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neil-gaiman: butcherbilly: The Post-Punk / New Wave Super...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:21:34 -0400

butcherbilly:

The Post-Punk / New Wave Super Friends by Butcher Billy

Who are your heroes?

Reblogged purely to make Amanda smile.

LOVE

chloehenderson: I’m happy this photo exists.

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:20:24 -0400

chloehenderson:

I’m happy this photo exists.

cabbagerose: The Avenue on Portage by 5468796 Architecture via:...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:17:18 -0400

cabbagerose:

The Avenue on Portage by 5468796 Architecture

via: jeanineponte

autostraddle: Identity Theft: Prose on my Surgery and Traumas...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:16:16 -0400

autostraddle:

Identity Theft: Prose on my Surgery and Traumas as a Trans* Intersex Woman
For me, being intersex has been nothing short of difficult, scary, painful, and shameful. When I…
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youmightfindyourself: FUCK COMMITTEES(I believe in...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:02:09 -0400

youmightfindyourself:

FUCK COMMITTEES
(I believe in lunatics)

It’s about the struggle between individuals with jagged passion in their work and today’s faceless corporate committees, which claim to understand the needs of the mass audience, and are removing the idiosyncrasies, polishing the jags, creating a thought-free, passion-free, cultural mush that will not be hated nor loved by anyone. By now, virtually all media, architecture, product and graphic design have been freed from ideas, individual passion, and have been relegated to a role of corporate servitude, carrying out corporate strategies and increasing stock prices. Creative people are now working for the bottom line.

Magazine editors have lost their editorial independence, and work for committees of publishers (who work for committees of advertisers). TV scripts are vetted by producers, advertisers, lawyers, research specialists, layers and layers of paid executives who determine whether the scripts are dumb enough to amuse what they call the ‘lowest common denominator’. Film studios out films in front of focus groups to determine whether an ending will please target audiences. All cars look the same. Architectural decisions are made by accountants. Ads are stupid. Theater is dead.

Corporations have become the sole arbiters of cultural ideas and taste in America. Our culture is corporate culture.

Culture used to be the opposite of commerce, not a fast track to ‘content’- derived riches. Not so long ago captains of industry (no angels in the way they acquired wealth) thought that part of their responsibility was to use their millions to support culture. Carnegie built libraries, Rockefeller built art museums, Ford created his global foundation. What do we now get from our billionaires? Gates? Or Eisner? Or Redstone? Sales pitches. Junk mail. Meanwhile, creative people have their work reduced to ‘content’ or ‘intellectual property’. Magazines and films become ‘delivery systems’ for product messages.

But to be fair, the above is only 99 percent true.

I offer a modest solution: Find the cracks in the wall. There are a very few lunatic entrepreneurs who will understand that culture and design are not about fatter wallets, but about creating a future. They will understand that wealth is means, not an end. Under other circumstances they may have turned out to be like you, creative lunatics. Believe me, they’re there and when you find them, treat them well and use their money to change the world.

Tibor Kalman
New York, June 1998

harrza:

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:59:45 -0400

harrza:

unconsumption: A number of converted shipping containers are...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:55:48 -0400

unconsumption:

A number of converted shipping containers are going to be offered as temporary accommodation for homeless people in Brighton, UK. Planning permission has been secured by the Brighton Housing Trust for five years to help ease the city’s housing need.

BBC News reports that the thirty six studio homes, which will be linked by walkways, are going to be installed in a former scrap metal yard.

More: Shipping Containers Repurposed To House The Homeless | Design on GOOD

Our archive of container-related projects is here.

cabbagerose: via: murraymitchell

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:49:08 -0400

cabbagerose:

via: murraymitchell

luneprism: Gustav Klimt

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:47:36 -0400

luneprism:

Gustav Klimt

autostraddle: Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:41:32 -0400

autostraddle:

Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As “Religious Freedom”
According to ThinkProgress on Thursday, there’s a new trend showing upin some more Republican state…
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Sun, 19 May 2013 12:44:20 -0400

cabbagerose: stonescape/kengo kuma via: mikemcdowell

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:30:20 -0400

cabbagerose:

stonescape/kengo kuma

via: mikemcdowell

autostraddle: Fat Queer Tells All: On Fatness and Gender...

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:28:45 -0400

autostraddle:

Fat Queer Tells All: On Fatness and Gender Flatness
feature image via Shutterstock

Before I go out to the party I put on my eyeliner, I make sure to…
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cabbagerose: blackened wood…charred, painted, or stained via:...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:53:59 -0400

cabbagerose:

blackened wood…charred, painted, or stained

via: dezeen

criminalwisdom: SHOOTERS DELIGHT: TEN CAMERA GUNS FROM AROUND...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:13:10 -0400

criminalwisdom:

SHOOTERS DELIGHT: TEN CAMERA GUNS FROM AROUND THE WORLD»

Dear Coquette: On fun-sized advice

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:10:32 -0400

Dear Coquette: On fun-sized advice:

dearcoquette:

I’m a 20-year-old atheist who wants to be more spiritual. What do I do?
Study philosophy, psychology, and comparative religion. Don’t get involved with any organization that relies on its own spiritual jargon.

Should I study fashion design, anthropology, or declare a double major?
Sure, why…

"On Periods: Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds when they have..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:00:04 -0400

“On Periods: Let’s put this shit to bed right now: Women don’t lose their minds when they have period-related irritability. It doesn’t lower their ability to reason; it lowers their patience and, hence, tolerance for bullshit. If an issue comes up a lot during “that time of the month,” that doesn’t mean she only cares about it once a month; it means she’s bothered by it all the time and lacks the capacity, once a month, to shove it down and bury it beneath six gulps of willful silence.”

- Shakesville: Feminism 101 (via andotherdoublemeanings)

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