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Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:54:10 -0800

unapproachableblackchicks: Now I just need someone to give this...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:53:09 -0800

unapproachableblackchicks:

Now I just need someone to give this to … Happy Valentine’s Day.

icantbelongtowinter: (via vodkacupcakes)

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:55:32 -0800

icantbelongtowinter:

(via vodkacupcakes)

thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg: Back to the Future, 1957-present

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:33:17 -0800

Tommy, 1977 and 2010, Buenos Aires

Mechi, 1990 and 2010, Buenos Aires

Daphne, 1986 and 2011, Paris

Patrick B., 1982 and 2011, Berlin

Johanes, 1994 and 2011, Hamburg

Sander, 1983 and 2011, Rotterdam

Violeta, 1981 and 2011, Buenos Aires

Devoto, 1990 and 2011, Buenos Aires

Marita y Coty, 1977 and 2010, Buenos Aires

Nico, 1986 and 2010, Buenos Aires

thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg:

Back to the Future, 1957-present

"I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes,..."

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:12:02 -0800

“I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”

- Teju Cole (via thewhiskeypropagandist)

thanks vv

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:25:42 -0800

thanks vv

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Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:24:37 -0800

"In pop culture, girls who crush hopelessly on guys they can’t have are painted as just that –..."

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:49:00 -0800

“In pop culture, girls who crush hopelessly on guys they can’t have are painted as just that – hopeless. Over and over again, we’re taught that girls who openly express sexual or romantic interest in guys who don’t want them are pitiable, stalkerish, desperate, crazy bitches. More often than not, they’re also portrayed as ugly – whether physically, emotionally or both – in order to further establish their undesirability as an objective fact. Both narratively and, as a consequence, in real life, men are given free reign to snub, abuse, mislead and talk down to such women: we’re raised to believe that female desire is unseemly, so that any consequent shaming is therefore deserved. There is no female-equivalent Friend Zone terminology because, in the language of our culture, a man’s romantic choices are considered sacrosanct and inviolable. If a girl has been told no, then she has only herself to blame for anything that happens next – but if a woman says no, then she must not really mean it. Or, if she does, she shouldn’t: the rejected man is a universally sympathetic figure, and everyone from moviegoers to platonic onlookers will scream at her to just give him a chance, as though her rejection must always be unfounded rather than based on the fact that he had a chance, and blew it. And even then, give him another one! The pathos of Single Nice Guys can only be eased by pity-sex with unwilling women that blossoms into romance!”

- Lamenting the Friendzone, or: The Nice Guy Approach to Perpetuating Sexist Bullshit (via expensivebirdcage)

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Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:32:38 -0800

rookiemag: eaedwards: Laurie Anderson. Anderson photographed...

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:37:56 -0800

rookiemag:

eaedwards:

Laurie Anderson.

Anderson photographed men who called to her or whistled her on the street. In her artist statement she writes about one experience,

“As I walked along Houston Street with my fully automated Nikon. I felt armed, ready. I passed a man who muttered ‘Wanna fuck?’ This was standard technique: the female passes and the male strikes at the last possible moment forcing the woman to backtrack if she should dare to object. I wheeled around, furious. ‘Did you say that?’ He looked around surprised, then defiant ‘Yeah, so what the fuck if I did?’ I raised my Nikon, took aim began to focus. His eyes darted back and forth, an undercover cop? CLICK.”

Anderson takes the power from her male pursuers, allowing them nothing more than the momentary fear that their depravity has just been captured in a picture.

-n

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Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:57:31 -0800

Reigning Queen of Carefree Black Girls Everywhere

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:21:46 -0800

Reigning Queen of Carefree Black Girls Everywhere

2013: more curls… more tangerines…

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 20:30:28 -0800

2013: more curls… more tangerines…

atavus: Peter Garfield - Mobile Homes, 1995-2000

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:02:50 -0800

atavus:

Peter Garfield - Mobile Homes, 1995-2000

hi @pickwickmusic

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:24:34 -0800

hi @pickwickmusic

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Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:11:11 -0800

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Mon, 31 Dec 2012 13:40:16 -0800

sealegslegssea: photojojo: Photographer Caleb Charland uses...

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:53:18 -0800

sealegslegssea:

photojojo:

Photographer Caleb Charland uses sources of alternative energy, such as coins, apples, and vinegar to power a light bulb. While that’s nothing new, Charland happens to be a pretty darn good photographer as well.

Still Life Series Wires Apples, Stacked Coins, and Others To Power Light

via Colossal

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Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:07:05 -0800

lil’ ash @ashleyholtz (at Prost!)

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 16:21:48 -0800

lil’ ash @ashleyholtz (at Prost!)