Ovate By Audrey Cantwell X Joanna Szkiela

Ovate by Audrey Cantwell x Joanna Szkiela

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. "We have a word for that in Japanese," he said. "It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry? "I don’t think it’s like the pillow word." He clapped his hands three or four times. "The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness. But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.

Rogert Ebert, on Hayao Miyazaki (via pseudolirium)

And this is why I often gravitate to works that have this even if “nothing happens” a lot of the time.

(via eshusplayground)

I am conducting a scientific study on what houses people are in. Reblog this post if you are proud to be a Hufflepuff. (Slytherins reblog this, Ravenclaws reblog this, and Gryffindors reblog this)

Art creds to: liquidsouldesign on deviantart

When the axe came into the Forest, the trees said “The handle is one of us”.

Turkish Proverb (via indefensible)

damn

(via queennubian)

HYPER-SURREALIST SCULPTURES BY SOUTH KOREAN ARTIST CHOI XOO ANG

Choi Xoo Ang is a sculptor who dabbles in both hyper realism and abstract surrealism. The artist is certainly emerging on the mixed media scene, and has exploded out of Seoul, South Korea with a style of work pioneered by artists like Ron Muek, and is now making a name for himself through the many awards he has already won such as the Artists of Tomorrow 2010 and Sungkok Museum Award from his town of Seoul. Ang’s work distorts the concept of the real to an astonishing degree, but only insofar as to keep his viewers trapped inside of his investigations into human rights, sex and gender roles, and the pathological state of society, never pushing you too far over any of these edges.

A Visit to the Set of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow