Peace of Reason

Anthropological journaling of the human existence and interactions with the totality of existence, perception courtesy of being.

Sincerely,
Huston

“I’m excited about the tar sands being stripped out of Canada, now I have an opportunity for cheap real estate with toxic lakefront access!”
—   Huston

(Source: ted.com)

Technoccult: Undercover Cops Seduce High School Students and Entrap Them into Selling Weed

Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to classes, became Facebook friends and flirted with the other students. One 18-year-old honor student named Justin fell in love with an attractive 25-year-old undercover cop…

A Brother And Sister Get Married (And Later, Their Son Tweets It)

As comedian John Fugelsang recalls, all in life was dandy until one fateful day, at age 6, he noticed an odd motif in some photos: “In every family picture … my mother was wearing a habit.”

Last August, he tweeted his parents’ unusual love story — with photos — on the first anniversary of his father’s death. In a series of blurbs 140 characters or less, he tells it better than I ever could:

“The universe on a micro and macro scale is merely the continuous introspective and extrospective perception of the perspective in relation to it’s part and whole. A solar system a representation of an atom: the sun being the nucleus and all the parts fall in as a cloud of negatively charged electrons, positively charged protons and neutrally charged neutrons. The further in our out you zoom, becomes part of the infinite.”
—   Huston
fyeahwomenartists: For our Houston (and nearby) readers - “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston on view through April 15th “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through April 15 is a rare opportunity to see some of the most important and underrecognized artists of the late twentieth century. The exhibition assembles a group of women who were making art in the 1970s and 1980s and organizes their work around certain shared interests in melodrama, the power of the stereotype, consumption and commodity culture, domestic life, motherhood and sexuality and visual pleasure.” (via “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)

fyeahwomenartists:

For our Houston (and nearby) readers -

“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston on view through April 15th

“The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston through April 15 is a rare opportunity to see some of the most important and underrecognized artists of the late twentieth century. The exhibition assembles a group of women who were making art in the 1970s and 1980s and organizes their work around certain shared interests in melodrama, the power of the stereotype, consumption and commodity culture, domestic life, motherhood and sexuality and visual pleasure.”

(via “The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991” at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston)

(Source: camh.org, via fyeahwomenartists)

fyeahwomenartists: Jennifer SteinkampDaisy Bell 2008 The title, Daisy Bell, refers to a particular moment in the history of science and culture: 1962, Bell Labs used the IBM 704 computer to voice synthesize the popular 19th-century English song of the same name. The song was also used in the climactic scene of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the supercomputer HAL 9000 begins to sing daisy daisy as his consciousness is degraded. The Daisy Bell series is comprised of a variety of poisonous flowers that appear to cascade down the gallery walls.

fyeahwomenartists:

Jennifer Steinkamp
Daisy Bell
2008

The title, Daisy Bell, refers to a particular moment in the history of science and culture: 1962, Bell Labs used the IBM 704 computer to voice synthesize the popular 19th-century English song of the same name. The song was also used in the climactic scene of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey in which the supercomputer HAL 9000 begins to sing daisy daisy as his consciousness is degraded.

The Daisy Bell series is comprised of a variety of poisonous flowers that appear to cascade down the gallery walls.

(via fyeahwomenartists)

tonguedepressors: John Bulmer View Over the Potteries, Stoke on Trent, 1963

tonguedepressors:

John Bulmer

View Over the Potteries, Stoke on Trent, 1963

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fyeahwomenartists: Lisa SanditzTie Dye Trees and Car Wash from the series Organized Living 2004

fyeahwomenartists:

Lisa Sanditz
Tie Dye Trees and Car Wash from the series Organized Living
2004

(via fyeahwomenartists)

“Never give up freedom to information, trading ideas with fellow beings, correspondence through all mediums, because once one has, all must adhere to a limit in the pursuit of insight and knowledge.”
—   Huston