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Aye. Not only that, but the amount of wheels that just fall off. I would never trust their cars.
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Im not sure.. been driving about 15 years and have only seen 1 or 2 accidents. I know dumb drivers are everywhere to be found.. I just dont understand the concept of recording while driving.. is it standard practice over there?
I sure you could make a best of video like this for north america and it would be has funny as this one.
I've seen once in Quebec City an old man doing a u-turn on Robert-Bourassa Highway (100KM/H speed limit) to take an exit he just missed. He literally put the foot on the break pedal while the guy behind him was driving at probably 110 KM/H. The guy behind was barely able to avoid him by going in the adjacent lane. Had a car been in the other lane there's no way the guy behind was able to break in time.
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nice to quote what you wanted... you also forgot Mexico as part of North America. I was speaking more to the ability to create these montages due to the dash cam... do you believe there are that many people in North America with dashcams AND catching accidents like this on video?
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There's a lot. Some of the artists I listen to most are Rob Zombie, Sevendust, Eye Empire, Deftones, Head, P.O.D., Red, Alice Cooper, Orgy, Seether, Stone Sour... and many more haha.
You can check what I listen to on my Last.fm page
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its quite funny and equally mind-boggling how some folk manage to put the lasting majesty that embodies Trent Reznor and Pink Floyd in the same sentence as fatigue laden unrelevantness that breathes the likes of Static X and Otep. Dope. Seriously?
not to be an asshole or anything. or well maybe to. :D
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I see those discrepancies in taste as something completely normal. To take the metaphor further, sometimes you crave caviar and champagne, while other times you just want a Coke and cheezeballs.
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True that!
Different music suits differing moods ..
Like if you wanna chill and think about things in an endless sense then Floyd will help out with that armchair philosophizing .. But if you're Grrrr inside and feel like tearing shit up Static will do the job
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I agree Xusi! Different moods...different music! Depends on the temporal state a person is in at the time. As life progresses and we reflect on the past our tastes change. In 10 years we may all be into a different genre of music...ya never know!
If you don't listen to the words you're only hearing half the music!
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Um, well apart from Korn, Black Veil Brides, MSI, My Chemical Romance, BMTH, Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold and Evanescence
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I love KoRn so much, they are the main band that I'm listening to.
Besides, I like Suicide Silence, SlipKnoT, Slot, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, God is an Astronaut, Katatonia, The Agonist, Soufly, Demon Hunter, The Chariot, Carnifex, Taster's Choice, Norma Jean, Snot and many others.
But still KoRn is the best!!
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Besides Korn I listen toooo 10 years, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Alice in Chains, Apathy, Bassnectar, Boy Hits Car, Blue Stahli, Bush, Cage the Elephant, Cake, Celldweller, Celph Titled, Chase & Status, Chevelle, Deftones, Dream Theater, Finger Eleven, Flyleaf, Fort Minor, Funeral Party, Gorillaz, Incubus, Infected Mushrooms, Jaco Pastorius, Jamiroquai, Jedi Mind Tricks, Kill the Noise, Marcus Miller, Mudvayne, Nine Inch Nails, Noisia, Orgy, P.O.D., Pearl Jam, RA, Red, Scars on Broadway, Sevendust, She Wants Revenge, System of a Down, Skillet, Skindred, Skrillex, Stone Sour, Stone Temple Pilots, Styles of Beyond, Taproot, Tech N9ne, and The Prodigy.
Moving off of my MP3 player I also listen to Rob Zombie, Linkin Park, Seether, Disturbed, Staind, Family Force 5, Mindless Self Indulgence, The Black Eye Peas, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Slipknot, Drowning Pool, Stone Sour, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Living Colour, Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Offspring, Eminem, Three Days Grace, and Daft Punk.
Okay, I'm probably missing a lot, but that's what I have for now there's not really much music I don't like!
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Right now I'm addicted to this band and this album
Been a long time since I got into a NEW band. They're from my side of the planet. I hope the link works lol!!!
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linkin park ftw! >:) and marilyn manson, hollywood undead, dead by sunrise, some five finger death punch and some others i heard like 1 or 2 songs by ^^)
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Lots of Black Metal, Folk Metal, Blackened Death Metal, Old school Death Metal, Blackened Folk Metal, Raw Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal, Depressive/Suicidal Black Metal, Industrial Metal, Post-Rock,Post-Metal, Shoegazing,Metalgazing, Blackgazing, Underground Hip Hop, Horrorcore (Not ICP or the like!) Sludge Metal, Stoner Metal, Groove Metal and some Country, Some Folk...
That's all i listen to
Edit: Forgot about Grindcore (Only early Napalm Death and some Carcass) and Extreme Metal like Meshuggah's first album, Grunge and Alternative Rock and Metal, Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock,Thrash Metal, Crossover Thrash Metal, Classic rock and Metal,Viking Metal, Pagan Metal, and Celtic Metal! Probably more, but i can't keep track...
