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favorite artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The painter...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:08 -0400

favorite artists: Joseph Mallord William Turner, “The painter of light” (1775-1851)

“You should tell them that indistinctiveness is my forte” — Turner’s reply when hearing that some rich douchebag that purchased one of his paintings complained about it and called it indistinct (Willy’s taking none of your shit)

reblog all the Turner!!!

cosplayforall: bladeburner01: If you guys cosplay, please...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:42:35 -0400

cosplayforall:

bladeburner01:

If you guys cosplay, please watch this :)

This is absolutely excellent!

aka healing powers of cosplay.

arpakassomomma: captawesomesauce: What do I do when I’m sick?...

Thu, 16 May 2013 17:45:13 -0400

arpakassomomma:

captawesomesauce:

What do I do when I’m sick? I google “cat beards” on google images and here were some of the best.

omfg

This made me laugh, which made my head kinda hurt.

marvelous: important cosplay resources

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:46:50 -0400

marvelous: important cosplay resources :

swimmingays:

idk i’ve been struggling finding resources for certain things so i thought i’d pool them in case anyone else needs them too

outfits/clothes
How To Cosplay: Make A Sailor Fuku (School Uniform)!
How to: Pleated Skirt - YouTube
Simple Tie
C ircle Skirt
Ore-Tied Obi
How To Make a Hakama

wigs and wig treatment
Care for a Wig
Wig Styling Walkthrough
Cut Bangs on Wig
Gravity Defying Bangs
C leaning a Wig
Detangling + Washing
Wash a Wig
Building on a wig - Jessie, Pokemon
Huge Curls
Layering a Wig
Long Hair Under Wig
Straighten a Spikey Wig
Sebastian Michaelis - Kuroshitsuji
Sasuke - Naruto

makeup
How to Apply Eyeliner
How to Apply Blush
How to Apply Liquid Foundation
Flawless Skin With Makeup
Airbrush Makeup
Acne Covering Makeup
Girl / Boy Makeup
6 Secrets I Learned at Makeup Artist School
How to Apply Contour Makeup
Grell Sutcliff Makeup Tutorial
Eyebrow Covering
Bishounen (Pretty Boy) Makeup
Fake Facial Hair

wounds ect
Fake Wounds / Scar
Mello Scar Makeup
Scrapes & Bruises
Lacerations
Gouged Eye Makeup
8 Fake Blood Recipes
No-Cook Edible Fake Blood

tattoos
Make a Temporary Tattoo
How To Conceal Tattoos
Sebastian Contract Symbol - Black Butler

wow i really hope this helped people like it helped me!

I want to cosplay again.

consulthedetective: Of course I do. I have a whole closet full...

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:19:40 -0400

consulthedetective:

Of course I do. I have a whole closet full of disguises as well.

SH

hnngg

alicetumblin: transgalacticwanderer: suddenly-sara: inux-main:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:11:10 -0400

alicetumblin:

transgalacticwanderer:

suddenly-sara:

inux-main:

vidrig:

My friend was kind enough to lend me his suit of armor, and into the forest we went!

why are women in plate so HOT!?

Oh god, she is fucking gorgeous!!! *swoon* <3

Please stab me with your sword.

ooubli: neriede: Can I just…..????? Like, this is the single most beautiful piece of animation...

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:48:06 -0400

ooubli:

neriede:

Can I just…..?????

Like, this is the single most beautiful piece of animation ever, I mean

Go ahead, click and drag it, I fucking GUARANTEE that whatever frame it lands on will make you feel better about your day.

Oh my god it’s true.

abandonedography: 9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions...

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:13:08 -0400

abandonedography:

9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World

neverdisappear: Why 30 is not the new 20 This was an...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:15 -0400

neverdisappear:

Why 30 is not the new 20

This was an interesting watch.

matteoricci: The lavish private bedrooms of Emperor Qianlong...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:50:26 -0400

matteoricci:

The lavish private bedrooms of Emperor Qianlong (1735 - 1796) restored to their former glory in the Palace Museum in Beijing, more popularly known as the Forbidden City. The rooms were built between 1771 and 1776, when Qianlong was in his thirties.

