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I want to see more girl monsters. Girl giants, girl dragons, hulks & trolls. Scylla and hydra. Girl monsters who are huge and whole. Teeth and plush fur and long muscled tails. Heads enough to see you anywhere. Gleaming green or brown. But girl monsters are usually zombies or vampires. Pale and thin, bleeding or dead. Not Lady Lazarus, not a phoenix from the ash. I want to see how you get strong without being broken first. Get strong and stay strong. Get big and bigger.

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Publicity still for Westworld (1973)

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L’Armée des ombres (1969, Jean-Pierre Melville)

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Soviet punk girl in late 1980s. Wonder what happened to her.

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fuck outta here with that weak shit, comrade

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Soviet punks in Volgograd in 1988. Notice how the veterans look at them.

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brutalist UFO? spotted @ University of Freiburg

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the manuscript of our published paper on a critical theory of (new) brutalism you can find now on academia.edu

published you’ll find it here: Dialectic IV: Architecture for Service. A refereed journal of the School of Architecture, CA + P, University of Utah, oro editions 2016, p. 59-67.

cncrt abstraction | distraction | reflection

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Lung Leg in her film “Worm Movie” 1985 (she eats a can of worms)

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Lung Leg by Richard Kern

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Carlo Orsi ph. (Milano, Italy 1941) Germana Marucelli op-art stockings; gelatine silver print; 23.5 X 18 cm.

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By Kristen and Bryan from our manuscripts department

“December 1 has come to be known among art and AIDS organizations as Day With(out) Art (or World Aids Day). 

Now in its 28th year, Day With(out) Art is a call to action against the AIDS pandemic and its devastating effect on art and culture. 

This year, we focus on #MyRightToHealth and are motivated as well by current efforts to pass a bill that would eliminate the tax deduction on medical expenses—a deduction that helps almost 9 million Americans a year offset the financially devastating cost of medical crises, chronic illnesses, and disabilities.

As curators of manuscripts, this day prompts us to reflect on the enduring relevance of centuries-old images in our collection, specifically, one that reveals the vulnerability of the human condition and celebrates compassion, not only with thoughts and prayers but with actions.

“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Taken from the Gospel of Matthew, Christ’s words about charity are written in Latin above this scene of a nun feeding a leper in a hospital. Even in the Middle Ages, medical care was available to those with pre-existing conditions and terminal illnesses, though treatment was rarely provided by physicians. 

It was clerics who were tasked with ministering to the physical and spiritual needs of the sick. Meals and medicine were communally provided after admission to a hospital, but some of the poorest members of society were compelled to raise funds for their care. The stigma attached to diseases such as leprosy, the plague, or later syphilis, however, cut across all social classes.”

Image: Initial D: A Woman Feeding a Leper in Bed, 1275-1300, Unknown. J. Paul Getty Museum