Stealing Beauty Revisited

A little over two years ago, when I first started this blog, I posted about one of my quintessential summer films, Stealing Beauty. You know those films that the mood takes you to watch only at certain times throughout the year? When June approaches, I find myself thinking about this film, prompting me to seek out my DVD copy and thus daydream the afternoon away.

I've finally gotten around to screencapping the whole film. Too many beautiful shots of Liv Tyler, the Tuscan countryside and crumbling Italian architecture, only a fraction of which I've included below. I wouldn't be surprised if Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris, The Dreamers) constructed this coming-of-age story solely around the youthful Liv Tyler, she is in practically every scene, and the subject of many, many close-ups.

Click on the images to enlarge them, more on my flickr. I have also uploaded 700+ screencaps here (remove xx). Please credit me if using. I am working on a slow connection so please be patient while I upload different parts of the film.

Other films I have screencapped or profiled:
Life without Zoe (1989)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Wuthering Heights (2011)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Badlands (1973)
Dazed and Confused (1993)

A month of instagram #2

I'm hooked on instagram. No pictures of coffees ahead.

L-R, from top:

1. Going to see Tiny Furniture, finally!
2. Letters to reply to, from 3 different continents
3. Part of my duties at my internship, is closing up the galleries at night, abandoned galleries are eerie in the evenings
4. Townes van Zandt matched my mood that weekend
5. Orange nails & Liberty x Morris print kindle cover on the Sligo-Dublin bus
6. Grass stains from making daisy chains
7. The weather was glorious last week in Sligo (Calry Church spire, The Mall)
8. Dinner with an old teacher and friend, discussing art & Venice
9. That mysterious house on the hill (The Mall, Sligo)
10. New favourite drinks combination, thanks Tricia!

You can follow me, I'm illbeyourmirror.

Grainy memories

I got a disposable camera developed a few months ago, and doing some tidying up, or moving stuff around my room, I found some other pictures from my undergrad years that made me "aww", so I scanned them in and shared them with the appropriate people and now I'm sharing them with you, internet, because its a bank holiday weekend and I have no plans.

Exhibit one: Internet friends become real life friends.
Katypapertalk & I

Bethany (of the Arched Eyebow) & I

Kimmage, A Good Friday party, 2010 (I'll keep you guessing on that one, but it did not include prayers). This was around the time the Florence Welch comparisons started.

The living-in-student-residences days. A mock Come Dine with Me party, 2010. Tara & I, and a delicious desert.

Rathmines, 2010. I think there was absinthe involved.

Rathmines, 2010. Ironic charity shop shirts, and when Seán was still a social smoker. Naughty.

Soho, November 2011. Maison Bertaux. A hairer, sexier Seán. No dairy.

Sometime in early 2010, Sligo. Accurately surmises my relationship with my younger brother. Mutual ribbing. (He fights back now, btw).