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“Lately, I’d been depressed and preoccupied with death… Looking out toward the ocean, my mind, as it did almost every hour of every day, worked to explain the inconsistencies that dominated my life; the pain, torment, and confusion and the beautiful music I was able to make. Was there an answer? Did I have no control? Had I ever? Feeling shipwrecked on an existential island, I lost myself in the balance of darkness that stretched beyond the breaking waves to the other side of the earth. The ocean was so incredibly vast, the universe was so large, and suddenly I saw myself in proportion to that, a little pebble of sand, a jellyfish floating on top of the water; traveling with the current I felt dwarfed, temporary. The next day I began writing “‘Til I Die”, perhaps the most personal song I ever wrote for The Beach Boys… In doing so, I wanted to re-create the swell of emotions that I’d felt at the beach the previous night.”

- Brian Wilson on “‘Til I Die” by The Beach Boys

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Isabella Rossellini in Wild at Heart, David Lynch, 1990

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KatieJane Garside (Daisy Chainsaw, Queen Adreena, Lalleshwari) performing Hans Bellmer - The Doll/La Poupée series (hand colored gelatin silver print)

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Arrebato (Iván Zulueta, 1979)

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The Godzilla art of Noriyoshi Ohrai

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On the set of "A Clockwork Orange," 1970.

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Tuatara regrowing a forked tail By: W. H. Dawbin & M. D. King From: Life Nature Library: Reptiles 1963

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Trouble at a Construction Site.

Yukio Mishima: The Death of a Man Photography by Kishin Shinoyama

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Scarecrows found by John Piper

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X-Ray of a bat in flight

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the CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1919) plays L.A., Calif.- 1921

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"It's like a hole in my life, an eight-year hole. That's what I find interesting in people's lives, the holes, the gaps, sometimes dramatic, but sometimes not dramatic at all. There are catalepsies, or a kind of sleepwalking through a number of years, in most lives. Maybe it's in these holes that movement takes place."

—Gilles Deleuze, On Philosophy

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La Sagrada Familia, by Antoni Gaudi A cathedral-like structure, built by termites (photo: Fiona Stewart)

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William Mortensen (1897–1965) - The Worship of Isis, the Moon Goddess, 1927

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METROPOLIS (1927) dir. Fritz Lang