Lydia Hulme

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Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:56:53 -0400

Noir Olive

Bellivia

Cartoon Olive

Nick Lane Olive

Dream Olive

Alt!Olive

Sooo... I basically want this.... only I want the heart over Gera. Dreamy.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:01:23 -0400

Sooo... I basically want this.... only I want the heart over Gera. Dreamy.

Photo

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:00:04 -0500

sugarbooty: socialismartnature: “I can’t even show my face in...

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:14:31 -0500

sugarbooty:

socialismartnature:

“I can’t even show my face in this photo. I can and will be legally fired with no legal recourse. I am Transgender. I am the 99%”.

In 38 states in America, it is completely legal to be fired simply because you are transgender.

if this isn’t reason enough to pause the hard and tireless fight for gay marriage and to instead put that energy into fighting hard and tirelessly for ALL LGBTQIA civil rights/equality, i just don’t know what is.

Autumn Leaves…. Berlin botanic Gardens, Nov 1st 2011

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:36:11 -0500

Autumn Leaves…. Berlin botanic Gardens, Nov 1st 2011

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Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:36:33 -0500

I made origami, but small……….

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:43:19 -0500

I made origami, but small……….

more close ups…. super macro

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:19:05 -0500

more close ups…. super macro

In the Botanic Gardens of Berlin, Germany. 1st November 2011,...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:07:57 -0500

In the Botanic Gardens of Berlin, Germany. 1st November 2011, super-macro of a cactus, spines erupting from the flesh.

SERIOUSLY...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:27:56 -0500

fuckyeahwalterandpeter:

If you are a Fringe fan and you would seriously pick going out to see Twilight over watching Fringe live tomorrow evening, you need to have your head examined. That is all.

marwood: justine-lloyd-barbie: paulyunstoppable: modificationn...

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:48:17 -0500

marwood:

justine-lloyd-barbie:

paulyunstoppable:

modificationnotmutilation:

marwood:

Note to Self is a performance that deals with gay, lesbian, bi and transgender people who have died due to hate crimes committed against them. Coble compiled a list of 436 names of these individuals, through research on various websites, news reports and official and unofficial documentation. The list started and ended with the word “anonymous” to acknowledge the many lives that were taken that my list didn’t include.

During a solid twelve-hour timeframe these names were tattooed, with no ink, onto the surface of Coble’s body. She had these names inklessly tattooed on her body as a reference to the brutality of these murders; many of the victims had slurs such as dyke or faggot carved into their bodies.

After each name was completed, a Blood Painting was made by pressing a sheet of paper directly against the fresh abrasion. These prints were then places on the walls of the gallery. As the list of name compiled on her body the same list was mirrored on the gallery walls.
The first three hours of this performance was open to the public while the last nine hours were webcast so the audience could watch via the net.

THIS!

this is very cool

very brave art piece

And hows that going to help their grieving families and other victims? it isn’t.

Forgive me for reblogging my own post, but this seems to have attained many comments by people who have completely missed the point of Mary’s piece. Of course it will not bring the victims back to their families, but nothing can do that. It is simply an act of compassion, one human being showing love and empathy these people. It is a symbol of sacrifice, also, as by recording these names into her skin, the artist transforms what was originally an act of hate into an act of love, her body serving as a dedication, a memorial, and a reminder of the power of love and compassion.

thisiswhyyourefat: Bacon Bouquet (submitted by Rusty...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:40:17 -0500

thisiswhyyourefat:

Bacon Bouquet

(submitted by Rusty Shackleford)

YES PLEASE!

"That walk became a complete personal drama. Ulay started from the Gobi desert and I from the Yellow..."

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:40:30 -0400

“That walk became a complete personal drama. Ulay started from the Gobi desert and I from the Yellow Sea. After each of us walked 2500 km, we met in the middle and said good-bye.”

- Marina Abramović. In 1988, after several years of tense relations with her boyfriend and collaborator, Ulay, they decided to make a spiritual journey which would end their relationship. Each of them walked the Great Wall of China, starting from the two opposite ends and meeting in the middle. (via somethingchanged)

Naomi V Jelish

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:19:30 -0400

Naomi V Jelish:

Naomi V Jelish’s life story is one of pathos and tragedy.

Her strange tale is explained to visitors on labels, in newspaper cuttings, photographs, school reports and through personal mementoes.

Naomi showed great aptitude for art in the face of complete indifference from her family and school. But in 1991, a few months after her father drowned, Naomi, then 13, her mother, and her four siblings mysteriously walked out of the family home in Gravesend, Kent, and despite extensive police inquiries, none of them has been seen or heard of again. A cutting from the Kent Messenger discloses that in September 1990 Naomi won “the prestigious North Kent Student Art Prize”.

In August the following year the paper reported that police were concerned because the family had vanished. Neighbours said the family seemed “cursed”. David Jelish, the head of the family and a road mender with Kent county council, had drowned while saving one of the children, another child had recently survived electrocution and Vanessa, the children’s mother, was suffering from a stress-related illness following the death of her youngest son in 1989.

A book accompanying the display at the Saatchi Gallery goes on to say that Naomi’s precocious drawings were recovered from the abandoned house some time later by the late John Ivesmail, a science teacher at Naomi’s school who had befriended the family. Though beguiled by her sketches, he waited until 1999 to show them in a small exhibition in Gravesend.

Soon after, he passed Naomi’s pictures to a friend, a young artist called Jamie Shovlin, who curated an exhibition of the drawings, along with all Jelish memorabilia recovered from their house and the newspaper cuttings.

The story of Naomi is moving, but it is a hoax, the products of the imagination of Shovlin, 25, from Leicester, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, who spent three years creating the fantasy.
He produced the drawings, the cuttings, the school reports et al in order, as he explained, “to test the boundaries of ambiguity”.

Naomi V Jelish and John Ivesmail are anagrams of Jamie Shovlin. ”

Text taken from http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/jamie_shovlin_basement.htm

”Thy Will Be Done” - Catalogue of Works

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:56:04 -0400

”Thy Will Be Done” - Catalogue of Works

”Sellafield Badge” Engaging with the ideologies...

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:54:17 -0400

”Sellafield Badge”

Engaging with the ideologies proposed by advert campaigns, an autistic teenager rationalises the desire to visit Sellafield having seen this badge attached to the satchel of an attractive female.

The exhibition I went to in Tullie House today, was fantastic!

Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:31:00 -0400

The exhibition I went to in Tullie House today, was fantastic!

"I can take any bare space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst..."

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:00:13 -0400

“”I can take any bare space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.””

- Brook, Peter (2008) The Empty Space. Penguin Modern Classics.