pastries

reference / personal blog of momentous things I prefer not save to my sensitive computers. The heart of this operation is my TAGS: I associate a mood and flavor with each tag. Hence, my pastries. The quote below is my motto. FAIR WARNING: occasionally graphic content. "Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."- Maya Angelou

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[mementomoriiv]

Alice, Jan Svankmajer, 1988

[tocif]

In Japanese folklore, Gashadokuro, also known as Odokuro, are giant skeletons, fifteen times taller than an average person, and are constructed from the bones of people who have died from starvation. Their bones are collected into this giant skeleton creature which is filled with intense anger and a thirst for human blood. He wanders around at night, grinding his teeth and making a “gachi gachi” sound. The giant skeleton towers so high above the ground and walks so quietly that he can be almost invisible. The only warning you get when the giant skeleton is near is a strange and inexplicable ringing in your ears.

If the Gashadokuro finds you, he will reach down with his bony hand and snatch you off the ground. Then he will pluck your head off and suck the blood out of your headless body until his thirst is quenched.

[aromes]

[unexplained-events]

Burning Ammonium Dichromate 

This is also how you summon demons from the gates of hell

[heatherwitch]

I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.

[oldumbylievable]

Hayao Miyazaki has said on numerous occasions that he wants children to know that even when the world seems harsh and life is hard, it is always still worth living, and there is always something beautiful in it.

That mental health boost is intentional and Miyazaki wants you to believe that you should continue to live, even if just for those little things.

[roseoilz]

probably my favorite thing ever; the 4 stages of a woman’s life. from The Mirror (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

[henricavyll]

We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall never surrender. 

Dunkirk (2017) dir. Christopher Nolan

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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) 1/3

[praecox1015]

‘Personally I am very pessimistic,’ Miyazaki says. 'But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can’t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can’t tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn’t have come into this life.’ And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.’ Perhaps this is why he tells children’s stories. 'Well, yes. I believe that children’s souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It’s just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.’

Hayao Miyazaki interview

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes

(via praecox1015)

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apparently ravens are associated with death and prophecy because they’re very intelligent birds and back in the day they learned p quick that large groups of men marching meant imminent corpses to feed on so they would follow armies and i think that’s v metal

[themindmovement]

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

Anthony Bourdain (via themindmovement)

[themindmovement]

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

Anthony Bourdain (via themindmovement)

[cheapflights-blog]

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Anthony Bourdain (via cheapflights-blog)

[darshanasuresh]

Tell me, Atlas. What is heavier: The world or its people’s hearts?

Darshana S, Atlas still stands but does anyone else? (via echymosis)

[stunningpicture]

Chinese doctors bowing down to an 11 year old boy diagnosed with brain cancer who managed to save several lives by donating his organs to the hospital he was being treated shortly before his death.

[notyoureverydaygirl]

This should go to history.

[xcamilarose]

This is beautiful.

[lepromatosis]

“In the Ivory Coast, the hanged bird was a macabre warning to travellers [of the presence of smallpox]” photo by WHO

[lepromatosis]

Avian Saint by Allison Kubbos

Have you ever seen something so inventive about avian influenza?