big ideas (don't get any)

Hello, my name is Ashley and I have never lied in my life.

[ducissatenebrarum]

Frozen Charlotte corpse doll. So-called after a girl who froze to death being driven to a ball. Wildly popular with C19th children as they only cost a penny & came in their own tiny coffins - with a message. They were also baked into cakes as a surprise.

[grundoonmgnx]

Pat Perry, Craigslist Still Life 03, 2022

Acrylic on panel, 22 x 30 in

[weepingwidar]

Joanna Karpowicz (Polish, 1976) - Anubis Traveling (2014)

[twixnmix]

Jean-Michel Basquiat preparing for his first London show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), December 1984.

Photos by Peter Nicholls for The Times

[exhaled-spirals]

« Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacturing of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined? »

— Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

[perkwunos]

John Stuart Mill says in his Principles of Political Economy: ‘It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.’ That is, however, by no means the aim of the application of machinery under capitalism. Like every other instrument for increasing the productivity of labour, machinery is intended to cheapen commodities and, by shortening the part of the working day in which the worker works for himself, to lengthen the other part, the part he gives to the capitalist for nothing. The machine is a means for producing surplus-value.

Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, ch. 15

[nyctaeus]

Carsten Höller's 'Upside Down Mushroom Room' from 2000 in the Fondazione Prada, Milan

[iamoutofideas]

Regular mushroom room

[biodegradable-heart]

Mushrooms touring the Man On Cieling exhibit, 2019

[polymorphousculturevulture]

Juliette Lamarca - Je te vois

[grundoonmgnx]

Javier Mayoral, The Motel and the Iguana, 2021 

Acrylic on panel, 8 x 9.5 in.

[mooncustafer]

I googled Mayoral and all his stuff is like this (though sometimes with more sex):

[japanfilmclub]

Labyrinth Romanesque 『花園の迷宮』 1988 Written by Hirô Matsuda 松田寛夫 Directed by Shunya Ito  伊藤俊也 

[joeinct]

Amateur Boxing, Photo by Carl Mydans, 1955

[electraheart2012]

[pierppasolini]

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) // dir. Tsai Ming-liang

[heateron]

lou reed of the velvet underground, 1974.

[fionaapplerocks]

…I remember watching this performance in 1989,and that’s when she became my hero. She was all by herself,and she was wearing jeans,and she was bald,and she was moving and singing for her own satisfaction. Watching her perform this way,made me feel alive and excited to be alive. I’d do anything to let her know how much she’s meant to me. This performance changed my world. And everything afterwards. She really is my hero–even more so now,for having made that video. There IS NO ONE like her. It sounds crazy,but I wish I could drink her tears.

Video by Zelda Hallman

[fionaapplerocks]

Sinéad O'Connor is about to enter a 1 YEAR trauma and addiction treatment programme.

[explicitcherry]

https://twitter.com/alxistrmr/status/948312607278223360

[fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors]

Losing Ground dir. Kathleen Collins (1982)

[cair--paravel]

Hereford Cathedral Library. The library was formally established in 1611, but the cathedral’s manuscript collection dates back to the medieval era. It is still a working library, and is notable for its collection of chained books (a common practice in the early modern era), and is the only library of this type to survive with all of the chains, rods and locks still intact. The chained library contains 229 manuscripts, mostly medieval, and the earliest book in the collection, the Hereford Gospels, is from around 780.