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shadesofblackness: Diandra Forrest and Ava Edney Photographed...

Fri, 31 May 2013 02:16:08 -0400

shadesofblackness:

Diandra Forrest and Ava Edney

Photographed by Lance Gross

vogue: Beauty Staple: Caroline Trentini’s...

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:44:17 -0400

vogue:

Beauty Staple: Caroline Trentini’s Freckles

Photographed by Craig McDean, Vogue, July 2004

theeconomist: Tomorrow’s cover today: nearly 1 billion people...

Thu, 30 May 2013 12:37:34 -0400

theeconomist:

Tomorrow’s cover today: nearly 1 billion people have been taken out of extreme poverty in 20 years. The world should aim to do the same again.

"The Glock executive testified that he would keep doing business with a gun dealer who had been..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 20:30:27 -0400

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The Glock executive testified that he would keep doing business with a gun dealer who had been indicted on a charge of violating firearms laws because “This is still America” and “You’re still innocent until proven guilty.”

The president of Sturm, Ruger was not interested in knowing how often the police traced guns back to the company’s distributors, saying it “wouldn’t show us anything.”

And a top executive for Taurus International said his company made no attempt to learn if dealers who sell its products were involved in gun trafficking on the black market. “I don’t even know what a gun trafficker is,” he said.

The world’s firearms manufacturers have been largely silent in the debate over gun violence. But their voices emerge from thousands of pages of depositions in a series of liability lawsuits a decade ago, before Congress passed a law shielding them from such suits in 2005, and the only time many of them were forced to answer such questions.

Much of the testimony was marked confidential, and transcripts were packed away in archives at law firms and courthouses around the country. But a review of the documents, which were obtained by The New York Times, shows the industry’s leaders arguing, often with detachment and defiance, that their companies bear little responsibility, beyond what the law requires, for monitoring the distributors and dealers who sell their guns to the public.

The executives claimed not to know if their guns had ever been used in a crime. They eschewed voluntary measures to lessen the risk of them falling into the wrong hands. And they denied that common danger signs — like a single person buying many guns at once or numerous “crime guns” that are traced to the same dealer — necessarily meant anything at all.

”

- The New York Times, “Gun Makers Saw No Role In Curbing Improper Gun Sales” (via inothernews)

I Cried Like A Silly Boy (by Micah Chartrand)

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:18:02 -0400

I Cried Like A Silly Boy (by Micah Chartrand)

nevver: Planet Vagina

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:15:25 -0400

nevver:

Planet Vagina

"PHILLIP Why’d I have to meet you today? STEVEN Something wrong? PHILLIP It’s just-..."

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:14:48 -0400

“

PHILLIP
Why’d I have to meet you today?

STEVEN
Something wrong?

PHILLIP
It’s just- I’m being transferred to
Michael Unit today.

STEVEN
What?

PHILLIP
I’m sorry.

STEVEN
Don’t be sorry. It’s just across the
yard.

PHILLIP
Well I don’t go into that yard so it
might as well be Oklahoma.
(then)
Just figures with my luck. I was born
Friday the 13th…

STEVEN
It’s not gonna change a thing, Phillip.
In fact, Friday the 13th’s my lucky day.
Don’t worry, this right here. This is
destiny.

PHILLIP
But we only just met.

STEVEN
Listen, I’ve loved a lot. And I’ve been
around, so I recognize the feeling.

STEVEN (CONT’D)
That one you and me are having right now-
because you’re going away. But there’s
about 6000 volts shooting across this
table here and you know you can’t deny
it.

PHILLIP
Don’t you think you’re coming on a little
strong?

STEVEN
I know you’re trying to protect yourself,
I get that. It’s fine. Give me a chance
to prove you wrong.

Phillip is melting but tries to hide it.

PHILLIP
I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking
about.

Steven smiles wide as if to throw down the gauntlet.

STEVEN
Good…

Phillip turns to walk away and hides his giddyness.

”

- When the soul woos you…

dialogue: “I love you Philip Morris”

ckck: Allandale House concept by William O’Brien Jr.

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:06:44 -0400

ckck:

Allandale House concept by William O’Brien Jr.

ryansalge: A collaboration between myself and intothecontinuum...

Tue, 28 May 2013 13:06:33 -0400

ryansalge:

A collaboration between myself and intothecontinuum who created all the moving parts you see in the gif. You can check out his tumblr here.

"I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:37 -0400

““I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.””

- Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft (via thatkindofwoman)

anotherafrica: Shades & Swagger # 3 | Grace Bol for Gravure...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:12:18 -0400

anotherafrica:

Shades & Swagger # 3 | Grace Bol for Gravure magazine photographed by Manolo Campion.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:11:43 -0400

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You’re playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

”

- Marianne Williamson (via thomasthegreat)

stormtrooperfashion: Soo Joo Park in “Rip it, tear it, stitch...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:11:29 -0400

stormtrooperfashion:

Soo Joo Park in “Rip it, tear it, stitch it, wear it” by Mari Sarai for i-D, Summer 2013

"HMMM… Poor people used to live in slums. Now the ‘economically disadvantaged’ occupy..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:10:46 -0400

“HMMM…

Poor people used to live in slums. Now the ‘economically disadvantaged’ occupy ‘substandard housing’ in the inner-cities. And a lot of them are broke. They don’t have ‘negative cash-flow’, they’re broke. Because many of them were fired. In other words, management wanted to ‘curtail redundancies in the human resources area’, and so many workers are no longer ‘viable members of the workforce’.

Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It’s as simple as that.

The CIA doesn’t kill anybody, they ‘neutralize’ people, or they ‘depopulate an area’. The government doesn’t lie, it engages in ‘disinformation’. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something called ‘sunshine units’. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. The Contra killers were known as ‘freedom fighters’. Well if crime fighters fight crime and firefighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

”

- George Carlin, Euphemistic Language (via kabinessence)

Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It’s as simple as that.

Read that again. And again. And again.

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PASSION!!! Lot’s of symbolism me thinks in the imagery....

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:53:14 -0400

PASSION!!!

Lot’s of symbolism me thinks in the imagery. Gotta look into it.

patiently-waiting-for-godot: UGH, I would say Rihanna needs to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:52:06 -0400

patiently-waiting-for-godot:

UGH, I would say Rihanna needs to go eff herself, but clearly she already does…. Stay classy Riri

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Mon, 20 May 2013 11:51:12 -0400

"Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes"

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:49:51 -0400

“Never underestimate a man’s ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes”

- Rihanna (via gmariev)

spiritualinspiration: But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:40:35 -0400

spiritualinspiration:

But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)

On the subjects of Purpose, Passion & Personal...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:35:00 -0400

On the subjects of Purpose, Passion & Personal Growth…

“Why so serious?”
- Joker

It has been a scary minute (almost 4 years now) since I hit the brakes on my fast moving car of career and business and found myself a total mess on the dashboard. Since the asking of “Who am l & what on EARTH am l doing here?” I had gotten crickets in response, or at least that is what I thought I was hearing.
Well it turns out the message was simply PLAY, yup annoying isn’t it?

“What do you mean play? Play what, the Cello, Monopoly… Play? I have bills to pay, a life to live, a family to care for. Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Yet the bleeping word chased me everywhere. So naturally I ignored it and kept searching for that super serious life that would afford me medal of honour for fighting to good hard fight. Didn’t work out so well. And just when I had had enough of the ass whooping life was handing down I surrendered (I know most of will hate this word) and PLAYED. Before I knew it I remembered what it was like to feel that freedom and giddy joy I felt as a kid, the curiosity returned, and everywhere I turned opportunity was to be had.
Yes it is still a work in progress. I haven’t ascended into Never, Never Land. I still have bills to be paid; I still wonder about what to do next. The difference is I am learning to see my life as a joyful place where I can accept the good and spread it through me; accept the bad, bless it for its lessons, and then redirect it. I go to bed with a smile a mile long and wake up excited EVERYDAY. I play all day long, with my studies, my job, my doctors, my family, my money, with my food, the news (yeah *ish is going down, I know) on walks, in the metro, at the park, at the market. I make a living playing and I find ways to be paid for it. And now I dedicate my passionate purpose to helping others learn to play again.

Today is a great day to start, in MTL here it is a MONDAY AND SCHOOL & WORK ARE OUT!

For those still with me (I am verbose today): PLAY and be JOYOUS and then see how the “hard work” feels. And as you notice the elation in your limbs and core, imagine then the bursts of satisfaction as you later bask in the fruits of your labours.

If you need help finding your way back to happiness there are many routes, but a nice quickie would be to try an Inner Fitness class through the Ismology FB group with David Lion (dude make a recording already and go global):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/479221868781297/

In the interim I want to thank as many of my favorite playmates as I can remember. Des très gros bisous à my sister from another mother Princesse Zee (get a FB page already you snob). Love you all deeply, thank you for playing.

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