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Amidst the colorfully furnished spaces mocked up in IKEA’s flagship store sits a place of jarring contrast, a replicated version of an actual 260-square-foot house that is home to a family of nine in Syria.

IKEA has done installations before and worked on flat-pack refugee shelters, but this piece really brings the problem home, putting it in front of consumers as they shop. In collaboration with the Red Cross, the displays also feature tags that offer people ways to help by donating to relief efforts.

The original house in Damascus, Syria after which this one in Slependen, Norway was modeled houses Rana and eight of her family members. Both the real and replica versions feature hard cinder block walls — the latter relays stories of the residents, how they live and what they lack in terms of food, medicine and clean water.

“We had been working with the Red Cross for months, so we had a lot of footage from Syria,” said the agency behind the idea. “But no matter how emotional it was, nothing got close to the experience of visiting people in a war zone. We realised we could give Norwegians that experience at IKEA. At the one place where you think of and plan the future — the apartment served as a physical reminder of how lucky we are.”

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Are brilliant.

“Building ‘sandcastles’ is a bit of a test. Nature will always be against you and time is always running out. Having to think fast and to bring it all together in the end is what I like about it.

“I rarely start with a plan, just a vague notion of trying to do something different each time. Once I begin building and forms take shape I can start to see where things are going and either follow that road or attempt to contradict it with something unexpected.

“In my mind they are always mash-ups of influences and ideas. I see a castle, a fishing village, a modernist sculpture, a stage set for the oscars all at once.

“When they are successful they don’t feel contained or finished. They become organic machines that might grow and expand. I am always adding just one more bit and if time allowed I wouldn’t stop.”

Calvin’s tools include a five-gallon plastic paint bucket and a few trowels he made from Plexiglas. He begins by scooping dry sand with his bucket into a mound at the high-tide mark, then fetches buckets of water from the ocean to flood the mound before kneading it into a muddy consistency.

The shaping process begins at the top to avoid dropping sand onto finished work below.

Loads more castles on Flickr.

And some background over on the NYT site: King of the Sand Castle.

Via @feltron.

More job satisfaction.

In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces.

The museum houses all kinds of jinmenseki, or rock with a human face, including celebrity lookalikes like Elvis Presley. And according to this post from Kotaku from 2013, there are also movie and video game character rocks E.T., Donkey Kong and Nemo.

According to the Sankei, the museum is currently run by Yoshiko Hayama, the wife of the original owner who passed away in 2010. But it was his rock collection that started it all. An avid collector, the late Shozo Hayama spent 50 years collecting rocks that looked like faces. His only requirement was that nature be the only artist.

There are currently so many rocks on display that some don’t even have names. So the owner occasionally invites visitors to name the rocks. The Chichibu Chinsekikan (Gmap)is a 10-min walk from Kagemori Station. However, it’s recommended that you call ahead if you plan to visit because the museum is known to unexpectedly close for personal reasons.

gaywrites:

ICYMI: Evan Rachel Wood reemerged as a bisexual superhero this week in a series of tweets about bisexuality, biphobia and bi awareness. 

Perfect timing, and so important that openly bi people in the public eye are joining these conversations. Visibility matters. Onward, #BiWeek!

(via Get Mad | GIF Six-Pack | The Creators Project)

thisismycleverhandle:

awesome-picz:

Kitten And Owlet Become Best Friends And Nap Buddies

Hair on fleek

flashordie:

thexfiles:

thexfiles:

“What is it with every single x-files fan being a lesbian?”

Gillian anderson blue latex catsuit 90s

I’m deceased

fakescience:

“surprise! gender is a construct that society has not yet had the chance to impress upon ur fetus”

From the American Museum of Natural History, an animated timeline map of human population growth from 100,000 BCE to the present.

It took 200,000 years for our population to reach 1 billion. And only 200 years to reach 7 billion.

Interesting to see that the only sustained decline in the world’s overall population over the past 2000 years was during the bubonic plague outbreak during the Middle Ages.

Tags: maps   population   timelines   video

This excellent guide is full of gentle, direct scripts pulled from real situations.

