Can such things happen in this world? — HAUSU | ハウス (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Shots of rural USA, 1978-2001 (c. National Geographic)
don't let people enjoy things
actively stop people from enjoying media
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926
“The less you eat, drink and buy books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorise, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save – the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor rust will devour – your capital. The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, i.e., the greater is your alienated life, the greater is the store of your estranged being. Everything which the political economist takes from you in life and in humanity, he replaces for you in money and in wealth.”
— Marx - Human Requirements 1844
Cathedral of the Resurrection in Staraya Russa, Russia (1973)
Archive, 1963, Robert Rauschenberg
Medium: collage
“It was like being alive twice.”
Linda Gregg
Rest after Work by Vincent van Gogh Harvest in Provence by Vincent van Gogh
good news everybody
In this store, you go in, shop, and then walk out carrying the item’s you want to buy, and their facial recognition software figures out who you are and charges whatever items you are taking to your account. It’s incredible and creepy.
*Walks into the store with anti-facial recognition haircut/makeup and leaves like a bandit*
the cyberpunk dystopia is upon us and it fuckin sucks
mutuals meet me in the exhaustion funnel
‘Mrs. Moon’ by Enkel Dika.
Mary Oliver, Black Oaks