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ยฉไธไบ่็ฑณย jade rabbits making mooncakes for mid-autumn festival
Iโm glad this is circulating ๐ Iโm looking to find the documentary (I think thatโs the name in the upper left corner)
They = white people
They = Indian people They live on the Andaman Islands in India. They are the first indigenous asian people. They came from Africa 70.000 years ago. They had lived in complete isolation for 50.000 years. Today, they are only 480 left of them, and they are in great danger. The Indian government assimilates them by force. The Jarawas are treated like animals in zoo by tourists and Indian scientists want to give them โbananasโ to educate them. The Jarawa campaigns goal is to gather 1,000,000 signatures. Source: Organic the Jarawa
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Commission for Baby-Come-Bach.
god i can never stop thinking about certain sculptures used in modern art and how they can be used to elicit the beautiful and terrible feeling of true and genuine horror in ways that a lot of horror movies can never do
like when you ask peopleย โwhat is horror?โ theyโll tend to give examples of monsters, of killers, of dark places, of sharp teeth and too many legs and lots and lots of blood. which is true, that can be used as horror! but iโd like to call that โthe horror of being eaten/hurt/killedโ or more succinctly โthe horror of vulnerabilityโ. itโs a horror that something, whether itโs a killer or a monster or some phenomenon, has the ability to cause us harm. we see large amounts of teeth and we thinkย โthat thing is going to tear us to pieces with those teethโ or we see spilled blood and we thinkย โsomeone has been hurt, thereโs a chance we can be hurt too by whatever spilled this bloodโ.
but what certain modern sculptures can do is elicit a very physical visceral reaction of a completely different kind of horror.ย
itโs โthe horror that something is a thing that SHOULD not exist, and you are absolutely powerless to understand what it is, but it is existing in your space, right now, it is real and you cannot make it unreal no matter what you doโ
or perhaps, in a shorter fashion, itโsย โthe horror of wrongnessโ
like one of the sculptures that made me feel this way is this sculpture here, named โMonekanaโ located in the American Art Museum in Washington D.C:
โokay,โ you say, with a shrug.ย โitโs a horse made of wood? whatโs so scary about that?โ. but this is the lie of the photograph! a photograph of a sculpture rarely grasps the experience of standing next to a sculpture. you have to picture yourself walking into this room, practically devoid of people, and coming face to face with this sculpture that is very large and very real.
and your brain screams thatย โTHIS IS WRONG. MAKE IT GO AWAY. THIS IS WRONGโ, like at any moment you expect it to move, to twist its head, to follow you with eyes that arenโt simply there. it looks like a horse but it is no horse. you could almost argue that maybe it isnโt even an art piece at all, but it wandered in from god knows what kind of world and itโs blending in with everything else. maybe itโs fooling you. maybe it isnโt.
anyways, iโm not trying to say that this sculpture in particular is SUPPOSED to be scary, it may make other people feel nothing at all (or even positive feelings!), but what iโm trying to say is that feeling i had that day, when i saw this thing, when i felt this fearful instinct to stay away and not stare, itโs THAT feeling that i feel so many writers and makers of horror donโt completely understand. you donโt need teeth. you donโt need blood. you donโt need to make Spooky Scary Skeletons or chainsaw-wielding villains. all you need is to create something wrong in its existence, something to make parts of us fear the fact that we canโt entirely rationalize what weโre seeing.
thatโs horror, to me.
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This is amazing
This post makes me think of Klaus Pinterโs work:
The experience of sculpture absolutely gets lost in images. Iโve walked into museums and been like WOW THE FUCK even when I knew it was coming.
I love this subject, though. I love โimplication horror.โ You see something, and the realization of what it means, which often comes a few moments later, is where the real horror liesโnot in how splattery or gratuitously shocking it is. The wrongness of a thing in fiction, when done well, is the best. I was watching Melancholia the other day, and what a terrifying example of wrongness horror.
