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musings on July

"NW" Zadie Smith, "the Hands of Friendship" in Yerevan (@metamorphesque). "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Brontë (@flowerytale), Franz Kafka’s Diaries (@hungryfictions), "Summer night by the beach" Edvard Munch, "A Magic Mountain" Czeslaw Milosz (tr by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee), "Answer July" Emily Dickinson, "Four Sunflowers Gone to Seed" Vincent van Gogh, The Diaries of Franz Kafka (@shisasan)

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Quint self-ship art cause I can :P

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the transient sparkle of sea-tops.

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1975

Source: Flickr/Thomas Hawk

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i genuinely think boats are such good places to set a story because it automatically gives you a set of really interesting circumstances -- boats are transitory, you are not meant to stay on them forever, there is an automatic assumption of ending up somewhere different from where you started...characters are forced into close proximity, stakes are higher, etc. boats also just look cool, so that's always a plus

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the scar sharing scene in jaws is actually a sex scene to those with enlightened minds

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JAWS (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

"Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces."

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jaws the shark! Lurking in the dark in the depths of the sea one day on a lark- decides to get rowdy, get real violent, take a trip down to amity island-

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JAWS, 1975

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I know what you are

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She would not fucking say that. Yes she said that in canon, but I perceive a greater truth unaffected by her writer's misogyny

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Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark’s in the water. Our shark. 🦈

(I went to Martha’s Vineyard last weekend for the 50th anniversary of Jaws, which was the most amazing trip of my life, and left with untapped levels of brainrot)

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dad told me it was 50 years of jaws. happy 50 years of jaws. happy pride. what. happy jaws. for these guys. they should kissth. what. uh. 50 years of jaws. what if they kiiiiiisssssthhh. ahaha. no. happy jaws. 50 years of jaws. jaws 50. just a lil kissssthhh. 50 and jaws.

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JAWS 大白鯊

Roy Scheider got slapped 17 times to get this shot. Bruce has gotten a lot of the glory over the years, so I wanted, for a change, to celebrate the incredible characters and their small town New England drama that make this movie what it is.

It’s the 50th Anniversary of JAWS. In 1975 JAWS was the highest grossing movie of all time, and was released overseas in dozens of countries. But you won’t typically find Taiwan on that list, because in 1975 Taiwan was no longer recognized internationally.

But it was released in theaters there in 1975, known in Taiwan as 大白鯊. My Mom personally watched it during its release, and even remembers billboards of it. But because of the complicated history of Taiwan, it’s not well documented.

I wanted to fix that and give Taiwan the flowers it deserves, so I made a retro Taiwanese JAWS poster. All text is in Traditional Chinese, which is distinct to Taiwan, HK, and Macau. My mom is always asking, ‘How come you make all these posters in Japanese? Can’t you do a Chinese one for once?’ So this one is for my Mom.

I want to give a big shout out to Rob Jones for art directing this. Thank you to my Mom for helping me translate and format everything Taiwan-accurate. And of course, thanks to CODA for having me in their official JAWS 50th Anniversary art show.⁠

The exhibit opens at Art Alliance of Monmouth County in Red Bank, NJ with a reception on June 28 and will be on view through July 13.

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We mock the people of Amity for re-electing the mayor but we don't know who the other candidate was. Maybe it was the mayor who got a couple people eaten by sharks versus someone who wanted to ban women from having driver's licenses. Maybe the other candidate was the shark. We can't know