cold hearted, and young.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 10:21:57 +0800

"I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:44:48 +0800

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”

- Simone de Beauvoir

lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the world had a...

Sun, 12 May 2013 21:39:43 +0800

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

[ I was going to post a long rant about some arrogant yoga girl who insists people are ignorant for using olive oil to cook and should not eat fish or drink milk or eat cheese because of all sorts of problematic food issues, instead I said, let me focus on those who celebrate food. If you still want to see the link of the article she was waving on her Facebook, there you go. Privileged white people…ugh]

Embroidery That Mummifies Print Journalism

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:14:18 +0800

Embroidery That Mummifies Print Journalism:

allybis:

Lauren DiCioccio uses a simple needle and thread on cotton muslin to mummify and honor an endangered artifact– the printed newspaper. In each piece, as The New York Times’ text fades, its correlating cover portraits puncture the surface with pockets … Continue reading →

dropofwill: Round 2 of comps for the V for Vendetta quote...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:08:49 +0800

dropofwill:

Round 2 of comps for the V for Vendetta quote poster.

"And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:02:33 +0800

“And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can’t even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you’re almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it’s that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what’s warm - whether it’s something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being sad in the world and ready for sleep, that’s happiness.”

- Paul Schmidtberger, Design Flaws of the Human Condition (via commovente)

likeafieldmouse: Bruce Nauman - 100 Live and Die (1984)

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:02:19 +0800

likeafieldmouse:

Bruce Nauman - 100 Live and Die (1984)

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Wed, 08 May 2013 21:01:56 +0800

Kerry Washington for Elle Magazine, June 2013

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:55:56 +0800

Kerry Washington for Elle Magazine, June 2013

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Wed, 08 May 2013 20:55:21 +0800

"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:02:29 +0800

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

- Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via violentwavesofemotion)

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Sun, 05 May 2013 23:20:52 +0800

tvgirlfriend: Jenny Holzer “Truisms”

Sat, 04 May 2013 12:06:23 +0800

tvgirlfriend:

Jenny Holzer “Truisms”

thepoliticalfreakshow: Saudi Arabia’s First-Ever Anti-Domestic...

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:56:48 +0800

thepoliticalfreakshow:

Saudi Arabia’s First-Ever Anti-Domestic Violence Advertisement Released

While all Saudi women are still under the guardianship of a male family member — usually a husband or father — the first Saudi domestic violence ad marks progress for the Kingdom’s women.

So, for that matter, does Prince Al Waleed bin Talal’s push earlier this month to lift the female driving ban in order to improve the Saudi economy. Hey, and that bike-riding for fun thing! Yay for April in Saudi Arabia, you guys.

The ad, the first of the King Khalid Foundation’s No More Abuse campaign, is intended to encourage women to report domestic violence. (Of course, another great idea would be one that encourages men not to beat the crap out of the women under their guardianship, but… baby steps!)

The organization’s website copy reads:

“The phenomenon of battered women in Saudi Arabia is much greater than is apparent on the surface. It is a phenomenon found in the dark. We want to achieve justice for all women and children exposed to abuse in all parts of the Kingdom.”

It’s received a lot of attention on Reddit (with some insightful comments). According to NineMSN, Saudi Arabia is currently ranked 131 out of 148 in terms of gender parity. Most domestic abuse isn’t reported, but violence against women as well as female children is believed to occur in disturbingly high numbers.

‘Saudi Arabia finally says no to domestic violence’ [NineMSN]

Angelo Page

Wed, 01 May 2013 22:55:47 +0800

Angelo Page

amandaonwriting: Writing Advice on Writers’ Hands For Shared...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:01:41 +0800

amandaonwriting:

Writing Advice on Writers’ Hands

For Shared Worlds 2013, some of speculative fiction’s finest artists, editors, and writers, were asked to write advice on their own hands and send in a picture.

Pictured here: Nnedi Okorafor, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Garth Nix

Follow this link to see more.

"Last week, i walked through the part of the city i loved when i still loved you, our old haunts. you..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:44:51 +0800

“Last week, i walked through the part of the city i loved when i still loved you, our old haunts. you know, even the ghosts have moved on.”

- Warsan Shire (via dreamhampton1)

elisaddiq: Harn Art Museum Hank Willis Thomas Absolut Power

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:37:58 +0800

elisaddiq:

Harn Art Museum
Hank Willis Thomas
Absolut Power

showslow: Responding to the systematic rape and murder of...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:31:42 +0800

showslow:

Responding to the systematic rape and murder of thousands of women in brutal acts of ‘ethnic cleansing’ during the Bosnian War, Jenny Holzer produced the powerful Lustmord during 1993 and 1994.

The project is complex and thought-provoking, not least because its texts, images and objects call to observers’ own bodies, insisting that they participate in the work rather than stand outside it. Lustmord thus redefines the conventional relationship between desire and the gaze, which locates the encounter between subject and object as a unidirectional function of lack.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 22:41:36 +0800