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lonelycoast:

CRD #14

lonelycoast:

I have friend that has been to the bus.

(Source: cowboywithdaddyissues)

sunfoundation:

Olympic Evolution

This graph charts the participation of nations in the Summer Olympics since the beginning of the modern games in 1896. In the beginning, a mere 14 nations competed in the games. In 2008, the Olympics has grown to become a world culture phenomenon that now includes athletes competing under more than 200 different flags.

nevver:

Eleven Facts About the Notorious Spot Paintings, Artlog

1. Hirst has made an estimated 1,400 spot paintings since 1986.
2. Gagosian’s The Complete Spot Paintings 1986–2011 contains over three hundred.
3. Hirst himself has painted five.
4. Hirst thinks those five are “shit.”
5. Rachel Howard paints the best spot paintings: “The best person who ever painted spots for me was Rachel. She’s brilliant. Absolutely fucking brilliant. The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel.”
6. Hirst is still making spot paintings, despite announcing he would stop in 2008.
7. Hirst threatened to sue British Airways for copyright infringement after the airline used colored spots in an advertisement.
8. Tensions with longtime patron Charles Saatchi boiled over when Saatchi formally exhibited a spot-covered Mini Cooper that Hirst had painted for charity. Hirst does not list this retrospective on his CV.
9. Hirst has made an editioned “paint by numbers” spot painting kit, containing a blank canvas, numbered dots, and numbered tins of paint. These unpainted spot paintings sell for more than the painted ones, and they generally remain unpainted.
10. The earliest paintings in the Gagosian show are in the Madison Avenue location because that location has “more of an old-master feel.”
11. An assistant once painted five yellow spots in a row. Hirst told him this was insufficiently random. “We had a big fight,” Hirst admits. “Now I realize he was right, and I was wrong.”

picturesofwar:

“A Russian survivor, liberated by the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S. First Army, identifies a former camp guard who brutally beat prisoners on April 14, 1945, at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Thuringia, Germany.” (AP Photo)

zedweiller:

nikko-andtheleft:

I get it. 

“Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.” - Leon “Lev” Trotsky

bohemea:

what-floats-my-boat:

“A little girl hangs three Siamese kittens on a washing line in a garden in Croydon, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 14th July 1931”

When SB saw this picture, she showed it to me & said, “This looks like something you would have done when you were a little girl.” And I would.

explore-blog:

The spread of America’s obesity epidemic in just 14 years, in an excellent article on the true cost of unwalkable streets from The Atlantic.

lonelyvagabond:

ilovecharts:

Hollywood Sucks

Stay home and watch old movies.

Or watch Sundance films. :3

Child Soldiers - A Worldwide Scourge

A fourteen-year-old member of the AUC in Medellín, Colombia.

© 2002 Marcelo Salinas

Today, child soldiers are fighting in at least 14 countries, including Colombia, Burma and Afghanistan. In most of these cases, there have been no arrest warrants, no trials and no convictions for those responsible. Read more here.

(Source: humanrightswatch)

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