Polarity meets Harmony

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:23:00 -0400

nbchannibal: ATTENTION FANNIBALS This Thursday, to celebrate...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:43:45 -0400

ATTENTION FANNIBALS

This Thursday, to celebrate our Season Finale, we’re giving away some delectable Hannibal treats.

Stay tuned, details to come…

I have a horrible headache, so I can’t meditate, which is really disappointing, and the...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:36:00 -0400

I have a horrible headache, so I can’t meditate, which is really disappointing, and the computer screen is making it worse and also my friend is being a poop

nukemhigh: Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974 Marina Abramović...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:23:18 -0400

nukemhigh:

Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974

Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art. Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact for as long as they wanted. So many people began spontaneously crying across from her that blogs and Facebook groups were set up for those people.

Her bravest piece, however, is my favorite. This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:21:59 -0400

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:32 -0400

mypileofgoodthings: flying—blue—box: rock-it-ship: I made...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:19:13 -0400

mypileofgoodthings:

flying—blue—box:

rock-it-ship:

I made these today when I was bored because FUCK the “friendzoned” assholes who think women they’re nice to are obligated to have sex with them.

tikken: yapped: eddplant: rocketfists: wolfbiyo: If you...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:15:43 -0400

tikken:

yapped:

eddplant:

rocketfists:

wolfbiyo:

If you want to help us, please don’t come to the World Cup, or the Olympics.

Please don’t come to Brazil.

I will not go to Brazil

Important

Please watch this.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:54:41 -0400

"In 30 years observations, Jane Goodall never saw one rape among the chimpanzees, our closest primate..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:53:28 -0400

“In 30 years observations, Jane Goodall never saw one rape among the chimpanzees, our closest primate cousins. Though it’s not possible to draw firm conclusions about human behaviour from animals, Goodall’s findings, and many other recent studies, get us questioning the old myths we have about rape. One of the most persistent myths about rape is that male biology and primitive male sex urges drive men to rape. But current information indicates that rape is more a learned act of sexual violence that comes out of social beliefs that men have a right to dominate and control women. The fact that rape is learned means that we can work to change the underlying beliefs and eliminate rape from our communities.”

- Truth About Rape (via trashysnacks)

reapersun: time for the obligatory wacked out perspective men’s...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:32:07 -0400

reapersun:

time for the obligatory wacked out perspective men’s shoes all up in yo face stupid drawing i can’t help but do for everything

you know the song that plays in that really creepy axe commercial with the dude made of chocolate

this commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3qYT60DSKQ

that is the song that plays in my head while i’m drawing stuff like this

you can decide whether that is okay or terrible

inoticeyoureanerdfighter: cosorosso: Your keyboard is now Daft...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:31:34 -0400

inoticeyoureanerdfighter:

cosorosso:

Your keyboard is now Daft Punk…

this is not a video, click on it

mickykahler: A little emmy support for the Hannibal crew - not...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:21:53 -0400

mickykahler:

A little emmy support for the Hannibal crew - not that they need it, talented bunch that they are!

what-ineffable-twaddle: Empathy, Sam! Empathy! . This episode...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:12:41 -0400

what-ineffable-twaddle:

Empathy, Sam! Empathy!

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This episode had me in stitches! Is it odd that I kind of really liked psycho soulless Sam (even when he was slaughtering people)?

(I imagine this is what might happen if Cas were on ecstasy.)

skysoaring: have a photoset of snakes laughing at your...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:11:42 -0400

skysoaring:

have a photoset of snakes laughing at your misfortune

kawaiicornsnake: kawaiicornsnake: I think the real question is why should a girl shave, preen and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:11:33 -0400

kawaiicornsnake:

kawaiicornsnake:

I think the real question is why should a girl shave, preen and diet herself into oblivion for a guy in sweatpants and a t shirt who hasn’t trimmed his pubes in 3 years

Please stop reblogging this I’m scared a social justice warrior is gonna find it and realise I’m a boy

ursorum: (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ～『✧~dont fetishize mental/personality disorders~✧』

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:11:10 -0400

ursorum:

(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ～『✧~*dont fetishize mental/personality disorders*~✧』

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:10:27 -0400

magicalrumpustimes: sometimes I think about this comic and I...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:09:46 -0400

magicalrumpustimes:

sometimes I think about this comic and I just burst out laughing

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:09:26 -0400