and within me trembles the world

What we choose to fight is so tiny! What fights with us is so great. If only we would let ourselves be dominated as things do by some immense storm, we would become strong too, and not need names. - Rilke

[jazminesullivan]

GERTIE BROWN & SAINT SUTTLE “Something Good-Negro Kiss,” the newly discovered William Selig silent film from 1898 is believed to be the earliest cinematic depiction of African-American affection. Thanks to scholars at the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California, the footage is prompting a rethinking of early film history. The performance by cakewalk partners Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown is a reinterpretation of Thomas Edison’s “The Kiss,” featuring May Irwin and John Rice. The film was announced December 12, 2018 as a new addition to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry—one of 25 selected for their enduring importance to American culture. The 29-second clip is free of stereotypes and racist caricatures, a stark contrast from the majority of black performances at the turn of the century.

[fotojournalismus]

Be realistic, demand the impossible, Paris, May 1968.

Photo by Gérard Aime

[ben-smith-123]

[halfsavages-deactivated20200621]

anne carson, antigonick, 2012

[loumargi]

Palace of tenderness, 1928 Bolesław Biegas (1877 - 1954)

[vintagesalt-deactivated20181115]

Julia Louis-Dreyfus | 1990s

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The golden flowers come shining through the woods these February days;

Constance Fenimore Woolson, from “Yellow Jasmine,” wr. c. 1877 (via violentwavesofemotion)

[abandonedandurbex]

[niktipolos]

A brick factory ruin catches the day’s last rays of sunshine in a quiet North Carolina mill town. By 95wombat [2222 X 1481] Source: https://openpics.aerobatic.io/

[orphicsss]

A serie of small objects, 

A mother, a lover and a child’s heart. 

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[maxknightley]

In many ways - socially, technologically, industrially - we’ve improved greatly from the ancient societies. For all the flaws of the world today, and there are many which we need to overcome, we should recognize that we as a species have achieved a tremendous amount.

That being said, we need to start painting elaborate scenes on our pots and bowls again. I’m stick of my saucepan just being black instead of having some ritual or historical event on the sides.

[dolm]

Portugal. Lisbon. 1996. The Belem Monastery of the Jeronimos. Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

[radstudies]

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883) - Les Océanides, 1860

[goodbyedreamland]

She wants her cup of stars.

Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (via existential-celestial)

[odditiesoflife]

Yokai - Japanese Monsters

In the Edo period of sophisticated popular culture (1603-1868), much attention was devoted to Japan’s rich variety of traditional monsters and apparitions, known as yokai. The above yokai are from a work titled Hyakkai Zukan in 1737 by Sawaki Suushi, a relatively unknown artist who studied under master painter Hanabusa Itcho (1702-1772). Hyakkai Zukan’s colorful depictions of Japan’s most notorious creatures inspired and copied by yokai artists for generations.

Ushi-oni (“cow devil”) is a malevolent sea monster with the head of a bull and the body of a giant spider or crab. It is most often encountered in the coastal waters where it is feared for its vicious attacks on fishermen.

Mikoshi-nyudo is a large, cross-eyed mendicant encountered on mountain passes or on lonely roads at night. He grows taller when you look up at him — and the higher you look, the taller he grows. Look up for too long and you will die, but say “mikoshita” (“I see higher”) and he disappears.

Ouni is a mountain hag with a mouth stretching from ear to ear and a thick coat of long, black hair covering her entire body. She can place raw hemp fiber into her mouth and pull out finished yarn.

Nure-onna (“wet woman”) is a fast-swimming amphibious creature with the head of a human female and the body of a gigantic snake. She carries a small child, which she uses to attract potential victims. When a well-intentioned person offers to hold the baby, the child attaches itself to the victim’s hands and grows heavy, making it nearly impossible to flee. She uses her long, powerful tongue to suck all the blood from her victim’s body.

Uwan is a disembodied voice that inhabits old, abandoned temples and homes. When a person enters a haunted building, the formless spirit belts out an ear-piercing “Uwan!” (hence the name).

Kami-kiri (“hair-cutter”) are ghostly spirits known for sneaking up on people and cutting all their hair off when they are unknowingly engaged to marry another yokai posing as a human. These hair-cutting attacks are intended to delay or prevent weddings between humans and otherworldly beings, which are typically doomed to failure.

[colin-vian]

Udomsak Krisanamis (Thai, b. 1966), Midnight in My Perfect World, 1997. Ink, acrylic resin and paper collage on canvas, 182.6 x 120.7 cm.

[frillmag]

[luthienne]

“…I have known with certainty that the worst things, and even despair, are only a kind of abundance and an onslaught of existence that one decision of the heart could turn into its opposite. Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Anita Forrer, February 14, 1920