July 2009
2 posts
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June 2009
1 post
Today is my birthday and I am in a farming village.
May 2009
10 posts
I want to come home :(
A Snickers bar has been added to the Ramen as of this morning.
We have hall bathrooms in this hostel. Last night in the sink I found a small plastic cup, tipped over, and a bunch of wet Ramen noodles.
I Was A Teenage Stock Photo →
magicmolly:
Yvonne Georgina Puig on being photographed by Getty Images and appearing in all sorts of surprising places, for This Recording.
“Nothing grows here. Except depression.”
– M. on Russia
‘O Lord I wanted to shout out all sorts of things fuck or shit or anything at all only not to look ugly or those lines from the strain who knows the way hed take it you want to feel your way with a man theyre not all like him thank God some of them want you to be so nice about it I noticed the contrast he does it and doesnt talk I gave my eyes that look with my hair a bit loose from the...
April 2009
23 posts
ABSTRACT
This thesis concentrates chiefly on two Russian Avant-garde movements, Suprematism and Constructivism. These movements occurred alongside a pivotal period of Russian history: the overthrow of the Tsars in 1917, leading to the creation of a Soviet State by 1922. This thesis examines the context in which these movements occurred, specifically with regard to how the rise of Communism and the...
OMG! Hannah on the Big Screen →
Via Tom.
Dear Christine, Malevich’s revolutionary Black Square was not so revolutionary after all. Indeed, Robert Fludd published in 1617 this image of the black square, nearly 300 years before Malevich. Quibblers might want to point out that unlike our hero of the avant-garde, Fludd was quite definitely representing something (in “the world’s best engraving” to quote Adrian Johns),...
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sowing Seeds
“Our life is a theater piece, in which nonobjective feeling is portrayed by...”
– Malevich’s Suprematist Manifesto.
March 2009
26 posts
Amadou & Mariam - Sabali
“We want to conquer the world, take it from the hands of Nature and build a new...”
– Malevich, 1919, concerning the proliferation of the machine
“Malevich’s Suprematist cup was not a utilitarian object but a Suprematist...”
– Sarah Bodine, Russian Art of the Revolution
High Class
Cheez-its and Gatorade for breakfast.
