I know I’m late to this game, but I love this Romney Eminem mash. So well done!
Brilliant.
"Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in or what religion they claim. They all want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies. Yes, it is hard to believe but even here at home we have to stand up for women’s rights and we have to reject efforts to marginalize any one of us, because America has to set an example for the entire world."
— Hillary Clinton (via apsies)
(via newsweek)
A Short Animation Blends Skydiving And Synchronized Swimming
Divers draws its inspiration from Busby Berkeley’s classic films from the 1930s, with a modern, digitally animated twist. Paris Mavroidis created the short two years ago, during a Digital Arts MFA at Pratt Institute, and it resurfaced recently thanks to the Vimeo HD channel.
The newest Olympic sport
(via theatlantic)
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Boy Scouts Are From Mars, Girl Scouts Are From Venus
How did this sharp division between Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts come to be? Most adults remembering their own scouting days are only vaguely aware that there’s any difference at all between the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts. What does it say about gender and child-rearing in this country that while the Girl Scouts foster a strong ethos of feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism, the Boy Scouts now embody a code of values Rick Santorum could endorse? Is the gender gap in electoral politics being replicated around our kids’ campfires?
To put it another way, are Boy Scouts from red states and Girl Scouts from blue?
Read more. [Images: Reuters]
The divide b/t boy scouts and girl scouts. Boy scouts are like red states, girl scouts like blue…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0f81nKaBB1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Boy Scouts Are From Mars, Girl Scouts Are From Venus
How did this sharp division between Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts come to be? Most adults remembering their own scouting days are only vaguely aware that there’s any difference at all between the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts. What does it say about gender and child-rearing in this country that while the Girl Scouts foster a strong ethos of feminism, environmentalism, and multiculturalism, the Boy Scouts now embody a code of values Rick Santorum could endorse? Is the gender gap in electoral politics being replicated around our kids’ campfires?
To put it another way, are Boy Scouts from red states and Girl Scouts from blue?
Read more. [Images: Reuters]
The divide b/t boy scouts and girl scouts. Boy scouts are like red states, girl scouts like blue…
Haha - I love how one awkward moment at Oscars turned into an entire trend. I like the one of Whistler’s Mother best.
The best, so far, of Legbombing.
That leg!
May 24, 1980
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages,
carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters,
lived by the sea, flashed aces in an oasis,
dined with the-devil-knows-whom, in tails, on truffles.
From the height of a glacier I beheld half a world, the earthly
width. Twice have drowned, thrice let knives rake my nitty-gritty.
Quit the country the bore and nursed me.
Those who forgot me would make a city.
I have waded the steppes that saw yelling Huns in saddles,
worn the clothes nowadays back in fashion in every quarter,
planted rye, tarred the roofs of pigsties and stables,
guzzled everything save dry water.
I’ve admitted the sentries’ third eye into my wet and foul
dreams. Munched the bread of exile; it’s stale and warty.
Granted my lungs all sounds except the howl;
switched to a whisper. Now I am forty.
What should I say about my life? That it’s long and abhors transparence.
Broken eggs make me grieve; the omelet, though, makes me vomit.
Yet until brown clay has been rammed down my larynx,
only gratitude will be gushing from it.
Joseph Brodsky
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The Sky Is on Fire! Your Complete Visual Guide to the Northern Lights
Over the past week, Norway has been witness to some jaw-dropping light shows, the result of an M8.7 class flare and a coronal mass ejection in a direction pointed toward Earth. Many Norwegians shared their photos of the northern lights — or “nordlys” in Norwegian — on Flickr, where we reached out to them for permission to republish them. Read more.
[Image: Bernt Olsen]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lygz7v4dNS1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Sky Is on Fire! Your Complete Visual Guide to the Northern Lights
Over the past week, Norway has been witness to some jaw-dropping light shows, the result of an M8.7 class flare and a coronal mass ejection in a direction pointed toward Earth. Many Norwegians shared their photos of the northern lights — or “nordlys” in Norwegian — on Flickr, where we reached out to them for permission to republish them. Read more.
[Image: Bernt Olsen]
Daniel Gordon’s Collage Grotesques
“I’m inspired by cooking and food, Matisse, and being in the ocean, among other things,” the artist Daniel Gordon says. Gordon’s photo collages, or, more accurately, pictures of sculptures made of photo collages, can look like layered casseroles of art historical references and finely diced printed matter.
Gordon was included in MOMA’s seminal “New Photography” show in 2009, and his recent “Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts” series (includes all three of the above works) is on view this month at Wallspace gallery. Click through for more selection of Gordon’s work: http://nyr.kr/tyVQ2N
