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Border Hammock - By Murat Gok in Istanbul, Turkey » STREET ART UTOPIA
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the 387 houses of peter fritz (designboom)
i have been trying not to become completely obsessed with this bjork headpiece (by Maiko Takeda) that she wore at the hollywood bowl show but i am failing. (WOW)
Don’t Come for These Disney Princesses - World of Wonder
Four Planet Sunset Image Credit & Copyright: Chris Kotsiopoulos. Explanation: You can see four planets in this serene sunset image, created from a series of stacked digital exposures captured near dusk on May 25. The composite picture follows the trail of three of them, Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury (left to right) dropping toward the western horizon, gathered close in last month’s remarkable triple planetary conjunction. Similar in brightness to planet Mercury, the star Elnath (Beta Tauri) is also tracked across the scene, leaving its dotted trail still farther to the right. Of course, in the foreground are the still, shallow waters of Alikes salt lake, reflecting the striking colors of sunset over Kos Island, Greece (APOD)
Grafico Movil by Artemio Rodriguez ~ Lincoln Park - L.A. TACO
Disability Tragedy Porn, Defined – this ain't livin' -
This is a particular type of narrative about disability that can appear in fiction and nonfiction, in a wide variety of media. It conceptualises disability in a very specific way, tragedising the lived experience of disabled people and underscoring the idea that disability is the worst thing ever, the most awful imaginable thing that could happen to someone. It collapses all disabled experiences into one umbrella of misery.
i feel like all of tumblr could benefit from this post, because man this place looooooooves it some disability tragedy/inspiration porn
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“Cut to the present day and you’ll find Emma Watson from Harry Potter playing our main girl in the movie, while back in the territory west of the Ventura Freeway, Alexis has just had a baby. The baby is called Harper, not after Harper Lee, but after the only daughter of David and Victoria Beckham.” —
Andrew O’Hagan reviews ‘The Bling Ring’ by Nancy Jo Sales · LRB 20 June 2013
FOR FUCKING REAL
“If real fame is a mask that eats into the face, then pseudo-fame, the current kind, might be a decoy that eats into the brain. You often meet those people in California, people who have forgotten that you are real, that you watch the news, that you know who they really are, that you know where the money is coming from. They begin to lie to journalists and themselves with the same grim hope: if I say this and no one contradicts me it might be true. A sense of entitlement stands in for personal values. They don’t mind if they’re fooling you and fooling themselves, so long as they can keep the show on the road. This can be sad and terrible, but also hilarious.” — Andrew O’Hagan reviews ‘The Bling Ring’ by Nancy Jo Sales · LRB 20 June 2013
“And so it was that the LAPD came to the door just as filming on the pilot [of Pretty Wild] got up and running. ‘Shut off your cameras,’ said the arresting officer, which may be what Los Angeles police say now instead of reading people their Miranda Rights.” — Andrew O’Hagan reviews ‘The Bling Ring’ by Nancy Jo Sales · LRB 20 June 2013
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Fame today is a matryoshka doll: inside each celebrity is a series of smaller, hollow simulacra, and, at the very core, there is a hard little being who feels buried alive. … The relationship between modern celebrities and their greatest fans is rather like the relationship that once existed between cops and robbers in the movies. (And in life, if you believe the Mafia lore.) Classic cops and robbers have the same DNA: they understand each other, because, at some basic level, they are the same people. The Bling Ring (as the Los Angeles Times called them) already possessed many of the items they were stealing, but what they craved was proximity and identification.
Anyone can have a Marc Jacobs handbag if they can raise the money, but it isn’t just anyone who can have the one belonging to Paris Hilton. Only Paris has that – unless someone goes over to her house and takes it. There’s nothing new in stealing from the rich. What is new is the idea that the purloined items aren’t the main thing that’s been taken.
” — Andrew O’Hagan reviews ‘The Bling Ring’ by Nancy Jo Sales · LRB 20 June 2013