Anyway this is such a great post thanks for putting the whole idea into words so well. <3
This is how I feel about wind turbines (I tried to walk up to one once and felt the most inexplicable terror Iโve ever felt in my life), or most things that are ridiculously large, for that matter. Ships fascinate me but make me feel very uneasy. Certain buildings, especially if they look old-timey in any way kind of freak me out.ย
Examples: The Halifax shipyard building made me feel almost nauseous, and I have to drive past this cold storage building in Winnipeg every time I go to visit my boyfriendโs parents. I do not like it one bit. Also, I got to see that sculpture of a giant newborn baby last year. That was very surreal in the way that is described here.
WHAT AMAZING ADDITIONS TO THIS POST, thank you! I didnโt know of Kalus Pinterโs work and now I REALLY want to see it for myself, goodness.
Honestly, Iโm so glad so many people have responded and reblogged this post with examples and stories of their own!! Itโs so cool to see just what people think and perceive as this horror ofย โwrongnessโ. I also see some people saying that this is essentially the uncanny valley effect, which is only an aspect of this kind of horror - the uncanny valley primarily deals with something we perceive that looks close to human and yet doesnโt quite make it there. Itโs just one subset of a really uneasy sort of horror that can be found in so many forms, which may really honestly differ from person to person.
Overall, THIS HORROR IS WIDELY UNDERUSED IN FICTION and Iโm so glad to see so many examples of it posted here!!
I feel this way about kangaroos. If you really look at a kangaroo for a minute itโs deeply unsettling, theyโre bipedal and they have insane abs and they move wrong, itโs too human and I get that creeping horror that this thing exists. If I look at kangaroos too long I feel like Iโm going insane
Louise Bourgeoisโs spider sculptures did this to me, a bit. It was less the shape than the formโthe lumpiness, the uneven shineโbut mostly it was the scale. Most of these examples of horror donโt feel quite so wrong when theyโre at a scale we can look โdownโ on. But when they overshadow us, or at least when they overshadow our general certainty of control, even for just a moment, the disorientation can slip suddenly into horror.
consider the Gelitin collectiveโs enormous pink rabbit left to rot in the Italian alps for the next 10 years
Eoin Mc Hugh - The Ground Itself is Kind, ย Black Butter, 2014
Kiki Smithโs lilith sculpture is more humanoid but i feel like it belongs on this post because walking into the stairwell in the met and seeing this fucking thing was one of the most unnerving experiences in my life
If โthe horror of wrongnessโ makes your soul sing as it does mine, read literally anything by Robert Aickman. My favorite is โThe Hospiceโ.
jonathan sims saw this post and invented The Stranger
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Grater Divide, Mona Hatoum
One of the most disturbing dreams I ever had, which I still remember over fifty-odd years later:
I dreamed that we had left our dog to stay in a kennel for a while when we were away (which happened once or twice IRL). And when we went to pick her up, she walked out and closer to me, very calmly, and looked up at me, and blinked.
But instead of her eyelids closing from top and bottom and making a horizontal line, her lids closed from left and right in a vertical line.
And I had a sudden sense that these people had Done Something to my beloved dogโฆ.
This is how the video for Black Hole Sun makes me feel.
I also recommend this:
Sure, you knew humans were apes, but did you ever consider that meant that underneath, apes look like terribly wrong humans? (Thatโs a gibbon, if youโre wondering.)
I read the news today, oh boy - Nicky Nodjoumi
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We need HOAs or some idiots will paint their house purple or put tractor tires in their front yard.ย If you want tractor tires, donโt move to a HOA neighborhood.
I couldnโt even fathom how horrifying it must be to live somewhere there are...purple houses and and yucky stuff in peopleโs yards. Thank God I donโt have any real problems like that.
listen my Nonna and Nonno live right by a purple house (itโs a nice lilac) and as a kid I was fucking obsessed with it because purple is my favorite color. Iโd go nuts whenever we passed by it. Also it had a purple mailbox to match and it blew my mind.
No more HOAs. More purple houses.
imagine trying to control what someone else can do with or on their own property just because you don't agree with their taste in decor
NO MORE HOAs MORE PURPLE HOUSES
Related, becuase I just had to move:ย โjust donโt move into an HOAโ Do you know what a PAIN IN THE ASS it is to find NON-HOA Housing? Very nearly everything in the CO front range that isnโt a rental has an HOA these days!
