Coolest audience member ever
Pictures from Tabitha and Cynthia’s Wedding
For the complete gallery click here, and for the story behind the wedding click here.
Photos by Beaux Arts Photographie.These pictures are ridiculously sweet and amazing, oh my goodness.
AC3 is getting a spin-off for the PS Vita, and this game, subtitled Liberation, takes place in 1700s New Orleans with a female lead character named Aveline, who is French and African American. it also appears that this story has nothing to do with Desmond, and will come out the same day as AC3.
Capresse des colonies 1871 (musee d’Orsay)
shiiiiiiit this is dope. who made it? what did they say about it? how has it been received? i want to write a paper on this so i can sit and contemplate it for hours and find out all about it.
The piece is made of bronze and onyx.
The artist is Charles Henri Joseph Cordier, a French sculptor who apparently focused on sculpting Africans.
Cordier was related by marriage to the director of the Museum of Natural History in Paris and served from 1851 to 1866 as its official ethnographic sculptor, creating a series of busts for the museum’s new ethnographic gallery. In 1856 he was awarded a commission from the French government to visit Algeria with the purpose of studying and reproducing in sculpture “the different indigenous types of the human race.” Upon his return he exhibited ten busts at the Paris Salon of 1857.
In his unpublished memoirs Charles Cordier cites the law of April 27, 1848 that abolished slavery in France and its colonies, writing: “My art incorporated the reality of a whole new subject, the revolt against slavery and the birth of anthropology.” In pioneering ethnography as a subject for sculpture in the nineteenth century, Cordier aimed to illustrate what he described as “the idea of the universality of beauty.” His busts often paired couples of the opposite sex but of the same race. This rare instance of matched busts of women was desired by the purchaser, a gaming club in Marseilles, that also commissioned the sumptuous Second-Empire pedestals from Cordier.
The busts revel in the period taste for polychromy in sculpture, an international phenomenon sparked by artistic debates about the painting of ancient statuary and inspired by ancient Roman and Renaissance sculpture composed of variously colored marbles. On a trip to Algeria in 1856 Cordier discovered onyx deposits in recently reopened ancient quarries and began to use the stone in busts such as these. He ingeniously fitted enameled bronze heads into the vibrantly patterned stone, creating exciting though costly representations of Africans that appealed to the highest levels of European society.(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Dahesh Museum of Art)
Jasper Goodall
OHM rosetail seen from above while flaring
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From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
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David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)
That last line is right on the money.
(via thingsthatscareme)
Reminds me of a quote I saw somewhere; “Friendzoning is bullshit because girls are not machines that you put Kindness Coins into until sex falls out.”
by Charles Allen Winter
Artwork: Alex Grey
Lyrics: Tool - “Jambi”
Osamu Tezuka as a meme? That’s right, Internet. This is Osamu Tezuka.
You can call this meme douche-bag artist-multimillionaire, too.
WARNING: Extremely demotivating.
PS: In reality, Osamu Tezuka was extraordinarily kind.
G.O.A.T.
The God of Manga
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Bill Nye the Science Guy and the Mythbusters
Iron Maiden
by Rafael Benedicto
