this was kind of my day
I want to make pretty things and feel free to cry. I want to hold someone’s hand and teach them to fly and be able to stop and breathe once in a while. I want to lie on the couch all day and watch the birds and the frogs and the rabbits in the backyard. I want to laugh myself to sleep under the stars and wake up to a watercolor sunrise. I want to sit on the rocky New England coast with my eyes closed just to listen to something bigger and stronger than myself get ripped apart. I want to hold on so tight, letting go is a relief. I want to be able to walk out a door with a smile on my face and no intentions of looking back.
Jeanne Moreau and François Truffaut had been friends since 1957 and had an on-and-off again relationship during the pre-production of Jules et Jim and the summer of 1964, which is when The Bride Wore Black was written as a tribute to Moreau, the woman he loved. They remained friends until Truffaut’s death in 1984. On their relationship at the time in 1964:
We’re not too easy on each other, but we treat each other with great gentleness and tenderness, we’re a bit fearful of each other but not too much.
— François Truffaut (Truffaut: A Biography By Antoine de Baecque, Serge Toubiana)
‘Roly poly’, designed by the Design Incubation Centre at the National University of Singapore, are a pair of egg-like objects that mirror each other’s movements, even when physically separated. Two people thus can sense each other’s presence despite distances across the world: a tap of one half will create a simultaneous reaction in the other.
