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hello new ppl

welcome to theinternetarchive, where i document my journey scrolling through archive.org. it's my favorite pastime.

here are some helpful links:

FREE FILMS AVAILABLE ON THE ARCHIVE (LETTERBOXD LIST [with all/updating links])

+ subtitle extension info in case you need them and they're not included

how to get print disabled access (to be able to borrow the books public rights have been revoked from)

ways to search on the internet archive

subscribe to GAZE: A Newsletter About Film theory (free)

instagram.com/theinternetarchivefan

PSA tag sorting for dates is: century if pre-1900 (i.e. 1700s, 1500s) and decade if post 1900 (20s, 00s, 90s, etc.) there's three decade exceptions (1910s, 2010s, 2020s).

popular tags:

photography

paintings

objects

magazines

more niche tags i love:

bee ottinger <- documented the la lesbian house c. 1971-3.

california <- photographers don seimens, shuck chan, california labor school students, merton doss

book of hours

cats

poetry

archive links to some great films:

black girl (1966) dir. ousmane sembene

freaks (1932) dir. tod browning

cries and whispers (1972) dir. ingmar bergman

carnival of souls (1962) dir. herk harvey

walkabout (1971) dir. nicolas roeg

ringu (1998) dir. hideo nakata

the white ribbon (2009) dir. michael heneke

okay enjoy your time :P

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― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child

[text ID: To write, you have to want something to survive you.]

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from a vintage sticker collection, 70s-00s.

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Sacred fruit

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daily affirmations: you are isildur’s heir, not isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.

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this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

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you still got it…

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Fresh idiot (kinki)

hey STEB NATION (me and 5 other fish enthusiasts) how are we feeling

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Glass weapons by Niino kyohei

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Seattle-based designer Eleanor Lutz created this mesmerizing infographic displaying 42 North American butterfly species, each fluttering its wings in readiness to fly right out of your computer screen. It’s a beautiful reminder that these lovely insects represent actual living creatures.

It’s also further proof that Art + Science = Awesome.

Click here to view a larger version.

Working as a professional designer with a degree in molecular biology, Lutz has combined her love of art and science to create many other fascinating infographics, which you can find at her blog Tabletop Whale.

Prints are available here.

[via mental_floss and io9]

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thinking about edvard munch's "The Sun" (1911)

like yeah thats how it feels. thats what it feels like to exist sometimes. he gets it

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Fog on the Pacific Below Cape Perpetua

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James Baldwin.

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Edgar Allan Poe, from a letter to Mrs. Maria Clemm, July 1849

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Drawing in mspaint? Cool, impressive,  But whenever I see that, I think about the person who makes their art in power point  Every time I see them it boggles me

(their account)

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Sir David Attenborough demonstrates the accuracy of the Mozambique Spitting Cobra’s venom streams by wearing a chemically treated visor that makes the venom turn purple on contact.

From Life in Cold Blood