Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

EMERALD GREEN CUT VELVET CAPE, 1870’s - 1880’s. 

Velvet triangle having a deep floral border with cord and velvet trim having knotted fringe and quilted silk lining.

The Washington Post, May 19, 1912

shout out to this tweet for RUINING my ability to hear "the time being" without thinking about this

Miss Possibelf is our Magic Words teacher, and the dean of students. She’s my favorite teacher. She’s not exactly friendly, but I think she genuinely cares, and she seems more human than the Mage. […] She’s impossible graceful, and impossibly eloquent, and if she’s talking to you directly, her voice kind of tickles your ears.

Miss Posibelf | Women of the Simon Snow Trilogy

Jesse Jacobi’s cover art for Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit (2023) and Planetary Clairvoyance (2019)

local mourning dove goes viral for show-stopping performance in may 19th dawn chorus. when asked for comment, the rising star simply said “hhhrrroooOOOOO hooooo hoo. hooooo”

"you should be at the club" I can't go to the club I'll be in there saying shit like "perchance" and "thrice"

the résumé. yet another contemptuous and despicable piece of work from the french

i invented a machine that transcribes the inner thoughts of oysters and it turns out the first oyster i tested it on was thinking like "beautiful human woman riding a bike i am the bike i am the bike"and i tested it on more oysters and it was all "delicious sediment" "my mucous membrane itchy" "i wish to digest particles" so i guess that one guy was just real horny

least homosexual way to start a fight with your rival

title of this is just ‘lesbian sex’

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