Violet Frasier

Writer, filmmaker. Inventor of #Violetology.
OPHELIA'S ROOM & NOW DARKNESS fundraising trailers.
pic: Rodeo Bar & star stools
The truth knows no boundaries.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

For those of you new to this: my #OpheliasRoom fundraising trailer: http://t.co/zb698TxlDf telling the tragic story of the renowned Ophelia.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Wilfred Lawson is extremely moving in his portrayal of Pastor Hall. To those familiar w/ 40's British films, Lawson will be a familiar face. However this performance stands out:

https://t.co/m5gztlxPOR

Scene from Pastor Hall:

https://t.co/kIJ7v1zxvu

#Violetology #VioletOnFilm

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Wilfred Lawson is extremely moving in his portrayal of Pastor Hall. To those familiar w/ 40's British films, Lawson will be a familiar face. However this performance stands out:

https://t.co/m5gztlxPOR

Scene from Pastor Hall:

https://t.co/kIJ7v1zxvu

#Violetology #VioletOnFilm

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Interesting... I've never seen this early Hitchcock before.

#Violetology #VioletOnFilm #Hitch

[Manu @manuthebest58]

Alfred Hitchcock's MURDER! (1930) marked one of the first uses of voice-over to portray an interior monologue.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

@gjeni_u Lovely, mystical feel to this painting.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

This is a reminder: I'm determined to plant some Peonies.

#Violetology

[Once Upon A Time @Art_VintageNH]

Still Life with Peonies, 1946 ~ Dorothy Thornhill

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

@jeepers34 There are those who claim to have seen these faeries... I don't claim to, but assume enchanted forests are full of them...

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

@jeepers34

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Breathe the air of enchantment,
In a forest made for us;
Here is where our souls will dwell
Long after our bones are dust.

🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1880)

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

#Violetology

[Gwydir Castle @JudyCorbett]

We reseeded this area with a clover mix a year or two ago. Bees all over it today and it smells as sweet as any rose.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

@jeepers34 Ah! Nice to hear from you... I was beginning to wonder if the faeries took you or something (!).

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Never forget...

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Dr. Naomi Wolf: "PFIZER DELIBERATELY TRIED TO KILL US ALL."

"They killed the babies & they knew it. They poisoned the breast milk & they knew it...They lowered the sperm count & they knew it."

"This is satanic on a massive level...They knew they were doing this."

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Harold Bloom:

“Why read? Because you can know, intimately, only a very few people, and perhaps you never know them at all."

“We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear..."

#Violetology

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

If you want to live more than just one life, read voraciously. Reading lets you live the lives of others.

When you read a book about a physical activity, your brain simulates it as if you were actually doing it.

Neuroscience has shown that reading about running, for instance, engages the motor cortex.

Reading activates the same networks that process real emotions and bodily movements — the characters' experiences feel like your own. In a very real sense, they ARE your own experiences.

Deep reading also alters brain connectivity in a way that persists for days after finishing the book. A good novel physically reshapes parts of your brain.

There's a reason the great men of history read the great men who came before...

"An illiterate person who dies, let us say at my age, has lived one life, whereas I have lived the lives of Napoleon, Caesar, d'Artagnan. So I always encourage young people to read books, because it's an ideal way to develop a great memory and a ravenous multiple personality. And then at the end of your life you have lived countless lives, which is a fabulous privilege."

― Umberto Eco

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

#Violetology #OpheliasRoom

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Breathe the air of enchantment,
In a forest made for us;
Here is where our souls will dwell
Long after our bones are dust.

🎨 Ivan Shishkin (1880)

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Follow this account @SheldrickTrust, and one learns more and more about how the caregivers at Sheldrick learn to care for orphaned baby elephants (and other species), taking cues from the babies themselves.

