Enjoyed this article on Michael Curtiz' use of shadows. Watching a Netflix documentary on Elvis Presley I realised that I've never seen Curtiz' King Creole starring Elvis (still from KC in black and white above). Need to correct that.
2 The kindest people
“The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the sounds that have experienced so much at the hands of life, they are the ones who have dug themselves out of the dark, who have fought to turn every loss into a lesson. The kindest people do not just exist – they choose to soften where circumstance has tried to harden them, they choose to believe in goodness, because they have seen firsthand why compassion is so necessary. They have seen firsthand why tenderness is so important in this world.”
– Bianca Sparacino (via Swiss Miss)
3 Maya
Author and poet Maya Angelou on how hard it is to make it look easy:
"I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy. Of course, there are those critics — New York critics as a rule — who say, Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer. Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language."
Source: The Paris Review Interviews: Volume IV (via James Clear)
4 Austin on Star Wars
Fun group of random thoughts as Austin shows SW Episode 4 to his 8 year old.
5 Walking!
The benefits of my walking around the Sports Park at lunchtime (not pictured above) are explained here.
Overtime: The story of Mary Ann Vecchio - the 14 year old girl in that famous Kent State shooting photo (yes - 14 - I was unaware of that as well).
