July 16, 2012 • 1,153 notes • theniftyfifties
theniftyfifties: Sophia Loren

theniftyfifties:

Sophia Loren

July 16, 2012 • 1,509 notes • mattybing1025
directingfilm: By the time I got the role in Taxi Driver, I’d already made more stuff than De Niro or Martin Scorsese. I’d been working from the time I was three years old. So even though I was only twelve, I felt like I was the veteran there. De Niro took me aside before we started filming. He kept picking me up from my hotel and taking me to different diners. The first time he basically didn’t say anything. He would just, like, mumble. The second time he started to run lines with me, which was pretty boring because I already knew the lines. The third time, he ran lines with me again and now I was really bored. The fourth time, he ran lines with me, but then he started going off on these completely different ideas within the scene, talking about crazy things and asking me to follow in terms of improvisation. So we’d start with the original script and then he’d go off on some tangent and I’d have to follow, and then it was my job to eventually find the space to bring him back to the last three lines of the text we’d already learned. It was a huge revelation for me, because until that moment I thought being an actor was just acting naturally and saying the lines someone else wrote. Nobody had ever asked me to build a character. The only thing they’d ever done to direct me was to say something like “Say it faster” or “Say it slower.” So it was a whole new feeling for me, because I realized acting was not a dumb job. You know, I thought it was a dumb job. Somebody else writes something and then you repeat it. Like, how dumb is that? There was this moment, in some diner somewhere, when I realized for the first time that it was me who hadn’t brought enough to the table. And I felt this excitement where you’re all sweaty and you can’t eat and you can’t sleep. Changed my life. ~ Jodie Foster

directingfilm:

By the time I got the role in Taxi Driver, I’d already made more stuff than De Niro or Martin Scorsese. I’d been working from the time I was three years old. So even though I was only twelve, I felt like I was the veteran there.

De Niro took me aside before we started filming. He kept picking me up from my hotel and taking me to different diners. The first time he basically didn’t say anything. He would just, like, mumble. The second time he started to run lines with me, which was pretty boring because I already knew the lines. The third time, he ran lines with me again and now I was really bored. The fourth time, he ran lines with me, but then he started going off on these completely different ideas within the scene, talking about crazy things and asking me to follow in terms of improvisation.

So we’d start with the original script and then he’d go off on some tangent and I’d have to follow, and then it was my job to eventually find the space to bring him back to the last three lines of the text we’d already learned.

It was a huge revelation for me, because until that moment I thought being an actor was just acting naturally and saying the lines someone else wrote. Nobody had ever asked me to build a character. The only thing they’d ever done to direct me was to say something like “Say it faster” or “Say it slower.” So it was a whole new feeling for me, because I realized acting was not a dumb job. You know, I thought it was a dumb job. Somebody else writes something and then you repeat it. Like, how dumb is that?

There was this moment, in some diner somewhere, when I realized for the first time that it was me who hadn’t brought enough to the table. And I felt this excitement where you’re all sweaty and you can’t eat and you can’t sleep.

Changed my life.

~ Jodie Foster

July 16, 2012 • 591 notes • theniftyfifties
theniftyfifties: Elizabeth Taylor

theniftyfifties:

Elizabeth Taylor

July 16, 2012 • 430 notes • vintage-retro
theniftyfifties: Models in cocktail dresses, 1950s.

theniftyfifties:

Models in cocktail dresses, 1950s.

July 16, 2012 • 201 notes • theniftyfifties
theniftyfifties: Deborah Kerr in ’From Here to Eternity’, 1953.

theniftyfifties:

Deborah Kerr in ’From Here to Eternity’, 1953.

July 16, 2012 • 469 notes • theniftyfifties
theniftyfifties: Mary Jane Russell wearing a dress by Adele Simpson, 1956. Style

theniftyfifties:

Mary Jane Russell wearing a dress by Adele Simpson, 1956.

Style

July 10, 2012 • 30 notes • vimeo.com

vimeo:

I need one dollar (New York City) by Gioacchino Petronicce

Tour one of the worlds most bustling cities in Gioacchino Petronicce’s visceral interpretation of NYC. We’re obsessed with the awesome sound design in this piece — earphones recommended! 

June 27, 2012
Mexico’s Zocalo right now!

Mexico’s Zocalo right now!

June 27, 2012

The problem…

With a world that will not look at itself as what it has become is that we live in constant disappointment. But we do it to ourselves, we keep trying to believe in the old system, we patch it where there’s cracks but soon those cracks won’t be patch able. Only by accepting that, like house says, everyone lies, will we be able to start looking for the truth. First within ourselves and once we find it there, and decide to live from that truth, the world will start changing. That system we are so disappointed with, might just start becoming what we truly need.

June 27, 2012
Lucas in the morning, waiting for some action.

Lucas in the morning, waiting for some action.

June 26, 2012 • 25 notes • slowlydrifting
tcyia: Nikolay Tikhomirov Safety.

tcyia:

Nikolay Tikhomirov

Safety.

May 9, 2012 • 1,605 notes • abeautifulmess.typepad.com

justanotherblondeasiangirl:

Here’s a brand new, extra magical hair how-to by Katie of Skunkboy. 1.Start with a dramatic side part.  2. Separate a small section of hair on the side. This will be the beginning of your braid. 3.Taking that section, separate it into two smaller sections. 4. Using a fishtail braid method, begin braiding. 5. Continue the french braid until you reach behind the ear. Then finish your braid all the way down using the regular fishtail method. 6. Gather hair into a side ponytail and add accessories like headbands, barrettes or flowers! 

(via iamglaziemae)

May 9, 2012 • 2,451 notes • cremedelacraft.com
truebluemeandyou: DIY No Sew Pillowcase Tote. Really clever. Tutorial from Creme de la Craft here.  

truebluemeandyou:

DIY No Sew Pillowcase Tote. Really clever. Tutorial from Creme de la Craft here.  

May 9, 2012 • 638 notes • blogdelanine.blogspot.com
I WANT THIS.  truebluemeandyou: DIY Inspiration: Flower Mural Painted Freehand. I am terrible at drawing - that’s why I made sure that I was really good at photography and photoshop. Check out the wallpaper that inspired her mural. Mural and link to wallpaper at Geninne’s Art Blog here.

I WANT THIS. 

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Inspiration: Flower Mural Painted Freehand. I am terrible at drawing - that’s why I made sure that I was really good at photography and photoshop. Check out the wallpaper that inspired her mural. Mural and link to wallpaper at Geninne’s Art Blog here.

May 9, 2012 • 36,496 notes • simplyseasons