et cetera.

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:33:13 -0800

blua: Layer series by Nobuhiro Nakanishi.

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:11:44 -0800

blua:

Layer series by Nobuhiro Nakanishi.

andrewfishman: Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,”...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:49:35 -0800

andrewfishman:

Blake Fall-Conroy, “Minimum Wage Machine,” 2008-2010

This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.

This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they’re earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.

Here’s a piece that another artist is working on that could also help inspire change in the U.S. government. He’s trying to raise money to send every U.S. Senator a copy of Dr. Seuss’ “The Zax.” They clearly should have paid more attention to stories about compromise like this in kindergarten. Indiegogo.com/TheZaxProject.

jennyaddams: Montreal-based Canadian photographer François...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:27:52 -0800

jennyaddams:

Montreal-based Canadian photographer François Brunelle has met many unrelated people who look amazingly alike, during the course of his travels. Inviting these pairs of doppelgängers into his studio, he captured their incredible likeness in black-and-white, family-styled portraits. In some cases, the subjects even have similar expressions—it is really a wonder that they are not only not twins, but are actually completely unrelated to each other. These portraits make us wonder if we all have doppelgängers somewhere else in the world—would you like to meet yours?

oddlyfreakinweird: foster-children: demons: An East German...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:05:48 -0800

oddlyfreakinweird:

foster-children:

demons:

An East German soldier helping a boy cross the newly formed ‘Berlin Wall,’ 1961.

From what is known, the photograph was taken the day the emerging Wall was put up in August 1961 and the boy was found on the opposite side of the wall from his family. Despite given orders by the East German government to let no one pass, the soldier helped the boy through the barbwire. Near the exact time this photo was taken, it was said that the soldier was seen by his superior officer who immediately detached the soldier from his unit.”

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:43:49 -0800

nevver: Veronica’s Black Friday

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:22:29 -0800

nevver:

Veronica’s Black Friday

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:38:30 -0800

k-aro: callmefrancois: Pablo Neruda at his best. perfect

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:16:41 -0800

k-aro:

callmefrancois:

Pablo Neruda at his best.

perfect

whiteless: Fiona Gohari

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:55:57 -0800

whiteless:

Fiona Gohari

ffffffound: this isn’t happiness™

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:33:10 -0800

ffffffound:

this isn’t happiness™

alecshao: Late Bloomers of the Arts For all of you who’ve felt...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:11:54 -0800

alecshao:

Late Bloomers of the Arts

For all of you who’ve felt even for a second that it’s ever too late:

1. Charles Bukowski had his first book published when he was 49

2. Leonard Cohen was 33 when his first album was released

3. Marina Abramovic’s career as an independent artist wasn’t solidified until she was 42

4. Julia Child’s career started when she was 36

5. Van Gogh started drawing when he was 27

6. Monet painted Sunrise when he was 33, but wasn’t creating his best work until his early 40s

7. Kazuo Ohno started dancing when he was 27

8. William S. Burroughs had his first novel published when he was 39

nevver: Life in Hell

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:49:28 -0800

nevver:

Life in Hell

"Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:27:32 -0800

“Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”

- Gustave Flaubert (via blua)

the-absolute-funniest-posts: Follow this blog, you’ll love it...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:05:54 -0800

the-absolute-funniest-posts:

Follow this blog, you’ll love it on your dashboard!

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:43:59 -0800

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:22:28 -0800

ornamentedbeing: Dress, Evening Madeleine Vionnet (French,...

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:55:33 -0800

ornamentedbeing:

Dress, Evening

Madeleine Vionnet (French, 1876–1975)

Fall/Winter 1938-39

Met

I don’t normally force a lot of text on everyone but this is a must read: “In Jungian psychology, the appearance of black birds in dreams is considered a bad omen and allied to fear of misfortune. For the Romantics, they hovered over battlefields to feast on the bodies of the slain. As a chilling prelude to war, the birds on this dress swarm around the body of the wearer like ominous raptors. At the same time, they serve as criticism of the vanity and ostentation of le beau monde. Like the bird who cries cras, cras (tomorrow, tomorrow), the black bird symbolizes those who are caught up in worldly pleasures.”

I loved this gown but now I love it all the more for the symbolism threaded onto each fold.

therhumboogie: By Jeremy Miranda, each of these beautifully...

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:55:12 -0800

therhumboogie:

By Jeremy Miranda, each of these beautifully done paintings has such a dreamy sense of layers, and worlds within worlds. The thread connecting each piece, using ladders, really is a sharp focus for the work linking different dimensions to one another, mesmerising stuff.

mythologyofblue: René Magritte, La Reconnaissance Infinie...

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:54:57 -0800

mythologyofblue:

René Magritte, La Reconnaissance Infinie (Infinite Recognition), 1963