After a while the memories fade, you can’t see people’s faces as clearly anymore, whichever way you lost them, and the pain goes too, but I don’t want the pain to go yet, I’m not done dwelling on the past, cause that means facing the future without them.
-TheLittleMcHugh on YouTube
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LOL sexist hahaha :P
“It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the beasts. … Man is impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic. Thus, no animal is clever enough, when there is a drought, to imagine that the rain is being withheld by evil spirits, or as punishment for its transgressions. Therefore you never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. No horse, for example would kill one of its foals to make the wind change direction. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat’s meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.”
(via libraryland)
couldn’t agree more.
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Books as a Canvas
Pxyleyes.com posted an interview with multimedia painter Mike Stilkey.
I am not one of those people that thinks that every book is sacred. This is one of those touchy subjects, though. I do sort of wonder to what degree the mind instinctively rebels against the phrase “book burning,” and whether or not that rebellion gets interpreted into the idea that every book is magic and untouchable.
It’s definitely a question for our current age.
We haven’t really decided, as a society, whether or not the reverence is for the book as an object or the content of the book.
Which is why you get those people, posting on their blogs about their commitment to the printed page. You get the people that revere the paper, maybe over the meaning. The smell of the object. The weight. But, when it comes right down to it, the vast majority of books are transient. Disposable.
Have you ever looked through the free bin at a library book sale?
99% of it is stuff that no one is ever going to read again. Mass market fiction, well past date—often sexist, and racist, and badly written to boot. Manuals for how to set up your hi-fi system. Cook books for making whole chickens in the microwave.
I post a lot of book art. There’s a lot of book art out there, all of a sudden.
From the interview:
As Kindles have become more popular and there are now downloadable forms of literature, books are going the way of the vinyl record. They are starting to become obsolete.
I enjoy memorializing them in my work and giving them a new life. Otherwise, they would just be thrown out or pulped.And, invariably, re-purposed books generate comments. Someone on twitter recently said that seeing collages made from vintage children’s books makes her physically ill.
But, “thrown out and pulped” is really the fate of many books. Most books.
Check out these fantastic photos from PULSE Los Angeles via @arrestedmotion
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cheesecake !
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This is a series of simple line drawings Illustrating the life of an average man. I drew these as an alternative to page numbers for a magazine.
More of my art at aslongastheyfear.tumblr.com
