I Smell Rotten Apples

gracellia: stole this off a post on Facebook, but i feel like...

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:08:58 -0600

stole this off a post on Facebook, but i feel like tumblr needs to read this.

Morgan Freeman’s brilliant take on what happened yesterday :

“You want to know why. This may sound cynical, but here’s why.

It’s because of the way the media reports it. Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris are household names, but do you know the name of a single *victim* of Columbine? Disturbed
people who would otherwise just off themselves in their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why children? Because he’ll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a sad nobody.

CNN’s article says that if the body count “holds up”, this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another. Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News has plastered the killer’s face on all their reports for hours. Any articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the killer’s identity? None that I’ve seen yet. Because they don’t sell. So congratulations, sensationalist media, you’ve just lit the fire for someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward next.

You can help by forgetting you ever read this man’s name, and remembering the name of at least one victim. You can help by donating to mental health research instead of pointing to gun control as the problem. You can help by turning off the news.”

Is this a movie?

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:31:47 -0600

Is this a movie?

tairytwenty: Wtf?! When I took gymnastics, we spent SOO much...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:14:54 -0600

tairytwenty:

Wtf?!

When I took gymnastics, we spent SOO much time doing this!!! I have a long scar on my back to prove it too lol

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Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:55:52 -0600

samspratt: At 17 I had virtually zero artistic experience...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:21:41 -0600

samspratt:

At 17 I had virtually zero artistic experience beyond highschool doodling, no desire to be an artist, not a clue how to paint, didn’t know what a still-life was, spent most days in the back of class hidden under a mop of hair hoping that no one would see me, and though that was 7 years ago, the Internet was a very different place. My social media presence was a long-ago-deleted myspace filled with angsty punk rock lyrics and musings about whether or not I would ever get a girlfriend.

To say that you have a head start and talent out your ass is a gross understatement. It’s also a recipe for disaster if you keep ‘hating art at school’.

When I showed up to class on my first day at art school, I knew the least of anyone in my class. There were a few kids who got accepted and given full rides for their highschool portfolios. I was in awe of them, they were my gods and goddesses. These guys and girls could decently replicate fucking Michelangelo drawings while I excruciated over the most basic sketch of an egg. These were the prodigies, the geniuses, the talented and the destined — 6 years later and my once idols aren’t doing anything art-related and as much as I’d like to say that shitty hands were dealt, their stories are more predictable. I remember having a conversation with one of them my freshman year that at the time simply impressed me because of how damn good this kid could draw, but in retrospect was quite blatantly the beginning of the end — the stagnation of brilliance. They said: “Have you seen the professor’s drawings? If this is all I have teaching me, it’s pretty clear I have nothing left to learn from this school.”

Don’t let yourself turn into that kid. Push yourself while you’re young by letting others push you. Paint things you don’t want to paint and you’ll understand them. Understand them and you might like them, and if you still don’t? Well shit, you’ve made an educated push forward towards defining who you are as a person and an artist instead of arbitrarily branding yourself a certain way because that’s “how you feel”. Art, well, ehh… fuck art — “making things” is hard. It takes time, work, passion… these are things you know, but much like knowledge about any other facet of life, it advances through challenge. Challenge isn’t a linear scale of difficulty, it’s something filled with variables and even seemingly simple things can feel impossible when unfamiliar or even presented in an unfamiliar manner. That unfamiliar, that unknown — it pushes us. We often “hate” it. I have “hated” certain classes, certain teachers, certain assignments, certain jobs, certain clients… but I have built the skills I’ve obtained thus far and will continue to build them for my entire life, through late-stage obsession, a relentless desire to understand this world that still feels vast and new to me, and battling, beating, and developing new ways to tackle the obstacles of the job — not finding a way out of or around them.

You’re an artist and you feel boxed in?

Good.

You can do a lot with a box, don’t throw it away just yet.

yourchangingbrain: Everyone’s dealing with the hurricane in...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:53:31 -0500

yourchangingbrain:

Everyone’s dealing with the hurricane in their own ways.

This is usually my reaction to fried chicken as well.

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:50:39 -0500

This is usually my reaction to fried chicken as well.

emazingthoughtss: …

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:46:22 -0500

emazingthoughtss:

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emazingthoughtss: cuuuute! errmahhgerddd!

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:45:44 -0500

emazingthoughtss:

cuuuute! errmahhgerddd!

orlyman: Ann

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:44:51 -0500

orlyman:

Ann

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Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:13:08 -0500

How me and my crew get down lol Sometimes with slightly more...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 20:11:58 -0500

How me and my crew get down lol Sometimes with slightly more clothing though.

Sometimes lol

I used to think certain girls I knew we’re nice and innocent.Then I followed them on tumblr.

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:56:30 -0500

I used to think certain girls I knew we’re nice and innocent.

Then I followed them on tumblr.

Need a laugh? This blog is just what you need! please tell me...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:54:08 -0500

Need a laugh? This blog is just what you need!

please tell me this is real!

Any girl bold enough to rock that hair automatically get’s...

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:52:53 -0500

Any girl bold enough to rock that hair automatically get’s points in my book. Not really for the hair color by itself, but to have the confidence to rock that…definite plus!

thatniggatrigga: Kanye West - Christian Dior Denim Flow (feat....

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:58:29 -0500

thatniggatrigga:

Kanye West - Christian Dior Denim Flow (feat. Kid Cudi, Pusha T, John Legend, Lloyd Banks & Ryan Leslie)

Part of me REALLY wants to do this, but a bigger part of me...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:20:19 -0500

Part of me REALLY wants to do this, but a bigger part of me wouldn’t want to walk around carrying a door all night…

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Sun, 09 Sep 2012 22:08:00 -0500

Hahaha Domino’s don’t play! I do wonder though, how...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:58:19 -0500

Hahaha Domino’s don’t play! I do wonder though, how many other people that hashtagged them that they actually responded to lol

chase-stone: Been meaning to put this up for a while, done for...

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:53:07 -0500

chase-stone:

Been meaning to put this up for a while, done for last year’s Dos Equis Game Changer ad.