Mercutio is a thing of Beauty

Band Convention, Virginia, Allan Grant, Life, May 1953

Keith Haring painted Grace Jones for New Year’s Eve at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC, while Eartha Kitt watched in admiration in 1987.

“Veil of Smoke” by Unknown Photographer ◇ Cigarette smoke caught between transparency and touch

Here's some paintings I've done of people looking at screens. These are all available as prints on Inprnt: Art Prints by Ollie Jones - INPRNT I'm also selling a limited edition print of my piece 'Producer' at Black Dragon Press: Producer – Black Dragon Press

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lol i litereally stopped reading right before one of his most important quotes. including it with a lot of added context because i always see that quote on its own without the rest of the conversation which is really fascinating.

Lugu Lake in June, Yunnan province, China. Photo by 阿五在路上.

Giambattista Valli | Spring/Summer 2023

Jason de Caires Taylor, The Silent Evolution, Isla Mujeres, Mexico. There’s a great video of the installation here.

I wish I knew how to quit you. Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee

« True translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal. One reads and rereads the words of the original text in order to penetrate through them to reach, to touch, the vision or experience that prompted them. One then gathers up what one has found there and takes this quivering almost wordless “thing” and places it behind the language it needs to be translated into. And now the principal task is to persuade the host language to take in and welcome the “thing” that is waiting to be articulated. »

— John Berger, “Writing is an off-shoot of something deeper”