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a semi-personal scrapbook/blog (in the sense that i am not writing these solely for or about me), mostly filled with thoughts, reactions to things, and messages that are sometimes addressed to no one in particular.

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Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz performs “Mother”

A lovely reminder of the women who have shaped our lives, whether we like it or not.

(i am now wondering if i should use my mom’s maiden surname/my middle name again.)

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nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:= nameless-liberty: Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens. “A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ” There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke. You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here. (i emphasized the no real smoking part.) Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing. @:=

nameless-liberty:

Smoking Children by Frieke Janssens.

“A YouTube video of a chainsmoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between the east and west, and questioned notions of smoking being a mainly adult activity. Adult smokers are the societal norm, so I wanted to isolate the viewer’s focus upon the issue of smoking itself. I felt that children smoking would have a surreal impact upon the viewer and compel them to truly see the acts of smoking rather than making assumptions about the person doing the act. ”

There were no real cigarettes on set. Instead, chalk and sticks of cheese were uses as props, while candles and incense provided the smoke.

You can see the making of video here and see more pictures of this project at the artist’s website here.


(i emphasized the no real smoking part.)

Check out the rest of Frieke Janssens’ work. Amazing.

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bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:= bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:= bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:= bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:= bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:= bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:= bookspaperscissors: Roald Dahl Stamps i want. i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library. @:=

bookspaperscissors:

Roald Dahl Stamps

i want.

i miss being able to borrow a book that has a trifecta of Dahl’s stories including The BFG and Matilda (i forget the other story) from the grade school library.

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bookspaperscissors: Seung-Soon Ryu Hee! @:= bookspaperscissors: Seung-Soon Ryu Hee! @:=

bookspaperscissors:

Seung-Soon Ryu

Hee!

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The Two-Headed Calf

spindlejournal:

by Laura Gilpin


Tomorrow when the farm boys find this
freak of nature, they will wrap his body
in newspaper and carry him to the museum.


But tonight he is alive and in the north
field with his mother. It is a perfect
summer evening: the moon rising over
the orchard, the wind in the grass. And
as he stares into the sky, there are
twice as many stars as usual.

There is something about this that just resonates with me. It’s been a while since i first read it, yet when i found it again (on my likes pages), the tragic nostalgia that this unique, effervescent life had hit that chord within me again.

i should post more poems.

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Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Giacomo Leopardi (via blogut)

oh to be a child.

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(What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is also where my ghosts reside.)
(You have ghosts?)
(Of course I have ghosts.)
(But you are a child.)
(I am not a child.)
(But you have not known love.)
(These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

Jonathan Safran Foer (via thefranticsearch) (via quotewhore)

Sounds like the conversation i should be having.

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