Holi Festival, India

This looks like the most beautiful festival, how amazing are the colors?

"Colorful days, solemn rituals, joyous celebrations - Holi is a boisterous occasion! Draped in white, people throng the streets in large numbers and smear each other with bright hued powders and squirt coloured water on one another through pichkaris (big syringe-like hand-pumps), irrespective of caste, color, race, sex, or social status; all these petty differences are temporarily relegated to the background and people give into an unalloyed colorful rebellion. There is exchange of greetings, the elders distribute sweets and money, and all join in frenzied dance to the rhythm of the drums."

Let's go next March!!!

Fairy Tales

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
Albert Einstein

there's some things i'll never understand.
i'll never understand the goosebumps i get when first stepping into hot water.
i'll never understand the dreams i have with strangers in them, people i've never met or seen. i'll never understand why people keep going back to what hurt them. but what i do understand is that once we understand everything, the world loses it's shine. curiosity killed the cat, but the cat had nine lives.

Once upon a time,
nobody gave a damn.

Oh, Lili

So I just discovered Lili St Cyr
She's gorgeous!
Bettie Page was actually less known than Lili St. Cyr during their careers, and yet now I can find books and magazines, trading cards and stickers dedicated to Bettie. So I began researching Lili St. Cyr on my own.
Here is a woman who was unconventional- in beauty and attitude, and who deserves a place in history alongside those who are remembered.

Giallo

The 'Giallo' genre is one that evolves around sexuality, violence, suspense, aesthetics and fashion to name a couple of elements. Named after Italian suspense and thriller publications with a yellow (giallo) cover, it has become one of the most interesting film genres of its time. The giallo movies gained great popularity in the sixties, with directors such as Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Mario Bava. What makes these movies particularly interesting is that the narrative isn’t the main focus. The visual aesthetics are equally important, maybe even more important. All these things combined result in beautiful but horrific thrillers/horrors with very thin storylines.

Now, many years after it’s peak, a new generation of Giallo lovers has risen. Two of them, Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani, decided to make a Giallo movie themselves and succeeded. Amer is one of the most visually astonishing movies I have ever seen. Every scene is a moving picture. Composition, styling, color, framing, everything is in it's place. It’s an experience, the directors wanted to stimulate all five of the senses, so expect spot-on sound editing, intense cuts, an amazing soundtrack and mind-boggling visuals.