#czech paradise

[necroticblue]

68 + 69 / 100 days of productivity

was at home and felt bad. surprise surprise. but I got money and food, did a bit of my latin homework and tried my best ig

photos:

1 and 4) took a walk to get all the stuff from a kids treasure hunt home and it snowed

2) my bed at dormrooms mid unpacking

3) spent half of my five-hour train ride listening to Will Wood and reading the lyrics

[kaelula-sungwis]

@kaja.skretova portrait, Czech Paradise-Český ráj by Martin Moucha Via Flickr: I'am landscape and sport photographer based in Czech Paradise. Spend one year in Banff, Canada and one year in New Zealand. I like catchy colors, analog, sharpness and especially bokeh. Canon R6, 24-105mm 35mm, 85mm, DJI Mavic Air Website: www.martinmoucha.com/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/martinmoucha/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/MartinMouchaPhoto/

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Fruit of Paradise • 1970 • Věra Chytilová

An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.

[hessys-corner]

A little life lesson with Yin Yu 🥰

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František Karel Foltýn (1937-2000) —The Exiles [oil on wooden board, 1997]

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[krakrac]

[OC] this is rajka and she is very dear to me. even though she is a bit insane and insufferable. just having fun with the lineart and doing a small coloring exercise:)

[denastudio]

Fruit of Paradise (1970) Věra Chytilová

[awanderinglostsoul]

through back to the beginning of September, 2023

Decin, Czech Republic

Bohemian Paradise

[nokingsonlyfooles]

The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart (Hypocrisy in All)

This is January's text of the month at Wikisource. Johan Amos Comenius is a Czech author, if one can say that when the country was called Bohemia at the time), and I don't have a lot of connection to my Czech heritage (it was Bohemia when my grandfather left, too), so I pounced on it. The original text is almost 400 years old! And, as we celebrate another new year, see how little things change.

The pilgrim, desirous of a life of minimal pain, decides the best way to find one is to observe how all people live first, and then pick the path that fits him best. Before he can begin, he is set upon by two guides, Impertinence and Falsehood. Impertinence will show him everything, and fits him with a bridle to drag him along. Falsehood will explain it all, and clamps a set of spectacles on him... but they don't fit very well. He can look over them and see the reality and the illusion.

3. I then look at them more carefully, and see directly that everyone in the crowd, when walking among the others, wore a mask on his face; but on going away, when he was alone, or among his equals, he pulled it off, and when he had to go among the throng, he again fastened it on. And I ask what this means. The guide answered: "That, my dear son, is worldly prudence, so that each man may not show to all what he is. Alone in his home a man may be as he is, but before others it is beseeming that he appear affable, and that he assume a mien." Then the desire befell me more carefully to watch how these people might be without this dissembling covering.

(Their Wondrous Deformities.)

4. And looking attentively at this, I see that both in their face and in their bodies all are in various ways deformed. Almost all were pimpled, mangy, or leprous; and besides, this one had a pig's lip, another teeth as a dog, another the horns of an ox, another donkey's ears, another eyes of a basilisk, another the brush of a fox, another the claws of a wolf. Some did I see with a peacock's neck stretched out on high; others with the bristling crest of a lapwing; others with horses' hoofs, and so forth; mostly, however, they had the similitude of apes.[1] And I am frightened, and say: "Nay, here, meseems, I see monsters!" "What, froward one" (the guide said), "thou speakest of monsters," and he threatened me with his fist. "Look but well through thy spectacles, and thou wilt see that they are men." But some of those who were passing heard that I had called them monsters, stood still and growled at me, and even threatened me, as if they would attack me. Then having understood that to reason here was vain, I became silent, and thought within myself: "If they will be human beings, let them be so; but as for me, what I see, I see." I then feared that my guide would press down my spectacles more firmly and mislead me; therefore did I decide to be silent, and rather quietly to behold these fine things of which I had seen the beginning. I then gaze again, and I see how artfully some handled these masks, quickly removing them and then again putting them on, so that they were able to give themselves a different mien, whenever they saw that this was to their advantage. And then I already began somewhat to understand the course of the world, but I was silent.

I still haven't finished it, and this guy was in a Christian-flavoured cult that died shortly after he did, so I don't expect to line up on everything. Still, my spectacles never fit right either, my brother. I see it too. I wonder what divergent state they would've diagnosed you with if you'd been born a little later?

[doctorphagliacci]

stills from Fruit of Paradise (aka Ovoce stromů rajských jíme, lit. "We eat the fruit of the trees of paradise") (1970), dir. Věra Chytilová

(this film, like Daisies, was a collaboration between Věra Chytilová and Ester Krumbachová)

[necroticblue]

66 + 67 / 100 days of productivity

went home after a month today. strange feeling. but my grandma already gave me like 60 dollars because i complained about being broke and i didn't meet my parents yet since they'll arrive at like 11pm and I'm very tactically going to bed before they arrive. ALSO KENDRICK DROPPED TODAY YAY

photos:

1) painted for a bit yesterday. i think i also finished / updated the little piece of cloth on the left side of the angel. but also i cried a LOT yesterday

2) snow in Ostrava today in the morning

3) I have no fucking idea how to learn Latin words so in doing doodles of them. if you guys wanna see the rest of them lmk, i have three pics in total

4) snow near my village today in the afternoon

[amazingczechia]

Bohemian Paradise, known in Czech as Český ráj, is a region and a protected landscape area about 90 kilometers north-east of Prague. It belongs to the most popular tourist destinations in the whole of Czechia. Thanks to the spectacular beauty of the landscape and the high concentration of historic landmarks, the region has been very popular among artists of all kinds.

See more: https://www.amazingczechia.com/destinations/bohemian-paradise/

Photo: © Bigstock/KoTangens

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Fruit of Paradise • 1970 • Věra Chytilová

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Český ráj

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The Prachov Rocks (Prachovské skály) in the Bohemian Paradise