Wanweird Of An Argonaut

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staywildkeepfree: anothertimesforgottenspace: worth scrolling...

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:21:55 -0400

staywildkeepfree:

anothertimesforgottenspace:

worth scrolling all the way up to reblog

I will never not reblog this

Frozen time installation conceived by DGT architects for...

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:08:50 -0400

Frozen time installation conceived by DGT architects for Japanese watch brand CITIZEN, at Basel world 2013

Jesse on Conan, May 22, 2013. (x) “We filmed on Bourbon Street,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:02:20 -0400

Jesse on Conan, May 22, 2013. (x)

“We filmed on Bourbon Street, and I think half the people were hired by the movie to act like they were crazy, and the other half of the people were crazy.”

"Also you are a fool to seek the kind of art you don’t like. You are a fool to read classics because..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:57 -0400

“Also you are a fool to seek the kind of art you don’t like. You are a fool to read classics because you are told to and not because you like them. You are a fool to aspire to good taste if you haven’t naturally got it. If there is one place where it is idiotic to sham it is before a work of art.”

- Ezra Pound, “The Serious Artist” (via maralie)

heythereyouare: Fake Empire on Flickr.

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:53 -0400

heythereyouare:

Fake Empire on Flickr.

"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness."

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:59:07 -0400

“Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.”

- Yousuf Karsh (via perfect)

jtotheizzoe: Some fantastic mathematical illustrations,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:58:39 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

Some fantastic mathematical illustrations, via wnycradiolab:

artandsciencejournal:

Kasia Jackowska

Kasia Jackowska’s Drawing Mathematics series whimsically illustrates various mathematical concepts as part of a project done for a brochure published by the University of Warsaw. Simple and sweet, these drawings add creativity to convention, using principles and formulas as her inspiration, and stylized animals as her muses. Can you recognize all the concepts?

See many more drawings and paintings by Jackowska at her website here.

- Erin Saunders

The artist has a Tumblr, too.

I can pick out Sierpinski triangles and the Pythagorean theorem. What else do you see?

mineralia: Azurite from Mexico by Dan Weinrich

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mineralia:

Azurite from Mexico

by Dan Weinrich

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Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had told me:

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:56:34 -0400

Things I want to tell people, that I wish people had told me::

wifwolf:

You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25

You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.

You don’t have to have sex, or have sex in any way that you find uncomfortable or unpleasant, to keep anyone’s love or good opinion of you. They didn’t love you or think very well of you to start with if they demand it.

You don’t have to stay with someone who isn’t meeting your emotional or sexual needs because they need you, or you’ve been with them for awhile, or you need to be in a relationship. You need you. Your time is your own and it is finite.

It’s ok to work at a job you enjoy that doesn’t make you miserable even if it’s not a career and it won’t “lead to anything.”

Your life is not a narrative. It is not leading to anything, there is no overarching thesis, it does not have themes beyond the usual shared cultural experiences of your time and place. This is ok. It does not mean that your life is without purpose or meaning.

It’s ok not to like or get along with the vast majority of people you encounter, so long as you afford them the same respect, courtesy and dignity that they afford you.

Expensive is not always better.

Failure is temporary if you’re still alive.

People are both much better and much worse than you’d suspect, but usually not all at once.

Stop thinking of your future self as a different person and it will be easier to prevent money and health problems.

Let people help you, lean on them when you need to, and be available to help, but don’t swing too far in either direction. Try to carry your half of the life basket as evenly as you can.

Set boundaries, and do not be afraid to kick people out of your life who disregard them. You will not end up alone and unloved. People who love you will be ok with your boundaries.

Your power does not come from money or beauty, but from seeing life steadily and wholly, from a curious and thoughtful mind, and from your ability to say no when you want to, and yes when you want to, and I don’t know when you don’t know.

There will be bad times, maybe lots of bad times, but not only bad times.

Love will not heal the wounds in your soul, but love can give you the impetus to begin the work of healing yourself.

Life might be a long series of starting over, and that’s alright.

You’re really cool, you’re really beautiful, you’re really special. Really. Not to everyone, but to a lot of someones sometimes.

This is lovely.

razorshapes: Tang Yau Hoong - Negative Space

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:56:08 -0400

razorshapes:

Tang Yau Hoong - Negative Space

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Sat, 25 May 2013 15:55:27 -0400

Claude Monet - La Seine à Vétheuil, 1879. Oil on canvas. 81 x...

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:54:22 -0400

Claude Monet - La Seine à Vétheuil, 1879. Oil on canvas. 81 x 60 cm (31.9” x 23.6”) — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen (France)

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art21: “The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to...

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:47:33 -0400

art21:

“The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.”
—Julie Mehretu

In a new previously unpublished interview with Julie Mehretu, the artist discusses her process of layering and erasing, as well as the different references embodied in any one of her large-scale paintings.

READ: Julie Mehretu: To Be Felt as Much as Read

IMAGES: Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 5 episode, Systems, 2009. © Art21, Inc. 2009.

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medicalschool: In this photograph taken on April 17, 2013,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 15:47:09 -0400

medicalschool:

In this photograph taken on April 17, 2013, fifteen month old Roona Begum is tended to by doctors and family at a local hospital in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi. Doctors have successfully carried out life-saving surgery on an Indian baby suffering from a rare disorder that caused her head to swell to nearly double its size, a neurosurgeon told AFP on May 15, 2013. “The surgery went perfectly, much better than expected,” Sandeep Vaishya said after the procedure on 15-month-old Roona Begum, speaking to an AFP reporter inside the operating theatre at a hospital in New Delhi.

Credit: SCHMIDTROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images

Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:25:20 -0400

Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down… And shot off their testicles.

“The old lady spent a week hunting those men down and, when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way,” said police investigator Evan Delp.

Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant’s desk and told him as calm as could be: “Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.”

Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.

The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas’ testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. “The one guy, Thomas, didn’t lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won’t be using it the way he used to,” Detective Delp told reporters. “Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they’re just happy to be alive after what they’ve been through.”

The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row. “When I saw the look on my Debbie’s face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself ‘cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,”’ recalled the retired library worker. ” And I wasn’t scared of them, either - because I’ve got me a gun and I’ve been shooting’ all my life. And I wasn’t dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one.”

So, using a police artist’s sketch of the suspects and Debbie’s description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighbourhood where the crime took place till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.

“I knew it was them the minute I saw ‘em, but I shot a picture of ‘em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them,” the oldster recalled…

“So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door, and the minute the big one opened the door, I shot ‘em right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt ‘em most, you know. Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.”

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny.. “What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,” Det. Delp said, “especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.”