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on the proliferation of magical stories
“I have a sense that a proliferation of magical stories, especially fairy tales, is correlated to a growing awareness of human separation from the wild and natural world. In fairy tales, the...
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mia farrow, vogue 1966
Mia Farrow – Vogue 1966. Photo by Richard Avedon (1923-2004)Filed under: film, personae, photography Tagged: beauty, mirror, self-surveillance
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that very night in max’s room a forest grew . . . and the walls became the...
Filed under: art, environment, impermanence, love, memory, philosophy, spirit Tagged: beauty, death, friendship, maurice sendak, sadness, trees
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rilke on a rich life
“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” ~ Rainer Maria RilkeFiled under:...
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marlene dietrich – cherche la rose
Released on Columbia in 1962 as the B-side of ”Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?”, “Cherche la Rose” was arranged and conducted by Burt Bacharach and recorded in Paris. This animated video was made by...
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felix da housecat feat. miss kittin – madame hollywood
From the album Kittenz and Thee Glitz (City Rockers, 2002).Filed under: embodiment, film, gender, impermanence, music, uncanny Tagged: abject, ageing, beauty, electro, hollywood, horror, miss kittin
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burning at both ends
“My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!” ― Edna St. Vincent Millay I made this sleepless mix in 2003 on a slide into...
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life does not die. art does not die. joburg will not die. a tribute to the...
Life does not die. From Lesley’s ‘The Troyeville Bedtime Story’ Tumblr.http://troyevillebedtimestory.tumblr.com/ Lesley Perkes, Joburg’s and Art’s fiercest warrior, has left Troyeville. In the only...
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billy childish & sexton ming – don’t be a misery guts
Filed under: music Tagged: beauty, billy childish, sexton ming
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simone weil – beauty
Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good. Beauty is necessity which, while remaining in conformity with its own law and with that alone, is obedient to the good. The subject of science is the...
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birthday tulips from debbie pryor (2016)
I watched them dying slowly at my desk, which I hardly left for the week after my birthday (dissertation drang). And what a magnificent way to go. They DID so much in those last days. Most flowers sit...
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cecilia ferreira – belle (2013)
Making up is hard to do.Filed under: art, embodiment, film, freedom, gender Tagged: beauty, horror, makeup
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rupi kaur – we are all born beautiful (2014)
From milk and honey.Filed under: embodiment, poetry, violence Tagged: beauty, Rupi Kaur
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