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From Coltrane’s funeral. Dear Lord.
“Tarkovsky was sitting in the corner of the screening room watching Solaris with me, but he got up as soon as the film was over and looked at me with a shy smile. I said to him, ‘It’s very good. It’s a frightening movie.’ He seemed embarrassed but smiled happily. Then the two of us went to a film union restaurant and toasted with vodka. Tarkovsky, who does not usually drink, got completely drunk and cut off the speakers at the restaurant, then began singing the theme of Seven Samurai at the top of his voice. I joined in, eager to keep up. At that moment, I was very happy to be on Earth.”
Director Akira Kurosawa spent ten years storyboarding every shot in the film as paintings. (x)
Ran (1985)
Akira Kurosawa’s “Ikiru”
“You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous. #Wisdom #Sufism”
Artist: Joris Kuipers
Born in 1977. Bachelor at Arnhem Academy, in 2003, he completed a master’s study at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. In recent years, the only legacy of traditional painting in Kuipers’ work is colour, often applied in bright hues and rich abundance. He uses the painter’s brush just to splatter the paint right on the surface. He doesn’t employ any instrument to manipulate it, for instance by allowing pigments to drip directly from tubes or flasks, or by sprays. With his working methods, he steps into the trail of Jackson Pollock and other expressionists. Kuipers’ worlds of colour are constructed out of myriads of dots and stains of pure pigments, merging into colourful clouds when observed from some distance – a contemporary pointillism.
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Medium fat smoked meat was too dry for me. Full fat next time. #katzsgirl4life #foodporn #eeeeeats #montreal (at Schwartz’s)
Hokusai, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, “The Tama River in Musashi Province”, c. 1829/ 1833, 24,9 x 37 cm
Ellsworth Kelly
American, 1923-2015Study for “Cité”: Brushstrokes Cut into Twenty Squares and Arranged by Chance, 1951© Ellsworth Kelly
Paul Klee, Kettledrummer, 1940, Coloured paste on paper on cardboard. Via
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. One of his last works – Klee suffered from a wasting disease and died in June 1940.
victor pasmore… “points of contact no. 23″, 1974 @ tate
victor pasmore… 1979 @ tate
victor pasmore… linear development 1, 1970 @ tate
Thomas Tallis - Mass for four voices, performed by Chapelle du Roi
Astounding Bird’s-Eye View of Hong Kong’s Colorful Urban Jungle
Photographer Andy Yeung has called Hong Kong home since birth, but it took a trip away to spark the idea for Urban Jungle, his captivating series that captures aerial views of the city’s jam-packed skyline. As he descended on the metropolis on a returning flight, he was struck by the staggering panorama of high-rises crammed up against one another. The bird’s-eye perspective seemed to illustrate how it feels to live in one of the world’s most densely populated environments. Hong Kong is, in fact, about as crowded as a city can get, with about 68,400 residents per square mile. (For comparison, consider that New York clocks in at a mere 4,500.) Necessarily, that means it’s stuffed with skyscrapers—it has more buildings taller than 500 feet than any other metropolis on earth, many of which Yeung photographed using a drone over the span of two months. Thanks MyModernMet.