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Machinae Supremacy, Taproot, The Human Abstract, Mushroomhead, Blue Stahli, Michael Jackson, Oblivion Dust, Klaus Nomi, Queen...
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Luscious Jackson, OutKast, New Edition, Jars of Clay, Sepultura (bands that I've listened to today off of my music tab)
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Definitely the Deftones after Korn. Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana (still from time to time), and Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones....
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Tool, Soundgarden, NIN, Korn derivatives (FatNS, L&D), Snot, In This Moment, Evanescence, Godsmack, and a bunch of local bands.
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another Japanese band that's growing on me as of late is alsdead.
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Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, The Cure, Pink Floyd, Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, Cocteau Twins, Jimi Hendrix, Deftones, Incubus, Massive Attack, New Order, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus, System of a Down, Hed PE, and others.
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Hmmmm I don't have hmmm favourites of band as its IMHO if I`ve listen and like its some music I`ll added ot me listening pleasure... so apart from KORN.
Metal, Trash, Punk, Soul, Blues, Classical, Jambands and ???????? MORE!...
bollocks dam crap freaks hello
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Machine Head
Sex Pistols
The Dammed
Blind Melon
Black Sabbath
Deep Purple
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Hot Fog
JJ Grey & Mofro
Gov`t Mule
Alice In Chains
Pearl Jam
The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
John Lennon
Rival Sons
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Zakk Wylde
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The Allman Brothers Band
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Black Stone Cherry
Lamb Of God
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With all this talk of gay people marrying one another, some people on the right are starting to bleat about how they're being oppressed for their Christian beliefs—so oppressed, in fact, that they're starting to feel like "second-class citizens." Here's CBN's David Brody lamenting the sorrows of Kirk Cameron and Tim Tebow. Here's Red State's Erik Erikson predicting the coming pogrom ("Within a year or two we will see Christian schools attacked for refusing to admit students whose parents are gay. We will see churches suffer the loss of their tax exempt status for refusing to hold gay weddings. We will see private businesses shut down because they refuse to treat as legitimate that which perverts God's own established plan."). Here's Fox News commentator Todd Starnes on the oppression that has already begun ("it's as if we're second-class citizens now because we support the traditional, Biblical definition of marriage"). And how is this second-class citizenship being thrust upon them back in the real world? Well, people are ... strongly disagreeing with their position on an issue of public concern! It's awful, I tell ya.
The impulse to jam that crown of thorns down on your head is a powerful one in politics. It means you've achieved the moral superiority of the victim, and the other side must be the victimizer. The problem is that these folks don't seem to have much of a grasp on what second-class citizenship actually looks like. Last time I checked, nobody was forbidden to vote because they're a Christian, or not allowed to eat in their choice of restaurants, or forced to use separate water fountains, or even be forbidden by the state to marry the person of their choice. That's what second-class citizenship is. Having somebody on television call your views retrograde may not be fun, but it doesn't make you a second-class citizen.
Of course, they say, "Just you wait." But these fantasies of oppression are just that, fantasies. One of their favorite scare stories is that before you know it, Christian ministers are going to be hauled off to jail or have their churches lose their tax-exempt status if they refuse to marry gay people. Right, just like at the moment a Jewish synagogue will lose its tax-exempt status if the rabbi won't preside over a Pentecostal wedding. And as for the florist who refuses to sell flowers to a gay couple, what he's asking for is not a right but a privilege, the privilege to discriminate based on sexual orientation. It's no different than if he refused to sell flowers to an interracial couple. But somehow, if he finds justification for that discriminatory practice in his faith, that's supposed to make it a fundamental right.
I'm more than happy to admit that in certain circles, it's more acceptable to be gay than to be an evangelical Christian. That's what Chief Justice Roberts was getting at when he noted during the oral arguments about DOMA that "political figures are falling all over themselves" to endorse gay marriage, and thus gay people don't qualify as a disfavored minority. But what we're talking about here isn't attendance at fashionable Upper West Side parties, it's discrimination under the law. That's what makes you a second-class citizen. It's what gay people live with now, and it's something that is never, ever going to happen to Christians, no matter how bad some of them may feel when people tell them they're wrong.
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Hell, even the concept of the "oppressed Christian" in the Roman Empire is largely the stuff of legend and mythology. Although certain emperors opposed Christianity (Nero, Decius, Diocletian, and Marcus Aurelius, most notably) the pogroms of these emperors had more to do with politics (and the need for scapegoats) then actual religious beliefs.
Generally speaking the Roman Empire could care less about the religious beliefs of their citizens. However, early Christians were obsessed with martyrdom and went out of their way to secure the wrath of Roman magistrates. Basically, they sought out martyrdom and basically dared the Roman authorities to persecute them. It makes for great stories, but bad history.
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We Christians are not oppressed but we are despised. As the author notes"in certain circles, it's more acceptable to be gay than to be an evangelical Christian." And those are the circles of privilege occupied by the educated, urban-coastal elite: the people who have money, social status and power, the people who are admired and influential.
