Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
I’m really looking forward to summer. Going to Jones Beach with a full cooler and a portable speaker has been on my mind.
Superstitious people
They’re fun at first until they get preachy. Then they just come across as morons.
57hz:
A nice polo shirt and khaki slacks win again.
it’s friday! yeaaa!
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Self Portraits of a Declining Brain
William Utermohlen is latest artist to be honored at the GV Art Gallery in London, with an event that has an emotional purpose that is near and dear to the hearts of many. Utermohlen spent the last twelve years of his life battling Alzheimer’s, a degenerative neurological disease that slowly took away his ability to do what he was most passionate about: his art.
At the event, his widow spoke to the many supporters, saying “He died in 2007, but really he was dead long before that. Bill died in 2000, when the disease meant he was no longer able to draw.”
This exhibit is known as William Utermohlen: Artistic decline through Alzheimer’s, as it explores the relationship between Utermohlen’s artwork and the progression and struggle with the disease.
Looking at his pieces as his disease progressed, a clear change is visible. As he slowly lost control over his movements, his composition and techniques changed as he was forced to abandon oils for easier-to-use watercolours and pencils. One thing that did not change throughout time, however, was the sheer mastery and vision displayed by has passion for the content of his pieces.
His paintings display a rarely seen insight into a mind effected by Alzheimer’s, as his struggle and frustration are imminent. Also changed by the progression of time and the disease were his subjects. He began to focus on self portraits and looming dark doorways in the backgrounds
His widow commented that, “it was as if he knew he was going to a very dark place and he knew he couldn’t do anything about it. By the end he couldn’t even recognise his own paintings… that was the saddest thing”.
Rarely does one get the opportunity to chronicle their own experience with mental decline. Even more rarely do we get to share and observe that troubled journey.
This art is that tale.
that one from 2000 is so haunting
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Looking forward to see ASAP Rocky live tonight
This should be interesting.
impressive. now why isn’t there a treatment for receding gum-lines?
(Source: aubenseiter, via pleadingthefilth)
I don’t like it when you play psychologist
don’t try to read my mind. you’s a pseudo-scientist.
Sitting in the morning sun
I’ll be sitting when the evening come
Watching the ships roll in
and then I watch them roll away again
I’m sitting on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
I’m sitting on the dock of the bay
Wasting time.
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J Dilla - Workinonit
For the next month I’m going to be posting the album Donuts by J Dilla, track by track, daily. Based, mostly, off the terrible 10cc song “The Worst Band in the World”. ”Workinonit” gets your head nodding quick. Dilla keeps building a pressure in your booty over the song until it breaks at 1.34 and then if you’re not drunk Hawaiian dancing to da beat I don’t think you should keep following this tumblr.
I like the use of reverbs on some loops that create a specific space. and they sound like very familiar places.
(Source: partycops)
on random
you know how listening to your music on shuffle can just hit the spot? it can be so good. what song are you currently feeling right now?
Speak yo mind. Speak yo mind. Everybody says to speak yo mind. You is a bitch if you don’t speak yo mind.
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