a majestic piece of crap

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:05:22 -0400

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one...

Sun, 12 May 2013 06:17:56 -0400

I think I have done about 10 films that have shot within one minute or five minutes of where I live in Hong Kong. That is why I can’t leave, that is why I have to stay there. Chungking Express is actually shot in my apartment. […] The bloody film was shot in my bloody apartment! (laughs) I should’ve stayed in a hotel. I’d be working all day and sleeping on the floor at night. We couldn’t mess up the set. The film’s very special in that way given the connection to my personal life…

The interesting thing is after the film—I guess it was the Hong Kong tourist board put out a map of film locations—for three of four years there’d be people following this map to my door. Especially Japanese tourists for some reason. They’d go on the escalator and look for the apartment. So, I’d be going off to work or to a bar and there’d be people waiting downstairs. Once I found kids literally on my doorstep wanting to go in.

— Christopher Doyle

"what is the difference between being an independent person and being a person who is accepting of..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 05:17:07 -0400

“what is the difference between being an independent person
and being a person who is accepting of loneliness”

- Mira Gonzalez

Many of his films are a dialogue away from being considered...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:28:35 -0400

Many of his films are a dialogue away from being considered silent yet they’re among the most meaningful I’ve seen.

I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.

Kim Ki-duk (김기덕)

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003) A tutorial...

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:09:14 -0400

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (2003)

A tutorial on life by Dir. Kim Ki-duk (x)

marsneedswomen: What I lack in attractiveness I make up for in film trivia

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:55:44 -0400

marsneedswomen:

What I lack in attractiveness I make up for in film trivia

spoookyscary: The ‘Bagelhead’ is currently the hottest body...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:53:41 -0400

spoookyscary:

The ‘Bagelhead’ is currently the hottest body modification in Japan,“injecting saline solution into the forehead to create a temporary bagel-like shape”. The saline solution is injected for two hours and the ‘bagel/donut-head’ look is created by pressing your thumb in the middle of the forehead.

Looks like a Cloud Atlas still to me

"Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:50:40 -0400

““Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I’m bullshitting myself, morally speaking?””

- David Foster Wallace (via cxlts)

theniftyfifties: People sleeping on a night train in Japan,...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:34:04 -0400

theniftyfifties:

People sleeping on a night train in Japan, 1964. Photo by Nicolas Bouvier.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 10:21:53 -0400

queenofthenight1791: I feel a math problem waiting to happen

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:34:32 -0400

queenofthenight1791:

I feel a math problem waiting to happen

It’s summer where I am and while everybody’s enjoying/cursing the sun I’m supposed...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:39:15 -0400

It’s summer where I am and while everybody’s enjoying/cursing the sun I’m supposed to compare and contrast the explanations made by Plato and Aristotle on the formation of the state and whether, in the end, justice could be found in each one’s ideal state. And also read Aquinas on the side.

No one forced me to do this.

I have to do what I have to do out of the faculty and will of reason endowed upon me by the One who endows.

On the plus side, I have a saint on my side implying my humanity.

Now man is master of his actions through his reason and will; whence, too, the free-will is defined as “the faculty and will of reason.” Therefore those actions are properly called human which proceed from a deliberate will.

Article 1, First part of the second part of Summa Theologiae (Aquinas, c.1265-1274)

Making a friend watch this and seeing him weep

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:55:00 -0400

Making a friend watch this and seeing him weep

unusualjourney: what-rabbit-hole: “some historians think that...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:49:54 -0400

unusualjourney:

what-rabbit-hole:

“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”

Interesting.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:47:31 -0400

"I give up. I couldn’t choose three. So I let it burn. Everything. I save the cat."

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:56:26 -0400

“I give up. I couldn’t choose three. So I let it burn. Everything. I save the cat.”

- Haruki Murakami on which three albums he would save if his house burned down (via murakamistuff)

killyrboyfriend: Mock-up for a Criterion Eclipse series of the...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:56:40 -0400

killyrboyfriend:

Mock-up for a Criterion Eclipse series of the best romances from my favorite director

Mate! I told you we should live in Japan.

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:42:20 -0400

Mate! I told you we should live in Japan.

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Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:34:00 -0400

Merry Christmas everyone!

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:20:20 -0400

Merry Christmas everyone!