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hi lads

basically i’ve decided i’m way too old to have a tumblr of this nature now, so i’m moving to my photoblog full time

feel free to give it a follow! i’m also gonna start posting my photography on there soon :~)

new (old) blog

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Geometric LA, Sallie Harrison

A closer look into photographer Sallie Harrison’s pastel exploration of Los Angeles and its many geometric landscapes.

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So people say, what is there to be positive about? What is there to hope for? And my answer is always the same—Voyager. The two spacecraft we threw out into space with the hope of a planet behind them. One of them carrying a letter that said, “We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours”. The most hopeful letter any human being ever wrote. Our thoughts, our languages, our music all travelling now through interstellar space. The odds of either Voyager being intercepted within our lifetimes are infinitesimal, but that’s not the point. The point is that one day, so many days into the future we can’t even comprehend the number, some bored lifeform might scoop up a dead, battered piece of junk and find a planet’s hope inside. And if, against all odds, they can understand it, they might just train their sights on our backwater of space and find the place we once occupied and think, Damn. We missed a trick there. So here we are, going about our lives, and all the while the Voyagers are out there, hurtling onward. Every day you wake up they’re just a little bit closer to something amazing. And that’s what makes me smile every time I think of it. Voyager, and the journey never-ending.

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Drive fan posters

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Endless list of beautiful cinematography Pride and Prejudice (2005) Director of Photography: Roman Osin

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mikey + that rick springfield shirt

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Black Widow vol. 6 001 preview 

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when you have to pretend not to care about someone else, about how they kissed someone new, about how they forgot about you: there is a special kind of teeth that find your stomach in those moments. jaws that don’t let go.

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How do you say no to God, right?

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What I didn’t know at the time was that this is what time is like for most women: fragmented, interrupted by child care and housework. Whatever leisure time they have is often devoted to what others want to do – particularly the kids – and making sure everyone else is happy doing it. Often women are so preoccupied by all the other stuff that needs doing – worrying about the carpool, whether there’s anything in the fridge to cook for dinner – that the time itself is what sociologists call “contaminated.” I came to learn that women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow. Women aren’t expected to flow.

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In one timeline we kiss but the stars don’t come down. In another you set a world on fire for me but I perish in the flames. Another and we’re strangers on a busy street, brushing by close enough to send each other reeling off balance but not stopping. Somewhere there’s a final space where your hand on my face is the punchy climax to an epic saga, where the way our mouths meet takes the breath right out of people’s throats. One universe has us right, of all the millions stacked on millions. So it’s not this one. I can live with that. The world is full of wonders and a hundred years ago the moon was too much to dream of touching. Look how far we’ve come. Turn over your shoulder and just look. Maybe we’ll come across each other at the turning of the century, racing across the breaches between worlds. I’ll build my life on that maybe.

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I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

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I never told him, but I think he knew the offer was on the table. If he ever wanted to come back, I would let him open the door and just walk through. But, he didn’t. He was more like a drizzle in a drought, a dandelion surrounded by weeds, and a fast glance of the view as you’re speeding down the highway. He was there, but he never was.

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Mad Max: Fury Road Oscar Wins 

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Tom Hardy and Leonardo DiCaprio during the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California.