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theglaze: Joe Reihsen

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:21:48 -0400

theglaze:

Joe Reihsen

thejogging: Tan Line Gradient Study 4, 2013 Research ←

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:21:30 -0400

thejogging:

Tan Line Gradient Study 4, 2013

Research

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likeafieldmouse: Chad Wys - At the Museum (2010)

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:40 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Chad Wys - At the Museum (2010)

thejogging: Gigi Dag Logo Stack, 2013 Digital render {≈}

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:19:42 -0400

thejogging:

Gigi Dag Logo Stack, 2013

Digital render

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ARXITEKTON by V5MT @ ANI GIF«« VIEW THE GALLERY »»

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:19:27 -0400

ARXITEKTON by V5MT @ ANI GIF
«« VIEW THE GALLERY »»

likeafieldmouse: Moises Mahiques - Violence Happening Location...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:12:22 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Moises Mahiques - Violence Happening Location (2008-10)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 11:11:14 -0400

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Mon, 13 May 2013 09:26:26 -0400

megazord: Lots of wifi at this restaurant

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:21:40 -0400

megazord:

Lots of wifi at this restaurant

howtodresswell: kanye west opening this pit up

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:03:14 -0400

howtodresswell:

kanye west opening this pit up

internetpoetry: image macro by meta knight

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:01:44 -0400

internetpoetry:

image macro by meta knight

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 18:21:09 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

lucfuller: Ping Pong Painting Acrylic and Ping Pong Net on...

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:29 -0400

lucfuller:

Ping Pong Painting

Acrylic and Ping Pong Net on Canvas

54” x 96”

Luc Fuller 2013

larobotique: LaTurbo Avedon Jónó, 2013

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:27:11 -0400

larobotique:

LaTurbo Avedon Jónó, 2013

machinemachine: Turing Collages

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:59:31 -0400

machinemachine:

Turing Collages

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Sun, 05 May 2013 15:57:30 -0400

likeafieldmouse: Hollis Brown Thornton

Sun, 05 May 2013 01:49:49 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Hollis Brown Thornton

prostheticknowledge: What Google’s Self-Driving Car...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:43:06 -0400

prostheticknowledge:

What Google’s Self-Driving Car ‘Sees’

Google’s Self-Driving Car gathers almost 1 GB per SECOND. Here’s what it “sees” making a left turn: twitter.com/Bill_Gross/sta…

— Bill Gross (@Bill_Gross)

April 30, 2013

likeafieldmouse: Ann-Sofi Siden - Same Unknown (2010) Artist’s...

Sat, 04 May 2013 23:42:16 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Ann-Sofi Siden - Same Unknown (2010)

Artist’s statement:

“In Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, one of the characters comments that women ‘give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.’ The swift downward trajectory of the passing individuals, these short life-affirming moments that so very quickly pas us by. Is this life? That which flashes by us so quickly? The grip on the pole can be seen as a survival instinct, like the so-called Moro grip: the first, panic-stricken grip reflex of the newborn infant.”