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- The original post only has US helplines. I've added UK helplines underneath. It would be great if people could add numbers from everywhere in the world.
- Depression Hotline: 1-630-482-9696
- Suicide Hotline: 1-800-784-8433
- LifeLine: 1-800-273-8255
- Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
- Sexuality Support: 1-800-246-7743
- Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438
- Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673
- Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272
- Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000
- Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253
- Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453
- ** UK Helplines:
- Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail jo@samaritans.org
- Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111
- Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: info@mind.org.uk
- Mind legal advice (for people who need mental-health related legal advice): 0300 466 6463 legal@mind.org.uk
- b-eat eating disorder support: 0845 634 14 14 (only open Mon-Fri 10.30am-8.30pm and Saturday 1pm-4.30pm) e-mail: help@b-eat.co.uk
- b-eat youthline (for under 25's with eating disorders): 08456347650 (open Mon-Fri 4.30pm - 8.30pm, Saturday 1pm-4.30pm)
- Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: helpline@cruse.org.uk
- Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600
- Drinkline: 0800 9178282
- Rape Crisis England & Wales: 0808 802 9999 1(open 2 - 2.30pm 7 - 9.30pm) e-mail info@rapecrisis.org.uk
- Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight
A selection of work from the group show “Skull & Sword” currently on display at FFDG in San Francisco, California. Skull & Sword is the world famous tattoo shop and this show is a collection of work by Skull & Sword tattooers Grime, Henry Lewis, Lango and Yutaro. In 2009 I took a trip to San Francisco and had a chance to go to Skull & Sword. Thanks to the art on the walls and the artists there I was inspired to devote this blog completely to art. So, thanks Skull & Sword!
in other news an artist in wisconsin made a portrait of the former pope benedict
it is made of condoms
- Jackson Pollock studio, ca. 1950, Springs, Long Island, New York
- Claude Monet ca. 1924 in his third studio, Giverny
- Roy Lichtenstein, studio, Southampton, New York
- Pablo Picasso, not listed.
how cool is this ey
Fuck. Yes.
Guerrilla Girls
In 1985, a group of female artists, incensed by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that included 165 artists but only 17 women, founded the Guerrilla Girls. Calling themselves The Conscience of the Artworld, they started making posters that bluntly stated the facts of discrimination and used humor to convey information and provoke discussion. They assumed the names of dead women artists, and began wearing gorilla masks when they appeared in public, concealing their true identities and focusing on the issues rather than on their personalities.
Thousands of supporters own copies of their work, as do institutions such as the New York Public Library, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Getty. They have been the subject of countless articles in newspapers and magazines, and have spoken at colleges, universities, and museums all over the world.
We’re very excited to host Amei Wallach and the Guerrilla Girls for an ArtTable breakfast at our office on May 22, 2013. Amei Wallach is a film maker, art critic, and curator. In fact, the Guerrilla Girls made a cameo appearance in Wallach’s universally hailed feature-length documentary, Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine.
ArtTable was founded in 1980 and is dedicated to the visual arts and to advancing women’s leadership in the field.
“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.
Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”
This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”
this is why performance art is important
(Source: andrewfishman)
