onmyowntwohands

I'll bend over backwards to give you what I want!

[classicfilmsource]

Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll PARIS BLUES 1961 | Martin Ritt

[erotictrevor]

Photo by Trevor Brown

[onmyowntwohands]

[the-night-picture-collector]

/ Lisa Larsen, Manhattan, 1951

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. - Fernando Pessoa

[davidhudson]

August 12, 1958, A Great Day in Harlem.

Photo by Art Kane.

[flippantsmeagol]

Same spot about forty minutes later, looking North. Agua Fria National Monument.

[manuelmoncayo]

Jardín

My love for atmospheres, essence, shining, living in love, in silence, moving image, the reflection of light expanding my eye.

A moment, photogenic: smell of a man, lovingly, something to prove.

Freedom, movement, silence, presence, that’s bright with light, expanding. Bigger than I am able.

2026

[keyfili]

THE MATRIX 1999 • dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski

[californiasleazeking]

[technicolorsunrise]

florida natural spring water

[paolo-streito-1264]

Robert van der Hilst. Cuban interior, 1987.

[sugarlizard8]

somewhere (2023) & untitled (2024) by nayeem jabaz

[expressions-of-nature]

Baransky Volcano Hot Springs by Natalia Zakharova

[jazz-improvisation]

Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn watching "Anatomy of a Murder", a film they scored, Los Angeles, California, 1960.

photo: Gordon Parks

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[swampthingy]

Tarantula (1955)

[chantssecrets]

James Gardner, Diahann Carroll, James Baldwin, Marlon Brando, and Paul Newman at the 1963 March on Washington.