The liberal media and liberal political establishment is contemptuous of us. And they don't make fine distinctions between Episcopalians and Holy Rollers. No indeed: if they're even heard of "mainline" denominations they assume that members are just Evangelical Lite, that we are simply "moderate."
I'm fed up with being patronized as one of those people who "cling to guns and religion." I'm sick of the assumptions people make about me when they discover that I'm a Christian. My ethical and political views are no different from those of anyone else on the left: pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-legalizing recreational drugs, etc. I don't have a gun. I don't believe the world was created 6000 years ago.
So would you please recognize that even if "oppression" is seriously hyperbolic, we have a legitimate complaint: we are stereotyped, patronized and despised.
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If you indeed have a legitimate complaint, it's clearly with those "Christians" who foster and perpetuate the stereotypes you are fed up with - not the "liberal" anything.
But in my opinion you don't have a legitimate complaint, because the mainline denominations you are speaking of have done nothing to counter the evangelicals, thereby giving them your tacit approval to drive the debate. Also, legislators like Michele Bachman do not enjoy their election victories due to an unusually large number of evangelical voters in their districts/states - your so-called "mainliners" are giving her their votes as well. If you choose to be a member of the Christian "Club". the onus is upon you to actively participate in preventing the fringe from defining your "brand".
And more to the point, if you find it necessary to disclose your religious affiliation while discussing political issues , then any contempt that you endure is justly deserved. The notion of freedom of religious expression is inherently dependent on the ABSENCE of religious considerations in the legislative process. Your freedom of religious expression only extends to protection from persecution BY the GOVERNMENT - it does not entitle you to any expectation of respect from your fellow citizens.
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I have a great laugh when Christians cry they are despised and persecuted. Any nominee for president from either major party would not have a chance if he/she didn't step foot in a church during an campaign season. U.S. religious denominations hold hundreds of billions of dollars in assets thanks to favorable tax breaks and exclusions. In my state of Texas, religion plays a role in all laws signed by our buffoon governor. Even in the progressive island of Austin you would not be elected mayor if you state you are an atheist. In my podunk town you wouldn't even get elected dog catcher if you were an atheists o for that matter a Muslim. So I don't want to hear your bit@hing and moaning that you have it so bad.
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You are right. It's a VW Crafter, and it's rather big. In fact, since we're not counting subsidiaries such as MAN and Scania, it's actually the biggest vehicle to wear a VW badge. Get it in its biggest guise, with the longest wheelbase and you have a vehicle the best part of a metre longer than a Phantom Extended Wheelbase with the ability to cart 15,000 litres of stock. If you could fill it with water you could call it a swimming pool.


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I enjoyed a day at the thrift stores getting more crap to pack. But I did score some cute linens, a dirty airplane to keep "someone" happy, and plenty of bacterial diseases. I don't know what it is about moving, but it makes me want to buy more junk. Mostly other people's junk I plan to fix up but then it sits un-fixed in my house for a year. Lately I'm looking for one of these to hold my quilts.
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Did insect pests get the best of you and your garden last year? Were you witness to overnight attacks on your veggie crop? Are you a bit worried that this year might bring a repeat performance? Never fear! Here are 10 timely, timesaving tips to help you take charge of your garden's bad bugs now:
A confusing mix of sights and scents can help deter certain insect pests. So try to increase biodiversity and avoid monoculture by mixing plants from different families. Instead of planting long rows of a single crop, plant onions alongside broccoli, tomatoes with basil and chives, and peas with carrots. Better yet, interplant edibles with ornamentals. Add a few hot pepper plants to your flowerbeds, or edge your vegetable beds with low-growing annual flowers, such as alyssum and dwarf marigolds.
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One of the best ways to short-circuit an onslaught of pests is to attract an airborne cavalry charge of beneficial insects. Many beneficials—including the small wasps that prey on pest caterpillars—will gratefully take advantage of the flat-topped floral landing platforms offered by members of the umbel family, which includes dill, Queen-Anne's-lace, parsley, and carrots. (You have to allow the parsley and carrot plants to overwinter and grow into their second year to get those umbrella-shaped flowers that beneficials find so attractive.) Other plants beloved by beneficials include sweet alyssum, all kinds of mints, and chamomile.
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Marigolds can greatly reduce the damage caused by root-ravaging nematodes—those tiny soil-dwelling wormlike pests—but only if you use them correctly. For the best effect, grow a thick stand of marigolds as a cover crop for a season, then turn them under the soil. The next year, plant whatever you like in that area—nematdoes won't be around to cause trouble underground.
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Try allowing a single weed to grow as a decoy among your cultivated crops. Decoy crops may attract pests and help to keep the bad guys away from your other crops. Striped blister beetles, for instance, seem to prefer redroot pigweed to tomato plants growing nearby. To keep the insects from moving to your tomatoes, check the pigweed each morning and shake off any beetles into a bucket of soapy water.
