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Cy Twombly, (Untitled) Scenes from an ideal marriage

Oil stick, oil and watercolour on paper

(via artnet Galleries - Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz)

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Vsevolod Meyerhold preparing for his role as Konstantin in Chekhov’s The Seagull (via Idea | The Seagull’s Two Premieres | Headlong)

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christopherniquet:

agnes varda and her daughter on the beach

Posted 2 weeks ago
Art, especially the theatre, is a realm you cannot enter without the odd stumble. There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to be prepared for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
Anton Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper
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I didn’t use any lights. It’s funny, because sometimes I talk to other cinematographers and they say, ‘Oh my God, Terry doesn’t let you use lights,’ but it’s not that he doesn’t let me — I don’t want to use them. On Tree of Life we really tried to do combinations of scenes with light and scenes without, and when you add movie lights they doesn’t have the complexity of natural light. You’re putting one light that has one tone and one color through some diffusion, and it doesn’t have the complexity of natural light coming in through the window from a blue sky and clouds bouncing green off the grass. Some would call that kind of light imperfect, but it’s more accurate to call it more complex. That complexity of natural light and the way it hits the face is amazing, and when you start to go that way it’s hard to go back and light [things artificially]. The less you use artificial light, the more you want to avoid it, because the scenes feel weak or weird or fake. Often we would be inside a house and it would be cloudy and we would know that we’d probably have to rewrite the scene and shoot it outside or come back another day, but that would be better than the option of lighting the scene and not liking it.

~ Emmanuel Lubezki in American Cinematographer about shooting To The Wonder.

(via smoggywood)

Posted 1 month ago

life:

As baseball season gets into full swing around the country — and in countries around the globe — we celebrate Yale Joel’s classic photo of New Hampshire Little Leaguers anxious to get out to the diamond.

(Yale Joel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

If you didn’t think of A Prayer for Owen Meany you clearly don’t know me very well.

Posted 1 month ago

Bruce Springsteen, Copenhagen busker - I’m On Fire, 1988 (via fuckyeahtheboss)