Dissertation tips...

Oh if I must.... 

Etsy

Movie stills from the new Great Gatsby...

In the midst of essay insanity and endless disseration based chat I had completely forgotten that this was being filmed by Baz Lurhmann. Much to my disappointment it's not going to be released until the end of next year but here are some of the first images that have been released. Leonardo Di Caprio plays Gatsby with Toby Maguire as Nick Carraway and Carey Mulligan as Daisy.  Genuinely wish I could have lived then - no one does glamour quite like Gatsby. 

L x

"He wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was."
The Great Gatsby

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Grecian Mini Break???

Life is unbelieeeeeevably dull right now,  the weather is horrific, and if I attempt to contemplate the amount of work that I have to get done in the next couple of weeks I might actually bring on some kind of mental and/or physical breakdown. Nonetheless in moments of extreme boredom while gazing out of the window at the builders having yet another fag break I like to envisage other places I would rather be.. today is Kephalonia the setting for the one of my favourite books, Capitan Corelli's Mandolin. Yes the film is beautiful and I do have a rather large place in my heart for Nicholas Cage, but the book trumps it every time. This cover designed by Rob Ryan is also amazing. Enjoy!

"It is a light that seems unmediated either by the air or the stratosphere. It is completely virgin, it produces overwhelming clarity of focus, it has heroic strength and brilliance. It exposes colours in their original prelapsarian state as though straight from the imagination of God in his youngest days, when He still believed that all was good. The dark green of the pines is unfathomably and retreatingly deep, the ocean viewed from the top of the cliff is platonic in its presentation of azure and turquoise, emerald, viridian and lapsis lazuli"

L x

Jobs advice

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.” -Steve Jobs [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]

What a wise and wonderful man... 

L x 

Tim Walker's scrap books are my constant inspiration. I would love to live in his imagination (in the least creepy way possible!) 

Lx

I have so little time to do anything other than work at the moment, so the blog posts are going to have to be brief! Here is a recent page from my sketch book - when I went home I rediscovered my much loved typewriter which unfortunately couldn't make it up to Durham. Also discovered Felicity Brown's work which is just stunning... more to come on her later! 

L xxx

{Willa Cather - O'Pioneers!}

Heard this beautiful quote in my American Fiction lecture this afternoon, it seems to epitomise the spirit of America for its pioneers with its endless sense of possibility....

 

Beautiful butterflies

"Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it."
 Donna Tartt (The Secret History)