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The Continued Decline of the Religious Right
Christian conservatives in the Republican Party have at times in the past felt that their hard work for the GOP has gone unrewarded. They work their little hearts out during the campaign to get Republicans elected, and then once those Republicans take office, they're given little but table scraps. Sure, the Mexico City policy will get reinstated, they'll get some money funneled to churches, and some other small items here and there, but the big pieces of their agenda languish. Abortion is still legal, gay people continue to walk amongst us, and prayer has not been returned to public schools. And every four years, a bunch of Republican presidential candidates tell them, "Elect me, and I'll fix all this."
But this year, those candidates have barely bothered. The economy has dominated the debate, and opposition to government in any and all its forms has pushed the culture war to the side. Last year, the head of the American Enterprise Institute (the right's No. 2 think tank) wrote a silly but conservative-zeitgeist-capturing book arguing that economic disagreements are the new culture war. So if you're a Christian conservative, you might be feeling a little neglected. Enter Rick Perry:
You'll seldom see a more pure distillation of the religious right's persecution complex than this ad. "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian," Perry says, as though Christians are an oppressed minority and he's displaying his courage by saying he is one. "But you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. As president, I'll end Obama's war on religion." It goes on from there.
You may not have noticed "Obama's war on religion," and you might be puzzled by the assertion that "our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas." But that's because you're an elitist liberal, and you've closed your eyes to the way the government brings its heavy boot down on the neck of Christians.
One has to understand that as ridiculous as these claims sound, the voters Perry is pleading with absolutely believe them to be true. And this is the most direct attempt by any of the candidates to go after those votes, to say to Christian conservatives, "I will be your sectarian candidate." You hate gays? I'm your man. You want America to be more Christian? Come on board.
But it is obviously not going to work, and not just because Perry has been such a desperately poor candidate. Circumstances have conspired to make the religious right -- as a distinct political entity that can be mobilized in unison during the primary -- essentially irrelevant. Four years ago, Mike Huckabee was able to ride evangelical support to victory in the Iowa caucus. But today, Newt Gingrich -- converted Catholic, thrice-married, admitted adulterer -- is way out in front among Iowa evangelicals, pretty much matching his support with Republicans as a whole. And there doesn't look to be anything Rick Perry can do about it.
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"our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas."
Perry may not be a good candidate, but can you openly celebrate Christmas in schools, which the founding fathers allowed? Christians don't hate gays. The founding fathers punished them and did not give them rights because their Sin brings judgment from God:
"As nations can not [sic] be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects[,] providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
--The Father of the Bill of Rights. The Constitutional Convention. Robert A. Rutland, ed., The Papers of George Mason (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1970), p.966.
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This is a silly article. All the Republican presidential candidates are pro-life and pro-traditional marriage. People of faith have been enormously blessed by legal rules passed under Republicans that ensure Christians/people of faith are not at a disadvantage legally. The liberal Supreme court of the 60s has been rebuked by strict constructionist judges, again, appointed by Republicans. President Obama is set to lose and Ginsburg may very well be replaced with a conservative. . . reversing Roe v. Wade and securing the courts conservative direction for a generation. Every time Republicans win state elections marriage amendments are voted on by the public. . . and win. I could go on and on. Religious freedom around the world has been spotlighted by Republican policy makers.
The author is confusing his own bias perceptions with reality. Those who go to church or synagogue regularly vote Republican. The religious right has a seat at the table in all policy decisions. 2012 could very well be the year Republicans, with the help of the religious right, finally have the power to totally transform Washington. The author believes the religious right is a bunch of puritanical idiots who want the pope as president. Little does he know that we are politically savvy enough to vote for people like Newt. We don't want a preacher as president. . . we already have a pastor. We want someone who will radically change Washington and restore freedom to the people.
In November of 2012 Republicans could control the presidency, 60 votes in the senate, and huge majorities in the house. The author of this article believes the religious righ influence is diminishing
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If only the Religious Right would decline into irrelevancy.
It's bad enough that evangelicals believe in an invisible sky fairy who hates foreskins and reads their minds telepathically. The fact that they see fit to impose their insanity on the rest of us is an abomination and about as counter-freedom as you can get.
They are free to believe their crazy nonsense all they want. Celebrate Christmas any way they please. Mount bloody Jesus Porn On A Stick on the bedroom walls of their children. Have as many Traditional Marriages as they like.
But the second they try to make people who don't agree with them toe the Invisible Sky-fairy line, well, Houston, we have a problem. I'm not falling for your superstitious claptrap. You religious nuts can't tell me how to behave.
Keep it to yourself, and we'll laugh and move on. Throw it in our faces, and we'll push back. Evangelicals have been shoving it in our faces for too long. The pushback is intensifying.
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Here is my biggest whitetail, and first booner. Unfortunately i didnt get much time to archery hunt this year, and couldnt get onto a decent whitetail so it seemed. So my hunting season relied on spot and stalking and waiting on rifle season to start. Spent all of day 1 hunting and spotting, seen a couple good whitetails. Day 2 started slow and I seen some smaller deer, very little rutting activity until we stumbled upon my buck at around 11am with his doe. I made a 460yd stalk and shot him at about 120yds.
