I don’t mind being alone. I just do not want to be insignificant.
FAVOURITE FILMS OF THE DECADE
In solitude, I felt the liberty you spoke of. But I also felt your absence.
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma
Musée de l’Orangerie
Musée du Louvre
Narcissus
Eros and Psyche
A fleeting dream
Air
[linnaea borealis] twin flower
[phacelia campanularia] desert bluebell 🌙
Berenice’s tresses, 1878; Ambrogio Borghi exhibited in the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
Achilles to Patroclus (in Aeschylus’s Myrmidones)
People who are old enough to remember ad free YouTube, FB, Twitter and Instagram believing that capitalism drives innovation are fucking hilarious.
Like, all of those platforms were still profitable...massively profitable before they had targeted ads on your feed and unskippable ads before videos. They didn’t need to bring them in. They weren’t going to go under, their CEOs weren’t living in the backseats of their cars, they were living in mansions already. They just wanted more money.
Greed was the only reason. Capitalism is the reason they made their platforms and the user experience worse. That’s it.
Vintage outdoor bookshop spotted in Madrid, Spain.
The first ever photographs of lightning shot by amateur photographer William N. Jennings between 1885 and 1890