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Wildswimming - Marina Marcolin , 2018.
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Watercolour and gouache on paper
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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”
― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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1997 - Hungarian thermal baths
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“I’d like to retire there and do nothing, or nothing much, forever, in two bare rooms: look through binoculars, read boring books, old, long, long books, and write down useless notes, talk to myself, and, foggy days, watch the droplets slipping, heavy with light.”
— Elizabeth Bishop, “The End of March,” from The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (via bostonpoetryslam)
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Richard Prince’s Untitled (Cowboy) Book cover - part of LACMA’s permanent exhibition
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Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)
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The Marlboro man is not always by his lonesome
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Oscar Isaac as Duke Leto Atreides
DUNE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve
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saw a photo of this sculpture and instantly thought of the manuscript party in ninth house by @lbardugo so… did this little 2hr drawing. feeling absolutely bananagrams.
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Photographed by Cho Gi Seok for Vogue Korea July 2023
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Firenze
Leonard Freed, 1958
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Hi Patrick, I'm Amber. I just finished watching Over the Garden Wall and was truly amazed. I like to write in my free time. But I realised I'm not good at it. To be honest, I'm actually terrible. I don't feel anything for the characters I create, I'm not original and I don't have any dicipline while writing. I've never finished writing a story. But it's the only real hobby I have. How can I write something I'm satisfied with? And how can I learn to love writing?
I don’t really know the answers to these questions - i’m not really satisfied with anything i’ve ever written. Even when I’m proud of something, i’m not really… satisfied with it. You know? I’m often proud of accomplishing something, but still hate my work and wish it was better.
But maybe this’ll help:
Go get a stop watch right now (or use one on your computer) and set it for 10 minutes. Now write a complete story with an ending before those 10 minutes are up. If you don’t finish your story, start the stopwatch over again and write a new story. Do it until you finish a story. Now you’ve finished a story! Then do it again. Write a different story.
Do this once a day for a week. Now you have at LEAST 7 stories finished. You may hate them and not want anyone to ever read them. But now you’ve begun learning a process. You’ve started learning a little tiny lesson in the types of stories you’re drawn to tell. If you’re not actually a fan of those types of stories you’re writing, then try writing something else the next time.
If you feel confined by having to finish your stories in 10 minutes, it’s ok to break the rules sometimes and keep going on a tangent and see where it leads. Just be conscious that you are breaking the rules. It’s like cheating at a single-player game. It’s ok to cheat sometimes, but it really stops being fun if you’re always cheating. It’s better to change the rules to accommodate the way you like to play.
You can, and should, start setting up your own rules in order to try out new avenues of writing. Each 10-minute story you write has to be about a new character with a stupid name. Each story is about the SAME character in a different situation. Write a slightly longer story in 2 hours. Write 10 cat poems this week. Write a novel in 1 month (a chapter every few days). You may fail in the quality department, but finishing things is the way to learn. If none of these rules sound fun, then come up with a different set of rules.
Another thing you can do is get together with some friends and give each other challenges. This’ll cause you to write about stuff you wouldn’t normally think of, and may give you a new perspective on your own work.
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“Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads, they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.”
— Jingo, Terry Pratchett
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“It was a mystery to her why Death had started using the place. Of course, he did have many of the qualities of a gentleman: he had a place in the country–a far, dark country–was unfailingly punctual, was courteous to all those he met–and sooner or later he met everyone–was well if soberly dressed, at home in any company and, proverbially, a good horseman.”
— Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
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A rare photo of young Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and actor, later film legend, Toshiro Mifune, circa 1950s.
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