cyborgs swathed in vintage

grayskymorning: Nicole Franzen

Thu, 23 May 2013 17:56:12 +0800

grayskymorning:

Nicole Franzen

isohmas: Team 7 - Naruto Chapter 631 OH MY GOD HARUNO SAKURA I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:11:31 +0800

isohmas:

Team 7 - Naruto Chapter 631

OH MY GOD HARUNO SAKURA I could weep, I’ve been waiting for this for years

KISHIMOTO YOU BETTER NOT SCREW THIS UP NOW YOU HAVE THIS ONE LAST CHANCE

explore-blog: A woman working on an all-female team of data...

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:53:16 +0800

explore-blog:

A woman working on an all-female team of data scientists in the gaming industry pulls an ingenious prank on her male CEO and replaces the scantily clad female comic character he has a soft (hard?) spot for with another kind of poster.

But lest we forget, one of the brave everyday women at the helm of the Second Wave of Feminism did the exact same thing 40 years ago and shared it on the “social media” of her day.

(↬ MetaFilter)

"But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:48:09 +0800

“But most days, if you’re aware enough to give yourself a choice, you can choose to look differently at this fat, dead-eyed, over-made-up lady who just screamed at her kid in the checkout line. Maybe she’s not usually like this. Maybe she’s been up three straight nights holding the hand of a husband who is dying of bone cancer. Or maybe this very lady is the low-wage clerk at the motor vehicle department, who just yesterday helped your spouse resolve a horrific, infuriating, red-tape problem through some small act of bureaucratic kindness. Of course, none of this is likely, but it’s also not impossible. It just depends what you want to consider. If you’re automatically sure that you know what reality is, and you are operating on your default setting, then you, like me, probably won’t consider possibilities that aren’t annoying and miserable. But if you really learn how to pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.”

- DAVID FOSTER WALLACE.

We never really know what is happening in another person’s life.

(via somethingchanged)

"The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same...."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:43:55 +0800

“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.”

- The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)

Truth bomb if I ever saw one.

(via ikenbot)

"If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:39:10 +0800

“If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

I want to rethink ‘surrender’ as an active verb.”

- Brian Eno (via kateoplis)

awelltraveledwoman: boys room - pink

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:38:23 +0800

awelltraveledwoman:

boys room - pink

awelltraveledwoman: underthecarolinamoon: “Dads are most...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:38:08 +0800

awelltraveledwoman:

underthecarolinamoon:

“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, and singers of songs.”

22 years later. Always missing papa

"‎In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:52:00 +0800

“‎In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

- Haruki Murakami, After Dark

To Earthward

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:10:07 +0800

netherworldvineyard:

Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air

That crossed me from sweet things,
The flow of--was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Downhill at dusk?

I had the swirl and ache
From sprays of honeysuckle
That when they're gathered shake
Dew on the knuckle.

I craved strong sweets, but those
Seemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.

Now no joy but lacks salt,
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.

When stiff and sore and scarred
I take away my hand
From leaning on it hard
In grass and sand,

The hurt is not enough:
I long for weight and strength
To feel the earth as rough
To all my length.

-- Robert Frost

explore-blog: It all comes down to that urge to fascism —...

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:07:54 +0800

explore-blog:

It all comes down to that urge to fascism — maybe a big word to use for art, but I think the right word — it comes down to that urge to fascism to know what’s best for people, to know that some people are of the best and some people are of the worst; the urge to separate the good from the bad and to praise oneself; to decide what covers on what books people ought to read, what songs people ought to be moved by, what art they ought to make, an urge that makes art into a set of laws that take away your freedom rather than a kind of activity that creates freedom or reveals it. It all comes down to the notion that, in the end, there is a social explanation for art, which is to say an explanation of what kind of art you should be ashamed of and what kind of art you should be proud of. It’s the reduction of the mystery of art, where it comes from, where it goes…

In his fantastic SVA commencement address, cultural critic Greil Marcus addresses the recent Gatsby cover controversy and what it tells us about the perilous division between “high” and “low” culture.

fuckyeahnoodles: “Cut Food” is the brainchild of...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:34:33 +0800

fuckyeahnoodles:

“Cut Food” is the brainchild of photographer Beth Galton and food stylist Charlotte Omnès. All liquids are suspended with gelatin, making the most mundane snacks into works of art.

im-a-kittycat: “So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:15:51 +0800

im-a-kittycat:

“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”

- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl

Photo

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:14:16 +0800

snarkosaurus: Look at the pretties! good lord. where do i get...

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:12:10 +0800

snarkosaurus:

Look at the pretties!

good lord. where do i get these!?

ileftmyheartintokyo: Studio Ghibli Store in Kamakura, Japan by...

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:20:00 +0800

ileftmyheartintokyo:

Studio Ghibli Store in Kamakura, Japan by SuperPope on Flickr.

“For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic...

Sun, 05 May 2013 20:40:56 +0800

“For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed”

Photo

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:50:48 +0800

"As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:47:08 +0800

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”

- Anne Sexton, from “Small Wire” in The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton (Mariner Books, 1999)

Hour - Carol Ann Duffy

Thu, 02 May 2013 15:18:06 +0800

nathanwood93:

Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers
or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.

For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair
like treasure on the ground; the Midas light
turning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for here
we are millonaires, backhanding the night

so nothing dark will end our shining hour,
no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit
hung from the blade of grass at your ear,
no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit

than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,
but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.