Into the void.

At night, all of the noise and external stimuli die down until you’re only left with your thoughts. Those same thoughts that you spend the entirety of the day pushing aside, while you distract yourself by trying to keep busy with school, work, or TV. The idea of impermanence and the finitude of life has been on my mind lately. The more objectively that I try to view my surroundings, including the people in my life as well and myself and my actions, the less meaning it all seems to have. The whole of what it means for ME to exist takes second seat in the perspective of someone who does know me and continues to lose significance in the person who does not know me at all. In the perspective of a person generations away from now, this deep sense of importance that I feel for myself wouldn’t mean much, if anything. Why is it then that I feel like I have make something out of my life, or that I feel like I should make a difference in the world. Maybe it’s just all a basic, subjective need for gratification. If you let that idea really take hold, day to day life starts to feel utterly frivolous pretty quickly. If personal ambitions are just human attempts to give meaning to an otherwise meaningless world, does it follow that we are absurd?

Whatever it is.. I’ve been going in circles asking myself these questions with no answers for a while, trying to find some sort of subconscious truth within myself. Honestly though, I’m just worn out from school and confused about what it is that I want to do with my life. For the first time, I really just don’t know. It’s makes me, uncomfortable.

"The mentality behind people like Osama to do what they do is quite simple actually. See, when you have one nation allowing business to grow while society corrupts, this creates organizations and ideas good and bad that go against these nation’s ideals. It’s essentially karma"

(via cwnl)

(Source: ikenbot)

"The first question for collective intelligence maybe, how can we avoid collective idiocy and break even?"

Pentland (via thepsychedelicdoctor)

Conceptual t-shirt design entitled, Dead Serial. The idea was intrinsically inspired by my life. After graduating high school, I faced a turning point. I was pushed toward going to med school, to satisfy my parents. The problem is the fact that healthcare and art are in completely opposite fields. To go after one, would be to stifle the other. Jim Morrison said it best when he said, “The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are; a subtle kind of murder.” 

Although the intellectual part of me wants to become a doctor, the creative side of me screams for freedom. That side of me wanted to rebel against.. everything. That kid in the picture is a manifestation of those feelings, whereas the city in the back represents social constraints. Sort of my own version of The Matrix.

fuckyeahnervoussystem:

Brain At 30 Years

Volume Rendering of an MRI scan of the brain

by voxel123

This is a stereogram, to be viewed in crossview technique: cross your eyes, relax your vision until there are three images, then focus on the center image.

Stereoscopic cross view photos can be viewed in three dimension (3D) without special glasses. Most people can learn how to view a cross view photo in just a few minutes:  HOW TO VIEW A CROSS-EYE PAIR

For more stereograms use tags: Stereoscopic view

The brain is shaped by the bacteria in our gut?

We human beings may think of ourselves as a highly evolved species of conscious individuals, but we are all far less human than most of us appreciate. Scientists have long recognized that the bacterial cells inhabiting our skin and gut outnumber human cells by ten-to-one. Indeed, Princeton University scientist Bonnie Bassler compared the approximately 30,000 human genes found in the average human to the more than 3 million bacterial genes inhabiting us, concluding that we are at most one percent human. (click link to read more.)

"Yesterday, a group of citizens from a local activist group calling itself “Organize Now” protested outside a town hall being held by Rep. Dan Webster (R-FL), who faced a rowdy crowd at a town hall this week. The activists dressed as zombies and demanded that right-wing politicians stop gutting social programs and force them to “work ’till they die”."

Zombies Protest Rep. Dan Webster’s Vote To Kill Medicare, Say ‘Don’t Make Us Work Till We Die’ (via cwnl)

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Scrap logo that I did for Outerhaven. The actual logo is going to look completely different and heavily inspired by One Piece.

Custom shirt label for ‘93 Until.