Julius C. Tora

An enthusiast of the avant-garde; an eternal student of the arts and humanities.

[Julius C. Tora @JuliusTora]

My exact sentiments about life are pondered here so eloquently with vigor and might. If I were so effective as my forebears, I too might reach the summit, come hell or high water.

(This scene is from RED, a play by American writer John Logan about the artist Mark Rothko.)

[Julius C. Tora @JuliusTora]

“All sins are attempts to fill voids.” – Simone Weil

[Julius C. Tora @JuliusTora]

"All addictions are a low-level search for God." – Carl Jung

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"Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion. You just serve a false god." – Unknown

[Julius C. Tora @JuliusTora]

James Gray is finally getting his just deserts with #PaperTiger. He’s always been the sophisticated side of the New Hollywood revival, while P.T. Anderson is its loud, politically overt counterpart. Subtext is key, not didacticism. Gray is our time’s William Friedkin.

[Variety @Variety]

“Paper Tiger” director James Gray says he doesn’t “want to preach” about politics while making the festival rounds for his latest film, starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller:

“All movies are political in one way or another, but I like movies that exist with subtext. I don’t want to preach to you. That’s a polemic. That’s for debate class. The reason we can watch some of those beautiful Hollywood movies from 1940 and still find them moving is because they weren’t trying to teach us a lesson. Not Sunday school. Art is not Sunday school.”

https://t.co/yF5rYMCWdY

[Julius C. Tora @JuliusTora]

The future has taken root in the present.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

This is GPT-6 Astra.

Anything you can do on a computer, Astra can do for you. Fast.

[Julius C. Tora @JuliusTora]

Helen Richey (1909–1947) was the first woman hired as a US airline pilot. In 1933, she set an endurance record of 237 hours aboard the Flying Boudoir. She later set speed and altitude records, flew with Amelia Earhart in the Bendix Race, and served in Europe during World War II.

[Beauty Destroyed @Myblackdiary93]

Amplified Body, Laser Eyes & Third Hand by performance artist Stelarc, 1985

[Take Testosterone @maxyourtest]

War and Peace

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

“No gods, no masters” buddy I will find your god in three questions. Maybe he doesn’t have a name or a book, but you have a god.

[⚡️NEVERDOOMPRO⚡️ @NEVERDOOMPRO]

Don't let this be you.
Make the change.
NEVER DOOM.

[soli @solisolsoli]

Wassily Kandinsky's Dance Curves, 1926

[Asian Cinema Archive @acacinema]

"Slowly, I realized realism in cinema is not the same as realism in life. Cinema has its own realism. The world in cinema is not the real world. It has been crafted. That makes cinema interesting. It's not real. It's closer to dreams. If you treat life as a dream, you can understand this." 

Tsai Ming-liang

[Logan Thompson @Benny_Profane_]

Now for the real shit

[prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️ @mrexits]

Steve Jobs on predicting artificial intelligence in 1985

[Hyperion @Ortgeist]

Mount Vesuvius from the terrace of Villa Astor

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

«Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness»

— Pedro Almodóvar

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

ignore all "alpha male" slop and read this book

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

THIS:

[zander @zander2187]

can u remember this song pls

[✒️ @Literariium]

“The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.”

—— Andrei Tarkovsky

[𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌 @LKpaddy]

David Hockney & William S. Burroughs, Naropa Institute, Boulder, July 22, 1989 • Allen Ginsberg •