He green scores 203 gross typ, nets 186 7/8 b&c.
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American Identities: A New Look
Welcome to the Brooklyn Museum of Art's collections of American art. Installed in the circuit of galleries you have just entered are nearly three hundred fifty objects representing a portion of the Museum's world-class collections of American painting, sculpture, decorative arts (including furniture, ceramics, silver, glass, and baskets), prints, and photographs. In a museum of this size and universal scope, it is unusual to find an installation that integrates so many different object types. It has been the goal of the organizing Museum team (curators, educators, and designer) to use this wide array of objects to tell as rich and layered a story as possible about life and culture in the United States from the colonial period to the present. In an effort to broaden conventional notions of what constitutes "American" art, we have also included Native American objects, as well as fine and decorative arts of the Spanish colonial era in Mexico and South America from the Museum's equally stellar collections in those areas.
The galleries are organized around a framework of eight themes—some based on time periods and others based on more general subjects—inspired by the strengths of the American collections. We have used a lively sequence of colors to signal the boundaries of each thematic section, as well as to present these works of art in a new light. You may want to seek out the large text panels introducing the themes before beginning your viewing in each gallery. Many individual objects also have text labels written by the Museum's curators. And you will find additional "voices" in the galleries, in labels that offer other perspectives through the words of artists, writers, historical figures, and members of the Museum's diverse Brooklyn community today.
Founding of the Collections
In 1824 a group of civic-minded Brooklyn residents established the Apprentices' Library Association, the ancestor of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Among the organizers was Augustus Graham (whose portrait is nearby), soon to become one of Brooklyn's most active philanthropists and the person responsible for founding the Museum's great collection of American art in 1851.
The BMA's holdings of American paintings grew rapidly after the turn of the century, as its directors and curators unfailingly valued American art at a time when European art was generally considered superior. For decades this foresight inspired the purchase of important objects rarely obtainable today. The Museum trustee A. Augustus Healy (whose portrait also hangs here) orchestrated the famous purchase of John Singer Sargent's watercolors in 1909. The painting collection enjoyed unprecedented growth from 1936 to 1952 during the curatorship of John I. H. Baur (also portrayed here), who acquired eighteenth and nineteenth-century works in advance of accepted taste.
The first American decorative arts objects—two silver teaspoons—entered the collection in 1902. The Department of Decorative Arts, first established as the Department of Colonial and Early American Furniture by the trustee Luke Vincent Lockwood in 1914, purchased the first period room the next year. By the late teens the department had begun to set trends with acquisitions in understudied areas, including antebellum American furniture. Curators in the department have carried on this tradition, building important holdings of Aesthetic Movement and Machine Age material.
The establishment of a Department of Ethnology in 1903 reflected the Museum's intention to collect works from indigenous cultures. The department's first curator, R. Stewart Culin, acquired thousands of Native American objects, many on Museum-sponsored expeditions. The BMA's collection of Spanish colonial art was largely acquired in the 1940s and 1950s under the pioneering leadership of Culin's successor, Herbert J. Spinden.
Today the American collections number more than sixty-three thousand objects ranging in date from the 1600s to the present. They constitute one of the great public collections in the field and make possible the telling of many stories about American culture and creative life. Selected objects from all of these rich collections are displayed together for the first time here, demonstrating the ongoing evolution of the BMA's historical mission to collect and present American art for new audiences.
From Colony to Nation: The Colonial Period
The objects in this gallery once ornamented colonial interiors throughout the Americas from the late 1600s to 1776. For North American colonists, who were largely middle class, acquiring luxury items was one way of raising their social status in their self-made societies. Their view of the relative value of fine objects may be different from ours: silver (made literally out of money) ranked highest, followed by textiles (the finest of which were imported), large case furniture, paintings and frames, and, finally, ceramics and glass.
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In contemporaneous Spanish colonial societies in Mexico and South America, also represented in this gallery, the Catholic Church played a major role in establishing guilds to create art and furnishings for elaborate churches and homes. The productions of these guilds were shaped in part by the arts of native peoples, in a convergence of European and native cultures that was not paralleled in the North American colonies. The Zuni water jar on view here, created at the same moment as many of the European-derived portraits and furnishings in the gallery, serves as a reminder of the independent continuity of Indian artistic traditions in North America throughout the colonial period.
From Colony to Nation: Symbols of the Early Republic
The United States achieved political independence from Great Britain in 1783 and elected George Washington as the nation's first president in 1789. Citizens of this new democratic republic were highly self-conscious about the radical nature of their experiment in government. What form would the now-independent nation take? In composing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers were inspired by classical principles of reason and the perceived virtue of classical Greek and Roman culture. Classical art accordingly was adopted as the appropriate style for the new nation that considered itself heir to those original democracies. Greek and Roman imagery were embraced as powerful symbols of national identity and reminders of civic duty.
