luminol*

Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.
Tuesday, July 22
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Sodomy and James Joyce? They go together like Dov Charney and dildos.
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Mi piace, non mi piace. Questo è il mio metodo. Detesto essere complicato.
Marc Jacobs
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Anna Rosa Krau
Avere l’aria da vergine anche dopo i 15 anni.

Anna Rosa Krau

Avere l’aria da vergine anche dopo i 15 anni.

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Geografia queer.
(img: Tenebre, via peeping6666tom)

Geografia queer.

(img: Tenebre, via peeping6666tom)

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Tennessee Williams had a routine for taking eyedrops. He’d put the bottle cap in his mouth, lean back, and place drops in each eye.
He was doing this in his room in New York’s Hotel Elysee in 1983 when the cap slipped into his throat.
He choked to death. (FC)
(img: Maitresse, via maria romey)

Tennessee Williams had a routine for taking eyedrops. He’d put the bottle cap in his mouth, lean back, and place drops in each eye.

He was doing this in his room in New York’s Hotel Elysee in 1983 when the cap slipped into his throat.

He choked to death. (FC)

(img: Maitresse, via maria romey)

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Antimonio, arsenico, acqua e argento.
(Ye Rin Mok Photography)

Antimonio, arsenico, acqua e argento.

(Ye Rin Mok Photography)

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Scrivilo nel tuo diario.
(Pole dancer via Lil [Kristen Elsby])

Scrivilo nel tuo diario.

(Pole dancer via Lil [Kristen Elsby])

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Pinky's Bubble Egg

In the far away world of Pinky’s Bubble Egg, things changed

I know one thing
I wasn’t alone
I could hear you
I wasn’t alone
I could hear you coming closer

Pinky’s Bubble Egg

Repeats in the dead hunger

Darkness my heart was stuffed in a trunk

Beating like hell

Saturn fell rolling

The Twins Spoke

The Twins Spoke

(Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted - David Lynch, 1989)

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When was the last time you heard these exact words: “You are the sunshine of my life”?
Alex Law (Ewan McGregor) - Shallow Grave, 1995
Monday, July 21
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Kelli Connell, Bubblebath - Digital Lambda Print (2002)
Kelli Connell, Bubblebath - Digital Lambda Print (2002)
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Alessandra Sanguinetti, Black Cat (1999) - from The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams
Alessandra Sanguinetti, Black Cat (1999) - from The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams
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“There are two characters in the film:
Ms X – a woman of a certain age - between 130–140; still beautiful; dressed in a white or black gown.

Mr Y – a man of between 350 and 380 years of age; nonetheless exceptionally elegant and charming; wearing a dark suit.

Ms X and Mr Y have spoken to each other a lot of words in just any language. In all sorts of situations. Not all the words require translation, not all of them are translatable. The situations may or may not be understood. Some of the words are contained in dialogues. Here are some of those:

For example, Mr Y asks Ms X: Don’t you think, Madam, that photography is a razor in the paws of a monkey?

And Ms X answers: Oh, no. I have consciously chosen this medium and I am still examining its properties.

Mr Y is silent.

Now Ms X asks: Don’t you think, Sir, that the symptoms of spring that are existing around us, are capable of changing our visual identity?

Mr Y: Please take into account that no certainty has in itself the characteristics of a factual certainty.

Ms X: That film is an appropriate medium?

Mr Y: Accidentally, Madam, don’t you think that the end of photography and film seems to be imminent?

Ms X: Oh, yes, chance allows for a great range in character and intensity of contact, from an elusive reflection to a powerful life-threatening shock.

(Ewa Zarzycka - dialogues from Symptoms, 1980)

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Ewa Partum - Tautological cinema: 10 meters of tape (1973)
Ewa Partum - Tautological cinema: 10 meters of tape (1973)
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Summer like a flu.
(img: Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, 2001)

Summer like a flu.

(img: Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, 2001)

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“Stamattina quando ho aperto gli occhi piangevo. Come al solito.”- Kyoichi Katayama, Gridare amore dal centro del mondo
(img: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, The House of Dreams)

“Stamattina quando ho aperto gli occhi piangevo. Come al solito.”
- Kyoichi Katayama, Gridare amore dal centro del mondo

(img: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, The House of Dreams)