#Violetology #SheldrickWildlifeTrust #WildlifePreservation

[Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @SheldrickTrust]

If a days’ old baby arrives in our care, chances are they might be assigned Joseph as their carer. He’s helped raise Toto, Korbessa and Lemeki to name a few, and each one requires a completely different approach.

As he says “We have to learn their favourite things, what they like and what they don't like. I remember when Toto was a tiny boy and he started to scream in his room in the night. In the wild, elephants sleep outside with their babies. I realised that to be inside was new for him. I started to bring him out in the night, while people were sleeping. Sometimes I brought his mattress out, so we could sleep under the stars.”

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

#Violetology

... I've had many robins nesting near my house. Last year doves nested.... I've been thinking it's time to set things up for some bluebirds... I've read there is a bird that competes w/ the bluebird since it's a similar size, so need to watch for that.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A hundred years ago, the eastern bluebird was one of the most common birds in the country. Then it nearly disappeared.

Here's the problem: a bluebird can't build its own home. Neither can a chickadee or a wren. They're cavity nesters with no tools to dig a hole, so they move into ones that already exist: an old woodpecker hole, a rotted knot in a tree, a hollow in a dead limb, a soft spot in a wooden fence post.

Then we launched a relentless effort to tidy the world and put everything in its right place.

We cut down the dead trees, the "ugly" snags, and hauled them off. We swapped the old wooden fence posts for metal. We cleaned up every hollow stump and dying branch. And just like that, the nesting spots were gone.

Worse, two birds we'd imported from Europe, house sparrows and starlings, muscled into the few cavities left and threw the bluebirds out. By the 1970s, bluebird numbers had fallen by nearly 90%.

Here's where things began to turn. Ordinary people started nailing wooden boxes to posts. Just boxes, with a hole the right size. And the bluebirds came back, all the way back, one of the greatest comebacks in American conservation, built almost entirely by regular folks in their own yards with a little lumber.

So here's where you come in. A nest box isn't a cute decoration. It's a replacement for the dead tree we took down, a hole in the world for a bird that can't make its own.

Put one up, with the correct hole size for the bird you want, on a smooth pole a predator can't climb, and you stop being a bystander to that story.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

#Violetology #VioletOnArt

[Gustav Klimt @artistgklimt]

The Tall Poplar Trees II (1900) transforms nature into a soaring, vertical drama. By letting these giants tower over the viewer, Klimt emphasizes a sense of majestic height and light, effectively reducing the vast sky to a secondary, supporting character. #artbots #klimt

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

#Violetology #LoveOfLive

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Leo Tolstoy once said...

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness."

🎨 Isaac Levitan (1885)

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

Birthday remembrance for Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born on this day in Glasgow in 1868.

... you do see the Japanese influence here.

#Violetology #AllThingsScottish

[Being Scottish @BeingScots]

On this day in 1868: legendary Scottish architect & artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Glasgow. Alongside his wife Margaret MacDonald, he was part of "The Glasgow Four," pioneering the UK's Art Nouveau movement. This stunning statue of him is by Andy Scott.

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

#Violetology #LoveOfLife

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Putting up a few pounds of broccoli from the garden today. Cut, soak, steam blanch, ice bath, shake off the water, flash freeze, bag, and put in the freezer with the last batch of meat chickens, last year’s peaches, and strategic raw milk reserves).

[Del Bigtree @delbigtree]

What a “pinch me” moment it was to address the Parliament of Poland. They were really great people and I’m so honored to have had the opportunity- these discussions are so important.

I’m running on fumes and a little behind on the posting, but I can’t wait to share my adventures in France. Fun fact- France had 50 theaters showing An Inconvenient Study! The world is changing.

More to come! Thanks for following along.

@AnInconvntStudy

[Violet Frasier @keepingviolet]

TCM's "Star of the Month," #MarilynMonroe; article by Raquel Stetcher.

https://t.co/XCQiyMovOU

... still fascinating to watch after all these years.

https://t.co/3aMQWEA3zu

#Violetology #VioletOnFilm