CURIOUS MARY JANE

I'm just curious about many things... And this is where I share what I find interesting in the world.

[ohhellokelsey]

I promise we are making more progress on our apartment than just painting this wall and buying more plants.

[curiousmaryjane]

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[infunctional]

The Couples Mirror Experiment

The mirror experiment is stemmed from the idea that we become so accustomed to seeing our reflection that that picture is our image of ourselves.

That is hard to shove into one sentence, so let me explain. Everyday, you see your reflection, and see you. That is the image you are most used to, therefore that is your idea of what you look like. This is one of the reasons we typically dislike pictures of ourselves, while everyone else says “You look great!” An experiment was conducted among couples, where they were displayed two pictures of themselves. What they weren’t told was that the pictures were actually identical, only one was flipped. 60% of the time, the individual chose the mirrored image of themselves as their favourite over the original. (It should be noted that individuals with more symmetrical faces found this task quite difficult, and often picked the original over the mirrored image) The same was done again, only this time it was pictures of their partner. Over 90% of these said that the original picture was their favourite. The reason for this result was that the original image is what they see every day, therefore they find it more attractive. It’s the image they fell in love with, if I may. This is called the Mere Exposure Effect.

[at-kkoolook]

Nothing is purely random, every event is at most chaotic. People have invented the word ‘random’ for describing the behaviour of things that they simply can’t comprehend.

Leslie Dean Brown (via at-kkoolook)

[oniongalaxy]

Chaos theory is a field of study in math, with applications including physics, engineering, economics, biology.

Chaos theory shows that the results of dynamic systems can be seriously effected by initial conditions. (Also known as the butterfly effect.) Ex, if you made a rounding error with...

[curiousmaryjane]

Terence McKenna

“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas. It is the night sea journey, the lone fisherman on a tropical sea with his nets, and you let these nets down - sometimes, something tears through them that leaves them in shreds and you just row for shore, and put your head under your bed and pray. At other times what slips through are the minutiae, the minnows of this ichthyological metaphor of idea chasing. But, sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”

[curiousmaryjane]

Terence McKenna

“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”

[liberatingreality]

Reject the mainstream machine of anti-thought.

[theusb]

What Do We Have In Common?

[blvckgxd]

No church in the wild

[sphelm-deactivated20171228]

Current obsession is a collaboration between Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano called “FLY ART” which they describe as “The best marriage on the internet: hip hop and art”. The pair combines a few of my favourite things: matching lyrics from different hip hop songs with pieces of art, ranging from the Renaissance to Post-Modernism, and the result is amazing. Changing the context of the song and the piece introduce a really unexpected perspective, and I can’t get enough. These are a few of standouts (I am clearly drawn to Kanye and Beyoncé lyrics)

From Top: The Starry Night of Sierra Leone; Milkmaid Rollin That Body; Four N****s of the Apocalypse; One Good Venus; Princess Tarakanova In a Swimming Pool (Drank); The Paranoia; Get Lucky on a Summer Evening; Dont Kill Phaedra’s Vibe; H(eaven) Town Vicious; Bound 2 the Kiss

[observando]

We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

Terence McKenna (via observando)

[untxt]

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[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

I want you and you are not here.

Carol Ann Duffy, from Miles Away (via violentwavesofemotion)

[dailydoseofstuf]

[curiousmaryjane]

Elysian

[liberatingreality]

The present ‘civilization’ … has brought to all strata of society and to all races the following ‘gifts’: restlessness, dissatisfaction, resentment, the need to go further and faster, and the inability to possess one’s life in simplicity, independence, and balance. Modern civilization has pushed man onward; it has generated in him the need for an increasingly greater number of things; it has made him more and more insufficient to himself and powerless.

Julius Evola (via liberatingreality)

[mukokuseki]

Famille des Moutons à Goye Gui.

these guys were lovely. and the big brother, responsible for the goats in the run up to Tabaski, had these mentally rotten fingernails. This is actually a common condition I’ve seen in a lot of people around the country but never as extreme as on these hands.

I guess that’s another thing we take for granted, fingernails.