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26 April 12 9,308 notes
African Stereotype of the Day: Gabriel, Benard, Brian, and Derrik, who live in Kenya, were inspired to poke fun at the way African men are portrayed by Hollywood: “If people believed only what they saw in movies,” they said, “they would think we are all warlords who love violence.” Mama Hope — an organization that partners with African organizations to help transform their communities — was more than happy to hand them a mic as part of a video campaign to “Stop the Pity, Unlock the Potential.”
Good stuff.
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25 April 12 8,988 notes
Image description: NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed an object that looks like a giant tornado in space. The structure actually results from shock waves where a powerful protostellar jet hits neighboring gas and dust.
Find more images from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Photo by NASA / JPL-Caltech / J. Bally (University of Colorado)
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21 April 12 189 notes
Apollo 16, Descartes Highlands this day 40 years ago - After configuring the LM for a Stay, John took at series of pictures out his window .
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21 April 12 59 notes
Young Stellar Grouping in Cygnus X (by NASA Goddard Photo and Video)
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19 April 12 3,587 notes
This graph charts the participation of nations in the Summer Olympics since the beginning of the modern games in 1896. In the beginning, a mere 14 nations competed in the games. In 2008, the Olympics has grown to become a world culture phenomenon that now includes athletes competing under more than 200 different flags.
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14 April 12 7,342 notes
Many people go out of their way to avoid using cramped airplane bathrooms, but we just discovered someone who seeks them out for awesomely creative purposes:
To pass the time during long flights, artist Nina Katchadourian goes to the lavatory, adorns herself in tissue paper costume, and creates hilarious self-portrait photos in the style of Flemish Renaissance paintings. She calls the series Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style:
While in the lavatory on a domestic flight in March 2010, I spontaneously put a tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over my head and took a picture in the mirror. The image evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. I decided to add more images made in this mode and planned to take advantage of a long-haul flight from San Francisco to Auckland, guessing that there were likely to be long periods of time when no one was using the lavatory on the 14-hour flight. I made several forays to the bathroom from my aisle seat, and by the time we landed I had a large group of new photographs entitled Lavatory Self-Portraits in the Flemish Style.
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lmao, I applaud her ability to keep a straight face while doing this
THIS IS INCREDIBLE -jamie
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08 April 12 508 notes
Easter Sun
I hope the sun shines on you today!
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28 March 12 39,931 notes
Amazing.
- Seventeen: You've said girls should embrace their curves. Why did you think it important to make that statement?
- Jennifer Lawrence: When I was playing Mystique in X-Men, I remember thinking, If I'm going to be naked in paint in front of the entire world, I'm going to look like a woman. I'm going to have curves and have boobs and have a butt. Because girls are going to look at that, and if I look like a scarecrow, they are going to think, Oh, that's normal. It's not normal. I'm just so sick of these young girls with diets. I remember when I was 13 and it was cool to pretend to have an eating disorder because there were rumors that Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Richie were anorexic. I thought it was crazy. I went home and told my mom, "Nobody's eating bread--I just had to finish everyone's burgers". I think it's really important for girls to have people to look up to and feel good about themselves.
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21 March 12 4,998 notes
“I am very cold”
“The parchment is very hairy.”
“Oh, my hand.”
—Notes from medieval monks and scribes in the margins of their work
Our latest issue “Means of Communication” is now online. Take a break from the scriptorium to check it out!
This is awesome.
Yup.
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19 March 12 957 notes
Three African American women at the state fair, ph. Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1903
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11 March 12 23 notes
Maharana Sarup Singh and his courtiers on elephants celebrating the festival of Holi on Flickr.
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Udaipur, Mewar, Rajasthan, 1850
Opaque walercolor on paper, 35 13/16 x 50 in.
The City Palace Museum, Udaipur
The colored powders (gulal) resembling fireworks that are strewn on the occasion of the Holi festival suggest anarchic abandon. But that does not mean that courtly etiquette has been abandoned; rather, the spectators that frame the event are arranged in ordered rows, according to rank. The scene is composed with Tara’s typical use of multiple perspectives, combining a view of the courtyard of the palace from above with a depiction of its facade viewed in elevation. A British artist described the spectacle on the occasion of the Holi festival of 1877: “The powder is tossed using a handkerchief tied around the wrist at one end … thus making a kind of sling” Large syringes were also used, to spectacular effect.
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11 March 12 1,329 notes
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03 March 12 202 notes
When I saw that sign out of all of those signs, I was like, I’ve got to have a picture of it. I thought if my 87-year-old mother sees this, I’m going to get hell this weekend, but it was too late.
Oklahoma! State Sen. Judy McIntyre (D) explains why she protested her state’s personhood bill by holding up a sign that said “IF I WANTED THE GOVERNMENT IN MY WOMB I’D FUCK A SENATOR.” (via motherjones)
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