In the 19th Century having a photograph taken was a lengthy process. Frustrated by the difficulties of getting children to sit still long enough to snap a proper photo , photographers in the 1800’s conceived of a technique called “The Hidden Mother”. Draping a sheet over the mothers head in an attempt to camouflage her as a part of the furniture to better emphasize the child, the mother was then able to hold her infant and keep them still long enough for the camera to get an exposure. Vintage photographs already have a eerie feel to them, but these images of moms as cloaked phantoms take the creep factor to the next level.
aaaahhhh
-anna
Herodias, Paul Delaroche (1797-1856)
I love this painting. I’ve been staring at her face so much that I hardly even realized she was holding John the Baptist’s head.
Trying to work on my French paper
So I put on a French mix, hoping it would get me more in the mood. First song that comes on? “Je ne veux pas travailler” (I don’t want to work). Figures.
Manuscript self portrait of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), by Sergio Albiac - Portrait of the french poet using one of his manuscript poems. From the series “Manuscript self portraits”. Generative calligraphic collage.
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Finals week…
(Source: brachycephalism, via these-hammers-and-strings)
Hanging Out With Ginger Fitzgerald
Another one of Rookie Mag’s awesome mixes.
Okay, is it just me or is there some sexual subtext here??
Or is that point and am I just an American noob?
C’est en apprivoisant qu’on devient apprivoisé.
Yesterday I was listening to French majors present their senior theses and one student analyzed Le Petit Prince. She talked about the famous “apprivoiser” passage, and she discussed the importance of forming connections (“créer des liens”), explaining that it’s more important than the object or person with whom you’re forming those ties, citing this passage:
C’est le temps que tu as perdu pour ta rose qui fait ta rose si importante.
—Ch. XXI
Then a professor commented “C’est en apprivoisant qu’on devient apprivoisé” (it is in ‘taming’ that we become ‘tamed’) and I was like yeeeahhhh.
Image source: http://www.lepetitprince.com/
I like to make films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost in another world. And film to me is a magical medium that makes you dream…allows you to dream in the dark. It’s just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside the world of film.
David Lynch
Reminds me of the first lines of Dante’s Inferno:
Midway through the journey of our life,
I found myself lost in a dark wood,
for the straight path was lost.
Getting lost is what makes a story interesting.
