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vasta: Giraffe killed by drought. Stefano De Luigi The winners...

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:18:15 +0000

Giraffe killed by drought. Stefano De Luigi

The winners of the World Press Photo contest have been announced. Check out the gallery.

"In Heaven there is no religion, thank God."

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:59:13 +0000

“In Heaven there is no religion, thank God.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Lung-Fa Tang Temple. Mental patients. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1998....

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:16:47 +0000

Lung-Fa Tang Temple. Mental patients. Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1998. Chien-Chi Chang. [From the series The Chain]

Contemplating the nature of human bonds and societal ties, Chien-Chi Chang’s sombre monochrome photographs portray inmates from a mental asylum chained together in pairs, ostensibly as part of their ‘revolutionary’ therapy. Freedom and constraint, love and alienation, compassion and shame are some of the complex issues that define the ambiguous relationships between Chang’s captured subjects and the outside world. Considered social misfits and a disgrace to their kin, the pictured men were consigned by their relatives to Lung Fa Tang, a Buddhist sanctuary and Taiwan’s largest chicken farm with a workforce of nearly 700 mentally ill inhabitants.

Physically linked by a small chain around their waists, day in day out, only unlocked for sleeping, the more stable of the two is supposed to assist the less lucid in their daily chores. With their ties to society severed but bound by the ‘chain of compassion’ to one another, the interactions between the paired outcasts can only be fraught. As Chang comments: The most pathetic part is that once the two are chained together, they are forever incapable of fighting against it. Their only alternative is to become submissive, to give in, or they will never walk out of that place.

Visiting the asylum over a period of six years, Chang took the present photographs in one session, asking them to pose after lunch on their way back to work. By positioning his subjects as if on stage in front of a plain dark background, he transcends the photojournalist mode, and with this transforms his images into a cipher for the human condition per se.

jarredbishop: The real deal would be beyond awesome, but this...

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:47:34 +0000

jarredbishop:

The real deal would be beyond awesome, but this sculpture by Tom Sachs would be pretty cool too.

The nasablad /via iainclaridge.

manymany: Raimond Wouda

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:58:45 +0000

manymany:

Raimond Wouda

paulhabeeb: Untitled (Petra), the Treasury, Jordan, April 2008...

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:34:02 +0000

paulhabeeb:

Untitled (Petra), the Treasury, Jordan, April 2008 by Richard Mosse

Siglu Petrol Station, 2008. Kevin Cooley. [From the series...

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:27:00 +0000

Siglu Petrol Station, 2008. Kevin Cooley. [From the series Iceland]

100 things we didn't know last year

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:39:05 +0000

100 things we didn't know last year:

Some highlights: An outbreak of swine flu in 1976 killed one person but a vaccine to combat it killed 25; Britain had animal welfare laws before it had child welfare laws; Married couples used to always sleep apart; There are so few redheads in Mexico they often greet each other in the street; Male life expectancy in the UK goes up by about three months every year.

"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean..."

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:59:00 +0000

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is …”

- Charles Bukowski

(via mareen)

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:47:24 +0000

(via mareen)

The Bay of Naples. Oswald Achenbach. Merry Christmas, my tumblr...

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:56:38 +0000

The Bay of Naples. Oswald Achenbach.

Merry Christmas, my tumblr friends!

"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you..."

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:52:00 +0000

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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

”

- Banksy

Currently watching Reservoir Dogs.

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:01:15 +0000

Currently watching Reservoir Dogs.

"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity."

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:45:03 +0000

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”

- Edvard Munch

ramzy: Michael Serra

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:17:55 +0000

ramzy:

Michael Serra

sujay: Amazing New Photo From the Hubble Space...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:18:06 +0000

sujay:

Amazing New Photo From the Hubble Space Telescope

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Silver Lake Operations #1. Lake Lefroy, Australia (2007). Edward...

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:35:14 +0000

Silver Lake Operations #1. Lake Lefroy, Australia (2007). Edward Burtynsky. (via ckck)

"… To the fire, there is only the moment, and the potential of where to dance off to next...."

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:10:59 +0000

“… To the fire, there is only the moment, and the potential of where to dance off to next. Maybe in the future inventors will find a way for us to control fire with thought. Then we can replace essays and novels with fires, imprinting our ideas in flame and using the paper instead only as kindling. Then we can send our fires through the wooden world and into the hearths of other people’s minds, where they will entrance and entertain as only fires can.”

- Jonathan Harris - December 13th, 2009.

Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (live, 1975) […] Well, you...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:33:00 +0000

Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust (live, 1975)

[…] Well, you burst on the scene, already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes, the girl on the half-shell
Could keep you unharmed […]

“I love that song Diamonds and Rust. And for me to be included in something Joni had written… that… woo… I mean to this day it still presses me.” - Bob Dylan, in a recent BBC interview.

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, England, 2006. David Iliff.

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:29:55 +0000

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, England, 2006. David Iliff.