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charliesmagic: LOVE this movie!!

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:58:33 -0400

charliesmagic:

LOVE this movie!!

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Thu, 23 May 2013 18:57:41 -0400

did-you-kno: Source and he’s pissed as hell

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:54:42 -0400

did-you-kno:

Source

and he’s pissed as hell

actegratuit: ADAM RUSHTON

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:33:45 -0400

actegratuit:

ADAM RUSHTON

*Mum, he’s fucking english

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:14:23 -0400

*Mum, he’s fucking english

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Wed, 08 May 2013 11:50:18 -0400

I wish people on here wouldn’t refer to vaginas as “Pus” it makes it sound like...

Tue, 07 May 2013 18:51:26 -0400

I wish people on here wouldn’t refer to vaginas as “Pus” it makes it sound like some sort of fucking Boil or something

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Sun, 05 May 2013 21:26:02 -0400

what I actually look like

Thu, 02 May 2013 13:56:15 -0400

what I actually look like

how today went

Wed, 01 May 2013 19:44:31 -0400

walked into town to get a pair of Doc Martins, saw they were 114 quid, walked the fuck out

The hipster episode of the Simpsons is fucking incredible.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:28:00 -0400

The hipster episode of the Simpsons is fucking incredible.

andrewfishman: Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974 Marina...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:23:42 -0400

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 that no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.

Edit: Several commenters have pointed out that I’ve overlooked an important variable here: gender. They are right; I imagine that a lot of the dehumanization inherent in this performance is related to the gender of the artist. I am sure that people would have reacted differently to an utterly non-responsive male than they did to Abramović.

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:42:00 -0400

something about seeing a bloke write “Hehe” on facebook makes me gip a little

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:20:25 -0400

something about seeing a bloke write “Hehe” on facebook makes me gip a little

danhannigan: John Kenn

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:16:21 -0400

danhannigan:

John Kenn

Finding you got 88 percent on your dissertation whilst you're on E is the most mental experience ever

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:11:36 -0400

happiness overload

I fucking hate pop punk

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:33:09 -0400

that is all

gona miss these guys so fucking much. I dont wanna leave NY so...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:06:00 -0400

gona miss these guys so fucking much. I dont wanna leave NY so bad I feel like im choking up!

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Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:59:58 -0400

theirregularofbakerstreet: OMG NO, SERIOUSLY GUYS. THIS IS NOT...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:58:30 -0400

theirregularofbakerstreet:

OMG NO, SERIOUSLY GUYS. THIS IS NOT COOL. I HAD ONE OF THESE THE OTHER DAY. I WAS JUST CHILLING OUTSIDE DURING THE NIGHT AND RELAXING, YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. AND I WAS ENJOYING MY BLOOD POPSICLE AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN MY FANGS HURT AND I’M BURNING, LIKE LITERALLY BURNING, AND MY SKIN START TO BLISTER AND I’M LIKE ”OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT’ AND I SEE THE CRUCIFIX AND I’M LIKE ‘DUDE, WHAT THE HELL?!?!’ SO I DROPPED THAT AND TURNED INTO A BAT AND FLEW AWAY INTO NIGHT.

Am I the only one who looked at this and thought of the exorcist?