Going crazy/inspired over Wong Kar Wai. Just saw In the Mood for Love and 2046. Downloading Days of Being Wild as we speak.

A selection of stills:







it takes so much for me to be impressed with a movie, much less with a specific director's universe. It pulls from reality and yet it is not reality. Everything is a dream. The music is perfect. The styling is perfect. The editing is perfect. The characters are perfect. The stories -- working backwards, forwards and stitched through retrospect, are perfect. The angles and lighting and mood and flow of time-- all perfect.

I'm blown away. I also saw Blonde Redhead tonight at Prospect Park. Came home and finished 2046 and even seeing Blonde Redhead perform at night in a forest wasn't quite as good as this movie.

Chloe Moore (photography), Me (styling, concept, modeling), Violet Xie (make-up)
Inspired by Chadwick Tyler (Monster series) and Kristin Vicari.

This was from this morning. Then I went to class for four hours. Then I went to Chipotle. Then I went to class for another four hours. Then I came home. The shoot is for a series called "STRANGE CREATURE" for the Narcisscus issue of the magazine we're all working on. I wanted to look sort of like a contorted creature, something sort of mysterious and monstrous but bathed in a light, soft, beautiful light.

Violet's make-up was a strange armor. I felt like a different person so I wasn't as shy in front of the camera as I usually am.

This is just for fun. What I've been listening to lately, brought to you by Youtube:

Bat for Lashes - Daniel

Soulja Boy - Turn My Swag On


( Just listennnnnn )

BORED.

Ritchie is so full of surprises. He transcribed it by ear and just banged this out on the piano.

edit: I have to include this one too. Holy shit. Ritchie playing "Umbrella" by Rhianna WITH AN UMBRELLA. Okay Ritchie thanks for making me feel like my life's work has paled in comparison.

Neha's photos from Coachella

I took my film to Duggal for professional developing yesterday. They said it would be ready Wednesday. I'm just sitting and waiting for it to get scanned now. :| so impatient. I hope the photos from Chateau Marmont came out well... I had a lot of fun playing ping pong with Neha there, hahah. I told my dad last night that I heard Paul McCartney play at Coachella and he was finally impressed hahah.

Days until I can pick up my film: 2

Days until Adam comes home: 8

Adam comes home in EIGHT DAYS!!! aggghhhh so fucking excited. and nervous, anxious, apprehensive. He is traveling around somewhere in Africa right now with Mr. Healy (who used to be the President of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council but is now writing and publishing his own poems), who is advising him on contract/job stuff... I hope everything works out. Even if I stop considering how much I want him to come back, I just think that one year on an island off the coast of Senegal is enough and that he really actually doesn't belong there and would be much happier back home.

I am finishing up the cupcakes from the picnic. Picnic photos are in the 4 roll batch as well. I don't really expect those to come out great but there are a few from L.A. and Palm Springs that I really want to see...

Dan Single and George Gorrow, Designers, Ksubi:

"Our New Year's resolution is 300 dpi—last year was 72."

Neha


Me, hunting swans.

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My week in Paris was fucking amazing. As soon as my 6 hour flight landed, I hopped on a taxi to Neha's apartment, dropped off my suitcase and we began our Parisian adventure.

Pictures are better than words:





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kim holtermand

I'm going to Paris on Thursday. I'll be there for a week, and then catching a flight to Hong Kong. I'll be there a month. I'll update from Paris and Hong Kong too, I guess. I guess I will have lots of things to talk about and pictures to show probably. Right now I feel mopey because Adam is gone and I feel like there is a huge vacuum sucking away at my insides right now. But I'll see Neha AT LASTTTTTT on Thursday and I'm really excited about that.

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My dreams lately have been dark and quiet: full of snow, and stillness. He whispered The past few months have felt like a dream as I fell asleep. There was a crescent moon the next morning when we woke. He took the train to the airport and I took the train home again. Home at 6:30 in the morning. I don't remember the last time I was awake for sunrise but it peeked pink and warm through the cold stones of manhattan.

we are erasuring a book of poems together. he wrote: Please
view       the world through
the sea

The word "Peonies" is circled for me on page 18.



I wrote: I am               snow.

let me keep          fixed in
Light
           the silence

from phosphorous.tumblr.com & sarahfromthesun.blogspot.com





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1. my hair is sooooooooooooo soft right now. I just switched conditioners back to Pantene Pro-V and subsequently realized that I seriously underrated the value of switching up hair products now and then. It smells so so good and feels so so soft, I wish Adam were here so I could smoother him in it.

2. I spent 7 hrs in the digilab today. whatwasiworkingon?????????????????!!!sswljdfw. no showing yet, hahah. to be honest i've been working on 4 different art projects at once AHH i am going crazy trying to keep up with all of them and being sick and feeling sore all at the same time. :(

3. - guilty pleasure: Across the Universe OST? LET'S DUET, JIM STURGESS!


4. Further proof I need a haircut.

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I have been reading The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
Class started, I'm taking The Future of Imaging, The Photographic Imaginary, and Web Design. (and an Internship.)




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Yesterday was All Points West, which meant Radiohead, Metric, Animal Collective, Chromeo and The Virgins all in a row! That was fun.





Neha, Kate and I had our photos taken a few times by street style photographers. I took a nap during Animal Collective because it had the unfortunate coincidence of coinciding with my nap time (6-6:30 pm). Also, I have a small habit of falling asleep to crazy music.

Lately:

* working on a neat art project for a friend of mine who just left for Africa.
* sleeping.
* melting in sunshowers.
* good food, book shops, film screenings.

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here are the illuminated
cities at the center of me.



new ending:
and all over the world, the beautiful red breezes went on blowing
hand in hand.

some days i leave work early to watch the light stretch across my room. it slips beneath the terrace door at a quarter after seven.

what i miss lately:


( the world is no longer mysterious )

1.

tell me you remember. whisper the name of the place
where we meet again in slumber: the cobalt bank of an underwater cave,
a parking lot on the edge of town, the dim room of our dreams.

2.



3.

I miss film so badly it aches. today i watched people watching me out of the corners of their eyes in a coffee shop. sometimes when i am with certain friends strangers tend to stare -- today was one of those days. i did not order coffee. i sat at a table and felt self conscious and left shortly thereafter. i filled out a survey asking me how often i go out a week and what my favorite books were, and where do i go for brunch/lunch on weekends? i filled up the questions with a dozen places and a dozen books and left some things blank.


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