Fuck Yes!!!!! Here we go!!!!
@legendary, #denisvilleneuve , @greigfraser_dp, @hanszimmer and all involved. ALL IN!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤙
Sobriety is finally loving without every thought being about how it affects only you. Sobriety is a moment of being able to love and be consumed by the glee it brings someone else. Sobriety is knowing the difference between selfishness and integrity. Sobriety is knowing that God is in everything and that it is made up of every color (and mixture of color) that exists. Sobriety is knowing the moon late at night when she was there for you in your toughest hour and, now, again, her witnessing your greatest joys. Sobriety is climbing in your truck for a 6am call after 8 years of sobriety and there being a card from your wife telling you how grateful she is for you having made the decision to put it down and to live instead accompanied by a collage board of your children — what was created because of that decision. And sobriety is when your children look at you and trust what they see (you can see it in their pupils, and the way they stand before you) — that they know they are not being cultivated into some idea but celebrated for the original garden they are growing into. Sobriety is about living better than your remembrance of what your greatest drunk ever was — an everyday malleability into gratitude for what is. None of this is deserved. All of it is perception. Thank you God, family, and friends for the most punk rock sobriety imaginable. #deeplygrateful #westsidesobriety Photo by @kathrynbrolin
Happy #3 my sweet little love girl. Your Frozen obsession is now our glee. To see you today, the eyes lit like lighthouse beams, enlivens everyone around you. You are your own firework already. Honored to even just be a witness to who you are and who you already are growing into. I love you, deeply. Truck driver Daddy love. Miss you Trev and Eden. #familyiseverything #pettyisawastedlife #everymomentcounts @kathrynbrolin #westlynreign #chapelgrace 📷 by @copelandboyd
This is what parenting is. I hear the family upstairs having a Thanksgiving, and I am down here making sure my girl doesn’t fall off the edge of the bed when she wakes. She needs to sleep now and, like me, she’ll awake at the sounds of squealing kids pining to run for the small farm animals outside. She’s been sick, so every sleeping minute is another notch in her recovery. So I’ll sit and I’ll stare. I’ll gawk at how beautiful she is, or remember how just a moment ago she looked at me when dreams started to tickle at her in my arms: a last smile, that exhale coo, until finally she drifts off. I pretend that I’m here as security but know that there’s nowhere else I’d rather be than here watching you breathing in and breathing out, the red bow in your hair moving slightly with your breath, the cuffs of your sweater centered on the middle of your warm palms. There is nowhere else I’d rather be, my little angel, than here to experience you opening your eyes again, and smiling as if for the first time ever. ❤️🌹#chapelgrace
The wacky, emotional coming of age story that was born in my head then grew from the dense garden of @maconblair44 has now wrapped. Kudos to a stellar crew in my wife’s hometown of Atlanta, GA and, especially, the director @maxbarbakow and the ever so loyal and buzzing @legendary for suckling this infant into maturity. But most of all Peter. You are as grounded and talented as they come. Fuck you, brother. 🥺 @peterdinklage
Appreciate you @mensjournal for the cover of the Sept/Oct issue!! Photos by my multi-talented @kathrynbrolin I love you darlin’. Thank you for your diamond perspective. We had a blast doing this in the maddening yet totally inspiring New Mexican desert. And @jessewill wrote a keeping it real article. 🤘🤘🙏
#kathrynbrolinphotography @narrativepr @leicacamerausa @wiscospeedshop (for building my ‘68 flh 🙏) #idontknowhowthatlastshotgotinthere
Appreciate you @mensjournal for the cover of the Sept/Oct issue!! Photos by my multi-talented @kathrynbrolin I love you darlin’. Thank you for your diamond perspective. We had a blast doing this in the maddening yet totally inspiring New Mexican desert. And @jessewill wrote a keeping it real article. 🤘🤘🙏
#kathrynbrolinphotography @narrativepr @leicacamerausa @wiscospeedshop (for building my ‘68 flh 🙏) #idontknowhowthatlastshotgotinthere
Me and my chick. Ain’t nothin’ is nothin’ without her. Riding through Joshua Tree, climbing via ferratas with Dean Potter in Switzerland, walking the trail to Everest base camp, jumping naked into the pond at the ranch, surfing Costa Rica together a month after I’d been stabbed, married in the blue ridge mountains with scrappy California boys looking out, to Halloween stints in see-through iridescent onesies on bicycles along the Venice Boardwalk drunk and jailed. Baby, we’ve done it all. And we’re still goin at it, kids in tow, as alive as ever, loving the air we breathe together because life is grand with you in it. Life is grand with you in it. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ @kathrynbrolin Photo by @brianbowensmith @nashmotorcycleco @harleydavidson
I want to thank everyone who saw @dunemovie over the weekend for supporting what I consider a different echelon of filmmaking and filmmakers. There are people, especially in this day and age, who want to be famous, and then there are those that are born with an inexhaustible dream. That dreaming (imagination) with the proper discipline allows us to reach toward an existential part of ourselves that we don’t get to touch otherwise (nor would even know is there to strive for). Films like Dune are that for me: they stretch my myopia into realms unfathomable while viewing, touch a depth in me emotionally that I didn’t know was there. Films like these have an honesty that is creative and fun but never cheats. It is storytelling at its best: to reach with the tentacles of our imaginations in order to see our foibles and our hidden, most extraordinary possibilities.
