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Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another
Kaveh Akbar, "Famous Americans and Why They Were Wrong" from Pilgrim Bell
like a little lost sputnik
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Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion (1812) by John Martin, Oil on Canvas
I feel like community is objectively the best show to ever exist
Like even if it wasn’t my favourite I still think it should be considered the best show out there like they just went the extra mile in so many things
First of all humour wise it’s a kind of funny that will always be funny like it’s not reliant on reference humour in the way so many shows nowadays are, and also it’s the little things they do that make it an overall more entertaining experience like its just laced in so effortlessly while still moving the story along because they aren’t trying to hard
Second of cinematically like directing styles and that it’s amazing I don’t know much about filming and that but I feel it’s aesthetically shot and also so clever with the high concept episodes and how they do all of that like I feel the boat scene in beginners pottery is really brilliant and often overlooked like they fitted this really cool shot into what was really an unassuming episode
Thirdly the soundtrack is unparalleled they used music in such a good and clever way like in epidemiology for comedy purposes or to explore characters like Jeff being a hardcore Dave Matthews fan and also Ludwig Göransson composed so many Greta peices that really fitted with the vibe of the show but even individually were amazing
They also had such nuanced and developed relationships that all worked and were realistic and showed the dynamics so well in such a way you understood why they were all friends in such a way that even most other character driven shows don’t do like it showed such a range of different types of relationships and you saw how they all affected each other
Fifth the actual characters were so unique like you know how people say there are like 8 types of sitcom characters well none of the community characters fit into that like really they are so original in a way that hadn’t been done and hasn’t been replicated all of them are separately funny even the background characters like Leonard and Garrett are entertaining and you somehow feel as if you know them even if they haven’t had like loads of screen time and development
The characters all have good arcs it’s unrealistic for all of the characters to not grow at all during a show and yet many tv shows don’t give their characters growth and development in the way community does the ones that most standout to me are Jeff and Troy
It done all of this amazing work on such a small budget like I watched the dvd commentary and they had basically nothing compared to most shows but they did so much with what they did it’s astounding how they managed that
Anyway this was basically just a really long rant about how much I love community but I truly do believe they are unparalleled in what they did like I don’t think it can ever be replicated because overall it is just such an astounding piece of television and I think it should be appreciated more
this makes me happy
But, as regards the psychical life unfolding beneath the symbols which conceal it, we readily perceive that time is just the stuff it is made of
-Henri Bergson , Creative Evolution
disco elysium screenshots: skills & influences
define hole / is a hole a real thing? / Marco Poloni, Black Hole, from The Majorana Experiment, 2010 / Flatfields Fotografien / What We Talk About When We Talk About Holes / Dark (2017-2020) / post / Disco Elysium / Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) / Donnie Darko (2001) / Outer Range (2022) / Kaveh Akbar, from “The Miracle,” Pilgrim Bell / post / Weizmann Institute of Science / Mathworld / post / post / post / post / Anne Boyer, from “Woman Sitting at the Machine,” in A Handbook of Disappointed Fate / Dennis Patrick Slattery, The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh / The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Caravaggio, 1601–1602 (detail) / The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Bernardo Strozzi, 1582-1644 (detail) / Don McKay, from “Twinflower,” Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay, intro. Méira Cook (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006) / thierryetherve / Pathologic / post / Gregory Orr, from How Beautiful the Beloved / Tomas Tranströmer, tr. by Robert Bly, from a poem titled “Track” / Disco Elysium / Anne Carson, Economy of the Unlost / Pathologic 2 / Jonas Burgert, Sand brennt Blatt (2010) / Disco Elysium / Carl Phillips, from “Givingly”, Wild is the Wind / post / Pathologic / The Juniper Tree (Nietzchka Keene | 1990) / John Banville, Eclipse / Twin Peaks / Disco Elysium / VectorStock / True Detective / Night in the Woods
I also want to give credit to @arairah for being the lead holologist on this site and the intermediate source for a lot of this, thank you!
