tell ourselves what’s beautiful & good

Vintage room dividers

Zevengebergte   -  Jeroen Henneman, 1991.

Dutch,b.1943-

Sreen print, 60 x 50 cm.

* The headlights and rear lights of cars driving through the mountains.

alex venezia

Le Rayon Vert (The Green Ray, 1986) dir. Éric Rohmer

The North Fork, Trent Davis Bailey

i think a society failed its youth if they feel old (derogatory) at 20

perhaps a society has failed if it’s people ever feel old (derogatory) rather than old (complimentary)

YOU. YOU GET IT the issue of tying youth to desirability, whether sexually or culturally, doesn't go away when you expand what youth is youth worship isn't just beauty standards, it's saying that only the young have ideas or creations that have worth. that age means withering and decay. don't expand what youth is, dismantle the idea that aging degrades your value as a human being

Forbidden texts, Pablo Martinez (because)

it is all too easy for me to suspend disbelief. start a sentence with "suppose-" and i am already supposing

Mark Beck  - The Long Goodbye   (oil on canvas, 2017)

The End of the Affair, Katrien De Blauwer & François Halard

so much talk about love in the kitchen... what about the kitchen breakdowns

i am talking about baking at ungodly hours because you can’t sleep. i am talking about sitting on the kitchen floor sobbing. i am talking about staring into the fridge or the cabinets for minutes, there is nothing to eat and it makes you upset. i am talking about cooking at the stove, and then you’re wondering what it feels like for someone to wrap their arms around you from behind, and then you’re crying. i am talking about dishes upon dishes piled up in the sink. i am talking about eating on the floor. i am talking about the moment you realize that cooking for one stopped being efficient and started feeling agonizing. i am talking about mumbling to yourself in the kitchen and crying to yourself in the kitchen and when there’s only yourself in the kitchen

this

gets pushed into a dance circle at a party and does that weird fucking thing david byrne does in once in a lifetime

catch me in the circle lookin like

Sudden wave of an immense love for humanity has hit me once again...

We all exist together... that’s pretty neat...

Talking to myself again as scheduled. Love what I have to say btw

You saved my life. You made it…you made it beautiful.

Sound of Metal (2019) dir. Darius Marder

Cows by the lake. The Craftsman. v.18. 1910.

Internet Archive

Elwell Frederick William (detail)

faceless embraces

1. photographer unknown 2. ph. nan goldin 3. love-In, los angeles, 1967 ph. jerry de wilde 4. joseph lorusso, “cafe lovers 4” (detail) 5. el lenguaje del limbo II by mariana restrepo 6. photographer unknown 7. lovers in a field, 2019 ph. clifford prince king 8. isle of wight festival, 1969 ph. david hurn 9. joseph lorusso, “lovers in the garden” 10. the big gamble (1961), dir. elmo williams & richard fleischer