doodling the girls from the lunar chronicles
Now, Voyager
The Dean Cornwell tag is full of his paintings but I for one find his studies for the paintings much more interesting.
He somehow manages to make his figures look simultaneously organic and geometric.
Rita de Acosta Lydig by Giovanni Boldini, 1911
Rita was an American socialite, famous for her extravagant lifestyle: “In Paris, she joined ranks with musicians, artists, intellectuals, and philosophers, names like Rodin, Eleonora Duse, Yvette Guilbert etc… Impressed by Rita’s innate creative spirit, Isabella Stewart Gardner, the great collector and creator of the Gardner museum in Boston, once asked their mutual friend, John Singer Sargent, why Rita had never expressed herself artistically. “Why should she?” Sargent answered, “She herself is art.” (via Scala Regia)
“ Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. ”
John Ruskin (via eloquentandhonest)
“ Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. ”
John Ruskin (via truinn-ou)
‘The merry adventures of Robin Hood’ written and illustrated by Howard Pyle. Published 1883 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York.
See the complete book here.
London 1926 (x)
I can watch old film reels like this all day. I really could. They’re fascinating. I’d love to be able to go back in time and spend a day there.
**reaches out slowly while whimpering**
do u ever have those thoughts like “you know what im going to start living life to the fullest and going on adventures and pushing myself and i’m going to become a better more satisfied person” and then continue to refresh ur dash for another two hours
“ Cinema is a great art because of that collective experience where people sit in the dark and you try to basically manipulate people to feel a certain way about the story you’re presenting. ”
Igor Martinovic, DP of Sunlight Jr. (TFF 2013)
Watch his episode of Cinematographers in Focus, our series with Sony that highlights DPs with great stories.
(via tribecafilm)
Warecote, Warwickshire.
From a drawing by F. W. Hulme. From The baronial halls, and ancient picturesque edifices of England vol. 1, by Samuel Carter Hall, London, 1858.
(Source: archive.org)
