Starry Night at the Arcade
Pac-Man meets Vincent van Gogh Mashup
Created by Noah Gibbs
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"Rape is way, WAY more prevalent than you seem to think it is… Your job as a comedian is to take us through pain, transcend pain, transform pain. And if you don’t get that, you are a fucking bully, and I’ve got zero time for bullies."
— comedian Curtis Luciani (in response to the Tosh rape joke incident)
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“Hamster On A Piano (Eating Popcorn)” - Parry Gripp [X]
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YESSSS!
To all the mujeres/womyn in my life. Pieces by my awesome mentor Favianna Rodriguez.
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Self Portraits of a Declining Brain
William Utermohlen is latest artist to be honored at the GV Art Gallery in London, with an event that has an emotional purpose that is near and dear to the hearts of many. Utermohlen spent the last twelve years of his life battling Alzheimer’s, a degenerative neurological disease that slowly took away his ability to do what he was most passionate about: his art.
At the event, his widow spoke to the many supporters, saying “He died in 2007, but really he was dead long before that. Bill died in 2000, when the disease meant he was no longer able to draw.”
This exhibit is known as William Utermohlen: Artistic decline through Alzheimer’s, as it explores the relationship between Utermohlen’s artwork and the progression and struggle with the disease.
Looking at his pieces as his disease progressed, a clear change is visible. As he slowly lost control over his movements, his composition and techniques changed as he was forced to abandon oils for easier-to-use watercolours and pencils. One thing that did not change throughout time, however, was the sheer mastery and vision displayed by has passion for the content of his pieces.
His paintings display a rarely seen insight into a mind effected by Alzheimer’s, as his struggle and frustration are imminent. Also changed by the progression of time and the disease were his subjects. He began to focus on self portraits and looming dark doorways in the backgrounds
His widow commented that, “it was as if he knew he was going to a very dark place and he knew he couldn’t do anything about it. By the end he couldn’t even recognise his own paintings… that was the saddest thing”.
Rarely does one get the opportunity to chronicle their own experience with mental decline. Even more rarely do we get to share and observe that troubled journey.
This art is that tale.
read a book, kids… or at the very least, the fucking wikipedia page.
Peter Joseph and “The Zeitgeist Movement” or TZM represent some of the most successful covert propaganda pieces fed to angsty youths the world over. They promote some fantastic sounding ideas but once one compares them to the reality of the current bio-psychosocial order and history, they…
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