Memento Mori

"I don't talk things, sir, I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive."

[findingnghiemo]

[findingnghiemo]

Theoretical and experimental physicists, working on problems of esoteric intellectual interest, provided the knowledge that eventually was pulled together to make the H-bomb, while mathematicians, geophysicists, and metallurgists, wittingly or unwittingly, made the discoveries necessary to construct intercontinental ballistic missiles. Physicists doing basic work in optics and infrared spectroscopy may have been shocked to find that their research would help government and corporate engineers build detection and surveillance devices for use in Indochina. The basic research of molecular biologists, biochemists, cellular biologists, neuropsychologists, and physicians was necessary for CBW (chemical-biological warfare) agents, herbicides, and gaseous crowd-control devices…  Anthropologists studying social systems of mountain tribes in Indochina were surprised when the CIA collected their information for use in counterinsurgency operations. Psychologists explored the parameters of human intelligence-testing instruments which, once developed, passed out of their hands and now help the draft boards conscript men for Vietnam and the U.S. Army allocate manpower more effectively. Further, these same intelligence-testing instruments are now an integral part of the public school tracking systems that, beginning at an early age, reduce opportunities of working-class children for higher education and social mobility.

Bill Zimmerman, People’s Science

[findingnghiemo]

Names, immigrant children, assimilation, colonialism

[lookingforanepiphany]

Keith Haring in 1989: “Unfinished Painting”. Haring died few months after and this is his last painting. This is supposed to be a self-portrait. Haring knew he wouldn’t have enough time to finish it. This is one of the saddest but certainly the most powerful thing I’ve ever seen.

[auntbutch]

to clarify: this is a finished self portrait. haring did know that he would be unable to continue to work; this “unfinished” painting refers to that self-consciously as a visualization of how the aids crisis and government neglect robbed him of his life and future career.

i feel like this distinction is important? there are many artists who died due to hiv/aids and left unfinished work, but haring made this specifically to comment on his impending death. i feel like stating that it’s actually unfinished takes away some of his agency as an artist/activist/pwa and the political power of the work. 

[findingnghiemo]

Look at these beautiful selfies my mom and I took last night.

[findingnghiemo]

Fine day. Love these two so much.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Being a good person is a choice. Don’t let people fool you into believing that truly good people never have bad thoughts, are never tempted by the easier path, by the low road, never mess up or act out selfishly. Never believe a person can be good without making a conscious effort.

Every single time you do something good, you’ve made a decision to make the world a little brighter.

Goodness is not an inherent trait, it is a choice. Keep making it! I see you, I’m proud of you, and I’m rooting for you!

[findingnghiemo]

Our assignment was to paint the sky and our skin for a week. "Your skin and the sky are one and the same." I really liked this.

[findingnghiemo]

Oh boy, I have an unfinished essay and a ton of studying to do, but today was so good.

[findingnghiemo]

Mundane objects // focus on Color project

[findingnghiemo]

exploration of color and light

[findingnghiemo]

Can you paint with all the colors of light?

[findingnghiemo]

Yesterday was such a cool color experience at the Hive.

[findingnghiemo]

Details of the mess I made with water balloons and paint earlier this week

[findingnghiemo]

This.

[findingnghiemo]

I'm finally getting more comfortable and inspired in my painting as experiment class, and it feels great. Except for the fact that I got paint all over myself yesterday lol.

[findingnghiemo]

Caught a rainbow today.