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aminotes: Salvador Dalí, The Ship, 1943 The Ship is...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:40:55 -0500

Salvador Dalí, The Ship, 1943

The Ship is Surrealist Salvador Dali’s watercolor reworking of renowned maritime artist Montague Dawson’s classic painting forged with his own enigmatic imagery. Dali (1904 – 1989), using a technique called Paranoiac-Critical , portrayed these objects and scenarios in meticulously realistic detail, depicting a dream world in which commonplace objects are juxtaposed and transformed in a bizarre and irrational fashion. Blazing innovative trails in Surrealism, Dali used his exceptional imagination to fuel his contributions to sculpture, theater, fashion and photography.

uncertaintimes: rhea137: M S Hove - Rope Work Bluto and Star...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:33:43 -0500

uncertaintimes:

rhea137:

M S Hove - Rope Work

Bluto and Star Knot (Annunciation), knot diameter is 33”,
overall length is 18’

“This body of oversize sculptural knots and rope installations arose from my side careers as traditional ship rigger and tug boat deckhand. The elegant functionality of knots, along with the ancient traditions they embody and the high degree of craft necessary to create them, translate well in a fine arts context. The installations rely on the distribution of tension to hold their tight shape, much like the rigging of a ship.”
Scott Hove

Random fake ad from Mad Magazine #36

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:30:33 -0500

Random fake ad from Mad Magazine #36

Deleuze on Spinoza

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:09:24 -0500

Deleuze on Spinoza:

montycantsin:

fluxdinthehead:

pareidoliac:

“In Hegel’s reproach to Spinoza – that he ignored the negative and its power – lies the glory and innocence of Spinoza, his own discovery. In a world consumed by the negative, he has enough confidence in life, in the power of life, to challenge death, the murderous appetites of men, the rules of good and evil, of the just and unjust. Enough confidence in life to denounce all the phantoms of the negative… In Spinoza’s thought, life is not an idea, a matter of theory, it is a way of being. It is only from this perspective that his geometrical method is fully comprehensible. In the Ethics, it is opposition to everything that takes pleasure in the powerlessness and distress of men, everything that feeds on accusations, on malice, on belittlement, on low interpretations, everything that breaks men’s spirits. The geometrical method ceases to be a method of intellectual exposition but is rather a method of invention…Spinoza did not believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy, and in vision. He let others live provided they let him live. He wanted only to inspire, to awaken, to reveal.”

Deleuze on Spinoza

"There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral..."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:06:49 -0500

“There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests. Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power. And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police. The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable. Brace yourself. The American empire is over. And the descent is going to be horrifying. Those singled out as internal enemies will include people of color, immigrants, gays, intellectuals, feminists, Jews, Muslims, union leaders and those defined as “liberals.” They will be condemned as anti-American and blamed for our decline. The economic collapse, which remains mysterious and enigmatic to most Americans, will be pinned by demagogues and hatemongers on these hapless scapegoats. And the random acts of violence, which are already leaping up around the fringes of American society, will justify harsh measures of internal control that will snuff out the final vestiges of our democracy. The corporate forces that destroyed the country will use the information systems they control to mask their culpability. The old game of blaming the weak and the marginal, a staple of despotic regimes, will empower the dark undercurrents of sadism and violence within American society and deflect attention from the corporate vampires that have drained the blood of the country.”

- Chris Hedges (via azspot)

curate: Spinning in Air: alternate jig

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:02:43 -0500

curate:

Spinning in Air: alternate jig

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:01:46 -0500

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

- Mae West. (via mfs)

findout: From the series Living by the Water Chai-Kuen...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:57:54 -0500

findout:

From the series Living by the Water

Chai-Kuen Chu focuses on the working patterns of the people living by the water in China. It shows their life-long occupations, inherited from their ancestors over a few thousand years, comprising of wild fishing, fish farming (hatcheries and angling) and shellfish picking (clams, baby conchs and cockles) by the muddy shores, and the cultivation of kelp and seaweed along the coastal line.