By the early nineteenth century, almost every aspect of American visual culture—architecture, fine arts, interior decoration, and fashion—was affected by classical models. Classical artistic vocabulary includes pediments, columns, arches, volutes, wreaths, and garlands, and can be observed in many of the objects in this gallery.
Inventing American Landscape
American Scenery . . . is a subject that to every American ought to be of surpassing interest; for, whether he beholds the Hudson mingling waters with the Atlantic—explores the central wilds of this vast continent, or stands on the margin of the distant Oregon, he is still in the midst of American scenery—it is his own land.
—Thomas Cole, "Essay on American Scenery" (1836)
In the early nineteenth century, Americans in search of national and cultural identity increasingly turned to the natural grandeur of North American scenery. Landmarks in the East and then in the Far West were celebrated in literature and poetry, represented in paintings and prints, and even reproduced on dinnerware and furniture. These sites became powerful symbols of American history and culture, invested with national resonance as well as with religious associations. They also motivated a booming tourism industry, which posed a conflict between the preservation of unspoiled wilderness and the national mandate for progress. The tensions embodied in this set of opposing values still pervade American thought and attitudes to nature today. The landscape style known as the Hudson River school—with its panoramic vistas, deep space, deft atmospheric effects, and precise details—predominated from the 1820s to the 1860s. After the Civil War, different styles and approaches emerged. More intimate, freely brushed landscape subjects, substituting poetry of mood for a specific sense of place, became increasingly fashionable. French landscape painting strongly influenced both patrons and painters—first, with the freer brushwork and more subdued colors of the Barbizon school, and later with the brilliant palette of Impressionism.
The abstract styles introduced in the early twentieth century were also applied to the portrayal of American landscape. The subject continued to hold profound meaning during times of great artistic experimentation in the second half of the century. Celebrated in works ranging from meticulously realistic to barely recognizable in terms of location or subject, the American landscape remains an essential inspiration for subsequent artistic generations.
Everyday Life: Looking Inside
To "look inside" something suggests that we seek to discover the contents of an enclosed space—a box, a house, a person's private thoughts. All of the works on view in this area—genre subjects, still lifes, portraits, and household objects—tempt us to look inside to find evidence of national and artistic ideals expressed in the nonpublic realms of home, studio, and thought.
In the mid-nineteenth century, American artists gave increasing attention to depicting domestic interiors where people, imagined or real, lived. Then, as now, houses revealed the taste, status, and values of their occupants. Yet by portraying these private interiors in paintings that were destined for public exhibition, artists opened rather than restricted access to the spaces they pictured. Thus, these paintings are not simple reports of observable reality. They express a point of view, but whose? The artist's? The patron's? A critic's? Or did some artists cater to what they perceived as the taste of the majority of their audience?
Portraits, in addition to conveying likenesses of specific people, often compel us to think about emotional or psychological interiors. The portraits in these galleries tell us about family kinship and public identities, and frequently convey values concerning parental duty and the sanctity of home. Still lifes are also included here. These arrangements—whether mundane pieces of laundry strewn across a floor or a gloriously extravagant collection of fruits and flowers—register as selected or composed interior views that spark the imagination into considering the domestic spaces they occupy.
Everyday Life: Looking Outside
I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic; what is doing in Italy or Arabia. . . . I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, The American Scholar (1837)
Emerson's appeal for a vital national culture rooted in direct perceptions of present-day American life has been called an intellectual declaration of independence. Many felt that this goal could best be realized in the visual arts through genre subjects, where artists characterized the daily life of ordinary people. The early genre works exhibited here spin out sentimental, humorous, and often nostalgic narratives in outdoor settings that would have been familiar to contemporary audiences.
The paintings often depict unique "American" characters: the Yankee, the westerner, and the yeoman farmer. These national stereotypes, with specific regional, racial, or ethnic attributes, appeared in the theater, in literature, and in popular culture, and carried a variety of social and political messages. Idealized rural life was often presented as a beneficial contrast to congested cities. For an urban audience, genre paintings often embodied more than just popular nostalgia for youth and simpler times. These subjects also affirmed the rise in social and economic status of city patrons by evoking their less cosmopolitan origins.
American lifestyles have continued to fascinate and preoccupy artists as they have undergone dramatic redefinition over the course of the twentieth century and into the present. As was the case for many of the genre painters of the nineteenth century, humor and hyperbole often serve modern and contemporary artists who consider or question the customs of this country.
A Nation Divided: The Civil War Era
Dramatically few American artists undertook the challenge of representing the Civil War. The majority, unwilling or unequipped to confront the physical destruction, loss of life, and psychological trauma of the war years from 1861 to 1865, continued to record the American landscape and home life for an audience in moral disarray and seeking reassurance that their former way of life and notion of nationhood might survive. It fell to photographers and illustrators to document the brutal facts of current events. The burning issue of slavery also remained virtually untouched by artists, with such exceptions as the painter Eastman Johnson, who attempted throughout the war to refashion the popular image of African Americans into one that was individualized, sympathetic, and supportive of the anti-slavery cause.
