Soot, Rain, and Loose Pocket Fuzz

For my love of Studio Ghibli, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and other fun things like that

[sephirona]

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Zuko’s reunion with Uncle Iroh. The things this scene did to my feels… ;w;

[heartoftungsten]

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[pro-fro]

Glass artist K.William Lequier

[therumpus]

Here’s today’s Daily GIF!

[theartofanimation]

Therese Larsson

[graphitedoll]

1/3 of a thing about the frost siblings that’s been running through my mind.

i wanted to upload something in commemoration of the first snow of the season! and this seemed appropriate :)

also i dunno when i’ll manage to finish the entire thing and i didn’t want you guys to think i poofed again!!

[bryankonietzko]

The carrot spirit and his little tea-serving radish spirit buddy, both designed by Christie Tseng and colored by Sylvia Filcak-Blackwolf, are two of my favorites from Korra “Beginnings Part 1.” I didn’t have a ton of time to pull together a costume this year, so I got a store-bought one and painted the eyes and root-stache on in acrylic, and then made the little guy out of craft supplies and a pumpkin stem. I had a great time as usual at the Nickelodeon Halloween party, but I still had some work emails to answer in the middle of it. Photos by my wife Lisa and me.

[acegasm]

[i-love-art]

Van Gogh Shadow - The artist’s paintings brought to life

[awkwardsituationist]

BEFORE THEY PASS AWAY

"in 2009, i planned to become a guest of 31 secluded and visually unique tribes. i wanted to witness their time honoured traditions, join in their rituals and discover how the rest of the world is threatening to change their way of life forever. most importantly, i wanted to create an ambitious aesthetic photographic document that would stand the test of time, a body of work that would be an irreplaceable ethnographic record of a fast disappearing world. i didn’t start this project anticipating that i could stop the world from changing. i purely wanted to create a visual document that reminds us and generations to come of how beautiful the human world once was." - jimmy nelson

the tribes seen here (in only ten of the over 500 photos found in his book) are: (1) the peoples of the vanuatu islands, which are south east of the solomon islands; (2) the samburu of nothern kenya; (3) the maori of new zealand; (4) the kalam of eastern new guinea; (5) the huli of the new guinea highlands; (6) the maasai, who live in kenya and tanzania; (7) the karo who live on the eastern banks of ethiopia’s omo river; (8) the himba of the kunene region of northern namibia; (9) the kazakhs of western mongolia; (10) the yali of the baliem valley region of papua indonesia.

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Model Sheets from Tarzan by Glen Keane

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Character Designs from Tarzan by Glen Keane

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Character Design from Tarzan

[improv-is-easy]

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.

Rogert Ebert, on Hayao Miyazaki (via pseudolirium)

And this is why I often gravitate to works that have this even if “nothing happens” a lot of the time.

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[epthot]

Some snazzy looking textless Disney Renaissance posters I’ve come across so far.

[ladyinterior]

[jennaavh-deactivated20160117]

Oh I want a tree house!

[firewhisky]

Warner Bros. announced on 12th September 2013 that J.K. Rowling would be making her screenwriting debut with ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’, the first in a new film series which is part of their expanded creative partnership with J.K. Rowling. The films will be...

[lemonysnicketblog]

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Lemony Snicket  (via thatkindofwoman)

[princessesfanarts]

Costume Swap

[i-am-of-stardust]

Be your own prince.  To the extreme.  

Nnngh. <3

[isaia]

SO STYLISH  IM UPSET