Glass “tidepool” Ring By Alexis Berger, Glass artist in Berkeley CA
This is what I called art.
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i have a big problem with this. i just dont understand. maybe im ignorant but i think photoshop is fucking stupid. why? why do we want unrealistic, fake “beauty” on all the magazines? why is that the definition of beauty?
why do we all kill ourselves slowly just to try to achieve a level of perfection that literally no one can achieve naturally? why is plastic so much more attractive to us than the natural beauty each and every one of us possess? we’re so fucking beautiful. we’re really gorgeous creatures. but boy are we stupid.
we let our heads stay in the fucking clouds while the entire world burns down around us. and who lit the match? us. were such masochists its terrible.
not only do we ignore all the chaos surrounding us but we waste our time trying to be something that may very well be humanly impossible. if not for all the surgeries, medical advances, and technological advances, this view wouldnt even exist.
now look at us. teasing our hair, piling on layer after layer of makeup, using cushions to make our butts bigger, or girdles to suck in our love handles, colored contacts because brown suddenly isnt good enough (ive been guilty of this), all just to still be unhappy and uncomfortable. and then after all this physical abuse we do to ourselves, theres always someone better.
not only do we abuse ourselves physically with unhealthy diets and uncomfortable clothing but we emotionally fuck ourselves up. its true, we are our own worst critic. but holy fuck.
what really pisses me off though is when i see posts making fun of other people based on their physical attributes. like that girl on youtube “_____ takes a tumble” or whatever the fuck its called. i mean to be honest when i saw it i was like damn that looked like it hurt. but everyone has reblogged, and shared that video over and over and over again. why? because its a fat girl who falls down. like are you fucking kidding me? whats the point of making fun of that. what good comes from that? absolutely nothing.
even worse is the terrible reality that because we’ve made ourselves so insecure by giving ourselves unrealistic goals and ideas of what beautiful should be, that we spread the negativity like fucking cancer. because you know what? babies arent born homophobic. their parents teach them to be. but babies arent born thinking bigger is ugly. or that flat hair is ugly. or that brown eyes arent just as beautiful as the crystal blue ones. their taught that. back in the day, fat bitches were the bees knees. it represented a higher class. now, youre shunned if youre not stick thin. i hate so much when my girlfriends talk about how fat they are. im just like dumbfounded to be honest. i know so many beautiful people who pick at themselves in the mirror about the smallest things. i mean again, were our own worst critics. but theres no reason why we should feel less worthy of being called beautiful. theres no reason why so many people cant believe a compliment.
i have a lot of trouble with my own self esteem. sometimes im okay, sometimes i feel like i look like the strangest thing in the world. but im learning to love myself despite what society is trying to tell me. despite all the ads telling me exactly how i should look, when, where i should look that way.
fuck you, we’re human. were animals for Christs sake. we have the right to be natural, to be happy. not to look for happiness in aesthetics that die way before we do.
we have a really fucked up idea of what beautiful is. but you know what, im just one girl. i cant change the world with one tumblr post. all i can do is believe what i believe in and try to help people understand the way i see things.
ill tell you one thing though, my skin.. is mine. it belongs to ME. its my organ, not yours. and frankly, im really fucking sick of feeling uncomfortable in my own skin because youve brainwashed me and everyone else in this blind country in to thinking that however it is i was born, isnt acceptable. and anything other than what you tell me is beautiful, will just never amount to enough. fuck you, and anyone else who encourages this kind of stupidity and ignorance.
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Check out this artist named Alexa Meade. This painter paints people into backgrounds by painting over their features and breaking their highlights and shadows into chunks, more like paintings. She then photographs them and it looks like a 2-D surface, when in reality the people are just being melted into the background by her paint.
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