The works on view in this gallery demonstrate the ways in which American artists referred to the Civil War and its causes without picturing them directly. With few exceptions, the works created during the course of the war refer to the conflict symbolically, whereas those created in its aftermath (particularly from the war's end to the turn of the century) were part of a virtual industry devoted to memorializing the Union cause and its heroes and heroines. It remained for artists of the twentieth century to fully confront the violent injustices that continued to divide the nation long after the war had ended.
Expanding Horizons: New Subjects and Styles
We are a composite people. Our knowledge is eclectic. . . . It remains, then, for us to be as eclectic in our art as in the rest of our civilization.
—James Jackson Jarves, The Art Idea (1864)
Is it important for American art to have a distinct national identity? James Jackson Jarves, a critic and collector, was not alone in his belief that the arts in the United States would fail to thrive if the nation's artists worked in isolation. This view reflected practical as well as idealistic considerations. European art was still in far greater demand on the American market, and Americans had no hope of competing with their foreign rivals unless they could match them aesthetically and technically.
With travel restrictions lifted at the close of the Civil War in 1865, a new generation of American artists began to look farther afield for subjects and training. Throughout the 1870s and 1880s, American students gravitated to the art capitals of Paris, Munich, and London, where they received rigorous academic training and experienced the tremendous changes taking place in contemporary European art. Many found new painting grounds throughout the Continent, and others embraced the vogue for exotic subject matter, traveling to the Near and Far East.
As the works in this section demonstrate, the results of foreign experience were varied, and in that sense, Jarves's call for eclecticism was fulfilled. Nationality remained a source of pride, but for many American artists, it was no longer considered central to the work; rather, they sought to participate competitively in the international arena.
Making Art: Plain Styles
Plain style is a new expression proposed as an alternative for terms such as primitive, naïve, outsider, and folk art to describe the paintings, sculpture, and decorative and utilitarian objects exhibited in this section.
While the unschooled artists and makers of "plain" objects sometimes employed the stylistic conventions and techniques of formally trained art-makers, they often misunderstood rules or modified them to suit their own abilities or visions. Because of this, their efforts produced art that is like the work in other sections of these galleries, but simpler. They are plain versions of what in other cases may be very elaborate or complex. While these works may be lacking in a certain technical sophistication, it has long been recognized that such simplicity has a power and appeal of its own. Collectors, scholars, and critics in the earlier twentieth century often associated this plainness with a set of ideal American social and moral values such as homeliness, sincerity, and independence. Others have interpreted the clarity, boldness, and distinct surface patterns of these works as forerunners of the pared-down forms of modernism.
Making Art: The Academic Figure
All of the artists represented in this area attended art academies—either in the United States or Europe. "Academic" describes works that have been made according to rules taught in such schools. For much of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, academic training encouraged official styles, ensured visibility in annual exhibitions, and offered access to lucrative patronage.
Academic teaching placed the art of the ancient Greeks as the standard to which artists should aspire. Holding mankind as "the measure of all things," the Greeks saw the perfectly proportioned human form as a metaphor for such intangible qualities as intellect, nobility, discipline, and dignity. In the hierarchy of subject matter that developed in the academies, religious and history subjects, which depicted human activity, were the most exalted genres. Art students were taught at the outset that if they were to have successful careers, they needed to be proficient in representing the nude figure, and they spent much of their early training drawing from plaster casts of Greek and Roman classical sculptures.
The first successful art academies in the United States were founded in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Two of them—the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia—still flourish. The once-unassailable power of those institutions was challenged in the United States starting in the 1870s, when artists began to establish alternative, independent exhibiting organizations and schools such as the Art Students League with less rigid teaching methods. Since then, the history of American art has been punctuated by tensions between artists who pursue academic values and those who reject them.
The Centennial Era, 1876-1900: Tradition and Innovation
The one-hundredth anniversary of the United States in 1876 initiated a period of intensive national self examination and redefinition orchestrated by the country's political, economic, and cultural leaders. Seeking to leave behind the trauma of the Civil War and Reconstruction, these individuals initiated an effort to reaffirm the early symbols of American nationhood and assert the rise of a country looking beyond its own borders.
This renewal effort was celebrated and promoted through a series of massive cultural fairs. The first was the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition of 1876, a stage set for the presentation of American progress in production, technology, and culture. Huge displays of national resources and new inventions raised the nation's profile in the field of world trade, while artifacts of the Native American and colonial past were juxtaposed with works of living artists to suggest national progress toward a predestined apogee of Western culture.
Fine and decorative arts of this period were wildly varied and sometimes confusing, as artists chose between past traditions or present realities, revival styles or progressive forms. This diversity is demonstrated by the works in these Centennial Era galleries: paintings ranging from colonial subjects to modern urban views; furniture running the gamut from historical revival styles to the machine-made; and objects as different as machined glass and silver, and Native American crafts. This remarkable pluralism predominated through the turn of the century, until it was overtaken by the forces of modernism.