Short list of the Shit the HOA at my pervious house tried to pull:
Banning personal and community food gardens (The reason the tag for my garden isย โThe garden of earthly HOA violationsโ)
Banning people from using thier personal yards as Native Plant Restoration microzones, something that looks gorgeous and is extremely helpful to the local ecology
trying to get the city council to remove protections on adjacent city Open Space/Native Plant restoration zone so they could mow it.
mandating the use of ONE landscaping company in the neighborhood, coinicdentally owned by the HOA presidentโs son
Mandating the use of an unecessary water purification company on all properties.
suing city animal control for collecting lose dogs and cats and returning them to the addresses on thier collars.ย You know. that thing animal control does so the animals donโt get run over or disemboweled by the coyotes or catch and spread rabies.ย The thing thatโs illegal to let your pet do out here for those reasons Karen.
Suing the city council to remove a city bus stop in the neighborhood that was heavily used by many residents.ย They damn near got away with it becuase the HOA meetings were always in the middle of the day on a weekday.ย You know, when the residents that use that stop are working.
Sending people letters threatening to fine them for havingย โOut Of Seasonโ holiday decor.ย Specifically targeting my Indian neighbors who were celebrating Diwali, not Christmas and the Jews with visible Menorahs.
Fining people for doing thier own appliance and car repair on thier own personal property
Fining people for operating a business out of thier house, specifically targeting a disabled neighbor that does comission tailoring and garment repair out of her home.ย never bothered a soul except the one snoopy bitch who didnโt like that her clients were allowed to park in the tailorโs designated and otherwise unused parking space.
Trying to fine a neighbor for flying a Pride Flag
HOAs are invasive, bigoted, corrupt and cruel institutions that should never have been allowed to be created.ย If you live in and HOA area, showing up at the meetings to tell people what the fuck is wrong with them, Joining your HOA board to protect your neighbors and possibly organize the dissolution of the HOA is one of the best things you can do to protect the marginalized members of your community.
FUCK HOAs AND LONG LIVE THE PURPLE HOUSES AND TRACTOR-TIRE GARDENS OF THE WORLD.
Are y'all telling me this shit is actually LEGAL?
Hereโs how to get an HOA to leave you and your purple house tf alone
cant stop thinking about this post. ๐
that addition is HEROIC. i welcome any and all ammunition on fighting back against HOAs
I canโt believe that personโs first example of something that anย โidiotโ will do to ruin the neighborhood is painting a house purple
Yeah so the Big Think is literally owned by big oil. Theyโre making shit up so people feel too exhausted to fight for any change. Ignore this kind of environmental nihilism, all it does it help the rich avoid change.
The fuck
100% TRUE
Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said โno free articlesโ into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.
also if u press the โescโ (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it wonโt load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)
If the site is particularly badly designed, you might just be able to delete the overlay itself. Right click > Inspect element and delete the line of HTML (itโll be highlighted automatically)
hey kids there is a website calledย outline.comย that will let you read from pretty much any news site with a paywall for free
outline.com is amazing - it hasnโt failed yet on any site that Iโve tried it on.
Thereโs a chrome extension and firefox extension.
This is truly frustrating. Institutions need money to run itโs true but people need reliable information.
Fight like a girl!
They said it wasnโt possible, but I did it anyway.
Bonus:
How come no one
Ever talks about
The art for the ending of Utena
Especially this one in particular
Apparently it was so good the artists made another one
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200 million on strike these days in India.
โIf you do not interfere in politics, politics will eventually interfere in your lifeโ โ Vladimir Lenin
Graffiti in Thrippunithura, Kerala, India
Via Socialist Art
Truly, trendy SJWs have been ruining gaming since *checks notes* at least as early as the 15th century when the first modern chess boards were developed.
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Good article with a bad headline
Good article with a headline intentionally misrepresenting the point maliciously.
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