I’m not on Tumblr anymore but I’m just reblogging this to illustrate WHY I’m not on Tumblr anymore. Basically, I took this picture at London’s Wellcome Collection back in February this year and posted it to Flickr clearly stating where it’s from and my interest to know more about the background of it as the exhibition displays were just being changed and I didn’t have any info to it:

“Beautiful book that used to be on display at Wellcome Collection, London, but seems to have been taken off the permanent Medicine Man displays. If anyone has more information on this, PLEASE let me know. Thank you!”

At some point, someone on Tumblr decided it’s cool to just share it without even the little information about the Wellcome Collection attached to it. It’s not a good picture and I don’t fucking care it’s mine - what I do care about, however, and what we should all care about when we share things online is: 

1) The source (Wellcome Collection, London)

2) The context (Medicine Man exhibition about the life and work of Henry Wellcome.) 

To remove this little information makes the picture completely and utterly worthless in both a historical and artistic context because it just becomes another piece of visual ephemera floating around the interweb and by uploading it to imgfave.com instead of linking to my post about it, even people who DO care about sourcing, will never find it unless they can be bothered to use reverse image search engines. 

So do fucking list your sources and don’t think your Tumblr is somewhat cooler and totally dada if you just have a constant flow of contextless images. That’s TV for you. The interweb offers you so much more. Use it wisely or fuck off. 

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Fredox

Weirdly enough, I just bought the KAWAII 731 / Fredox book where this is featured in from Le Dernier Cri the other week. It’s only €8, lim. ed of 500 and guaranteed to make your eyes melt. Yay! 

une-ame-solitaire:

Suzzane ive seen this knocking around tumblr a hell of a lot recently with none of your credits or text attached ¬_¬

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Thank you, my dear, but I’m fine with it. All it tells us is that people apparently love political satire, Alice, dolls, lace and anatomy which are all amongst my Top 50 things ever. So all is well. 

I hope your Vania shoot went well and no already dead animals got nosebleeds. x

ALL THE BLOODY TIME! Particularly when standing under giant cthulhuesque sepia-toned trees, actually. 

Reanimation Library - Hackney Branch NOW ON at [ SPACE ]

Kudos to the guy at the amazing Artwords book shop in Hackney (which is way bigger and better than their Shoreditch branch, btw.) for letting me in during his lunchbreak to have a look at the newish Michaël Borremans book published by Hatje Cantz. I can highly recommend it. 

This is Taking Turns by Michaël Borremans, LCD monitor in wooden frame; 35mm film transferred to DVD, 8 minutes 33 seconds (continuous loop); color, silent, 2009

defrag:

silicon:

Hamblin glasses. A pair of spectacles especially designed for reading in bed. England, 1936 @ Nationaal Archief’s photostream (via me-ru-mo)

Perfect Eyes of the Day XLIII

eyetwitch:

Judy Garland

Perfect Eyes of the Day XXX:

I think we’re having a Black Cat’s Night In tonight. Mainly because I miss all my cats and their warm little bellies and racing hearts terribly: :’(

$29.95?!? 

I will quickly order two of these before James Jean realises that he put the dot in the wrong place. o_O

Pretending to Read by Me, 2008