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Girls Blu-ray Bonus Features | Season 1 | Bloopers (Adam parts only)

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Adam Driver stops by to say hello to school kids while filming Noah Baumbach’s untitled movie project in New York, NY. x

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The Essence

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В конечном счете, одиночество первично. Поэтому мы так рвемся быть с кем-то вместе, понимая, что это лишь краткий миг…

Чтобы опять вернуться к изначальному…

Мы есть часть мира, а мир есть часть каждого из нас. Поэтому п��нятие одиночества первично, но иллюзорно.

Ты не можешь быть один, даже если сильно этого хочешь. Ты лишь чувствуешь мнимую изолированность в данной точке бытия.

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Ultimately, loneliness is primary. So we are so eager to be with someone together, realizing what it is just a brief moment… To go back to the original… We are part of the world, and peace is a part of each of us. Therefore, the concept of loneliness primarily, but illusory. You can’t be alone., even if you really want to. You only feel imaginary isolation at this point of being.

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#одиночество #часть мира #о себе

#верлибр # Free verse

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Курс Чудес

Цель твоей учебы — обрести способность нести покой с собою и исцелять смятение и страдания. Этого не достичь уходом от них и поиском рая в собственной изоляции.

Ты постигнешь, что покой есть часть тебя и нужно лишь твое присутствие, чтобы та ситуация, в которой ты оказался, наполнилась покоем. И наконец ты осознаешь, что нет пределов тому, где ты есть, поэтому и твой покой с тобой повсюд��.

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Как выразить свою боль, если ты сам являешься этой болью. Посмотри в зеркало. Потрогай руками свое лицо - - это и есть боль, которую ты стараешься заглушить. Как? Как заглушить то, что есть ты? Как? Как убить боль, которая и есть ты? Смерть… Не думаешь же ты, что пройдя через телесную боль, как малую плату за свободу, ты станешь безмятежным. AsyaDzen How to Express your pain, if you are the pain yourself. Look in the mirror. Touch your face with your hands - - this is pain., which you’re trying to drown out. How? How do you drown out what you are? How? How do you kill the pain that you are? Death… Do you not think, what is going through the physical pain, as a small fee for freedom, you’ll be serene. AsyaDzen #пустота #боль #свобода #верлибр #про себя # free verse

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Всякую пустоту можно заполнить.

Черная материя, обретая смысл,

стремится проникнуть в вакантную форму,

разрушая пространство.

Но пустота не пуста.

Или ты думаешь, что пустота

это ничто?

Пустота это субстанция,

не т��ебующая заполнения.

Она сама является и формой,

и содержанием.

Осязаемая пустота это не холст,

это завершенное произведение.

Any emptiness can be filled. Black matter, finding meaning, seeks to penetrate the vacant shape, destroying space. But emptiness is not empty. Or you think it’s empty. is that nothing? Emptiness is a substance, do not require fill. She herself is and form of, and content. Tangible emptiness is not a canvas, this is a complete work.

#пустота #в��рлибр #о себе # free verse

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Улететь бы на юг как птицы.

Если их стремление туда генетически предопределено природой, то мне там тоже будет хорошо.

Я не то, чтобы птица, но я просто потерянная часть этого мира, которая хочет обрести целостность.

Я полечу за вами, только взойдет солнце. Я буду рядом в обретении себя.

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To fly to the South like birds. If their desire is there genetically predetermined by nature, I’ll be fine there, too. I’m not that bird., but I just … the lost part of this world, who wants to be made whole. I’ll fly for you., only the sun will rise. I’ll be there. in finding yourself.

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#верлибр

#птицы #про себя # free verse

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Здорово

Тик-так…тише, тише… Сегодня по крышам гуляем, по крышам… По крышам гуляют вот так… В такт… Тук-тук… слышишь? - Слышу… Босыми ступаем по краю, по самому краю… Босыми по краю ступают вот так… В такт… Вверх - вниз…качели…качели… Ветрам подставляем лицо, слёзы в глазах… Зло не такое на самом деле, Зло не находится в Небесах, Нет! Нет…ближе - дальше… В густых облаках, как в тумане… На скользком дне… У каждого крылья в руках… Убери из кармана камни, Смотри на себя - У тебя же крыло в рукаве!

Взмах…взмах…вдох…вдох… Сегодня парим в Небесах, Как прозрачные птицы… Как птицы парим… Теперь не достанет никто Наши небесные гнёзда и вечные жизни… Повержено Зло!

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Theater of war, soldiers and citizens tour, 2010

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So precious ☺️

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oh, you sexy thing! Adam Driver’s fighting scenes, set to an appropriate music ;)

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The story of Kylo Ren is the archetypal journey of a soldier, and I don’t believe it will end in darkness or despair: (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and trust Adam Driver)

Here’s a link to a video about Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF), the non-profit organization created by Adam Driver and his wife Joanne Tucker in 2006 when they were students at Juilliard. It’s more than a half hour long, but take some time and watch the whole thing. This is the work Adam Driver undertook when he was just twenty-three years old, and it is clear that this group of people – active duty military, veterans, and their families – are an audience very close to his heart.  While Star Wars appeals to all of us, I think that through the character of Kylo Ren, Adam Driver is telling a story intended to resonate especially with this particular audience, and that the story will be one of redemption and reconciliation.

