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David Starr Jordan’s “astral cat” “From the...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:03:00 +0000

David Starr Jordan’s “astral cat”

“From the members of the Camera Club, seven of those having greatest animal magnetism and greatest power of mental concentration were chosen for the experiment. Connection was made from the eye of these observers to the corresponding parts of the lens; then all were to remain in utter darkness and perfect silence, each person fixing his mind on a cat. They were not to think of any particular cat, but of a cat as represented by the innate idea of the mind or ego itself. This was highly important, for the purpose of Mr. Marvin was not simply to fix by photography an ephemeral recollection [..] it was to bring out the impression of ultimate feline reality. The innate image in the mind was the object desired. One man’s thought of a cat would be individual, ephemeral, a recollection of some cat which he had some time seen, and which by the mind’s eye would be seen again. From seven ideals, sympathetically combined, the true cat would be developed. This combination is the essence of sympsychography , a term suggested by Prof. Amos Gridley, of Alcalde… The personal equation would be measurably eliminated in sympsychography, while the cat of the human innate idea, the astral cat, the cat which ‘never was on sea or land’, but in accordance with which all cats have been brought into incarnation, would be more or less perfectly disclosed.”

(Read Psychic Photography over on ForteanTimes)

defrag: the hypnotized patient and the tuning fork via...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:46:27 +0000

defrag:

the hypnotized patient and the tuning fork

via escholarship.org

"Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund; es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:43:07 +0000

“Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund; es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht.”

- Klaus Kinski as Woyzeck in Woyzeck*

… * but please do read Büchner’s play first!

foxesinbreeches: garconniere: anosognosia: rhea137:bigfun:meli...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:38:37 +0000

foxesinbreeches:

garconniere:

anosognosia:

rhea137:bigfun:melisaki:

The Kitchen II - Homage to Saint Therese

by Marina Abramović, 2009

Perfect Potential Suicide of the Day XVII

foxesinbreeches: violetfolklore: moonweed: deadgirls: josephz...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:30:56 +0000

foxesinbreeches:

violetfolklore:

moonweed:

deadgirls:

josephzohn:

melisaki:

Zwei Mädchen

by Hans Peter Feldman, 1999

missspite: Craftzine.com blog : Top Stitch Trompe L’oeil...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:11:27 +0000

missspite:

Craftzine.com blog : Top Stitch Trompe L’oeil Dress

You call it trompe l’oeil, I call it laziness. :)

thousandflowerettes: (via aubzillatron) Perfect Headgear of...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:07:46 +0000

thousandflowerettes:

(via aubzillatron)

Perfect Headgear of the Day L: Amira Fritz

thedoppelganger: Chrysalide Magazine: Numéro No. 108 November...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:05:33 +0000

thedoppelganger:

Chrysalide
Magazine: Numéro No. 108 November 2009
Model: Shalom Harlow
Photographers: Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello

Perfect Headgear of the Day XLIX

thedoppelganger: Magazine: Wig Magazine Photographer: Chadwick...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:26:55 +0000

thedoppelganger:

Magazine: Wig Magazine
Photographer: Chadwick Tyler
Model: Dasha Malygina

Hello, fellow dry-lipped, anarchically eyebrowed girl. I like you.

Send More Paramedics: The Awakening (The Awakening)

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:06:35 +0000

Send More Paramedics: The Awakening (The Awakening)

liquidnight: Beth Cavener Stichter - A Second Kind of...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:06:00 +0000

liquidnight:

Beth Cavener Stichter - A Second Kind of Loneliness, 2009, stoneware, paper pinwheel, internal mechanical breathing device

[Every 8 seconds, a breath is released from the goat’s mouth, causing the pinwheel to spin slowly]

Why? To illustrate our cattle’s methane emissions by happily breathing and farting along to our so-called climate change “struggle”?! Or to exemplify why we should all go vegan at once?!

It’s a pretty piece of sculpture, but sometimes I despair at art.

thousandflowerettes: fairphantom:suicideblonde: Karen...

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:54:00 +0000

thousandflowerettes:

fairphantom:suicideblonde: Karen Elson

YOUR SOFA IS FACING THE WALL, YOU STUPID WOMAN, AND JUDGING FROM YOUR VAPID STARE, FOX NEWS IS NOW COMING TO YOU DIRECTLY FROM YOUR CEILING, ISN’T IT?

God, I’m in the shittiest mood ever, literally.

WurzelBrain® to WurzelStomach®:

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:48:15 +0000

KEEP THE BLOODY FOOD IN, YOU HOLLOW STUPID FUCKING PIECE OF BRAINDEAD MUSCLES. IT’S NOT EVEN FOOD, IT’S A SOUP, FOR FUCK’S SAKE. IT’S BEEN 4 DAYS NOW AND I NEED TO GET BACK TO WORK AND MOVE MY FLAT. THANK YOU, YOU SMELLY FUCK.