Collaborative Creations, a narrative in fragments

• 2012-05-28

  

  scribble-fox:

  In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

  The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

  The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy. 

  Rats are really such beautiful creatures. If you have ever hand raised one you’ll know just how loyal and compassionate they are. cute squiggly babies

  (via katiebour)

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  I often suggest to advanced students who have a strong mastery of most of the other ideas that they should take a three- or four-week period — Christmas vacation is often an ideal time — and do nothing but art.

  Start early each morning, I tell them, and work till you are tired, then work some more; then, when you cannot work any more, work some more. Do not read anything except art. Do not watch television except for art programs. Do not associate with friends unless they agree to talk nothing but art. Take art with you to the table; take it with you to the bathroom. Crowd everything but art out of your mind and your life for just one month.

  —William V. Dunning, Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era

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  Photo by P.J. Reptilehouse.

  All one exposure.

  Models: Freya Gallows and Kamarose

• 2012-05-27

  When the Pythagoreans discovered irrational numbers, they considered them ‘ugly’ because they were not perfect. They made it a condition of their cult that no acolyte would reveal to anyone outside this mathematical quasi-religious sect that irrational numbers even existed.

  — Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light by Leonard Shlain

• 2012-05-26

  

  by MeowMix

• 2012-05-21

  

  Only PJ Reptilehouse can make human beings look that diaphanous.

  Photo by PJ Reptilehouse. Models: Freya Gallows and Kamarose.

• 2012-05-17

  I was angry. “You’ve rejected me on the basis of some high-flown theory you just made up,” I protested.
  “Oh, no, no, no,” he said. “I rejected you before I thought of the theory.”
  “On the basis of what?” I demanded
  “On the basis of the very first picture in your portfolio,” he said. “It told me, ‘Here is a man without passion.’ And I asked myself what I now ask you: ‘Why should I teach him the language of painting, since there seems to be absolutely nothing which he is desperate to talk about?’

  — Kurt Vonnegut, Bluebeard (via reasoninmadness)

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  by Kate Toad

• 2012-05-11

  Thinking that simply being a “good guy,” whatever that may mean, entitles you to unlimited sex with the girl of your choice shows that you don’t truly believe women should be in control of, and have full ownership of, our own bodies; instead, it shows you think we should use them like doggy treats whenever you do the human equivalent of a jumping trick. If you treat us as humans, that’s fantastic, but we do not owe you for it.

  One of the worst outcomes of the “but I’m a good guy” phenomenon is that it overshadows the many, many men who don’t think this way and instead realize that if we don’t want to go out with them, that’s our choice and we most likely have a good reason for it, even if we don’t feel like sharing what that reason is. The word “friendzone” has crept into the vocabularies of even the most respectful, enlightened men, and I think it’s time we push back. Why not call it something more poetic and accurate, like “unrequited love” or “unreturned affection?”

  — Taylor Callobre (via glitterandheatlightning)

  (via seriouslyamerica)

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  neil-gaiman:

  Childhood is cannibals and psychotics vomiting in your mouth. Yes.

  RIP the wonderful Maurice Sendak

  blowncovers:

  We’ll miss you.

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