Dreams of Love and Spite and Doughnuts

clintonmckay:
“ Early example of the use of Tumblr’s #36465d in animated gifs
Komura Settai 小村雪岱 (1887-1940)
Girl watching the stars and waning moon - 1935
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Early example of the use of Tumblr’s #36465d in animated gifs
Komura Settai 小村雪岱 (1887-1940)
Girl watching the stars and waning moon - 1935

10 years ago | 02:55am 590 notes | REBLOG like

The Paris Review - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Winter-Spring 1964

INTERVIEWER
When in your life were you happy?
CÉLINE
Bloody well never, I think. Because what you need, getting old . . . I think if I were given a lot of dough to be free from want—I'd love that—it'd give me the chance to retire and go off somewhere, so I'd not have to work, and be able to watch others. Happiness would be to be alone at the seaside, and then be left in peace. And to eat very little; yes. Almost nothing. A candle. I wouldn't live with electricity and things. A candle! A candle, and then I'd read the newspaper. Others, I see them agitated, above all excited by ambitions; their life's a show, the rich swapping invitations to keep up with the performance. I've seen it, I lived among society people once—“I say, Gontran, hear what he said to you; oh, Gaston, you really were on form yesterday, eh! Told him what was what, eh! He told me about it again last night! His wife was saying, oh, Gaston surprised us!” It's a comedy. They spend their time at it. Chasing each other round, meeting at the same golf clubs, the same restaurants.

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insanity-and-vanity:

tooombz:
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Untitled (Perfect Lovers) 1991. Clocks, paint on wall.
Untitled (Perfect Lovers) consists of two clocks, which start in synchronisation, and slowly, inevitably fall out of time due to the failure of the batteries and the nature of the mechanism. In a moving comment on his personal experiences, the piece refers to Gonzalez-Torres’ HIV positive partner Ross Laycock, and his slow decline and inevitable death due to AIDS. The clocks act as two mechanical heartbeats; representative of two lives destined to fall out of sync, and holds a poignant poetry about personal loss and the temporal nature of life.
“Don’t be afraid of the clocks, they are our time, time has been so generous to us…We conquered fate by meeting at a certain time in a certain space…we are synchronized, now forever. I love you.”
This is one of my favorite works ever

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The Abstract & The Dragon– Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes

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christopherschreck:

The Conceptual Advertising of J.G. Ballard
“From 1967 to 1970, the British author J.G. Ballard published a series of conceptual ads in several periodicals at his own expense. All five of the ads appeared in Ambit, a literary magazine where Ballard was prose editor, and the first three appeared in New Worlds, where he also published regularly and had close ties. He also ran ads in Ark — a magazine produced by postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art in London — and in “various continental alternative magazines.”
Advertising has always aimed to deliver a simply grasped proposition with the least amount of fuss and ad people still think this way. “If your idea or message is too complicated it will bewilder and confuse your audience,” advises the adman John Hegarty. Ballard’s opaque conceptual ad, on the other hand, is a sophisticated kind of détournement in the Situationist sense. It appropriates the form of its surroundings — visually it’s the most impactful ad in the issue — and shatters the expected link between the image and the text meant to support it, and scrambles the ad’s signal into irreducible complexity. There can be no shared answer to the Surrealist question it poses about the point at which the plane of intersection of Walsh’s eyes would generate a “valid image” of these disasters.
“It occurred to me about a year ago,” Ballard said in 1968, “that advertising was an unknown continent as far as the writer was concerned, a kind of virgin America of images and ideas, and that the writer ought to move into any area which is lively and full of potential.”
Of course, by the 1980s and 1990s, advertising was a regular target for culture jamming and billboard modification in the work of Adbusters and many others who questioned its dominance as public speech. But while there’s a clear line to be drawn between Ballard’s ads and later art-world subversions of advertising formats, language and style by people like Barbara Kruger, Ballard’s concepts can still seem the most provocative, despite some minor defects of design, because they are less obvious in purpose than critiques based on parody that set out to attack advertising and he is a much better writer. His motivation wasn’t to criticize the medium, even though this is an implicit side effect, but to use it as a delivery system for disseminating personal, writerly intimations of unease about the violence of the time and its media representations. Just as his stories and novels were aligned with the speculative writing coming from the new wave of science fiction, so the “Advertiser’s Announcements” can now be seen as oblique early examples of a kind of work we have come to describe in the last few years as “design fiction” or "speculative design.“”
Nice writing on the subject HERE

