beryl

2013 RPG Maker tests

flight reflex

john never wrote a song called Going To Seattle because moving to seattle actually does solve all of your problems, which makes for a pretty dull song

OH OKAY SO WE'RE JUST CALLING OUR SHOTS NOW ARE WE??

Scorsese has always been captivated by what can be expected of a person, and how a person may or may not live up to a personal moral code. It is dialectic that runs throughout the entirety of his work. Scorsese made a few films prior to Mean Streets in 1973, but the course was set for him ever since Harvey Keitel’s gangster character in that film got on his knees and prayed for guidance. Scorsese seems to always come back to the question of whether or not a man can ever truly be good, and he has wavered back and forth with his answer. Jake LaMotta punched his way into an animalistic state in Raging Bull (1980) in pursuit of it, Christ nearly failed when he was given the task of weighing our qualities against his crucifixion in The Last Temptation of Christ, and we are shown to be merciless and not worthy of such a sacrifice in Killers of the Flower Moon’s portrait of aboriginal genocide within an American community. Scorsese is probably American cinema’s greatest chronicler of the post-world war II era, and he has remained vital because his questions have remained personal, even when they’ve become maximalist in his final years, and he has begun to grapple with centuries of violence. I don’t believe he has much faith in the collective body of mankind, but I think a hope remains in his films that one man can do one good thing on any given day, and that it can matter a great deal to put in the effort to try. In his adaptation of “Silence” there are many examples of this happening, and they are among some of the most moving and profound moments in the picture. He finds God in hopeless places, between men clasping each others palms, in acts of mercy, and in the sacrifice of identity for the sake of another person’s safety.

a still image from SILENCE of Andrew Garfield praying in the foreground and Shinya Tsukamoto praying in the background

I wrote about Martin Scorsese's SILENCE for my readers choice series and wrestled with its many questions of faith.

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When people say Lynchian or whatever it's always the strobe lights and the surrealism and the whooshing ambient dread, and never that scene in Twin Peaks when Ben and Jerry excitedly eat too much bread and deliver their dialogue through gobs of gluten

SHUT YOUR DOOMER ASS UP & REGARD LIFE AS PRECIOUS ENOUGH TO DEFEND, SUNSHINE!!!!!

I've been reading a ton of Le Guin recently and it's been making me not miserable with the world, it's been nice

sometimes you can't tell the difference between people suggesting transition and people suggesting you switch to linux

(probably because it's often the same people)

starling (seth rogen): if you could take this survey that would be so awesome. i could get out of your hair before this guy's done jacking off.

hannibal lecter (danny mcbride): motherfucker that's miggs. me and him are boys, so you better watch yourself. i'm behind this glass cause i ate some dudes

GREATEST CITY IN DA WORLD BABY LOVE DA MARINERS

all my friends are like shut the fuck up cara shut the fuck up about communism but I won't shut the fuck up about communism

The fact that like 75% of NYT readers chose the obvious mushy bullshit over URSULA LE GUIN officially means a NYT subscriber can never tell me shit again

Gormless

A bottle I found on the ground on my walk

The label says Dear Momma Moisture Milk

You know how sometimes you’re playing a video game like Resident Evil and you see a bottle on the ground and you zoom in to read the label and realize that you’re not actually supposed to read any of the text and what you’re looking at is something surreal and confusing

house in the sunet

hopper house vibes in discovery park

#analogphotography
#filmphotography
#seattle

The sheer arrogance of even suggesting the draft for a completely pointless, out of nowhere war while the vast majority of the country already viscerally hates your guts is like...kinda impressive in a really stupid way

for real, also 80% of the time shopping for clothes it's like, the only thing available in my size is the most dark and drab colors imaginable. Big gals need color too!

A darkly green, fern-filled park forest

A close up of the face of a statue of a man, viewed from below and in profile looking to the right.

A close up of the face of a statue of a woman, viewed from below and in profile looking to the left.

A single, stark white flower stands out amid a background of dark green leaves.

Leaf & Stone, on digital

#photography

Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab

“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974

exterior shot of a katsu restaurant except I’m the one cooking, this shit looks like CineStill to me

me whiffing the conceptually best photo of the day as a guy who has that shit ON feeds one billion pigeons who surround him. it’s kind of washed out looking though

I ever so slightly missed focus but it’s a girl in an extremely stylish pink and blue lolita style fit crossing the street in front of a bank in a way that felt very Manhattan to me for a second

cyclist in motion (autofocus fucking me up AGAIN) but with a very cool blurred background including a green crossing signal

I love it here

ClaireViolet, a blonde trans girl with rainbow glasses stands beside a green WOMEN tile sign in a subway station, a camera hanging around its neck.

Kate, a cis woman in a black blazer and red top sits on a fallen log in autumn woods, holding a red handbag and wearing matching red sneakers.

rosemary, a hot blonde transsexual with round glasses sips from a white coffee cup in a dim diner, wearing a red striped pink sweater under hanging lights.

Bea, a trans girl in a black leather jacket and red shirt stands on a subway platform holding a vintage camera.

happy international women’s day

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Playing a bit with poscas

yea~

just a buncha bobby pins and some old receipts, hm

It’s worth mentioning that this was made by six guys in their dorm room for a sci-fi convention, and all six of them (which includes the creator of Evangelion) would go on to define the anime industry for decades to come.

a kodak charmera~

oh *shit*, yeah..

living in a walkable city where you can get anywhere you need by walking, by bus, or train is goated in an economic collapsed based entirely on gas prices

at some point in the life of a clocky trans dyke you realize that you have become happy even if you get misgendered sometimes or a lot of the time