PHAROS NOUS

…and that’s all, folks.

Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:55:00 -0700

…and that’s all, folks.

lsuchemist: venusmilk:“And when the boat came to me I found in...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:56:52 -0700

venusmilk:

“And when the boat came to me I found in it a man of brass with a tablet of lead upon his breast, engraven with names and talismans.”

The Arabian nights : Their Best-Known Tales (c1909)
Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish

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kallousmdiscern: Calleta silk moth, Eupackardia calleta

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:56:00 -0700

kallousmdiscern:

Calleta silk moth, Eupackardia calleta

u ok

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 11:58:21 -0700

u ok

gavinhammond: Covent Garden busker in a puddle No.2. High wire...

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:01:02 -0700

gavinhammond:

Covent Garden busker in a puddle No.2. High wire photography!

The Lacatation of St. Bernard

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:51:38 -0700

The Lacatation of St. Bernard

animeclay: Oguchi’s (おぐち) use of smokey blacks and greys mixed...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:36:22 -0700

animeclay:

Oguchi’s (おぐち) use of smokey blacks and greys mixed with luminescent machine lights creates a very recognizable grimey glow. In most ways, their aesthetic overlaps that of the well known Black Rock Shooter series.

For Oguchi’s Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=19351

"This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two..."

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:52:13 -0700

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This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.

Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.

Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”

Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

”

- Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)

(via jamesromer)

Everything this quotation says is exactly why I am moving to Portland next year. I’m leaving my cushy nanny job, the friends I’ve known for years - some since elementary school! - and the apartment I have lived in since I moved out of the house when I was 19. I need something entirely new so I can grow.

(via dazzleandoutshinethemall)

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turtlezepp: Sacred Geometry - Metatron’s Cube (by...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:46:27 -0700

turtlezepp:

Sacred Geometry - Metatron’s Cube (by MrDreamPlanet)

nicothenick: me, giving directions.

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:55:50 -0700

nicothenick:

me, giving directions.

lemonkiwi: Day 3 – A game that is underrated. yikes, i got...

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:54:08 -0700

lemonkiwi:

Day 3 – A game that is underrated.

yikes, i got caught up in finals stress and forgot about this for a bit! sorry about that.

anyway, anytime someone asks for game recs i cannot only say one thing, SOOOOO

1. Little King’s Story - i feel slightly silly reccing this when i haven’t even beaten it! however, when i started playing this game, i was totally shocked by just how much i enjoyed it, especially since i went in not knowing what to expect. the graphics are adorable and the cutscenes are done in a cute painterly style, and the writing is TOTALLY HILARIOUS. it makes a lot of jokes that i really didn’t expect from such a cute game. the only thing that’s really bugged me so far is that the music can get very repetitive, and it’s also pretty easy to get lost or not know what to do (at least for me…). but, that’s what walkthroughs are for, right?

2. Mirror’s Edge - a lot of people complained that this game had crappy controls, but… well, to be honest, i kind of suspect they’re just bad at it! i breezed through this game with very minimal problems, and the only thing that gave me a lot of trouble is combat (which was, admittedly, the worst thing ever). i LOVE mirror’s edge. the parkour puzzles were so much fun and faith was such a rewarding character to play as. the writing isn’t the best, but i’m not the sort of person who takes that very seriously! i just think it’s funny.

3. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - anytime someone asks for an underrated game, this is my go-to game. the art and animation is done in the style of sketchy, black and white rotoscoping, inspired by a-ha’s music video for “take on me.” the writing, characters, and atmosphere are STELLAR, realistic, and totally spot-on; i find myself “recognizing” them, not as tropes, but as the sort of people and places i’ve seen in real life. the story is a noir-type mystery that was inspired by the movies “paris, texas” and “bagdad cafe” (which also happen to be a couple of my favorite movies and you should WATCH THEM) and the jazzy soundtrack goes along with the game perfectly. this game is super important to me and i really cannot rave about it enough, i’m trying to avoid going on too much because i don’t want this post to be more super long than it already is just GET IT GET IT GET IT. it also has a sequel out called “last window: the secret of cape west,” which as far as i know, you can only get an english version by importing it out of europe. i didn’t like last window as much, but it was still pretty solid. SO WHEN YOU PLAY HOTEL DUSK AND ARE WONDERING WHERE THE SEQUEL IS THEN THAT IS IT

4. Deadly Premonition - this clip is all i need to show you

5. Beyond Good and Evil - platformers are one of my least favorite genres. and yet, when i played beyond good and evil, i pretty much could not put it down until i was done. i loved beyond good and evil, i loved it i loved it, it is an amazing and beautiful and truly unique game that you’re not going to experience anywhere else. it has great music, an amazing world (reminds me slightly of treasure planet?), a clever plot, funny characters (with some genuinely creepy and/or sad-as-fuck moments), and jade is one of the best female characters i’ve seen in anything and getting to play as her was totally inspirational. i cannot say enough good things about this game!

