Permanent Distraction

cavetocanvas: effyeahnerdfighters: Poetry Makes Nothing...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:17:13 -0700

effyeahnerdfighters:

Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art

Sarah does not appear in vlogbrothers videos, but you can follow her on tumblr: http://absolumentmoderne.tumblr.com

In which John visits the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where his wife is a curator, and thinks about the work of the artist and dissident Ai Weiwei while walking through “According to What,” his first major retrospective in the United States. If you live in or near Indianapolis, you should really see the show. It’s very special, and will be here until July 21st.

This is a lovely video from John Green explaining the importance of Ai Weiwei’s work. I had the opportunity to see this exhibition when it was at the Hirshhorn in DC, and it’s both stunning and sobering.

"It gave me an uncensored window into very foreign modes of thought. There was a lot of inherent..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:12:50 -0700

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It gave me an uncensored window into very foreign modes of thought. There was a lot of inherent cultural relativism in the science fiction I discovered then. It gave me the idea that you could question anything, that it was possible to question anything at all. You could question religion, you could question your own culture’s most basic assumptions. That was just unheard of—where else could I have gotten it? You know, to be thirteen years old and get your brain plugged directly into Philip K. Dick’s brain!

That wasn’t the way science fiction advertised itself, of course. The self-advertisement was: Technology! The world of the future! Educational! Learn about science! It didn’t tell you that it would jack your kid into this weird malcontent urban literary universe and serve as the gateway drug to J. G. Ballard.

And nobody knew. The people at the high school didn’t know, your parents didn’t know. Nobody knew that I had discovered this window into all kinds of alien ways of thinking that wouldn’t have been at all acceptable to the people who ran that little world I lived in.

”

- http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

- William Gibson

yagazieemezi: “not natasha,” a photographic essay on eastern...

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:59:32 -0700

yagazieemezi:

“not natasha,” a photographic essay on eastern european sex trafficked slaves by dana popa

(documentary, the real sex traffic; film, lilya 4-ever)

rosalarian: littlefroggies: bisexual-community: Common Myths...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:54:49 -0700

Common Myths About Bisexuality 1

Common Myths About Bisexuality 2

Common Myths About Bisexuality 3

Common Myths About Bisexuality 4

rosalarian:

littlefroggies:

bisexual-community:

Common Myths About Bisexuality from the lovely Webcomic “Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too” by bi blogger & author Maria Burnham (writer/memoirist) and Maggie Siegel-Berele (comic artist).

I usually don’t reblog stuff like this because this is my art blog but this hit close to home and reminded me of so many conversations that made me feel like garbage.

It always makes me see red when I see lesbians (and gay men) treating bisexuals this way. I don’t think I can even type too much more without quickly reaching a point where I just smash my head into the keyboard.

starrybear: cotino: batchix: heavybomb: davidputashirton: ro...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:48:06 -0700

starrybear:

cotino:

batchix:

heavybomb:

davidputashirton:

roachpatrol:

pavel-petel:

Pavel Pétel for H&M
Makeup & Photo: Sergey Ostrikov

I don’t know what’s happening here but I like it.

IS THIS FOR REAL

I THINK I LOVE H&M FOR THIS

PAVEL♥♥♥♥

H&M does some pretty awesome stuff.

FRIGGIN GLORIOUS

So sure I want <3

mattfractionblog: Greil Marcus on art, taste, highbrow vs low,...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:37:22 -0700

mattfractionblog:

Greil Marcus on art, taste, highbrow vs low, and fascism — turn everything else off and give it twenty minutes.

The Paris Review Origin Story and Their Secret to the Art of the Interview

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:02:11 -0700

The Paris Review Origin Story and Their Secret to the Art of the Interview:

theonlymagicleftisart:

Most interviews today tend to fall somewhere on the spectrum between lazy conversation and blatant publicity puffery, the truly exceptional interview a kind of near-lost art. But it wasn’t always so. In the spring of 1953, The Paris Review built from scratch a new paradigm for the art of the interview, which endures as a gold standard sixty years later. In the introductory essay to the 1958 anthology Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (public library) — which also gave us this fantastic anatomy of the four stages of writing — the inimitable Malcolm Cowley, who edited the collection, recounts the Paris Review origin story and examines the secret of what made their interviews such a timeless echelon of the craft:

Most of the interviewers either have had no serious interest in literature or else have been too serious about themselves. Either they have been reporters with little knowledge of the author’s work and a desire to entrap him into making scandalous remarks about sex, politics, and God, or else they have been ambitious writers trying to display their own sophistication, usually at the expense of the author, and listening chiefly to their own voices.

