Looks like a pump, feels like a wingtip.
thetoolazytothinkupacoolnameblog:
New Track (LEAK): Childish Gambino - Fuck Your Blog (feat. Flynt Flossy and Yung Humma)
*twerks*
i like this shit.
MOVE IN SILENCE LIKE A GIF!!!!
Thank goodness my hips are underneath the desk line, because I’m dancing in this damn chair.
Super Guachin La Gorra
Selections from the “Menagerie” series by Laura Bifano
From the artist: “Menagerie” is a series of 10 polygonal animal paintings inspired by my love of nature and classic video games.
(Source: laurabifano.com)
wow the sith code actually owns unlike the dorky ass jedi code
Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.
i agree w/ all of this
This is fucking awesome. If loving the dark side of the Force is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
i’ve had my shirt off at work recently and people are all like, “WHAT’S THAT THING ON YOUR BACK?”
i just tell them that it’s the major river systems of the United States— and they’re all like, “WELL THAT DOESN’T LOOK LIKE THE UNITED STATES…”
and i just smile. because that’s the point. i hardly ever tell people why i got the tattoo because they are turned off by my explanation.
but when i explain, i say: “it’s a critique of nationalism, of borders, of conceptions of space. it’s a promotion of fluidity in cultures and in the self.” i state that my tattoo is inspired by the writings of Gloria Anzaldua on border cultures and border peoples (both actually and conceptually), but most folks are unfortunately unfamiliar with her writing.
but there’s also my geographer side to it. i think it’s cool that John Wesley Powell once stated that the places we live would be better off demarcated by the watershed we live in (even though i dislike the concept of demarcation). few took his thoughts seriously on the matter, so now we have many national and state borders found in rivers (like the Rio Grande or the Ohio). this really doesn’t make sense because rivers are the centers of their watersheds and greater ecosystems, not the harsh edge. to have a river on the fringe in this way highlights the disregard humans have concerning viewing themselves as part of the environment in which they live and the disregard colonialism often has for the surroundings in which it usurps.
My face when I saw this:
Because, yeah, naked cartoon people and whatever. The wardrobe just kicked it up like three notches. Accessories matter, damn it. And those boots! :: swoons ::
This pic would make a really cool party invite.
On one hand, I cannot justify paying $16 for a pair of boxer briefs. (And that’s the damn sale price! Yoox has a different definition of “bargain” than I do, sadly.)
On the other hand… graph paper boxer briefs. Graph. Paper. Boxer briefs. I want to draw parabolas all over them* and incorporate vulgar math jokes into foreplay whilst rocking these.
* Not relevant but really sort-of relevant: I consider the parabola to be a perfect gender symbol for me; if ‘woman’ is the asymptote, I’m that close-but-not-quite elegant curvature going on next to it.
You have no idea how disappointed I am that this dress is for children. WACK.
In related news, the Tumblr Things Miss Frizzle Would Wear… how did I not know about this before? Because as a current nerd/former geek and a dress enthusiast for most of my life, reading The Magic School Bus series and watching the TV show were super-important fashion inspiration (the side dish to the cool science learning stuff, of course).
We’re geeks! So we decided to have our (very appropriately geeky) engagement photo-shoot in a local comic shop called Zeus Comics (in Dallas, Tx).
Photography is by Brittney Ann (http://www.facebook.com/BrittneyAnnPhotographer).
I think I just died of cute.
Hey, Where’s My (Queer!) Robot Girlfriend?: Queering Sexual Technology [Facebook]
My eyes did this glazed-over-with-happy thing just reading this description.
Hybrids of sex and technology are flourishing in contemporary culture, from basement workshops where power tools are lovingly re-purposed into “bedroom aids” to sexual media empires with genres devoted solely to robot-human couplings. The medical sciences have even gotten in on the act with orgasmic spinal implants. Technology and sexuality have long been intimately connected, each inspiring innovation in the other, and nowhere is this more striking than in the fields of teledildonics (computer-interfaced sex toys) and sexual robotics.
Where do queer identities and desires fit into this brave new world? Queers have long been on the forefront of the creation and utilization of technology in the service of pleasure supporting radical re-imaginings of sexuality, but robots are often portrayed with programmed heterosexuality, and marketing copy for commercial sex machines often implicitly assigns gender to the devices in a way that assumes users will be straight. What does the constructed nature of these technologies reveal about the construction of our gender and sexual identities in other contexts? Do robots have a race? Can we image a trans cyborg - and are queers cyborgs already? Are queer communities ideally situated to create, utilize and (re)appropriate this growing field of sexual technology, or will queer desires be steamrolled by market pressures and social norms that assume narrow user desires and identities? Will queers continue to be pioneers pushing the boundaries for the creation of new identities - or will our imaginings of sex cyborgs stay in racial, gender and other mainstreams?
Join researcher Laura G. Duncan and The Queer Commons to explore these issues and more at a multimedia lecture about sexual technology, followed by a discussion session. Readings, which explore trans + racial assumptions about cyborgs and sex robots, are posted below and are intended to inspire dialogue. A reading summary will be posted next week to provide participants with additional context.
slow: Update on Reading Group texts
Whatever reading group this is, I’m so fucking down. I’m salivating just reading this list.
