And everything under the sun is in tune

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:37:30 -0800

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)

Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:08:06 -0800

Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

The Sagan Series, Part 3 - A Reassuring Fable

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:39:45 -0800

The Sagan Series, Part 3 - A Reassuring Fable

Jeremy Mann - Lights in Midnight Rain (Oil on Panel, 36 x 61...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:42:12 -0800

Jeremy Mann - Lights in Midnight Rain (Oil on Panel, 36 x 61 inches, 2011)

"I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:33:46 -0800

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.”

- Woody Allen (via ckck)

Lars von Trier - Dogville (2003)

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:16:24 -0800

Lars von Trier - Dogville (2003)

iwdrm: “I have to roam the streets and I always sense that...

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:43:06 -0700

iwdrm:

“I have to roam the streets and I always sense that someone is following me. … It is me! And I shadow myself.”

M (1931)

Rubens came upon an old collection of photographs of President John Kennedy: the photos were in...

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:06:55 -0700

Rubens came upon an old collection of photographs of President John Kennedy: the photos were in color, there were at least fifty of them, and on all of them (all, without exception!) the President was laughing. Not smiling, laughing! His mouth was open, his teeth bared. There was nothing remarkable about it, that’s what contemporary photos are like, but the fact that Kennedy laughed in all of them, that not a single one showed him with his lips closed, gave Rubens pause. A few days later he found himself in Florence. He stood in front of Michelangelo’s David and tried to imagine that marble face laughing like Kennedy. David, that paradigm of male beauty, suddenly looked like an imbecile! Since then, he had often tried in his imagination to retouch figures in famous paintings to give them a laughing mouth; it was an interesting experiment: the grimace of laughter could ruin every painting! Imagine Mona Lisa as her barely perceptible smile turns into a laugh that reveals her teeth and gums!

Even though he spent so much of his time in galleries, it took Kennedy’s photographs to make Rubens realize this simple fact: the great painters and sculptors from classical days to Raphael and perhaps even to Ingres avoided portraying laughter, even smiles. Of course, the figures of Etruscan sculpture all have smiles, but this smile isn’t a response to some particular, momentary situation but a permanent state of the face, expressing eternal bliss. For classical sculptors as well as for painters of later periods a beautiful face was imaginable only in its immobility.

Faces lost their immobility, mouths became open, only when the painter wished to express evil. Either the evil of pain: the faces of women bent over the body of Jesus; the open mouth of the mother in Poussin’s Slaughter of the Innocents. Or the evil of vice: Holbein’s Adam and Eve. Eve has a bland face and a half-open mouth revealing teeth that have just bitten into the apple. Alongside, Adam is a man still before sin: he is beautiful, his face is calm, and his mouth is closed. In Correggio’s Allegories of Sin everyone is smiling! In order to express vice, the painter must move the innocent calm of the face, to spread the mouth, to deform the features with a smile. There is only one laughing figure in the picture: a child! But it is not a laugh of happiness, the way children are portrayed in advertisements for diapers or chocolate! The child is laughing because it’s been corrupted!

—Milan Kundera - Immortality (1990)

Ingmar Bergman - Persona (1966)

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:57:03 -0700

Ingmar Bergman - Persona (1966)

"[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see,..."

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:30:31 -0700

“[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all, you really were there at the time, weren’t you? How else would you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren’t there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place… Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that doesn’t make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.”

- Steve Grand - Creation: Life and How to Make It (2001)

London, July 2 2005

Sun, 22 May 2011 11:40:37 -0700

London, July 2 2005

"There’s an old joke - um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one..."

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:47:55 -0700

“There’s an old joke - um… two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of ‘em says, “Boy, the food at this place is really terrible.” The other one says, “Yeah, I know; and such small portions.” Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it’s all over much too quickly.”

- Woody Allen - Annie Hall (1977)

ckck: Panorama from San Francisco’s Nob Hill looking towards...

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:41:50 -0700

ckck:

Panorama from San Francisco’s Nob Hill looking towards the Ferry Building after the Great Earthquake of April 18th, 1906. View bigger.

René Magritte - Le fils de l’homme (1964)

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:22:45 -0700

René Magritte - Le fils de l’homme (1964)

mihaievoiu: 50 years have past since Yuri Gagarin orbited the...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:32:04 -0700

mihaievoiu:

50 years have past since Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth for the first time.

How many rivers we still have to cross until we find our way?

Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia (1999)

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:35:09 -0700

Paul Thomas Anderson - Magnolia (1999)

Gods and Games, Richard Bartle

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:06:53 -0700

Gods and Games, Richard Bartle:

cerebralicious:

A disquisition on how creating virtual realities opens up religious (and metaphysical!) questions. Quite fascinating.

Georges Méliès - Le voyage dans la lune (1902)

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:52:06 -0700

Georges Méliès - Le voyage dans la lune (1902)

David Lynch - Mulholland Dr. (2001) (Rebekah del Rio - Llorando)

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:09:15 -0700

David Lynch - Mulholland Dr. (2001) (Rebekah del Rio - Llorando)

Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:30:33 -0800

Stanley Kubrick - A Clockwork Orange (1971)