What makes the Paris Review interviewers and their ethos different, Cowley observes, can be boiled down to two essentials [Read more…]

"It’s tempting to think of love as a progression, from ignorance toward the refined light of reason,..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:44:00 -0700

“It’s tempting to think of love as a progression, from ignorance toward the refined light of reason, but that would be a mistake. The history of love is not a ladder we climb rung by rung leaving previous rungs below. Human history is not a journey across a landscape, in the course of which we leave one town behind as we approach another. Nomads constantly on the move, we carry everything with us, all we possess. We carry the seeds and nails and remembered hardships of everywhere we have lived, the beliefs and hurts and bones of every ancestor. Our baggage is heavy. We can’t bear to part with anything that ever made us human. The way we love in the twentieth century is as much an accumulation of past sentiments as a response to modern life.”

- Diane Ackerman

eatsleepdraw: spaghettieater: Oh artsnacks, I love thee to the...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 22:44:24 -0700

eatsleepdraw:

spaghettieater:

Oh artsnacks, I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

“It works like a magazine subscription but instead of a magazine you get 4 or 5 different art products to try out!”

Subscribe to ArtSnacks today.

likeafieldmouse: Steven Siegel - New York in the ’80s

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:06:10 -0700

likeafieldmouse:

Steven Siegel - New York in the ’80s

mattfractionblog: never give up

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:35:43 -0700

mattfractionblog:

never give up

cinephilearchive: ikono: Twenty-five years ago, renowned...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:25:09 -0700

cinephilearchive:

ikono:

Twenty-five years ago, renowned scholar Joseph Campbell sat down with veteran journalist Bill Moyers for a series of interviews that became one of the most enduring and popular programs ever aired on PBS. In dialogues that span millennia of history and far-flung geography, the two men discuss myths as metaphors for human experience and the path to transcendence, touching on topics including world religion, heroic figures, and pop culture. This series demonstrates that, despite superficial differences between cultures, all stories are humanity’s story.

For the first time, you can listen to all six episodes of “The Power of Myth”, the beloved 1988 PBS series featuring mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers. In these playable and downloadable conversations, Moyers and Campbell explore the powerful influence of enduring myths on the choices we make and the ways we live. Listen to all 6 episodes as podcasts here.

Filmed at George Lucas’s Skywalker Ranch and New York’s American Museum of Natural History, this series redefined “good television” through smart conversation that connects to us all. In the first interview, filmed at George Lucas’ “Skywalker Ranch”, Moyers and Campbell discuss the relationship between Campbell’s theories and Lucas’s creative work. Twelve years after the making of The Power of Myth, Moyers and Lucas met again for the 1999 interview, the Mythology of Star Wars with George Lucas & Bill Moyers, to further discuss the impact of Campbell’s work on Lucas’s films.

Download Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Audio

This is one of my favorite series ever. Prepare to have your mind blown.

Today was absolute shit. Thank you, internet. For the catharsis.

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 20:09:15 -0800

Today was absolute shit. Thank you, internet. For the catharsis.

Photo

Sat, 16 Feb 2013 23:48:15 -0800

Photo

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:21:22 -0800

nedroidcomics: The Internet.

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:46:53 -0800

nedroidcomics:

The Internet.

gingerhaze: kevinwada: fuckyeahillustrativeart: sarapsys: po...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:30:07 -0800

gingerhaze:

kevinwada:

fuckyeahillustrativeart:

sarapsys:

posting without a source is unfortunately pretty common, but it doesn’t have to be. with a few minutes of hunting, you can make sure the artists you like get credit for their work! :) hope this is helpful.

It’s not hard folks.

-Do not erase the source from posts

-Don’t post anything you don’t know the source of

-Don’t reblog art that does not have a proper source linked to it

-If you must post sourceless art, please be generous and hunt for its source.

The more you know…..*shooting star*

PAY ATTENTION KIDS. Be considerate of the people who make things for you to look at.

Christmas greetings from Fritz Lang and the crew of...

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 22:09:35 -0800

Christmas greetings from Fritz Lang and the crew of Metropolis.

Photo

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:43:08 -0800

auauk: Japanese-American Internment (the result of Executive...

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:31:19 -0800

auauk:

Japanese-American Internment (the result of Executive Order 9066.)