After a loooooooong pause I am finally back, but just to say that florethoughts won’t exist anymore.
I will come back with a brand new domain as soon as I manage to buy one 
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I guess that’s it for now. Be back soon with more photos, books, movies and more.
I’ve been wanting to see Dancer in the Dark for a long time and I must say I wasn’t at all disappointed. Lars von Trier, Björk, Catherine Deneuve, good music and a heart breaking story – a pretty good combination. Also, the documentary-style appearance makes you feel more close to the characters, which is something I really like in movies.
The story follows an European woman – Salma (Björk) who moved in the United States hoping to raise money for an operation that could save her son from a life of darkness. Between her jobs, taking care of her son and the illness that would eventually make her blind, she finds time for drama classes and daydreaming. Unfortunately, all her struggle is about to be destroyed by the man who is renting her a trailer near his family’s house.
It’s actually kind of an ordinary story, if you stop to think about it for a moment – a poor woman trying to save up money for her son, someone trying to steal that money and death. But Lars von Trier managed to turn that into an amazing musical drama. You can actually almost feel the poor woman’s pain and despair, especially in the end. It was quite a nice end really, not nice in a happy ending kind of way, but more in a theatrical way.
Selma: You like the movies, don’t you?
Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals.
Selma: But isn’t it annoying when they do the last song in the films?
Bill Houston: Why?
Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big… and the camera goes like out of the roof… and you just know it’s going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song… and the film would just go on forever.
Since the weather is warm I feel really energetic today, so I thought I’d post one of the songs I like from The Prodigy. It gives me more energy (or maybe that’s just the coke I’m drinking 
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Anyway, the video is nice too.
Enjoy!
I finally managed to get my film developed. These were the first photos made with my new film camera, so they were mainly tests. But since I like how most of the photos came out I will try to make more of them on film from now on .
For those of you who care, the camera is a Canon EOS 500.
The series is entitled home.
I know I haven’t posted anything for a while..but I didn’t have any interesting things to write about. Haven’t finished the book, haven’t seen any movies, haven’t looked for any good artists… But I have some new photos now, from the photo shoot for Baraka’s Butterfly
Hope you’ll like them.
Model, make-up and clothes: Irina Irimia (Baraka’s Butterfly)
Photographer: me
I was reading Cristina’s blog earlier and she had some images of looks she created on Looklet … and since I am bored I thought I’d give it a try and “play stylist”. Here’s what came out:
Well..that’s it…
directed by Steven Shainberg
Since the book I am reading now has more than 700 pages and my reading time is limited and I felt like writing something here, I thought I’d try to write about one of my favorite movies.
Secretary is a story about an unconventional love between Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and her boss, E. Edward Grey (James Spader). After being released from a mental institution, Lee gets back to her dysfunctional family and starts trying to have a normal life. After a difficult beginning caused by her alcoholic father, she manages to get a job as a secretary at Mr Grey’s law firm. At first, her lack of experience and social awkwardness seems to bother Mr Grey, but after a while we realize that he is attracted by her submissive behavior.
We witness the start of a relationship between the two characters. Many would describe it as weird or way out there, but who are we to decide what’s weird and what’s not. People act the best way they can at any given moment. I think I wrote about “normal” before, but even if I didn’t, I don’t really feel like blabbering about some things most people wouldn’t care about. So, back to our story. I really like a phrase used to describe the synopsis on the movie’s official site :
The tender beauty of two people coming slowly together in a mutually quirky and unconventional harmony is captured perfectly.
I’m not going to try to put that in any different way.
After a while, Lee gets fired because of Edward’s shame in what he was feeling and doing. Pressured by her family and boyfriend she accepts the latter’s marriage proposal. But, just before the wedding, she runs away to Mr Grey’s office and declares her love to him by sitting on his desk chair for three days without moving. That’s quite a love declaration, right?
He finally comes after her and they live happily ever after. The End
Imogen Heap – Clear the Area from the album Speak for Yourself (2005)
directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Sometimes I like watching a movie I’ve seen years back because I am curious to find out if I still like it. So, today I decided to watch Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain. And yes, I still like it
Amélie grew up in a rather cold family environment. Her mother died when she was little and her father touched her only for the monthly check-ups. She didn’t have friends and her only dream was to make enough money so she could leave their home and live by herself.
After many years, we find her working as a waitress and living alone in the city. One day, after finding an old box filled with memories she decides to find the owner and return the mystery box. That was the day when Amélie found her destiny. From that day on she started planning and scheming to help people around her. It would be nice if more people would do nice things for others, try to help them in any way they can, wouldn’t it?
In the middle of her adventure she falls in love with a guy named Nino (Mathieu Kassovitz), who is working at a sex shop/video store and a ghost train in the amusement park. She decides to play a little “hide-and-seek” game with Nino instead of just meeting face to face, but they end up together eventually
You know, I wonder, are there people who actually do that? Play little games like that to get someone’s attention? Maybe they are, who knows.
It’s funny, romantic and a bit weird. I love the colors and images. I like Amelie’s character, though I really like the actress that plays her too – Audrey Tatou. She has this pretty, innocent face that makes her look adorable. I also like Nino’s hobby – collecting thrown away photos from photo boots and putting them all together in a catalog. I always found observing people as interesting – looking at their faces, gestures, listening to their voice and looking at their photos.
Memorable scenes:
Narrator: Amélie still seeks solitude. She amuses herself with silly questions about the world below, such as “How many people are having an orgasm right now?”
[scenes of various orgasms taking place]
Amélie: Fifteen.
For those who are not familiar with the term, hdr means high dynamic range. For more information on hdr imaging click here.
