ceci nes't pas un autoportrait ii

foto by Alina Holohan / found in the internet


ceci nes't pas un autoportrait ii

selfie? 
self-portrait?
self-obsession?
self-curiosity?

CHGOmyKINDofBOOMBOOMtown

firepower from Chris Pritchard on Vimeo.

explosivos 4 de julios pasados, Chicago

  explosiva naturaleza el 30 de junio sobre Chicago

ceci nes't pas un autoportrait

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qu'est ce que c'est
selfie? 
self-portrait? 
selfpussy-love? 
none of the above?

BlackMagicLila

stormyINandOUT

@mymodernmet  

Wanna bring a storm into your home? 

...buy this

 (and if you get some drugs, a naked companion, funky electronic flute music, and just watch... 
fkdup silliness will follow...) 

::UnwantedSelfies::

Why Francis Bacon destroyed his portrait of Cecil Beaton  @DangerousMinds

... Francis expected that I would be shocked. He was a little disconcerted. He said it gave him a certain pain to show it to me, but if I didn’t like it I needn’t buy it. The Marlborough Gallery would want it. I stammered: ‘Well—I can’t say what I think of it. It’s so utterly different from anything of yours I’ve ever seen!’

Beaton thought the picture was “of an unusual violence” painted in a manner that broke all the rules. Sensing Beaton’s horror, Bacon was typically gallant and charming offering his friend to take it and if he didn’t like to send it back. Beaton was baffled at the offer, then asked if he bought it could he sell it again? “Of course!” Bacon replied, “It’s yours to do what you want with.”

Beaton returned home “crushed, staggered and feeling quite a great sense of loss.” No sooner had he written these very words in his diary, the telephone rang.

It was Francis. In an ecstatic voice he said:   

 ‘This is Francis, and I’ve just destroyed your portrait.’ 

‘But why? You said you liked it? You thought it such a good work, and that’s all that matters!’ 

 ‘No—I don’t like my friends to have something of mine they don’t like. And I often destroy my work in any case; in fact, I’ve destroyed most of the pictures for the Marlborough. Only I just wanted to let you know so that you needn’t pay me.’

It seemed little to Francis to waste all that work. He seemed jubilant at not getting paid, at not finishing a picture. He said that perhaps, one day he’d start again, or do one from memory: ‘They often turn out the best,’ he said.

cÁntameloBonitoDante

“After all, it would be pretty horrifying to learn that you are about to go meet Satan.” 

humoristic take on Dante´s Inferno  at The Paris Review

CERCHI VIII-IX Canto XXXIII, ove tratta di quelli che tradirono coloro che in loro tutto si fidavano... (circles 8-9, canto 33, the circles of treachery and fraudulent acts between individuals who share(d) special bonds of love and trust)

I couldn't get enough, so I had to self-destruct

The heat was on, rising to the top

Everybody going strong, and that is when my spark got hot

I heard somebody say

(Burn baby burn) disco inferno

(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down y'all

(Burn baby burn) disco inferno

(Burn baby burn) burn that mother down

Gertrude´sGirls

lindas las nenas de Gertrude Käsebier 

LAtortillaESTÁdeMODA

nenes, hay que cerrar el mes gay con orgullo, o mejor, con tortilla... la que preparó joe cuba y su seXteto por allá por los 60-70... 

y las nenas ya la gozan... la tortilla, yo la quiero probar, qué buena está... come, come, come tortilla mamá... que rica está

total, de todas formas van a hablar mal de la sonora... jaaaa, a ver... sucia insolente cochina desfachatada grosera chusma ... eso, eso y mucho más... enjoy

detaEllas

unmillÓndefotosperdidas

@messynessychic, a visit to paris snap shop 

 

chicagorgeous

Chicago: The Great American City from Jackpot in the West Productions on Vimeo.

tunneling

Mi cabeza es un laberinto oscuro. A veces hay como relámpagos que iluminan algunos corredores. Nunca termino de saber por qué hago ciertas cosas.   

[...] que toda la historia de los pasadizos era una ridícula invención o creencia mía y que en todo caso había un solo túnel, oscuro y solitario: el mío, el túnel en que había transcurrido mi infancia, mi juventud, toda mi vida. Y en uno de esos trozos transparentes del muro de piedra yo había visto a esta muchacha y había creído ingenuamente que venía por otro túnel paralelo al mío, cuando en realidad pertenecía al ancho mundo, al mundo sin límites de los que no viven en túneles; y quizá se había acercado por curiosidad a una de mis extrañas ventanas y había entrevisto el espectáculo de mi insalvable soledad, o le había intrigado el lenguaje mudo, la clave de mi cuadro. Y entonces, mientras yo avanzaba siempre por mi pasadizo, ella vivía afuera su vida normal, la vida agitada que llevan esas gentes que viven afuera, esa vida curiosa y absurda donde hay bailes y fiestas y alegría y frivolidad.


fragmentos de El túnel, Ernesto Sabato

tuteAmatute

“Escribir es siempre protestar, aunque sea de uno mismo”.

ida... Ana María Matute, premio Cervantes 2010

como consuelo, tal vez se llevó el Cervantes de apenas hace 4 años... 

porque vaya, sólo la tercera mujer en obtener el más valorado de la literatura en español, luego de María Zambrano y Dulce María Loynaz... 

como si hubiera carestía de autoras, pero bue... ya se sabe... hombres necios que acusaís... qepd

Biografía en escritoras.com

maQUALEidea

 

l´originale y esta versión, que tiene su cosita rica, una vocalista lanzada y swing de jazz que le da más noir a la letra... ma che idea... bailando con los ojos cerrados dando vueltas como trompo... che ti hai fatto mermelata... oh yeah. 

estoESlaVIDAmía

JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City on Nowness.com 

Directed by street artists JR & José Parlá, the film "Wrinkles of The City" documents their collaboration in the series of pastings and murals created across Havana in 2012. The full short film is now available for public view at JR's site

iF

lacÓnicos los espartanos...  

@mentalfloss 5 fiercest one-liners in history

5. THE SPARTANS ON CALLING AN ENEMY'S BLUFF: "IF."

Philip II of Macedon was the father of Alexander the Great. His son would one day conquer the (known) world, but Philip got things started by conquering all the city-states of ancient Greece. 

Almost all. Sparta, on the southernmost tip of the land Philip sought to control, was a strict military culture known for its brutal martial prowess. In 346 B.C, Philip sent a message to intimidate the Spartans:

"You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army on your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and raze your city." 

The term "Laconic wit," comes from the Spartan region Laconia. The Spartans employed it to great effect with their one word response to Philip: 

"If." 

Philip never attempted to conquer Sparta.

slowLife

Slow Life from Daniel Stoupin on Vimeo.

chúgarcandi

+irrumare+putastis

Catulo y su poemita sucio @pijamasurf

...fascinating --for nerdy lingual me, anyway-- this translatinus MuchAdoAboutNothing blabus-blabus-blabus veteacogéporculus, sort of 

CARMINA XVI

Paedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi,

qui me ex versiculis meis putastis,

quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum.

Nam castum esse decet pium poetam

ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est,

qui tum denique habent salem ac leporem,

si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici

et quod pruriat incitare possunt,

non dico pueris, sed his pilosis,

qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos.

Vos quod milia multa basiorum

legitis, male me marem putatis?

Paedicabo ego vos et irrumabo

y +irrumare fun here... Lewd graffiti from ancient Pompeii @DangerousMinds