If this is why we love at all?

I was made to love her

[len-gua]

only took me six years to portrait my bestfriend

[theartofmoviestills]

The Housemaid | Kim Ki-young | 1960

[sanminzhuyi]

Movie night in a chinese rural village, 1965.

From People's Pictorial, issue of november 1965.

[belgiandad]

[cheshmenoor]

[gacougnol]

Pavel Kharatyan

[seule-s]

The speed of jazz music, 50s-60s, by Francine Winham

[weirdtvland]

Alvin Ailey photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1955

[cece-debruyne]

[wintercorrybriea2]

dior fall 2026

[dapperseoul]

[blushingbloom]

Kermit and his human friends Fanny and Shola in 1972, and reunited in 1989.

[perriaeyjeve]

[rosechata]

river textures, 2024

[chemicahs]

People don’t realize how much we sound like other things because we are created from the same laws of physics. “That potato in the microwave sounds like it’s screaming” is funny because it really is, air is vibrating out of a small hole which is how our throat works too. The babbling river that sounds like humans whispering, that’s because it’s a wet hollow cave with echo delivering the same functionality. The river doesn’t just sound like us, we sound like a river. They use a metal trashcan to create a lion’s roar for movie sound effects. But the truth is, not only does a trashcan sound like a lion, a lion sounds like a trashcan. Cars purr when you turn them on. Everything is like everything else. Inanimate objects are not so far away from life as it seems.

Remember the next time you feel more alone in the company of large buildings, or maybe less alone among the rocks of the river, that they are not completely unlike the parts of you.

[herheadinfilmspodcast]

James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973)

[bolaneno]

faces dated from 2,000 years ago carved in stone at the Lajes Archaeological Site in Manaus, Brazil