“We’re so often told that art can’t really change anything. But I think it can. It shapes our ethical landscapes; it opens us to the interior lives of others. It is a training ground for possibility. It makes plain inequalities, and it offers other ways of living. Don’t you want it, to be impregnate with all that light? And what will happen if you are?”
– Olivia Laing, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Because I keep running into people who missed it: Pacific Rim is literally an allegory for the effects of man-made climate change. That's why the Serizawa scale is modeled on the Saffir-Simpson scale used to measure hurricanes. That's why our pollution is linked to the reason the Precursors started sending in kaiju. That's why Raleigh Becket literally refers to fighting kaiju as fighting the hurricane.
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via podencos)
“deus est mortali iuvare mortalem.”
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“For a person to help a person, that is god.”
Pliny the Elder, Natural History II.18
Mount Fuji seen from the International Space Station.
BRENDAN FRASER accepts the award for ‘Best Actor’ at the 28th Critics Choice Awards (January 15, 2023)
-Good neighbours-