Thank you @legendary @wbpictures #denisvillneuve @greigfraser_dp @hanszimmer @huckabaloo and all cast and crew in Hungary, Jordan, Abu Dhabi, and Norway.
My littlest, my diamond heart. Your smiles are feral and your chuckle is toddler eruptive. The pain that I feel with the thought that without that night, without your Mama and my given luck, you wouldn’t be here, makes me shutter. Your presence moves me to the core. You are a membrane of unadulterated joy that burst and what came rushing forth was a feeling that has yet to be named. So, for me, you are that: a blind YES for as long as you’ll have me, for as long as we are. #chapelgrace
Photo: @tinarowden
Birthday girl. Yesterday I witnessed the outpouring of love for you, and the grace and appreciation with which you took it. It reminded me about what that is to step aside and remember that this experience here, these moments, are but too fleeting, senseless images that we tapestry and collage and try and makes sense of on a bigger canvas — but when it comes down to it are distilled into what love was passed and who might have smiled when crossing the street of this chaos. You make us smile crossing this street of a life full of a traffic we never saw coming. Happy birth and every Day. xoxox ❤️❤️💎 @kathrynbrolin
5 years married. And what would I change if you weren’t changing all the time anyway? The roads that you drag race over, throwing up your smoke, fire spitting out of your pipes, kids holding on for dear life as you net all the necessities of the day continues to frustrate and move me. You are better than me and I’m rendered spastic trying to maneuver out of the chains of my own making as I watch you flower and blossom through the years. This is hard: this parenting, this lack of sleep, this contraction of hours and conversation but there isn’t a soul on earth I’d rather be doing it with than you, my love. You really are the best version of a self I’ve yet to fully know. Happy 5th. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ @kathrynbrolin @banksyexhibit #jbkbstucktogether
Presidents aren’t what they used to be. Politics are a joke. Greed has taken a gross precedence. Companies control everything. But Veterans will be exactly what they’ve always been: sole citizens looking out for the well being of their fellow citizens. Thank you to all Veterans from the bottom of our hearts for caring so much as to put yourself in harm’s way. 🙏🙏🙏
Random 5am: Big winds. Big swells. Me and the Deckies up. Rain. Would like to learn more about oceanography. Millions of tons of pressure. Deep sea. Little me. Flea. Small villages. Slums. Gasoline. Malaria. Moths on the back of the boat. A butterfly. Licorice rolling papers.
Feel my muscles again. If I dive deeply? If I build a flying machine, base jump, rock climb? If I fuck you or you or you, or just sit alone and write about it? If I get a tattoo or eat a bat; shoot a deer or stab myself; wordsmith the perfect poem or accomplish the ultimate yoga pose; sail that way, drink yours, or choose tar over glue? What if I awake at night and refine at dawn; negotiate a dollar less or a dollar more; study history or imagine the future? What if you stopped reading and took responsibility for your own decisions, figured out your own muse?
