Blue GhostGhost's Blog, page 47
March 30, 2014
museumuesum:
museumuesum:
Martin Creed
Work No. 287...
Martin Creed
Work No. 287 (Feelings), 2003
neon, 16.5 x 100 cm. (6 1/2 x 39 3/8 in.) acrylic box: 25 x 110 x 8.5 cm. (9 7/8 x 43 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
200k.
March 27, 2014
nevver:
American gothic, NOLA by streetlight
photo by Frank Relle
photo by Frank Relle
photo by Frank Relle
photo by Frank Relle
photo by Frank Relle
American gothic, NOLA by streetlight
Don't Look Now
I’d heard about Kitty Genovese’s case growing up, half urban legend, half cautionary tale about the coldness of urban space (the same one that made me nervous about Oakland until I actually lived there). This article is a fascinating pealing back of the symbol Genovese became into something a lot more complicated and a lot more humanizing.
Fifty years ago today the New York Times made Kitty Genovese the archetypical victim of urban apathy and violence. Now we know just how wrong they were
The original story of Kitty Genovese’s death, first promulgated by the New York Times in a front-page article 50 years ago today—young single woman brutally murdered while 38 strangers watched and did nothing—was incorrect in almost every particular.
The murder itself was horrifying, of course. The Times got that right. But the story that made Genovese a household name and a symbol of modern social dysfunction got nearly everything else wrong. From the number of witnesses to the details of the crime to the timing of the police response, there are by my count no fewer than 29 significant errors in the original Times story, five of them in its very first sentence.
Many of these mistakes have been public knowledge for years, and as the errors in the narrative have been tabulated the incident’s supposed meaning has been subject to ongoing revision. (In recent years the “bystander effect” has replaced “apathy” as the hook of choice.) But with the publication this month of Kevin Cook’s masterful Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime that Changed America, however, our understanding of the case, and of Genovese as an individual, is immeasurably enriched. Now, for the first time, we can move beyond mere debunking to construct a full and complex narrative of her life and death, and that new narrative reveals the old one as not merely deficient but fundamentally fraudulent. Some of the biggest flaws in the story, it is now clear, come less from what it got wrong than from what it left out.
doctordude:
now I haven’t had sleep so I don’t know if this...
now I haven’t had sleep so I don’t know if this sounds cool or not
either way I’m posting it because I think it’s as close to finished as I’ll get it
Lana Del Rey/Kanye West - Million Dollar Gold Digger
March 25, 2014
As a writer and a reader, I think you are one of the greats of this generation. The way you write reminds me that other people are humans, too, and the way you are reminds me that's a good thing. Thank you for sharing your words with us.
The idea that something I wrote could touch in such a deep way is really humbling. Thank you for telling me.
A list of questions I wrote in a cafe about 9 years ago. My...
A list of questions I wrote in a cafe about 9 years ago. My friend has been keeping them for me and just sent them my way today.
You will fall in love in little over a year. You will meet in the fall near Sproul Plaza when the leaves are changing. He will be tall and scruffy and slouch a lot. He’s still the one you sleep next to at night. It’s going well. After Berkeley your first job will be to merchandize and buy clothing for a women’s sport company. It will be kinda weird but in a good way. And sorry man, you don’t drive but it’s not that bad.
You still like your teals and greens but you will learn to embrace grey and white, to think about quiet things from time to time. After your dad died you got some grey hairs and so you stopped dying your hair so much. It’s actually all-natural right now. You aren’t a band kid anymore and have to get your friends that actually go out to give you music.
You like the smell of the ocean and you work in the arts and it makes you very very happy. Funny you should ask about that book kido. It’s a queer romance set in an art gallery in San Francisco. I thought you’d like that. Myrtle lives in a pond in Crocket, CA. You do see Elisa again, she brings you your old guitar and you make her cry. It’s the last time.
March 22, 2014
"If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart."
- Margaret Atwood (via pushtheheart, mermaidsbones) (via etherealligator) (via missxandirose)
sleeping on the edge of her bed for optimal sunbeam absorption
sleeping on the edge of her bed for optimal sunbeam absorption
