Tuesday | December 29, 2009
Pakayla Biehn

Pakayla Biehn

Tuesday | December 29, 2009
lorna simpson, counting, 1991

lorna simpson, counting, 1991

Tuesday | December 29, 2009
Dan Graham, still from Rock My Religion, 1982–84. Video, black-and-white and color

Dan Graham, still from Rock My Religion, 1982–84. Video, black-and-white and color

Tuesday | December 29, 2009
Tuesday | December 29, 2009
reblogged from lauratran
lauratran

lauratran

Tuesday | December 29, 2009
reblogged from iheartmyart
iheartmyart: Joos van Craesbeeck (1605 - 1661), The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1650

iheartmyart:

Joos van Craesbeeck (1605 - 1661), The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1650

Thursday | December 24, 2009
Wednesday | December 23, 2009
Wednesday | December 23, 2009

I pulled this footage from Thailand together with a second video showing the 2009 US Airways crash in the Hudson River. In this piece, I became fascinated by themes of tourism, disaster, globalization, the military-industrial complex, and history. But most of all, I’m drawn to the aesthetic power of the air disaster, and the majesty of watching airplanes be submerged and re-emerge from water, like a kind of baptismal rite. The sea has a wide array of psychoanalytic and mythic associations which I feel produce sparks of meaning when they coincide with the airplane’s modern form.

Richard Mosse, Leviathan (in progress)

Wednesday | December 23, 2009
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The tendency toward the vernacular in contemporary photography is one that I that find both exciting and somewhat taxing. At its best, this way of working engages with, or distills perhaps, something revealing about everyday life - the quiet, casual or intimate moments that often disclose a refreshing honesty about our lives. At its worst, however, this trend is steeped in triteness and pretense. Many contemporary photographers emulating this style seem to be more interested in selling a particular lifestyle than elucidating something meaningful. When the lines between the aesthetics and substance are uncomfortably blurred, I tend to find the work disingenuous.
Saturday | December 19, 2009
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In 1988 a Florida judge, trying a case concerning the beating to death of a gay man asked the prosecutor, “That’s a crime now, to beat up a homosexual?” The prosecutor responded, “Yes, sir. And it’s also a crime to kill them.” “Times have really changed,” the judge replied.
Friday | December 18, 2009
meta what?
Saturday | December 12, 2009
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I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Saturday | December 12, 2009
reblogged from flyingkites
(via flyingkites)

(via flyingkites)

Friday | December 11, 2009
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the temporary loss of the ability to tolerate spatial separations from a secure base