receive the sound

[tefftheory]

+ 2014 in Self-portraits –

would have added more if my phone wasn’t stolen yesterday. Ha! All good. ((:

[johnnythehorse]

Le Moment by Mariano Peccinetti Collage Art on Flickr.

[swanjolras-blog-archive-deactiv]

out of all the aspects of millennial-bashing, i think the one that most confuses me is the “millennials all got trophies as a kid, so now they’re all self-centered narcissists” theory

like— kids are pretty smart, y’all. they can see that every kid on the team gets a trophy and is told they did a good job; they can also see that not every kid on the team deserves a trophy, and not everyone did do a good job

the logical conclusion to draw from this is not “i’m great and i deserve praise”— it’s “no matter how mediocre i am, people will still praise me to make me feel better, so i can’t trust any compliments or accolades i receive”

this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.

where did this whole “ugh millennials think their so-so work is super great” thing even come from it is a goddamn mystery

[geardrops]

what fucking kills me is, yeah, maybe we got the trophies, but who gave them out

[violent-darts]

this is not a recipe for overconfidence and narcissism. it is a recipe for constant self-guessing, low self-esteem, and a distrust of one’s own abilities and skills.

Which is pretty much what mental health practitioners observe happening.

It’s also what I observed happening as a singing teacher: the older kids literally would not believe a positive word I said until I had proved I would tell them they screwed up/had done badly/etc. I did so in as useful a way as possible (“So this passage. We really need to work on this passage. A lot. This passage is not good yet.”), but with almost every adolescent I taught I had to prove I would give them straight-up criticism before they would parse my praise as anything other than meaningless “the grownups always do this” noise.

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[blackfashion]

Matthew. 19. Washington, D.C.

RetrosAndNintendos.tumblr.com

WorldOfGates.Weebly.Com

[pmpbonnie89]

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

(April 16, 1971 – March 31, 1995).

[dailyempire]

[weepling]

[womanhouse]

Louise Bourgeois, She Lost It, 1992.

[annnmoody]

ugh, louise i love you

[buznikova]

[bedjacket]

[otteroftheworld]

My parents live in this town and the city legally can’t tear the tree down to build or anything because the tree has its own legal rights and they can’t do anything about it.

[dirtyfnafconfessions]

how does. how does this happen. how DID this happen

[giraffepoliceforce]

I love this story because this guy in the early 1800’s had so many great childhood memories of this tree and wanted to make sure it was protected no matter what. So he deeded the ownership of the tree to itself and everyone just went with it.

Then in 1942 this intense windstorm came and knocked the tree over. And people were bummed. But someone had saved an acorn from the original tree, so they planted that and now Son of the Tree That Owns Itself is over 50 feet tall.

And since this new tree is technically the offspring of the original tree it’s considered to have legally inherited the plot of land it’s inhabiting.

Two generations of trees owning land is amazing and if you don’t think this is the coolest thing get right out of my face.

[burnedshoes]

© Carlo Naya, around 1865, San Giorgio from Doge’s palace, Venice

"The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here by boat to peer down into the waters, and they will see pillars and columns and marble far, far beneath them, slime and mud uncovering for brief moments a lost underworld of stone. Their heels made a ringing sound on the pavement and the rain splashed from the gutterings above. A fine ending to an evening that had started with brave hope, with innocence."  ― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

[elan-morin-tedronai]

Two Finnish students decided to build a slightly more hardcore gingerbread house. (source, in Finnish tho)

[sapphodelic]

Slightly

[bunjywunjy]

is that fucking Barad-dûr

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

Parisian apartment

[streetetiquette]

[ CREATOGRAPHY -  My life through mobile photography - HTC One m8 ]

[beatpie]

[receivethesound]

Installation of drawings by David Shrigley at The Gallery Restaurant at Sketch, London. Interior design by India Mahdavi. 

[bienenkiste]

Ph. Lobke Leijser

[thezombiedogz]

I DIDNT UNDERSTAND THAT SHE WAS WEARING A SWEATER WITH WHITE SLEEVES I ONLY SAW THE BLACK AND GOT REALLY SCARED BECAUSE I THOUGHT SHE HAD FREAKISHLY SKINNY SLENDERMAN ARMS OH GOD

[toonskribblez]

I THOUGHT IT WAS A GIGANTIC CAT!

[bonnibelart]