i will let you all in on a little secret (although it is probably not hard to guess) that i am a total weakling when it comes to movies and books like eat, pray, love.
i remember when i read this book for the first time, it was after a fairly serious phase in my life that felt like i grew four years emotionally in the span of three months and… i sobbed like a baby reading some passages. call me a sucker. call me a sap. call me weeping willow, but it is the truth.
i am seriously excited for this movie, and also need to take the time to read her follow-up booked “committed” … although i am worried it will break the fairy tale feeling i was left with after “eat, pray, love”.
the idea and opportunity to take a year off and spend months in insane locations digging deep down in and sorting things out is such a luxury… i myself take about 10 minutes a day to do this in the morning… hardly the same thing.
anyway, we can all live a little dream through elizabeth gilbert.
amazing footage from bruce gilden interview.
i am mesmerized by this bruce lee screen test. such an elegant and striking man.
Bruce Lee, in this screen test for his role as Kato in The Green Hornet, demonstrates that if your tailored clothes fit, you can do anything in them.
(via owlandcoffee)
Amerie- One Thing (Siik Remix)
AMAZING remix via flickkkk
(163 plays)i blame coco.
probably harder to be sting’s daughter and do music than people give her credit for. people are expecting to hate, but then…. songs like this stick and you have to give it up to her.
the view is good from where i’m sitting.
random photos from the past month.
“Somewhere” by Sofia Coppola
I’m a sucker for Sofia Coppola films.
Restoration by Lighting Design in today’s WSJ
Great article today by Daniel Grant in the WSJ on Harvard’s work along with MIT and University of Basel to restore a group of 5 Rothko’s without actually touching their current state by using lighting design to account for the loss of pigment over time.
I love the idea of creating the original look of the piece of artwork, without actually changing the artwork itself. I think deterioration and the wearing of the art overtime actually create another element which is quite beautiful in its own right (although, let’s be honest, the removal of smoke from candles from murals by Caravaggio, definitely improves the experience).
With these Rothko’s those, I think it allows for viewers to both appreciate the works as they were originally intended, but also allows for the works to be displayed in their current state with “normal” lighting.
I suppose there are some purists out there who think that any manipulation of an artwork over time is taking away from the work and potentially disturbing or changing the REAL artwork — but would that art exist without an appreciating public?
I wonder if this will catch on….
Check the full article here.
saturday dancing in the streets thanks to this week will change your life
(via thewestisthebest)
i love moroccan wedding blankets.
sunshine.
for many years, i have considered myself an anti-west coaster*. there are a littany of things i could rattle off right now to back up this EXTREMELY justified stance, however, after nearly three weeks of not seeing the sun in geneva, i am considering retracting my card carrying membership in the “i will never live in los angeles” club.
geneva has had less sun in the last three weeks than i experienced even while living in london.
i will throw a big question mark over the skies, and hope that by next week my fine swiss town will address the problems.
*i will divulge that between the years of 2003 and 2004, i was an official los angeles resident and that in the commencement program at my undergraduate graduation, i am listed as a resident of california. i would say that this makes me more than qualified to make the above statement.