Speak Up: Responding To Everyday Bigotry

 

Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1530 - 1625), Self Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel, 1556


Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609 - 1660), Self Portrait, ca. 1630


Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755 - 1842), Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, after 1782


Marie-Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761-1818), Self Portrait, c. 1783


Zinaida Serebriakova (Russian, 1884 - 1967), At the Dressing Table - Self Portrait, 1909


Nasta Rojc (Croatian, 1883 - 1964), Self Portrait, 1912


Tamara de Lempika (Polish, 1898-1980), Self Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925


Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1908 - 1996), Self Portrait with Scorpion, 1938


Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907 - 1954), Self Portrait, 1945


Yana Movchan (born in Kiev, 1971), Beautiful Me (Self Portrait)

natalunasans:

medievalpoc:

ddeeric:

doyoubelieveinmonsters:

hajandrade:

Some Self Portraits by Women Artists:

1. Sofonisba Anguissola (Italian, 1530-1625), Self Portrait at the Easel Painting a Devotional Panel, 1556
2. Judith Leyster (Dutch, 1609-1660), Self Portrait, ca. 1630
3. Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (French, 1755-1842), Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, after 1782
4. Marie-Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761-1818), Self Portrait, c. 1783
5. Zinaida Serebriakova (Russian, 1884-1967), At the Dressing Table - Self Portrait, 1909
6. Nasta Rojc (Croatian, 1883-1964), Self Portrait, 1912
7. Tamara de Lempika (Polish, 1898-1980), Self Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925
8. Leonor Fini (Argentine-French, 1908-1996), Self Portrait with Scorpion, 1938
9. Frida Kahlo (Mexican, 1907-1954), Self Portrait, 1945
10. Yana Movchan (b. in Kiev, Ukraine, 1971), Beautiful Me (Self Portrait)
    

@corsica1789

dont leave out my girl artemisia gentileschi

Since this post is very dominated by self-portraits of white women, I feel it is imperative to share these as well:

[Black Artist Completing a Portrait of a White Female Aristocrat; Brazil. Early 1700s]

[S.B. Syed Dabhol; Adding Watercolor to a Photograph. India, c. 1920]

[FaTma WaGdi; RukaLiza!/The Egyptian Mona Lisa]

and in addition, to point out that Self Portraits of Color is another tumblr that no one should be missing out on!! Here’s a selection of self portraits from women of color on that blog:

Pan Yuliang / 潘玉良; My Family. China (1931-1932)

Samizu Matsuki; Self Portrait with Self Portrait. US (1970)

Wendy Red Star; The Four Seasons: Fall, Winter, Spring, Indian Summer; US (2006)

Amrita Sher Gil; Self-Portrait. France/Hungary/India (1933)

Snehal Page; Summer Self-Portrait. India (2013)

Baljit Balrow; Self-Portrait with Union Jack. UK (2009)

Maya Christina Gonzalez; I Frame Myself. US (1997)

Also of note: Women in the Act of Painting (blogspot)

Ciclope

Animation short from The Line Studio about the extensive journey of a delivery drone:

A flying delivery drone is carrying a package across a vast ravaged landscape. 

… We were inspired by vintage British Travel Posters of the 30s when we were making this film. In particular the works of Norman Wilkinson. The limited palette and very focused handling of colour and composition was something that we wanted to bring into this piece. This choice meant that we could go ahead with a project that normally would be considered too heavy or expensive for the timeframe and resources we had. 

More Here

@thelineanimation - Tumblr blog

wolfliving:

*That was inevitable

“How to sleep through the winter (hibernate)” from The Animal Fair

Designed by Jonas Lindvall of Malmö-based Lindvall A & D, ‘Villa J2‘ began as the revamp of an existing summerhouse dating back to the 1940s. However, due to the specific regulations, it had to be rebuilt entirely.

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andriseup:

what do we do if Donald Trump wins?: a lefty primer (not really a primer because that makes it sound fancier than it really is but also w/e; also, if you have other suggestions on surviving and resisting, feel free to add them!)

1. support the marginalized people around you. ask them what they need, how you can be there for them. if you need support, ask. people who love one another strengthen one another. 

