likeafieldmouse:

Felix Gonzalez-Torres - Portrait of Ross in L. A. (1991)

175 pounds of multicolored candy as a “portrait” of the artist’s partner Ross Laycock, who died of AIDS that same year.

Ross’s ideal healthy body weight was 175 pounds.

Attendees of the exhibit were instructed to take one piece of candy each. The dwindling pile paralleled Ross’s body languishing from the disease.

Gonzalez-Torres also instructed that the pile be continually replenished so that Ross could be symbolically reborn again and again. 

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(Source: negaytoros, via basillisk)

brain-food:

The Superhero Media Crossover Project
by Butcher Billy

Just how thin is the line that separate movies from comics? Modern from classic? Pixels from ink?

It’s easy to forget how much the comic stylings of the 60’s and 70’s have inspired modern films and just how timeless those two-dimensional, spandex-clad superheroes can be. This series replaces live action with the lines they were born from, interlacing cinematography with storyboard.

A true homage to Kirby, Ditko, Romita Sr. and all the other artists that kept inspiring and being a reference to the modern media. And all of us.

Bonnie and Clyde.

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obscuress:

“Here, in a scant piece of earth, lies he whom all the world feared.”

Tomb of Cesare Borgia, Navarrete, Spain.

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“It’s a funny world we live in.”

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For all the women I have loved who were dragged through the mud

aiffe:

I’ve read a lot of great essays about how fandom is female-majority and creates a female gaze and a safe space for women and etc. But spend five minutes in fandom and you’ll have an unsettling question.

Why does a female-majority, feminist culture hate female characters so much?

It’s not a question of if it happens. You know it does. You can go into any fandom and see it. Some fandoms are worse than others, but it’s always there. Scroll down the Tumblr tag for any show, movie, book, comic, whatever, and you’ll see nothing but love for the men, and a lot of unjustified hate for the women, maybe with a few defenders here and there insisting on their love for the women in the face of all that hate.

To be clear, we’re not talking about female villains. Male villains get just as much hate. It’s fine if you hate Bellatrix Lestrange or Dolores Umbridge, you’re supposed to. (I personally stan for Bella, but I realize that wasn’t the authorial intent.) This is about people hating Hermione, Ginny and Luna, but loving Harry, Ron and Neville. This is about how ambiguous male antiheroes, like Snape, Zuko, or pretty much any male vampire protagonist can get away with walking that fine line between good and evil and not only remain sympathetic, but be even more beloved for how ~tortured~ he is, but when a female character is morally gray that bitch has to die.

So you can’t tell me it’s okay that you hate Sansa because you also hate Joffrey and he’s a dude. They’re not comparable. It isn’t even comparable if you pick a female antihero. Let’s do this apples to apples, here.

We all know that fandom does this. We all know that it’s fucked up and symptomatic of internalized sexism. What’s really fucking weird about it, though, is that the women doing this hating often aren’t ignorant. These are feminists. These are women who can go on meta-analyses of the writing. Some will hide behind pseudo-feminist reasons for their hate—oh, it’s the writing, we just aren’t given strong female characters! (I saw this used for the women of AtLA: Katara, Toph, Azula, et al. This was about when I just backed away slowly because I know a lost cause when I see it.) I’ve seen women who denied being sexist, but couldn’t name a single female character they liked. And it’s always that the female characters aren’t good enough, even when they obviously have a double standard, and they’re measuring women on an impossible scale full of contradictions and no-win binds, while the men are just embraced and loved pretty much for existing.

The reaction nearly every time one of these women is called out is not to say, “Huh, you may have a point, I should examine the way I judge and process women’s actions more closely,” but an insistence of their feminism, followed by a more detailed description of why that particular woman is terrible and she hates her, as if the whole point were not that fandom is already oversaturated with that kind of hate, and as if the person doing the calling out were not already 110% done with that bullshit.

Particularly telling is that male-dominated corners of fandom do not have this problem. They fetishize, they objectify, they ignore. They don’t hate like this.

We know it happens. What I want to know is WHY.

Theories follow below the cut.

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All children, except one, grow up.

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

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Golden wreath diadem from the tomb of a woman, possibly a wife of Phillip II of Macedon (Alexander the Great’s father), excavated in Vergina, Imathia, Central Macedonia.

(Source: shephaestion, via cesarelucrezia)

haffalump:

THE GREAT GATSBY | [listen here] [download here] | (all i kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘you can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.’) 

i. new york, new york - carey mulligan & liz caplan | ii. super rich kids (feat earl sweatshirt) - frank ocean | iii. electricity - the avalanches | iv. million dollar man - lana del rey | v. crest -  the antlers | vi. this life - josef salvat | vii. the mall and the misery - broken bells | viii. usa boys - health | ix. goods - iamamiwhoami | x. breaking vows - serengeti | xi. velvet - lykke li | xii. miss america -  j cole | xiii. blue blood blues - the dead weather | x. let it go - the neighbourhood | xiv. little black submarines- the black keys