#mortality
IN THE FABRIC OF TIME AND THE VASTNESS OF SPACE
A BILLION AMOUNTS TO NOTHING IN INFINITY’S FACE!
last proper drawing of 2020! been obsessed with the works of martin walls lately, and this guy (mortality)’s design is no exception.
if you’re a horror junkie who loves colorful uncanny valley shit like me defs give his stuff a looksee
unfunny bonus + text descriptions under cut:
[IMG ID 1] A drawing of Mortality, a character from the short horror film ‘Boozoo’s Ghosts’ by Martin Walls. Mortality is depicted as a skeletal figure on a dark grey background, dressed in a green-white mascot dog/rabbit suit with gift-wrapping paper around his arms. The lyrics 'One day, you’re going to die!’ from Will Wood’s 'Memento Mori- The Most Important Thing In The World’ can be seen on the background. The word 'die’ is emphasized in rainbow lettering.
[IMG ID 2 - BONUS] A quick sketch of Mortality and another Martin Walls character, The Pumpkin Rabbit, posed as the Miles Morales looking up at Spiderman whilst they both ponder something meme. Said meme is included for clarity.
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“If one is generously contracted 80 years, that amounts to 29,220 days on Earth. Playing that out, how many more times then, really, do I get to look at a tree? 12,395? There has to be an exact number. Let’s just say it is 12,395. Absolutely, that is a lot, but it is not infinite, and anything less than infinite seems too measly a number and is not satisfactory. Also, I would like to stare at my kids a few million more times. I could stare at them a few million more times easy. Tell me: How many more times do I get to cut an apple? How many more times will I put on my shoes? Kiss my mother? Use an ATM? How many more times do I get to toss the salad and ask How much longer ’til the chicken’s ready? as Jason pokes at it on the grill? How many more times do I get to lift my head from the pillow to see what time it is? Run inside after getting drenched in the rain? Look for the Ping-Pong ball? Check my email? Text <3 to the kids? Catch a whiff of jasmine? Use a straw?”
–Amy Krouse Rosenthal
boo. scared?
this is for you …i guess?
MAPPING NYC: Coronavirus Deaths by Zip Code
There have been 15,871 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in New York City. Until yesterday, the data was not connected to geographical location. Check out the newest map using the latest from the NYC Department of Health.
Interestingly, this map shows a population virtually the opposite by income and status of a previous map of those New Yorkers who were able to flee the city during the pandemic! But the message remains the same: wealth and privilege provide more spatial mobility and choice of locale in whatever circumstances!
Source:Untapped New York, 19 May 2020
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I wish I could write down everything.
I mean literally EVERYTHING.
Every little overwhelming feeling and every memory and every thought. I wish I could find the perfect words to describe that one person who tears your heart apart but in a good way.
I wish I could sum up the blood-curdling feeling that the passage and transience of time brings me. I wish I could capture it all just like I see it through my so very tired eyes. I wish I could stop. I wish I could go on forever.
Can pants be so tight that they cause blood clots, or back pain? Katie Heaney asks the most pressing questions in Are Skinny Jeans Going to Kill Me?
(Illustration: Chelsea Beck)
A crop of one of my Hamlet paintings from a few years back. #danishprince #grief #mortality
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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz0saJ-HrZb/?igshid=l1wuhue1tlqz
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The tooth fairy leaves a coin under your pillow.
Grievers leave two coins on your eyes when you die.
These events are not unrelated.
She leaves a coin and takes a bone because she is your first reminder of your mortality.
She takes the first bones your body will lose and in exchange she gives you your first coins.
Like a child you lose them, or spend them - but they will return to you….
…in time.
Your body changes… ages… and your teeth -the only bones to have seen the world-
- taste it -
are your first reminder.
Childhood ends.
No matter how long you are a child.
Saturnian Form : Lead and Library Dates by Russell Moreton
Via Flickr:
Armature : Memory/Personal Biographies The Everyday complexity of things russellmoreton.blogspot.com/2019/01/investigating-spatial…
Tokyo Story (東京物語 Tōkyō Monogatari) (1953)
Dir: Yasujirō Ozu
DOP: Yūharu Atsuta
“Children don’t live up to their parents’ expectations. Let’s just be happy that they’re better than most.”
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International Safe Abortion Day!
Abortion must be SAFE!
Legal abortion saves the lives of millions of women,
Abortion must be legalized EVERYWHERE!
28 September marks International Safe Abortion Day. For this year’s international day of action, stakeholders around the world are coming together behind the call “Make Unsafe Abortion History”.
Access to safe abortion is time-sensitive essential health care. It is included in numerous international, regional and national legally binding treaties – providing access to safe abortion is imperative for women and girls to achieve their human and reproductive rights.
Unsafe abortion remains a preventable public health tragedy and a violation of women and girls’ human rights. It accounts for 13% of global maternal mortalities, with hundreds of thousands of survivors living with long-term complications, including infertility and chronic pain.
With121 million unintended pregnancies each year – and few countries with legal to safe abortion – too many women and girls who do not want to become parents are forced to remain pregnant. This not only represents a denial of their autonomy, but it may also have serious consequences for their mental health and access to opportunities to achieve their life goals.
For many women, this is so unacceptable that they are forced to place themselves in extreme danger by undergoing unsafe abortions. We know it is women and girls who are often already marginalised – such as those living in poverty and rural areas – who pay the greatest toll and are at the highest risk of unsafe abortion, as well as maternal mortality and morbidity.
Originally “Campaña 28 Septiembre” (or “Campaign of September 28”), the day of action was declared official in 2011 by the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights, and renamed in 2015. The new name, “International Safe Abortion Day”, took aim at unifying the different participating organizations and their respective political aims.
The history of this day is rooted in slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean, specifically in the concept of the “free womb”. “Free womb” laws were enacted for slave women who had been killing their children after birth to spare them from a life of slavery. The law ensured that children born to slave women would be considered free from birth; before the law was put into place, children born to slave mothers were automatically considered the property of the slave owner. The day of action was adopted by many groups to promote universal access to safe abortions and education about reproductive health.
Text Courtesy of figo.org / americanwomensservices.com/
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Throwing heads at dead police - (World War IV series) - Ink on paper, 148x95mm, 2022.
Conjoined triple-mouth fucko-beast fighting itself for a piece thrown ham - Ink on paper, 148x100mm, 2022.
Man rips off clothes, ejects innards and turns into random cyclops on being told there are no Egg McMuffins left - Ink on paper, 148x100mm, 2022.
Figure running with burning head (World War IV series) - Ink on paper, 148x95mm, 2022.
