The Electronical Rattle Bag

thenearsightedmonkey:

What do thoughts look like as they move from from one part of the mind through other parts of the mind all day long?

Each car, motorbike, bicycle = one thought. Each walking person = something you have to be make sure to remember to do. Each truck or bus = something important that you keep putting off.

Why does the traffic flow more smoothly after you color a picture by hand for about half an hour?

Video source:  higgums

January 30, 2012, 11:18am

moviebarcode:

Sequence from The Mill and the Cross (2011)
You think you can express this?

January 26, 2012, 8:00pm

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

I’m A King Bee by The Stone Foxes

shared from exfm

January 26, 2012, 5:23pm

life:

Clothed Descending a Staircase No. 2…

In an homage to Marcel Duchamp’s masterpiece Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 (itself inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s photographs), Eliot Elisofon photographed Duchamp performing the act himself in 1952, and used multiple exposures to mimick the artist’s famous time-lapse-style painting.

(see more of innovative LIFE photos here)

January 26, 2012, 3:00pm

Culture Osolence by Lucas de Alcântara

January 26, 2012, 2:59pm

Happy Horny Werewolf Day

January 26, 2012, 2:56pm

egonschiele:

ericzindorf:

Egon Schiele

January 25, 2012, 10:34pm

comiques:

Insomnia

January 24, 2012, 11:05pm

unpalombaro:

A Brocken spectre, also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre, is the apparently enormously magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun.

The ‘spectre’ appears when the sun shines from behind a climber who is looking down from a ridge or peak into mist. The light projects the climber’s shadow forward through the mist, often in an odd triangular shape due to perspective. The apparent magnification of size of the shadow is an optical illusion that occurs when the observer judges his shadow on relatively nearby clouds to be at the same distance as faraway land objects seen through gaps in the clouds, or when there are no reference points at all by which to judge its size. The shadow also falls on water droplets of varying distances from the eye, confusing depth perception. The ghost can appear to move (sometimes quite suddenly) because of the movement of the cloud layer.

The head of the figure is often surrounded by the glowing halo-like rings of a glory, rings of coloured light that appear directly opposite the sun when sunlight is reflected by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets.”

via the nonist

January 24, 2012, 10:58pm

ruzzdotorg:

stretch marks are beautiful. 

a model i’ve shot a couple times posted on facebook that her modelling career is over. when asked why her reply was that her body was being over run by stretch marks. this of course brought on the expected facebook bullshit of people saying how amazing she was. which i presume was the desired goal. i resisted commenting because i was deeply outraged and like her so I didn’t want to damage our friendship. 

I’m so absolutely tired of the bullshit conventions of beauty. the ridiculous denial of true human beauty. the denial of the power of time and exposure on the the body to craft it deeper into uniqueness. more than that i’m tired of the shallowness, narrow thinking and lies stacked upon lies. 

to suggest one’s modelling career is over due to imperfections is to ignore the massive amount of photoshopping that happens in the world. to deny the cover up that’s sold in bulk to make up artists, and probably worse is to deny the broad spectrum of types of modelling that exist. 

if every model i’ve worked with felt that way I’d have had no models to work with. i’d have made no pictures. 

moreover, as someone with a lot of stretch marks myself i find it offensive to say that i am somehow less beautiful because my body created an organic solution to a problem of my skin needing to stretch. that my body reacted elegantly and created a solution that didn’t include my skin cracking and breaking and letting my insides outside, or letting all the things in the world that want to kill me in. 

i see stretch marks as proof of the body being a living miracle and to suggest that being owner of the most sophisticaed biological device known is not enough somehow really makes me want to throw sharp objects at people’s heads. 

your body is fucking miracle. there’s no other word to describe it. 

for a woman i know, who is blessed with one of the more physically perfect bodies i’ve ever seen in my life (and did nothing but show up in the gene pool to get it) to say what she says reveals something truly ugly in my mind. 

i want to be clear though. I am angry. and i do feel she needs to really sit down and think about this but she’s just parroting the tripe that has been fed to her by an entire industry hell bent on lies and banality. 

i wish she could see what a gift her beauty, and grace and youth are and embrace them. I wish she could see past the surface of her own skin to see what she could offer the modelling world, and world at large, far outweigh the supposed boon of perfect skin. because if she doesn’t she can’t offer either. 

when i see things like this it really makes me want to just curl up and pull away from people but i decided instead to find a picture of one of my favourite stretch marked models and remind myself real beauty comes from a willingness to engage the whole of life. 

if enough of you share/like, etc this to make a solid case to her that she needs to look deeper i will share this link with her. 

January 24, 2012, 10:51pm

portraitsofself:

birikforever: Tom Stio

January 24, 2012, 10:03pm

i12bent:

Francis Picabia: Les seins [The Breasts], c. 1924-27 - Oil on cardboard (Private collection)

January 24, 2012, 8:00pm

jessnevins:

A really remarkable cross-section of Kowloon.

January 24, 2012, 4:58pm