William Weightman

Reading books & taking photos & writing things
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[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

The average American has 3 eggs, but has demand for 15. So here are 12 photographs of eggs. I am a business man.

[orph @orphcorp]

kid was cooking

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

using the kierkegaard dash to show i’m human

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

By the way, here's the Tarkovsky explaining why he holds his shots as long as he does.

You don't necessarily have to agree with it, but it is his filmmaking philosophy. If you remove it, it is not a Tarkovsky film in any meaningful sense.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Here's the thing.

The stillness of Tarkovsky's images is essential to his filmmaking. He wrote about the importance of stillness and time in his movies. He described filmmaking as "sculpting in time."

These movements are antithetical to the entire point of a Tarkovsky film.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

The globalization of news has made the whole world’s problems our problem, fostering a sense of powerlessness that’s led many to redefine morality from “doing good” to merely “feeling bad”.

C. S. Lewis noted this in his 1946 letter to Bede Griffiths:

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Bill Watterson, the genius behind Calvin and Hobbes, on creating a meaningful life

[Just Joyce @johnstonglenn]

December 4 is International Day of Banks. Both James Joyce and TS Eliot worked for banks and Eliot continued to do so even after The Waste Land was published. Ezra Pound said "it is a crime against literature to let him waste eight hours vitality per diem in that bank."

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@IneluctableQuak It’s a cracking record!

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@IneluctableQuak So many gems within these pages!

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This is everything. In 2006, students from Xavier High School in NYC sent Kurt Vonnegut five letters asking the writer to visit their class. What he wrote back is one of the best things ever:

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

If you see this, and if you agree that no child should be a victim of violence, I humbly ask you to share this, to help others see.

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@timmwinto Godspeed

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Kurt Vonnegut, go into the arts

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@beingvarious So wonderful, Lucy! Congrats!

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@cmilesb Hi Chris, I would be really interested to read 🤓 [email protected]

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@inthefade Invalid Litter Dept. tops it surely!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Gerald Murnane’s compact and highly finished style distinguishes him from other writers—Proust, W. G. Sebald, Rachel Cusk—who render the act of contemplation. https://t.co/tdHOQvXSwz

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@mervatim Such a wonderful conversation. Gerald seemed chuffed!

[William Weightman @Will_Weight]

@OhDannyBoyShhh @beingvarious Danny! Congrats mate, this is such a brilliant achievement 👏🏻