The Electronical Rattle Bag

"DRAW FROM LIFE. All the time. Draw naked people. Draw clothed people. Draw pets and buildings..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:34:45 +0100

“DRAW FROM LIFE. All the time. Draw naked people. Draw clothed people. Draw pets and buildings and teacups and trees and draw all of it all the time. Put it in a book that you keep in your pocket. Steal life from the realm of the living so that the worlds you create might also live.”

- The Wizarding Way

"I submit that “creativity” is just as broad, and broadly necessary, to human functioning as the..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:08:46 +0100

“I submit that “creativity” is just as broad, and broadly necessary, to human functioning as the collection of impulses, conditions and skills we’ve labeled love.”

- Against Creativity

theremina: 3liza: Cordyceps8 x 10”charcoal and oil on...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:42:30 +0100

theremina:

3liza:

Cordyceps
8 x 10”
charcoal and oil on board
2013

for Travis Louie’s ZOMBIES show at the Last Rites Gallery.

FUCK that’s gorgeous.

#nofilter

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:12:45 +0100

#nofilter

At http://www.stockwaynorth.org.uk/

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:53:20 +0100

At http://www.stockwaynorth.org.uk/

"The policies may not work, the ills they seek to combat and the benefits they hope to reap may be..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:43:13 +0100

“The policies may not work, the ills they seek to combat and the benefits they hope to reap may be illusory. But fear holds Conservatives in its grip and the general election is drawing closer. When pressed, they say that they want to “flag up” their support of marriage, “signal” their dislike of scroungers or “send a message” to illegal immigrants. Our language has been so corrupted by the euphemisms of advertising and public relations that we no longer realise that what they mean is that they intend to lie.”

- Lies, damned lies and Iain Duncan Smith

Well something’s hatched out this morning.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:40:50 +0100

Well something’s hatched out this morning.

therealkatiewest: And like this

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:13:39 +0100

therealkatiewest:

And like this

"Laurie Penny’s Saudade There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:13:31 +0100

“

Laurie Penny’s Saudade

There are more of us than you think, kicking off our high-heeled shoes to run and being told not so fast

The best minds of my generation consumed by craving, furious half naked starving-

Who ripped tights and dripping make up smoked alone in bedsits bare mattresses waiting for transfiguration.

Who ran half dressed out of department stores yelling that we didn’t want to be good and beautiful

Who glowing high and hopeful were the last to leave the gig our skin crackling with lust and sweat and pure music

Who wrote poetry on each other’s arms and cared more about fucking than being fuckable

Who worked until our backs stiffened and our limbs sang with the memory of misbehaviour that was what it was to be a woman

Who dared to dance until dawn and were drugged and raped by men in clean T-shirts and woke up scared and sore to be told it was our fault

Who swallowed bosses’ patronizing side-eyes stole away from violent broken boys in the middle of the night and vowed never again to try to fix the world one man at a time

Who slammed down the tray of drinks and tore off our aprons and aching smiles and went scowling out into the streets looking for change

Who stripped in dark rooms for strangers’ anodyne dollars because we wanted education and were told we were traitors

Who sat faces upturned to the glow of the network searching searching for strangers who would call us pretty

Who bared our breasts to hidden cameras and fought and fought and fought to be human

Who waited in grim hallways with synth-pop crackling over the speaker system for the doctor to call us clutching fistfuls of pamphlets calling us sluts whores murderers

Who crossed continents alone with knapsacks full of books bare limbs clear-eyed vision running running from the homes that held our mothers down

Who filled notebooks with gibberish philosophy and scraps of stories and cameras to prove we were there keeping our novels and the name of out children close to our hearts

Who were told all our lives that we were too loud too tisky too fat too ugly too scruffy too selfish too much too and refused to take up less space refused to be still refused refused refused to be tame

Who would never be still. Who would never shut up. Who were punished for it and spat and snarled and they shook the bars of our cages until they snapped and they called us wild and crazy and we laughed with mouths open hearts open hands open and would never not ever be tame.

