what a fucking nightmare
  • school: make time for your interests and hobbies!
  • school: oh btw we're going to keep you here for about 6 1/2 hours. and after that, we're going to give you hours of homework.
  • school: eat 3 meals a day!
  • school: here's lunch, it's cardboard.
  • school: school is free!
  • school: oh, but you have to pay for any ap classes, textbooks, folders, supplies, and materials for projects :)
  • school: you earn the grades you get!
  • school: what do you mean this teacher gives you bad grades because they don't like you? that's ridiculous!
  • school: respect your teachers.
  • school: oh, but they don't have to respect you, silly!
  • school: everyone is an individual!
  • school: here's a standardized test to figure out how smart you all are.
  • school: balance your social life and academics.
  • school: but you also have to do homework and study for the rest of the day.
  • school: we accept all love!
  • school: stop kissing and hugging eachother. that's gross.
  • school: bullying is bad!
  • school: but our teachers won't help you out of it, that's your job
  • school: it's okay to be out sick.
  • school: but the teacher won't explain it to you if you were. that's /your/ fault that you were sick.
  • school: act like adults.
  • school: but we're going to treat you like children.



“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.”





auxiliofaux:

Kodak 35mm 400
Arista C-41 color process
©2013auxiliofaux

Things you do not have to feel guilty about

becky-fitness:

  • Saying no sometimes
  • Wanting to be alone sometimes
  • Saying no to sex
  • Saying yes to sex
  • Not being sure about your life career
  • Deciding to study instead of going out
  • Getting rid of the toxic people in your life
  • Ending a relationship that is hurting you
  • Not liking the things everyone else likes




art-library:

Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, 1888.

konagrown:

wow hello future


So my mom and I have been working the same waitress job for 5-6 years now. She had been waitressing years before, but this is recently. Anyway, about… 15 minutes ago this guy she waited on left and told her to take care. Just that. Prior to this she had talked to him about Italy. Her people are from Florence, this and that, and she said she’s never been. She’s got 8 years of art education and she’s working a waitress job. It’s pretty… Sad and disappointing, I guess. Her and my father divorced 6 years ago and she hasn’t had a real job ever. Just been stuck in a small town she’s not from.
This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word.
…you know. Just when I start to lose faith in humanity….Hm.



newspaperblackout:


“Are you better off?” a newspaper blackout by Austin Kleon
This one didn’t make it into the Denton show…

After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being — and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth.
Carl Sagan (via theselittlewondersstillremain)





foxmouth:

Personal Works, 2004
by Martin Johansson