You Created a Desert and Called it Peace

"It’s not that the sacred is here and the profane is over there. Everything is profane if you live on..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:47:03 -0700

“It’s not that the sacred is here and the profane is over there. Everything is profane if you live on the surface of it, and everything is sacred if you go into the depths of it - even your sin.”

- Richard Rohr. (via revdak)

My STAR TREK favourites Karl Urban 1/?

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:35:37 -0700

My STAR TREK favourites

Karl Urban 1/?

"Give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best; and I want the good wine, the swirl in..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:32:37 -0700

“Give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best;
and I want the good wine, the swirl in crystal
surrendering the bruised scent of blackberries,
or cherries, the rich spurt in the back
of the throat, the holding it there before swallowing.
Give me the lover who yanks open the door
of his house and presses me to the wall
in the dim hallway, and keeps me there until I’m drenched
and shaking, whose kisses arrive by the boatload
and begin their delicious diaspora
through the cities and small towns of my body.
To hell with the saints, with martyrs
of my childhood meant to instruct me
in the power of endurance and faith,
to hell with the next world and its pallid angels
swooning and sighing like Victorian girls.
I want this world. I want to walk into
the ocean and feel it trying to drag me along
like I’m nothing but a broken bit of scratched glass,
and I want to resist it. I want to go
staggering and flailing my way
through the bars and back rooms,
through the gleaming hotels and weedy
lots of abandoned sunflowers and the parks
where dogs are let off their leashes
in spite of the signs, where they sniff each
other and roll together in the grass, I want to
lie down somewhere and suffer for love until
it nearly kills me, and then I want to get up again
and put on that little black dress and wait
for you, yes you, to come over here
and get down on your knees and tell me
just how fucking good I look.”

- “For Desire,” Kim Addonizio (via commovente)

ilvalentinos: i also don’t even like poptarts that much

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:30:57 -0700

ilvalentinos:

_{i also don’t even like poptarts that much}

arpeggia: Franck Bohbot - Respect the Architect, 2011 Click on...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:29:58 -0700

BNF, site RIchelieu, salle Ovale

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris

Le Bar

Panthéon, Rome

Le Foyer, Versailles

Odeon corridor, Paris

The Door, Versailles

Impressionism Interior, Hotel de Ville, Paris

arpeggia:

Franck Bohbot - Respect the Architect, 2011

Click on each image for details.

See more Franck Bohbot posts here.

neverfeedthesarcophagi: trainahorsetoeatpeople: zdzisław...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:05:14 -0700

neverfeedthesarcophagi:

trainahorsetoeatpeople:

zdzisław beksiński

#feelings about Dune; messiahs built from the millenia of careful planning #with long sacred histories of human bodies and bloodlines behind him #who turned around and ripped it all to shreds #the entire universe #and his son would rip the very concept of humanity apart; in himself; and in civilisation itself #dune #art

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flukeoffate: victoriousscarf: flukeoffate: Legolas and Gimli...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:35:31 -0700

flukeoffate:

victoriousscarf:

flukeoffate:

Legolas and Gimli in the Jazz Age

Inspired by Starlight from the Gutter by Meddalarksen and Victoriousscarf on AO3. Go read it!

Archiveofourown.org/works/638425/chapters/1157089

I claim no rights to anything.

Also I will probably clean this up and do more to it later.

I CANNOT. JUST SO YOU KNOW I CANNOT.

Also considering drawing Vamp!Legolas. XD

Also, due to summer jobs/internet troubles Meadow would like me to tell you how in love with this she is as well and that she might just die to see a vamp Legolas. (And will hopefully be able to tell you that herself this weekend but.)

"For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:28:42 -0700

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For most of America, Psy is a funny name, a funny face, and a funny personality. He doesn’t sing in English and most people just don’t get it leaving most of them to not take him seriously. It’s easy to strip the significance behind “Gangnam Style” down if you don’t know what it means and solely find entertainment in the Asian guy shaking his hips. But what most people don’t realize is that Psy doesn’t take himself seriously. He’s a satirist and political dissident. “Gangnam Style” was a commentary, not just a fun pop tune with a silly dance.

Gangnam is Seoul’s wealthiest and flashiest neighborhood. For South Koreans, Gangnam represents the ideal life of excess and consumerism. Psy’s character in the video is a wannabe Gangnamite. He dreams he’s living the flashy, excessive lifestyle while he’s really just like everyone else, swimming in a public pool and riding the subway. But never in the video does it seem that Psy’s character is unhappy. He’s content to play in a children’s playground and meet the girl of his dreams in the subway. “Gangnam Style” is much more that we have made it, but that’s not surprising considering Psy’s background and how little we know about it.

In America, it seems like “Gangnam Style” was Psy’s big break when in fact the song had been released on his sixth studio album and his music career hadn’t been about making flashy and catchy songs. He believes music is the key to overcoming the intolerance embedded in his country’s political systems. Throughout his career, his songs have been banned for inappropriate content and have been surrounded by controversy, not to mention the fact that he fought his mandatory military draft.

Psy is a voice for his people. He’s fighting the oppression and intolerance he sees in his culture through his music. And by ignoring his worth and his value, we’re reducing the culture of South Korea into a short man with funny pants doing a ridiculous dance.

”

- Opinion: American media chooses to undervalue artists like Psy from “Gangnam Style” (via kpop-confessions)

This is why Billie Joe Armstrong’s comments about him being the herpes of music are utterly stupid.

(via hortoncaulfield)

Psy is more punk than Green Day.

