these are the days

<n>Bathers</n> (1998) by <n>Justine Kurland</n>, from the artist's <n>Girl Pictures</n> series (1997-2002).

An innavigable sea washes with silent waves between us and the things we aim at and converse with.

Actors <n>Takeshi Kaneshiro</n> and <n>Michelle Reis</n> in <n>Wong Kar-wai</n>'s 1995 film <n>Fallen Angels</n>.

A film still from <n>Children of the Corn</n>.

The exquisite truth is to know that it is fiction and that you believe it willingly. To really fully inhabit it: to know (to internalize) that the whole thing is fragile and fleeting and fabricated, but to go with the flow nonetheless.

Photograph used as album art for musician <n>MeWithTune</n>.

A still from the 1957 film <n>Tokyo Twilight</n> by director <n>Yasujirō Ozu</n>.

Lost in Blue - xh2s

<n>Hayao Miyazaki</n> in <n>Kaku Arakawa</n>'s 2016 documentary, <n>Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki</n>.

A photograph by <n>Nuno Alexandre Serrão</n>.

<n>Caught in the Middle</n> by <n>Riley Harper</n>, featuring a hat by <n>Kailani Bali</n>.

Photo by the Tokyo-based cinematographer and photographer known as <n>@zerotwelve</n>.