May 24, 2013

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3:29pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylkIPsx
(Notes: 6)
  
May 24, 2013

binnorie:

Nicola Samori

(Source: andreasmroberts, via neuroticadivine)

10:30am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMayljJ4Ej
(Notes: 10,877)
  
May 23, 2013
new-aesthetic: Venus of Google - Matthew Plummer-Fernandez “The Venus of Google was ‘found’ via a Google search-by-image, googling a photograph taken of an object I had been handed over in a game of exquisite corpse. The Google search returned visually similar results, one of these being an image of a woman modelling a body-wrap garment. I then used a similar algorithmic image-comparison technique to drive the automated design of a 3D printable object. The ‘Hill-Climbing’ algorithm starts with a plain box shape and tries thousands of random transformations and comparisons between the shape and the image, eventually mutating towards a form resembling the found image in both shape and colour.” Venus of Google, 2013 From the Long Tail Multiplier Series/ Algorithm 27.2 x 14.9 x 8.0 cm z-corp powder 3D Print

new-aesthetic:

Venus of Google - Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

“The Venus of Google was ‘found’ via a Google search-by-image, googling a photograph taken of an object I had been handed over in a game of exquisite corpse. The Google search returned visually similar results, one of these being an image of a woman modelling a body-wrap garment. I then used a similar algorithmic image-comparison technique to drive the automated design of a 3D printable object. The ‘Hill-Climbing’ algorithm starts with a plain box shape and tries thousands of random transformations and comparisons between the shape and the image, eventually mutating towards a form resembling the found image in both shape and colour.”

Venus of Google, 2013
From the Long Tail Multiplier Series/ Algorithm
27.2 x 14.9 x 8.0 cm
z-corp powder 3D Print

3:06am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMayldtFSF
(Notes: 130)
  
May 21, 2013
theatlantic: Just 27% of BA’s Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don’t Believe the Fed’s New Stat Whenever you see a big, bold statistic about the fate of college grads, take it with a grain of salt. Read more. [Image: Federal Reserve]

theatlantic:

Just 27% of BA’s Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don’t Believe the Fed’s New Stat

Whenever you see a big, bold statistic about the fate of college grads, take it with a grain of salt.

Read more. [Image: Federal Reserve]

2:03pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylVxk1Q
(Notes: 181)
  
May 21, 2013

enochliew:

The Inspiration Pad by Marc Thomasset

“I wanted to turn the conventional upside down with curved, angles and twisted lines in order to create one which could inspire people to unleash their own creativity.”

2:00pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylVx6kk
(Notes: 5,049)
  
May 21, 2013
"You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that."

— Warsan Shire  (via prettypaperquotes)

(Source: theseliteraryquotes, via artcomingoutofmyfists)

1:07pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylVlYcb
(Notes: 58,239)
  
May 21, 2013
Stoya™: The Choice Of Motherhood and Insidious Drug Store Signage

stoya:



I had the privilege of growing up with a second wave feminist/reformed hippy mother. Before I sprouted my first pubic hair she handed me a mirror and a flashlight and told me to get to know my vagina. I was raised to believe that my body was mine to share with whoever I chose, whether that was…

9:35am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylV7Lnt
(Notes: 1,632)
  
Filed under: Stoya Abortion feminism motherhood 
May 20, 2013

nycartscene:

thru June 16:

“PETSCHNIGS’”
 Maria Petschnig

‡ On Stellar Rays ‡, 133 Orchard St., NYC

the exhibition includes “two videos, wall objects and a large-scale immersive installation. Petschnig’s work frequently deals with the intimate, confronting taboos and dominant ideals surrounding gender and sex. By subjugating her own body to the eyes of the camera and the public, Petschnig implicates the spectator in the construction of narrative and character, often going beyond comfortable social conventions.” - Huffington Post

1:08am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylP62jG
(Notes: 131)
  
May 20, 2013

nearlya:

Bernardí Roig. Last dream, Reflection Exercises, Light Dream, 2008 

1:06am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMaylP5Vue
(Notes: 279)
  
May 16, 2013
historical-nonfiction: Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was an enforcer for the Colombo crime family, specifically for the boss Carmine Persico. He was responsible for at least three murders in 1991. In addition to being a murderer, Scarpa was also racist. He despised African Americans. In fact, in 1986, he underwent emergency ulcer surgery at Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn. He refused blood donations from the local blood bank because he feared that the blood may have been donated by African Americans. Instead, he took blood donations from several family members and associates. One associate was mobster Paul Mele, who was a body builder and steroid user. Mele had contracted HIV from a dirty needle and ended up passing it on to Scarpa. It eventually progressed into AIDS which caused the death of the mobster. So Scarpa died from being a racist.

historical-nonfiction:

Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was an enforcer for the Colombo crime family, specifically for the boss Carmine Persico. He was responsible for at least three murders in 1991. In addition to being a murderer, Scarpa was also racist. He despised African Americans. In fact, in 1986, he underwent emergency ulcer surgery at Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn. He refused blood donations from the local blood bank because he feared that the blood may have been donated by African Americans.

Instead, he took blood donations from several family members and associates. One associate was mobster Paul Mele, who was a body builder and steroid user. Mele had contracted HIV from a dirty needle and ended up passing it on to Scarpa. It eventually progressed into AIDS which caused the death of the mobster. So Scarpa died from being a racist.

3:31pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZiIMayl7dPc3
(Notes: 283)