Imagination of Disaster

thedailywhat: Street Art of the Day: Rap Quotes New York City...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:52:54 -0400

Street Art of the Day: Rap Quotes

New York City artist Jay Shells is no stranger to street art. In 2010, he launched the Subway Etiquette project to inform commuters about noise pollution and stairway conduct through parody subway signs, followed by the Metropolitan Etiquette project in 2011. This week, Shells unveiled his latest street sign parody project Rap Quotes, which consists of 30 red signs featuring notable rap lyrics about New York City placed in their corresponding locations. Curious how he made them? Head over to Animal NY.

azspot: Ruben Bolling

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:04:12 -0500

azspot:

Ruben Bolling

Facade studies for a Cancer Center in Arkansas. 230,000 square...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:22:28 -0500

Facade studies for a Cancer Center in Arkansas.

230,000 square foot program*

*Client has since requested us to scale it back to 150,000 square foot.

Things you've probably never thought about

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 21:53:12 -0500

Things you've probably never thought about:

thewaymyheartbeats:

Not a single one of your ancestors has ever failed in getting laid (Most people on tumblr will probably break the chain)

If you are 80 years old, you have lived through over 1/3 of America’s history

At one point, you were the youngest person in the world.

If a woman who is an only child has all boys (or no children at all), they are ending a chain of women that has been going since we were single-celled organisms.

The average human is a 28 year old Chinese man.

Dinosaurs were alive for longer than they have been extinct.

You breathe using just one nostril, then switch to the other 30 minutes later. Repeats for life. (After reading this pay attention)

In 30 or 40 years, people will be having 2000s parties. Just like now people throw “dress like the 70s” parties.

John Lennon is part of a group that has sold more CD’s than anyone else in the history of human life, and he never knew what a CD even was.

Grossness and morals define each other. For example, you won’t spit in the mouth of your girlfriend, yet you will kiss her.

You spend years seeing the same people often and you’ll never exchange words with them.

People hundreds of years from now will stumble upon your image without thought or emotion.

Everyone dies within six months of their birthday.

50% of all doctors graduated in the lower half of their class.

Mammals are just containers water uses to move itself from one place to another.

Many peoples most cherished beliefs come from 1st century writers and religious fanatics whose understanding of the natural world was below the level of a modern 5 year old.

The “food pyramid” that most of us grew up with was published by the US dept of agriculture. Their job is to promote agriculture, not to promote healthy eating.

80% of the images on the internet are of naked women.

If we ever meet superior aliens they will simply classify us under “violent, irrational apes” and will not be amazed by our art or philosophies, the same way we boringly classify newly discovered animals every year.

When the sun goes out, our descendants that watch it go out won’t be human.

When you’re about to die, you’ll regret all the days you took for granted.

The youngest mother in medical history was 5 years old. It makes you wonder about the generation gap for the people around you. Your best friend could be a thousand generations ahead of you. Your boss could be a hundred generations behind you. Makes sense considering he’s an asshole.

We magnify the differences between us, instead of the things that make us similar. You are not really any different than anyone else on earth that is your age, yet you feel like you are just because they speak a different language, eat different food, worship a different imaginary creature, or live somewhere else. In reality, we are all the same species living on the same planet. To bears, we probably look exactly the same.

lipstick-feminists: Congratulations to Senator Tammy Baldwin,...

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:35:11 -0500

lipstick-feminists:

Congratulations to Senator Tammy Baldwin, the first openly queer United States Senator!

Via Slate

"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some..."

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:20:02 -0400

“It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it’s more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody’s blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, then capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It’s only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely.”

- Malcolm X

From an interview regarding the world-wide struggle between capitalism and socialism, Young Socialist, 1965

(via disciplesofmalcolm)

"The only issue in this election contest between Pee Wee Herman and Captain Kangaroo is how to do..."

