Banksy on Advertising
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are ‘The Advertisers’ and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”
(Source: elledark)
"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
(Source: thousandsquotes, via nirvikalpa)
I’m starting a new job today. I live in Dallas, now. I’m not settled in enough where it has stopped feeling like another world. And every decision I make is connected to a fan of strings that resonate forward setting off bells and obscuring former paths, probably creating others. I can’t care. It’s a fragile place where I have freedom but limited desire. All there is is solipsism and everything outside of here feels like fiction.
i still keep my baby teeth in a bedside table with my jewelry
you still sleep in the bed with me, my jewelry, and my baby teeth
"If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."
Socrates
(Source: dirtcrumbgoddess)
"In my body and in my soul I realized that I greatly need sin, I needed lust, vanity, the striving for goods, and I needed the most shameful despair to learn how to give up resistance, to learn how to love the world, to stop comparing the world with any world that I wish for, that I imagine, with any perfection that I think up; I learned to let the world be as it is, and to love it and to belong to it gladly."
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