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:23:55 -0400

The Hawkeye Initiative: Special Guest Edition: The Hawkeye Initiative IRL!:

gingerhaze:

thehawkeyeinitiative:

I recently received an email from an anonymous fan sharing how she pulled a Hawkeye Initiative themed prank on her CEO to illustrate a problem with some artwork.
My personal compliments to her and her accomplice on a mission well done; they perfectly took they perfectly took the concept of The…

This is MAGNIFICENT and HILARIOUS.

welp, there goes my pants

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:03:57 -0400

welp, there goes my pants

punkypeggy: tentacruels: olgie13: “This gorgeous Hälssen...

Sat, 11 May 2013 19:57:36 -0400

punkypeggy:

tentacruels:

olgie13:

“This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of brewable tea. Each day is made of fine pressed wafer thin tea leaves.”

I need this in my life.

onlylolgifs: How to: make kitten burrito

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:44:09 -0400

onlylolgifs:

How to: make kitten burrito

beingblog: “Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and...

Tue, 07 May 2013 07:44:06 -0400

beingblog:

“Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought. Insight is the total absence of the whole movement of thought as time and remembrance. So there is direct perception. It is as though I have been going North for the last ten thousand years, and my brain is accustomed to going North, and somebody comes along and says, that will lead you nowhere, go East. When I turn round and go East the brain cells have changed. Because I have an insight that the North leads nowhere.
I will put it differently. The whole movement of thought, which is limited, is acting throughout the world now. It is the most important action, we are driven by thought. But thought will not solve any of our problems, except the technological ones. If I see that, I have stopped going North. I think that with the ending of a certain direction, the ending of a movement that has been going on for thousands of years, there is at that moment an insight that brings about a change, a mutation, in the brain cell.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

Sujata Krishna offered this passage from Questioning Krishnamurti after listening to our show with Rex Jung. During the interview, he described how the brain, with training, can actually change shape, beef up like a muscle that’s been trained:

“I think there are some strategies to cultivating creativity. It takes a lot of time to change the structure of your brain and there are several studies out there now. You know, the famous juggling study where they have novices who don’t know how to juggle. They image them, then they juggle for three months, they image them again and they see that literally a portion of their brain, a small chunk, but a portion of their brain is beefed up like a muscle in service of that concerted thing that they’re doing with their brain and that is the thing.

The important thing is they’re doing a very new thing in a concerted way. And their brain says, hey, if we’re going to be doing this thing in the environment over and over and over, I’m going to build tissue to do that so that we can do it easier and more efficiently. So if you’re going to be creative, pick one thing, get a lot of experience in that one thing, and do it over and over and over.”

Think about that. We can actually change the shape of our brains. Time to get to work. Putting that idea to work, methinks this magnified image of stained neurons is a fitting pairing.

Image by Mr. McGill / Flickr

~Trent Gilliss, senior editor

robotunicorncastiel: How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:04:51 -0400

robotunicorncastiel:

How ‘Slut Shaming’ Has Been Written Into School Dress Codes Across The Country

Last month, a New Jersey middle school banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to prom. Administrators claimed that the dresses were “distracting” — though they refused to specify exactly how or why. Parents reacted strongly to the rule; some supported the dress code while others deemed it “slut-shaming.” On Friday, the school compromised by allowing girls to wear single-strap or see-through-strap dresses.

This is no isolated incident in the United States. Across the country, young girls are being told what not to wear because it might be a “distraction” for boys, or because adults decide it makes them look “inappropriate.” At its core, every incident has a common thread: Putting the onus on young women to prevent from being ogled or objectified, instead of teaching those responsible to learn to respect a woman’s body. Here are five other recent examples:

1. A middle school in California banned tight pants. At the beginning of last month, a middle school in Northern California began telling girls to avoid wearing pants that are “too tight” because it “distracts the boys.” At a mandatory assembly for just the female students, the middle school girls were told that they’re no longer allowed to wear leggings or yoga pants. “We didn’t think it was fair how we have all these restrictions on our clothing while boys didn’t have to sit through [the assembly] at all,” one student told local press. Some parents also complained, leading the school’s assistant principal to record a voicemail explaining the new policy. “The guiding principle in all dress codes is that the manner in which students dress does not become a distraction in the learning environment,” the message said.

