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Andrei Rublev (1966) directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Untitled, painting by ABeardedArtist

Honestly? Yeah, this is how Tarkovsky's movies feel

Never try to convey your idea to the audience – it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.

— Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, page 152

Andrei Rublev (1966), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Polish poster for Solaris, 1972. Artwork by Andrzej Bertrandt.

Solaris (1972), dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Mirror (1975) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Roublev 1966

Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky - Solaris (1972)

ANDREI RUBLEV - Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966.

Tarkovsky cinematically composes his wonderful biography of the great Russian icons painter like an altarpiece made by 8 crucial episodes in his life in which two fundamental motives emerge: the Artist's role in the society and the complex relation between Power and People. The film, marvelously photographed in B&W, progresses through stunning plan-sequences and blatantly signals from the very beginning (the fly of ancient Efim who rides his rudimentary hot air balloon "to see the world from above") and the end (Rublev's icon "The Trinity", al last shown in glorious full colors, and the peaceful horses in the countryside) the successive developments of Tarkovsky's cinema, so hermetic and sublime.

r.m.

Andrei Rublev (1966) Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

from 'un hommage à buster keaton,' a french fan zine made in 1982, photos c. 1920s.

Vibe coding in a nutshell

found this on pinterest, thought of tumblr

part two of 'bonsai's stolen memes'

temple at the end of the road

Félix-Hilaire Buhot (1847–1898) - Les Esprits des Villes Mortes (Spirits from the Cities of the Dead), 1885

physically go to your local library at least once. seriously.

look around. find a random book with a cover that catches your attention. read the description. read the first page. if you like the sounds of it, borrow it and take it home to read. borrow a handful of books even.

if a book loses your interest, drop it. if a book grips onto you, ride that wave.

i've struggled to read recreationally for years despite having read so much as a kid. a lot of us are frozen by the seemingly infinite choices. even when we buy books to take home, we don't read them because which book is worth reading first? we don't have to decide, we have it right here in our bookshelves, we have an eternity of never deciding.

in this past month, i have read five books, most of them i've never heard of when i spotted their cover at the library. most of them, i've ended up loving. the due date of library books maintains the ability to read a book so i can return them to the library and leave the library with more books. an even better incentive than borrowing ebooks, because i actually have to leave the house and not be a hermit.

so if you used to enjoy reading but struggle with it now, ignore the book recs you hear. go to the library, come across a book that piques your interest, and read one page after another until you either lose interest or finish the book.

then it's onto the next one.

two types of linux user ...

i wanna hold a caterpillar gently

Eberbach, Germany 1899

a lot of things suck rn so here take this footage i got of a sopping wet muskrat

Something damned interesting --- Archaeologists discover Viking site in North Carolina, proving the Vikings explored North America well beyond Newfoundland.

Source

Wheat Fields at Auvers Under Clouded Sky (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

WELCOME BACK GALÁPAGOS RAIL!!!

hyperfixated on this game so hard i tried to recreate ac syndicate's animus database using html css and js👍

i will make this responsive though, i've only started doing the frontend but i'll also start doing the backend as soon as i finish this

basically this is gonna be a website that will allow you to create a database of your assassin's creed OCs (btw this was inspired by @gwen-the-assassin's idea <33) and help you with worldbuilding and making AUs (i know the ac fanon wiki already exists for that but i wanted to make the experience of keeping a database more immersive u know....)

this might take a while to be completed, but I'll try to post updates on it as much as possible! if there are any programmers/web developers in the ac fandom that want to contribute to this project plsplspls DM me!!

actual pic of the database for comparison:

ik it's not entirely accurate but this is the simplest database in the game that i could recreate lmao

also code snippets just cuz (+ me crashing out)

I've been going on something of a mini-dive into the Franco-Prussian War. It really hasn't been on my radar, although increasingly I come across it (thanks Victor Hugo I guess)—and as a piece of trivia Paul Gavarni's son Pierre, who painted as Pierre Gavarni, was awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur for his actions during the war (I have no information about what he did).

"The Franco-Prussian War: Depicting defeat" is a fantastic series of blog posts that I've found, focused on art of the war. Émile Betsellère's L’Oublié (The Forgotten) is absolutely devastating.

(The artist's model for this painting was an actual soldier in the conflict who was injured and abandoned on the battlefield, Théodore Larran, who later married the nurse who saved his life.)

In the Trenches (1874), by Alphonse de Neuville. You look at scenes like this and all those people around the turn of the 20th century who said a huge war could NEVER happen again sound a hundred times more demented.