theincompletenesstheorem:

Liu Heung Shing,
A young couple waiting under a bridge pass tanks, 1989

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goleyaas:

Mikko Kuorinki, “Wall Piece with 200 Letters” (2010-2011)

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beautilation:

Zippo lighters from American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam war.

This is really powerful and thoughtful, though (and perhaps because) it is very upsetting. It captures the different personalities of soldiers, yet it’s united through not just the theme and medium but by the omnipresent sense of someone trying to outwardly accept a premature death. Some men accept it with anger, others with humor, a facade of ambivalence, some with tragic romance, some very emotionlessly. It’s a horrifying, simple way of representing the psychology of a Vietnam soldier; even if he physically survives the war, some light, some flame within him is killed the minute he enters combat. 

(Source: ohjeffreyno, via laughing-with)

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thepeoplesrecord:

computerblu:

poptartfart:

thepeoplesrecord:

Come out to Gezi Gardens!
June 9, 2013

Formerly Hayes Valley Farm, now ‘Gezi Gardens’ in San Francisco (map here) is now an occupied space that needs your support.

Hayes Valley Farm was started as a permaculture project. It flourished beautifully, and became a tool for those in the community who wanted to learn about permaculture and sustainable gardening (pictures here). Among the projects the group was able to build in the space: a bee-farm, a seed library, tours for school students explaining how to engage in permaculture, etc. But when it was recently sold to developers to build luxury condos (and maybe later some low-income housing too, the developers claim), the permaculture group who had been building the permaculture space for years was forced to leave. They’ve gone on to continue their permaculture sharing vision through 49farms. 

Meanwhile community activists, squatters, occupiers, neighborhood supporters & the like have begun emerging at the old permaculture space. They appropriately named the space ‘Gezi Gardens’ in solidarity with environmental activists in Turkey whose movement started under a similar context. The group has done amazing work in terms of replanting, and rebuilding the space. There are about half-a-dozen tree houses with tree sitters as well, and that number is growing everyday. Many people from bay area occupations are in the space. Among other objectives, the group hopes to build structures (and has begun that process) that can delay construction and provide housing for the homeless in the area. 

They’ve been served eviction notices three days in a row now and are now at risk for police invasion/eviction any day. They need people who can sleep in the space, to hold it down for as long as possible…ideally forever, even.

The post-eviction plan that was collectively decided yesterday (through consensus) was that autonomous defensive actions will take place immediately after eviction and activists are to gather at 5PM the day after eviction at Patricia’s Green & the space WILL be retaken. 

We’ll be sleeping out there for a few nights at least, so let us know if you’re coming out that way and we can meet up! Needs include the usual flashlights, cameras, generators etc. Come support the right to community space, direct action, and environmental sustainability. Crops, not condos!

Spread the word.

I live nearby and appreciate seeing this covered on tumblr.  I support and respect this disruption of business as usual, the larger critique of land privatization and Monsanto, and I hope that all stay safe from any confrontations with police that many come in the future. 

That said, I wish the activists’ critique of the politics of space was more mindful and critical of the intensive gentrification of Hayes Valley and how that has pushed out working class black people specifically.  San Francisco has a legacy of violent displacement of black people, including in the 1960’s when the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency invoked imminent domain law and forcibly removed thousands of black residents and demolished hundreds of privately owned businesses and homes.  What’s happening in the Western Addition (and Bayview, etc) is part of that on-going legacy of disappearing black people in the city.

There seems to be a link missing when I see the mostly white anarchists occupying the farm without a critical consciousness of how black folks right up Linden St. and just a couple of blocks north on Laguna St. are being impacted by this relentless transformation of the neighborhood.

All great points & important context to be considered.

It’s a medium-diverse group but certainly you are correct, dominantly white anarchists. That said, I heard many conversations about gentrification affecting POC & working class people. I’d certainly be glad to communicate any specific ideas about how to make the conversation even more-so about that. Perhaps you should come out & bring some banners expressing as much - I know they’d be appreciated! :) 

I appreciate the effort that’s being made here to start a dialogue, but this kind of action and motivation should have been made manifest three years ago when the condo developers initially approached what is public-owned land. The good, hardworking people behind HVF knew they were on a limited lease and did tremendous work to build excitement about community gardens and urban farming with the resources they had, and planned for the continuation of their work even after the land was to be turned over to the developers.

My hope is that those people who are upset about what’s happening to HFV, and to the Hayes Valley/Lower Haight area in particular, get on the ball. Start going to planning commission hearings. Start following the Board of Supervisors elections — figure out who’s paying who to do what, especially on the campaign trail. If you want to address gentrification and overdevelopment, you can’t just splash into the pond at the theatrical moment (and, as the above poster has mentioned, abandon intersectionality/localism in favor of playing the white anarchist braving arrest). 

breastplate; the only signed work of Giovan Paolo Negroli (Italian, ca. 1513-1569) (x)

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Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture at the Yossi Milo Gallery.

“A New American Picture depicts American street scenes, located using the internet platform Google Street View. Over a four-year period, Rickard took advantage of Google’s massive image archive to virtually explore the roads of America looking for forgotten, economically devastated, and largely abandoned places…

The low-resolution images that Rickard favors have a dissolved, painterly effect, and are occasionally populated with figures who acknowledge the camera, but whose faces are blurred, masking their identity. The photographs are thus imbued with an added surrealism and anonymity, which reinforces the isolation of the subjects and emphasizes the effects of an increasingly stratified American social structure.”

thebooksmith:

In honor of our new Tumblr and our new competitive fanfiction event, we’re having a contest. 

Part 1:

Do you live in San Francisco? Are you a writer? Do you have any shame? 

If you answered YES! to those first two questions but NO! to that last one, we invite you to send us a writing sample for a chance to be chosen to compete in our first ever SHIPWRECK event. 

Send it to amy [at] booksmith [dot] com by Friday, June 7th to be entered.

Submissions should include a request for consideration, your contact information, and a brief writing sample. Following us ins’t required, but it sure would help. 

If we pick you, we’ll assign you one of six Gatsby characters, and you’ll have two weeks to write an 800-1200 word fic shipping that character with anyone you want - in Gatsby’s world or elsewhere.

Part 2:

Want to attend the show? Every time you reblog this post, you can be entered to win two passes. You must be following us to win this one. 

Good luck and godspeed! 

Look, everyone, this is why San Francisco is The Best Of All The Places: because our local bookstores host Gatsby-themed erotic fanfiction contests. My heart. I just. I just.

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nevver:

“Soyez réalistes, demandez l’impossible.” (Be realistic, ask for the impossible.)

wnycradiolab:

Did you know that Gertrude Stein wrote a children’s book?  We didn’t, but Brain Pickings did.

sophistory:

Tooling around in Photoshop instead of tidying things like a responsible adult? DON’T MIND IF I DO.

→ prints

(Source: still-sophistory, via the-library-and-step-on-it)

edwardspoonhands:

reading-thoughts:

edwardspoonhands:

Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…

These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.

To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
     - Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”

THERE WE GO!

Holy shi-

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austinkleon:

Jean Tinguely on ‘Art’

“Just guys doing things.”

(Thx, @rogre!)