonypraystation]

how u doing

im not thinking about it

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[hero-in-high-tops]

The fact that he put effort into adding himself as background characters is something else

[snowberry-pie]

hang on babe let me just transcribe my last terrified words into this journal so the next adventurer that enters this crypt will have some semblance of environmental storytelling

[awkwardtrekphotos]

[dredsina]

This is the future liberals want

[stevebucky-deactivated20221119]

the only dynamics that matter