art for michelangelo

[nontemporary]

BENOIT PAILLE

[ampervadasz]

[huariqueje]

Transcription 36  -   Sirpa Särkijärvi, 2017

Finnish,b.1974-

Acrylic on canvas  ,140 x 110 cm

[gael-garcia]

It’s the Basic Ball!

A ball for the rest of the LGBT-cuties.

—A Black Lady Sketch Show 1x02

[savvy-ivvory]

That “Bitch he’s not eating he’s at work” has me flatlined

[ourladyofperpetualnaptime]

jean paul gaultier wool dress with leather strap, late 1990s

[meanplastic]

[brbjellyfishing]

this was peak tv and everything since has gone downhill

[mununblr]

has this been done yet

[mysharona1987]

[giasesshoumaru]

This is the full question and response in case anyone is curious. It’s awesome.

Dear Care and Feeding,

My wife and I and our 4-year-old son were out to dinner last week. It was a medium-nice restaurant, not fast food, but not super fancy either. My son is a normal, active little boy, and it’s hard for him to sit through a whole dinner, so we let him explore the restaurant a little. I noticed our waitress giving him the hairy eyeball, so we asked him to stop running. He was pretty good about it after that, but he did get underfoot when she was carrying a tray, and she spoke to him pretty sharply to go back to our table and sit down. I felt it was completely uncalled for, and she should have come and spoken to us personally instead of disciplining someone else’s child.

I tipped 5 percent and spoke briefly to her manager, who gave noncommittal replies. My wife agrees with me, but when we posted about it on Facebook, we got a lot of judgy responses.

—It’s Hard for a 4-Year-Old to Sit Still

Dear Sit Still,

Yeah, this is your fault. It’s hugely your fault. Of course it’s hard for a 4-year-old to sit still, which is why people usually stick to fast-dining establishments while working on restaurant manners. It’s why one parent usually responds to a fidgety kid who wants to “explore” by taking him outside the restaurant, where he can get his wiggles out while not taking laps around servers precariously carrying trays of (often extremely hot) food and drink.

A kid “exploring” a restaurant is not a thing. When you did intervene, it wasn’t to get him back in his seat. It was just to instruct him to “stop running.” You weren’t parenting, so a server did it for you. She was right. You were wrong.

Your son is not ready to eat at a “medium-nice” restaurant again until he is capable of behaving a little better. You can practice at home. You can practice at McDonald’s. You can try a real restaurant again with the understanding that one of you may need to take him out when he starts getting the urge to run an obstacle course.

I doubt that you will do this, but I encourage you to return the restaurant, apologize to the manager for complaining about your server, and leave her a proper tip.

Mend your wicked ways.

[31st]

HELP

[the-captain-daddy]

💀💀💀💀💀

[arcampbell94]

I CANT STOP LAUGHING 😂😂

[that-twink-over-there]

OH MY GOD

[supersonicart]

Gustav Klimt Brought to Life by Photographer Inge Prader.

Austrian photographer Inge Prader recently recreated Gustav Klimt’s masterworks for Style Bible, a part of the Life Ball Charity Event in Vienna, Austria.  A team of over 50 professionals worked on the demanding photography project which raises funds to help those with HIV/AIDS.  Makeup artists, costume designers, set designers, lighting specialists and many others worked with models and fully ornamented props to bring to life the fascinating, erotically charged work that Klimt is known for during his “Golden Phase.”

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[eternallybutthurt]

this is my new fav video

[retrogamingblog]

Pokemon Ghost Trio Stained Glass made by Arjan Boeve

[stayflo-1995]

LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[americanblackgirlinaustralia]

Kalin Elisabeth, is her name

[gimmethebeachboys]

remember that short story they made you read in school called The Lottery where the whole town gets together and just stones a motherfucker at random what the fuck was up with that

[odin-n-out]

[feynites]

Actually, I know what was up with that!

When The Lottery (by Shirley Jackson) was first published, tons of people wrote into the newspaper that published it to demand to know what the hell it was meant to be about

I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story’s readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.

So basically the story is written in such a way that the uncritical nature of the townspeople is highlighted, when it comes to their own traditions. Every year the town commits outright violent murder, but because it’s ‘normal’ to them, they don’t think of it in those terms. The reader, who isn’t part of the town’s cultural assumptions, sees the horrific nature of their actions. But the characters in the story don’t.

In essence, it’s a story about normalization (before that phrase was coined). The point is to make you think about what cruelties might be passing uncriticized in your own culture, just because they seem ‘normal’ to you. Maybe your town doesn’t stone someone to death once a year, but there are other ways for communities to kill people, or let them suffer. And some of those are just as needless and just as rooted in unquestioned assumptions about how the world works, or how society needs to operate. The people in The Lottery were hesitant to give up their tradition because they believed it guaranteed them a good harvest. Revealing, in that hesitance, that the possibility of a bad outcome was more frightening to them than an atrocity they’d normalized. 

[quasi-normalcy]

Defamiliarization or ostranenie (Russian: остранение, IPA: [ɐstrɐˈnʲenʲɪjə]) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar.

[parchmint]

compilation of the most powerful images

[gremlinizer]

baby time

[bettsplendens]

For the people worried in the notes: no, these fish are fine. They can breathe, they aren’t stuck. They’d spit the pacifiers out if they were problems. They’re doing that because koi often take gravel and other inedible substances into their mouths to ‘chew’ and look for food, and as such are very driven to investigate things with an interesting smell or taste. Like a pacifier. They might be interested in the texture as well. When they’ve decided it’s not food, they’ll spit it out and go investigate something else. 

In the meantime, it makes for some very cute pictures. 

[pulpcovers]

Well Hung-Up https://pulpcovers.com/well-hung-up/

[gallowhill]