ryandonato: There’s nothing to see ryandonato ‹ ryandonato
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I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

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   Ernest Hemingway (via ryandonato)   

pakao ‹ lazuli-noir
sylvie-vartan: Tears of Sylvie on her wedding day shutmyeyes ‹ sylvie-vartan
malformalady: Dendritic agate is a whitish-gray or colorless chalcedony with tree- or fern-like markings known as dendrites. The dendrites in dendritic agate are iron or manganese inclusions, usually brown or black in color. Though they appear organic due to their fern-like structure, they are actually inorganic; they are formed at fine fracture surfaces through crystallization of weathered solutions of neighboring rock. youlilshit ‹ malformalady

minimalization ‹ fingerpricks

Marina Abramović, Rhythm 0, 1974 “This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.  Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.” This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.” This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.” ryandonato ‹ andrewfishman
In late 1944, LIFE magazine introduced its readers to a new breed of American citizen: the “teen-agers” — and, more specifically, the teenage girls — who would come to shape and define Western culture for decades to come. Enjoy. (Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images) katelizabeth ‹ life
schizophobia ‹ im-bruised
horrorking ‹ caitlinclingman