#modern american

[spooksier]

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

[officialspec]

modern au but set in brisbane. is this anything

[disease]

DEATH OF A VALLEY: "DOROTHEA LANGE PHOTOGRAPHING THE DESTRUCTION OF A CALIFORNIA LANDMARK" PIRKLE JONES // 1956 [selenium-toned silver gelatin print | 8 x 10"]

[stastrodome]

You were old when we were colleagues and that was thirty years ago . . . I'm sorry to hear of your death, JF, you were a true original and I apologize for saying "colleague" when we were friends. I guess I can't help but think you must have been embarrassed to have had a friend like me.

The age you were then is the age I am now.

I knew you were a legend but I think we became friends because I did not treat you like a legend and curtsey too much in your presence.

Sometimes we would eat dinner at Wendy's. Once, a local there told me to to watch my language because he was there with his kids. You said you were proud of me for not telling the local to fuck off. That was as close to the language of mentor-mentee as we ever got.

When I was off to CA we kept in touch here and there (you were jovial enough about the realities of moving into the retirement home about seven years ago today) but, in the face of my own health crisis and then my grievous problems with the kind of work you excelled at, I let go of the rope that held me to the past—including my conversations with you.

You never called or asked after and me but I am sorry for how that went—I should have had the courage to say goodbye when I left.

The last time I saw you was in 2009 and the last time we corresponded was five years ago when you asked "where are all the single seniors who were supposed to be chasing after me?" I am grateful for some of the valuable lessons I learned from your example (asking "why?") and if I lost the taste for certain kinds of work-related friendship I never lost respect for your intellect. I will leave the encomiums to the officials and the memories to those who knew you better but I did want to say, what a great run, JF. Cent' anni!

[oncanvas]

Summer Plumes, Gustave Cimiotti, circa 1928-29

Oil on canvas 50 ¼ x 40 ⅛ in. (127.7 x 101.9 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[longliveblackness]

Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.

More than 60% of the world's cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.

Western countries are providing financial military aid to invade regions filled with reserves and in the process millions are getting killed and millions homeless.

Multinational mining companies are enslaving people especially children to mine.

•••

La República Democrática del Congo vive un genocidio silencioso. Millones de personas están siendo asesinadas para que la parte occidental del mundo pueda beneficiarse de sus recursos naturales.

Más del 60% de las reservas mundiales de cobalto se encuentran en el Congo, y se utiliza en la producción de teléfonos inteligentes.

Los países occidentales están proporcionando asistencia financiera militar para invadir regiones llenas de reservas y en el proceso millones de personas mueren y millones se quedan sin hogar.

Las empresas mineras multinacionales están esclavizando a la gente, especialmente a los niños, para trabajar en las minas.

Street Art and Photo by Artist Eduardo Relero

(https://eduardorelero.com)

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jon Eric Riis

Hands of the Oracle

[c0ffee1]

highschool midwest emo dipper by popular demands on tik tok

too lazy for bg again BUT IM ALL FOR IT try and guess all the refrences

[lionofchaeronea]

Summer Evening, Edward Hopper, 1947

[bigboppa01]

[g-cedillo]

[eirene]

Perpetual care, 1961

Andrew Wyeth

[ffcrazy15]

Someone needs to do an analysis on the way the Kung Fu Panda movies use old-fashioned vs. modern language ("Panda we meet at last"/"Hey how's it going") and old-fashioned vs. modern settings (forbidden-city-esque palaces/modern-ish Chinese restaurant) to indicate class differences in their characters, and how those class differences create underlying tensions and misunderstandings.

[disease]

“GROUPE SURRÉALISTE” MAN RAY // circa 1924-25 [gelatin silver print | 9.2 x 8.3 cm.]

[mactavishenjoyer]

Ghost:"I think Roach is lying about being British."

Soap:"but he drinks tea."

Ghost:"yeah but it's cold and half sugar."

Soap:"huh."

Ghost:"he also says y'all."

Soap:"yeah but who would lie about being British?"

Ghost:"what's that's supposed to mean?"

Soap:"we both know what I mean."

[arthistoryanimalia]

#Caturday :

Andrew Wyeth (PA, USA, 1917-2009)

Miss Olson, 1952

Tempera on panel

Private Collection, currently on display at Brandywine Museum of Art

“Four years after Andrew Wyeth made Christina Olson iconic in Christina's World (MOMA), he created this tender portrait of her. With extraordinary sensitivity to a seemingly straightforward subject—a woman and a cat in the corner of a worn room—he invites us to reflect on the stories this person and place could tell.”