when im listening to my own library and playlists i feel like a powerful wizard but when im trying to show my music taste to anyone it feels like i have a shame cone on
The only difference between a wizard hat and a dunce cap is the wide brim of privacy
obsessed with this muppet clip where Gonzo breaks a piece of machinery and then just stares at the camera in an empty room and says ‘GUILT’ in the most harrowing way possible
“When Van Gogh was a young man in his early twenties, he was in London studying to be a clergyman. He had no thought of being an artist at all. he sat in his cheap little room writing a letter to his younger brother in Holland, whom he loved very much. He looked out his window at a watery twilight, a thin lamppost, a star, and he said in his letter something like this: “it is so beautiful I must show you how it looks.” And then on his cheap ruled note paper, he made the most beautiful, tender, little drawing of it. When I read this letter of Van Gogh’s it comforted me very much and seemed to throw a clear light on the whole road of Art. Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and ponderously and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful about *design* and *balance* and getting *interesting planes* into your painting, and avoided, with the most astringent severity, showing the faintest *academical* tendency, and were strictly modern. And so on and so on. But the moment I read Van Gogh’s letter I knew what art was, and the creative impulse. It is a feeling of love and enthusiasm for something, and in a direct, simple, passionate and true way, you try to show this beauty in things to others, by drawing it. And Van Gogh’s little drawing on the cheap note paper was a work of art because he loved the sky and the frail lamppost against it so seriously that he made the drawing with the most exquisite conscientiousness and care.”
— Brenda Ueland, from “If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit”
I asked @thatgothsamurai for the separated out image of my request from their Valentine’s extravaganza just so everyone could better admire this fabulous modern Ye Baiyi. (In my heart, he goes with this Xie'er. And probably stepped right out of a @robotmango fic.)
this is my twitter account so let me answer a few questions from the tags!
a.) did this really happen? why would i use the miraculous gift of imagination to come up with something so boring
b.) was the guy actually making a useful or intelligent point that would have been clarified by the next sentence? how sweet of you to give him the benefit of the doubt. no
c.) actualllly the fact that he said it’s his personal idea means he’s respectfully not trying to speak for everyone, so in fact this is an example of…. that’s not a question. here’s a question: do you need help getting your brain out of its “good is bad up is down” pretzel contortions? sometimes people in charge are stupid and they say stupid stuff. claiming ownership over broadly understood concepts isn’t sensitivity, it’s trying to nail a NO PARKING PRIVATE PROPERTY sign onto a single wave in the sea. there’s no johnlock conspiracy of emotional intelligence to uncover in this behavior. hope that helps
