father furor

coeykuhn: My 4 page thing for Ghostbook!I’m not quite sure how...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:08:53 -0700

My 4 page thing for Ghostbook!

I’m not quite sure how I feel about it, actually really insecure about it @ o @ Snippit of my character Ancil’s story. Remorseful alcoholic murderous magician, remorseful only in the fact he doesnt have the show that he used to now. Quite haunted by ghosts, sorry?
IDK. itsathing.
Check out the book @ o @ we have some AMAZING talented artists T v T <3333

Photo

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:06:22 -0700

Take outs from the cousins graduation party #selfie #classof2013...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:57:52 -0700

Take outs from the cousins graduation party #selfie #classof2013 #congratulations

"One factor that makes interaction between multi-ethnic groups of women difficult and sometimes..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:23:55 -0700

“One factor that makes interaction between multi-ethnic groups of women difficult and sometimes impossible is our failure to recognize that a behaviour pattern in one culture may be unacceptable in another, that is may have different signification cross-culturally … I have learned the importance of learning what we called one another’s cultural codes.
An Asian American student of Japanese heritage explained her reluctance to participate in feminist organizations by calling attention to the tendency among feminist activists to speak rapidly without pause, to be quick on the uptake, always ready with a response. She had been raised to pause and think before speaking, to consider the impact of one’s words, a characteristic that she felt was particularly true of Asian Americans. She expressed feelings of inadequacy on the various occasions she was present in feminist groups. In our class, we learned to allow pauses and appreciate them. By sharing this cultural code, we created an atmosphere in the classroom that allowed for different communication patterns.
This particular class was peopled primarily by black women. Several white women students complained that the atmosphere was “too hostile.” They cited the noise level and direct confrontations that took place in the room prior to class as an example of this hostility. Our response was to explain that what they perceived as hostility and aggression, we considered playful teasing and affectionate expressions of our pleasure at being together. Our tendency to talk loudly we saw as a consequence of being in a room with many people speaking, as well as of cultural background: many of us were raised in families where individuals speak loudly. In their upbringings as white, middle-class females, the complaining students had been taught to identify loud and direct speech with anger. We explained that we did not identify loud or blunt speech in this way, and encourage them to switch codes, to think of it as an affirming gesture. Once they switched codes, they not only began to have a more creative, joyful experience in the class, but they also learned that silence and quiet speech can in some cultures indicate hostility and aggression. By learning one another’s cultural codes and respecting our differences, we felt a sense of community, of Sisterhood. Representing diversity does not mean uniformity or sameness. ”

- Bell Hooks, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (pages 57-58)

blowinintheart: The Art of Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:17:10 -0700

blowinintheart:

The Art of Negative Space by Tang Yau Hoong

Photo

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:15:43 -0700

ceasepool: underthevastblueseas: Sarcastic Fringehead [video...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:08:07 -0700

ceasepool:

underthevastblueseas:

Sarcastic Fringehead

[video source]

SPOOKY

aiwa-sensei: iwasjustkidding: iridescentcatharsis: macmuffinpr...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 07:07:34 -0700

aiwa-sensei:

iwasjustkidding:

iridescentcatharsis:

macmuffinpro:

picnicinparadise:

HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!

Why do I learn more about math from Tumblr than my 12+ years of formal education????????

No math teacher ever taught me this trick. Got damn.

This is great and all if you know how to subtract things from 100

Photo

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:54:49 -0700

Photo

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:54:34 -0700

aurumtrapgoddess: iluvsuga: Tupac Uncencored and Uncut The...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 15:58:17 -0700

aurumtrapgoddess:

iluvsuga:

Tupac Uncencored and Uncut The Lost Prison Tapes

Oh shit

naturalnightnurse: angel-in-my-arms: mommyslittlemunchkin: ann...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:39:51 -0700

naturalnightnurse:

angel-in-my-arms:

mommyslittlemunchkin:

ann-dree-uhh:

baby-junior:

dearestsprout:

thedaddycomplex:

laughingsquid:

Huggies Pregnancy Belt Lets Dads Feel Their Babies Move and Kick

This seems a little more enticing than that contraption that simulates labor pains.

Awwwww!!!

This literally just made my eyes so watery:’)

This is beautiful. I wish could have felt this.

Awww:)

crying

This would be so cool to do!! My husband would tear up…

If You're Laughing at Kanye West, the Joke's on You

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:35:22 -0700

If You're Laughing at Kanye West, the Joke's on You:

The media is freaking out about an interview with Kanye West that theNew York Times ran yesterday. West always gives good copy, and predictably enough, he obliged the NYT by saying lots of suitably “outrageous” things, all of which have been circulating like crazy around the Internet over the last 24 hours. The inevitable quote roundups have already started rolling in, and their tone is all too predictable — Vulture, for instance, gives us “The Most Ridiculous Things Kanye Said In His New York Times Interview,” while The Daily Beast goes with “The Craziest Quotes,” and… well, you get the idea. Look at the crazy guy! Listen to the crazy things he says! The thing is, if you really think West isn’t doing this on purpose, well, the joke’s on you.

The way Kanye West is portrayed in the media is an ongoing study in the conflict between perception and reality. As the reaction to this interview (and, indeed, the interview itself) demonstrate, he’s frequently depicted as a cartoonish figure, a caricature of the egocentric modern celebrity. In fairness, he hasn’t always helped himself defy that stereotype, but then, perhaps he hasn’t wanted to do so, because the persona West projects is all about making the media work for him, and he knows exactly what he’s doing.

