Running Up the Steps of Omnibuses

Last day in Britain. Really not looking forward to leaving and...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:30:29 -0400

Last day in Britain. Really not looking forward to leaving and going home.

Went to Wales this weekend. Really seriously considered not...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:41:07 -0400

Went to Wales this weekend. Really seriously considered not leaving.

Stayed here for 4 days and did not want to leave.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 14:54:05 -0400

Stayed here for 4 days and did not want to leave.

England is lovely.

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:18:43 -0400

England is lovely.

In an effort to rouse me from my jetlag, my mother suggested a...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:54:01 -0400

In an effort to rouse me from my jetlag, my mother suggested a walk around Regent’s Park. Worked like a charm.

Self Righteous Gchats

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:10:00 -0400

A: i would not have gone to that party had i realized.They think no one knows anything except for them.
Me: snort. they don't bother me, because I consider myself extremely superior to them
A: HAHAHA. That makes sense
Me: just get more self-righteous, your problems will end. Wait, don't tell the session about this philosophy

Off the Grid, Baby

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:06:17 -0400

I’m spending 2 weeks in the UK - mostly London, but a few days in Wales and some small English towns. I’ll be away from my email, my facebook (so totally shutting that shit down for 2 weeks), and my phone. If I’m anywhere, I’ll be here, or maybe on a little bit on twitter, because most of my tumblr and twitter people are marginally sane.

I heard a band cover this a few days ago, and I can’t get...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 21:02:34 -0400

I heard a band cover this a few days ago, and I can’t get it out of my head.So, I looked up a video, and my gosh, they’re like the hipsteriest of hipsters

Patrick Stewart is lovely

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 20:51:38 -0400

Patrick Stewart is lovely

feministlibrarian: (via Suffragette Emily Davison - picture of...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:19:01 -0400

feministlibrarian:

(via Suffragette Emily Davison - picture of the day | Art and design | guardian.co.uk)

Draino texts

Fri, 31 May 2013 14:47:47 -0400

Me: What are you doing?
N: I'm now in rite aid buying draino. All forms of which are advertised like summer block busters
Me: Oh my
N: Do I need dual force foamer or the full clog destroyer?

hagleydigital: Stephanie L. Kwolek, developer of Kevlar (circa...

Mon, 27 May 2013 22:08:28 -0400

hagleydigital:

Stephanie L. Kwolek, developer of Kevlar (circa 1995)

While working with DuPont Stephanie Kwolek developed the first liquid crystal polymer which provided the basis for Kevlar brand fiber.

matteoricci: John Thomson: Chinese Women, 1869-72. John Thomson...

Mon, 27 May 2013 22:07:29 -0400

matteoricci:

John Thomson: Chinese Women, 1869-72.

John Thomson (1837-1921) was a pioneering Scottish photographer who, after traveling through various parts of Asia, settled in Hong Kong in 1868 and operated a studio there for the next four years. Using Hong Kong as his base, he traveled extensively throughout China and was the first known photographer to document the people and landscapes of China for publication in the western market. Returning to England, he published a four volume book entitled “Illustrations of China and its People” in London, 1873-1874.

Images courtesy of Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

"How did a man born of Eastern descent, a man who called himself the Prince of Peace, a man whom the..."

Mon, 27 May 2013 22:06:44 -0400

“

How did a man born of Eastern descent, a man who called himself the Prince of Peace, a man whom the sacred writings describe as eating with prostitutes and providing wine at weddings and healing the sick and ignoring any political plot, a man who wants us to turn the other cheek and give all our possessions if we are sued, become associated with—no, become the poster boy for—a Western moral and financial agenda communicated through the rhetoric of war and ignorant of the damage it is causing to a world living in poverty?

My only answer is that Satan is crafty indeed.

”

- Donald Miller (via hislivingpoetry)

acousticrivers: Where have all the women gone in...

Sun, 26 May 2013 18:44:33 -0400

acousticrivers:

Where have all the women gone in movies?

Despite the success of ‘Bridesmaids’ and other female-driven movies, female representation in films is at its lowest level in five years, a USC report says.

There’s one mountain in Hollywood that even “The Hunger Games’” scrappy heroine Katniss Everdeen hasn’t been able to move: the number of roles for women.

Despite the success of recent female-driven movies such as “Bridesmaids” and the “Hunger Games” and “Twilight” series, female representation in popular movies is at its lowest level in five years, according to a study being released Monday by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Among the 100 highest-grossing movies at the U.S. box office in 2012, the study reported, 28.4% of speaking characters were female. That’s a drop from 32.8% three years ago, and a number that has stayed relatively stagnant despite increased research attention to the topic and several high-profile box-office successes starring women.

“There is notable consistency in the number of females on-screen from year to year,” said USC researcher Marc Choueiti. “The slate of films developed and produced each year is almost formulaic — in the aggregate, female representation hardly changed at all.”

When they are on-screen, 31.6% of women are shown wearing sexually revealing clothing, the highest percentage in the five years the USC researchers have been studying the issue.

For teen girls, the number who are provocatively dressed is even higher: 56.6% of teen girl characters in 2012 movies wore sexy clothes, an increase of 20% since 2009.

The USC researchers said these trends persist because those working in Hollywood believe attracting a male audience is the key ingredient to box office success.

“Industry perceptions of the audience drive much of what we see on-screen,” said study author Stacy L. Smith. “There is a perception that movies that pull male sell. Given that females go to the movies as much as males, the lack of change is likely due to entrenched ways of thinking and doing business that perpetuate the status quo.”

Female characters are more prevalent — and less likely to be sexualized — in movies written and directed by women, according to Smith.

A study USC released in January in conjunction with the Sundance Institute and Women in Film Los Angeles found that women have made more inroads in those kinds of behind-the-camera jobs in independent film and documentaries than they have in big-budget studio movies.

But it’s typically the studio movies that drive the box office — and shape audiences.

“Some depictions of females on-screen can have unintended and negative consequences for viewers,” Smith said. “Every voice deserves a chance to be heard and every story a chance to be told. At the moment … that does not seem to be the case in popular film.”

— Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Sun, 26 May 2013 18:40:41 -0400

““Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.””

- Theodore Roosevelt
( daringtofocus.tumblr.com )

Photo

Sun, 26 May 2013 18:40:14 -0400

"What’s worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:42:00 -0400

“What’s worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent when their own go on TV and tell the parents of children lost in a tornado that those children and their families got what they deserved. What’s worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians remain silent and supportive when their own are accused of multiple counts of child abuse and appeal to the first amendment to try and avoid investigation. What’s worse than the world seeing Christians disagree with one another is the world seeing Christians perpetuate an abusive theology that teaches people that whatever abuse they are suffering, whatever pain they are enduring, whatever violence they have been subjected to, is deserved and perpetrated by god.”

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Rachel Held Evans, “The Abusive Theology of “Deserved” Tragedy,” Link

bookshelfporn: A Library Slide We love this wooden slide that...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:58:43 -0400

bookshelfporn:

A Library Slide

We love this wooden slide that is slotted into a combined staircase and bookshelf of a house in Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea,

Designed by Moon Hoon.

Submitted by Bookshelf Porn reader Jesse Richardson via Colossal.

maudelynn: A boy sits reading in a bombed bookstore, London,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:53:50 -0400

maudelynn:

A boy sits reading in a bombed bookstore, London, October 8 1940

via http://www.theatlantic.com