The HEARING

3 gone 6 to go.. ..oh. ..all 9 here....

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:00:04 -0400

3 gone 6 to go.. ..oh. ..all 9 here. ..nevermind.

Theodora Allen

It took all my energy to want youand the rest of me to go after...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:02:00 -0400

It took all my energy to want you
and the rest of me to go after you
and then one day I knew
that I had you.
I was standing at the sink rinsing dust
from a bunch of grapes.
All my energy had been spent
pursuing you and then I had you
and then
I sat down at the kitchen table and ate the grapes.
The day was hot, that day
when I knew I had you. The man
in the house across the street
was cursing his wife.
An hour later I went to see about a job,
and the woman behind the desk
with her gold spectacles
caused me to remember that I had you.
Outside the sky was blue as a china plate.
There is nothing to do
on a day like that
but go to the beach. I caught three fish,
black and heavy as paperweights.
After the third I stopped to clean them in the ribboning surf,
three black fish flecked gold as the capes
of Egyptian kings,
strong swimmers, broad across the backs.
I slit the bellies, tossed the guts and roe
to the waiting gulls, cut the heads off slant
and lay them one by one on the gurgling sand
while I thought of you. Three small boys
picked them up
and carried them away,
holding them aloft as if on pikes.
Even as I fry these fish I think of
their heads against the sky
while the birds worked on a patch of sea
on the lee side of a sand bar that split the water
like the broken spine of a ship,
and as I turn these fish in the pan
I think of the day when I knew I had you,
and then the next, and then the day after that.

—Tony Wallace, It Took All My Energy

forgetcookies: Majo Fruithof Collection Shot by Patrizio Di...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:52:22 -0400

forgetcookies:

Majo Fruithof Collection Shot by Patrizio Di Renzo

I today.. fuckyeahlaughters: thefunniestpost: Baby thinks she...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:51:00 -0400

I today..

fuckyeahlaughters:

thefunniestpost:

Baby thinks she can eat food from the magazine

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d0minus: Lamborghini on the Wall // Biscuit in Pursuit

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:08:32 -0400

d0minus:

Lamborghini on the Wall // Biscuit in Pursuit

habitualbliss: Beautiful.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:07:50 -0400

habitualbliss:

Beautiful.

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..don’t remember seeing the zebra in the movie. ..hah.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:02:33 -0400

..don’t remember seeing the zebra in the movie. ..hah.

Smart ideas for Smarter cities

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:01:42 -0400

Smart ideas for Smarter cities

nethilia: murdorito: ankankimatank: dollymacabre: mszombi: f...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:51 -0400

nethilia:

murdorito:

ankankimatank:

dollymacabre:

mszombi:

fleurdulys:

The Irritating Gentleman - Berthold Woltze

1874

I know that feel, Painting Lady.

My bus ride to and from work every day.

They never published the second picture, which was the one where she backhanded him in the fucking face for getting all up in her shit.

Oh great, good to know this has been a problem for HUNDREDS OF YEARS CAN WE PLEASE STOP DOING THIS ALREADY JUST FUCK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE

Everyone is overlooking something very significant in this picture, that I saw in two seconds, that adds a layer of super slime to his whole awful attitude. “The Irritating Gentleman” is a politeness.

She’s wearing all black in 1874. Black gloves, hat, cloak, and dress. In public. The whole nine yards. That’s not a fashion choice or a gothic thing. Back then when people wore all black like that, they were in mourning for someone who died. No one did mourning like the Victorians, that shit was an art form to them.

Someone in her family has died—she could even be a young widow. No one’s accompanying her either. With the carpet bag? She’s traveling alone while still in deep mourning. Look at the closeup. She’s got tears in her eyes. She is upset, devastated in a way that one is only when someone has died. And the guy’s still bothering her, like her problems are flippant bullshit and she needs to just smile or pay attention to him because ladies are supposed to be pleasing for men no matter what shit they’re going through. That’s not a look of “what an ass.” That’s a look of devastation that even in her pain, she’s expected to give people like him focus. She’s not mad. She’s hurt. And to add insult to injury? Everyone would be able to tell. It was a clear sign and still is in ways that someone is mourning, to dress in black crepe like that. He would know why she’s wearing all black, and he’s still demanding her attention.

What an insufferable dick.

At least I’m not the only one who saw this.

"Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:54 -0400

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TedxEuston (x)

Amen

(via youngblackandvegan)

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:49:39 -0400

2headedsnake: Simon Kenny ‘Deliverance’, 2012 oil on canvas

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:49:22 -0400

2headedsnake:

Simon Kenny

‘Deliverance’, 2012

oil on canvas

elizabitchtaylor: Isabella Rossellini at the Cannes Film...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:48:13 -0400

elizabitchtaylor:

Isabella Rossellini at the Cannes Film Festival, 1990.

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:45:47 -0400

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escapekit: Things come apart Toronto-based photographer todd...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:37:24 -0400

escapekit:

Things come apart

Toronto-based photographer todd mclellan, explores retro to modern daily items that have, are, or will be in our everyday lives. displayed within the exhibition, every piece of various household items - a phone, lawnmower and typewriter - are meticulously taken apart, and arranged in an organized composition. in another take on a childhood fantasy, mclellan photographs the disassembled pieces as he ejects them into mid-air, allowing pieces to rain down in an explosion-like fashion - offering a commentary on obsolete technologies from the past.