2. get prepared to vote in every non-presidential election that will be open to you. many things are decided at the state and local levels, like school policy and funding, marijuana legalization, issues about gentrification, creation of community review boards for police brutality, etc - just to list things that were votable on my ballot today. also, make sure to vote in 2018 in congressional races! most national policy is determined by the house and senate, so this is massively important.

3. organize. find the thing your heart is telling you is so important to work on, whether that’s Black Lives Matter or standing with Standing Rock or immigration rights or LGBTQ rights or something else - find that thing, find someone who does something about it, and get involved. it doesn’t have to be big; nobody’s asking you to go to one meeting and then do arrestable actions. send a postcard to a representative. show up to a march for an hour or so. maybe make some posters or flyers to hang up around your campus. educate your friends and family on what you believe. 

4. stay safe. there are some of us who will be at far more risk under a Trump administration than will others. if you’re one of those people, please be careful. find allies who are less in danger and can help amplify your ideas. and everyone, everyone - take care of your own physical and mental health. we can’t create a world of respect, community, and safety by refusing to apply those principles to how we treat ourselves.

4 years ago, I was preparing to go trick-or-treating with my friends for the first time. I told my parents and finalized everything, but two days before Halloween, one of the girls I was going with sat me down and told me I wasn’t invited to go with them. On Halloween, I stayed home and watched all of my friends having fun via Instagram.

I still have anxiety about this.

hyde-and-prejudice:

bi-privilege:

i would just like to point out that the recent conversation surrounding the male birth control trials isn’t just “lol weak men can’t deal with side effects” it’s the fact that when they were testing hormonal birth control for women in the 50s & 60s, the side effects were much worse, and the women who participated in them, mostly in puerto rico, were not told about the side effects or that the drug was experimental

and THEN when women dropped out, they started using incarcerated women as their guinea pigs, and then despite the fact that some scientists who participated in the original trials were like “uh i don’t think this is actually good, it’s making a lot of these women sick,” the pharmaceutical industry & fda were like  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and approved it for the general population anyways, without really warning women about the potential for all these negative side effects

and THEN researchers basically ceased to do any type of research on side effects like depression and decreased libido for 50 years, despite the fact that women were still complaining about them, and because there was no “hard evidence” of these side effects, a lot of doctors basically just assumed women were exaggerating or making it up. and that continued until the first major study of depression in women who take hormonal contraceptives was released just. this. year.

so yeah, the patriarchy. *waves flag*

In the 1950’s we were still intentionally sending schizophrenic patients into seizures with insulin (x) and thought that a normal part of the maturation process for young boys involved wanting to kill their fathers so they could have sex with their mothers (x).

You’re assuming that regulations then were the same as regulations now, but for a long time the pharmaceutical world was a free for all. While I’m not arguing that there wasn’t some sort of bias at work back then, medicine as we know it is a very new science and regulation in the 50′s was splotchy at best. You’re essentially comparing the number of solved murder cases in the early 20th century to those of today without acknowledging the invention of DNA analysis.

nah you’re missing my point. obviously medical ethics in the 50s fucking sucked, although it’s still worth talking about bc a lot of people don’t realize that. the point is, people on the pill and the iud and the patch are still experiencing those side effects now, in the year of our lord 2016, and we have been for decades. by the 1980s, medical standards had increased by like 1000x. so why didn’t we look into the side effects people were facing then? why didn’t we look into it in the 90s? why not the 2000s?

why did it take until motherfucking 2016 for us to get so much as a single study on depression in women on hormonal contraceptives? why have doctors and researchers spent all this time telling people that it’s not possible for their bc to cause these symptoms, despite the fact that we documented these types of side effects back in the fucking 50s when this whole thing started? in the clinical study for men, their complaints about depression were taken very seriously (as they should have been). so why did no one ever bother to take a closer look at this problem in women until now?

hint: it’s because the medical institution as a whole has been proven to take women’s symptoms less seriously than those of men.

startrekships:

Best cold-open ever.

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Cause and Effect” S5E18

agreed

wavegrower:

breeze

Link: The Earth Awaits

If you could live anywhere, where would it be? Oh wait… most of us can live just about anywhere.

