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theatlantic: Just 27% of BA’s Have Jobs Related to Their Major?...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:03:36 -0400

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]

enochliew: The Inspiration Pad by Marc Thomasset “I wanted to...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:54 -0400

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.”

"You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:07:44 -0400

“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)

Stoya™: The Choice Of Motherhood and Insidious Drug Store Signage

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:35:30 -0400

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…

nycartscene: thru June 16:“PETSCHNIGS’” Maria Petschnig‡ On...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:08:47 -0400

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

nearlya: Bernardí Roig. Last dream, Reflection Exercises, Light...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:06:12 -0400

nearlya:

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

historical-nonfiction: Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was an enforcer for...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:31:00 -0400

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.

"But he was wrong. Before these tools became widespread, photographers were indeed very much like..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:24:50 -0400

“

But he was wrong. Before these tools became widespread, photographers were indeed very much like painters, in both form and function. The camera itself evolved from the camera obscura, literally a “darkened room,” in which one or two people would stand, and record the scene before them, tracing it on wallpaper. Later film-based large format cameras required easel-like tripods and stationary perspectives. Insensitive emulsions required exposure times of many minutes. There was very little difference between a photographer in the field and a painter sketching in the field. As materials improved, and costs reduced, photographers quickly usurped painterly subjects and methods, from formal portraiture to landscapes to still-life, and, having thus freed the painters from the burden of commercial utility, cleared the path for the flowering of the 20th-century modern art movements, from Cubism to Abstract Expressionism to Performance Art.

So the Decisive Moment itself was merely a form of performance art that the limits of technology forced photographers to engage in. One photographer. One lens. One camera. One angle. One moment. Once you miss it, it is gone forever. Future generations will lament all the decisive moments we lost to these limitations, just as we lament the absence of photographs from pre-photographic eras. But these limitations (the missed moments) were never central to what makes photography an art (the curation of time,) and as the evolution of technology created them, so too is it on the verge of liberating us from them.

The Decisive Moment is dead. Long live the Constant Moment.

”

- On the Constant Moment, Clayton Cubitt

likeafieldmouse: Yann Gross - Lavina (Valais,...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:31:17 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Yann Gross - Lavina (Valais, Switzerland, 2004)

Cover me like an avalanche.

"But before that, Carruth will say all kinds of things he probably otherwise would not have said: about his perplexing, heartrending new film, Upstream Color, mostly, but also about love and loneliness and Justin Timberlake. He's 40, without health insurance, has no permanent residence. People in Hollywood are calling him about making movies he'll never, ever make. He'll happily talk about all of it. He just has one requirement. "Whatever gets written," he says, long after this has already become the case, has to involve "two drunken guys at a bar."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:26:40 -0400

aleskot:

Shane Carruth Will Have Another: Getting extremely drunk with indie film’s leading visionary-recluse-lunatic

"In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest is a great kindness."

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:51:53 -0400

“In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest is a great kindness.””

- David Edwards, Burning All Illusions (via dishabillic)

doloresdepalabra: Empreinte seeks to make more palpable the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:47:27 -0400

doloresdepalabra:

Empreinte seeks to make more palpable the void left by an absence, the intimate distance that appears between two distinct corporealities. Like a blank left behind, the absence of the other tries to create a place in the space of our memory. Like the plastron of two embedded armours, it becomes the sign of a protection raised against time’s assaults.

Mathil de Roussel

Kahn & Selesnick

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:38:27 -0400

Kahn & Selesnick

"It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:14:27 -0400

“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

- Hugh Laurie (via rainysolitude)

frenchtwist: via arpeggia: Ana Mendieta - Untitled (Silueta...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:06:35 -0400

frenchtwist:

via arpeggia:

Ana Mendieta - Untitled (Silueta Series), 1973-1980

See more of Ana Mendieta posts here.

prostheticknowledge: The Art of Nandan Ghiya Artist creates...

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:05:38 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

The Art of Nandan Ghiya

Artist creates works using vintage portraits with physical modern-day digital distortions.

More info and examples of the artist’s work can be found at Ocular here and Galerie Paris-Beijing here

theories-of: Dillon DeWaters

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:50:13 -0400

theories-of:

Dillon DeWaters

foxesinbreeches: From the series Following the Deer by William...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:42:12 -0400

foxesinbreeches:

From the series Following the Deer by William Harper, 2012

Guide #1
Runaway #1
Runaway #3
Runaway #4

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instagram: Instagrammers Capture “Ring of Fire” Solar...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:41:58 -0400

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instagram:

Instagrammers Capture “Ring of Fire” Solar Eclipse

See more photos from the eclipse by searching #eclipse and #solareclipse.

The first annular solar eclipse of 2013 took place yesterday. The passage of the moon directly in front of the sun made it appear as though there were a “ring of fire” in the sky.

Instagrammers from Australia and the islands of the Southern Pacific Ocean—the only places where the eclipse was visible—shared photos of this spectacular sight.

minusmanhattan: Life’s a Beach by Martin Parr.If you’re in New...

Fri, 10 May 2013 11:40:47 -0400

minusmanhattan:

Life’s a Beach by Martin Parr.

If you’re in New York, Life’s a Beach opens next Wednesday, May 15 at Aperture Gallery. Even more exciting is that Parr is hosting a “beach party” at the gallery on Saturday, May 18th from 9 - 6 and will be shooting portraits of anyone who shows up.

All details here.