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DoodleFrood

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Life, The Universe and Nonsense
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stuckinapril

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

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Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

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Rene Magritte, Memoirs of a Saint, 1970 /// Twin Peaks, 1991
Rene Magritte, La Belle de Nuit, 1940 /// Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, 1992
Rene Magritte, The Pleasure Principle, 1937 /// Twin Peaks: The Return, 2017
Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1929 /// Twin Peaks, 1990
Rene Magritte, Image Not to Be Reproduced, 1937 /// Twin Peaks, 1991
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incaseyouart

I've been studying up on drawing bones and skulls etc to work my way up to more Dunmeshi fanart! I plan to draw Falin in some kinda half skeleton/half chimera mode~

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Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

ive thought about this piece daily since first seeing it

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