Wander and Wonder

tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS

these photos were assembled by Maya Barkai (taken and submitted by numerous photographers around the world) for the art project Walking Men Worldwide! :)

I think I’m literally never gonna be sick of this masterpiece. I think watching it on a loop for eight hours could fix me. Dancing’s what clears my soul. Dancing’s what makes me whole.

I just love that this very video is an accumulation of thousands of years worth of art made by people who have never met each other. The concept of this video was so completely unfathomable to every single artist who made the sculptures and yet they’ve all put something toward the creation of it.

westerners tankies need their shit kicked, and glorifying the dysfunctional mess the soviet union was is not the woke flex you think it is. yes i will die on this hill, much like my grandfather who was a pow in siberia as a civilian and died of lead poisoning a year after he was frees, and my grandmother who was beaten half dead because she refused to tell the russian soldiers where my then 4 year old mother was hidden whom they wanted to rape and my dad who was crippled from working hard physical jobs from age 12 so that him and my then single mom grandma doesn’t die of starvation and my aunt whose entire block was bombed to dust and I could go on and on and on. The soviet union was a massacre, it killed tens of millions of people in eastern europe, and believe me when I say that I hate the colonialist hellscape the US has turned the whole world into, but the SU was just a red flavor of colonialist hellscape, and most of the scientific progress it has made was due to near infinite money poured into arms research, horrible human experiments and an absolute disregard for any form of life. Much like modern day US. They erased cultures, languages, traditions, religions, entire ethnicies. Get your shit together and get on a bandwagon that wasn’t a fucking genocide, or at least stop being an uninformed blockhead.

This post continues to occasionally strike a nerve in the trust fund baby influencer fandom.

i stopped giving a shit about "legit" purchases of digital products after i spent $80 on the entire Dark Horse collection of Trigun/Trigun Maximum ebook mangas, learning that I only got access to reading them through a proprietary website ereader function, couldn't download them, and couldn't get a refund, and then literally only a year later, getting an e-mail stating that Dark Horse was shutting down that part of their company and I wouldn't even be able to read them anymore. Fuck that

Pirate shit. Don't feel bad for it. It's not "your fault" that artists, independent or otherwise, can't make a living. You downloading an album or ebook for free isn't the cause of the problem. The cause is capitalism, plain and simple, and pirating is a lucky loophole that companies are still trying to stomp out.