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thenewenlightenmentage: Macoto Murayama’s Intricate Blueprints...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:01:37 -0700

Macoto Murayama’s Intricate Blueprints of Flowers

The worlds of architecture and scientific illustration collided when Macoto Murayama was studying at Miyagi University in Japan. The two have a great deal in common, as far as the artist’s eye could see; both architectural plans and scientific illustrations are, as he puts it, “explanatory figures” with meticulous attention paid to detail. “An image of a thing presented with massive and various information is not just visually beautiful, it is also possible to catch an elaborate operation involved in the process of construction of this thing,” Murayama once said in an interview.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 09:53:54 -0700

"Each time I’m asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: “My name is Kelsey..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:15 -0700

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Each time I’m asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: “My name is Kelsey and I’m nineteen..”
but what I’d really like to say is:
“My name means island of the ships but once
I found a translation that said I’m a burning shipwreck-
not a burning ship but a ship that has caught fire
after the wreckage and well, I’d say that’s more fitting.”

I’ve learned that people don’t have time for about me’s.
They need two things: a name and an indication you’re someone special.

The doctors, they want facts not details.
“I broke my leg when I was three, it’s a funny story actually-“
The right or the left?
Conversation over.

The teachers, they want interests, hobbies.
You’re sad, yes, but what do you like to do?

The adults are a spew of questions.
What school do you go to? What classes are you taking?
What do you plan on becoming? Got a boyfriend?
No, stop.

People my own age are the worst.
“I’m planning on an English degree with a concentration in creative writing.”
Yeah, aren’t we all. So how many times have you, you know,
done it?

I’m pulled apart, my interests travelling highway 2
my goals at a stop light at traffic hour,
my medical history on a billboard for the world to see.
But what about me?

Where’s the chance to say,
“I hang on to fistfuls of poetry like loose change in my pockets,
and I keep waiting for the day that the world turns upside down
so I can swim with the stars.
I’m not afraid of darkness, it’s a loneliness I can empathize with it.
It’s the blackholes like cigarette burns inside of me that get troublesome.
I walk through graveyards and read the dashes between years,
each a story I’ll never know. Sometimes I create my own.”

No one, none of us know who we are anymore.

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- Kelsey Danielle, “I Was Told to Write and About Me and This is What Happened” (via ignify)

"“Within this culture, economics—not community wellbeing, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:59:13 -0700

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“Within this culture, economics—not community wellbeing, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not life itself—drives social decisions. Social decisions are determined primarily (and often exclusively) on the basis of whether these decisions will increase the monetary fortunes of the decision-makers and those they serve. Social decisions are determined primarily (and often exclusively) on the basis of whether these decisions will increase the power of the decision-makers and those they serve. Social decisions are founded primarily (and often exclusively) on the almost entirely unexamined belief that the decision-makers and those they serve are entitled to magnify their power and/or financial fortunes at the expense of those below. If you dig to the heart of it—if there is any heart left—you will find that social decisions are determined primarily on the basis of how well these decisions serve the ends of controlling or destroying wild nature.”

—Derrick Jensen, Endgame Vol I: The Problem of Civilization, Premise Twenty (via americawakiewakie)

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- (via mysticmementos)

airborntoxicevent: neoisolationist: airborntoxicevent: work called, i don’t have to go in...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:53:13 -0700

airborntoxicevent:

neoisolationist:

airborntoxicevent:

work called, i don’t have to go in today

time to chain smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and read rules of attraction in my backyard

the fucking hashtags on this. you’re in denial baby girl :P

….how is that incriminating??

once you start tagging your post with initials of a person you’re interested in, you can no longer keep up the “i’m not into him” facade. all i’m saying is everyone is on to you. and that’s not incriminating at all, per se.

synistar: This dropped about a month ago… Semi Precious...

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:15 -0700

synistar:

This dropped about a month ago… Semi Precious Weapons’ Aviation High got a makeover! This video is full of beautiful panty-hose-masked white-trash-coutured beings party-harding to the thumping sounds of DJ Chuckie’s remix! If you can catch it fast enough and keep from blinking, yours truly makes several cameos!

Enjoy!

proudponyinternational: Entrance to The Menil Collection,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:11:06 -0700

proudponyinternational:

Entrance to The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas. Building by Renzo Piano.

lykhin: #houston #rothko #chapel

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:06:57 -0700

lykhin:

#houston #rothko #chapel

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Thu, 23 May 2013 00:06:31 -0700

airborntoxicevent: work called, i don’t have to go in today time to chain smoke cigarettes, drink...

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:04:43 -0700

airborntoxicevent:

work called, i don’t have to go in today

time to chain smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and read rules of attraction in my backyard

the fucking hashtags on this. you’re in denial baby girl :P

hiphopfightsback: Cannibal Ox

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:24:15 -0700

hiphopfightsback:

Cannibal Ox

terrestrial: ninefoldgoddess: Kevin Eubanks

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:55:03 -0700

terrestrial:

ninefoldgoddess: Kevin Eubanks

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Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:25 -0700

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Wed, 22 May 2013 01:06:08 -0700

flawlesstrueperfection: if you never had to actually have your rights voted on because you always...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:07:17 -0700

flawlesstrueperfection:

if you never had to actually have your rights voted on because you always had them by default i think it’s safe to say you can sit the fuck down

tonight made me hate anthropology. i think i’ll get over this soon. it’s more about...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:01:37 -0700

tonight made me hate anthropology.

i think i’ll get over this soon. it’s more about power, anyway.

antiprolife: Rebloggable by request.

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:32:57 -0700

antiprolife:

Rebloggable by request.

thenewenlightenmentage: Giant Band of Galactic Gas Likely has...

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:15:07 -0700

thenewenlightenmentage:

Giant Band of Galactic Gas Likely has Dual Origin

Two satellites of the Milky Way contributed to the Magellanic Stream.

An enormous ribbon of gas that threads through the thinner gas of the Milky Way’s halo is the result of a gravitational tug-of-war between the two Magellanic clouds, the brightest satellite galaxies orbiting our own.

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8yearoldslut: me arriving at the gates of hell

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:37 -0700

8yearoldslut:

me arriving at the gates of hell

houston mornings, feeling like a fool because how did i end up...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:41:27 -0700

houston mornings, feeling like a fool because how did i end up with six kids from pennsylvania talking about anthropocentrism on the statue of four lies whatever that means which we don’t know and moreover how did i end up at this bookstore that sells ‘the solar system and critical review of einstein’s theory of relativity’ with regards from lionel himself on the inside cover and how is it that some boy dove into a sewer fountain this morning and so many people like maps and reggae?