back to the sky

we look at the world once, in childhood. the rest is memory.

[kvetchlandia]

George S. Zimbel Irish Dance Hall, The Bronx, New York 1954

[toiich]

The 400 Blows (1959), dir. François Truffaut

[sacredwhores]

Natalia Motuzko - The Voice of Grass (1992)

[kaos-teorema]

anatomie de l'enfer (catherine breillat, 2004)

[chantssecrets]

I am the man. I suffered,

I was there.

-Whitman

In Baldwin’s hand, cover page for the manuscript of Giovanni’s Room.

[fragrantblossoms]

Sune Jonsson.  Against the current, 1952.

[matchagirl]

beverly harrington

[medievalreligiousfanatic]

a solar halo over hexigten banner, inner mongolia, china

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Federico García Lorca

[grupaok]

Robert Barry, Something which is very near in place and time, but not yet known to me, February 6, 1971

[rockincountryblues]

Billie Holiday performing at Café Society, New York, 1939

[firstfullmoon]

Etel Adnan, from “Beirut 1982,” in We Begin Here: Poems for Palestine and Lebanon

[rozieramati]

“A skating cocktail waiter at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland, March 1978.”

Photographed by Slim Aarons.

[cosmicanger]

Eartha Kitt doing yoga at the beach, 1960s.

[questcequecestqueca]

Alfred Eisenstaedt - Student Nurses, a surgical scissors

[formlab]

AIBO entertainment robot, ERS-110, Sony, 1999