man, having sense

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Sat, 18 May 2013 00:09:24 -0400

oldflorida: About to feel the bite of Florida summer Vintage...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:44:08 -0400

oldflorida:

About to feel the bite of Florida summer

Vintage Florida water decal

buzzfeed: George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:35:02 -0400

buzzfeed:

George Takei responds to “traditional” marriage fans.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 19:30:24 -0400

migrated: change the direction of the train if you concentrate

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:30:27 -0400

migrated:

change the direction of the train if you concentrate

Disney Drops Bid To Trademark Dia De Los Muertos Name

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:30:08 -0400

howtheheartbends:

nbclatino:

Disney has dropped an effort to trademark “Dia de los Muertos,” the name of the traditional “Day of the Dead” holiday celebrated by millions in Mexico and the U.S. The application prompted online criticism and petitions.

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Talk about your fuckin’ cultural appropriation. Disney is pretty gross.

Fucking monsters. Marvel and Star Wars just isn’t enough.

ugochinyere: Uli Body Painting, 1986 Women of the Igbo people...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:30:12 -0400

ugochinyere:

Uli Body Painting, 1986

Women of the Igbo people used paint to illustrate their bodies in significant patterns. This concept was referred to as uli painting where a dye made from seeds of uli plants were used to stain the skin black. Designs were painted on girls who just left the ‘fattening room’ where they were prepped for marriage in three months. After this, they were presented to the community and future husbands in a ceremony with their bodies painted in Uli to show their climax of beauty. These designs focus on the girl’s best features but also hide her imperfections.

Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Explains Why He Hates Fat Chicks | Elite Daily

Sun, 12 May 2013 19:30:31 -0400

Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Explains Why He Hates Fat Chicks | Elite Daily:

howtheheartbends:

Fuuuuuucking fuck, that is one extra shitty human being. If you do shop there, it would be a great idea to just never give them business again. Ever.

deervision: Inspired from the dapper criminal mugshots from the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:30:26 -0400

The Joker

Oswald Cobblepot. Aka. The Penguin

Harvey Dent

Mr. Freeze

deervision:

Inspired from the dapper criminal mugshots from the 1920’s, artist Jason Mark re-imagines batman villains in a vintage mugshot series called The Usual Suspects.

Just the beginning

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:13:53 -0400

Just the beginning

Aand we’re off…

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:46:13 -0400

Aand we’re off…

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Fri, 10 May 2013 19:30:15 -0400

blackamazon: so-treu: karateboogaloo: New documentary: A Band...

Thu, 09 May 2013 19:30:23 -0400

blackamazon:

so-treu:

karateboogaloo:

New documentary: A Band Called Death

thepeoplesrecord: The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious”...

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:49:23 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

theyuniversity: 38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:40:35 -0400

theyuniversity:

38 Common Spelling and Grammar Errors

surrealappeal: Diego Rivera, Nude with Sunflowers, 1946.

Wed, 08 May 2013 19:30:24 -0400

surrealappeal:

Diego Rivera, Nude with Sunflowers, 1946.

On March 18, 1966, LIFE magazine published a feature under the...

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:30:16 -0400

On March 18, 1966, LIFE magazine published a feature under the quietly chilling headline, “The Crime of Being Married.” The article, illustrated with photographs by LIFE’s Grey Villet, told the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a married interracial couple battling Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws. Villet’s warm, intimate pictures revealed a close-knit family, including children and grandparents, living their lives in opposition to a patently unjust law — but also captured eloquent moments, gestures and expressions that affirmed just how heavily their defiance weighed on the very private couple.

The LIFE article and Villet’s images, read and viewed today, assume a poignancy and power perhaps unimagined by the magazine’s readers in 1966. The couple, after all, was awaiting an appeal on a court ruling that had, in effect, banished them from their hometown. At the time, the Lovings were adamant (in their own unassuming way) that they had no interest in being cast as Civil Rights heroes. All they wanted was to live their lives and raise their children in peace. But decades later, we know what the people in Villet’s published photographs — a frowning Richard Loving; Mildred Loving, her eyes downcast — might have hoped and prayed for, but could never ultimately count on: namely, that a year later, in 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court finally and unanimously decided the case of Loving v. Virginia, ruling against the state and finding all anti-miscegenation laws across the country unconstitutional.

Read more: http://life.time.com/history/richard-and-mildred-loving-grey-villet-photos-1966/#ixzz2PXROqTLN

spookular: cubandfawn: Right in the heart. I’m not ready to...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:54:56 -0400

spookular:

cubandfawn:

Right in the heart.

I’m not ready to say goodbye to this show.

Crying forever.

meowkittymagic: these make me incredibly happy Awesome.

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:45:23 -0400

meowkittymagic:

these make me incredibly happy

Awesome.

itscolossal: 3D printed portraits derived from synthesized DNA...

Tue, 07 May 2013 09:03:46 -0400

itscolossal:

3D printed portraits derived from synthesized DNA found on discarded gum and cigarette butts by Heather Dewey-Hagborg.