looks like a good one

Beasts of the Southern Wild — http://www.welcometothebathtub.com/

AAR (but mostly tyson ritter)

I took some candid photos of All American Rejects when they stopped by z100 & ktu. exciting

eatsleepdraw:

A drawing I recently did, soviet school kids.

my favorite portrait (&one of the earliest)  photographer, julia margaret cameron 

charles, her husband 

and annie, her first print (“first success”). 

i take fotos some days

maybe i’ll start uploading more of mine!

Maybe.

i love the people who sell at flea markets.

i just love flea markets.

Sigur Ros- Ekki múkk

always reminding me that there’s beauty out there, sigur ros. Thanks! Thanks.

nprfreshair:

dshooker:

Mike Wallace interviews Salvador Dali, 1958 (Part 2)

Mike Wallace on Fresh Air, 2005.

WALLACE: You write in your biography that death is beautiful. What’s beautiful about death? Why is death beautiful?

DALI: This is one feeling everything is erotic in my opinion.

WALLACE: Everything is what?

DALI: Erotic.

WALLACE: Erotic?

DALI: …is ugly, in the middle of everything ugly so arrive the feeling of death, everything becomes noble and sublime.

WALLACE: Oh, in other words, life is erotic and therefore ugly. Death is not erotic but sublime, therefore beautiful?

DALI: And beautiful. You know for instance, you, Micky Wallace, now is you a little good pay, a little handsome, but essentially, you becoming death, everybody tips his chapeau to you, you become fantastic man, everybody respects you a thousand times much better.

WALLACE: Is this by way of a suggestion?

DALI: Exactly. See you make one strip tease, you become ugly in one second.

WALLACE: Oh, I agree, I agree. Tell me this, what do you think will happen to you when you die?

DALI: myself not believe in my death.

WALLACE: You will not die?

DALI: No, no believe in general in death but in the death of Dali absolutely not. Believe in my death becoming very — almost impossible.

WALLACE: You fear death?

DALI: Yes.

WALLACE: Death is beautiful but you fear death?

(Source: openculture.com)

cavetocanvas:

Kara Walker, Gettysburg Battlefield II, 2001

kara walker, kara walker, kara walker

gettin’ in that los campesinos funk

i youtubed  them a couple nights ago and well, this video stuck with me a bit

(especially with imagery in the video that reminds me of abu ghraib, oyy)

mass grave found by archaeologists.

125 bodies, total.

found in teba, spain. 

a result of this man:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Franco   

whistle, whistle, whistle.

this is the kit - two wooden spoons

“AMERICA THE GIFT SHOP is an installation project that reflects the foreign policy of the Bush/Cheney years through the fun-house mirror of American commerce.

My palette is the vernacular of retail tourism. Bobble head figurines. A snow globe. A cookie jar. Postcards. T-shirts, neon signs, and chocolate bars. These are all things that make up our daily existence. They have a familiar intimacy. And that’s why they make perfect vehicles to shock, disturb, and remind. Once the sugar coating of the ordinary dissolves, we are left with the grim truth about where America has been as a nation.

At the end of a trip, we buy a souvenir to remind ourselves of the experience. What do we have to remind us of the events of the Bush/Cheney regime? And who will be held accountable for what has unfolded?. How can America look to the future, when the world only sees it in the context of the immediate past?

Fingers must be pointed, and pointed publicly. Then, and only then, when the world sees America acting as they tell the world to act, will its honor be restored.”

— Phillip Toledano

 Please check  http://www.mrtoledano.com/ and http://www.americathegiftshop.com/default.aspx#/start for more of the photos