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:45:51 -0400

“The only issue in this election contest between Pee Wee Herman and Captain Kangaroo is how to do nothing to disturb the fantasy that we can keep living the way we do. I am coming to detest Mr. Obama for the unforgivable feats of doing absolutely nothing to oppose, resist, or remedy the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and doing absolutely nothing to restore the rule-of-law in banking. Mr. Romney, at this point, can only be pitied as some kind of thought-experiment gone awry in an evil consumer product testing lab on a planet of oafs. His fecklessness has no modern analog. Next to Romney, Bob Dole looks Lincolnesque.”

- James Howard Kunstler (via azspot)

"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for..."

Sun, 16 Sep 2012 22:23:50 -0400

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called ‘vital interests.”

- Albert Camus (via historiographical)

"The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which..."

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:24:17 -0400

“The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

- Albert Einstein - Monthly Review (1949)

Dear Mitt Romney,

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:57:05 -0400

How dare you patronize people with your condescending rhetoric about what it’s like to live among the the rest of us. Reality does not exist for people like you—only greed and the love of your false god (money). It was you and others like you who engineered this system that forecloses on the hopes and dream of thousands of people on a daily basis. Can you you really feel their pain? Do you really hear them crying at night?

I hope that for sake of everyone living on this planet that you do not become president.

See also: snake oil salesman

satans-bacon: The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel...

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:54:07 -0400

satans-bacon:

The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel roller coaster designed to kill its passengers. In 2010, it was designed and made into a scale model by Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives “with elegance and euphoria.” It is a ride to the death. The seven loops or “inversions” put the human body under such stress that it causes the brain to be starved of oxygen, as the heart simply cannot push blood against the enormous g-forces. Even if it kills you, it is designed to still be a fun death. An honorable thought, if rather macabre.

Interesting….

IKEA Cardboard Camera

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:22:21 -0400

IKEA Cardboard Camera

Life has recently gained a desirable amount of complexity...

Tue, 15 May 2012 09:33:25 -0400

One year ago today I had just graduated college and I was in the midst of a desperate scramble to find a job before next month’s rent came due. The previous 5 years of my life had been devoted to my degree in architecture and now there were no jobs out there for architects. I was extremely disheartened to have graduated from a university that I felt couldn’t care any less about the well-being of its students only to find out that the world outside of the ivory tower didn’t value architecture (or even a college degree) as well.

I took the only job I could find on such short notice… I began scrubbing toilets at a local coffee shop. Since I had never worked in a coffee shop before I wasn’t eligible for a barista position, but the job did entail a bar-backing shift on Saturdays that I could gain some experience with—I would just have to work my way up.

To say that scrubbing toilets is miserable work doesn’t quite do the psychological mind-fuck I was experiencing justice. I kept thinking about all of the knowledge I had soaked up in school and how I thought I was better than this. Not to mention that I was now $30,000 in debt for a degree that didn’t offer me any employment leverage at a firm…scrubbing toilets was the cherry on top of this shit flavored sundae. And so I worked, and worked, and worked, and worked until finally I couldn’t think anymore about my situation. My plan was to work my ass off so I could be promoted up to a barista position ASAP, luckily for me at the end of that summer one of the baristas left and I was given his old position in addition to my cleaning duties.

One day in October, I received a phone call from an SPSU alumni offering me a temporary position at an architecture firm downtown building models, one of my classmates had given him my information. Having never seen my design portfolio or any photographs of my previous work I began working at the firm in late October. I was unsure how long this temporary position would last so I kept working both my jobs at the coffee shop just to be safe. By the time December rolled around I was offered the opportunity to interview for a full-time position at the firm. The interview went really well BUT…there was still quite a bit of uncertainty regarding the industry and if growth was going to occur. My only choice was to keep working at the architecture firm until conditions improved and I could get a full-time position so I began harassing people at the office to give me work and assigning myself to projects whenever I could. Now, 5 months later I have finally received a full-time offer for employment at the firm. I sign the paper work today.