11 years ago | 10:54am 31 notes | REBLOG like

nevver:

Calvin and Hobbes

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amare-habeo:

Léopold Survage (1879-1968), Colourful Rhythm,1913

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eluhcent:

active summer blog :)

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jtotheizzoe:

Doodling the Right Thing
With a few humble doodles, I think Google may have created the most widely-seen, and perhaps the most influential, science communication effort on Earth. Their series of Google search page tributes to female scientists (a few of which I’ve shared above) is a huge win for showcasing the efforts of women in science, which, unless you’ve been living under a very patriarchal rock for the past forever, you know is something the world needs very badly.
It might seem silly to be talking about a picture like this, but we’re dealing with the Times Square billboard of internet graphics here. Every day, 730 million people visit Google.com a total of 17 billion times. Billion. Granted, not all of them see the same Google doodle, as only a small set of them are “global” doodles, but even if just 10% of daily unique visitors see a particular doodle, and just 10% of those people take the time to figure out who/what they’re looking at, that means 7+ million people a day (and that doesn’t even take into account repeated visits). I suspect that’s a low estimate, too, although I base that on nothing except my own optimism.
For comparison, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey drew just over 3 million U.S. viewers for its final episode. I’ll concede that’s not really a fair comparison, since Cosmos is a highly-produced, hour-long scripted TV series with very broad and lofty goals and a Google doodle is, well, a picture on the internet. The point I’m trying to make is not that Cosmos is less influential than a cartoon, because that’s ridiculous (although I must admit the more I think about it, I really don’t know how ridiculous it is). My point is that a Google doodle about science reaches a metric f**kton of people.
I am having a hard time thinking of another single Internet Thing that has the potential to reach so many people in a single day. No meme-filled Facebook page or educational YouTube channel comes close, and I don’t suspect any traditional science news/media sites are even in the ballpark.
Google still has a long way to go to bring their doodle gender representation anywhere close to level. According to SPARK, only 17% of doodles between 2001-2013 were women (and 74% of them were white people). I can’t find the numbers, but on the bright side it seems like 2014 has showcased a high percentage of women in the doodles. In addition to monitoring women featured in doodles, the blog Speaking Up For Us keeps a running list of doodle-worthy women.Despite that remaining imbalance, I think this is an incredible effort on the part of Google, and we should demand even more doodles of underrepresented groups (both in science and beyond).
Can something so passive make any difference? To be honest, I don’t know, but I suspect that it does. When people only see one type of person recognized for accomplishing the Great Scientific Things of history, they consciously and subconsciously assume that only that type of person actually accomplishes Great Scientific Things. That is how underrepresented people stay underrepresented, which is the opposite thing we want to happen.
Google doodles aren’t going to cure cancer or send a human to Mars, but they just might help inspire the person who does. Not bad for a drawing.

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The Velvet Underground– Heroin

Happy Fourth of July!

A couple friends were supposed to come in from out of town today for the weekend, but not a single one made it. So, alone in my house in the middle of the woods, at just after eleven, after sending my boyfriend (distance relationships are shit) a text, I stumbled on an article about Rule 34 and started jerking off immediately. Anyway, is there anything more American?

I’ve had 80’s rock ballads and stuff of that sort playing all day on the stereo, with a few quieter songs sprinkled into the playlist here and there. I worked my cock for about 45 minutes (47 from time of text to time of finish) and when I finally reached climax, and stood up and walked over to the tissues to catch my cum, I noticed this song was playing. I’m so melancholy.

11 years ago | 12:19am 1 note | REBLOG like

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Lola Dupre

11 years ago | 02:04am 575 notes | REBLOG like

Anonymous asked:

my secret is: when i was growing up in a small town, my friend and i used to jerk each other off because we were so horny. I've never touched a guy before or after that and I'm completely straight. (and actually conservative)

dirtyberd:

I really enjoy imagining boys in small towns “no homo” jerking each off. Unf unf

Boarding School Life.

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