Goncharov (1973)
experiencing pure joy looking at these photos of land of the strays in costa rica
Incense Farm in Hanoi, Vietnam (2023)
oh my god. most of life really is about the little things. a good haircut, a nice playlist, trying a new recipe that turns out well, a poem that hits home, a comfortable spot in the sun, spontaneous messages, a pen you enjoy writing with, tea with the right temperature to drink, buying that thing you’ve been eyeing for a while, a warm bed. yeah. im so grateful for the little enjoyments
appreciating life's minutiae; reading, painting, writing, listening, indulging in analogue media, hirayama-ing everyday. finding beauty in the mundane
Kengo Kuma & Associates, the Coeda House, Shizuoka, Japan
Cy Twombly, ‘Leda and the Swan’, 1962.
Leonard Cohen, Hydra, Greece, 1983 by Dominique Issermann
your twenties are Not about saving money or networking. your twenties are about rinsing your heart in rice water. wearing big jackets. smelling night blooming jasmines. giving up on being sexy and embracing flaw and rot and thus inadvertently becoming sexy. planting cabbages and cauliflowers inside your internal landscape and making a garden in you instead of letting your internal landscape be a stormy sea tossing you around. cartwheeling in spirit if not person when you make a friend. and letting your eyebrows live a little.
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light, and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.’
Jim Jarmusch, Five Golden Rules of Cinema
Grace Kelly's entrance in Rear Window (1954) has been called “one of the greatest entrances made by an actress in a movie”. According to Hitchcock’s Associate Producer, Herbert Coleman, “it was the most beautiful shot of a woman I've ever seen in my life”. (X)