aokewode

[aokewode]

Jan 2, 1932 Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. To make a good job of The Waves. To stop irritation by the assurance that nothing is worth irritation [referring to Nelly]. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones. Virginia Woolf's new year resolutions

[aokewode]

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

[aokewode]

The full moon rises behind the columns of the ancient marble Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, southeast of Athens, on the eve of the summer solstice on June 20, 2016. The temple located on a promontory at Cape Sounion, about 70km (45 miles) south-southeast of Athens, built 444 BC, and dedicated to Poseidon, god of the sea. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris).

[aokewode]

Le Petit Soldat (1963)

[aokewode]

Bande à part (1964)

[aokewode]

Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970)

[aokewode]

אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי? If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And when I am for myself, then what am “I”? And if not now, when?

Hillel (Pirkei Avot)

[aokewode]

Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

Susan Sontag’s New Year’s resolutions  (via euryalesings)

[aokewode]

Oita Prefectural Library, Oita, Japan, 1964-66

(Arata Isozaki)

[aokewode]

[aokewode]

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

Fernando Pessoa (via themindmovement)

[aokewode]

blobs on the run

[aokewode]

“The first thing to do is to keep silent — to abolish audiences and learn to be your own judge. To keep a balance between an active concern for the body and an awareness of being alive. To give up all feeling that the world owes you a living and devote yourself to achieve two kinds of freedom: freedom from money, and freedom from your own vanity and cowardice. To have rules and to stick to them…If this price is paid, then there is one chance in ten of escaping from the most sordid and miserable of conditions: that of the man who works.

Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942 (via 1109-83)

[aokewode]

[aokewode]

Pipilotti Rist, A Look to the East (Eine Spitze in den Westen – ein Blick in den Osten), 1992-1999.

[aokewode]

Love In The Afternoon – 1972 Éric Rohmer

[aokewode]

Japanese poster of Jean-Luc Godard ‘s film Masculin Féminin, 1966.