‘Slow Walking Trees’
Southwest & Northeast, 2012
Photograph
I know exactly where these shots were taken. I’ve stood in that spot and admired those views. For several years I lived a short distance away.
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I like that I’ve actually been here, and that the setting is a lot like where I live, and that walking along a bluff-backed southern California beach poking at little tidepools is in fact something I do (and have done, as my 15-year-old profile pic will attest) a lot of.
One teency thing that seemed not quite right: That Mary Kate is wearing shoes while sitting on the blanket in that one shot. Would someone do that? I would have thought she would remove her shoes immediately on reaching the sand. I’m curious if there’s any backstory or explanatory head-canon about that.
But I liked the video a lot.
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“They Live” Director : John Carpenter
Haha. We watched this again a month or so ago; first time I’d seen it since renting it on VHS back in the mom-and-pop VHS-rental days. My son loved it.
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I Didn’t Write This is a new literary adaptation series in which I adapt and direct excerpts of poetry and literature written by other people. Basically one long commercial for why we read. My goal is to get parts of poetry and literature stuck in your head like a good song. Or John Mulaney’s standup.
Sometimes I say things at the end of the videos; you don’t have to watch those parts. New episodes every Friday, until we run out of world enough and time. Subscribe, maybe?
We’re using “yulinisworking” as the official Tumblr tag on this series, because IDWT and “I Didn’t Write This” get a decent amount of outside traffic as it is.
I Didn’t Write This – Ep. 4: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
Directed by Yulin Kuang
Starring Mary Kate Wiles and Sean Persaud
Shot by Zack Wallnau
Styled by Julika Engols
Sound by Justin Lee DixonThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is quite a long poem, but one of my first favorites. I apologize to my English major friends if your favorite lines didn’t make it into this adaptation – my inner Prufrock fan was screeching at every cut.
In this Yale lecture, “Prufrock” is described as a love song written with the head, not the heart, which is part of what I think makes the poem so strange and wonderful and unexpectedly relatable. There’s an idea that permeates throughout Prufrock about hesitation and indecision that I especially love, eventually arriving at the question of “Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?”
Reblog and tell me your thoughts about the poem, about your favorite lines, about this adaptation, I would love to hear them!
Full text of “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Much love,
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033
Magnificent island universe NGC 5033 lies some 40 million light-years away in the well-trained northern constellation Canes Venatici. This telescopic portrait reveals striking details of dust lanes winding near the galaxy’s bright core and majestic but relatively faint spiral arms. Speckled with pink star forming regions and massive blue star clusters, the arms span over 100,000 light-years, similar in size to our own spiral Milky Way. A well-studied example of the class of Seyfert active galaxies, NGC 5033 has a core that is very bright and variable. The emission is likely powered by a supermassive black hole. The bright nucleus and rotational center of the galaxy also seem to be slightly offset, suggesting NGC 5033 is the result of an ancient galaxy merger.Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
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Viscous Fluids – aivlysann (Science Poster Series)
Silicon gel, engine oil and radiator coolant are not things you should tip onto people. This is art and should not be replicated in real life.
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alexfourwilldaemongusnoahetienne:
Whenever I see pictures like this
on the internet I always think “That is something Levi would do for Cath” and I have too much fun imagining Cath’s reaction to it.
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Eleanor & Park: Author Rainbow Rowell’s 2013 BGHB Fiction Award Speech – The Horn Book:
Eleanor & Park is the most difficult thing I’ve ever written.The most frightening.
And it’s the thing I’m most proud of.
I think that would be the case even if no one else liked the book.
This award means so much to me because it feels like proof, like validation, that we are meant to take risks in this life. That fear is as much a beacon as a warning. That the most profound progress can be made when you step directly into the chasm.
From Rainbow Rowell’s speech delivered on October 4, 2013, at the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Ceremony at Simmons College.
