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heymonster:

Someone requested a post of all of the current Strong Female Characters, so here you go.

prints are available here.

i miss the x files

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Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder shot by Herb Ritts for Edward Scissorhands, 1990 

leslieseuffert:

 ”Czech photographer Miloslav Druckmüller from a pier outside the Enewetak Radiological Observatory on the Marshall Islands during a 2009 expedition hosted by the Chair of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii.

It was during this trip that the photographer had the incredible opportunity to see a total solar eclipse from what is basically the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The location offered an unfettered, crystal clear view of this amazing and rare phenomenon.”

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thegetty:

The Rosebud Garden of Girls, June 1868, Julia Margaret Cameron. The J. Paul Getty Museum
resilientkate:

softgore:


“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.  
Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.” 
This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important
zodiacsociety:

Cancer Facts

studio ghibli + last scene 

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thelearningbrain:

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the “man box.”

This is beautiful, I have been trying to explain to my SO about how even if your intention is good and you are the most innocent man ever, you can still play into this societal and cultural game of beating down one another and disconnecting ourselves from entire groups of people. Rhetoric and the way we interact with the world can sadly support negative things (rape, hate crime, assault against a person for race, sex or sexual orientation). These are all supported not just by the people who commit them but also by the world’s and society’s that guilty person lives in.

witchyroses:


Fairy rings  occupy a prominent place in European folklore as the location of gateways into elfin kingdoms, or places where elves gather and dance. According to the folklore, a fairy ring appears when a fairy, pixie, or elf appears. It will disappear without trace in less than five days, but if an observer waits for the elf to return to the ring, he or she may be able to capture it.

That would be a REALLY BAD IDEA

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My old room mate, who is spending the night tonight, just ran into my room with ranch dripping from his lips. He then took his shirts off saying “you wanna brawl…” over and over…Needless to say he is fairly drunk and might be a little ill feelin after getting a take out of an appetizer sampler from Ihop, at midnight. OH Mur

Oh and my boyfriend just dropped 3 empty beer bottles down the stairs, and no not all at once, separately…Luckily he is making up for the broken glass with a sandwich and a cookie. :)