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my new litmus test for friendship is someone’s response to this statement. if you express anything other than “yeah dude i understand” or “same” then like we ain’t chill

yo i’ve fucking had it with white people

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yo i’ve fucking had it with white people

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http://instagram.com/jackvanzet

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The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people’s expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn’t care if you are a white person who likes black people; it’s still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don’t look like you. Yes, racism looks like hate, but hate is just one manifestation. Privilege is another. Access is another. Ignorance is another. Apathy is another. And so on. So while I agree with people who say no one is born racist, it remains a powerful system that we’re immediately born into. It’s like being born into air: you take it in as soon as you breathe. It’s not a cold that you can get over. There is no anti-racist certification class. It’s a set of socioeconomic traps and cultural values that are fired up every time we interact with the world. It is a thing you have to keep scooping out of the boat of your life to keep from drowning in it. I know it’s hard work, but it’s the price you pay for owning everything.

Scott Woods (X)

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I think it’s important to realize you can miss something, but not want it back

Paulo Coelho (via imaginaryblowjob)

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i’m really angry about normalized racism right now

i talk about racism ALL THE TIME with my POC friends and never with my white friends because they’re too busy fucking complaining about how it’s not all fucking white people and they’re not racist and you’re being too sensitive it’s not cultural appropriation and that’s just one small part it doesn’t mean it’s racist and maybe they didn’t intend to be racist i feel guilt for being white but maybe i shouldn’t

YOU FUCKING KNOW WHAT MAYBE YOU SHOULD

NO IT IS NOT YOUR GODDAMN FAULT THAT YOU GREW UP IN A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE COMMUNITY BUT IT SURE AS HELL IS YOUR GODDAMN FAULT YOU DON’T ASSOCIATE WITH PEOPLE OF OTHER BACKGROUNDS and if you do, that you can’t FUCKING talk to them about racial and cultural issues without getting DEFENSIVE OF WHITE PEOPLE

yeah i mentally separate white people from everyone else because you know who did it first? white people

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Exquisite Textured Paintings by Justyna Kopania’s Capture Autumn’s Beauty

Polish artist Justyna Kopania has an uncanny talent of capturing the mood and heart of mother nature. 

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So somebody on my Facebook posted this. And I’ve seen sooooo many memes like it. Images of a canvas with nothing but a slash cut into it, or a giant blurry square of color, or a black circle on a white canvas. There are always hundreds of comments about how anyone could do that and it isn’t really art, or stories of the time someone dropped a glove on the floor of a museum and people started discussing the meaning of the piece, assuming it was an abstract found-objects type of sculpture.

The painting on the left is a bay or lake or harbor with mountains in the background and some people going about their day in the foreground. It’s very pretty and it is skillfully painted. It’s a nice piece of art. It’s also just a landscape. I don’t recognize a signature style, the subject matter is far too common to narrow it down. I have no idea who painted that image.

The painting on the right I recognized immediately. When I was studying abstraction and non-representational art, I didn’t study this painter in depth, but I remember the day we learned about him and specifically about this series of paintings. His name was Ad Reinhart, and this is one painting from a series he called the ultimate paintings. (Not ultimate as in the best, but ultimate as in last.)

The day that my art history teacher showed us Ad Reinhart’s paintings, one guy in the class scoffed and made a comment that it was a scam, that Reinhart had slapped some black paint on the canvas and pretentious people who wanted to look smart gave him money for it. My teacher shut him down immediately. She told him that this is not a canvas that someone just painted black. It isn’t easy to tell from this photo, but there are groups of color, usually squares of very very very dark blue or red or green or brown. They are so dark that, if you saw them on their own, you would call each of them black. But when they are side by side their differences are apparent. Initially you stare at the piece thinking that THAT corner of the canvas is TRUE black. Then you begin to wonder if it is a deep green that only appears black because the area next to it is a deep, deep red. Or perhaps the “blue” is the true black and that red is actually brown. Or perhaps the blue is violet and the color next to it is the true black. The piece challenges the viewer’s perception. By the time you move on to the next painting, you’re left to wonder if maybe there have been other instances in which you believe something to be true but your perception is warped by some outside factor. And then you wonder if ANY of the colors were truly black. How can anything be cut and dry, black and white, when even black itself isn’t as absolute as you thought it was?

People need to understand that not all art is about portraying a realistic image, and that technical skills (like the ability to paint a scene that looks as though it may have been photographed) are not the only kind of artistic skills. Some art is meant to be pretty or look like something. Other art is meant to carry a message or an idea, to provoke thought.

Reinhart’s art is utterly genius.

“But anyone could have done that! It doesn’t take any special skill! I could have done that!”

Ok. Maybe you could have. But you didn’t.

Give abstract art some respect. It’s more important than you realize.

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I think at the tender age of 23 I've pretty much mastered how to eat with a knife and fork like white people.

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Anyone ever notice that every year people are like "this year's gonna be my year" and then somewhere along the way it changes to "wow this year sucks look how much shit happened" but in reality every year sucks because life just sucks and people constantly die

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TeoTribe | Rotterdam The Netherlands / Traveling

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Someone wrote an academic paper about why Impact is the meme font. Here’s why Impact, out of the 11 original websafe fonts. 

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The art of perspective. I found this here. It definitly sends a powerful message. 

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Really Big Coin Skrekkøgle

This is our Really Big Coin. It is big because it makes other things look small when photographed next to it. Actually, it is a 20:1 replica of the EUR 50-cent, you see it being milled out here. We needed to do quite a bit of sanding, lacquering and smudging to obtain the desired look and some climbing to get into required shooting position (you need to get up real high to take good pictures). The result is a short series of photographs, attempting to visually scale down real-sized objects.

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