a blind carpenter

i post a lot about art and movies i like as well as observations from my everyday life that i find beautiful or remarkable

[anti-gone-jane]

apparently i have a podcast now i guess

[anti-gone-jane]

performance art to-do list, item #1

walk into an apple store and shout, “ADAM?! Adam are you in here? IT’S EVE! I change my mind- DON’T EAT THE APPLE!!! I spit mine out. SPIT IT OUT, ADAM!!!!” 

[anti-gone-jane]

[as-warm-as-choco]

The French Netflix uploaded this on twitter…….

[starsthatburn]

this is by far the most powerful thing I’ve seen since Trump won and everyone needs to see this

[anti-gone-jane]

I have lost myself. 

I keep thinking if I get the right clothes, the right haircut, the right makeup. 

If I live in the right city and go to the right places. 

If other people see me the right way. 

Then I will feel right again. 

I know I’m looking in the wrong places. 

I am so lost inside myself that I don’t know the right place to start looking.

[anti-gone-jane]

Amelie, 2001

[anti-gone-jane]

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

[anti-gone-jane]

Visit Original Link

Please put down your hands, cause I see you...

[anti-gone-jane]

I Am For… (Statement, 1961), my favorite bits

...

I am for art that is put on and taken off like pants, which develops holes like socks, which is eaten like a piece of pie, or abandoned with great contempt like a piece of shit.

 ...

I am for art you can sit on. I am for art you can pick your nose with or stub your toes on. I am for art from a pocket, from deep channels of the ear, from the edge of a knife, from the corners of the mouth, stuck in the eye or worn on the wrist.

...

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

...

I am for the art of bending and kicking metal and breaking glass, and pulling at things to make them fall down.

I am for the art of punching and skinned knees and sat-on bananas. I am for the art of kids’ smells.

...

I am for the art of things lost or thrown away, coming home from school.

...

- Claes Oldenburg

Full Statement

[anti-gone-jane]

Harold and Maude, 1971

[anti-gone-jane]

Mr. W

[anti-gone-jane]

Visit Original Link

[anti-gone-jane]

This stone is stone; it is also animal, God and Buddha. I do not respect and love it because it was one thing and will become something else, but because it has already long been everything and always is everything. I love it just because it is a stone, because today and now it appears to me a stone.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

[anti-gone-jane]

The Place Beyond the Pines

  I think the most amazing thing about this movie is how it felt like there was a really strong connection between Luke and Jason, even without any use of flashbacks after Luke died. The scene that hit me the most was after Jason found out who his dad was and he went to see Robin. And he saw where his dad had lived and worked. He asked Robin, “Was he good at anything?” That question seemed really important because more than looking for something to look up to his dad for, I feel like he was looking for something good in himself. It expresses the feeling of having a parent who is gone really well. The only part of them that still exists is the part that is in you. So hearing about their good qualities is also like hearing about good qualities you didn’t know you had.

[anti-gone-jane]

Not bad points. And just to be clear I'm against death penalty myself. But just a thought. How would spending his whole life in prison better? I wouldn't even call it a life.

I disagree, life in prison is still a life. Maybe relative to what most people know it doesn’t seem like one, but relative to death, it definitely is.

And even is you see them as equally terrible punishments, which I don’t, as I said in the post, “His life has much more potential to lessen this hatred than his death does.” He will have the opportunity to learn and change his beliefs. I think he has the right to that as a human being. And not just for him, that would give Americans and people throughout the world the opportunity to learn from him, what led him to do this and what can be done to change the environments and societies that these events happen within.

[anti-gone-jane]

Thoughts on the Boston Bombings and the Possibility of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Receiving the Death Penalty

Firstly, I would like to express my sympathy towards everyone affected by this event. This includes those killed and injured, their families, the citizens of Boston and America as a whole, moderate Muslims in America and worldwide who are trying to break free of being seen as extremists, Muslims who have been led astray by extremist teachings, and the Tsarnaev brothers.

Now that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is to be prosecuted under federal law, he could receive the death penalty. Although this seems very likely, I am hoping he does not. I am against the death penalty altogether. No person or group have the right to decide whether someone else deserves to die. There is no qualification that should permit you to choose whether a human lives or dies. For these and the reasons below, I feel very strongly that killing Dzhokher Tsarnaev would be the wrong thing to do.

I do not think there are any purely terrible people, there are just people who end up doing terrible things because of the environment they live in. We cannot place all the responsibility for this event on these two people and especially not just on one now that the older brother is dead. People are incredibly susceptible to the environment they live in especially when they are young. Dzhokher Tsarnaev is nineteen years old. It is not hard to lead someone so young down the wrong path, especially since it was his older brother and members of his religion leading him. They are not responsible for the fact that they live in country where many citizens fear and hate the religion they are part of, or that some of the followers of their religion encourage violence and hate. If Dzhokher Tsarnaev is killed, he can never learn to know and think anything other than what he does now. His death will wrapped in hatred, the hatred that led him and his brother to do this, the hatred many Americans are now feeling towards them, and the magnitude of hatred between Muslims and Americans as a whole. His life has much more potential to lessen this hatred than his death does. I really believe that killing him will do nothing to stop terrorism. Death is not a deterrent for people ready to do something so extreme. What makes people capable of committing this kind of act is that they stop thinking of the people they are aiming to hurt as human beings. If we stop thinking of them as human beings that is the same thing, and we are only bringing about more separation between us. Although many people think that before the separation can end, these kinds of events need to stop happening; really it can only happen the other way around. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were victims of this separation. They were outsiders here in America, living in a place where their fellow citizens are often fearful of and angry towards Muslims. When you are distanced from others, it become very easy to forget that they are just as human as you are. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Americans, Muslims, and the world have a long way to go in breaking down this distance, and killing Tsarnaev or anyone else will not lead us in the right direction.

[anti-gone-jane]

James Castle, Girl, Date unknown

i love this spec of a cardboard girl, all wrapped up in her worn out folds. i can't believe her magicalness. look look at her

 this was my favorite thing in "Great and Mighty Things": Outsider Art