When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathé News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been an anticlimax.
[Flannery O’Connor]





[Among other things, I love The Secret of Kells because so many of its frames are like this, the kind of thing you can freeze and stare at for — I don’t know. For a long time, without running out of things to see. It was harder to get stills from the film than I thought, even though I now own a copy. This is actually from a prior version of the film — the characters look a bit different in the final version. But there are several ocean scenes in the final with waves drawn a lot like this.]