tesslynch:

• Staring at a broken egg timer waiting for it to go off while you listen to a CocoRosie song slowed to 1/30th speed.
• Taking four hours to eat a bowl of oatmeal, no butter, no sugar, no syrup, uncooked, with a hair in it.
• Listening to a radio play that was originally written in Swedish, then translated into German, and finally into English. In the dark. With a stranger who won’t stop weeping and touching your leg. In a room that smells like cigars.
• Waiting for Godot, only Godot shows up, but everyone else has left. Godot waits around for a long time anyway, then enters into Myst and freezes the game.
• Overdosing on cement mix and diet tonic water.
• Eating fifty packs of cinnamon gum while being told you’ve disappointed your family over a bad cell phone connection.
• Wearing clothes made of an itchy, beige, wool-lead blend to a press conference about track lighting.
• Breaking your front tooth on a piece of vanilla fudge.
• Taking an ice-cold bath while someone reads you Dogsong.

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  7:22 pm  |   January 9 2012   |  633 notes  

picturesofwar:

A Soviet tank breaking up student demonstrations during Prague Spring.

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  12:44 am  |   August 10 2011   |  24 notes  

graphicbuzz:

Red Lenin… Alexander Rodchenko

Russian Constructivism
This movement began in 1913 and ended sometime around 1943. The most profound influences of this era were artists such as Lasar El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Senkin Kluzis, and the Stenberg Brothers just to name a few. Around the time following the Russian Revolution of 1917, Russian artists influenced by German and Dutch artists developed art forms that were basically geometric abstractions in their most basic forms. Using basic colors, such as black and red, artists created works inspired by narrative woodcut broadsheets and also were influenced by Futurism works that turned away from old styles of art.

From Shannon Mariel’s site on Russian Constructivism

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  3:32 am  |   July 26 2011   |  15 notes  

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  3:29 am  |   July 26 2011   |  91 notes  

:hellokansas:

I remember the day when I came out as Hispanic.

Changed my life, for the better

after years of questioning i finally understood who i am; Hispanic.

it was a hard decision, not knowing what would become of me. but i decided Hispanic is what i was

Mom..Dad…I have to tell you something. I’m Hispanic.

I didn’t get to come out on my own

My parents found the sombrero catalogs under my bed

Once they caught me sneaking out to Taco Bells they knew.

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  3:00 am  |   July 6 2011   |  38,605 notes  

d0novan:

And water’s still wet.

  2:54 am  |   July 6 2011   |  1 note  

rosesforstalin:

In Austin, Borges crackled with energy, teaching a graduate seminar on the poet Leopoldo Lugones, auditing a course in Old English, and lecturing on the Spanish writer Rafael Cansinos-Asséns. “Within a week,” the former UT professor Miguel Enguídanos writes in the introduction to Dreamtigers, the first English translation of Borges’s El hacedor, “there was talk about Borges, with Borges, because of Borges, and for Borges, in every corridor of Batts Hall. Scholars felt obliged to write studies and theses on Borges’ work. Poets—wasn’t it inevitable?—fired dithyrambic salvos at him.”

For the rest of his life, Borges would return Texas’s giddy enthusiasm, offering frequent odes to the state. “Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Austin are, perhaps, my most beloved homes,” Borges once told an interviewer. “I’m an honorary citizen of Texas,” he told another.

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  2:44 am  |   July 6 2011   |  6 notes  

harpy:

Turkmen Carpets at the Ashgabat, Turkmenistan Market

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  2:40 am  |   July 6 2011   |  54 notes  

sinlesss:

Wassily Kandinsky’s triangle and the spirituality of art. According to this renounced abstract painter there are 4 categories of artists, categorized from highest to lowest:

1. Artists whose work springs from the spirit of contemporary feeling, which is capable of educating further. This work is uplifting and meaningful to its viewers. This art holds power for the future as it is from deep within the artist, however to be this artist is to be lonely.

2. Artists who use their work for the purpose of spiritual enlightenment.

3. Competent artists (technicians).

4. Artists who produce “art for art’s sake.” Viewers of these works find them “pretty” or “nice” but vacant of meaning. These artists are sell-outs who paint just for material reward and to satisfy vanity and greed. This leads to competition, over-production, hatred, jealousy, and so on.

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  2:42 pm  |   July 4 2011   |  89 notes  

abbyjean:

“American Gothic,” considered to be Parks’s signature image, was taken in Washington, D.C., in 1942, during the photographer’s fellowship with the Farm Security Administration, a government agency set up by President Roosevelt to aid farmers in despair. “It’s the first professional image I ever made,” Parks says, “created on my first day in Washington.” Roy Stryker, who led the FSA’s very best documentary photographers—Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, etc.—told Parks to go out and get acquainted with the city. Parks was amazed by the amount of bigotry and discrimination he encountered on his very first day. “White restaurants made me enter through the back door, white theaters wouldn’t even let me in the door, and as the day went on things just went from bad to worse.” Stryker told Parks to go talk with some older black people who had lived their entire lives in Washington and see how they had coped. “That’s how I met Ella,” Parks explains.

Ella Watson was a black charwoman who mopped floors in the FSA building. Parks asked her about her life, which she divulged as having been full of misery, bigotry and despair. Parks’s simple question, “Would you let me photograph you?” and Ella’s affirmative response, led to the photographer’s most recognizable image of all time. “Two days later Stryker saw the image and told me I’d gotten the right idea but was going to get all the FSA photogs fired, that my image of Ella was ‘an indictment of America.’ I thought the image had been killed but one day there it was, on the front page of The Washington Post .” At the time, Parks couldn’t have realized that the image would go on to become the symbol of the pre-civil rights era’s treatment of minorities. (PDN)

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  2:38 pm  |   July 4 2011   |  256 notes