May 2013
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Watchngreenbean:
skullvomit:
ngreenbean:
julianahuxtable:
servethework:
SERVE: The Work is an ongoing visual collaboration between photographer Alejandro Santiago & transsexual performance artist Nina Arsenault.
SERVE: The Work documents the life cycle of the creative impulse as it is manifested and experienced through the body.
SERVE: The Work integrates the body and the spirit; the...
April 2013
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CUNY Graduate Center | Pixelated Politics: Still &... →
intimacyopportunity:
towerofsleep:
Apr 9, 2013, 6:30pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre
Pixelated Politics: Still & Moving Images in the Digital Age
Mariam Ghani, Lev Manovich, Nick Mirzoeff, Christiane Paul , Natalie Musteata, McKenzie Wark
“The contemporary world is hypervisual,” says media theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff. Television, computers, iPads, the Internet, and cell phones are associated...
March 2013
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bugkisser:
a selfie a day keeps the self hate and internalized oppression at bay
February 2013
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“Further, though, the TOMS campaign — like the million shirts — misses the...”
– The 7 Worst International Aid Ideas
(via rapierwitdoessomething)
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I'm torn by the feeling that the narcissism of...
reverendmother:
Idk I’m the worst.
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“You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in...”
– John Berger Ways of Seeing (via spartanbitch)
This is super fucking relevant.
And why self portraits (selfies) are often such an act of self preservation and resistance.
(via sexxxisbeautiful)
Hahahaha this so much. I knew so many creeps who always idolized women’s bodies to the point of...
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“After many years of feeling deprived and wronged, some narcissists lapse into...”
– The Misanthropic Altruist - Narcissism, Pathological Narcissism, The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the Narcissist, and Relationships with Abusive Narcissists and Psychopaths
in the interest of intellectual thoroughness, I’m leaving this here
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“The screen of cinema, video, and the computer is a threshold that divides the...”
– Margaret Morse, Body and Screen (via cloudnoise)
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How An Opportunity for Intimacy May Unfold
Start with text
Invitational, alluring
“Would you like to get closer?”
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the allure of video draws us to severed body parts
“what does my cock look like on video”
the urge to drag the lens across our bodies
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becoming less and less enchanted with "waiting...
how important is this contrast of environment? am I just lazy today? what is going on? curtains are expensive. so is planning space. so is everything. difficult I mean. not expensive. that too. capable. an artist. fool. a worm. a sleepy loser. fool without a cause. just kidding.this is good to capture.
January 2013
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“We grasp external spaces through our bodily situation. A “corporeal” or postural...”
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and Invisible (5)
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“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. Put another way, we are not...”
– Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (via heteronormativebiogeniclogics)
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largecoin:
i need to make sure im real so im taking pictures of myself a lot
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“I began to worship myself. My black eyes, the shape of half-moons, were alluring...”
– Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother (via human-activities)
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I.O. Meditation 1
What do <i>you</i> want to feel with the viewer? Whose narcissism are we talking about, after all?
What does “intimacy opportunity” mean to you?
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My proposal should be a Tumblr.
With a header that is a video of the experience, or rather the video feed the viewer will be presented with, of my face.
Yes.
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PLANET QUEEN: "No one can make you feel inferior... →
reverendmother:
This eleanor roosevelt quote has been on my mind all morning. Sometimes I’m overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, particularly while browsing tumblr. Tumblr has taught me many things about loving myself and those around me, but tumblr has also reinforced many deep seated insecurities. I can’t…
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Self-documentation, Aspirational Imaging
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cloudnoise:
cloudnoise:
The question of narcissism is of course a fascinating one. Gazing into his pool, was Narcissus lonely? What about the scrying pool that is the screen? Ann Pellegrini, I’m told, writes on queerness and narcissism, depathologizing it. Is narcissism an affect? A condition? A performance? How am I thinking of narcissism? How does narcissism relate to the virtual as I...
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boyqueen:
and also, like, I can’t stop thinking about how important this particular form is to me. Most of my blog, and most of the blogs of the people I follow consist mostly of glamour shots at home. Like pictures we’ve taken of ourselves on our macbooks looking out of fucking control. And somehow that feels really important and profound right now and I can’t explain how or why. Like...
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Lady Thought, Vision King: Tall order, but...... →
cloudnoise:
Dear Tumblr lover queers, I am putting together a performance piece for my upcoming thesis on Narcissus, queer self-making and virtual space, called “Intimacy Opportunity.” It’s still in its baby stages, but what is definite is that it will take place in two separate rooms within one space:…
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largecoin:
do you ever eat dinner in front of a webcam and pretend your having a meal with your physical self
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Annotation and Reflection, 1/10
cloudnoise:
Krauss, Rosalind. “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” October, 1. (1976): 50-64. Print.
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tibets:
i think anyone’s blog could be cool if they uploaded things they created
or found themselves
i understand tumblr is a reblog economy but i like to have a blog that is 99% my content
sorry if some of y’all resent me for not reblogging everything you post
(i c u)
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“What the patient comes to see is that this ‘self’ of his is a...”
– Rosalind Krauss, “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism”
Shame of recognition.
Cannot watch myself.
“Too close to home.”
divination:
Tumblr encourages me to tell myself that I’m cute on a regular basis and I am thankful for it
December 2012
64 posts
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bonestraightyaki:
I find so much comfort and peace in taking pictures of myself and myself in general
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“…it is crucial to keep open the radical ambiguity of how cyberspace will affect...”
– Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing, Verso 2012, p.335 (via fuckyeahdialectics)
Sometimes, Slavoj gets it.
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The Story of Echo and Narcissus
And so Tiresias,
Famous through all Aonian towns and cities,
Gave irreproachable answers to all comers
Who sought his guidance. Once of the first who tested
The truths he told was a naiad of the river,
Liriope, whom the river-god, Cephisus
Embraced and ravished in his watery dwelling.
In time she bore a child, most beautiful
Even as child, gave him the...
this project may propel me into something like insanity
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Watchdragseannugh:
holiday lash blast
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nikholis:
…lurid, lucid, fervent, arty. often neurotic, always compulsive, ultimately repellent; the artist as an obsessive archivist of his own existence, or at least its more carnal obsessions… sex in this city; baltimore; violent and beautiful — delinquent youth.
largecoin:
im sitting here waiting
for something to happen
so i can blog about
it
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“Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only god’s echoes and god...”
– House of Leaves (via nymphetic-nausea) 