Ruffians

cavetocanvas: Joel-Peter Witkin, Queer Saint, 1999

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:23:44 -0600

Joel-Peter Witkin, Queer Saint, 1999

therealhorusszahhak: This guy at my school shows up every day with like a fake wolf tail clipped to...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:15:13 -0600

This guy at my school shows up every day with like a fake wolf tail clipped to his back belt loop, and I always see him running from class to class and jumping over things and he looks so happy to exist and sometimes he brings a lil wolf puppet with him and he makes it run along next to him on the strings
I’m just like u go wolf kid live ur dreams

"Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:26:03 -0600

“Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.”

- Shakti Gawain (via humanflower)

theonlymagicleftisart: (Andrea tb)

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:08:45 -0600

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Andrea tb)

for rape in Ancient Rome: Rapist's gonads were crushed between two stones.

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:43:10 -0600

for rape in Ancient Rome: Rapist's gonads were crushed between two stones.
for rape in America in 2013: 1-2 years of jail and victim-blaming, rapist-sympathetic media coverage.

golden-zephyr: Graffiti in a Romani settlement in Kosovo

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:17:27 -0600

golden-zephyr:

Graffiti in a Romani settlement in Kosovo

daughter-of-a-badass: cloudyjenn: Sometimes I wonder if people say controversial things on tumblr...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:08:54 -0600

daughter-of-a-badass:

cloudyjenn:

Sometimes I wonder if people say controversial things on tumblr so others will jump down their throats with well researched and cited sources that the OP then uses to write a paper they didn’t feel like researching themselves.

odditiesoflife: History of the Séance In the late 19th and...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:43:18 -0600

odditiesoflife:

History of the Séance

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, spiritualism—a belief that the spirits of the dead can communicate with the living—was all the rage. There was no trendier activity than holding a séance led by a medium, who would mediate between the living and the dead. The mediums not only delivered messages from the dearly departed, but also demonstrated the presence of spirits in the room by levitating objects, ringing bells, and producing a substance from their bodies known as ectoplasm as seen in the photos above. In the fourth photo above, the medium can be seen “cheating” when the photographer caught her lifting the table with her knee.

Those were excellent tricks, but that’s all they were—mediums were often shown to be frauds. “Exposures are of frequent occurrence, many of them highly sensational in character,” wrote the New York Times in a November 21, 1909 article titled “Notable Charlatans Exposed In The Past: A Weird History That Leaves Spiritualism Undaunted.” (You can view a PDF of the article here.) “Slate writing, spirit pictures, table tipping, rapping, and other features of Spiritualism have been exposed time and again.”

The two last photos above, circa 1910, show medium Marthe Beraud excreting ectoplasm, her specialty, during a séance. In the last photo, a strange face appears on the ectoplasm. The material was said to be formed when mediums were in a trance state; it could only be created in near darkness and it was emitted from orifices on the medium’s body. But rather than being some spiritual substance, the so-called ectoplasm was usually gauze, muslin, or chiffon. Beraud was the first medium to perform the ectoplasm trick and one of her outspoken supporters was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

theoddmentemporium: Typhoid Mary Mary Mallon [foreground above]...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:17:15 -0600

theoddmentemporium:

Typhoid Mary

Mary Mallon [foreground above] was born in Northern Ireland in 1869 but emigrated to the USA in ‘84. She worked as a cook in New York, where, within two weeks of her first employment, the residents developed typhoid fever. After this, each family for whom Mary worked invariably became ill with typhoid. Wherever Mary went outbreaks followed her. When one family she worked for rented a house in Oyster Bay for the summer, six of the eleven people in the house came down with typhoid, a disease said by local doctors to be “unusual” at that time.

Typhoid researcher George Soper was hired to investigate. He published his results saying he believed soft clams might be the source of the outbreak and that:

“It was found that the family changed cooks … about three weeks before the typhoid epidemic broke out. She remained in the family only a short time, leaving about three weeks after the outbreak occurred. The cook was described as an Irish woman about 40 years of age, tall, heavy, single. She seemed to be in perfect health.”

No one knew her whereabouts but eventually Soper traced her to an active outbreak in a Park Avenue penthouse. When Soper approached Mallon she adamantly rejected his request for urine and stool samples.

The New York City Health Department sent Dr. Sara Josephine Baker to talk to Mary but still she refused to cooperate, believing she was being persecuted because she was an immigrant. A few days later, Baker arrived at Mary’s workplace with several police officers who took her into custody. Cultures of Mary’s urine and stools, taken forcibly with the help of prison matrons, revealed that her gallbladder was teeming with typhoid salmonella. She refused to have her gallbladder extracted or to give up her occupation as cook, maintaining stubbornly that she did not carry any disease.

She was held in isolation for three years until, in 1910, she agreed that she “[was] prepared to change her occupation, and would give assurance by affidavit that she would upon her release take such hygienic precautions as would protect those with whom she came in contact”. Upon release, Mallon was given a job as a laundress, which paid lower wages, so she changed her name to Mary Brown and returned to her previous occupation as a cook. For the next five years, she went through a series of kitchens, spreading illness and death, keeping one step ahead of Soper.

In 1915, a serious epidemic of typhoid erupted among the staff of a hospital, with twenty five cases and two deaths. City health authorities investigated, learning that a portly Irish-American woman had suddenly disappeared from the kitchen help. The police tracked her to an estate on Long Island. Mary spent the rest of her life in quarantine until, aged 69, she died of pneumonia.

psychokandi: Stunning anatomic dresses from Shih Chien...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:51:45 -0600

psychokandi:

Stunning anatomic dresses from Shih Chien University‘s fashion students exhibition.

*swoon*

so much detail, such lush fabrics ;-;

hnnnnng.

Pity I can’t quite find the name of the designers…

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:25:53 -0600

herooflife: I was trying to be cute and then my mom screamed...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:34:25 -0600

herooflife:

I was trying to be cute and then my mom screamed “AMARA IF YOURE STILL TAKING PICTURES I SWEAR TO GOD I WILL SHOOT YOU LIKE A REAL DEER”

stabla: if you think your family is dysfunctional remember that zeus got a woman pregnant but she...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:08:50 -0600

stabla:

if you think your family is dysfunctional remember that zeus got a woman pregnant but she burned to death so he rescued the fetus from her ashes and sewed it into his thigh and gave birth to it himself and that fetus is now the god of wine and sexual deviancy god bless

yousapimp: I need this movie in my life

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:43:12 -0600

yousapimp:

I need this movie in my life

qats: so a 90’s computer hacker was at walmart today

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:17:34 -0600

qats:

so a 90’s computer hacker was at walmart today

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Valentino Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2010

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:34:38 -0600

Valentino Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2010

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