notes from an island

theambiguityreport: Damn right. rachelfershleiser: Bookseller...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:52:33 +1000

theambiguityreport:

Damn right.

rachelfershleiser:

Bookseller humor.

hahahaaaaa

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:26:33 +1000

Been working on some designs inspired by vintage Persian tile...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:49:15 +1000

Been working on some designs inspired by vintage Persian tile patterns for today’s Suitcase Rummage market. What do you think? (at Thornbury Theatre)

jhilla: Life on the set of “2001: A Space Odyssey” Few movies...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:00:45 +1000

jhilla:

Life on the set of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

Few movies are as polarizing as Stanley Kubrick’s sui generis 1968 sci-fi opus, 2001: A Space Odyssey. A good number of film critics and movie buffs argue that it’s an indispensable cinematic masterwork. Others admire its technical brilliance and the uncompromising strength of Kubrick’s vision, but find the movie’s impenetrable philosophy — whatever it might be — forbidding, or off-putting, or both. And then there are those (few, and not terribly convincing) naysayers who deride 2001 as little more than self-absorbed, emotionally sterile twaddle not far removed from an elaborate, unfunny hoax.

But even the film’s most strident critics acknowledge that there’s something about Kubrick’s strange, insular onscreen universe that commands our attention. In fact, 2001 remains one of those exceedingly rare works of popular art that feels, somehow, intrinsically indifferent: indifferent to the usual laws of filmmaking; indifferent to criticism (or praise); indifferent even to the audience for which it was ostensibly created.

No one who makes movies wants his or her work to go unseen; but with A Space Odyssey, one gets the sense that Kubrick would have pursued his wholly unique cinematic quest even if he had somehow learned, or if someone had categorically guaranteed, that no one would ever experience the finished work.

There’s something so self-contained about 2001, something at-once so hermetic and so original that it somehow feels as if it’s always been here, or was always out there, waiting for a genius to give it expression. Like Beethoven’s Fifth, Joyce’s Ulysses or almost anything by, say, Picasso, Rodin or Prince, Kubrick’s 2001 doesn’t feel like it was assembled or crafted, but instead that it emerged, full-blown, from its creator’s mind.

Here, LIFE.com offers a series of photos from the set of 2001 — pictures that suggest the astonishing lengths to which Kubrick was willing to go in order to make his vision a reality. That the futuristic technology he envisioned feels authentic today speaks volumes about the man’s intellect, his dedication to the details of his craft and the boundless capacity for the human imagination to not only see, but to shape what’s to come.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:55:34 +1000

fonbaligi: http://9gag.com/gag/aOqo093?ref=fb.s

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 22:21:11 +1000

fonbaligi:

http://9gag.com/gag/aOqo093?ref=fb.s

luciaondrusova: Unknown artist - inspirational shot!

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:18:10 +1000

luciaondrusova:

Unknown artist - inspirational shot!

The Copper Cow: almare: It’s perhaps a very English thing to find it hard to accept...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:17:51 +1000

The Copper Cow: almare: It’s perhaps a very English thing to find it hard to accept...:

almare:

It’s perhaps a very English thing to find it hard to accept kind words about oneself. If anyone praised me in my early days as a comedy performer I would say, “Oh, nonsense. Shut up. No really, I was dreadful.” I remember going through this red-faced shuffle in the presence of the…

Someone taught this to me when I was a teenager but I forgot it. Thanks for the reminder.

clipout: Mary Badham and Gregory Peck on the set of To Kill a...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:09:27 +1000

clipout:

Mary Badham and Gregory Peck on the set of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 10:00:51 +1000

suicideblonde: Marion Cotillard photographed by Christian...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:00:27 +1000

suicideblonde:

Marion Cotillard photographed by Christian Kettiger

bitchville: Urban Zoom” is a series of abstract long-exposure...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 10:00:50 +1000

bitchville:

Urban Zoom” is a series of abstract long-exposure photos from big cities all over the world, captured by German photographer Jakob Wagner.

Urban Zoom: Long-Exposure Photography by http://www.jakobwagner.eu/

tommtaffs: nikolawashere: NY under water. The eye-catching...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:06:19 +1000

tommtaffs:

nikolawashere:

NY under water.

The eye-catching swimming pool in Mumbai, India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of global warming.

It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

This is wow

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Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:55:43 +1000

adanvc: Street Scene: Two children walking, Harlem, New Yor,...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:55:31 +1000

adanvc:

Street Scene: Two children walking, Harlem, New Yor, 1943.

by Gordon Parks

gucci-sunrise: ✯ Hello Bondi you pretty beast :)

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:54:35 +1000

gucci-sunrise:

✯

Hello Bondi you pretty beast :)

bohemea: bowielovesbeyonce: sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit Ch...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:52:59 +1000

bohemea:

bowielovesbeyonce:

sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit

Cheeky!

sploded: I did the same face as Stephen Fry Oh. My. God.

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:13:32 +1000

sploded:

I did the same face as Stephen Fry

Oh. My. God.

enchantedengland: If you know me at all you were expecting...

Wed, 29 May 2013 11:48:58 +1000

enchantedengland:

If you know me at all you were expecting this……THE RYE COLLAGE!!! Yes, of course I went back! It was lovelier than last year.

The top image is Mermaid Street, the middle is detail of the Tudor architecture, and the bottom is taken from St Mary’s churchyard. (these are my photos) Rye, East Sussex, on the southern coast.

I like some of these quotes. Not all of them though. Hmmm…...

Wed, 29 May 2013 11:48:40 +1000

I like some of these quotes. Not all of them though. Hmmm… interesting mix I guess.