Toby Ziff

photographer / director / design dealer / leeds fan

[Digi @digiii]

there is unlimited power in believing things will work out, even if you don’t know how or when

[Taste of Cinema @davidcinema]

The 1970s is widely accepted as a peak decade for cinema. We present you 10 Great 1970s American Movie Classics You Probably Haven't Seen: https://t.co/2t8pwBurT7

[love drops @lovedropx]

Franz Kafka, one of his more positive thoughts lol

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Nobody Knows proves that cinema can find the sacred in the ordinary

[cinemariviera @cinemariviera]

A Summer's Tale (1996) / Éric Rohmer

[Carla ❁ @shannonlada]

Un estudiante de cine le pidió consejos a John Waters y esta fue su respuesta.

Muy muy él 👌🏻💜

[Benjamin Luk @benjaminluk]

To be a filmmaker, you have to watch a shitload of movies. I’d even encourage a fuckton.

[Toby Ziff @tobyziff]

@stawdinger Still avail? :)

[VIKARE @vikare06]

Sometimes there is a mandate from heaven to make great cinema and this was the last time it was given.

[Ganeshen🌶️ @Ganeshen5]

the type of shots that rewires our brain chemistry

[Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg]

🚨 Anne Hathaway has officially joined @letterboxd and Tarkovsky’s MIRROR is one of her four favorites 🚨

[Zak @zakfilm]

Daniel Blumberg winning the Oscar for best score for The Brutalist was so deserved.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You’re looking at 300,000 tonnes of stone, lifted into the sky by hand, without a single engine or electric tool on site.

The builders powered their only crane by walking inside a giant wooden wheel, 25 meters tall (picture a hamster wheel scaled up to an 8-story building), hauling 2-tonne blocks up on ropes and pulleys. This is Cologne Cathedral in Germany. Started in 1248, finished in 1880. 632 years.

Getting stone up to 157 meters, roughly a 50-story skyscraper, without modern tools came down to a few structural tricks. Older stone buildings relied on thick, heavy walls to hold everything up, which limited windows, ceiling height, and how tall you could go. Cologne’s builders did something different. They used pointed arches instead of round ones, which push weight straight down rather than sideways. They ran stone ribs across the ceiling to concentrate all the load onto a few specific points, like a skeleton. And they braced the outside of the walls with stone arms (you can see them in the photo, angled against the building) that catch any remaining sideways force and channel it into the ground.

That let them make the walls paper-thin. Thin enough to be mostly glass. The building has 10,000 square meters of windows, the largest window area of any building like it on Earth. The ceiling inside sits 43 meters up, about the height of a 14-story apartment building, held up by walls that look like they shouldn’t be able to hold up anything.

The crane they used to lift stones stayed perched on the unfinished south tower for 400 years after construction ran out of money in the 1400s. Entire generations were born and died looking up at this idle wooden crane on a half-built building. It was Cologne’s most famous landmark for longer than the United States has been a country.

Construction restarted in 1842 and the new architects pulled out the original blueprints from 1248. Followed them exactly. Same design, 600-year gap. The building was finished in 1880 and it briefly became the tallest structure on Earth.

Then WWII. Cologne got hit with 262 bombing raids. The city was flattened. The cathedral took 14 direct hits from explosive bombs and about 70 fire bombs. Never collapsed. One reason: crews had already pulled out the stained glass for safekeeping, so the walls were full of empty window frames. Blast waves pass through holes instead of knocking walls over. And the pointed arches funneled whatever force hit the structure straight down into foundations built to handle earthquakes. The most delicate-looking building in the city turned out to be the hardest to destroy.

It costs 30,000 euros a day to keep standing. About 100 stonemasons, sculptors, and roofers work on it full-time. It hasn’t been free of scaffolding even once since 1880.

German law says every building needs a price tag on paper. Since the cathedral can never be bought or sold, they had to pick a number. They went with 27 euros.

[Nationalist @euronationalizt]

They don’t make movies like this anymore

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

When they ask about the importance of photography, show them this video

[Cinesthesia @cinesthesian]

THE GREAT BEAUTY (2013)
Paolo Sorrentino
Source: Criterion Blu-ray

[Into The Forest Dark @ElliottBlackwe3]

Cannot wait to see the documentary Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World.

[𝔹𝕀𝔾 𝕃𝕀𝔹ℝ𝔸 ✨ @venusianhunty]

Currently sobbing over this video🥹 they been best friends for 50 YEARS