Sunday, February 27, 2011

It's all just pictures of dead rabbits.





myx·o·ma·to·sis

[mik-suh-muh-toh-sis]
–noun
1.
Pathology .
a.
a condition characterized by the presence of manymyxomas.
b.
myxomatous degeneration.
2.
Veterinary Pathology . a highly infectious viral disease of
rabbits, artificially introduced into Great Britain and
Australia to reduce the rabbit population.
Origin: 1925–30; < Neo-Latin myxomat- (stem of myxoma; see myx-, -oma) +

I've always loved this word.



It's all just pictures of dead rabbits.



Flockalyptic,
Adam



Monday, February 7, 2011

Meaning is differential, not referential.


And he sings and he walks and in swirl of liquid song he loses himself in the rain:


Last week I found a really cool set of portraits of Australian criminals from the 1920s. Not exactly the standard mugshot, but very factual nonetheless. Incredibly fascinating. And the quality of the prints is amazing. Large format--gotta love the grain.
(from this book)

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French-Canadian actress Geneviève Bujold (b. 1942) on a bicycle:


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"L'or et rose" by Polish painter Andrzej Malinowski (b. 1947). It seems that after a career in advertisement, Malinowski found his creative outlet in painting and moved to Paris. From what I can gather it seems he paints almost exclusively red-haired nudes. A hyperrealist, almost, someone described his style as owing as much to the pre-Raphaelites as to art nouveau :

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Apt; felicitous; befitting: from the International Space Station's Coupole observatory, Egypt's Nile Delta. Shit is going down right now in those brightest areas. (
Salma El-Tarzi, an activist in Tahrir Square:
"This is not a revolution made by the parties. The parties have been there for 30 years and they've done nothing. This is the people's revolution.")




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Lastly, I've done it, guys. I've found the greatest image on the internet. Here it is. You're welcome. I can't believe I did it:



Apollonian,
Adam