The exposed tubes of two black and white video monitors are positioned facing each other, separated by a few inches and mounted at the ends of two wood columns that extend from the floor and ceiling respectively. The upper monitor shows video footage of the artist’s mother on her deathbed and the lower monitor shows the face of his newborn son only days old. Since the glass surface of each monitor reflects the image on the opposing screen, the birth-face and the death-face appear simultaneously as layered reflections within each other’s image. The video images are silent and the entire structure is enclosed in a small room.
Taxonomy is fucked up. You start out at “This is how our animal friends are classified and how they’re related to each other :)” and then you dip one inch below the surface and you get “There’s definitely no such thing as a fish and there might be no such thing as a reptile”
““Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,” said Ponder. “I seriously think they think that it’s their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.””
— Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals (via j-august)
tumblr users will see a post vaguely promoting an ethical action over less ethical alternatives and go “is anyone else going to take this as an all-important personal moral judgment and use the notes as a confessional booth” and not even wait for an answer
“don’t support Dr. Malice von BadMann, his products are made with orphan bones”
“um but what about me? what if I have a rare condition that can only be treated by licking the grime off Dr. von BadMann’s boots because the special blend of orangutan and black rhino leather they’re constructed from excretes an oily compound that my body needs to survive? OP do you just want me to roll over and die?”
“the inverse of making up a guy to get mad at is making up a guy to demand absolution for”
They have to dismantle a historic bridge just to get it out of the river it’s being made on
And I’m really, REALLY hoping the local public protest the hell out of it to the point where they cant dismantle the bridge and so Jeff’s $540 million dollar toy gets locked in
