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Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:30:16 -0500

if countries were students

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Australia: The class clown who makes everyone laugh
America: The jock who loves themselves and everyone secretly hates
Canada: The nice person who offers to show you around on your first day
England: The hot boy everybody wants to bang because he's a gentlemen
New Zealand: Australia's little brother who is the only one who thinks Australia sucks
France: The romantic playboy who hangs around England too much
China: The overly smart kid who puts his hand up for every question
Russia: The scary large kid that nobody talks to because they'll probably get stabbed

fancybidet: andrewfishman: Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,”...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:16:35 -0500

fancybidet:

andrewfishman:

Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974

Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art. Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact for as long as they wanted. So many people began spontaneously crying across from her that blogs and Facebook groups were set up for those people.

Her bravest piece, however, is my favorite. This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.

Every time I read about this piece I cry.

Fuck.

heythereuniverse: Chloroplasts in mesophyll cells | Fernan...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:12:32 -0500

heythereuniverse:

Chloroplasts in mesophyll cells | Fernan Federici

Green fluorescent protein (cyan) and chlorophyll (red)

inspirezme: This installation, by art studio Red Paper Heart,...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:12:18 -0500

inspirezme:

This installation, by art studio Red Paper Heart, titled The Pool Party, was devised last summer after the lifestyle media company, UrbanDaddy, invited them to plan an amazing party to help promote tequila. Sounds messy right? Red Paper Heart explained the project to us:

UrbanDaddy challenged us to create a memorable interactive experience in water. Our desire was to create animations that partygoers could swim through. Initially we had no idea how to make this a reality.

Pools are not exactly the most projection-ready surface and initial brainstorms produced many more challenges than we had anticipated. In researching a solution, we had to overcome the fact that projection doesn’t work on the surface of water, it becomes distorted if you project through it, and pool parties are notorious for more standing than swimming. To make something truly interactive, we needed to get everyone in that pool!

[View the full article and video over at Inspirez]

laboratoryequipment: ‘Spider Skin’ Captures Grand Prize in...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:12:05 -0500

laboratoryequipment:

‘Spider Skin’ Captures Grand Prize in Image Contest

FEI is proud to announce that María Carbajo of the Electron Microscopy Unit in the Research Support Services of the Univ. of Extremadura has been awarded the grand prize in the 2012 FEI Owner Image Contest for her entry “Spider Skin.”

FEI.com visitors were asked to vote for their favorite image among the monthly winners. A total of nearly 1,000 votes were received and María Carbajo’s image, Spider Skin, narrowly beat out other worthy images.

Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/02/spider-skin-captures-grand-prize-image-contest

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time-to-pretendd: Love this song, just so nice to listen to, so...

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:05:01 -0500

time-to-pretendd:

Love this song, just so nice to listen to, so relaxing.

Sky Von Monroe: Otherside - Macklemore

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:04:51 -0500

Sky Von Monroe: Otherside - Macklemore:

skyluvzu:

Wake up, cold sweat, scratchin’, itchin’
Trying to escape the skin that barely fit him
Gone, get another bottle just to get a couple swallows
Headed towards the bottom couldn’t get off it
Didn’t even think he had a problem
Though he couldn’t sleep without gettin’ nauseous
Room spinnin’
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desperation21: probably will never stop reblogging this.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:56:46 -0500

desperation21:

probably will never stop reblogging this.

Reblog if you have never had a valentine

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rhosg0belrabbits: This is what I do when I’m upset

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:03:16 -0500

rhosg0belrabbits:

This is what I do when I’m upset

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