If I understand correctly, these are ceramic bowls floating in a pool of water, possibly in a cave because it’s echo-y, and the clinking sound is them bumping into one another. Like wind chimes, but … water chimes?
yo, i saw this in person over the summer! it’s an art installation!
the piece is called clinamen v.2, created by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot and included as a part of the Soundtracks exhibit in the moma – i saw it in san fran, and this photo is from a showing in new york:
the exhibit is a large shallow pool filled with white ceramic bowls in varying sizes. the bowls are pushed around the pool by a gentle current, and the sound created as they hit each other is somewhere between a wind chime and a haunted bell.
i sat there for a solid ten minutes just watching the bowls move around while listening to the sounds they made. it was absolutely hypnotic…
Soundtracks runs in the san fran moma until january 1st 2018, and i absolutely recommend going if you can. many of the exhibits play with sound in 3D spaces, and there are some truly wild contraptions on display.
Hey readers, we want to challenge you to read a book from every continent around the world! We are always encouraging people to read widely, and this is a great way to start! What better way to know the world than through books from different continents!
Half of a Yellow Sun is a thought-provoking novel set in 1960s Nigeria, during the Biafran War. It’s a remarkable story that illustrates the devastation of post-colonialism, issues of class and race, and the complications of human relationships.
The story centres on a few characters – Ugwu, a houseboy employed by a university professor; Olanna, the professor’s beautiful mistress; and Richard, a shy young Englishman captivated by Olanna’s sister. As the Nigerian troops advance, the lives of these characters drastically change as their ideals and loyalties are tested.
Continent: North America Book: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street is a book that is taught in many schools across America and has been translated all over the world. It is an intimate, coming-of-age novel that covers a year in the life of Esperanza, a Chicana (Mexican-American girl) growing up in Chicago.
During that year, she moves with her family into a house in Mango Street, which is a neighbourhood she is determined to escape from. The story, written in a series of vignettes, charts Esperanza’s experiences, observations of her family and the people in her neighbourhood, and her physical and emotional growth.
the fact that the weight of chris and scarlett still doesn’t equal to thor look at their feet actually sliding lmao hemsworth is strong af
Look how fuckin DELIGHTED evans is holy shit
Chris Evans is like a three year old who thinks Chris Hemsworth, age five, is a deity. In every image where they’re together he’s almost invariably adoring. There’s one where Hemsworth has him in a headlock and Evans is just like “this is my life now and that’s ok.”
Chris Evans is embodiment of that picture of the dog who goes to the dog park for the first time and get sat on by a bigger dog and just accepts its fate with a smile.
The other day I was washing my hands and another woman came out the stall a couple seconds after I did. She wasn’t cis, and a different woman waiting for someone to finish up looked angry and opened her mouth to say something. Before she could, I smiled real friendly a this woman who’s just trynna wash her hands and told her I loved her skirt, and we started talking clothes.
The waiting woman was still clearly pissed but she didn’t say anything because she knew I wouldn’t have her back. That’s all it took to keep some poor lady just trynna scrub up from getting harassed.
Sometimes doing the right thing is really hard and kinda scary. Other times all it takes is making it clear that you won’t support someone’s nastiness. It’s a little enough thing to do your part.
Cis women: read this.
Great tip, thank you. I like to think that I’d have no problem standing up and telling someone to go fuck themselves in the event they did actually say something nasty, but preventing that situation is clearly 100 million times better than defending a harassed person after the fact.
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