2. A high school principal in Minnesota emailed parents to ask them to cover up their daughters. A principal in Minnetonka, MN recently wrote an email telling parents to stop letting their daughters wear leggings or yoga pants to school. He says the tight-fitting pants are fine with longer shirts but, when worn with a shorter top, a girl’s “backside” can be “too closely defined.” The big risk of having a defined backside, he thinks, is that it can “be highly distracting for other students.”

3. Two girls in Ohio were turned away from their prom for being “improperly dressed.” Laneisha Williams and Nyasia Mitchell were barred from prom this spring for wearing dresses that administrators considered “too revealing.” The girls say that they didn’t believe they were violating a dress code that said dresses couldn’t be too short or show too much cleavage. But one administrator told local news that the high school girls were only allowed to wear dresses that had “no curvature of their breasts showing.”

4. A kindergarten student in Georgia was forced to change her “short” skirt because it was a “distraction to other students.” It’s hard to imagine that a kindergartener’s outfit could be “a distraction to other students,” but a mother in Georgia told locals news there that her daughter had been outfitted in someone else’s pants — without parental permission — after the principal deemed the skirt the young girl was wearing too short.” The girl had apparently wore the skirt, and accompanying leggings, just one week before without incident.

5. Forty high school girls were sent home from a winter dance in California after “degrading” clothing inspections “bordering on sexual harassment.” A school board member’s daughter was among the 40 girls turned away from Capistrano Valley High’s February dance for wearing dresses that either exposed their midriffs or were cut too low. Before the dance, girls were apparently required to flap their arms up and down and turn around for male administrators’ inspection. The school issues image guidelines for appropriate dress on its website — though the images were nearly all of women, and the only male image depicted proper attire. One girl alleges that the principal told her, “Not all dresses look good on certain body shapes.” A grandmother of one of the girls who was turned away from the dance also said that a teacher remarked about her granddaughter, “What mother would allow her daughter to wear a dress like that?” Apparently the school did receive some praise, though, from the parents of two male students.

When most Americans think about “rape culture,” they may think about the Steubenville boys’ defense arguing that an unconscious girl consented to her sexual assault because she “didn’t say no,” the school administrators who choose to protect their star athletes over those boys’ rape victims, or the bullying that led multiple victims of sexual assault to take their own lives. While those incidences of victim-blaming are certainly symptoms of a deeply-rooted rape culture in this country, they’re not the only examples of this dynamic at play. Rape culture is also evident in the attitudes that lead school administrators to treat young girls’ bodies as inherently “distracting” to the boys who simply can’t control themselves. That approach to gender roles simply encourages our youth to assume that sexual crimes must have something to do with women’s “suggestive” clothes or behavior, rather than teaching them that every individual is responsible for respecting others’ bodily autonomy.

cosmarxpolitan: Cosmarxpolitan, Issue 4 Supporting third world...

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:41:17 -0400

cosmarxpolitan:

Cosmarxpolitan, Issue 4

Supporting third world guerillas? How to keep the spark in a long distance relationship

flux-inthecity: aguabend: jackumonkey: wish-upon-parallel-line...

Wed, 01 May 2013 08:00:52 -0400

flux-inthecity:

aguabend:

jackumonkey:

wish-upon-parallel-lines:

ezowolf:

almightylsama:

shaunofthebread:

max-of-wild-things:

neverloveawildling:

blua:

Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card. I highly recommend getting this game for anyone who feels bored at any point throughout the week.

550 cards (460 White cards and 90 Black cards)

0% of the proceeds will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation

Buy Here - $25.00

This is the best game I have ever played with my friends.

I want this

This game is the best.

The best. game on the planet. Ever.

THIS GAME IS AMAZING ROFL
LETS PLAY AGAIN SOMETIME L

I need this.

Ha I’d love this

I have this game and I need friends to play with.

BEST. GAME. EVER.

This game is amazeballs.

theartofanimation: Sam Schechter

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:43:33 -0400

theartofanimation:

Sam Schechter

Yeah you know that crazy talented Aussie who plays iconic...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 18:52:47 -0400

Yeah you know that crazy talented Aussie who plays iconic badasses in movies like The Matrix trilogy, V For Vendetta, Lord of The Rings series, and most recently, The Hobbit?

Well, now I present to you…
Hugo Weaving.
Singing.
Leonard Cohen’s “I’m Your Man”.
Jazz style.

well then.