Make lots of art. Listen to music. Sanitize against negative energy. Breathe deep and relax! (Yes, art is my therapy.)
(via grrlandog)
i liked this when i thought it was about relationships with boys. and was young enough to refer to the people i was being pressured to date as “boys”.
i like it better now i think it applies to every form of attachment possible.
(Source: psychic-heart)
A Dress for Masochistic Runway Models
By: Dayna Spinner
Nothing says “stay away” like a dress made from pins. Widow, a statement of love and loss, screams defensiveness. This intense design constructed of 10,000 dress maker pins and black Napa leather would have made Alexander McQueen proud.
Slipway (by Auntie P)
Stone: personal relationships of marginal people in ‘community activist’ roles being wrecked by emotional poison of public life without any buffering power or status.
I threw the gauntlet
But he drew the lines
I’m instant: accident, regret, willing to retract, clumsy under pressure.
Him quicker, fear and ego defined, to draw lines
Big fish small ponds, isolated by-for-in the crowd. Broken chosen families.
People who contribute little, risk nothing, sneer and applaud.
The activist you would approve of does not exist
Martha Rosler’s “Semiotics of the Kitchen” is one of my favorite examples of feminist video art. In this piece, she has set up her camera directly in front of her and displays various tools of the kitchen. Rosler addresses the boring, repetitive, and repressed feeling of being a housewife. In the video she progressively gets angrier and angrier with each movement she makes.
Her movements begin to seem too violent, especially as she uses utensils like knives. It brings to question her motives and actual intent of her displaying the items. I completely love the way she calmly places the utensils down in this kind of quietly passive agressive manner. Such a phenomenal performance piece.
Rosler actually has a bunch of pieces that I will add next, but this is arguably her most famous video work.
Prism Exhibition 2011 (by kinkybootbeasts)
potlatch: institutions and privilege
The idea of ‘social capital’ that swept the Anglo-American policy world during the late 1990s was a symptom of this, analysing associations in terms of their measurable effects, with no regard for their intrinsic purpose. It was discovered [pdf] that Britain’s social capital had fallen since the early 1980s, primarily due to the decline of working class institutions, and decline of trade union membership in particular. But what sort of problem is this? Is it a fundamental rebalancing of power in the economy and civil society? Or simply a decline of one resource, that can be compensated for with the addition of a new resource? It is the latter that predominates in a rational choice worldview.
No Writing Clips? Here’s How to Land an Assignment Without Them
Play up other areas. Whatever you do, do not apologize for your lack of clips. This shows a level of insecurity that might be off-putting to editors. Instead, emphasize whatever expertise you do have. Are you a former HR exec pitching an article on job interview techniques? Mention your HR credentials. Are a mother of twins who wants to write about throwing a kids’ birthday party on a budget? Include a few sentences on why you’re the perfect person to write this piece. If an editor writes back asking for clips or credits, you can explain that you’re just breaking into freelancing, but don’t lead with this information.
Colin Morgan | Parked [trailer] by BJsRealm
i so want to see this. not just because it’s about homelessness in ways that would expand representations of homelessness to the large ‘living in cars, usually housed some months of the year but keeping it a secret between hostels and outdoor sites the rest’ demographic…but it has Colin!
have a feeling it won’t be released here at all though, so film fest spotting i guess