The way in which savvy musicians are dictating their own mythology is something I’ve looked at before, but whereas in the case of many artists, this is a process of resisting the way they’re portrayed and trying to dictate an alternate narrative, West seems to have decided early on in his career to embrace many of the stereotypes thrown at hip-hop artists (although, curiously, not all of them; he’s never for a moment embraced gangsta clichés) and turn them up to 11.

West is many things — brilliant, idiosyncratic, egotistical, contradictory — but one thing he’s definitely not is stupid: “I get it, everybody knows I’m a motherfuckin’ monster,” he raps during the chorus to “Monster,” and he’s only too happy to play up to this popular perception of himself. People criticize him for his ego, so he appears on the cover of Rolling Stone as Jesus, or proclaims himself “the Steve [Jobs] of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture.” People criticize him for being materialistic, so he raps, “They made us hate ourselves/ And love their wealth”… and then, a decade later, tweets a photo of himself with his private plane.

It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that there’s more than a whiff of racism in making a spectacle of “crazy Kanye West,” in the same way that there’s something sexist about the way that Fiona Apple is always depicted as the madwoman in the attic — take, for example, the rather distasteful way that Vulture’s quote roundup describes West as “Kim Kardashian’s future baby daddy.”

Again, West seems only too aware of this; on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, he snaps that “the same people that tried to blackball me forgot about two things: my black balls,” and years earlier, he noted, “We shine because they hate us, floss ’cause they degrade us/ We trying to buy back our 40 acres/ And for that paper, look how low we stoop/ Even if you in a Benz, you still a nigga in a coop.” By the sounds of it, Yeezus tracks like “New Slaves” and “Black Skinhead” address this subject even more explicitly.

The fact that the media has been only too happy to portray West as a caricature rather proves the validity of the entire exercise. His persona has worked as a fractured reflection of expectations, and if you look back over the way that this persona has evolved throughout his career, it’s almost performance art — compare and contrast the fresh-faced, Polo-shirt-wearing, backpack-toting preppy of The College Dropout to the moneyed hedonist of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and the latter-day firebrand of his new work. It’s like Middle America’s nightmare made flesh, an articulate and angry black man first trying to live the American dream, then transcending it, then rejecting it. Rarely has a career followed such a compelling and coherent narrative arc, and if you think the guy following it is just a cashed-up egomaniac, well, you’re putting an awful lot of faith in providence.

West’s attitude has defined his career, and without it, he might never have become one of the most famous rappers of all time. As he rapped in his guest verse on Rhymefest’s “Brand New,” “They say your attitude determines your latitude,” going on to describe himself as “still the motherfucker that you love to hate/ But [you] can’t because you love what I make.” This, perhaps, gets to the heart of West’s persona — you can love him or hate him, but he won’t be ignored. (It was fascinating to note his reaction to a reviewer giving one of his live shows a report card-style B+: “What’s a B+ mean? I’m an extremist, its either pass or fail! A+ or F-!”)

Even his occasional “missteps” have been remarkably successful in terms of refining his mythology. Take his notorious “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” moment, for instance — apart from the fact that he was probably completely correct, it occurred in the same week that he released Late Registration. I’m not sure that West is cynical enough to have treated his appearance solely as a publicity stunt — the speech in which the quote came seemed pretty emotional and heartfelt — but equally, he clearly realized that this was an opportunity to do… something. He pauses for a moment before making his proclamation, like he’s weighing its impact, and then jumps in with both feet. And look, here we are, nearly a decade later, still talking about it.

The NYT interview comes with the provocative headline “Behind Kanye’s Mask,” but really, it’s not anything of the sort — it’s another manifestation of the persona he’s been refining for years, and what truly lies “behind the mask” is something that very few people get to see. Intriguingly, those who know him best describe him as somewhat shy, which makes sense when you think about it — it’s often those who are least secure who tend to overcompensate by being aggressively extroverted. Whoever the real Kanye West is, one thing’s for sure: if you’re giggling about how “crazy” Kanye is, you’re doing exactly what he wants you to do.

sarahbethyoga: Hardcore Yoga: Pick Up Practice (4 minutes) If...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:23:06 -0700

sarahbethyoga:

Hardcore Yoga: Pick Up Practice (4 minutes)

If you’ve got 4 minutes and a core you can do this. This practice is complete with modifications to help you improve your upper body strength and build a strong, stabilized core.

Try alternating this video and the plank video daily to prepare you for the future video series “Intermediate Arm Balances” featuring poses such as grasshopper, 8 limbs, side crow, crow pose, titbasana, etc.

~Sarah Beth Yoga

YouTube Facebook Twitter Instagram

hiddenguiltypleasure: andreii-tarkovsky: Are we just going to...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:20:38 -0700

hiddenguiltypleasure:

andreii-tarkovsky:

Are we just going to ignore Tom Hardy’s selfies?

crispysnakes: Calico Dominican Red Mountain Boa (Epicrates...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:33:53 -0700

crispysnakes:

Calico Dominican Red Mountain Boa (Epicrates Striatus Striatus)

(Source - Undercurrent Imports)

Random Glass in the Parking Lot (at Starbucks)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:43:56 -0700

Random Glass in the Parking Lot (at Starbucks)

Dats my sister!

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:35:35 -0700

Dats my sister!

This song is hella wack

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:34:48 -0700

This song is hella wack

Having a sister moment

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:33:11 -0700

Having a sister moment