Top, screen capture from Boyzone, Series of videos in progress, 1998 / … by Clarisse Hahn. Via. Bottom, Pose Work for Plinths I, by Bruce McLean, 1971, 12 photographs, gelatin silver prints on paper on board, support: 746 × 686 mm, frame: 775 × 710 × 24 mm. Via.
See also, Bruno Munari, Searching for comfort in an uncomfortable chair, 1944.
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Is not the most erotic portion of the body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no “erogenous zones.” […] It is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic; the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.
Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text, 1973. Via.
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on his latest ig story forever is talking about how quackity got them all a PARTY BUS . which will take them to a private pool party later tonight
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ok the met putting on a semi staged turandot for once ONLY because the SET BROKE is hilarious
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every time I think of Only Friends, the chorus to "If You Wanna Be My Lover" by Spice Girls plays in some shut off, drafty hallway of my mind, and I hate it
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#39? Love hearin these
39. Most strange dream you ever had/can remember.
I am sorry … I don’t remember my dreams at all. I think the only dreams I can remember are that I can’t move (like heavy, can’t lift my legs), that I can’t speak, and that all of my teeth disintegrate.
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Left, screen captures from L'Arbre, le Maire et la Médiathèque, directed by Éric Rohmer, 1993. Via. Right, screen captures from El tango del viudo y su espejo deformante, directed by Raoul Ruiz & Valeria Sarmiento, 2020. Via.
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We use our phones to take something that seems rare or singular and make it into something extremely ordinary. The phone allows us to subordinate the event to our desire to belong. The more useless the photo is, the more it confirms that we are on the inside of a shared vision, and not looking at things the wrong way. (...)
But it still seems deeply, pointedly irrational to photograph an eclipse. It is an effort to photograph a ghost, a rumor. Part of me wants to argue that there is some sort of atavistic counter-mimesis at play in photographing an eclipse, a desire to “save” the sun as it becomes obscured and thereby express a kind of delusional mastery over cosmological processes. Photographing an eclipse could be seen as a ritual act of supplication, a gesture to placate the indifferent gods that set the skies spinning. Once photography seemed magical because it could passively inscribe reality and reproduce it; now we demand a different magic from it, it must do something else to still seem powerful. Photos cease to be documents and become prayers.
A picture of the eclipse places the photographer paradoxically in the time before photography, not because of what it depicts but because it is a souvenir of that momentary intimation of the era of myth, when reality and experience were supposedly untroubled by mediation and everyone lived in the shared, immediate presence of being. It doesn’t matter that that feeling doesn’t look like anything, that it is unphotographable in its essence. The eclipse photo is a picture of being afraid of the dark.
Rob Horning, from Images of unphotographability, April 12, 2024.
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the story of how tom gave james corden his phone number is so adorable and funny but imagine his assistants getting the instructions and having to order the cake and just going to themselves "...... can't we just write him an email??"
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Am thinking about the magic my cats getting and some explanations for their broken world being from a meteor hitting the planet. May also sprinkle in some other solar objects orbiting Earth to add some sky spice
Anyways thinking through how they count and the extent of their counting but it’s based on a paw full. They have a basic understanding of 5, the four digits plus the dew claw.
So five mice would be a pawful of mice. 10 mice would be both paws full of mice. This is their basics but I think it’d expand more. A bit more then a full, or 5 digits plus a certain amount. I think this would sprout from them making the counting system and then meeting a cat with extra a toes. I have a super funny idea of how this actually comes out and it makes me laugh thinking of it. Anyways they specify numbers by how many scratches, one scratch is one thing and all scratches is five. An extra one or two scratches to the five is clumped away sorta like tally marks.
Thinking the name for their numbers relates to the word for claw or paw. So say 1 is said as Euwi, the word for paw is Weuwi. The first five numbers have -wi at the end and over five has -wo as a clear distinction.
Idk just some worldbuilding thinking
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