Bay Area bred. Filmmaker, storyteller, savant. Tumblr (3.0; @akashkumar)http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xbkxbG9t1qa1f3ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>#DRIVE (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24181243463http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24181243463Thu, 31 May 2012 22:36:33 -0700drive<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wixbEzvN1qa1f3ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>RIP Ash. You were the best friend a lonely, misunderstood boy could have. I love you my baby boy. (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24141560975http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24141560975Thu, 31 May 2012 12:17:35 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4waufDXLU1qdpxzco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://bbook.tumblr.com/post/24135375731/only-acceptable-summer-look" class="tumblr_blog">bbook</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Only acceptable summer look.</p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138113526http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138113526Thu, 31 May 2012 11:09:07 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4w34zZWOH1qz7ztxo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tylercoates.tumblr.com/post/24127559534/last-fiona-apple-post-today-i-swear-but-i">tylercoates</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Last Fiona Apple post today (I swear!), but I love, love, love the opening page of my article in the actual magazine. </p> </blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138085020http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138085020Thu, 31 May 2012 11:08:31 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4we7lOZzK1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/24136560473/le-chat" class="tumblr_blog">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/05/31/dark-knight-rises-christopher-nolan-nervous-reservations-catwoman-hathaway/">le Chat</a></p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138053261http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138053261Thu, 31 May 2012 11:07:55 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wexpEuG11qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/24137279279/tales-of-brave-ulysses" class="tumblr_blog">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://theworldofphotographers.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/nishimura-junku-photographer/junku-nishimura-17/">Tales of Brave Ulysses</a></p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138030658http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138030658Thu, 31 May 2012 11:07:26 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wevukizS1rnk8yfo2_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wevukizS1rnk8yfo5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://waltdisneywithblood.tumblr.com/post/24137422664/jean-luc-godard-and-agn-s-varda-at-a-meeting" class="tumblr_blog">waltdisneywithblood</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Jean-Luc Godard and Agnés Varda at a meeting against the Vietnam war, 1967.</p> <p>(<a href="http://magnumphotos.com">Via</a>)</p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138023427http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24138023427Thu, 31 May 2012 11:07:16 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4wfm8ddfS1qa1f3ro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Gonna have to wear my “Dark Knight Rises” tee for this… (Taken with <a href="http://instagr.am">instagram</a>)</p>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24137970421http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24137970421Thu, 31 May 2012 11:06:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4g4kqsmeE1qabj53o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24134360344http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24134360344Thu, 31 May 2012 09:46:30 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo9_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3zbbo1trm1qf7r5lo10_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://strangewood.tumblr.com/post/24132103413/rainer-werner-fassbinders-ten-favorite-films" class="tumblr_blog">strangewood</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ten favorite films:</strong></p> <blockquote> <p><small>1. The Damned (dir. Luchino Visconti)<br/>2. The Naked and the Dead (dir. Raoul Walsh)<br/>3. Lola Montès (dir. Max Ophüls)<br/>4. Flamingo Road (dir. Michael Curtiz)<br/>5. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)<br/>6. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (dir. Howard Hawks)<br/>7. Agent X27 (dir. Josef von Sternberg)<br/>8. The Night of the Hunter (dir. Charles Laughton)<br/>9. Johnny Guitar (dir. Nicholas Ray)<br/>10. The Red Snowball Tree (dir. Vasily Shukshin)</small></p> </blockquote></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24134257855http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24134257855Thu, 31 May 2012 09:44:07 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lswnufwTr01qc6pb2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128929568http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128929568Thu, 31 May 2012 07:21:41 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m20x5m2jpd1qzyk5wo1_500.png"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m20x5m2jpd1qzyk5wo2_500.png"/><br/> <br/><blockquote> <p><small>Brigitte Lacombe for Hugo.</small></p> </blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128924587http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128924587Thu, 31 May 2012 07:21:33 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ub27c2Zi1rpbjoco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://strangewood.tumblr.com/post/24065253332/sometimes-i-say-if-i-had-seen-some-masterpieces" class="tumblr_blog">strangewood</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><small>“Sometimes I say, <em>If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn’t have dared start.</em> I started very—not innocent, but naïve in a way. So that’s a big freedom, you know? I didn’t go to school. I didn’t go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom. I see all these students, and I admire them—they’re trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I’m sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was—that’s the way I was—autodidact.”</small></p> <p><strong>— Agnès Varda</strong></p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128897907http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128897907Thu, 31 May 2012 07:20:43 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ee13hvXG1qf7r5lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://criterioncorner.tumblr.com/post/24065570414/i-need-images-i-need-representation-which-deals" class="tumblr_blog">criterioncorner</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><em>“I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time.”</em></p> <p><strong>Agnès Varda</strong> (born May 30, 1928)</p> <p>(VIA <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://strangewood.tumblr.com/post/24064941460/i-need-images-i-need-representation-which-deals">strangewood</a>)</p> <p>p.s. i’m on set all this week, so Criterion Corner will be posting much less frequently than usual for the next few days. i know it will be hard, but please try your best to stay strong.</p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128883556http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128883556Thu, 31 May 2012 07:20:14 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4u950gNNi1qc2mclo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://proustitute.tumblr.com/post/24065736177/ivan-konstantinovich-aivazovsky-storm-in-the" class="tumblr_blog">proustitute</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, <em>Storm in the North Sea</em>, 1865</p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128875797http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128875797Thu, 31 May 2012 07:19:57 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uhbkfSg91qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/24068386397/tracking-album-art" class="tumblr_blog">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.diskursdisko.de/2012/05/popspots-tracking-vintage-album-art-in-nyc/">Tracking Album Art</a></p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128796933http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128796933Thu, 31 May 2012 07:17:34 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4rm51MxVh1r8vrhxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://malformalady.tumblr.com/post/23977614447/ohaguro-is-a-japanese-aristocratic-term-describing">malformalady</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohaguro">Ohaguro</a> </strong>is a Japanese aristocratic term describing the custom of dyeing one’s teeth black. In Japan, it existed from ancient times, and was seen among the civilians until the end of the Meiji period(1868 -1912). Pitch black things such as glaze like lacquer were seen as beautiful.</p> </blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128750526http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128750526Thu, 31 May 2012 07:16:03 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4jh0tsdbS1r0zjlqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://welovecindysherman.tumblr.com/post/23991754199/cindy-sherman-untitled-film-still-65-1980">welovecindysherman</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still #65, 1980</p> </blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128726512http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128726512Thu, 31 May 2012 07:15:17 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4uketzTXB1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/24071358808/live-to-long" class="tumblr_blog">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=17">Live to long</a></p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128709273http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128709273Thu, 31 May 2012 07:14:44 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4orkyQipW1qe2w1uo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com/post/24071658055/moonrise-kingdom-kit-by-aliz-e-lafon" class="tumblr_blog">minimalmovieposters</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><em>Moonrise Kingdom</em> kit by <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/AlizeeLafon">Alizée Lafon</a></p></blockquote>http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128701584http://akashkumar.tumblr.com/post/24128701584Thu, 31 May 2012 07:14:28 -0700