This Be the Verse, Philip Larkin

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:50:23 -0500

sometimesagreatnotion:

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

americansatori: squaredoor: kickcanandconkers: Hobo...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:48:08 -0500

americansatori:

squaredoor:

kickcanandconkers:

Hobo Symbology from Symbols, Signs and Signets, Ernst Lehner

More HERE

Via Delicious Industries

imaginarymuslims: smokeandsassafrass: (via mystic-lady)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:29 -0500

imaginarymuslims:

smokeandsassafrass:

(via mystic-lady)

jhnbrssndn: mudwerks: pleasedontsqueezetheshaman: Django...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:47:12 -0500

jhnbrssndn:

mudwerks:

pleasedontsqueezetheshaman:

Django Reinhardt - Swing 42

Django knows the answer to life, the universe and everything.

art-stuff: tapwaterjackson: Dorothea Lange, via Old Picture of...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:07 -0500

art-stuff:

tapwaterjackson:

Dorothea Lange, via Old Picture of the Day “Today we feature a picture of photographer Dorothea Lange. The picture was taken in 1936. Dorothea was one of the Resettlement Administration photographers who went across the country in the 1930’s photographing the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Dorothea is best remembered for her photograph of the Migrant Mother, which has become a defining icon of the Great Depression.”
The Library of Congress Reading Room — The Migrant Mother

I love lange’s work but I think this is the first time I have seen an image of her.

Plight of the impoverished drug addict - Drugs - Salon.com

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:36:08 -0500

Plight of the impoverished drug addict - Drugs - Salon.com:

katharinec:

“Poor addicts — and there are millions of them — have been pushed to the margins of society, deprived of medical attention, often exposed to conditions, including imprisonment, that exacerbate their illness,” Costa said according to a copy of a speech he delivered at a Vienna meeting of the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs.

jenclone: maybesparrow: Malayan flying fox 2 (via...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:34:17 -0500

jenclone:

maybesparrow:

Malayan flying fox 2 (via afagen)

More bat action. On this bat channel.

yourwonderingmind: laplumeabelle: The Ecstatic Shaman The...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:31:22 -0500

yourwonderingmind:

laplumeabelle:

The Ecstatic Shaman

The radiant hair of this small figure identifies it as an entranced shaman. Hair, because of its growth and regeneration, is one of the most magical parts of the human body, and is therefore thought to be vulnerable to supernatural influences. This superstition is expressed in the Biblical tale of Samson, whose power resided in his uncut hair, and in folk magic that considers hair and nail clippings necessary for many charms and spells. Many of the inverted flying or falling figures in the Pecos River style pictographs are shown with streaming unbound hair, one of the characteristics that illustrates the symbolic flight of the shaman between the worlds of the living and the dead; the shaman at the height of his mystical power and immune to attack by evil spirits. This figure from Panther Cave is duplicated at nearby Lookout Shelter, and at Rattlesnake Canyon on the Rio Grande above Langtry. Variations on the theme of unbound hair are found throughout the Lower Pecos region in Texas and northern Coahuila.

Doctors Without Borders: Chile: MSF Supporting Hospitals, Organizing Mobile Clinics, Sending Supplies

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:01:08 -0500

Doctors Without Borders: Chile: MSF Supporting Hospitals, Organizing Mobile Clinics, Sending Supplies:

Ten days after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins San Frontières (MSF) teams that have travelled through the affected areas are focusing their interventions on the most urgent needs: supporting health structures that are caring for large numbers…

iisabelle: bradicalmang: abbyjean: The Prison Industrial...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:54:46 -0500

iisabelle:

bradicalmang:

abbyjean:

The Prison Industrial Complex - prison population per 100,000 people. (AFRICA IS A COUNTRY)

Here’s a tribute to our “free” society!

azspot: bartcop.com

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:50:10 -0500

azspot:

bartcop.com

ledgergermane: Sudan’s land of ‘black pharaohs’ a trove for...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:46:09 -0500

ledgergermane:

Sudan’s land of ‘black pharaohs’ a trove for archaeologists

A Sudanese man sits on a camel as he looks at the pyramids in the Meroe desert, north of Khartoum. There is not a tourist in sight as the sun sets over sand-swept pyramids at Meroe, but archaeologists say the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan holds mysteries to rival ancient Egypt.

Meroe lies around 200 kilometres (120 miles) northeast of Sudan’s capital Khartoum and was the last capital of Kush, also called Nubia, an ancient kingdom centered on the confluence of the Blue Nile, the White Nile and the River Atbara.

Kush was one of the earliest civilisations in the Nile valley and, at first, was dominated by Egypt. The Nubians eventually gained their independence and, at the height of their power, they turned the table on Egypt and conquered it in the 8th century BC.

They occupied the entire Nile valley for a century before being forced back into what is now Sudan.

At the end of March, the Louvre will host its first exhibition on the Meroe dynasty, the last in a line of “black pharaohs” that ruled Kush for more than 1,000 years until the kingdom’s demise in 350 AD.