a visual collective outlet of inspiration
we like sandra fluke. for a second, consider the absurdity. religious organizations are trying to ban offering birth control to those on their insurance plan, because their religion is against it. their religion is against birth control because no one but god can take a life; yet, they are for capital punishment, and hell–why not war! (hmmm? tight argument) in other words, they will force upon you their religious beliefs should you work there or in this case go to school there. rush limbaugh (some conservative political commentator and radio host) made an ignorant comment, inline with his apparent character, stating sandra fluke, who opposed this absurd law “is a slut… a prostitute” for simply wanting birth control to be covered under her insurance she is surely paying for. he stated that if we are paying for a portion her birth control through our taxes “so she can have sex”(another thing banned by god and religion apparently), we should then get something in return. rush wanted her to at least post videos of her having sex online so taxpayers can watch it (now that is surely in line with his religion and american moral/conservative values). as if the rest of our tax dollars are really accounted for… like the billions spent on fake wars or funding wall street. now it even more absurd when all of this is from a man, rush limbaugh, who was detained in a florida airport last year after returning from a trip to the dominican republican with viagra that he did not have a prescription for. it all makes me want to puke… and puke on his very small penis and his even smaller ideology. off the air please! by ts
earth related
precession of the equinoxes
every once in a while it must cross your mind, this rumor about december 21st 2012 being a turning point for ‘life as we know it’. this is sparked by the sudden end to the mayan calendar, which even contemporary astronomers and science in general revere as impressive. so… what’s going to happen? well, it has been mapped out that earth’s movement in our universe, multiverse, whatever, is called the precession of the equinoxes, which means its gravitational ecliptic around the sun fluxes, as it has a small angle on its orbital plane, through a cycle of 26000yrs (as my very basic understanding of it goes). this year, on december 21st the earth will align with the dark rift, the center of the milky way, basically the galactic equator. this is meant to effect our poles which are now moving at 40miles/yr (where only in 2005 we thought the rate of 25mi/yr was too much) and therefore climate migratory instincts. ecosystems will have to reset. but, ‘they’ also say this is a moment for human consciousness, and like your alarm clock, after the power stops even for a second, will have to be reset purposefully. let me put it this way…
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism” – frederic jameson
maybe the paradigm shift will be as simple as work to live or living to create rather than living to work. i’m no different,a little bit guilty of pride and ambition as well, or should i say victim to it? it’s difficult in our world, raised with praise and approvals, gauging respect via associations. i don’t think we’re weak to be in this habit, but it’s a first step to be able to step back. that hopefully soon the garbage that clutters stores and individually sanitizes our nutrition will disappear and we will actually see one another and connect rather than feel safer with our differences. can you tell i had a long week? ooh, i know what will help! …
by kl
under the sea
honestly, i came across this image on tumblr and know nothing about it, who it’s by, or what it was for (the type is to small to make out). would love to know more, but really, i think we get the most important part. by kl
plus model magazine; not too cold, not too hot, just… feel good!
hmmmm… i wonder why?
yes there’s no question about the oddity of 14 year old girls selling clothes to 40 year old women and the disparity of the reality out there, but lets not have a cup-cake party yet. first off you have to be pretty weak to be affected by all this marketing and expect a bunch of shysters to guide you through what is right and wrong. but we understand that most people are weak and need constant hand holding & reassurance. enter “plus model magazine” a pub that has found a way to sell us more shit by telling us its ok to be fat, now don’t for a minute think they actually care. we’re kindda’ sick of all this self-help marketing aimed to make people comfortable with their inability to stay off the couch and the flavored chips. the reality is that the average person today resembles a hippo more than a human body form, so lets not look at the average “man” for guidance. while being anorexic is an issue, being fat is a much bigger issue today. for the record, in the united states 44% of teenagers are overweight/obese that figure goes up to 71% for adults vs. the statistics for anorexia/bulimia which is stable at 4% of adult women and less than 0.5% of adult males**. the human form is not meant to carry blubber. so while plus size model katya zharkova seems pretty healthy and should be pleased with her body she could skip a few of those donuts here and there. i assure you her body fat is more appropriate for a polar exhibit than a fit specimen of a homo sapien, so please don’t pander her as the ideal body type, shes more of a feel-good transparent marketing tool to sell more crap and we ‘aint buyin’… whenever you have a question just look at nature, you’ll find the answer there every time. ** canadian and U.S. governments statistics. if you actually care to change the fact that the next generation of americans will have a shorter lifespan than their parents for the first time then do something about it. by dd
it’s a choice and it’s mine
so bugger off… i must admit it’s a bit strange to wear a shirt like this as it’s so personal, but i guess you need to make it ok, in the face of all those religious freaks who are somehow for capital punishment, guns, and wars but suddenly against taking a life? go figure… by ld
NOËL PAR LA MER: where mermaids go for the holidays