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Happy 112th birthday to Ansel Adams (1902–1984)! The California-born photographer embraced the abstract in order to enhance the viewer’s experience of the literal world. In his 1949 publication “My Camera in Yosemite Valley,” Adams declared, “Instead of looking at an object until it becomes ‘something else’ (which so many contemporary artists feel it necessary to do in order to escape reality) I find one must look at it until it becomes its sublimated self.”
See more of Adams’s work.
”Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California,” 1948 (negative), c. 1970 (print), by Ansel Adams © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust
He’s been my fave since I first started learning about photography as a young teenager. In the days you had to buy a book or go to the library, and research yourself. I see now how I’ve always judged every photograph against his. How the depth of black and white thrills me and I hadn’t realized completely until now, that it was due to his calendars and notebooks I bought that hung in my formative walls and those that where never scribbled in, as nothing was worthy in my day that could come close to what I saw in that photograph.
And I carry that everywhere.
So much so, I’m writing this on a plane where I have no connection and I can’t even see the picture. But if it’s Mr. Adams, hearting it is not enough.
It’s wonderful to look back and understand what’s formed you. Made your choices and tastes. I say this lightly. I’m not saying everything in everyone’s past is beautiful. But it is a worthy characteristic to be able to see your past and recognize how it’s shaped you. But even that’s too heavy.
The beauty here is only Ansel Adams and his art.
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“You know, in all seriousness: everyone got hurt on this movie, everyone was scarred, everyone went through a little bit of physical kind of pain. But if you’re talking about something life-changing… something huge, you know, something that really had a deep effect on all of us – not only the person it happened to, but the crew and most of the Western hemisphere – Orlando breaking his rib was huge.” Dominic Monaghan
“I THINK MY SPLEEN HAS BEEN OSTRACIZED” IS SOMETHING I QUOTE OFTEN WHEN I’M IN PAIN BECAUSE OF THIS
This was a fun fandom.
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Last night I went to a friend’s house for a regular board games night and she was painting so I started painting. I used a canvas she had previously painted with a red/orange/black/brown abstract design and took my inspiration from the game Dixit.
Dixit is somewhat different to the strategy board games we usually play but also a lot of fun. A while ago we had the idea of making our own cards to play. Now we have at least one!
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Elliptical M60, Spiral NGC 4647
Giant elliptical galaxy M60 and spiral galaxy NGC 4647 do look like an odd couple in this sharp cosmic portrait from the Hubble Space Telescope. But they are found in a region of space where galaxies tend to gather, on the eastern side of the nearby Virgo Galaxy Cluster. About 54 million light-years distant, bright M60’s simpler egg-like shape is created by its randomly swarming older stars, while NGC 4647’s young blue stars, gas and dust are organized into winding arms rotating in a flattened disk. Spiral NGC 4647 is estimated to be more distant than M60, some 63 million light-years away. Also known as Arp 116, the pair of galaxies may be on the verge of a significant gravitational encounter, though. M60 (aka NGC 4649) is about 120,000 light-years across. The smaller NGC 4647 spans around 90,000 light-years, about the size of our own Milky Way.Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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George Romney, English, 1734-1802 — Portrait of Emma Hart
as Miranda [later Lady Hamilton]
So this is who Nelson was so madly in love with…
I like her haircut.
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all through Carruthers’ sobbing explanation of how much he’s in love with Violet Smith, Holmes just sits there. Stock still. Making this face.
I think it’s his “Good God man what the fuck is wrong with you” face
Wrathful Holmes is a thing of beauty.
TAGS: #that is an excellent wtf face #beware if sherlock holmes ever turns this expressioin on you #queue
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Cedar Waxwing
The Zorro of the bird world. I saw a bunch of these guys in trees during one of the Christmas Bird Counts.
because…birds!
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lies, you liar! Here it is, in the flesh, so to speak.
Haha. I wish I could claim it was me living up to my Tumblr URL. But in fact, it was just me being stupid.
Hm. I wonder if the owner of the ‘stupid’ Tumblr URL would consider trading…
In any event, my apologies.
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