Caffè Corretto

(Research credit goes to Russell Payne)

Helen Keller, born on June 27, 1880, experiences dance for the first time at Martha Graham’s studio – a goosebump-inducing account.

so his friend goes to Germany to study abroad for 3 months, right? and she’s studied German in school, but she certainly isn’t fluent, and she never put a ton of effort into it, just a normal amount. And when she gets to Germany, her host family doesn’t speak English. at all. not a word. two adults and four children and none of them are speaking english. it’s absolute hell to get by, she’s constantly gesturing and enunciating and having to speak perfect German (they weren’t very good at understanding her unless it was perfect) and it’s three tiring months of nonstop German action. and on the last day they’re sitting at the dinner table and the father turns to her and says in wonderfully fluent english, “so I’d say your German’s improved quite a bit since you got here.”

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Zerkalo [The Mirror] (1975, Andrei Tarkovsky)

i believe in jean cocteau.

I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story. -Federico Fellini

“well shake it shake it shake it baby now!” (paris, 1965)

Marcel Duchamp (via wnq-art)

Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival. 1970.

Allen Ginsberg singing to a group of hippies on the beach in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, pic by Julian Wasser