Sure, you might not be able to pack up and leave tomorrow (or maybe you could), but with enough resourcefulness, with the right passport it’s not that hard to leave your home country and establish a new life elsewhere. Many readers have done it.

A new free site called The Earth Awaits offers to help you kick the planning into another gear. You tell it which factors are important to you, and it gives you customized recommendations. You can select preferences such as:

• Monthly budget
• Primary language
• Crime rate
• Broadband access (my #1 factor!)
• Climate

… and several others.

If you don’t like your results, you can adjust some factors and try again. This is a useful feature, because for me when I selected a few factors, Oklahoma City and Shreveport, Louisiana came up at the top of my recommendations. No disrespect to citizens of either city, but I’m almost certain those places aren’t paradise for me.

Similarly, when I removed North America from the options, it gave me a list of dreary-sounding cities in the U.K., including a couple that I’ve never heard of. I like the U.K. but I don’t want to be isolated. Then I removed that option and it gave me Canberra, Australia. I love Australia… but most locals would be the first to tell you that Canberra is the Shreveport of Australia.

In other words, you’re going to want to play around with the tool to get results that accurately reflect all of your preferences. Still, it’s a fun resource that can certainly help with daydreaming, and maybe even with real planning if you’re a bit further along.

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Twitter has announced it will close down the video sharing app Vine. This follows an announcement by the social media company that it will be cutting 9% of its workforce following the company’s decreasing growth.

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As Halloween approaches we’re bringing you a selection of what we’re billing as a rising trend for interiors – freaky, creepy and a little bit kitschy Halloween homewares. From art with ghoulish undertones, to tribal masks that conjure up dangerous warriors, sinister ceramics to textiles with faces (admittedly quite friendly, but the teeth featured are generally gritted)…. here’s our edit of grim ideas and creations that would thrill any room with an off kilter vibe. Perfectly acceptable all year round, obviously.

Chances are you can’t acquire these guys above as they’re part of an exhibition currently on show at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Thomas Schütte: United Enemies focuses on the work of Schütte who makes figurative sculptures – including the above piece, which ties two figures together so that each is the other’s prisoner (they are united enemies). If you want our more primitive take on things, basically the blue-faced one especially is giving us nightmares.

The magical Scottish holiday destination of Eilean Shona in Moidart, east of the Ardnamurchan peninsula, was once a hideaway for J M Barrie and the place that is said to have inspired Neverland. Nowadays it’s owned by Vanessa Branson and dotted with cosy rentable bothies and homes, including this, the Old Schoolhouse. Its mantelpiece is decorated with tribal masks that are cool, colourful and creepy. NB masks are also ideal for creating a big spooky gallery wall should you lack a mantel.

Still on faces….

…here’s two artists whose work concerns textile wall hangings and crochety-looking faces. The above is Star Face Silk Flag by Caitlin Hinshelwood and the below two are by Damien Poulain in a collaboration with traditional Egyptian tent-making ‘Kheyameya’ artists whose craft is a dying art. The latter project is by Rotate Editions and launched at London Design Festival last month.

Meanwhile Bertjan Pot continues to make really unsettling but really fabulous masks in his self-propelled face project, which evolved from his experimentations with stitching rope into a carpet. It coiled persistently making it an impossible carpet material, but inspiring the idea of masks. Since the first one, made in 2010, the designer has periodically added to his collection noting, “I’m meeting new faces every day.”

For ceramicist Rami Kim including every feature of a typical face is not necessary, which to us ups the creepy factor of her vessel, below left. Her ghostly pieces however, are really quite sweet.

Artist Nathalie Lete’s collaboration with Astier de Villate are both macabre and humorous. Ceramic meat cuts anyone?

Or, from her own collection, just a lovely big gathering of ceramic eyeballs?

Lastly, we urge you over to artist Angela Deane’s website to see the full gamut of kitsch paintings available from her. Each one has a terrific name too – see Hallucinatory Hydrangea and Ghost Choir below.

Header image courtesy of Angela Deane –Witches Swimming (They don’t all melt).

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