January 2011
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ticketsandpassports:
Too busy worrying about giving Justin Bieber a movie and what Snooki is doing to watch the news.
AMERICA.
Word.
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Creativity couseling taught me...
that I’m stressed and in need of more group creativity therapy.
…
This was supposed to be me trying out something new, exciting and cost-free, not considering whether there’s something else I should be worried about.
Sometimes, one must disappear
in order to be appreciated by others, and even perhaps by oneself.
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We Did Not Make Ourselves
We did not make ourselves is one thing
I keep singing into my hands
while falling
asleep
for just a second
before I have to get up and turn on all the lights in the house, one after the
other, like opening an Advent calendar
My brain opening
the chemical miracles in my brain
switching on
I can hear
dogs barking
some trees
last stars
You think you’ll be missed
it won’t...
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I signed myself up for creativity counseling this...
What is wrong with me…? In a way, it’s a little embarrassing. It sounds as though I need help thinking creatively. That is, a person who’s livelihood is supposedly based on thinking creatively or channeling their imagination needs assistance in doing that very thing. Perhaps…
It comes with the territory and happens to the best of us. Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol…...
erynamel asked: you attend SCAD?! That was my dream school! :/ didnt have enough funds lol. Which Campus are you at? Whats your focus?
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I think I may have to learn how to knit or...
there’s no way I’ll find a hat big enough and lightweight enough to wear over my ‘fro nowadays without it smashing it to bits and pulling super tight.
I’ll have to learn to make my own.
I knew this day would come, and yet I didn’t prepare.
GA: ART: SCAD Museum of Art presents “The Art of... →
so-treu:
dominickbrady:
Might be worth the 2 hour trip down down I-16 to Savannah.
Excerpt:
The SCAD Museum of Art presents its first major exhibition of 2011 with “The Art of Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Freedom Quests,” on view Jan. 31 through April 15 at the SCAD Museum of Art, 227 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. The exhibition will open with a lecture by Ringgold 7 p.m. Jan. 31 at...
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“Te Quiera” - Seu Jorge
“I was having breakfast at Starbucks this morning and there was this homeless kid...”
– My Dad, meeting hipsters in the wild. (via brain-food)
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The 8 Most Awkwardly Sexual Moments in Comic Book...
Comic books have been known to do some crazy things to keep readers interested. After all, there’s only so many times you can see Superman and Lois Lane make out without getting bored, so sometimes writers will push the envelope a bit. The envelope of sex.
Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just makes us feel like putting the comic book face down, leaving the room and taking a...
Don't diss ya maker.
Remember where you come from and who has helped you along your journeys.
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A Walk Through Suicide Forest →
VICE Magazine’s short, riveting documentary on Japan’s Aokigahara forest (also known as The Sea of Trees), perhaps the country’s most popular location for those wishing to end their own lives (and reported to be the second most popular location in the world behind the Golden Gate Bridge. The forest’s popularity is often cited as being due to Seichō Matsumoto’s 1960 novel Kuroi Jukai, which...
ticketsandpassports:
The idea isn’t to do something that hasn’t been done yet, it’s to do something that was done already, but approach it differently and do it better than whoever did it.
I agree with that. There are precious few new ideas, but different and more developed experiences and perspectives are possible and necessary.
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"I chose to let you decide what you wanted to...
Making you research something for my benefit is like someone making you smoke crack…on your birthday…and you don’t like crack.”
- Professor daCosta, SCAD, Dept. of Digital Media
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So wrong, it's right: The reality of things →
ticketsandpassports:
Ideally, I’d like to just travel the world (well, not the world, cause I ain’t going to Russia or Korea), just me and mine, drinking lots of liquor while we look good and buy lots of clothes and shit, might have our pictures taken by one of those street style blogs and shit, just me and her kickin…
Sounds like someone I know.
“I’ve been looking around the interwebz and through my stacks of porn DVDs...”
– Lynsey’s Search for POV (via The Woman’s POV)
Black Invisibility and Racism in Punk Music →
healingsakina:
Invisibility is paired with racism. Once I got here, they had insults waiting. The invisibility manifests in the fact that they don’t even know a black person could like punk. The racism illuminates the reality that, although I have that one thing in common with them, I am still an alien being. Maybe it’s because punk hasn’t been infiltrated by blacks for as long as some...
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“Capumcap” - Nightmares on Wax
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"All beings tremble before violence. All fear...
- Buddha
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Double consciousness
The term “double consciousness” originated from an 1897 Atlantic Monthly article of Du Bois’s titled “Strivings of the Negro People.” It was later republished and slightly edited under the title “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” in his collection of essays, The Souls of Black Folk. This was a concept developed by the American sociologist and ...
An observation
mchlljy:
I’m speaking in general terms here.
What is it with black people, more so black women, wanting to form a list of what they’re mixed with? Is there shame in being just black? Does having any mixture make you more appealing and desirable? Is that it?
Yes, that’s what living in a society that wasn’t created for our needs does. It can be really frustrating. It hurts my heart....
“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for...”
– - James Monroe (1817-1825)
Funny.
“The First Whores were Sacred Goddesses, healers, and teachers. It’s evident that...”
– Me in a conversation with my slut-shaming mother. (via thecuntmentality)
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"You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying,...
Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy....
NHI (No Humans Involved)
sapphrikah:
So apparently, NHI is police jargon for No Humans Involved. They use it to declare a victim as non-important, less than human, often for people like prostitutes, ex-cons, minorities.
The fact that the term exist is absolutely disgusting.
I should do more research.