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thank you disco elysium for the best idle animation ive ever seen
i love when you listen to a new song and you’re like three seconds in and you’re already like yes this pleases me it is mine
Art by Camille Andre
why don’t you read a poem about the sunrise written 5 centuries ago and contemplate the fact that we have been writing about the same sun for centuries upon centuries and then maybe you’ll calm down
“It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing. What is most beautiful is least acknowledged. What is worth dying for is barely noticed.”
— Laura McBride, We Are Called to Rise (via beeghosts)
I love these mosaic tiles. They're essentially cheaper as they're made out of leftover waste from other random tiles but the way they fit and their little cracks and prints look like a piece of art.
They also make a place look lively and colourful and a little messy in a very adorable way.
Yeah I wish I could find out the origins of these.
Love hides in questions
“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Ornitographies by Xavi Bou
ORNITOGRAPHIES ARISES FROM THE AUTHOR’S CONCERN FOR CAPTURING THOSE UNNOTICED MOMENTS AND FROM THE INTEREST IN QUESTIONING THE LIMITS OF HUMAN PERCEPTION.
Xavi Bou focuses on birds, his great passion, in order to capture in a single time frame, the shapes they generate when flying, making visible the invisible.
Unlike other motion analyses which preceded it, Ornitographies moves away from the scientific approach of chronophotography used by photographers like Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey.
The approach used by Xavi Bou to portray the scene is not invasive; moreover, it rejects the distant study, resulting in organic form images that stimulate the imagination.
TECHNOLOGY, SCIENCE, AND CREATIVITY COMBINE TO CREATE EVOCATIVE IMAGES WHICH SHOW THE SENSUALITY AND BEAUTY OF THE BIRD’S MOVEMENTS AND WHICH ARE, AT THE SAME TIME, CLUES FOR THOSE WISHING TO IDENTIFY OR RECOGNIZE THEM.
In Ornitographies, the skill envied by men, the long-lasting shared yearning of flying, is presented to us, extending our visual perception.
Art and science walk hand in hand to create images, which are no longer a single portrait of reality but become a witness of the instants that, for a moment, were past, present, and future all at once.
ORNITOGRAPHIES IS A BALANCE BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE; A NATURE-BASED DISSEMINATION PROJECT AND A VISUAL POETRY EXERCISE BUT ABOVE ALL, AN INVITATION TO PERCEIVE THE WORLD WITH THE SAME CURIOUS AND INNOCENT LOOK OF THE CHILD WE ONCE WERE.
( information and pictures from his website
xavibou.com)
“the sun” by edvard munch (1909)
I think it’s time to read this again
I like watching people at beaches. Mostly people that are with someone. Lonely ones don't have things to tell they're displaced.
im obsessed. not with anything specific though so it just goes everywhere. like a sprinkler
when richard siken said “I want to tell you this story without confessing anything [...] I want to tell you this story without having to be in it”
The moon was so bright and jupiter motu and they all look so nice together
The moon and jupiter (right above it ) in the first two images . Last image - jupiter (above) and saturn ( really dim and top right 2 o' clock.
huge shoutout to trees and also rain
mankind? No. man mean
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
-Sonnet XVII, Shakespeare
Love it here, I'm gonna bring my friends next time I visit :)
“But [Tumblr’s] value, of course, is more than just what it isn’t, and what it points away from. Despite all the drama and discourse lurking in its corners, it’s easy to make your own Tumblr life as simple and as happy as you want it to be. There are no algorithmic threats lurking around every corner, no onslaught of promoted posts from politicians or influencers. More than anything else, Tumblr in 2020 is a self-sustaining ecosystem. It’s a semi-sealed and increasingly fertile terrarium, a nigh-impossible perpetual-motion machine of a platform going productively psychotic in its isolation.”
— @areyougonnabe, “The Ever-Mutating Life of Tumblr Dot Com”