TOM CLARK: I'm Looking Through You

Nha Trang Beach. Chinese tourist on Nha Trang Beach / Vietnam: photo by Duong Nguyen Thanh, 1 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Martín Molinero, 28 March 2017

Galaxidi, Greece: photo by Andreas Katasatos, 15 February 2010

Chennai Mar 2017: photo by Guru Nathan, 26 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Yuro De Iuliis, 21 February 2017

DSCF6546 [Vilnius]: photo by Aurimas Srubenas, 25 February 2017

Spectators {Iserlohn, Germany]: photo by Michael May, 2 April 2017

Lady Shop [Nha Trang]: photo by Duong Nguyen Thanh, 12 August 2015

Roadtrip Iran. Kerman, Iran.: photo by Adam Dzieciolkiewicz, 25 November 2016

oj90o: photo by wide open source, 15 March 2017

Our side of the thin red line on the logo (white world cultural anthropology)

#pepsi @pepsi: image via chrisiain @chrisiain, 4 April 2017

The inoffensive generic protest signs in Pepsi's woke Kendall Jenner ad are hilarious.: image via Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow, 4 April 2017

I connect with this photo on a spiritual level: image via Black Pussy Supreme @Virtuous_Queen, 4 April 2017

We all three ate lunch, but I was the only one that ordered a ham sandwich without mustard: a dry sandwich so as to make my Pepsi more satisfying. I smiled again, almost laughing, as I slowly eyed the cafe, having just taken an enormous swig of my cold Pepsi, and enjoying its tingling, almost burning effect on my throat. I felt it all the way to my tummy.

-- Joe Brainard: Back in Tulsa Again

It's 8:54 a.m. in Brooklyn it's the 26th of July
and it's probably 8:54 in Manhattan but I'm
in Brooklyn I'm eating English muffins and drinking
Pepsi

-- Ted Berrigan: Personal Poem #2

I wake up 11:30 back aching from soft bed Pat
gone to work Ron to class (I never heard a sound)
it’s my birthday. 27. I put on birthday
pants birthday shirt go to ADAM’s buy a Pepsi for
breakfast come home drink it take a pill
I’m high!

-- Ted Berrigan: Personal Poem #9

wake up
smoke pot
see the cat
love my wife
think of Frank
eat lunch
make noises
sing songs
go out
dig the streets
go home for dinner
read the Post
make pee-pee
two kids
grin
read books
see my friends
get pissed-off
have a Pepsi
disappear

-- Ted Berrigan: 10 Things I Do Every Day

Pepsi-Cola ad for Pepsi-Cola: Life, 30 April 1951 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Pepsi-Cola ad for Pepsi-Cola: Life, 2 July 1951 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Pepsi-Cola ad for Pepsi-Cola: Life, 7 September 1953 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Pepsi-Cola ad for Pepsi-Cola: Life, 11 November 1966 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

So no marching or kneeling but garbage sugar water is cool? Got it. #PepsiLivesMatter @pepsi @kendalljenner: image via steffyyj @steffyyjsays, 5 April 2017

Where is the lie tho? #PepsiLivesMatter @pepsi @kendalljenner: image via steffyyj @steffyyjsays, 5 April 2017

Shoulda known better right? #PepsiLivesMatter #MLK: image via steffyyj @steffyyjsays, 5 April 2017

This commercial is almost as big of a joke as Trumps Election... Hands up, Don't shoo- I mean, Drink Pepsi! #PepsiLivesMatter: image via Black Khaleesi @FindingFontaine, 5 April 2017

Does anybody have a Pepsi? #itsalreadybeenlooted #pepsiprotest #drinkcaffeinenothate: image via Jay London @Ordinary_af00, 5 April 2017

#PepsiLivesMatter #Pepsi Will someone get Mike a Pepsi?: image via Mourning Son @manic1hispanic, 5 April 2017

Apparently, this trunk holds the key to world peace #PepsiLivesMatter: image via Vinnie Cue @VinnieCue, 5 April 2017

Coca Cola be like... #PepsiLivesMatter: image via JET @GetJETmag, 5 April 2017

Flirtation is all in Pepsi land. #PepsiLivesMatter #whatsinanad: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 April 2017

The LGBT demographic. #PepsiLivesMatter #whatsinanad: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 April 2017

Dressed like a Pepsi can. #PepsiLivesMatter #whatsinanad: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 April 2017

Pulling off white wig, tossing at not-smiling black woman. What’s all that? #PepsiLivesMatter #whatsinanad: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 April 2017

Protest happens when conversation precluded. #WhatStarbucksLearned #PepsiLivesMatter #whatsinanad: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 April 2017

Protest signs as logo derivatives #PepsiLivesMatter #whatsinanad: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 5 April 2017

Wow, #PEPSI did an amazing job showing how a majority of white women voters handed this country over to pigs!: image via Bruhmacharya @YungRama, 5 April 2017

Mainstream feminism in a nutshell. #PEPSI: image via Pillsbury Doughbroad @EdgarAlanFro, 5 April 2017

The Anti-White Rebellion™ Sponsored by #Pepsi: image via San Frexit @San_Frexit, 4 April 2017

\YALL PLAY TOO MUCH!! #PEPSI: image via VzA @ValerieComplex, 5 April 2017

If only Daddy would have known about the power of Pepsi.: image via Be A King @BerniceKing, 5 April 201

#MartinLutherKingJr's daughter #BerniceKing weighs in on #Pepsi's 's latest campaign: image via TheShadeRoom @TheShadeRoom, 5 April 2017