(via sailornotits)

Making Love in the Movies

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:24:49 -0700

kateoplis:

“One critic wrote that the lengthy lesbian sex scenes in this year’s Palme d’Or winner Blue Is the Warmest Color were “crucial” for establishing the narrative in this “shattering masterpiece.” But a Times critic, Manohla Dargis, called the film “wildly undisciplined,” and its sex scenes to be more about the director, Abdellatif “Kechiche’s desires than anything else.” Critics and audiences can disagree, of course. But when it comes to sex scenes, is there a way to distinguish between the good and the bad?”

“Cinematic portrayals of sex between women have often been seen as voyeuristic and exploitative. Unlike sex scenes between men, lesbianism is assumed to have wide appeal — straight women are curious, and straight men will apparently line up in any weather.”— Elisabeth Ladenson

“Blue Is the Warmest Color is a mediocre film that features some well-choreographed, lengthy and occasionally tedious lesbian sex scenes. Yet when I had the chutzpah to write a piece for The Daily Beast that challenged several critics’ assertions that these scenes were voyeuristic, sexist abominations, I was accused of coasting on my ‘male privilege.’” — Richard Porton

“Blue Is the Warmest Color, still raised eyebrows when it recently had its premiere in Cannes. Presumably, this is because it’s one of the first art house movies to so explicitly portray same-sex female copulation. The fact that a heterosexual man directed it drew the ire of certain critics, who challenged its perverse “male gaze.” Yet the beauty and verisimilitude of “Blue’s” sex scenes would be worthless without their meaning within the greater context of the story, which involves a young girl’s sexual awakening clashing with the hard realities of class and culture. They are good – even great – sex scenes because they go extremely far to show that sex always has its limits.” —Jordan Mintzer

“There is a self-congratulatory tendency in American films to separate sex from everyday life, which usually reduces sex scenes to nude “money shots.” A bad sex scene divorces eroticism from its characters’ emotions while a good sex scene brings emotion into the physical act. For that reason one of the best sex scenes ever filmed occurs in Max Ophuls’s “Earrings of Madame De…,” in which the fully clothed waltz by Vittorio DeSica and Danielle Darrieux comes complete with their mutual erotic attraction and its palpable emotional risks. Few other sex scenes match that one sequence; it should be a case study for every filmmaker.” —Armond White

“I do have one cautionary concern. We now know a lot about addiction to pornography and games. Addiction creates consumers but hurts their health and families. The film “Shame” reveals the isolation of a sex addict and how far he is from normal feelings. We need to be aware of how vulnerable humans are to manipulation. Before we find ourselves out on a limb of numbness we should be responsible about how far we push the audience when raising sensation over content.” —Martha Coolidge

“Sexual representations in movies must be seen as part of political discourse, and many of the portrayals today treat sex as a social danger. Sex educators, therapists, activists, scholars and sex workers have said time and again that sex education in our country is a public health crisis. Our national commitment to sexual silence – in the form of abstinence-based education, censorship and criminalization – means that we have no way to understand and teach young people about how to give (or not give) consent for sex, how to not be a silent witness to sexual violence, and why the culture of “slut shaming” must end. Moreover, our culture’s anxiety around sex leaves us with no language and skills to understand what we see on screen and to decide for ourselves what makes a good sex scene or a bad one.” — Mireille Miller-Young

Read on.

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peachymints: For character development of course. I miss my OCs...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:21:34 -0700

peachymints:

For character development of course.

I miss my OCs right now.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:20:37 -0700

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kateoplis: at the edge of the world

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:20:02 -0700

kateoplis:

at the edge of the world

laughingsquid: Colorful Origami Street Art Installations by...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:19:42 -0700

laughingsquid:

Colorful Origami Street Art Installations by Mademoiselle Maurice

flukeoffate: victoriousscarf: flukeoffate: Legolas and Gimli...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:10:59 -0700

flukeoffate:

victoriousscarf:

flukeoffate:

Legolas and Gimli in the Jazz Age

Inspired by Starlight from the Gutter by Meddalarksen and Victoriousscarf on AO3. Go read it!

Archiveofourown.org/works/638425/chapters/1157089

I claim no rights to anything.

Also I will probably clean this up and do more to it later.

I CANNOT. JUST SO YOU KNOW I CANNOT.

Also considering drawing Vamp!Legolas. XD

Oh. My. God. You do not even know. (I’m generally inarticulate and frazzled today but you have no idea how hard it was not to freak the fuck out in the internet cafe/bookstore/thing I was in today when I first saw this image. It is hard to do restrained flailing at a place that does not know you!)

(Except now I want to write actual jazz age Fellowship of the Ring Jazz Band who come together cos they’re all terribly broke and they need to support Frodo in… something to raise money for some grand cause but they all sorta don’t get along and Gimli and Legolas are like “bitch please” and Boromir is like I should be the lead of this band not that scruffy guy but Aragorn has like crazy talent so he just has to deal and the hobbits are like isn’t this grand! and they grew up totally sheltered and relativity rich and some of the others grew up more on the streets or bad parts of town and… whoops.)

Gimli with a trumpet. That is all.

flukeoffate: amazone86: one of my favorite couple in middle...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:07:21 -0700

flukeoffate:

amazone86:

one of my favorite couple in middle earth!

I really need to read up more on Celeborn

http://www.henneth-annun.net/Stories/chapter_print.cfm?stid=1372&spordinal=1 this is my personal favorite thing to exist on Celeborn and also a large part of the basis for him in “Only Break What’s Your’s” because rereading LotR yes to everything in here (I also like what it implies on Thranduil)