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Burning Ammonium Dichromate
This is also how you summon demons from the gates of hell
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I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) 1/3
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‘Personally I am very pessimistic,’ Miyazaki says. 'But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can’t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can’t tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn’t have come into this life.’ And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.’
Perhaps this is why he tells children’s stories. 'Well, yes. I believe that children’s souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It’s just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.’
Hayao Miyazaki interview
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes
(via praecox1015)
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apparently ravens are associated with death and prophecy because they’re very intelligent birds and back in the day they learned p quick that large groups of men marching meant imminent corpses to feed on so they would follow armies and i think that’s v metal
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Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.
Anthony Bourdain
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If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.
Anthony Bourdain (via themindmovement)
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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.
Anthony Bourdain (via cheapflights-blog)
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Tell me, Atlas.
What is heavier:
The world or its people’s hearts?
Darshana S, Atlas still stands but does anyone else? (via echymosis)
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Chinese doctors bowing down to an 11 year old boy diagnosed with brain cancer who managed to save several lives by donating his organs to the hospital he was being treated shortly before his death.
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“In the Ivory Coast, the hanged bird was a macabre warning to travellers [of the presence of smallpox]” photo by WHO
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Avian Saint by Allison Kubbos
Have you ever seen something so inventive about avian influenza?
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A villager collects dried branches of a tree for fuel on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar, India on September 23, 2015. (Biswaranjan Rout/AP)
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