#Pepsi pulls its controversial @KendallJenner ad: image via CNN Entertainment @CNNent, 5 April 2017

blue lives

#SouthSudan A woman rests in bed with her children in the pediatric ward at a @MSF_SouthSudan hospital By @Smodola Reuters @MSF_PictureDesk: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 5 April 2017

Rex Tillerson's statement on North Korea is one step away from Trump sending Kim Jong Un a crate of Pepsi.: image via Hamfisted Bun Vendor @MetalOllie, 5 April 2017

View of houses on a hill painted with vivid colours in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. #Violence Photo @YuriYuritsky: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 April 2017

People attempt to look for survivors from the rubble following reported air-strikes on the rebel-held town of Saqba yesterday.: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 April 2017

#SyriaGasAttack look at the woman in the back. Children dying by chemical weapon and she is smiling in the UN. OMG: image via adinb0s @adinb0s, 5 April 2017

#SyriaGasAttack US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley holds photos of victims during an emergency session at the UN. Photo @timothyaclary: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 5 April 2017

During meeting with Jordan's @KingAbdullahII, @realDonaldTrump calls Syria gas attack a terrible affront to humanity: image via Jeff Mason @jeffmason1, 5 April 2017

#Trump's contemptible Syria statement shows his utterly duplicitous character. His #Idlib statement accuses #Obama of inaction HE recommended: image via Jonathan Beeley @foreignpolicy77, 4 April 2017

We're likely to see Trump embroiled in Syria's affairs long after ISIL is defeated - with civilians still at risk from this US shadow war: image via Airwars @airwars, 5 April 2017

Pres. Donald Trump, center, greets people as he arrives at the 2017 North America's Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 4 April 2017

Pepsi-Cola ad for Pepsi-Cola: Time, 15 June 1942 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

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TC6 April 2017 at 09:40
Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized

Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized (official video)

Negativland: A Big 10-8 Place (part one)

Negativland: A Big 10-8 Place Part Two (180-G)
TC6 April 2017 at 09:41
Suicidal Tendencies: Institutionalized

Sometimes I try to do things and it just doesn't work out the way I wanted to.
I get real frustrated and I try hard to do it and I take my time and it doesn't work out the way I wanted to.
It's like I concentrate real hard and it doesn't work out.
Everything I do and everything I try never turns out.
It's like I need time to figure these things out.
But there's always someone there going.

Hey Mike:
You know we've been noticing you've been having a lot of problems lately.
You know, maybe you should get away and maybe you should talk about it, maybe you'll feel a lot better

And I go:
No it's okay, you know I'll figure it out, just leave me alone I'll figure it out.
You know I'll just work by myself.

And they go:
Well you know if you want to talk about it I'll be here you know and you'll probably feel a lot better if you talk about it.

And I go:
No I don't want to I'm okay, I'll figure it out myself and they just keep bugging me and they just keep bugging me and it builds up inside and it builds up inside.

So you're gonna be institutionalized
You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes
You won't have any say
They'll brainwash you until you see their way.

[Chorus:]
I'm not crazy - in an institution
You're the one who's crazy - in an institution
You're driving me crazy - in an institution
They stuck me in an institution
Said it was the only solution
To give me the needed professional help
To protect me from the enemy -- myself.

I was in my room and I was just like staring at the wall thinking about everything
But then again I was thinking about nothing
And then my mom came in and I didn't even know she was there she called my name
And I didn't even hear it, and then she started screaming: MIKE! MIKE!
And I go:
What, what's the matter?
And she goes:
What's the matter with you?
I go:
There's nothing wrong mom.
And she goes:
Don't tell me that, you're on drugs!
And I go:
No mom I'm not on drugs I'm okay, I was just thinking you know, why don't you get me a Pepsi.
And she goes:
NO you're on drugs!
I go:
Mom I'm okay, I'm just thinking.
She goes:
No you're not thinking, you're on drugs! Normal people don't act that way!
I go:
Mom just give me a Pepsi, please
All I want is a Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me.
Just a Pepsi.

They give you a white shirt with long sleeves
Tied around you're back, you're treated like thieves
Drug you up because they're lazy
It's too much work to help a crazy

[Chorus]

I was sitting in my room and my mom and my dad came in and they pulled up a chair and they sat down, they go:
Mike, we need to talk to you
And I go:
Okay what's the matter
They go:
Me and your mom have been noticing lately that you've been having a lot of problems,
You've been going off for no reason and we're afraid you're gonna hurt somebody,
We're afraid you're gonna hurt yourself.
So we decided that it would be in your interest if we put you somewhere
Where you could get the help that you need.
And I go:
Wait, what are you talking about, we decided!?
My best interest?! How can you know what's my best interest is?
How can you say what my best interest is? What are you trying to say, I'm crazy?
When I went to your schools, I went to your churches,
I went to your institutional learning facilities?! So how can you say I'm crazy?

They say they're gonna fix my brain
Alleviate my suffering and my pain
But by the time they fix my head
Mentally I'll be dead

[Chorus]

It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway
TC6 April 2017 at 10:38

Roy Andersson: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (excerpt)

Roy Andersson: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (excerpt)

Roy Andersson: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (excerpt)
Hilton6 April 2017 at 11:29
I like Ted's Pepsi, not Pepsi's Pepsi. The ad will live forever as constantly evolving parody.
TC7 April 2017 at 03:12
Personally the Pepsi thing... with grownups, not so much.
There is the "school of thought" which holds that the Pepsi ad "meant well".
There is another school of thought that is still resisting television, as just a passing fad.
I'm of that.
Tried as hard as I could for as long as I could not to know what a jenner is.
Likewise a kardashian.
Are they the same?
Are they shaped like flatscreens?
We all have kar krash in the driving rain, in the wind and the rain.

Thursday, 6 April 2017

I'm Looking Through You

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