stumbling and burbling

with a tongue that is afraid

[mossfull]

The black hole is the handiwork of Roy Stryker, the director of the FSA’s documentary photography program. He was responsible for hiring photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein and Gordon Parks and dispatching them across the country to document the struggles of the rural poor.

When the photographers returned with their negatives, Stryker or his assistants would edit them ruthlessly. If a photo was not to his liking, he would not simply set it aside — he would puncture the negative with a hole puncher, “killing” it.

Why some Great Depression photos were punched full of holes

[sineme-tagrafe]

The Conformist (1970)

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Director of Photography: Vittorio Storaro

Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1

[deadprojectionist]

VICTORIA [2015, Sebastian Schipper]

[cornelioex]

How to Survive a Plague (2012)

[wrackdocumentaries]

How To Survive a Plague (2012)

dir. David France

“The question is what does a decent society do with people who hurt themselves because they’re human; who smoke too much, who eat too much, who drive carelessly, who don’t have safe sex? I think the answer is that a decent society does not put people out to pasture and let them die because they’ve done a human thing.”

[sup-cat-blog]

Peter Staley

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Hey Obama how do you feel about government surveillance???

[technicolorsunrise]

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.

David Foster Wallace (via tiedyedsunfl0wer)

[folms]

The Look of Silence (2015, Joshua Oppenheimer)

[stumblingandburbling-blog]

If you have Netflix, I beg you to watch this.

[midmarauder]

Japanese poster for “The Look of Silence”

[jmarksthespots]

[#DOCUMENTARY] The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (@PanthersDoc) Airs on PBS, Channel 13 | February 16 | 9PM   Weaving together rare footage with voices of those who were there, Stanley Nelson tells the vibrant story of a movement vital once more.

Preview the  The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 

[pedraz]

[fuckyeahmovieposters]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Matt Dupuis

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[stumblingandburbling-blog]

2/9/16

Sun Kil Moon - Benji DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... Blonde Redhead - 23

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Jim Wise mercy killed his wife in a hospital at her bedside. 

And he put the gun to his head and it jammed and he didn’t die. 

He went to trial all summer long and his eyes welled up when he told us about how much she loved the backyard garden and the budding rosebush

[wordsnquotes]

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”

James Jones, From Here to Eternity (via wordsnquotes)