A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns

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Laurie Anderson, O Superman (1982)

[dailyrothko]

Bonus

Sandra Lousada, ROTHKO EXHIBITION 1961 at the Whitechapel Gallery

More of her work and history here

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Unknown, Tantric Painting, India

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L’ami de mon amie dir. Éric Rohmer (1987)

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Gillian Welch :: I Dream a Highway

I'll take you as a viper into my head / A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed / I dream a highway back to you

[gh0stgums]

Paul Cowan Untitled, 2010  oil on canvas, 15 x 13 inches

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Yellow Moon on the Rise  - Dan McCarthy

American b.1935

Colour screenprint , 20 x 20 in.

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Hüsker Dü

Montage

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A tree struck by lightning, Gundiah, Queensland. Photo by Suzanne McCowen via ABC Brisbane 

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HERZOG directing the rats of NOSFERATU.

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Guido Guidi 1973

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Inherent Vice (2014)

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

DoP. Robert Elswit

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William E. Jones, Four Frames from “Spatial Disorientation”, (2010)

Sequence of digital files, color, silent, 4 minutes and 45 seconds looped.

 The original footage of Spatial Disorientation is a flight test seen from the cockpit of a U. S. Air Force plane.  The material has been edited into a loop that repeats in variations: magenta, blue and green.

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

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What’s the legal limit on having a crush on a live performance? 

[huariqueje]

The Trappemhuis   -   Max Baris.

Dutch, b.1945-

Oil on linen,  80 × 100 cm