We are broken people. @thisdollneedsrocknroll - Tumblr Blog

jtbarnett

It’s all going so incredibly wrong.

J.T. Barnett (via jtbarnett)

vagabondcitylit

✨issue 14✨

shencomix

#fav #comic

juliastiles

#stranger things #11

photographyofdavidhanjani

End. Photo By David Hanjani

heavydirtygifs-blog

Tyler being a beautiful bean while the crowd sings.

#tyler joseph #twenty one pilots

oneanddun

twenty one pilots :thezoo, økc - ‪#‎ERS2016‬ •

#tyler joseph #twenty one pilots

mvxpx

Art relativism is killing art.

I have a question for you: what is art? Not according to Van Gogh or Picasso, what is art to you?

There is a dangerous misconception in our society that everything is art. The most effective way to spoil a concept is to destroy all limitations by broadening its definition to mean ‘everything’. Unlike art relativists claim, not everything is art, but everything has the potential to be art. This contemporary belief is only damaging our ability to distinguish valuable art from effortless self-expression, blank canvases or literal trash bags. There are no rules about what art can or cannot be, but there has to be some objective criteria that draws the line between great and mediocre, even within the same medium.

Of course, it is only human to have different tastes. I may like Renoir, you may find him visually unpleasant, but no one argues the fact that his work is, indeed, art. As an artist, you are expected to like everything labelled as art or else you are considered close-minded and ignorant. Don’t get me wrong, I may enjoy a quick splatter on a canvas, but I will not appreciate its artistic merit. There is a process to creating art. Michelangelo stared at 18ft of marble for 4 months before he started sculpting and 3 years later that same marble became the statue of David. Now LACMA paid 10 million for ‘Levitated Mass’, a simple rock. If you listen closely, you can hear Michelangelo crying.

This view is extremely cynical and it is only generating an intense antipathy towards modern art and consequently damaging it. While people praise Malevich’s Black Square as if it was the artistic equivalent of, say, the Mona Lisa, starving artists are so desperate for any attention that they are underselling their work and living below the poverty line, inevitably starving their art, too.

But nobody talks about this. We keep our mouth shut because we want to be part of the ‘intellectually superior’ people who pretend to understand the meaning behind a pair of glasses left on the floor.

mvxpx

”I’ve been told by the sky that the ocean I shall win, but it’s hard for me to see where ocean stops and sky begins. Random strikes of light remind me of what is true, but right now the ocean’s blacker than black, the sky is too.”

Drown, Tyler Joseph.

#tyler joseph #twenty one pilots #lyrics

visual-poetry

»censored« by anatol knotek

[ homepage | tumblr | twitter ]

god-damn-demetria

People ask “How did you get out of depression?” and my answer is genuinely “I don’t know.” I just remember…I remember vividly I woke up in this room. I just handed in my final paper. I pulled an all-nighter. Maybe the lack of sleep switched something, I have no idea. I handed in my paper, I went to sleep. I remember waking up. It was 7am. I woke up in this very bed on this side of the bed. And it sounds so dramatic, but it’s the truth: that was the first time in a whole year I realized that the sun was shining. And I woke up and I was like “Oh god, it’s so hot. It’s such a sunny day.” And I turned around and I was like “Wow, it’s such a sunny day.” And to be honest, every day prior to that might’ve been sunny, but that’s the first time I realized it.

Lilly Singh (”A Trip To Unicorn Island”)

#superwoman