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“ “ Beili Liu - The Mending Project (2011)
“…Hundreds of Chinese scissors suspended from the ceiling in a shimmery cloud. The piece involved the artist sitting at a small black table, hand-mending patches of fabric together which visitors were...

Beili Liu - The Mending Project (2011)
“…Hundreds of Chinese scissors suspended from the ceiling in a shimmery cloud. The piece involved the artist sitting at a small black table, hand-mending patches of fabric together which visitors were encouraged to cut themselves near the entrance. As the performance continued, the piece grew as one continuous cloth and lay spread on the floor.
The hovering mass of the downward-pointed scissors represent the distant fear and looming violence present in today’s cultural climate. The sharp blades above the artist are put in contrast by the silent and simple act of mending. The dichotomous result of the instant fear superimposed with the calming effect of the sewing created a surreal atmosphere in the room.”

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angryseawitch:

kropotkitten:
goshorter:
November 2013 haircut (by V_a_n_e_s_s_a)
:o someone do this to my hairs. though they might be too curly for it to look good on me.
no, weird undercuts look best with curly hair. fact.

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maedhros:

Interviewer: Why do you think science fiction is always ahead of the curve, in terms of dealing with things without skin-deep judgments?
Siddig: Yeah. Well, the power of allegory. Abstraction can take the most harrowing, complicated real-life situation and say, “But this is actually just two grapes talking and they’re talking to a weird sunflower. They’ve abstracted the humanity out of it and transplanted it into something else that is much more comfortable. Much easier to cope with and gives the writer enormous freedom. I mean, you can do really dark, full-on stuff and take it so far away, to a spaceship somewhere miles and miles (away) on a funny little planet where the creatures are barely recognizable. That and the fact that they work with massive archetypes that we can’t really work with. Only Batman movies can work with those. The characters in Cairo Time, they’re not massive archetypes. They’re normal people. So yes, (as in Deep Space Nine) you’ve got the strong captain; you’ve got the clever doctor. They all have their adjectives or epithets. THAT’s the power of sci-fi. I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all. I’ll take all of them and, yeah, I think that’s the strength of that genre.

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chroniclesofkanarnia:

Remember how for a few seconds Bashir thought he was there to actually buy a suit?

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I’ve hit the point where I’m so tired I almost need to calm down and unwind from being tired before I can sleep.

why the macra terror needs to be found

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turlough-crashes-the-brigs-car:

really interesting plot
it’s basically nineteen-eighty-four but with giant crabs
did i mention GIANT CRABS
two getting all pretty and then being like “lol no”
“well this is gay”
jamie getting creeped out at nice people
ben’s shirtless scenes
ben in…

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ancientpeoples:

Limestone sphinx of Queen Hatsepsut
Queen Hatsepsut crowned herself queen after taking regency for her infant stepson Thutmoses III. She shows herself as a man, including her beard. She did this because a queen could officially not rule the country (Horus was the king on earth).
It is 63.5 cm high, 106.7 cm long and 33 cm wide ( 25 x 42 x 13 inch.)
Found in Upper Egypt, Thebes, temple of Hatsepsut at Deir el Bahri in 1926-28.
Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, Reign of Hatsepsut/Thutmoses III, 1479 - 1458 BC.
Source: Metropolitan Museum

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priddyproginoskes:

There is a tragic lack of good DS9 merch out there

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Tonight I did egg dying with my friend Amy! Definitely worth doing at one in the morning.

Tonight I did egg dying with my friend Amy! Definitely worth doing at one in the morning.