[zegalba]

Nintendo Game Boy Color Magazine Ad (2001) Dazed & Confused Magazine, Issue 77

[st-hildegard-von-bingen-official]

[11thfempachi]

Girls just wanna have fun

[oumaimas]

For Example, Mary Oliver

[womenofnoise]

Puce Mary and Kali Malone's joint live setup, 2019. Photos by Braulio Lam.

[gayvampyr]

it really pisses me off when adults sit there and drill it into kids’ heads that their youth is fleeting and tell them things like “enjoy your childhood while it lasts because this is the best it’s gonna get”. why are you telling children that adulthood is the worst thing they can experience? seriously what the fuck is wrong with you, why are you trying to make them feel like growing up is a fate worse than death? trying to convince them their life is over before it even begins? i’m tired of that shit. because tell my why my 12 year old cousin told me when she turns 30 she’ll be so depressed she’s just gonna cry all the time. what the fuck. kids don’t need to hear that their already stressful and overwhelming lives are never going to get better, that the abuse and lack of autonomy they face is apparently the highlight of their lives. they need to hear about adults who are happy to be alive and happy to have made it to their age. they need to know that growing up rules, it’s a gift and life does not have to suck for them, that they have a future that’s worth sticking around for. this rhetoric is so damaging mentally and i’m about to start hitting the adults who parrot it. i’m sorry you hate your life but you don’t get to dump your issues on these kids. don’t piss me off and leave these babies alone!

[godkissedme]

yak napping beside qinghai lake

[sobcat]

ready for what the next week brings...

[loveridden1999]

[zegalba]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997) platform: PlayStation

[machinot]

I would take a job pushing the Sisyphus rock if it paid 20 an hour and I could wear my headphones

[folklorespring]

Rugs from Zhytomyr and Poltava region, Ukraine, 19th century.

[achillesinhighheels]

[sullengun]

[smsomah]

Oualata, Mauritania. Scanned from the book Sahara; Jean-Loïc Le Quellec; 2004; photos by Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

[smsomah]

correct me if i'm wrong, but i don't see any good reason for institutions to hoard thousands of photos taken by people who are no longer alive, keep them hidden, and then make money from access and from people wanting to use them for their own projects or any other purpose. these images are part of our shared history, not commodities. they should be seen, not stay hidden.

[smsomah]

the asala collection (spanning 130 years, 355 albums/items, and more than 30.000 images) is a perfect example

the collection has been exhibited and promoted, & it is clearly an important historical archive. but who gets meaningful access?

a single rare photo album like those in collections such as this can cost thousands, putting them mainly within reach of wealthy collectors, universities, or museums.

these images are records of human history. when our shared visual heritage is locked behind ownership, price, and restricted access, most people lose the chance to see and learn from it.

they should be preserved, digitised & made accessible.

there is a pdf giving a glimpse into this huge collection; here. and this is only one collection; focused on the middle east & arabian peninsula. there are countless others.

[jueki]

Ikiru 1952 ‘生きる’ Directed by Akira Kurosawa