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Incredible art from the Northern Wei Dynasty, Mogao Caves, 4th century

My brief experience seeing Wei Dynasty art in North China taught me it's some of the most refined in Chinese history

[Photo/Chinaculture.org]

#art #places #architecture

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Wish I was a late bronze age girl

I would have my homeland invaded by the sea peoples. I would be lain siege to by the sea peoples. My cities would be sacked by the sea peoples. I would make bronze tools and pottery. My shores would be invaded by the mysterious sea peoples. I would be mustering my armies to fend off the sea peoples.

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Link to the PDF document

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An important message from the National Lawyers Guild - Detroit & Michigan Chapter

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yesterday, a group of zionist pro-israel protesters in tandem with the proud boys and christian nationalists like sean feucht, brandishing israeli, american, and lehi flags, a zionist terrorist organization that carried out massacres in palestine, as well as swastikas, tried to climb over columbia's campus gates while yelling things like "go back to gaza," "kill all palestinians" at students, unimpeded by police until they were almost over. yet this isn't receiving widespread coverage

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

#palestine resources

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peoplewhomakebuildingsfuck inordertomakemorebuildings.org/careers

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I can’t tell you how much I love this artwork from ancient Egypt (the Middle Kingdom). People have been raising cattle and practicing animal husbandry for so long, that there is something almost inherently human about this scene.

Everyone in the field of veterinary medicine or agriculture knows the feeling of staying up late with a laboring animal trying to make sure both mom and baby are okay. Delivering a calf is often physically and emotionally exhausting work that takes enormous patience and learned skill. It requires a unique balance of physical strength and gentleness to do correctly. There is no feeling quite like getting that baby out and everyone is okay. I’m certain ancient people must have felt the same way, and I wonder if the artist knew this feeling firsthand. I wonder if those humans depicted were people the artist knew, if the cow and calf maybe were as well.

#art #anthropology #sculpture

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ITS FINALLY EVERYWHERE

album #2 done. i fucked up the rollout for this so bad lololololol. but i’m rly proud and im glad it’s finally out there :)))) check it! 12-13 tracks of glitchy noisey pop rock

#OH WHOA HEY #congrats yomi stoked to listen #music

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LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO: a journalist on the ground reported students blocking a car holding an arrested comrade. ten minutes later she posted another tweet stating usc protesters SUCCESSFULLY DEARRESTED THEIR COMRADE! this is the second dearrest ive seen happen in the past week at a pro palestine protest, it's absolutely incredible! people are beginning to realize we have the power, palestine will be free!

#whoa

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separate urself from schemes and patterns as much as u can. it is human to categorize feelings and behaviors as much as possible but it isnt natural. not saying we should stop trying to read the chaos but stop trying so much

#hmm

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“All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing.”

— John Cage, Lecture on Nothing

#words

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Ochre's Lemodie (15th Anniversary Edition)

#music

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"We, the Iranian Jews, strongly condemn the heinous crimes of the oppressive Zionist regime against the discriminated and defenseless people of Palestine. We express our solidarity with them and call on the international community to help them." - The Jewish community of Yusef Abad Synagogue demonstration in support of Palestine, Tehran (30 October 2023).

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#music #ohhh cool

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Excerpt from Soviet-Armenian film Nahapet Նահապետ (1977) directed by Henrik Malyan. Based on a novel by Hrachya Kochar, the film depicts the Armenian genocide of 1915. Nahapet is a survivor who tries to rebuild his life after the tragic loss of his family. The scene is accompanied with Armenian folk song “Dle Yaman” Դլե Յաման, which became a hymn of the genocide, here it is sung by Melania Abovian. 

One of the recurring scenes in the film involves scores of red apples falling from a tree, rolling into a river, and floating en masse downstream. The scene is a painful symbolic reminder of the multitude of Armenian bodies thrown into the Euphrates by the Young Turk regime during the genocide. (x)

An apple tree on the lakeshore, with countless red fruits rolling down towards the blue water, is how Malyan, the ‘lyricist’ of Armenian cinema, pictures the huge loss sustained by his nation. Yet like all true metaphors, this image is multi-semantic and means not only loss but continuation, the prospect of reaching the shore one day. […] ‘salvation’ and ‘revival’ of the apple tree symbolize the rebirth of a massacred nation. (x)

#art #cinema

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