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The Administration Building of Jondishapour University in Ahvaz, Iran by Kamran Diba in 1972-1976. The architect combined two very different yet very similar worlds to create the unusual project. He drew influences from surrealist Giorgio de Chirico with his barren, dreamlike landscapes as well as traditional Iranian desert architecture,  a from of desolate surrealism in reality. Both have a fascination with the dramaticism of contrasting light hitting earth-tone surfaces. The façade is clad in an elongated brick familiar to Iran and Iraq and are placed to make flawless angles and lines that echo the Italian surrealist movement. Four box-like structures surround an interior courtyard defined by water features and lush vegetation, a metaphor of paradise. 

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The Beach Boys in the late 70s. Aka the beard era. Left to right: Carl Wilson, Al Jardine, Mike Love, Dennis Wilson, Brian Wilson.

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Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys chillin’ in 1964.

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The Beach Boys sharing mics and trying out yellow back in the 60s.

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Brothers.

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Brian Wilson mastering ‘Pet Sounds’ in 1966 with a McIntosh MC240.

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The Beach Boys with Ed Sullivan during their appearance at The Ed Sullivan Show, September 1964

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Brian Wilson writing a check for $1.71 in a bathrobe. The Dude.

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“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.”

— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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Fernand Harvey Lungren (1857-1932), ‘Title Page’, “Creatures of the Night” by Alfred Wellesley Rees, 1905 Source

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hey, el paso's going into a more intense lockdown and it looks like soon we won't be able to make food runs for the homeless camp we've been helping.

$7.5k is enough for one month's rent for the ten people from the camp as well as for the family whose rent i paid i before.

please, please donate and share. we're a group of qtpoc, most of whom are either immunocompromised or live with an immunocompromised loved one. we've been doing the most we can, and we just need a bit of help before the state does everything it can to lock us down.

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“Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatisation of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?”

— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

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Boozhoo (hello), my name is Ken, I am a disabled Ojibwe artist from northern Wisconsin. I am writing this post because I am having a hard time making ends meet and any donations I could possibly receive at this time would be greatly appreciated. Recent events have left my bank account depleted and my cupboards bare, I have some food but it will not last and I still do not know how I will cover all the utility bills.

I do have PayPal, that is really the best way to donate at this time, the email I use for that is: baapimakwa@gmail.com, or you can click here.

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good evening! abortion is currently illegal in texas. the state has ordered that abortion is a “non-essential” medical procedure and must be completely halted during the coronavirus pandemic. this is the first time since the roe v. wade decision in 1973 that abortion has been completely illegal in any state. it’s going to be a serious legal fight to open clinics back up, because the fifth circuit court of appeals is full of far-right judges and is siding with the state. 

i know there are lots of things going on and lots of things to worry about. i want to call your attention to this matter, because this is a scary precedent: the fifth circuit is saying that there can be exceptions to our civil liberties in a time of crisis. 

if you want to / can help out financially i would encourage you to donate to an abortion fund in texas that can help people travel out of state for care. 

i encourage you also to spread the word if you can! 

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Pickerel Fishing, Winslow Homer, 1892