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21. Español, English and learning Korean. Constantly thinking about flying, running or jumping to places. Time and space traveler. Things you may find here: BOOKS, food, dramas, k-everything, nature, books, turtles and/or elephants.

[the-daytripper]

Little Forest: Summer & Autumn (2014)

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Les enfants de Liboi by Laurence Cornet , Kenya 1992

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Detail of kimono with flying cranes, Japan, ca. 1910-30 Rijksmuseum

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parisgreat 

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you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

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that last one is literally a LOOK

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F I N A L P A M

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Vintage reference.

[death-by-lulz]

what a day!!!!!!!! nothing happened and i was tired

[sobeitjayt]

Dont start fallin in love just because somebody showing you a little bit of attention

[rottenbutrecovering]

try and stop me honestly

[freshmoviequotes]

The Villainess (2017)

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[onemorewanderer]

My life is mine. 

This speech shook me so hard and in such an unexpected way, that i just need to share it with the world

[onemorewanderer]

Howls moving castle movie: the black door leads to a war-torn countryside, with steampunk flying battleships dropping bombs and evil monsters that attack Howl

HMC book: the black door leads to a suburban neighborhood in Wales and the worst thing there is Howl's sister

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[yuripink]

i feel like im in the sims where it takes 5 hours to make pasta and then u have to immediately go to bed

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[bogleech]

Neopets, which still exists by the way, just made it possible for every single player to have a fifth pet on their account for the first time ever

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Okay I know we always go on about Marvel’s uncanny casting ability. 

But if you thought they were the only ones, let me draw your attention to this man:

Viggo Mortensen, aka Aragorn son of Arathorn, aka Sexiest Ranger in Middle Earth

would hike, often for more than a day, to remote filming locations, in costume, for the sake of authenticity

was the best swordsman Bob Anderson (swordsmaster/instructor for LotR, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc) says he has ever trained

occasionally writes poetry (more book!canon than film!canon but um hello)

does all his own stunts

lived all over and speaks about 23940209384 languages

you know that scene at the end of Fellowship when he’s fighting the Uruk-hai? And one throws a dagger at him and he hits it away with his sword? Yeah, the guy who threw it was supposed to miss, but accidentally threw it directly at Viggo. Who just casually Aragorned and hit it away. 

They actually cast Aragorn to play Aragorn

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Can I just add a few things?

Would randomly give chocolates to the hobbits

According to John Rhys-Davis (aka Gimli), whenever you have a large cast, one or two actors will naturally become the leaders. Guess who ended up in that role.

Single-handedly convinced cast and crew to camp out to shoot a scene in the sunrise

Once hit a wild rabbit with his car by accident. Promptly stopped his car and went to see if the rabbit was dead, needed a vet or if the only merciful thing to do was to finish killing him. The rabbit was dead. Viggo realized he was hungry. So he took the rabbit, made a fire by the roadside and ate it.

According to cast and crew, sometimes you’d just see him disappear in the middle of the night and suddenly he’d come back with fish he’d caught

Had his sword with him at all times. Slept with once.

The best horse rider of the cast, hands down. Rides better than lots of pros, according to a horse trainer. Couldn’t bear to part with his horse at the end of the shooting, so he bough him. The next movie of his also involved horses, and he bought his horse in that one, too.

Knows how to survive in the wild. I’m not kidding.

Hand-stitched a few things in his costume for an authentic “I live away from civilization” Ranger feel. Also told the weapons department to make him a small bow because “Aragorn lives in the wild, he needs a hunting bow, or he’ll starve to death” - literally nobody else had thought about that. Also requested a small stone to sharpen his sword. Suggested that Aragorn would take Boromir’s arm guards after his death. 

Speaking of hand-stitching, once he was touring Japan with a reporter for an article. Walked into a store, took a tshirt, bought it, cut off the print and hand-stitched it into the hat he was wearing. The reporter was going “?????????” the entire time.

Peter Jackson literally sometimes called him Aragorn by accident

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Reblogging to add that Viggo wasn’t their first choice. They were already into filming when they realized whoever they had cast was not the right choice. How lucky did they get that Viggo was available on no notice?

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The original actor they cast as Aragorn was Stuart Townsend, and a day before shooting began, they realized he was too young for the role.

When Peter Jackson called up Viggo Mortensen to ask, Viggo didn’t answer at first and said he’d call the next day to give his answer. When he asked his son Henry about it, Henry told him to take the job as Henry was a big fan of the series.

Henry went on to cameo as an orc in the Pelenor battle.

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