TheCostofDoingNothing

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cyneta: Going all red, hopefully this is as good as its suppose...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:29:09 -0400

cyneta:

Going all red, hopefully this is as good as its suppose to be…

You re not supposed to use metal tools with this hair dye.

isueyyy: Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974Marina Abramović is...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:26:52 -0400

isueyyy:

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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Thu, 09 May 2013 10:20:21 -0400

casadosfetiches: Feminism… congratulations on his conquests...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:19:54 -0400

casadosfetiches:

Feminism… congratulations on his conquests :)

Feminismo… parabéns pelas suas conquistas :)

cheating-boyfriend: After 48 hours in chastity! Punishment for...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:17:44 -0400

cheating-boyfriend:

After 48 hours in chastity! Punishment for cheating!

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nailsandnosh: Nails: Zoya La-Di-da Nosh: Cookshop Deviled eggs...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:11:06 -0400

nailsandnosh:

Nails: Zoya La-Di-da
Nosh: Cookshop Deviled eggs with salmon roe

Dear gods. Need nao.

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lostcityoffallenangels: 4ttentionwh0re: ann0yingwh0re: blacken...

Thu, 09 May 2013 10:00:44 -0400

lostcityoffallenangels:

4ttentionwh0re:

ann0yingwh0re:

blacken-rainbow:

Which one would you choose?
I’d choose the train.

Jump. Close my eyes, spread my arms, and pretend to be a bird…

^This.

Train, instant death is the way for me.

This is really unfair to the person driving the train. It is unacceptable to cause someone else the mental torment and suffering we might wish to escape. If anyone is honestly considering suicide, please realize this is a very selfish method.

I do not condone suicide, but I believe everyone has a right to do with their lives as they will. But no one has a right to harm others to relieve their own pain.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 09:57:28 -0400

READ AND RELATE HERE

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:56:16 -0400

READ AND RELATE HERE

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Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:24:57 -0400

365-days-of-grunge: Beautiful cosmos on @weheartit.com -...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:24:45 -0400

365-days-of-grunge:

Beautiful cosmos on @weheartit.com - http://whrt.it/XRdsGx

Thunderous Menace: Body Shaming and Fat vs Skinny

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:14:12 -0400

Thunderous Menace: Body Shaming and Fat vs Skinny:

alienqueenn:

If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you should know that I’m not down with body shaming in any form. Don’t body shame fat people, don’t body shame skinny people, just don’t do it.

Now that I’ve made that clear: There’s this phenomenon I’ve found among skinny people. It’s the “well I was teased for being skinny just like you were teased for being fat!” and “it’s soooo hard being this skinny! people always think I have an eating disorder!” It’s basically saying “my pain is the same as yours!!!!”

But quite frankly, it isn’t. And I’m sick of hearing those things. I understand how much it fucking SUCKS to be put down because of how your body looks. I get it. Believe me I really fucking get it.

But if you are skinny, your pain is not the same. Your body still fits into society’s ideal. You can still shop at normal stores (and don’t even start with the “they don’t have sizes small enough for me!!!!” bullshit). You don’t have to worry about “oh that person might not want to date me because I’m fat” or “maybe I won’t get hired because my employee might think I’m lazy” You can go to the gym and not be stared at because apparently fat people should just stay that way.

My whole life, I would have much rather heard the insults skinny people get. Because even with the teasing, I would still have fit into jeans at the same stores all my friends shopped at. I wouldn’t have dated men who were horrible to me because I didn’t think I deserved better because I was told “I should be grateful anyone would want to have sex with me.”

Being teased for how you look especially when it’s incredibly difficult to change is the worst. But I have a very hard time sympathizing with skinny pain.

I don’t usually reblog to respond to posts, but I felt I HAD to say something on this.

Please do not tell me my pain is not the same. It IS. It hurts JUST as much. Let me tell you how I know. I have run the gamut from 220 lbs to 135 lbs and NO ONE has EVER left me alone about my weight, EVER.

The things I have heard being skinny?

“It’s not attractive for you to be so thin. You should gain some weight.”
“Have you been sick with something?”
“NO OFFENSE, but you look like skin and bones. Unhealthy.”
“Guys aren’t attracted to skeletons like that. They want a ‘real woman’.
“Here, let me do that. You’re so little you might hurt yourself.”
“You can’t lift/carry/push/pull/do that. You’re not strong/big enough.”

So, please, tell me again how those things aren’t as hurtful as being called fat or being told you need to lay off the Doritos. I’m not a real woman because I’m thin? I’m undesirable because I weigh less? I’m a weakling because I’m slim?

You know what, I used to say the same thing. That I wish I could hear the “skinny” insults. That I wouldn’t care if someone told me I “need a cheeseburger”, it would just mean they were jealous or something. No. It feels exactly the same. I’m still being told I’m not good enough, even after seven years of starving myself.

I cannot shop at normal stores. I can’t even buy a size small/medium top most of the time. No, I need a medium/large that is going to billow and hang off my shoulders, neck, and stomach but barely fit around my tits and be just long enough. Because according to designers, you must be short to be thin. No thin person over 5’ 6” can shop in a normal store because everything in the store in small sizes is cut for short people. I’m 5’ 11”. So tell me again how I can still go out shopping with my friends and try on jeans or even dresses with them.

Oh, wait, I don’t even have friends to shop with, because most of the women I know are too jealous or hateful of my modelesque looks and figure to get to know me, as if it is my fault that I’m thin and good-looking and I’m going to steal their men the minute they aren’t looking. And sometimes their men arelooking, which isn’t my fault either, but I get blamed for being the “seductress” or the “slut”.

Let’s talk about dating, by the way. You think I get all the nice, sweet guys because I’m thin and “hot”, right? WRONG. I never know who really wants to get to know me or who’s just interested in getting in my pants. Oh, men regularly shower me with love and attention…until they realize it won’t get them in my pants right away. Then I’m stuck-up, I’m a slut, a cock-tease, or I “think I’m too good” for them. Or I just never hear from them again. That really makes me feel like I’m worth a lot, shoots my self-esteem through the ceiling, knowing the only thing men think I’m good for is my pretty face and fit body.

Then there’s my employers. Lets talk about all the jobs that I will immediately be rejected for the moment the interviewer looks at me and makes the aforementioned “skinny=weak” assumption. Or the time my boss threatened to fire me if I didn’t gain weight because she assumed my completely unrelated illness was related to my figure. Or the fact that my employers cut my hours after I recently re-lost some weight that I put on during a stressful move because they were “afraid I would start calling out” if I was working “too much” aka the same amount of hours I was working before the weight loss.

So please, PLEASE, do NOTtell me it isn’t the same. I’ve seen both sides of this ridiculous fence, and the grass is fucking dead on both of them.

saffronlungs: ‘Opium Den’dream-timean old-ish piece, i started...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:57:45 -0400

saffronlungs:

‘Opium Den’

dream-time

an old-ish piece, i started it around august, last year (last year!) i did something with the colours and kinda hated it, but i liked the sketch and because i was too lazy to draw it out again i just fixed it up how i could, ha

this is pretty big, took me four scans to get it all and it wasn’t even straight, but shh you can’t tell…next time i swear im gonna measure out something properly..or stop using scrap paper

watercolour, pen, pencil
January 2013

so pretty…

millionsofdeadcops: French Nude Smoking Opium circa 1910

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 02:55:13 -0400

millionsofdeadcops:

French Nude Smoking Opium circa 1910

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