6. Yume Nikki - this game is terrifying, and not in a “things jumping out” sort of way; yume nikki relies entirely on atmosphere and the beauty of not knowing. there’s no dialogue, nothing you really do apart from roam through these messed up dream worlds, and throughout the whole game you’re never entirely sure what’s going on. a lot of the things you come across are really random, which makes this game very much like a real dream. be warned, this game is a slow-burner; you DO have to prepare yourself to spend a LOT of time walking across ridiculously huge maps and potentially not really finding anything, and getting lost isn’t really an uncommon occurrence. yet, when you play the game, you really can’t imagine it working any other way; if you were able to just skate through on these tiny maps, the game would not have near the psychological impact that it does. also, the creator of this game took a lot of inspiration from the earthbound/mother series (and even throws a reference to it in there), which should tell you something about the level of THIS IS SCREWED UP you’re in store for. this game is available to download for free!

OKAY THAT’S IT BYE

(honorable mentions: MadWorld, Trace Memory)

"Well, for starters, I’d like us to think beyond and outside Stonewall. While clearly an important..."

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:53:21 -0700

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Well, for starters, I’d like us to think beyond and outside Stonewall. While clearly an important and historic event, pretending that this was the sole and singular event that somehow caused a radical uprising that then changed queer history for ever erases the fact that such moments of protest were going on before Stonewall, in the 1966 Compton’s riot in San Francisco, for example, or in Chicago, at the raid on The Trip, a gay bar, in 1968.

That being said, the commemoration of Stonewall or any queer uprising presents us with additional problems: on the one hand, mainstream gays and lesbians and straights continually erase the reality that such moments were largely initiated by trans people, hustlers, drag queens, very, very angry queens and queers – precisely the sort of misbehaving misfits they’d like to pretend don’t exist.

On the other hand, as the rest of us work to reinstate the central figures of Stonewall and other events and remind the world that Stonewall was not a Human Rights Campaign fundraiser, I’m also concerned about our unquestioned assumption that simply recovering these “forgotten heroes” is in itself a radical act. Yes, that resistance to authority was deeply important, but what were its long-term effects? And how did that resistance eventually become an anti-capitalist, anti-PIC movement as well? Well, we know that it did not, and what I see over and over again is a kind of recovery, which takes the form of “Stonewall was a riot,” or “Let’s not forget the drag queens,” but nothing beyond a fetishistic reclaiming of sexual identity as some kind of originary marker of radical politics. I’m impressed by any movement that challenges the status quo, but I also need to be clear on what that challenge represents and against whom.

Forty-two years later, we still see queers and straights being targeted for “sex crimes,” we still see the PIC growing in its capacity to profit from the incarceration of the economically and politically vulnerable, and there are now cases where people are being put in jail for debt, a resurrection of the long-ago debtors’ prisons. A lot of queers, especially the ones who don’t conform and can’t get jobs with health care and benefits, end up penniless; a lot of the drag queens and hustlers who participated in riots ended up bereft. I’m not interested in recovering any of them as lost heroes/heroines; I want to see more of a discussion about how they weren’t just screwed over by people who couldn’t stand their sexual identity, but by capitalism.

Frankly, I’m suffering from hero fatigue, and I’m tired of Pride parades which, even when they resist corporate takeovers, never go beyond some vaguely sexualized idea of a “radical” celebration that does nothing to really think through the neoliberal nightmare we live in.

I think Pride ought to become an occasion for queers to begin staging their own Prides, without corporate sponsorship, but with an awareness of the complications of economic and race issues. Currently, in Chicago, for instance, we have an alternative Dyke March, but it became, over the course of a decade, a predominantly white and middle-class event. Even after it moved locations (first to the predominantly Latin@ west side, then to the largely African-American South Shore) there’s a great deal of talk about alternative politics, but not very much conscious conversation about what it means to, essentially, stage Dyke March in these communities and not very much explicit engagement with people, including queers, who live there. Instead, one day a year, we “take over the streets,” and then disappear. I’ve been to the alternative Dyke three out of the four years so far, and I can see its value as a kind of annual resting space/networking tool for queers with alternative politics, but I wish we would drop the pretense that moving the location is more than just marching in a different place.

I’d also like to see a month-long series of radical events and actions that question the queer fealty to the prison industrial complex and to capitalism while critiquing our collective obsession with identity as some marker of freedom. Over the years, I’ve seen queers increasingly support the systems that incarcerate the most vulnerable and marginalized amongst us, in the shape of hate crimes legislation or by turning a blind eye upon the blatant targeting of queers who engage in public sex, for instance. I’d like to see more of an explicit conversation about how the prison industrial complex not only targets queers but actually requires their support to help further its expansion. And, yes, I’d like us to think about that in terms of capitalism and its deployment of the rhetoric of rights, which we embrace too readily. You’ll note that I don’t simply bracket off gays and lesbians as the problem; I think that too many self-identified “radical” queers buy into the idea that somehow simply claiming queerness as an identity is in and of itself a radical act.

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- Yasmin Nair, on radical queer history and the prison industrial complex for an interview about Captive Genders, edited by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith (via funkyfest)

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Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:26:59 -0700

"Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above..."

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:06:09 -0700

“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: “I don’t bother you - don’t bother me”.”

- Yohji Yamamoto (via gaws)

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