Dysfunctional Art

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:17:26 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 22:15:29 -0400

honeyed: mszombi: evendiamondsarentforever: Post-mortem...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:59 -0400

mszombi:

evendiamondsarentforever:

Post-mortem photography began in 1839 in the Victorian Era. It was created as a memorial for families of their loved ones, as their post-mortem photos may have been their only ones. The girl on the left of this photo is dead.

Oh wow, now someone’s actually claiming the OTHER girl in this photo is dead. Normally they say the girl on the right is the dead one.

Victorians were notorious for being death obsessed. It’s estimated that about 95% of all photos taken before 1930 are of dead people. One of the most common ways to take photos of dead people back then was to actually saw the head off and set the neck stump into a specially fitted posed mannequin, so that it would look like the deceased was posed naturally.

Post mortem photography became so popular back then that families would actually hire trained murderers to kill a family member that they thought would look very nice in a post-mortem photo, because a particularly well shot photo of a young deceased family member was the envy of all the neighbors. Whole towns in both England and middle America were wiped out from neighbors trying to one up each other with their tragic photo collection.

This fascination with post mortem photography existed well into the era of silent films. So much that the first several decades of film, all the actors were actually corpses moved on elaborate wooden frames and controlled by strings. Charlie Chaplin was actually a dummy head on a number of different corpse bodies. This fad started to fade out sometime in the 40’s, after much difficulty attempting to sync up off-screen actors voices with the puppet corpses on camera. However, a few famous movies had at least one or two corpse actors in them up until the 70s. Gone With The Wind and the first James Bond movie are probably the most famous modern movies with corpse puppet for actors, however by then the actors were usually delegated to a much smaller part.

These facts are just as true as the comment written under this picture.

farewell-kingdom: Koji Iyama

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:24:22 -0400

farewell-kingdom:

Koji Iyama

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:13:39 -0400

elfandiary: fed to the ocean - The Ghost of A Thousand

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:12:08 -0400

elfandiary:

fed to the ocean - The Ghost of A Thousand

spritetechgodhead: How to work it: put your thang down flip it and reverse it

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:20 -0400

spritetechgodhead:

How to work it:

put your thang down

flip it

and reverse it

mistercoventry: “You should see the other guy.”

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:00 -0400

mistercoventry:

“You should see the other guy.”

alwaysbetongray: Triumph of a Heart

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:20:25 -0400

alwaysbetongray:

Triumph of a Heart

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:04:52 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:02:53 -0400

marcomazzoni: “The Head of Marie Antoinette” 2013, colored...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:46:04 -0400

marcomazzoni:

“The Head of Marie Antoinette” 2013, colored pencils on paper, cm 30x30

“ANIMANERA”, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, NY

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Mon, 20 May 2013 19:19:11 -0400

saviourofgotham: Batman: TAS - Opening Scene

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:02:27 -0400

saviourofgotham:

Batman: TAS - Opening Scene

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Mon, 20 May 2013 18:58:35 -0400

intoxifaded: The only difference is a little bit of fat, but...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:53:55 -0400

intoxifaded:

The only difference is a little bit of fat, but it’s made out to be a huge deal

mishacollinsinspace: deathofadeity: smashing-bricks: castiel-i...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:41:00 -0400

mishacollinsinspace:

deathofadeity:

smashing-bricks:

castiel-is-a-bluebird:

mydetheturk:

poco-loki:

nah, he ran into her knife

he ran into her knife ten times

HE HAD IT COMING

HE HAD IT COMING ALL ALONG

in which, once again, tumblr makes light of murder whilst maintaining that rape needs a trigger warning because it’s just the worst thing that could ever happen

For the record, it never actually says the man died. It didn’t even say it was a fatal stab or even an attempted murder. For all we know the man was just stabbed in the hand or another nonleathal place.

He had it coming? Really? Here’s the article: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/singapore/story/girlfriend-stabs-boyfriend-complaining-she-hadnt-cooked-dinner-2013021. It says he was stabbed in the chest, and was seriously injured. While I don’t agree with what either of them did, are we really going to justify what occurred?

When my brother's in the shower...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:23:30 -0400

-waiting for brother to get out of the shower-
-hears him singing-
me: will you quit singing?
brother: what?
me: QUIT SINGING. IT'S LAME
brother: WOMAN
brother: WHEN I'M IN THE SHOWER, TWO THINGS GET TO BE FREE
brother: MY BALLS
brother: AND MY SOUL

sammneiland: thegistcali: Article from The...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:14:52 -0400

sammneiland:

thegistcali:

Article from The Guardian

congrats.

you’re all attracted to robots now.

Stephen Mackey

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:11:41 -0400

Stephen Mackey