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meens — Tue, 21 May 2013 22:50:54 -0400

teenytigress: SO THIS GUY IN MY ENGLISH IS DOING A PROJECT FOR...

lespourshariati — Tue, 21 May 2013 07:59:16 -0400

SO THIS GUY IN MY ENGLISH IS DOING A PROJECT FOR BIO WHERE HE GETS A DUCKLING TO IMPRINT ON HIM SO HE JUST CARRIES IT AROUND WITH HIM TO ALL OF HIS CLASSES AND I SWEAR THIS DUCK IS THE MOST WELL BEHAVED FUCKING POULTRY IVE EVER SEEN IT JUST SITS ON HIS DESK QUIETLY AND SOMETIMES HE PUTS IT IN HIS POCKET AND IT JUST SLEEPS LIKE WOW YOU GO DUCKY

givingblowjobs: the most bizarre creature on this earth is...

meens — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:03:07 -0400

givingblowjobs:

the most bizarre creature on this earth is still so cute omfg

bombayelectric: Spotted: Shiva Street Art Dude love it

lespourshariati — Sun, 19 May 2013 00:25:13 -0400

bombayelectric:

Spotted: Shiva Street Art

Dude love it

benkling: Word to your mother. Every day. Love ya mom xoxo

meens — Sun, 12 May 2013 02:57:31 -0400

benkling:

Word to your mother.

Every day. Love ya mom xoxo

salamalaikum: Afghan girls Do you think they are real...

lespourshariati — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:26:58 -0400

salamalaikum:

Afghan girls

Do you think they are real piercings? Wow seems young

itscolossal: This pressed flower skeleton is an ad for a...

lespourshariati — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:18:12 -0400

itscolossal:

This pressed flower skeleton is an ad for a Japanese funeral home.

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meens — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:02:45 -0400

Fill the world with love

lespourshariati — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:56:04 -0400

Fill the world with love

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lespourshariati — Mon, 06 May 2013 11:07:13 -0400

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meens — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:02:40 -0400

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meens — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:50:06 -0400

greenmuse89: “You are being shagged by a rare parrot!” This...

meens — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:35:01 -0400

greenmuse89:

“You are being shagged by a rare parrot!”

This will never not be funny.

xoxo

meens — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:02:00 -0400

xoxo

purplefigtree: Page from anthology of poetry by Sa’di and...

lespourshariati — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:44:03 -0400

purplefigtree:

Page from anthology of poetry by Sa’di and Hafiz

Herat, Afghanistan, late 15th century.

thefrogman: [video]

meens — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 18:40:50 -0400

thefrogman:

[video]

omgthatdress: Ikat-Print Dresses 1775-1780 The Metropolitan...

meens — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:20:21 -0400

omgthatdress:

Ikat-Print Dresses

1775-1780

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Props to Louis ck!

lespourshariati — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:22:53 -0400

Props to Louis ck!:

What do you guys think

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lespourshariati — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:53:57 -0400

contemporarypakistaniart: David Alesworth, Elizabeth Dadi,...

meens — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:42:09 -0400

contemporarypakistaniart:

David Alesworth, Elizabeth Dadi, Iftikhar Dadi, and Durriya Kazi with Bacchoo, Shaukat Lala, Mairaj Nicklewala and sons, and Yousuf and family.

Heart Mahal.

Beaten stainless steel, painted MDF, and lightbulbs, installed inside shipping container.

1996-1999.

“One manifestation of this new creative energy is the group’s Heart Mahal, 1996. This collaborative effort between the artists and teams of urban craftsmen is a 20-foot-long container, the innards of which have been transformed into a shrine-like space that evokes decorated trucks and rickshaws, weddings, religious rituals, and Bollywood film sets. On the container’s far wall, hundreds of colored lights pulse to suggest a pumping heart. Their light reflects off beaten stainless steel side walls lined with embossed interpretations of the artists’ drawings and toy figurines nested in mihrab-like niches.

In its collaborative origin, evocative material composition, and dramatic staging, Heart Mahal straddles the gaps between the overused binary oppositions of traditional/modern and local/foreign. Its production reveals the paradox that in an age when capital, media, and technology all move fluidly around the world, people (at least all but a certain rarefied class) don’t. And it is in these non-circulating people’s usage of freely circulating materials (containers, toys) that Heart Mahal fashions a coherent collective expression.

In Heart Mahal the artists’ collaboration moves beyond the gestural through their decision to work with craftsmen, not just on production, but also on fundamental questions of aesthetics, design, intent, and utility. This is not a celebration of utopian democracy, but rather a knowing arbitrage between the artists’ agency in their work’s circulation and the craftsmen’s facility of use, expressed through their painted panels, the beaten steel and the intricately arranged lights.”

(via Karachi Pop: Vernacular Visualities in 1990s Karachi)