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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:56:41 -0500

30-4-30: Your daily dose of crazy. Also known as Bernini. How...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:55:56 -0500

Your daily dose of crazy. Also known as Bernini.

How do Bernini’s sculptures even exist? I am so in awe of how life-like each of his works are, from expression to position to texture. Even just in sketches, I find it difficult to keep humans from looking stiff, much less in sculpture. Yet Bernini defied the unyielding nature of marble and created these incredible pieces that look as though they’ve been frozen mid-turn.

Okay, so in the first picture, Bernini’s David, how does the slingshot look stretched, and the cloth hastily flung? How does that even happen? The fluidity of fabric is in each of the sculptures pictured above, and never ceases to amaze me. To a slightly lesser extent, the hair continues that flow, windswept in place. In the third picture, the branches Daphne is morphing into don’t look like stone; they look like actual branches, or at the very least, fake foliage spray painted white. All of these completely organic elements convincingly carved in stone.

And then to the bodies. They all are so seamless, anatomically perfect, and, well, alive. Every flexed muscle is present, but not over-pronounced or exaggerated. The hands and feet are spectacular; you can even see the veins and bones through the skin, and the positions are totally natural. In David, his front foot looks like it is gripping the base, not to mention the hands in The Rape of Proserpina. Each touch appears to be that of two separate entities, not a single slab of rock.

The facial expressions are excellent as well. You can practically hear the gasp of The Blessed Ludovica, feel the pride of Louis XIV. The little involuntary facial contractions of a natural expression are all captured by Bernini in each subject of each statue.

I don’t know how to comprehensively end this rant other than with: Bernini was a boss. Quake in the face of his awesome!

I'm just a girl in the world: An Actual Submissive on What 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Got Wrong

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:52:58 -0500

I'm just a girl in the world: An Actual Submissive on What 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Got Wrong:

daddylookingforhisbaby:

This is quite an interesting interview. Worth reading.

Since its release in the United States, that initially self-published little trilogy called Fifty Shades of Grey has sold more than 30 million copies. It’s dominated the best-seller lists all summer. (Just…

bunnywith: jadedgalvanizer: timelordsatan: ambular-d: pumpkinlessidjit: i want there to be an...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:51:40 -0500

bunnywith:

jadedgalvanizer:

timelordsatan:

ambular-d:

pumpkinlessidjit:

i want there to be an angel that descends from the heavens only when someone is being stupid

and the angel just gently places their hand over the person’s mouth

and whispers in a voice filled with heavenly beauty and love

“no”

ANABIEL

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:49:44 -0500

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Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:01 -0500

http://"Poorly educated parents who choose to teach their children at home produce better academic results for their children than public schools do. One study we reviewed found that students taught at home by mothers who never finished high school scored a full 55 percentage points higher than public school students from families with comparable education levels."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:42:26 -0500

http://"Poorly educated parents who choose to teach their children at home produce better academic results for their children than public schools do. One study we reviewed found that students taught at home by mothers who never finished high school scored a full 55 percentage points higher than public school students from families with comparable education levels.":

turtandmamalivingfree:

“Poorly educated parents who choose to teach their children at home produce better academic results for their children than public schools do. One study we reviewed found that students taught at home by mothers who never finished high school scored a full 55 percentage points higher than public school students from families with comparable education levels.”

wahaladey: photobooth.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:32:55 -0500

wahaladey:

photobooth.

US military covers up sexual assault by discharging victims

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:04 -0500

US military covers up sexual assault by discharging victims:

current:

Cenk Uygur and journalist Karisa King discuss how the military has historically handled sexual assault cases: by diagnosing the victim with a ‘personality disorder’ and then discharging them from the service.

As one victim said: “I was officially diagnosed with an ‘adjustment disorder’ that meant that I had failed to adjust to rape conditions.”

The Problem with Palm Oil

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:38 -0500

The Problem with Palm Oil :

vegandailynews:

Palm oil is a globally traded commodity that is used in 50 percent of all consumer goods, from lipstick and packaged food to body lotion and biofuels. Used in about half of the products on supermarket shelves, palm oil imports to the U.S. have jumped 485% in the last decade.

This has resulted in severe negative impacts on the environment, the climate, and local populations.

Palm oil destroys rainforests: Rainforests provide critical habitat to endangered species including Sumatran tigers, Sumatran elephants and orangutans. One government, Indonesia, has announced plans to convert approximately 18 million more hectares of rainforests, an area the size of Missouri, into palm oil plantations by 2020.

Palm oil causes climate change: Rainforests are destroyed to create industrial palm oil plantations, releasing massive quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Deforestation causes eighty percent of Indonesia’s CO2 emissions, making the tropical nation the world’s third largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Palm oil threatens forest peoples: Millions of Indonesians rely directly on rainforests for their livelihoods. A single palm oil plantation can destroy the forests, watersheds, and forest resources of thousands of Indonesians, leaving entire forest communities to face poverty.

For more information, and to find out what you can do to help, visit the Rainforest Action Network.

atomicdollface: Setting patterns of the stars. This is...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:09 -0500

atomicdollface:

Setting patterns of the stars.

This is actually super helpful!

"Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:54:28 -0500

“Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a kind of feminism that tells women and girls everywhere that maybe it’s all right not to be pretty and perfectly well behaved. That maybe women who are plain, or large, or old, or differently abled, or who simply don’t give a damn what they look like because they’re too busy saving the world or rearranging their sock drawer, have as much right to take up space as anyone else.

I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren’t thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It’s about time we claimed it for ourselves.”

- I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant (via brute-reason)

zodiacsociety: Cancer’s Tarot Card: The Chariot

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:51:54 -0500

zodiacsociety:

Cancer’s Tarot Card: The Chariot

Making Peace with Jealousy in Poly Relationships

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:50:10 -0500

Making Peace with Jealousy in Poly Relationships:

psychophancy:

http://www.practicalpolyamory.com/images/Jealousy_Updated_10-6-10.pdf

“Jealousy is all the fun you *think* they had.”

At least from my own experience, truer words have hardly been spoken.

lucid-forest: i-am-of-asgard: anonymously-ashley: oopsfuckprod...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:17 -0500

lucid-forest:

i-am-of-asgard:

anonymously-ashley:

oopsfuckproductions:

Fuck yes!

fits a size 22 and looks hot

oh fuck yeah

lolcilc: inspired by a quote from sex worker problems

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:40 -0500

lolcilc:

inspired by a quote from sex worker problems

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:41:36 -0500

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

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When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

(via plasticbags)

"I'm an animal lover too. I love the way they taste!! LOL"

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:41:23 -0500

veganprobs:

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:34:53 -0500

bemusedlybespectacled: kekkes: Someone left this on the table...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:07:39 -0500

bemusedlybespectacled:

kekkes:

Someone left this on the table I went to go eat at so I took it and true

Every time I see this go around, the first two paragraphs are cut. Fixing that.