i know we’re well into 2012 already, but i thought i’d share with you where mermaids go for the holidays. the west coast of oregon is mossy and prehistoric. simply beautiful. by kl
europe: right and might
i don’t know but this image just wanted to sit here next to your post. by dd
happy thanks giving: food for thought
they’re probably thinking, “i hope you choke on that turkey”
found this while reading about this silly holiday “…this may surprise those people who wonder what native americans think of this official U.S. celebration of the survival of early arrivals in a european invasion that culminated in the death of 10 to 30 million native american people. thanksgiving to me has never been about pilgrims. when i was six, my mother, a woman of the dineh nation, told my sister and me not to sing “land of the pilgrim’s pride” in “america the beautiful.” our people, she said, had been here much longer and taken much better care of the land. we were to sing “land of the indian’s pride” instead. i was proud to sing the new lyrics in school, but i sang softly. it was enough for me to know the difference. at six, i felt i had learned something very important. as a child of a native american family, you are part of a very select group of survivors, and i learned that my family possessed some “inside” knowledge of what really happened when those poor, tired masses came to our homes. when the pilgrims came to plymouth rock, they were poor and hungry — half of them died within a few months from disease and hunger. When Squanto, a wampanoag man, found them, they were in a pitiful state. he spoke english, having traveled to europe, and took pity on them. their english crops had failed. the native people fed them through the winter and taught them how to grow their food. these were not merely “friendly indians.” they had already experienced european slave traders raiding their villages for a hundred years or so, and they were wary — but it was their way to give freely to those who had nothing.” thanksgiving a native american view. by xy
SEEING THE LIGHT
a simple beauty, this pendant light that literally hangs from its electrical cord, and uses energy efficient natural sunshine and dimmable t8 fluorescent bulb. from where else but canadian mind and designer, lukas peet, who had done some other interesting mixes of minimalism and natural materials but this one is definitely the highlight (no pun intended). by kl
nude can: coca cola goes naked
someone told me recently that i should have bought some coca cola stocks as coke, along with cockroaches, are the sure things to survive all despite the economy. i replied “but coca cola stocks… sucks”. then i found this. an embossed logo substitutes colorfully sprayed coca cola red. the naked can not only looks sexy it helps in reducing air and water pollution that usually occurs in the coloring process. it also reduces energy and effort to separate toxic color paint from aluminum in recycling process. double win for a sugary, useless product that should not exist to begin with. now that’s a little better but still not sure about the stocks. by dd
on religion and nature: captain paul watson
i’ve never seen the silly television series on him cause i haven’t had a tv for 20 years but i can imagine it to be laced with faux action and manufactured drama at the hands of the station and producers but not this man. anyone, that includes south park, who would dare criticize or rag on this man is spineless, weak, or unintelligent. join him if you can and have the balls, if not send the man your money and praise him for doing what we can’t. just reading this it makes me want to have lunch with him, and i never have lunch. the man is brilliant, i wish i was him.
“you don’t walk by a child that is being abused, you don’t walk by a cat that is being kicked to death and do nothing. so i find it abhorrent to sit there and watch a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but “bear witness” as they call it. i think it was best illustrated a few years ago, the contradictions that we have, when a ranger in zimbabwe shot and killed a poacher that was about to kill a black rhinoceros and human rights groups around the world said “how dare you? take a human life to protect an animal”. i think the rangers’ answer to that really illustrated a hypocrisy. he said “you know, if i was a police officer in herrari and a man ran out of bark place bank with a bag of money and i shot him in the head in front of everybody and killed him, you’d pin a medal on me and call me a national hero. why is that bag of paper more valued than the future heritage of this nation?” this is our values. WE fight, WE kill, WE risk our lives for things we believe in… imagine going into mecca, walk up to the black stone and spit on it. you’re not going to get very far. you’re going to be torn to pieces. walk into jerusalem, walk up to that wailing wall with a pick axe, start whacking away. see how far you’re going to get, somebody is going to put a bullet in your back. and everybody will say you deserved it. walk into the vatican with a hammer, start smashing a few statues. see how far you’re going to get. not very far. but each and every day, people go into the most beautiful, most profoundly sacred cathedrals of this planet, the rainforests of the amazonia, the redwood forests of california, the rainforests of indonesia, and totally desecrate & destroy these cathedrals with bulldozers, chainsaws and how do we respond to that? oh, we write a few letters and protest; we dress up in animal costumes with picket signs and jump up and down; but if the rainforests of amazonia and redwoods of california, were as, or had as much value to us as a chunk of old meteorite in mecca, a decrepit old wall in jerusalem or a piece of old marble in the vatican, we would literally rip those pieces limb from limb for the act of blasphemy that we’re committing but we won’t do that…” – captain paul watson, sea shepherds marine and wildlife conservation join or donate online to sea shepherds by dd
models siri tollerod and behati prinsloo want to save your future
no offense to the girls we like both, and have worked with them both; but, you know we’re in real trouble when models want to save our future… can someone please help over here? by dd
