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Gail Norfleet - Galisteo, 2025 - Acrylic, wax pencil, and cut paper collage on two plexiglass panels

myrunwayarchive

Robert Wun Fall 2026 Couture

myrunwayarchive

Robert Wun Fall 2026 Couture

Normalize squatty potties in public bathrooms 👏

myrunwayarchive

Jean Paul Gaultier Fall 2026 Couture

sleazeburger

Yucca Valley, CA

loveridden1999

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

loveridden1999

everyone say thank you toni morrison

weepingwidar

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (Tsartlip/Syilx First Nations/Canadian, 1957) - Killer Whale Has A Vision and Comes to Talk to Me about Proximological Encroachments of Civilizations in the Oceans (2010)

femme-4-butches

Meg Allen's BUTCH photo series.

noodledesk

i really liked this essay on why literary fiction is sounding so much Like That these days, especially work by asian american authors:

This entire process selects for homework-doers, personal entrepreneurs, and individualistic bureaucrats. It's why, like I said, the oracular outsiders, the Pauls of the world, who can't conform to society's expectations to check boxes and become legible to the powers that be, aren't in these programs and aren't getting the opportunities that are downstream of them. It's why you end up with tons of fiction about "my white boyfriend" and "everyone online is mad at me" or "anxious strivers in NYC" or "my annoying polycule." These are the obstacles this class encounters. You can't spend time, like Cormac McCarthy did, living in an unheated cabin in the Smokies, or embedding with the Mujahideen like William T. Vollman, or working as a psychotherapist like Olga Tokarczuk. You must move from strength to strength, always turning in your homework on time, and certainly never suffering a psychotic break.

-- Trip, Estragon News, The Oracular Outsiders and the Homework Doers

symbolicinteractionism

i quite liked the conclusion to the piece:

Maybe it's because that fiction is being written for the people already bought in. Art that is made for the purpose of institutional legibility and approval is dead on arrival. Writing must stand on the outside, viewing the world at a tilt. Our world is being eaten by word machines that can imitate us perfectly. Unless American letters find the courage to welcome back in the oracular, it will disappear, replaced by machine that can conform to the demands of institutional legibility—really, the demands of capital—better than any human ever could.

ink-the-artist

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Catherine Jansen The Blue Room 1970-73 / Photosensitized cloth, photographic dyes, embroidery

neshamama

every nation's government every single one mind you can get fucked but the land they attempt to control and poison in the name of power is divinely imbued so on national holidays i think of landscape

like in 1972 when shin joong hyun was ordered to write a song celebrating the president (a military dictator) park chung hee and he came up with ten minutes of psychedelic meditation on the korean landscape. so they cut his hair, had him arrested and tortured, and banned his music for years. ever since i figured that was the true way to celebrate your country, especially in the bad times, look to "beautiful rivers and mountains."

neshamama

you may be familiar with shin joong hyun's work with kim jung mi, who performed an alternative arrangement of this song on her 1973 album now (an essential listen of korean music history)

enjoy and be well

ps: kim jung mi and shin joong hyun live on, and that dictator has been dead since the 70s

neshamama

a korean blogger describes the situation more detail:

So... the president asks you to sing a song praising the president. The style he would prefer, if the video above is any indication, would be a terse, military march. President Park was also known to admire sentimental ballads.

Instead, you go into the studio, and write a huge, shambling, sweeping, psychedelic song that builds and builds and builds to a wild cry of passion, with lyrics like this (these aren't all the lyrics - as translated on the youtube link above):

Opening lines: Blue Sky / White clouds / A thread of wind rises / To fill my heart...

In this beautiful place, you're here and I'm here...

Hold my hand, let's go and see, run and see that wilderness...

Into this world, we were born. This beautiful place. This proud place we will live.

Today I'll go to meet you... time will pass, we will live together, then fade and fall.

Spring and summer go, Fall and winter come. (at 3:58:) Beautiful rivers and mountains!

(4:05-4:30) Your heart, my heart, You and me, Us Forever We are all, all in endless harmony.

It is a sweeping, gorgeous tribute to the beauty of Korea, and Shin's pride in his country, it contains time, seasons, mortality, harmony -- this is Shin's love of his land, with a loose, sloppy song structure, no chorus, few repeats, just a love poem sung straight through, all draped in shambling psychedelic, fuzzy, decadent rock sounds, ending with an extended musical washout as "we are all in endless harmony" disappears into the endlessness of great music.

There you go, Mr. President.

So instead of singing a tribute to the President, Shin pointedly, and passionately, sings about the beauty of the land. NOT the beauty of the government, the leader, or a vision of greatness for the people. No exhortations to respect your teacher or work hard. The rivers and mountains. He places all the politics and ambitions and dreams of the people under a giant sky of washing guitar, and sings that they will fade and fall, but the land, the beautiful land, will outlast them all.

To me, knowing the story of it, the song screams, "I love this country, Mr. President. Not you." Not only is it a pitched act of defiance, it also might be the best song he ever made.