Background art from the Studio Ghibli film When Marnie was There (思い出のマーニー). Yohei Taneda (種田陽平) is the art director for this summer’s animated feature.
you’ve gotta stat romanticizing your life. you gotta start believing that your morning commute is cute and fun, that every cup of coffee is the best you’ve ever had, that even the smallest and most mundane things are exciting and new. you have to, because that’s when you start truly living. that’s when you look forward to every day.
live your life like a ghibli movie where literally everything is charming and beautiful
This really surprised me; I’d never thought about it like this before, but damn it, OP makes a good point. There’s nothing wrong with jazzing up your life a little with a bit of romanticizing.
Is that first one actually a bird? Where’s its face?
It’s got a black face so it’s hard to see! Actually its got the darkest black feathers in the animal kingdom, absorbing up to 99.95% of directly iridescent light! This is probably to make the blue parts stand out more.