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najmetender: 9gag: Run, Shadowfax! I really love posh meme...
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fuckyeahtattoos: done by Alyx @ magic circus (france)
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icantgetanythingelse: hannahbonanza: Dear UNICEF,Brilliant....
Dear UNICEF,
Brilliant. Whoever is on your marketing and graphic design teams, keep them.Sincerely, Hannah
Brilliant. I like that “c’mon la” too! Hahah =)
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fuckyeahtattoos: Swampy is badass and flip-flop season is...
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Classic albums re-imagined as book covers.
Classic albums re-imagined as book covers.
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hrtbps: Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only...
Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every four months to highlight another country. Each Conflict Kitchen iteration is augmented by events, performances, and discussion about the culture, politics, and issues at stake with each country we focus on.
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got my leather, leather, leather on for Melbourne.
got my leather, leather, leather on for Melbourne.
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-3)
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devincastro: Panda Bear / Benfica I recommend using headphones...
Panda Bear / Benfica
I recommend using headphones for this one. His new album Tomboy (to be released on April 12) is absolute perfection. I dedicate this one to my krush.
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fyonafinn: LMFAO / Party Rock AnthemSHUFFLE-SPIRATION STARTS...
LMFAO / Party Rock Anthem
SHUFFLE-SPIRATION STARTS FROM 3:40 ONWARDS. Why is this so addictive. Evryday I’m shuff-fe-felin’.
naturally, this was the first song I heard walking down Swanston. Melbourne, you haven’t changed one bit.
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cations: As part of Autism Awareness Month, I’m going to...
As part of Autism Awareness Month, I’m going to re-introduce some people who you probably already know, but you might not know they have an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of Pokémon, has Asperger’s Syndrome, an Autism Spectrum Disorder characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction, along with restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour and interests.
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surrealism: The Human Condition by René Magritte, 1933. Oil on...
The Human Condition by René Magritte, 1933. Oil on Canvas, 39 in × 32 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
This is one of a number of paintings by Magritte that focus on what lies behind the painting. Magritte said about the painting:
In front of a window seen from inside a room, I placed a painting representing exactly that portion of the landscape covered by the painting. Thus, the tree in the picture hid the tree behind it, outside the room. For the spectator, it was both inside the room within the painting and outside in the real landscape.1
Which is how we see the world, namely, outside of us; although having only one representation of it within us. Similarly we sometimes remember a past event as being in the present. Time and space lose meaning and our daily experience becomes paramount.
Questions such as ‘What does this picture mean, what does it represent?’ are possible only if one is incapable of seeing a picture in all its truth, only if one automaically understands that a very precise image does not show precisely what it is. It’s like believing that the implied meaning (if there is one?) is worth more than the overt meaning. There is no implied meaning in my paintings, despite the confusion that attributes symbolic meaning to my painting.
How can anyone enjoy interpreting symbols? They are ‘substitutes’ that are only useful to a mind that is incapable of knowing the things themselves. A devotee of interpretation cannot see a bird; he only sees it as a symbol. Although this manner of knowing the ‘world’ may be useful in treating mental illness, it would be silly to confuse it with a mind that can be applied to any kind of thinking at all.2
Magritte was heavily influenced by the writings of Immanuel Kant, who proposed that humans can rationalize situations but can not comprehend the “things-in-themselves.” As it applies to Magritte’s work, he is simply creating a variation upon his over-arching philosophy: A painting of a scene is not the same as a scene. “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.”
Magritte plays with this philosophy by exploiting the flatness of two-dimensional space in his painting by depicting three-dimensional space outside and a two-dimensional painting that have the same imagery. The title refers to the inherent grappling that all humans go through when viewing his mind-bending painting.
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