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this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.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

i keep thinking about that tribe of baboons where all the alpha males died from eating poison garbage and then the baby boy monkeys were taken care of by the lady monkeys and never got socialized to be aggressive so they all just live peacefully and groom eachother instead of fighting and killing eachother and its been generations of that, it only took 1 wipeout of the aggressive males to change the whole social order of the species i am crying they must be so much happier

……….I have an idea.

Gonna need a bigger book…

Oh yes, MORE murder, that’ll save society. If it’s not working it means we’re not murdering enough.

My god the radfems and nazis in the notes of this post. It’s expected given the subject matter but what the fuck guys, some of the comments in there are so disgusting. Free terf and cryptoterf blocklist I guess.

I was playing along with what I thought was a joke, because isn't the lesson of Death Note that taking lives never actually solves anything? I haven't seen it, but I thought that was implicit.

Killing billions of people can never be a viable solution to anything.

There are only 2 genders

Please people thee are only two genders…. I can’t believe that Tumblr is allowed to exist and make up all these ridiculous identities and not have all its users in mental health facilities. 

someone reblog this with the two real genders because this guy sure as heck didnt specify

Autobot and Decepticon

NAIL ERASURE!

Maximals and Predacons

monoformer haters

Forged and constructed cold? 

Hey, what about Megatron??

Leaving Megatron out is inadvisable…

The two genders are “Starscream” and “Every one of you other insignificant creatures”

I think it’s “Megop shipper” and “Megop non-shipper” gender. There is obviously a wrong gender here, but let’s keep a blind eye on this one.

I mean….

Mouse eating a walnut. 

 Roman mosaic from 200 BC.

via Waldemar Januszczak

Romans invented pixel art

Amazing "Rainbow River" Boulder Opal 💎 From Australia.

Photo © Prestigeopals

Rainbow Serpent would've been a better name

There are so many unintended consequences to well-intentioned actions. It feels like a game you can’t win.

#CHIDI WAS RIGHT

The Good Place really went with making their new Point ‘there is no ethical consumption under capitalism’ and I respect that

And then went on to say “blaming individuals for all of this is absurd and evil, as is locking them up for punishment instead of rehabilitation” and I respect that

Also, “consequentialism is a fundamentally flawed branch of ethics”

I can’t trust those who don’t like TAS

Spider Scotty, Spider Scotty, does whatever a wee engineer does

You should let a femme top you today

Can I top myself?

I don't know, can you?

I don't know...how does one top?

ah.

I suppose I functionally could top could myself, but have yet to do so

girl typing a very specific question into google search bar, scrunching her face as she takes time to make sure she hasn't made any spelling errors, hitting enter, shaking her head as google only presents her with unhelpful websites that don't answer her query at all, moving her cursor back to the search bar and clicking on it so she can carefully write 'reddit' at the end, hitting enter again, sighing with relief as she finds a link to a reddit post asking the exact question she needed answered posted in a subreddit for a very niche topic, finally moving her cursor to click on the link, wondering why she didn't go straight to the subreddit earlier, only to be met with a deleted comment with a reply from the OP stating 'that was very helpful, thanks', sighing with frustration as she moves her cursor back to the search bar so she can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine,

Replace "reddit" with "reveddit" in any reddit url to reveal deleted or removed comments. If the comment/post was deleted too quickly after it was posted, it may not pull it up, but it works most of the time

girl after reading a post on tumblr dot com with a reblog by user impossiblepackage, moving her cursor over to the url of the aforementioned reddit post, using her mouse to highlight the word “reddit”, typing out the word “reveddit” in its place, hitting enter, waiting with bated breath as reveddit loads, finally content as the deleted comment is displayed in front of her eyes containing the information she sought for so long.

Accurate

Pro Create though?

You should let a femme top you today

Can I top myself?

I don't know, can you?

I don't know...how does one top?

You should let a femme top you today

Can I top myself?

Should we not seek to top ourselves every day?

To err is human. To err repeatedly is research.

To err repeatedly, while comparing it to not erring is science