A couple years ago, I was staying with a friend for New Year’s and we’d decided to drive down to this adorable strip of locally-owned small business shops and check them out. The bakery was particularly crowded and since I wasn’t planning to buy anything, I waited outside. It’d been snowing, and since moving I’d picked up a “Californian-experiences-true-midwest-winter-for-the-first-time” habit of making at least one (1) tiny snowman every opportunity I get
so I built a little snowman on one of the small tables on this strip.
after about three minutes of cramming ice together, I hear, “Do you want espresso beans for the eyes?” and I turn around and there’s this gal leaning precariously far out the window of her coffee shop, surrounded by her coworkers, holding out her hand and said espresso beans.
I think of those strangers often. just the thought of them all looking out the window to see this random stranger on the corner in the snow building a tiny snowman and deciding to join in, make it special for no other reason than that they wanted to. people are so, so precious and I’m never going to forget that moment.
My purpose for cooking is not because I want to be a great mom or be a great wife. I just really love to cook so many delicious food, and have someone say that it “tastes so good.”
by comfort_me_with_apples: New film still watercolour for you all. Keeping with the 2024 lesbians on film theme that seems to have emerged, this is a still from ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ (2019), directed by Céline Sciamma.
There were a lot of beautiful moments in this film, this is only one of five or six other possible choices. I wanted to do a firelight scene, turns out it’s very difficult. This is actually attempt number 2, after attempt number one had a bad accident and wasn’t very good anyway. It’s hard to do very dark tones, the actual image is almost pitch black with shadow but I couldn’t get to that depth.
Scroll to the end to see the accident involving a tube of crimson acrylic. It’s kind of good in a way, splattered, but I wanted to have another crack at that firelight.