Sara, I’m with you in hospital, in the narroe rooms where you have put off your veil to count your ribs through your T-shirt, short hair and secrets and quiet defiance crying together that we don’t know how to be perfect-

Lara, I’m with you in mandatory art therapy, where we draw pictures of weeping cocks and are told we are not making progress-

Lila, I’m with you in a north London bathdroom, watchhing unreal maggots crawl in the cuts in your arms and listening to your girlfriend drunk and raging through the wall-

Andy, I’m with you in Bethnal Green where you love ambitious angry women with heart brain pen fingers tongue and you have a line from Nietzche tattooed over your cunt-

Adele, I’m with you in the student occupation, with your lipstick and cloche hat and teenage lisp drawling that there’s not enough fucking in this revolution and we must take action-

Kay, I’m with you on the night bus, half drunk and high dragging bright-eyed boys home to our bed, where we watch them worn out sleeping and whisper that we will never be married-

Katie, I’m with you in Zuccotti Park, where a broken heart is less important than a broken laptop is less important than a broken future and we watch the cops beating kids bloody on the pavement for daring to ask for more-

Tara, I’m with you in Islington where you have thrown all your pretty dresses out of the window and flushed your medication so you can write and write-

Alex, I’m with you and a bottle of Scotch at two in the morning when you tell me that no man will make us live for ever and we must seduce the city the country the world-

We are always hungry.

There are more of us than you think.

”

- Laurie Penny’s Saudade, from Fifty Shades of Feminism (via mollycrabapple)

"It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness...."

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:34:00 +0100

“It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don’t do it.”

- Jean-Paul Sartre (via countryfried)

Tumblr Backup python script (GitHub)

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:31:25 +0100

Tumblr Backup python script (GitHub):

paperbits:

tumblr_backup.py is a script that backs up your Tumblr blog locally.

The backup includes all images from photo and photoset posts. An index links to monthly pages, which contain all the posts from the respective month with links to single post pages. Command line options select which posts to backup and set the output format.

By default, all posts of a blog are backed up in minimally styled HTML.

elizagauger: Cordyceps 8 x 10”charcoal and oil on board2013 for...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:26:13 +0100

elizagauger:

Cordyceps

8 x 10”
charcoal and oil on board
2013

for Travis Louie’s ZOMBIES show at the Last Rites Gallery.

"Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen,..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:24:27 +0100

“Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, happens again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily happen in chronological order, though.”

- Douglas Adams

Please take note.
(via kateoplis)

stoya: mollycrabapple: Me on Carson Daly. Talking about...

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:17:22 +0100

stoya:

mollycrabapple:

Me on Carson Daly. Talking about Anonymous and Occupy like an uber caffeinated New Yorker, on network TV

I think everyone should watch this and then go say congratulations to Ms. Crabapple. I’m not saying you have to, I’m just saying I think you should.

"I think we all have this little theatre on top of our shoulders, where the past and the present and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:08:47 +0100

“I think we all have this little theatre on top of our shoulders, where the past and the present and our aspirations and our memories are simply and inexorably mixed. What makes each one of us unique, is the potency of the individual mix.”

- Dennis Potter (1987), quoted by Rolling Stone’s Greil Marcus at the 2013 School of Visual Arts commencement ceremony. Or, as artist Austin Kleon puts it, “you are mashup of what you let into your life,” and as beloved graphic designer Paula Scher has argued, our entire creative capacity is the sum total of all we’ve absorbed in our lived experience. (via theantidote)

Sleepwalker by Souterrain Transmissions

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:42:57 +0100

Sleepwalker by Souterrain Transmissions

candysphynxlaboratory: raideo: tf2maelgwyn: buzzfeedceleb: Ge...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:55:27 +0100

candysphynxlaboratory:

raideo:

tf2maelgwyn:

buzzfeedceleb:

George Takei responds to fans of traditional marriage.

Mr Takei, I would marry you in a heart beat

oh my god I love this man

It’s okay to be Takei.

binnorie: Bruno Vergauwen

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:34:32 +0100

binnorie:

Bruno Vergauwen

z-x-y: Settlements and City Strategies by olalekan...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:43 +0100

z-x-y:

Settlements and City Strategies by olalekan jeyifous

This series contains abstracted planimetric drawings and eerily-serene cityscapes that suggest the changing contours of urban settlements. They represent an idea of a degenerate futurism, yet one might find similar typologies and scenes in places such as the favelas of Brazil and North Africa, and in overpopulated cities such as Lagos, Mexico City, and Mumbai. Though outputted digitally, the drawings possess a textured and painterly quality as a result of combining hand-drawn sketches, industrial textures, surfaces of deteriorated paper, and digital architectural models.
A constant interplay between digital and analog processes is important in my work, resulting in a highly layered set of documents. The drawings presented here started out as digital images that were outputted, sketched and drawn over, and scanned back into the computer in order to be retraced, textured, and layered

TELEMAN - Steam Train Girl by -T-E-L-E-M-A-N-

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:09:00 +0100

TELEMAN - Steam Train Girl by -T-E-L-E-M-A-N-