Dignity. Always Dignity.

Really, it’s “Only people in glass houses should throw stones,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:17:56 -0400

Really, it’s “Only people in glass houses should throw stones, provided they are trapped in the house with a stone.” It’s a little longer, but yeah.

angela-slamsbury: My heart has been my teacher and I’ve learned...

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:21:23 -0400

angela-slamsbury:

My heart has been my teacher and I’ve learned quite a lot
Listened while I could and tried not to get caught
In the boom, badum, badum, badum, badum

This year was full of so many blessings. Let’s get this summer started!

amen

greydelisle: Life is what happens while you’re waiting for the oscillating fan to come back.

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:29 -0400

greydelisle:

Life is what happens while you’re waiting for the oscillating fan to come back.

New favorite Lonely Island song

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:51 -0400

New favorite Lonely Island song

odditiesoflife: Anamorphic Sculptures These sculptures are...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:17:44 -0400

odditiesoflife:

Anamorphic Sculptures

These sculptures are created with such mathematical precision that the image can only be seen as a reflection. To get this effect the London-based artist, Jonty Hurwitz, first scans a 3D object, then distorts it with a computer using π algorithms. His final pieces, made from steel, resin, perspex, or copper, have to be viewed next to a round reflective cylinder – only then do the objects come into focus.

heyericwhitacre: Also, this happened. Nox Aurumque | Means End

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:43:42 -0400

heyericwhitacre:

Also, this happened.

Nox Aurumque | Means End

quickermorequickly: sonickid1234: fizzly: look at the way the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:53:12 -0400

quickermorequickly:

sonickid1234:

fizzly:

look at the way the man’s expression, in the background, softens when they kiss

there’s too much cute in this one gif

awhh now beat eachother senseless.

wat

Video

Fri, 17 May 2013 05:13:33 -0400

Photo

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:41:11 -0400

neednothavehappenedtobetrue replied to your post: a mediocre modern reinterpretation of The...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:11:17 -0400

neednothavehappenedtobetrue replied to your post: a mediocre modern reinterpretation of The Great…

true story: when I was an angsty teenage girl and communicated with my boyfriend via Facebook/gchat I actually once WROTE A POEM comparing looking to see if he was online to the green light at the end of the dock I WAS HORRIBLE.

it’s difficult to shake my head and nod in approval at the same time

pyrrhiccomedy: milk-chiller2: Reminder of: reason for...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:08:04 -0400

pyrrhiccomedy:

milk-chiller2:

Reminder of: reason for eggplant’s name

OH MY GOD I HAVE WONDERED ABOUT THIS MY WHOLE LIFE

a mediocre modern reinterpretation of The Great Gatsby in which it’s not a green light at the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:05:43 -0400

a mediocre modern reinterpretation of The Great Gatsby in which it’s not a green light at the end of the dock but a green circle next to Daisy’s name on facebook

patrickandmarcus: this is riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:36:45 -0400

patrickandmarcus:

this is riddle wrapped in a mystery wrapped in an enigma

Fired? As in, he was an employee?

theshawnofgirl: my paintings are hung up c: c: (sorry for...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:18:04 -0400

theshawnofgirl:

my paintings are hung up c: c:
(sorry for glare)

Dream Team

fenderbassman97: Esperanza Spalding

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:21:25 -0400

fenderbassman97:

Esperanza Spalding

splashmama: catbountry: racebentdisney: coelasquid: snoozlebe...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:48:28 -0400

splashmama:

catbountry:

racebentdisney:

coelasquid:

snoozlebee:

leidis:

penciltests:

“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

Deleted Scene

Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

IF YOU LIVED HERE YOU’D UNDERSTAND

I desperately need to understand

WHY

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

Was this scene cut from the movie??!!

Fucking christ, do you know what this would have done? What this would have meant to SO MANY people?? The truth of this is devastating. And to think it almost found it’s way into a DISNEY film??

The inclusion of this scene alone would have made it the greatest animated feature the company ever produced. Easily. And if you think that’s hyperbolic clearly you don’t understand.

No, really, if anyone knows why this was cut PLEASE let me know.

oh man WHY WOULD they cut this, this is so great, holy MOLY

It was clearly something the crew was very reluctant to get rid of if it made it all the way to rough-clean (and in a few scenes clean!), fully inbetweened animation. That is like, thousands and thousands of dollars and weeks (months?!) of labour. Maybe a reluctant producer decided they would alienate their white middle-class American audiences by making them feel “too guilty” and pressed them to drop it? It’s unfortunate, it’s one of the most honest accounts of racism in a Disney movie (which is why it’s believable that someone got uncomfortable and made a case to get it chopped)

Designing entertainment by committee for maximum marketability is probably the most heartbreaking process in Hollywood.