The Centennial Era , 1876–1900: First Americans
The opening of the 1876 Centennial exhibition in Philadelphia coincided with an event that intensified the tide of white opinion against the Native American population for decades to come: the fatal defeat of General George Custer and his troops at the Little Bighorn River following their unprovoked attack on a sacred Sioux precinct. During the era of severe repression of Indian populations that followed, white portrayals of Native Americans became dreamily ideal or solemnly heroic—visual celebrations that cast American Indians as symbols of a securely distant, and hence unthreatening, past. At this moment when carefully documented Native American dress and artifacts were employed to lend these paintings and sculptures authenticity, the reality was that Indians were being forced to abandon their traditional activities and rituals for the routine of reservation life.
The white perspective was enacted in the Centennial fair itself, as in other massive expositions of the period. While only a handful of Native Americans were permitted to leave the reservations to visit the Centennial exhibition, a substantial "scientific" display of Indian artifacts was framed for a white audience as a glimpse of "nearly extinct" indigenous cultures. Such fair displays ironically helped to stimulate a market for certain handcrafted Native American objects, including baskets, pottery, rugs, and jewelry. Within this market controlled primarily by white ethnologists and entrepreneurs (some more interested than others in preserving Native American ways), Indians embraced the opportunity to revive and perpetuate traditional artistic methods and designs, and produced objects for tourists, collectors, and department stores hungry for rare and authentic decorative goods.
Modern Life: Technology and the City
Modernity is often associated with rapid technological innovations that change society radically. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the awareness of modernity was exceptionally strong in cities, in large part because electricity, telephones, and the machinery of industry were coming into widespread use and transforming the patterns of people's daily lives. Skyscrapers, made possible by the invention of the elevator, were perhaps the most visible signs of such changes, but modernity also encompassed the movement of people.
From the turn of the century, rural Americans relocated to urban economic and industrial centers, and thousands of immigrants arrived through the Port of New York to start new lives. This convergence of people having different customs, languages, and beliefs was dynamic, but not without friction. In that urban context, to be modern was to experience an unsettling mix of excitement and anxiety, for predictability based on past experience was exchanged for an often-perplexing present. For these reasons and others, cities—especially New York— became identified with modernity.
Most of the works displayed in this area concentrate on New York scenes and interpret the city according to each artist's time and aesthetic point of view. Whether they focus on people, construction sites, theatrical performances, or the beauty of avenue traffic cloaked in gently falling snow, they momentarily halt the rapid alterations of the urban landscape, as if to make sense of a changing world before it is transformed yet again into something new.
Modern Life: Nonobjective Art
At the beginning of the twentieth century, artists began to question vigorously the purpose and nature of art. Many avant-garde (progressive or experimental) artists rejected traditional ways of representation out of the belief that conveying meaning through clearly identifiable subjects or objects in illusionistic, three dimensional space was too limiting. Instead, they relied on the basic formal elements of art—for instance, line, shape, and color—to create compositions that had no obvious relationship to the observable world.
Nonobjective imagery served a number of purposes. It enabled some artists to express abstract, universal concepts (love, war, music, spirit, energy) in a visual language based on color associations or the relationships of shape and line. In contrast, other artists believed that the subject matter of art should be limited to art itself and purposely confined their work to analyzing visual elements to discover their purest forms.
Experimentation with nonobjective imagery started in Europe and gradually spread to the United States, where its greatest influence was felt in New York. Americans who had not witnessed the aesthetic revolution taking place in Europe could see avant-garde art and discuss theory in the small New York gallery of the photographer-dealer Alfred Stieglitz. In 1913 the controversial Armory Show opened in New York, introducing contemporary avant-garde European art to a broad segment of the American public and drawing firm battle lines between traditional and avant-garde tastes that still exist today.
Modern Life: Art After 1945
Putting the recent past into perspective is a difficult task. Art historians have generally set the year 1945 as the date that separates historic from contemporary art. While some argue that this arbitrarily selected point in time is due for revision, there is a logic behind its continued use. The year 1945 marked the close of World War II—an event that suddenly thrust the United States into a position of political, economic, and cultural predominance over a war-ravaged Europe. This was the beginning of the atomic age and the Cold War—a perplexing era characterized by both a booming economy and an overwhelming sense of uncertainty.
Amid these contradictory moods, young American artists experimented with the achievements of pioneering European modernists and sought to move beyond them to create new visual languages. With the ascendancy of the intuitive, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism by the late 1950s, New York became the center of the international art world, and American artists the trendsetters. Building on this powerful momentum, artists and designers of the 1960s created the pure forms and evocative restraint of Minimalism.
The increasing rapidity of social, political, economic, and technological change throughout the remainder of the century found parallels in an art world that was equally destabilized and unpredictable. Pluralism, indeed, was the dominant mode of the 1970s, and the subsequent decades have brought about an even richer diversity as artists have explored issues of race and gender with new force. The post-1945 works on view here reveal a wide array of formal approaches and themes, and demonstrate the individualism, independence, and innovation that have been the hallmarks of American art production for the past fifty years.


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