BEAUTY

[opiumpoppyfields]

What are:

+ The most beautiful images you've ever seen?

+ The most beautiful songs you've ever heard?

+ The most beautiful films you've ever watched (for story or for pure aethetics)?

+ The most beautiful books or stories you've ever read?

+ What is the most beautiful place you've ever been/seen?

also, if applicable:

+ What is the most beautiful image you have of yourself?

+ What is the most beautiful thing you have created?

Immerse me in beauty. If you read this, please comment, whether I know you or not. It can be as long or as short as you want, but I compel you to share, and I will definitely watch/read/view these things, and then respond. it does not have to be typical beauty. It can be sad, horrifying, or happy, as long as it is stunning to the senses. I don't mean you favourites, necessarily, just the most beautiful.


Here are my own, and I hope you do the same. It's a large list:






These are from my favourite photography book:



Most gorgeous tattoos:



















Vancouver:








I love kissing photos:



I also love underwater shots:







































I love this for some reason:





Awkard legs:









So wonderful:





Oh here we go....







My hero:













I want this outfit, badly








Nothin cuter



Can I look like this please? Even a bit?



Many more here.





The Host of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance

Cantara - Dead Can Dance

In Other Worlds - Azam Ali

(Can't find a youtube video with this song, which sucks because it's amazing)

Ellora - Vas

The Arcane - Arcana (Dead Can Dance cover)

Nahan - Niyaz (Soo good)

Cherry Blossom Girl - Air

Surfing on a Rocket - Air

Tribulations - LCD Soundsystem

Structure - Love is Colder than Death

Ladyboy - Indochine

The Pyramid Song - Radiohead

Open Heart Zoo - Martin Grech

I Wanna Be Adored - Stone Roses

Never - Terranova (I love this so much)

Hearing Damage - Thom Yorke

What's a Girl to Do? - Bat For Lashes

First Transmission - Al-pha-X

Film:

La Belle Verte (RARE - but you can watch it all here. My favourite movie.)
Avatar
Amelie
Mongol
Perfume
Baraka
Planet Earth Series
Galapagos
Thicker Than Water
Gift (Jane's Addiction)
The Road

Books:

Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Blankets - Craig Thompson
Dangerous Angels - Francesca Lia Block
Avigon - Che Gilson
Spilling Open - Sabrina Ward Harrison (and anything else by her)
The Singing Creek Where the Willow Grows - Opal Whiteley
A Natural History of the Senses - Diane Ackerman
St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves - Karen Russell
The Fir Tree - Hans Christian Andersen/Lilli Carre
Pronoia - Rob Brezsny

Places:

Catheral Cove, NZ



Tofino, BC (I miss it)









My favourite self-images:







And my favourite creations:

Comments

[popepogo.livejournal.com]

ah, i wish my computer didn't suck so much; it closes the internet every time i try to use photobucket OR youtube.

but to me, one of the most beautiful things can be found by searching "henry rollins death of joe cole" on youtube :)

[spikeygrrl.livejournal.com]

Beauty:

Carnivale (now canceled tv show), Dancer in the Dark (movie)

Books: Little, Big by John Crowley, Only Revolutions by Mark Z Danielewski, Letters of a Portuguese Nun, Promethea by Alan Moore.

I find a lot of beautiful pictures at ru_abandoned.

Wickaninnish Beach remains the most beautiful place I've ever been. It breaks my heart with how beautiful it is.

I'm sure I'll think of more things later.

It occurs to me that you might enjoy the movie Revolver if you haven't already seen it. It's not exactly beautiful...but it's captivating.

[opium.livejournal.com]

thank you thank you! I will check those out - I have seen Dancer in the Dark - fuckin depressing! The Road is also heavily depressing and beautiful in a stark, dismal way.
Oh Wickanninish - have you see Tonquin??

[pezmaster.livejournal.com]

No the whole Avatar thing I found a video you might like.

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=SKOPYAZE

[opium.livejournal.com]

cool! :)

[adam-0oo.livejournal.com]

Fantastic selection. Did you create this all at once or did you add things over time?

[opium.livejournal.com]

I created it all at once.

[opium.livejournal.com]

done and done :)

[all-about-tmi.livejournal.com]

This was a lovely assignment. I was looking for something to do. I wouldn't have thought of going about trying to find a collection of beautiful things on my own, but it was incredible way to pass some time and cure my boredom. I couldn't figure out how to post pictures in my comment but I put everything I found into an entry on my page. I hope you check it out and enjoy!

[opium.livejournal.com]

:) I checked it out - I saved a few images from it, too!

[bleedingclown.livejournal.com]

Check out this album:

Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites

Go on a drive and listen to it from beginning to end, it's amazing

[opium.livejournal.com]

okay cool I will :)

[luminatte.livejournal.com]

love this post, have added you, if it's not okay, okay.

[opium.livejournal.com]

sounds good :) adding back.

[debiru.livejournal.com]

forgive me for intruding. we've never spoken but i happened to stumble upon your journal by a wonderful accident. this (http://cremains.tumblr.com/post/5169852738) is my favorite song of beauty ( as of now )