crooked road

"There is much humour in Ozu’s films, but they are most profoundly marked by an atmosphere of..."

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:37:00 -0500

“There is much humour in Ozu’s films, but they are most profoundly marked by an atmosphere of bitter-sweet melancholy … life, inevitably, is full of loss and disappointments, but there is beauty even in sadness. Japanese have an aesthetic expression for this: mono no aware, the tears we shed over the transience of things. It is hard to translate precisely into English, and is frequently cited as a kind of definition of Japanese culture, but it is something all of us can feel.”

- Yasujiro Ozu: an artist of the unhurried world

“On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed...

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:22:00 -0500

“On about February 14th the Americans came over, followed by the R.A.F. Their combined labors killed 250,000 people in twenty-four hours and destroyed all of Dresden — possibly the world’s most beautiful city. But not me.”

-Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to his family after release from Slaughterhouse Five in Dresden (Read the rest)

melody gardot : who will comfort me

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:52:00 -0500

melody gardot : who will comfort me

Daily Drop Cap “an ongoing project by typographer and...

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:13:00 -0500

Daily Drop Cap “an ongoing project by typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Each day (or at least each WORK day), a new hand-crafted decorative initial cap will be posted for your enjoyment and for the beautification of blog posts everywhere.”

On art and beauty

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:14:00 -0500

homeofthevain:

No matter how keenly, how admirably, a story, a piece of music, a picture is discussed and analyzed, there will be minds that remain blank and spines that remain unkindled. A poor man is robbed of his overcoat; another poor fellow is turned into a beetle — so what?

There is no rational answer to so what. We can take the story apart, we can find out how the bits fit, how one part of the pattern responds to the other; but you have to have in you some cell, some gene, some germ that will vibrate in answer to sensations that you can neither define, nor dismiss.

— Vladimir Nabokov, Lecture on Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”

you ain’t born typical

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:17:25 -0500

you ain’t born typical

atencio: waxandmilk: Stella Artois and The Auteurs presents Le...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:32:38 -0500

atencio:

waxandmilk:

Stella Artois and The Auteurs presents Le Recyclage De Luxe Online Film Festival: featuring 7 essential French New Wave films, for free, this week (Dec. 15th - 21st)

More info here: http://www.theauteurs.com/stellaartois

"It takes an enormous act of violence to begin something."

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:12:19 -0500

“It takes an enormous act of violence to begin something.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Young Workman’s Letter”

(via tanya77)(parisreview)(langer)

part of the tumblr film festival. beautiful. [via chioke...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:49:00 -0500

part of the tumblr film festival. beautiful. [via chioke nassor’s notes]

popcandy : “Wow, Wonderwall is on YouTube. Not the Oasis...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:40 -0500

popcandy : “Wow, Wonderwall is on YouTube. Not the Oasis album, the crazy Jane Birkin flick (w/George Harrison soundtrack)”

"I think most writers have a failure of character, a failure to accept what’s being assigned to you..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:39:00 -0500

“I think most writers have a failure of character, a failure to accept what’s being assigned to you to write. And that often what we’re most talented at we resist, because we think it’s silly, or small, or not good enough.”

- An interview with Mary Karr

lantern parade

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:00:00 -0400

lantern parade

“New York, You’ve Changed” is a new Scouting NY site feature in...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:37:00 -0400

“New York, You’ve Changed” is a new Scouting NY site feature in which the New York depicted in movies is compared with the city of today… A full shot-by-shot dissection to see what New York once was and what it has become, for better or worse. I’ve tried to recreate the angles and framing as best as possible, and have presented the shots (more or less) in the order they appear in the film.

TAXI DRIVER (SCOUTING NY)

FAUXLAROIDS are shot and developed on an iPhone, using Shake-It...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:17:00 -0400

FAUXLAROIDS are shot and developed on an iPhone, using Shake-It Photo, Camera Bag and DXP apps. No Photoshop. Everything is posted in real time, connection (and possible intoxication) permitting.

"What he wrote did not belong to his previous canon of dispassionate, academic essays on psychiatry...."

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:26 -0400

“What he wrote did not belong to his previous canon of dispassionate, academic essays on psychiatry. Nor was it a straightforward diary. It did not mention his wife, or his children, or his colleagues, nor for that matter did it use any psychiatric language at all. Instead, the book was a kind of phantasmagoric morality play, driven by Jung’s own wish not just to chart a course out of the mangrove swamp of his inner world but also to take some of its riches with him. It was this last part — the idea that a person might move beneficially between the poles of the rational and irrational, the light and the dark, the conscious and the unconscious — that provided the germ for his later work and for what analytical psychology would become.”

- Holy Grail of the Unconscious

fairy wings at king richard’s faire

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:52:00 -0400

fairy wings at king richard’s faire

Jonas Mekas: “Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary....

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:17:00 -0400

Jonas Mekas: “Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing…. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.”

… With Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Hans Richter, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, John Lennon, Yoko Ono…

U B U W E B is filled with treasures like this

Impossible but real scanner images of busy urban environments

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:26:51 -0400

Impossible but real scanner images of busy urban environments

"One of the nice gifts of the movie is that it reminds us that it took the better part of a decade..."

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:47:00 -0400

“One of the nice gifts of the movie is that it reminds us that it took the better part of a decade for Julia Child to ponderously work out her cookbook. That she worked in a weird isolation from the means of distribution—who would publish her cookbook? She had no idea! Who these days spends a decade making something new and crazy that might never see the light of day?”

- The Awl

swinging at the 4th of july carnival, lexington

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:27:53 -0400

swinging at the 4th of july carnival, lexington