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"Find the burn that keeps everything awake." -- Federico Garcia Lorca

A true Master has passed nytimes.com/2026/05/25/art… #RIPSonnyRollins. Walking on West 26th Street

One of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest photographs: “Smoke at the University of Michigan”, 1950

Luigi Ghirri Luzzara (Serie: Paesaggio Italiano) 1985-89 .

"Hope is not a strategy. Luck is not a factor. Fear is not an option." -- James Cameron

Paul Klee Limits of the Mind

David Gonzalez - Dancers in Mott Haven - South Bronx, 1979

A first look at Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘FATHERLAND,’ starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, has been released. Set to premiere in competition at the 79th Cannes Film Festival.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."  -- Anaïs Nin

Chicago Marion Mou 📸

Akira Kurosawa on how Fyodor Dostoevsky was an inspiration for making "Dreams" (1990): "The impetus for 'Dreams' (1990) was a passage in a novel by Dostoyevsky, where he talks about dreams and the fact that they express our deepest fears and greatest hopes, and that this expression takes a shape which is something quite marvelous and unexpected and unimaginable in daily life. So I wrote down on paper a dream from my childhood, and this developed into a “collaboration” with other vivid dreams from various stages of my life. Any description of dreams in mere words cannot capture their expressive power at all: this was the reason I made the film. But to give you an example of the surprise effects that dreams create, the sequence of the dead regiment marching through the tunnel [the fourth dream], which would be completely uninteresting to read about on paper, has in it a dog. And this dog actually represents—this is what I realized upon waking from this particular dream—the dog represents my fear of militarism, because it’s a German shepherd, the type of dog that is used in wartime, and it carries a kind of saddlebag on its back which contains a number of hand grenades. The sound of this dog and its physical appearance were absolutely terrifying to me in my dream. So this is one of the types of things I marvel at, that my fear of militarism, due to the suffering I endured when Japan was under the rule of a militaristic government, takes the form of a dog." (Akira Kurosawa's interview with Fred Marshall, 1993) P.S: On this day, 36 years ago, "Dreams" (1990) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, France.

Garrett Strang

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Helen Frankenthaler Red Hot 2002 .

Mark Rothko, No. 14 ,1963

Dijo una vez Byung-Chul Han: «En el futuro habrá, posiblemente, una profesión que se llamará oyente. Acudiremos al oyente porque, aparte de él, apenas quedará nadie más que nos escuche. Hoy perdemos cada vez más la capacidad de escuchar… Escuchar es un prestar, un dar, un don. Es lo único que le ayuda al otro a hablar.»

"Damn the rules, it's the feeling that counts." -- John Coltrane

Milton Avery (American, 1885-1965) - Reflected Moon, 1959

A stunning timelapse of a lightning storm over Hiratsuka, Japan. 📽: Daichi Fujii

"A man without ethics is a wild beast let loose on the world." -- Albert Camus