“Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.”
— Paulo Coelho
niform: interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini, 2007
niform is an interactive installation. In a large darkened room, the whole of one wall facing an audience of viewers is taken up with a panoramic image; at first, the image is unchanging, is unchanging and blurred in its entirety. The group, rendered uniform by the blurring, is rendered even more so by the uniform clothing of the twenty men who constitute the group: the picture is that of a cordon of policemen in anti-riot gear, life-size.
The viewers, as they move, change the focal point of the image: as they move towards the screen, and according to the disposition of their bodies, the section of the image in front of them becomes progressively more clearly focused. At a distance of fifty centimetres or less from the screen, a spectator is confronted with one of the representatives of the forces of law and order.
The image no longer has a single depth of field, but several: these are localised, spectator-specific and are different for each viewer. From an initially fuzzy image, each spectator progresses towards a focusing-in on the image, onto a single man, toward the individual man with whom s/he stands face to face.
(via shinyslingback)
Kid Cudi - She came along
Zamora Offices by Alberto Campo Baeza.
“despite people’s intentions, the telling of sexist and racist jokes can “sustain an environment in which people use sticks, stones, guns, or bombs against others” (Kleinman 2007: 13). Any terms that dehumanize others can make it easier for us to harm them (Schwalbe 2008).”
— Sherryl Kleinman, Matthew B. Ezzell, and A. Corey Frost. Reclaiming Critical Analysis: The Social Harms of “Bitch”. (via feministing)
Hiroshi Yamazaki
“Death doesn’t exist. It never did, it never will. But we’ve drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we’ve got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
— Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
(via anotherword)
Story of Shane Bitney Crone and Tom Bridegroom
“My photographs show this daily life. They humanize the face of cancer, on the face of my wife. They show the challenge, difficulty, fear, sadness and loneliness that we faced, that Jennifer faced, as she battled this disease. Most important of all, they show our Love.”
“Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
— Maya Angelou
Made by SAMMA, Hanna Sandin
