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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Mike Driver
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Xuebing Du
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JBB: An Artblog!
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Peter Solarz
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
todays bird
Janaina Medeiros
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Ida Lupino, 1936
“My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England - I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.”
Snot Girl ❔ WHO IS LOTTIE PERSON? Is she a gorgeous, fun-loving social media star with a perfect life or a gross, allergy-ridden mess?
Beeeeest
this is really scary but also cool
竹取物語 (Princess from the Moon) (1987; Ichikawa Kon)
Takemiya Keiko (from Papermoon magazine)
my scans
It sounds bizarre, in some ways, to talk about creativity apart from the creation of a product. But that remoteness and strangeness is actually a measure of how much our sense of creativity has taken on the cast of our market-driven age. We live in a consumer society premised on the idea of self-expression through novelty. We believe that we can find ourselves through the acquisition of new things. Perhaps inevitably, we have reconceived creativity as a kind of meta-consumption: a method of working your way toward the other side of the consumer-producer equation, of swimming, salmon-like, back to the origin of the workflow. Thus the rush, in my pile of creativity books, to reconceive every kind of life style as essentially creative—to argue that you can “unleash your creativity” as an investor, a writer, a chemist, a teacher, an athlete, or a coach. Even as this way of speaking aims to recast work as art, it suggests how much art has been recast as work: it’s now difficult to speak about creativity without also invoking a profession of some kind…Among the many things we lost when we abandoned the Romantic idea of creativity, the most valuable may have been the idea of creativity’s stillness. If you’re really creative, really imaginative, you don’t have to make things…It doesn’t build, but it transforms. It doesn’t last, but it matters.
Joshua Rothman, “Creativity Creep” for the New Yorker (via arabellesicardi)
– Ken Barr
I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via wordsnquotes)
eltesorodelajuventud:
Know your hangovers by Virgil Partch aka VIP
Living in a fishbowl, Dana Trippe
So, in my art history class today, my professor was talking about something that is so fuckin awesome.
These are warrior shields from the Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea. The warriors paint them with imagery meant to symbolize animals who have traits they wish to embody in battle. These depictions are intended to give the person using it the powers of what they’re depicting.
Now. Look at this Wahgi shield:
Hmm. That looks a bit different from the others.
That looks VERY different. Why, it looks like
The Phantom… American comic book character by Lee Falk. And that’s because it is.
The Wahgi people were isolated from the rest of the “modern” world until 1933. They came into contact with WWII service men who shared some aspects of western culture with the tribesmen. In particular, they showed them the comic books they read while shipped out. The Wahgi loved them. In particular, the Wahgi adored the stories of the Phantom, who wasn’t even particularly popular in its home of America.
He is so popular that the few Wahgi who can read english will read the comics out loud in the village center and hold out the pages for everyone to see, so the whole tripe can enjoy them and marvel at the Phantom’s might in battle.
They identify with the Phantom because he came from a jungle territory, like them, wore a mask to fight, like them, and came from a long line of warriors, which the Wahgi, who worshiped their ancestors, deeply respected. Further, despite not really having superpowers, the Phantom is strong, clever, and incredibly fast. He was so fast that his enemies began to believe that he was impervious to bullets and could not be killed.
Therefore, the Wahgi began painting HIM on their shields to invoke HIS abilities in battle. There are TONS of Phantom-Wahgi shields out there.
So, you might think that you’re huge comic book fan, but the Wahgi have taken their Phantom fandom to the next level and have made the Phantom a fucking talisman to carry into battle for strength.
I had the honor of getting to see a bunch of these in person a year or so and they’re wonderful because some look like the Phantom depicted as a Wahgi-esque warrior
While others have more symbols and references rather than portraits
and then there’s some that are literally just covers from the books
It’s just this really cool look into the intersection and exchange involved here because there was an American character that independently developed all the traits valued in Wahgi society and it struck a sort of universal cord between otherwise very different cultures.
On another note, I now want to hear their opinions on other characters. I wonder what they think about batman.
Takemiya Keiko
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La Joie de Vivre - 1934 (The Joy of Living)
umbrella crab masterpost ! look at the immense variation in carapace pattern and colour. i love their little black toe-tips and their wee stripey antenna
july 18 2011
may 26 2013
june 4 2015
Umbrella crabs belong to the genus Cryptolithodes (Decapoda - Lithodidae) which includes three species, all of them endemic to the North Pacific Ocean.
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Cool dude. Excellent pic
