blurry but I like it

flyoverart: Wanda Ewing | Mixed Media Omaha, Nebraska Wanda...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:01:36 -0400

flyoverart:

Wanda Ewing | Mixed Media

Omaha, Nebraska

Wanda is awesome!

maxwell-runko: Michelle Owusu, 2013

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:53 -0400

maxwell-runko:

Michelle Owusu, 2013

lordemusic: lately i’ve been waking up at 4 or 5 a.m., turning...

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:01:48 -0400

lordemusic:

lately i’ve been waking up at 4 or 5 a.m., turning things over in my head. so much to think about, so much to break down and process and decide. i’m only at the beginning, but it has always been important to me that everything feels cool, feels right. this song means a hell of a lot to me, and to others, and i guess what i tried to do is make something you could understand. a lot of people think teenagers live in this world like ‘skins’ every weekend or whatever, but truth is, half the time we aren’t doing anything cooler than playing with lighters, or waiting at some shitty stop. that’s why this had to be real. and i’m at that particular train station every week. those boys are my friends. callum’s wearing a sweater that used to belong to me. so it all feels right, and i can sleep. thanks for being with me all the way so far – so much to come, such great heights. i’m just getting started.

WE’RE DRIVING CADILLACS IN OUR DREAMS. LOVE LORDE

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Mon, 13 May 2013 14:48:07 -0400

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pubertad: Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, 1975 Photo: Storm...

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:47:25 -0400

pubertad:

Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, 1975

Photo: Storm Thorgerson

ununu: george zimmerman for free country

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:46:44 -0400

ununu:

george zimmerman for free country

agostinoarrivabene: luce del mondo 2013 oil on linen cm 90 x...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:01:53 -0400

agostinoarrivabene:

luce del mondo 2013

oil on linen cm 90 x 80

www.agostinoarrivabene.it

guyletatooer: Five headed Hanuman . New session on a body suit...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:01:46 -0400

guyletatooer:

Five headed Hanuman .
New session on a body suit project .
On Damien at Home .

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:05:22 -0400

peterdepotterindex: Peter De Potter, Your Bed Your Cage, 2004 –...

Sat, 11 May 2013 05:53:45 -0400

peterdepotterindex:

Peter De Potter, Your Bed Your Cage, 2004 – banner, mixed media, 160 x 220 cm / 62.9 x 86.6 in

Peter De Potter, Conflictors, 2004 – banner, mixed media, 160 x 220 cm / 62.9 x 86.6 ins

(photographed by Willy Vanderperre)

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:17:20 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.