Coming out of school I was young, timid, naïve, and arrogant. At SPSU I had been a big fish in a little pond and outside of there I was just another schmuck on the streets. I have learned quite a bit about myself and the world in general this past and as I result I am no longer afraid of life and its unknowns. The best approach to life is to roll with the punches and fight for something better than what you currently have.

Self-Portrait

Sun, 13 May 2012 15:16:38 -0400

Self-Portrait

Sallie Mae: Forgive Student Debt

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:12:37 -0500

Sallie Mae: Forgive Student Debt:

In 2010 something unthinkable happened – student debt surpassed credit card debt as the largest form of debt in this country, passing $800 billion dollars. In 2012 more history will be made as the amount of unpaid student debt climbs to $1 trillion dollars, with an additional $1 million dollars added to that number every 6 minutes.

The ripple effect that this has on our economy is crushing: students and recent graduates are forced into low-wage jobs in order to immediately start making payments back to banks and lenders; instead of stimulating the economy by spending millions of dollars, students and graduates are pinching pennies to just try to keep up with the interest on their loans; and the privatization of colleges and universities are expedited as the same loan agencies use the profit off of students to lobby for lower tax rates, forcing budget cuts to higher education in an economy where recent graduates struggle to find jobs.

Imagine students not working two part-time minimum wage jobs as they struggle to get through school, allowing them more time to participate in civic engagement. Imagine recent graduates not being pushed into a job market where they are forced to intentionally keep wages stagnant, allowing them the ability to work for non-profits or local businesses.

If we do not solve the student debt crisis the students of today will suffer, but the students of tomorrow may never have the opportunity to a college education. A generation of students will pay the hefty price of their student loans; but we must not forget that we will also pay the debt of an entire country ignoring the burden placed on those working to better their lives and communities by obtaining a college degree.

We are demanding that Sallie Mae, Inc. pay their fair share in fixing the economy by:

1. Forgive all student debt after 5 years of payments
2. Eliminate all interest on student loans

southrnsickness: Evolution of Atlanta

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:56:39 -0500

southrnsickness:

Evolution of Atlanta

thenewwomensmovement: occupyonline: U.S. - home to 5% of the...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:14:54 -0500

thenewwomensmovement:

occupyonline:

U.S. - home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prisoners.

NPR - Prisons (retroactive “correction”) funded at the expense of education. [Listen Here]

And we’re using up 25% of the world’s daily oil supply, while only producing 2%.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption

We look like an awful, selfish police state. Oh, wait.

new wave feminism: on racism & the prison industrial complex

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:11:16 -0500

new wave feminism: on racism & the prison industrial complex:

newwavefeminism:

For poor communities of color, over policing and mass imprisonment is a reality that no one can afford to take for granted. To this day people of color are grossly over-represented in the population of incarcerated people. In Becky Pettit and Bruce Western’s study of mass imprisonment, they…

Imagination of Disaster

thedailywhat: Street Art of the Day: Rap Quotes New York City...

Street Art of the Day: Rap Quotes

azspot: Ruben Bolling

Facade studies for a Cancer Center in Arkansas. 230,000 square...

Things you've probably never thought about

lipstick-feminists: Congratulations to Senator Tammy Baldwin,...

"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some..."

"The only issue in this election contest between Pee Wee Herman and Captain Kangaroo is how to do..."

"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for..."

"The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which..."

Dear Mitt Romney,

satans-bacon: The Euthanasia Coaster is a concept for a steel...

IKEA Cardboard Camera

Life has recently gained a desirable amount of complexity...

Self-Portrait

Sallie Mae: Forgive Student Debt

southrnsickness: Evolution of Atlanta

thenewwomensmovement: occupyonline: U.S. - home to 5% of the...

new wave feminism: on racism & the prison industrial complex

Slavoj Zizek en Occupy Wall Street

Slavoj Zizek en Occupy Wall Street

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