Sporks and Things

Feb 01

cheatsheet:

+1 someecards.

We’ll be chatting about this and whether the GOP hates women over here, starting at 3pm EST. #wiwchat!

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sofapizza:

wilwheaton:

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but you said to call when i found a pair. ..oh you meant testicles

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Jan 31

jtotheizzoe:

alchymista:

Self Portraits of a Declining Brain

William Utermohlen is latest artist to be honored at the GV Art Gallery in London, with an event that has an emotional purpose that is near and dear to the hearts of many. Utermohlen spent the last twelve years of his life battling Alzheimer’s, a degenerative neurological disease that slowly took away his ability to do what he was most passionate about: his art.

At the event, his widow spoke to the many supporters, saying “He died in 2007, but really he was dead long before that. Bill died in 2000, when the disease meant he was no longer able to draw.”

This exhibit is known as William Utermohlen: Artistic decline through Alzheimer’s, as it explores the relationship between Utermohlen’s artwork and the progression and struggle with the disease.

Looking at his pieces as his disease progressed, a clear change is visible. As he slowly lost control over his movements, his composition and techniques changed as he was forced to abandon oils for easier-to-use watercolours and pencils. One thing that did not change throughout time, however, was the sheer mastery and vision displayed by has passion for the content of his pieces.

His paintings display a rarely seen insight into a mind effected by Alzheimer’s, as his struggle and frustration are imminent. Also changed by the progression of time and the disease were his subjects. He began to focus on self portraits and looming dark doorways in the backgrounds

His widow commented that, “it was as if he knew he was going to a very dark place and he knew he couldn’t do anything about it. By the end he couldn’t even recognise his own paintings… that was the saddest thing”.

Rarely does one get the opportunity to chronicle their own experience with mental decline. Even more rarely do we get to share and observe that troubled journey.

This art is that tale.

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#because you’re tall #fuck this stupid show who let me start watching it #castle

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popculturebrain:

doctorwho:

My Other Commute Is In A TARDIS.

Doctor Who + BBC America ad on the train in New York.

(via Twitter / @SJHochman: A Tardis?)

Seriously though if you had a Tardis there’s no chance in hell you’d ever subject yourselves to the horrors of the LIRR. Even if a swarm of Daleks were threatening the Earth and basing themselves out of Jamaica.

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Newsweek: Colbert's Super PAC raises over $1 million, and includes this lovely letter:

think-progress:

Dear Sirs and Sirettes,

Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (ABTT) would like it entered into the record that as of January 30th, 2012, the sum total of our donations was $1,023,121.24.

Stephen Colbert, President of ABTT, has asked that I quote him as saying, ”

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Making my way downtown
Walking fast, faces pass
And I’m homebound

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ilovecharts:

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