I’ve been seeing this around my dash and think it deserves some more recognition!

This shit is hilarious, too.

NO WAIT SHIT

I GET IT NOW

I GET WHY SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHING TOURISTS AS A HOBBY

SHE WAS BEING FUCKING SATIRICAL AND OBJECTIFYING

IT’S NOT BECAUSE SHE’S A DUMB KID WITH A WEIRD HOBBY IT’S BECAUSE THEY DO THAT TO HER AND HER FRIENDS AND FAMILY LIKE SHE’S SOME KIND OF FUCKING THEME PARK CHARACTER AND SHE WANTS THEM TO KNOW HOW IT FEELS

HOLY FUCKING DICKS DISNEY WHY WOULD YOU CUT THIS

forgottenwinterfrost: this is the best one go home

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:43:59 -0400

forgottenwinterfrost:

this is the best one go home

weetzie-bruja-bat: Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, gives...

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:41:02 -0400

weetzie-bruja-bat:

Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket, gives love advice on twitter. (Part 1)

This. All of the misandry. All the hilarious. I am in love.

DeafMuslimPunx: Heroification and Silencing

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:58:12 -0400

DeafMuslimPunx: Heroification and Silencing:

disabledtalk:

“Teachers have held up Helen Keller, the blind and deaf girl who overcame her physical handicaps, as an inspiration to generations of schoolchildren. Every fifth grader knows the scene in which Anne Sullivan spells water into young Helen’s hand at the pump. At least a dozen movies and filmstrips have been made on Keller’s life. Each yields its version of the same cliche. A McGraw-Hill educational film concludes: “The gift of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan to the world is to constantly remind us of the wonder of the world around us and how much we owe those though taught us what it means, for there is no person that is unworthy or incapable of being helped, and the greatest service any person can make is to help another reach true potential.”

To draw such a bland maxim from the life of Helen Keller, historians and filmmakers have disregarded her actual biography and left out the lessons she specifically asked us to learn from it. Keller, who struggled so valiantly to learn to speak, has been made mute by history…Keller, who was born in 1880, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904 and died in 1968. To ignore the sixty-four years of her adult life or to encapsulate them with the single word humanitarian is to lie by omission.

The truth is that Helen Keller was a radical socialist. She joined the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in 1909…Keller’s commitment to socialism stemmed from her experience as a disabled person and from her sympathy for others with handicaps. She began by working to simplify the alphabet for the blind, but soon came to realise that to deal solely with blindness was to treat symptom, not cause. Through research she learned that blindness was not distributed randomly throughout the population but was concentrated in the lower class. Men who were poor might be blinded in industrial accidents or by inadequate medical care; poor women who became prostitutes faced the additional danger of syphilitic blindness. Thus Keller learned how the social class system controls people’s opportunities in life, sometimes determining even whether they can see. Keller’s research was not just book learning: ”I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it.”

At the time Keller became a socialist, she was one of the most famous women on the planet. She soon became the most notorious. Her conversion to socialism caused a new storm of publicity—this time outraged….Typical was the editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, who wrote that Keller’s “mistakes spring out of the manifest limitations of her developement.”

Keller recalled having met this editor: ”At that time the compliments he paid me were so generous that I blush to remember them. But now that I have come out for socialism he reminds me and the public that I am blind and deaf and especially liable to error. I must have shrunk in intelligence in the years since I met him.” She went on, “Oh ridiculous Brooklyn Eagle! Socially blind and deaf, it defends an intolerable system, a system that is the cause of much of the physical blindness and deafness which we are trying to prevent.”

Keller, who devoted much of her later life to raising funds for the American Foundation for the Blind, never wavered in her belief that our society needed radical change. Having herself fought so hard to speak, she helped found the American Civil Liberties Union to fight for the free speech of others. She sent $100 to the NAACP with a letter of support that appeared in its magazine The Crisis—a radical act for a white person from Alabama in the 1920s. She supported Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist candidate, in each of his compaigns for the presidency. She composed essays on the women’s movement, on politics, on economics…

One may not agree with Helen Keller’s positions. Her praise of the USSR now seems naive, embarrassing, even treasonous. But she was a radical—a fact few Americans know, because our schooling and our mass media left it out.`

-Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen, 2007

seanoftheundead: thegeek531: Rainbow Hair by...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:30:08 -0400

seanoftheundead:

thegeek531:

Rainbow Hair by ~DeziDesire

magic haaaair