The Most Gorgeous Book Ever Has No Words Or Pictures, Just Color
This is the RGB Colorspace Atlas by Tauba Auerbach. The 8”x8” hardcover tome is pretty much an encyclopedia of every color in the RGB index. It’s huge, it’s gorgeous, and I want one.
I KNOW WHAT THIS NEEDS
It’s like they were made for each other.
Sensors alight, the pen trailed itself sensually down the gradient shift from yellow to blue along ample curve of paper, dipping closer and closer to the book’s spine.
“Can you imagine it?” the pen whispered, whirring and selecting #00563F with practiced intimacy. “Just picture it. With your collection and my potential…we can color the world.”
A pen and a book A notepad and a clock CAN I REQUEST A DOUBLE DATE??
request accomplished –
SMACKDOWN TIME
How the fuck did it end up like this
This is the greatest thing I HAVE EVER SEEN
Remember when Tumblr used to do this dumb shit instead of perpetuating drama about problematic receipts that were years old?
This looks like the best fucking Magical Girl anime on the PLANET
oh my god remember when we had fun here
Oh the good ol days
I miss it so much
i was so ready for the comments section to be a bunch of loser ass funnymen ranting about how stupid kids having fun were but im glad people are starting to realize this stuff isnt a fraction as bad as the shit that goes on these days
You know what I don’t get? The fact that in fanon, it’s always Harry who makes a mess and Draco who’s the clean one. I mean think about it, Harry grew up needing to tidy every fucking thing in the house. He’d probably have a panic attack when the sink is filled with to-be-washed dishes or when there are dirty socks everywhere.
Because what if uncle Vernon sees that? I bet Harry might not even allow himself to eat if he accidentally breaks a cup. After all that was the way things went for the first 10 years of his life.
And then you have Draco, who might look immactulate, but who also grew up in a manor full of house elves. He’s probably the worst, most messy roommate you can get, because he’s a Malfoy. Malfoy’s don’t clean anything, they have staff for that.
He’d just leave cups and socks (the Malfoy’s would have human staff for laundry. I mean Narcissa/Lucius washing their own dirty underwear? I think not) and towels everywhere, and expects them to be cleaned up by someone else.
I try and bring up how he ruined free in state tuition in the name of hippie bashing when he was California’s governor often, but don’t exactly have the biggest platform.
“Worst of all, these students’ sense of the future is constrained by planning for and then paying down their student loans, often for decades. Economists are waking up to the fact that when young Americans enter the workforce burdened with over a trillion dollars in cumulative debt, they become risk averse, unwilling to move, less able to make major purchases, and slower to become homeowners. Not coincidentally, they don’t feel safe enough to register any major protests against the society that’s done this to them.”
Damn.
i am reblogging again because….. fuck ronald reagan forever and ever and ever and ever.
Economists should be adept in their fields, how are they only now realizing that paying off our student debt is a fucking priority over anything else other than food?
Weird, it’s almost like there’s something missing from the study of economics.
Who would have possibly thought that a young generation owing trillions of dollars could have a negative effect on the economy?
school districts and administrators are working hard to scare students out of protesting in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
don’t fall for their bullshit. you have the right to speak up and make yourself heard. a local superintendent doesn’t overrule the first amendment, much as they might like to.
and here’s an open invitation: I’m a teacher, recent PhD, one-time educational administrator (although not in a public school), and hopefully soon to be a college professor. if you need advice on navigating the crap your school is giving you or minimizing the impact they can have on your chances of getting into the college of your dreams, message me. I’ll help you find legal resources, write admissions essays, find ways to argue for your right to protest to your school board – whatever I can do.
please signal boost this, and if you’re someone who can help (civil rights lawyer? college admissions counsellor? experienced activist leader?), join in and let young activists know what you can do to help.
Hi there is no such thing as a “permanent record” outside of the legal system. Your school records don’t go to the FBI or the cops.
Also if you get suspended or punished for protesting, call the ACLU. There’s case law protecting the first amendment rights of students. They can help.
Not to mention,
“I see you got suspended. Why?”
“I got suspended for organizing/participating in a direct action initiative to address gun violence in American schools in the wake of the Florida Shooting.”
That shows an engagement with current events and an active participation in civil government. Trust me, colleges eat that shit up with a spoon.
the common application will specifically ask you to write an essay explaining why you got suspended, and you absolutely imagine you could use it to sell yourself as a candidate in this situation
school districts and administrators are working hard to scare students out of protesting in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
don’t fall for their bullshit. you have the right to speak up and make yourself heard. a local superintendent doesn’t overrule the first amendment, much as they might like to.
and here’s an open invitation: I’m a teacher, recent PhD, one-time educational administrator (although not in a public school), and hopefully soon to be a college professor. if you need advice on navigating the crap your school is giving you or minimizing the impact they can have on your chances of getting into the college of your dreams, message me. I’ll help you find legal resources, write admissions essays, find ways to argue for your right to protest to your school board – whatever I can do.
please signal boost this, and if you’re someone who can help (civil rights lawyer? college admissions counsellor? experienced activist leader?), join in and let young activists know what you can do to help.
Question! Do you need to inform administration before a walkout?
I’m not an expert on the legal aspect, but as far as I know, no. the only legal power schools have over student speech comes if they can claim that you are disrupting educational activities, so if you were planning an event of some kind at the school during school hours, you would have to get permission from the school administration, but calmly and quietly leaving school grounds is not the same. you are up against truancy laws there, and they can impose punishments after the fact for absence from class, but most states have laws or at least past court decisions that establish suspensions are not an appropriate response to a first-time unexcused absence.
Can you tell us anything more about the walkouts? Or anything else at all we can do without jeopardizing our “safety” in the school?
my biggest piece of advice is safety in numbers. it’s easy to suspend one student, even if it’s illegal. or even ten. but if half the students coordinate a time to walk out, the administration is going to have a hard time taking that kind of action. you’ll also have an easier time getting past any teachers who might try to physically keep you in school (it’s happened), and local law enforcement will have a harder time quietly rounding you up as “truants” and taking you back to school.
also, as much as possible, get your parents on side. there’s literally nothing a principal is more terrified of than angry parents. I can tell you that right now, what hundreds of principals around the country are having nightmares about is dealing with a parade of soccer moms who suddenly have the ACLU on speed dial.
also, make sure your actions inside the school are as peaceful and non-disruptive as possible. hold a walkout, and protest on public property away from the school. the law says your free speech rights in your school can be limited so that you don’t interfere with the school’s educational activities, so if you are quiet and calm as you leave and hold your protest off school grounds, they have far less legal ammunition to try to interfere.
hope that helps! as always, follow other safety tips for protesting, like bringing water and avoiding confrontation with law enforcement.
seeing all this high school student protest is reminding me of what little rights kids are afforded in the US. I’m seeing adults condescend the fuck out of teenagers online and cheer on administrators and law enforcement as they arrest and suspend students. adults really show their asses as tyrants who seem to believe children are subhuman in times like these and it’s so fucking sick
Death By Catchphrase 