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likeafieldmouse: Christian Schloe - Portrait of a Heart (2013)

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:10:23 -0400

Christian Schloe - Portrait of a Heart (2013)

"The thing about cultural appropriation is that the appropriator does not have to face the same..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:02:35 -0400

“The thing about cultural appropriation is that the appropriator does not have to face the same consequences that we do for practicing our culture or faith. For them, it is an accessory that can be taken on or off at will, while for us, it is a way of life. …in a society where immigrants and communities of color are marginalized at every level, we can’t pretend that power relations do not exist when we have this conversation about appropriation. Sharing and exchanging cultural and spiritual practices is great, but it gets more complicated when we’re not all on equal footing. It gets more complicated when meaningful things are taken, commodified, and exploited for a profit, with little respect shown to the community they were taken from.”

- Turbans on the Runway: What does it mean for Sikhs? by Sonny Singh Brooklynwala (July 10th, 2012)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 19:10:02 -0400

thisurlisunavaliable: Samantha Xu by Felix Cooper for Used...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:08:10 -0400

thisurlisunavaliable:

Samantha Xu by Felix Cooper for Used Magazine

neuboheme: (via Spalted Maple Glass Fold Table | Fab.com)

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:11:43 -0400

neuboheme:

(via Spalted Maple Glass Fold Table | Fab.com)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:09:51 -0400

"Fortunately there is gin, the sole glimmer of light in this darkness. Do you feel the golden,..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:47:20 -0400

“Fortunately there is gin, the sole glimmer of light in this darkness. Do you feel the golden, copper-colored light it kindles in you? I like walking through the city of an evening in the warmth of gin. I walk for nights on end, I dream or talk to myself interminably.”

- The Fall by Albert Camus (via mirroir)

blue-voids: Agata Madejska - Kosmos, 2006-7

Mon, 20 May 2013 13:46:12 -0400

blue-voids:

Agata Madejska - Kosmos, 2006-7

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:41:26 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:38:35 -0400

"Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:41:04 -0400

““Being born a woman is an awful tragedy. Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording —all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.””

- Sylvia Plath (via oh-girl-among-the-roses)

natgeofound: A woman dressed for a bullfight stands in a...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:28:48 -0400

natgeofound:

A woman dressed for a bullfight stands in a doorway, August 1924.
Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic

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Sun, 19 May 2013 17:28:12 -0400

nemomeimpune-lacessit: The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:24:22 -0400

nemomeimpune-lacessit:

The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies

The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.

Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”

http://thenuproject.com/

I want to take part!

milktree: by Rob Müller

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:39:43 -0400

milktree:

by Rob Müller

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:38:44 -0400

A Horned Witch, French School

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:30:34 -0400

A Horned Witch, French School

newman-hall: Our Newman&Hall hero, Doris Zinkeisen<3

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:29:10 -0400

newman-hall:

Our Newman&Hall hero, Doris Zinkeisen<3

"Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:45:29 -0400

“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything to change them. When it is time to wait, you must wait.”

- Haruki Murakami/ The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (via vous-trouvez)