[makingimages]

[charnel-grounds]

William Daniell (1769–1837)

“The Edystone Light-House during the Storm in November 1824”

aquatint, 1825 — source

[roua-poemului]

“Amorous passion is a delirium…”

— Roland Barthes, from ‘A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments,’ tr. Richard Howard.

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[user20010309]

[blackcontemporaryart]

“That’s the best thing about language: every time you use a word you are summoning so many other things—all the times that word has ever been used. I know this sounds a little psychedelic, but maybe I have an ancestor one hundred years ago who used this word that I choose to write now. What does it mean that everything that we are writing is recycled? Words are full of ghosts. Poetry is full of ghosts.”

— Morgan Parker

[belinsky]

“I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. “We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry? “I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.””

— Roger Ebert, on Hayao Miyazaki (via moonbrains)

[lmm-43]

Always choose yourself, then choose who chooses you.

[princesszelda]

seaglass carousel by george tsypin (2015) - nyc

[philosophybits]

“The ability to make good use of average talents is an art that extorts respect, and often wins more repute than real merit does.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

[crucifiedeye]

This was parked in front of the club

[xanaxfarts]

The Mozu Tombs (百舌鳥古墳群, Mozu kofungun, built 3rd to 6th century) location: Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

[xanaxfarts]

Japanese Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan. photog. Sam Abell

[letthemusicplayon]

Nothing Compares To You

Sinead O’Connor

[wolfgangamadeusmozartwife]

[weepingwidar]

Itō Jakuchū (Japanese, 1716-1800) - White Phoenix on Old Pine from the Colourful Realm of Living Beings (n.d.)

[thunderstruck9]

Claire Tabouret (French, 1981), La Plante Pieuvre [The Octopus Plant], 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 209.5 x 139.5 cm.