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yessssss.

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:27:07 -0400

yessssss.

paulbaileyart: Seven trees5 x 5 inches2012 …and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:52:40 -0400

paulbaileyart:

Seven trees
5 x 5 inches
2012

…and it’s so tiny!

humansofnewyork: “I want to be an artist.” “What kind of art do...

Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:30 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“I want to be an artist.”

“What kind of art do you want to make?”

“I want to make different versions of myself.”

Aaahhhh, the brilliance ! ! !

Even through the computer screen, it’s almost too much to bear.

curly-essence: http://curly-essence.tumblr.com/ yeeeeeeah.

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:14:15 -0400

curly-essence:

http://curly-essence.tumblr.com/

yeeeeeeah.

humansofnewyork: “Don’t look to other people for validation....

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:55:24 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“Don’t look to other people for validation. Your birth was your validation.”

How perfect and brilliant!

Passport Project's indiegogo campaign!

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:36:07 -0400

Passport Project's indiegogo campaign!:

I’m on the board of this amazing community arts organization, and we’re trying to raise $25,000 to hire a business manager. Help us out!

humansofnewyork: I discovered a man standing off to the side of...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:22:43 -0400

humansofnewyork:

I discovered a man standing off to the side of a Good Friday procession in Washington Heights. He was cradling a framed photograph. “My grandfather loved to watch this,” he said. “I’m here in his honor.”

How sweet :)

The red thread of fate is an East Asian belief originating from...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:01:13 -0400

The red thread of fate is an East Asian belief originating from Chinese legend and is also used in Japanese legend. According to this myth, the gods tie an invisible red string around the ankles of those that are destined to meet each other in a certain situation or help each other in a certain way. Often, in Japanese culture, it is thought to be tied around the little finger.

The two people connected by the red thread are destined lovers, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. This magical cord may stretch or tangle, but never break.

beautiful.

so much could be said — where we’ve been, all...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:22:34 -0500

so much could be said — where we’ve been, all we’re doing, who we are, what we’re fighting for…

relinquishing my thoughts, i simply wish a

:: Happy International Women’s Day ::

to all of us, everywhere. <3

(art by Faith 47)

showslow: Project Google Birdhouse. Artist Shuchun Hsiao...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:44:47 -0500

showslow:

Project Google Birdhouse. Artist Shuchun Hsiao recognizes this 21st-century luxury, and the modern symbol that the red bubble marker has become, and shrinks this idea to a smaller scale for our aviary counterparts on Earth. In Project Google Birdhouse, Hsiao constructs a series of birdhouses all formed and painted like Google’s landmark icon, and peppers them around for our feathered friends’ accommodations with the hope that they will become navigation aids.

Love it! I thought these might have been “Street Views” of someplace, but it’s even BETTER that they’re birdhouses :)

humansofnewyork: All you need is love. AH how sweet! so...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:26:07 -0500

humansofnewyork:

All you need is love.

AH how sweet! so much joy in my heart!

from The Crunk Feminist Collective blog: “Self-love is...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:17:12 -0500

from The Crunk Feminist Collective blog:

“Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else. We can give ourselves the unconditional love that is the grounding for sustained acceptance and affirmation. When we give this precious gift to ourselves, we are able to reach out to others from a place of fulfillment and not from a place of lack.”

~ bell hooks

“Commitment: Let Love Be Love in Me” in All About Love (p. 67)

humansofnewyork: I am a street photographer in New York City....

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:48:22 -0500

humansofnewyork:

I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”

Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.

I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.

i just discovered i can send songs from Spotify to...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:39:53 -0500

i just discovered i can send songs from Spotify to tumblr…get ready :)

blkcowrie: Alice Walker’s Definition of a “Womanist” from In...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:46:09 -0500

blkcowrie:

Alice Walker’s Definition of a “Womanist” from In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose Copyright 1983.

WOMANIST
1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e. frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, “you acting womanish,” i.e., like a woman. Usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered “good” for one. Interested in grown up doings. Acting grown up. Being grown up. Interchangeable with another black folk expression: “You trying to be grown.” Responsible. In charge. Serious.
2. Also: A woman who loves other women, sexually and/or nonsexually. Appreciates and prefers women’s culture, women’s emotional flexibility (values tears as natural counterbalance of laughter), and women’s strength. Sometimes loves individual men, sexually and/or nonsexually. Committed to survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female. Not a separatist, except periodically, for health. Traditionally a universalist, as in: “Mama, why are we brown, pink, and yellow, and our cousins are white, beige and black?” Ans. “Well, you know the colored race is just like a flower garden, with every color flower represented.” Traditionally capable, as in: “Mama, I’m walking to Canada and I’m taking you and a bunch of other slaves with me.” Reply: “It wouldn’t be the first time.”
3. Loves music. Loves dance. Loves the moon. Loves the Spirit. Loves love and food and roundness. Loves struggle. Loves the Folk. Loves herself. Regardless.
4. Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

http://blkcowrie.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/womanism/

Have always loved this, always will. <3

youmightfindyourself: Makr Plant Ring this is AWESOME so my...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:54:15 -0500

youmightfindyourself:

Makr Plant Ring

this is AWESOME so my cat doesn’t eat all my plants!

..haven’t we all felt this.

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:46:07 -0500

..haven’t we all felt this.

LOVE this! finelinemagazine: YAO LU Amazing altered...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:42:26 -0500

LOVE this!

finelinemagazine:

YAO LU

Amazing altered photographs by Chinese artist Yao Lu. We found Yao’s work via the website io9 and they wrote about his work, “Lu takes photographs of Chinese landfills covered in green protective netting and then digitally adds the sort of imagery we’d expect to see in a classic watercolor landscape: mist, trees, waterfalls, and the occasional building dotting the hills of trash. It’s a clever way to use photo manipulation to convey his message about the natural world and how it is in danger of being displaced by the castoffs of urbanization.”

Time’s Great Performances 2013: Quvenzhané Wallis This girl...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:16:06 -0500

Time’s Great Performances 2013: Quvenzhané Wallis

This girl is AMAZING. Such a powerful actor.

charmandaa: By Amarula Love LOVE this plant ~ I believe...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:19:25 -0500

charmandaa:

By Amarula Love

LOVE this plant ~ I believe it’s a variety of coleus, which is so easy and beautiful to grow. Makes me look forward to planting season even more :)