Waking up to a bobbing sea. The light outside on a dimmer being slowly turned up. A woman on the boat, naked. Exotic. Nipples. A Sarong. My coffee. Lotion. Soft skin. Her back. Her feet, hints of lighter skin on the soles. Long raven hair. Thin arms. Beautiful. My imagination creating what’s not here among too many men. Thousands of words attempting to define her. All small paintings, little verbal sketches.
Others yawning, just waking up. I want to be alone with my words, my colors. Coffee and a figment of my libido, and created broad strokes of a woman whose waist is wrapped with a thin, red patterned cloth belt and whose thick black hair tickles toward her shoulders that might eventually feel like my fingertips floating along the middle of her back. Here I’ll stay and continue to sketch that which may someday reveal in you in me in us.
@genievefiggis
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#Velázquez
I’m not one to post a lot about work, but anything that challenges the status quo, plays into a rebellion of sorts, allows for the creative soul to have its Forth of July parade, I’m behind it 1000%. This film is for everybody. 🤘💎
@tchalamet, @officialrebeccaferguson, @zendaya, @prideofgypsies, @shazdb, @davebautista, @dastmalchian, @hanszimmer, #JavierBardem, #OscarIsaac, #DenisVilleneuve, #StellanSkarsgard #ChangChen
Again and again, like a prayer answered on the spot, a lottery won, a diamond found, time with my kids all around tops the charts every time. #westlynreign #chapelgrace @edenbrolin @funtonofun @cameroncrosby9
Again and again, like a prayer answered on the spot, a lottery won, a diamond found, time with my kids all around tops the charts every time. #westlynreign #chapelgrace @edenbrolin @funtonofun @cameroncrosby9
The cover of something somewhere.
🎨 by me and @rodriguez.
In THREE WEEKS, It begins. #DuneMovie coming October 22.
There’s a turn off at Hwy 101 that overlooks just north of Rincon Point, where I used to surf as a kid. It’s a stretch of beach that always represented a loneliness, or better, a raw vulnerability that was fed by the surrounding natural elements. I’d stop on long motorcycle rides later in life to have a smoke on the same hillside. Then even later stop to remember my wonderment as a kid: eating twinkies after I’d get out of the water and hitch a ride north, or laying down and scooping all the sand against my chest to keep me warm. And the wind, a California salt that perpetually tastes at your face while a portion of a parachute dances in your periphery and a woman walking far off on that stretch of beach who you imagine for a second having a relationship with slowly shrinks away from your sight — someone lonely like you looking to swap some love. Or maybe it’s a man. Me. Maybe it’s me even later, visiting this same spot again. Maybe hop in the ocean again. Full circle.
Painting by @scott_kahn
@alminerech @gwenvaellaunay
Everyday is International Daughters Day ❤️❤️❤️
Deeply moved by @jimmychin book “There and Back: Photographs from the Edge”. That’s it. A beautiful work of life at its most alive. 🙏🤙
I’ll take them as they come — brutal and bucolic extensions of a time that has past culturally but still exists in them. Bones broken and mended find themselves alive again under two thousand pounds of irritated flesh. This is the culture I grew up within, and the culture that fed me my first dirt clod meal. Contemporary character’s evolved into a thing of the past but not here in the arena. Here all of us break and bump and bleed a certain yet to be written prose. #leicam10monochrom
The beautiful @tanyalapointe, along with the not as beautiful me and @greigfraser_dp, and along with designers (and director) @hthobson and @manija.emran at @meandthebootmaker have exploited our best version of our behind the scenes experiences on the set of the film “Dune”. Greig’s photos (and his skill set) speak for themselves, as do the care and creativity and love put into what this book is now. Everybody is doing what they want here, a punk rock version of the creative act that expresses themselves most intimately. Friends and collaborators alike — “Dune” was an experience of a lifetime and we hope that through these limited editions you are able to feel a modicum of what we did during that time for us. It’s the tipping of our hats to the most wonderful Denis Villeneuve. 🤙🤙🙏 —- link for purchase in bio @tanyalapointe @greigfraser_dp @hthobson @manija.emran @meandthebootmaker
@insighteditions @hanszimmer @legendary @productions_acemedia @hugodu89 @stefbroos