Star Wars has always been a story about hope, and Arts in the Armed Forces, with a mission to honor, educate and inspire active duty military personnel and veterans, is about hope as well. It’s also about engaging people whose experiences of war and its trauma may separate them from our contemporary society, in which a small number of people carry a disproportionate burden of war.  AITAF uses the arts to help people make sense of and process experiences that may otherwise be difficult to live with.  It’s happening on small stages with small groups of people, where real work of finding meaning and connection can be done.

“Before I was at Juilliard, I was in the Marine Corps with 11 Weapons Company, 81st Platoon out at Camp Pendleton, California, and when I got out of the military I thought my transition from the military life to the civilian life would be pretty simple. I was quick to learn that that was not the case.  

My transition from military to civilian life was…a bit complex. [At school]…I was exposed to characters and plays which had nothing to do with the military but were somehow articulating my military experience in a way that before to me was indescribable, and I felt myself becoming less aggressive as I was able to put words to feelings…and what better community to arm with the tool of self-expression than those protecting our country?”

-Adam Driver – Arts in the Armed Forces

Playing the character of Kylo Ren in Star Wars, Driver has stepped onto a world stage and is beginning to tell a story about what it means to be human. I am confident that he is working from the same set of core values that motivated him to create AITAF.  Star Wars is a fairy tale, but like the stories presented by AITAF, Kylo Ren’s story in The Force Awakens and in the subsequent chapters of the new trilogy will be a story that will help people to process things which may feel indescribable – it is already engaging audiences in bigger questions about what it means to be human, about what it means to fall, rise, forgive, integrate the past, and live.  

It has been broadly reported that when Driver was approached to play the role of Kylo Ren in TFA, he did not accept the offer immediately. He spent time talking with both JJ Abrams and Kathleen Kennedy before agreeing to take on the part. I think that those discussions had something to do with what would happen to the character he would be bringing to life, and that he was thinking about the people for whom he created the AITAF when he said yes.

I believe that Driver is creating a story he hopes will resonate with a group of people who are very important to him, and there is simply no way he will break faith with this particular audience by telling them that a person cannot be redeemed, that no past actions, even terrible or traumatic ones, can strip a person of his humanity.  I believe that the final lessons of the new Star Wars trilogy will be that it is never too late, that hope will never be utterly lost. No matter how far into darkness a person may fall, a return is possible.

The story of Kylo Ren is the archetypal journey of a soldier, and the journey will not end in darkness or despair, because the young man who created Arts in the Armed Forces won’t let it.

Through the character of Kylo Ren, Adam Driver is telling us a story about finding a way to be human and connected, to process the experience of war, and to heal from trauma. It is no coincidence that this is also part of the work that he, Joanne Tucker, and others are is doing though AITAF.  

“One thing we’ve always been talking about from the beginning of our project is what’s the risk of going to people on the front lines? Why is that actually necessary? Does it cause more of a disruption than it heals anything? And I can’t help but think that even in the most stressful circumstances, offering a new means of self-expression, or showing characters that I feel will resonate with that audience, or just giving a vocabulary to that audience through these really human characters that we’re representing – no time in anyone’s life is that bad.

We can’t place a value on the arts, and that’s a hard thing to convey. It’s whatever we’re offering…you may not initially see the benefit, but just planting that seed of a character we can all relate to may have benefits down the road.”

-          Adam Driver, Arts in the Armed Forces

As a fan of both the original trilogy and the Force Awakens, I approach these ideas as a person who has not been a part of the Star Wars universe for the past thirty years, so the lens through which I am looking has little to do with past history of the franchise, or any particular knowledge of Star Wars Canon. And I could be wrong about this of course, but I really don’t think so.

We all have to wait and see what happens, and there are many ways the storytellers could get this wrong – they’ve been known to make mistakes with this epic fairy tale in the past. We should all keep on keeping a watchful eye on the progress of the story over the coming months and years. I’m going to keep on being an advocate for the character of Kylo Ren/Ben Solo, especially now, when his story is only beginning to be told, and many people find it easy to hate and condemn him. There are valuable conversations to be had about the damage we do to one another when we label someone as “other,” about the nature of good and evil, and what constitutes redemption and reconciliation. Let’s keep having those conversations.

Although it’s fair to say I don’t completely trust our storytellers to get it right – I find I do trust Adam Driver, and for me, that is enough. I trust that he knows where he is taking us, and that everything is going to be all right in the end. There’s a chance it might even be amazing.

Notes: I wrote this essay in the winter of 2016, shortly after TFA was released. In the months since, my sense that the storytellers DO know what they are doing has generally grown stronger.

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Here’s a clip from Adam Driver Brings Monologues to the Military: Arts in the Armed Forces. I highly recommend watching the whole documentary, but this is my favorite part. I saw a gifset of this, but you can’t do it justice without hearing his delivery. The contrast between Performing Adam and Interviewing Adam is so striking.

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Adam performing Lobby Hero #SouthKorea

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