Love Begins
trying on a metaphor
Mike Driver
if i look back, i am lost
Discoholic đȘ©
Andulka
hello vonnie
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ç„æ„ / Permanent Vacation
shark vs the universe
taylor price
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda
JVL
todays bird
Janaina Medeiros
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
JBB: An Artblog!
sheepfilms
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@vidaconvivial
Happy Birthday Keith Haring!
(May 4, 1958 â February 16, 1990)
âThe public needs art â and it is the responsibility of a âself-proclaimed artistâ to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.â Â
 â Keith Haring â
A RedRevolution96 LGBT+ HISTORY LESSON:
Gideon Mendel and the AIDS CrisisâŠ
Gideon Mendel is a photographer. He is known for his long-time commitment to capturing social issues around the world and economic and political injustices. He was known as a âstruggle photographerâ during the waning years of South African apartheid and his work propelled him into the limelight.
Then, in the 1990s, he decided to go against the stigma and demonisation of the ongoing AIDS Crisis. He visited the Charles Bell wards in the Middlesex Hospital, London.
These are the faces of people on death row, and most of them were young gay men. No antiretrovirals were available at the time, and all of the patients youâll see on this post died not long after being photographed.
What astounds me is the bravery these people had, not just in facing death, but facing the camera. AIDS was, in the eyes of the world, very closely linked with homosexuality. Homosexuals were still preyed upon by the media and the public. So to face these foaming-at-the-mouth bigots on your death bed was incredibly brave, and it helped other gay men around the world to protect themselves, to become aware of the epidemic and the risks of unprotected sex.
To put the bravery of these people into perspective, 6 years before these photos were taken, in 1987 Princess Diana visited the same hospital (pictured below). She wanted to break the stigma and to help educate people about the disease. Only one man, Ivan Cohen, was willing to have his photo taken, shaking Dianaâs hand. However, he did this on the condition that his face not be seen by the camera.
6 years later and the same affected demographic have steeled their courage and turned around to face the camera.
The AIDS Crisis sent shockwaves throughout the gay community, as partners, lovers and friends were cruelly ripped away from our arms by a disease that does not discriminate young from old, businessman from bricklayer, gay from straight.
Mendel therefore wanted to go against the stigma and go into the hospitals and go onto the wards themselves. Most media, at the time, only ever photographed patients outside the hospital, leaving the ward so as to pass away at home. This refusal by the media to come anywhere near an AIDS patient served to create an âus and themâ situation⊠something the media has a lot of practice with.
Mendel sought to break that segregation.
Mendel also commented on the hospital staff, stating they were so moved by the utter horror of the disease that they became âfar more attached than was usual at hospitals during this timeâ. The example, below, is of a nurse kissing a patient before he goes home to pass away there.
These peoplesâ lives were fleeting, every hour bringing them closer to death, the very little anyone could do was be kind, be loving, and be comforting.
The photoset was entitled âThe Wardâ, and funds raised from the photographs being auctioned have raised money for HIV/AIDS charities.
Remember these faces. Remember these people. And remember that people like Mendel are true allies.
Adhd culture is having so many tabs open that your computer is begging for mercy
One time firefox crashed on me and I was like "excuse me, please,I beg your pardon! Firefox crashing? On me? Why?" and then it was like "do you want to reopen all your tabs?" and I was like "duh, of course" and it was like "all 272 of them?" and I was like "oh."
Abandoned hotel with jungle bathroom 01.
me: hello me, internally: did i say too much
Steven Yeun ©Ssam Kim // Glass Men
The development of highly good new stims: touching the hair on his abdomen, tracing all the groves/indents of his ear, playing with his hair, rubbing his thumb/index finger/hand with my thumb while holding hands, playing with his ear using my tongue/mouth, looking at his face when he makes any of The Faces
Claudius Schulze Houseboat, âRock the Boat,â Gestalten
Photography: Lisa Beese
"We have evolved to be attuned to other life forms, and not only other human life forms."
Robotic dogs and cats have garnered the love and attention of owners around the world, and are increasingly used for therapy purposes. What does our connection with these robots tell us about ourselves, and what could replacing living animals with robots do to humans? Read more here.Â
I hope our future selves will be plastic and metal rather than flesh and blood
This is one of the very first exposures I took of the cast iron spiral staircase in the Nursesâ Building on North Brother Island. Â It definitely came from that WOW moment when I got to the end of a hallway and discovered this rusting hulk, one of the coolest things left on the island. Â Even more than half a decade later, I still recall that feeling, and seeing this photo again brings it right back!
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Date an autistic who touches everything
MINE IS LITERALLY
âTRAFFIC AND LIGHTâ
Land of Knives and Knives.
Wonderful.
Land of Light and Pizza, or as i call it
Light Pizza
Frost and knives
Sadly this is accurate
Ok so I live in a twin city so I get to do two lol.
Coffee and Rain
Rain and Wave
Land of frost and light⊠so Timesquare⊠and my home town is in⊠New York- I literally just have New York again, alright
Land of Construction and Shade.
My land isnât even finished being built yet, whatâs up with that.
i got mcâfreakin heat and clockwork
Land of Frost and Genetics
Get paid for autopilot.
Self-driving cars are expected to make our roads safer. Now, UK insurance company Direct Line is offering a discount to customers who use Tesla Autopilot to facilitate research into its effects. Read more here.Â
Autistic Flirting: wanna take a clothed bath with me cuz wet clothes under water are stimmy?
This strikes me as probably terrible, but also, now I really want to do it