Meets almost every week on Sunday at 7:00 PM at NYU. E-mail me to be added to the mailing list for further details. bradtroemel at gmail dot com
36. Hans Ulrich Obrist interview with Wikileaks’ Julian Assange
35. Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics, The Radicant
34. Readings and discussion with Christiane Paul - Context and Archive: Presenting and Preserving Net-based Art + Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Interfacing New Media—From the White Cube to the Black Box and Beyond
33. Readings from Domenico Quaranta’s book In Your Computer - Lost in Translation. Or, Bringing Net Art to Another Place? + The Unbearable Aura of a Website. Originality in the Digital Age
32. Reading and discussion with Jacob Lillemose - ”It’s Contemporary Art, Stupid” Curating computer based art out of the ghetto
31. School Nite reading courtesy of Collective Show at 233 Mott St. Carson Chan - Measures of an Exhibition + Jennifer Allen - HARK! Does Art Have a Second Life Online?
30. Viewing of the film Network (1976), written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet
29. Readings and discussion with Gregory Sholette – Dark Matter
28. Readings and discussion with Ben Davis – “Social Media Art” in The Expanded Field
27. Bruno Latour - What is Iconoclash? Or Is There A World Beyond The Image Wars?, Some Experiments in Art and Politics
26. Readings from Video Vortex Reader #2. Geert Lovink - Engage in Destiny Design: Online Video Beyond Hypergrowth + Stefan Heidenreich - Vision Possible: A Methodological Quest for Online Video + Natalie Bookchin and Blake Stimson interview - Out in Public: Natalie Bookchin in Conversation with Blake Stimson + Cecilia Guida - YouTube as a Subject: Interview with Constant Dullaart
25. Discussion at Bard’s CCS Hessel Museum as part of the Constant Dullaart and Laurel Ptak-organized event Public Interfacial Gesture Salon.
24. JstChillin week. Ceci Moss Interview with Parker Ito and Caitlin Denny + Gene McHugh catalogue essay + Brian Droitcour - In New Media Res
23. Readings and discussion with Ed Halter. The Centaur and the Hummingbird + After the Amateur: Notes + The Matter of Electronics + Television for the People
22. Julian Dibbell - A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society + Howard Rheingold - Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place + Humdog - Pandora’s Vox
21. Various essays on internet fame from the Video Vortex Youtube Reader
20. Liam Gillick - Prevision, Contemporary Art Does Not Account for That Which Is Taking Place
19. Carson Chan - The Territory of Versions + Karen Archey - Internet Art in The Present Tense
18. Readings from the Digital Folklore reader. Dennis Knopf - Defriending The Web + Helene Dams - I Think You Got Cats On Your Internet + Olia Lialina -A Vernacular Web + Preface essays by Cory Arcangel, Olia Lialina, Dragan Espenschied
17. R Gerald Nelson - DDDDoomed
16. Jaron Lanier - You Are Not a Gadget
15. Rosalind Krauss - Two Moments From The Post Medium Condition
14. Friedrich Kittler - There Is No Software
13. Lauren Cornell - Walking Free, Brian Droitcour - All Together Now
12. Discussion about selected works: Oliver Laric - Versions + Harm Van Den Dorpel - Ethereal Self / Ethereal Others + Jon Rafman - Koolaide Man in Second Life + Eva and Franco Mattes - Darko Maver + Ryan Trecartin - Riverthe.net
11. Unpublished readings and discussion with Geert Lovink
10. Hito Steryl - On The Poor Image + Hubert Dreyfus - Kierkegaard On The Internet
9. Jack Burnham - Systems Aesthetics, + Geert Lovink - 10 Theses On Wikileaks
8. Martin Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
7. Lewis Hyde - The Gift, Trickster Makes The World
6. Donna Harraway - The Cyborg Manifesto
5. Alex Galloway - Language Wants To Be Overlooked: On Software and Ideology
4. Boris Groys - The Weak Universalism + On The New + Self Design and Aesthetic Responsibility
3. David Joselit - Feedback + Chris Anderson and Michael Wolf - The Web Is Dead. Long Live The Internet
2. Critical Art Ensemble - Electronic Civil Disobedience + Keller Easterling - Zone
1. Hakim Bey - Temporary Autonomous Zone
The Ultimate 21st Century People of Color Sci-Fi List [COLORLINES]
This whole list makes me smile big.
apartment goals
Starting Over [SEED Magazine]
In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.”
Fascinated by Feynman’s question, Seed put a similar one to a number of leading thinkers: “Imagine—much as Feynman asked his audience—that in a mission to change everyone’s thinking about the world, you can take only one lesson from your field as a guide. In a single statement, what would it be?” Here are their answers.
I want to run through elementary, middle and high schools with photocopies of these quotations so I can make it rain in every classroom I encounter. (Class discussion of the reading majorly encouraged, obviously.)
Of course, this would be merely one action in the multimedia fantasy world where I get to run the US Department of Education On Some Real Shit. (Yes, I change the name of the department in my fantasy.)
Lorem ipsum bow tie. A fucking lorem ipsum bow tie, in silk.
A little pricey to me, considering that I only pick up ties every once in a while when out thrifting, but sweet goddamn is it ever gorgeous.
Maybe a post-semester reward? I guess that should be enough incentive to stop procrastinating on Tumblr and finish studying for my exam tonight. Touché, Ju.
