Today I just want beautiful things.
RAGDOLL parade
There is hope in honest error; none in the icy perfections of the mere stylist.
- J. D. Sedding
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(Source: whirra, via believe-in-aasha)
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Cameron Russell is a very successful fashion model who was born in Boston and raised in Cambridge. Armed with fame, eloquence, and her formidable attractiveness, she might seem at first glance to be a text-book case of the “P” word: Privileged.
But as Russell points out, beauty is superficial and all she did was win a genetic lottery. This is a quote from her talk about the perception of beauty:
“The real way that I became a model is [that] I won a genetic lottery and I am the recipient of a legacy - and maybe you’re wondering what a legacy is. Well, for the past few centuries we have defined beauty not just as health, and youth, and symmetry… but also as tall sunder figures, and femininity, and white skin.”
That was the sound of a white model acknowledging race privilege but perhaps the blogsphere isn’t quite convinced. She goes on to explain:
“In 2007 a very inspired PHD student counted all the models on the runway, every single one that was hired, and of the 677 models only 27, or less than 4%, where non-white.”
“There are people who are paying a cost for how they look and not who they are. I live in New York, and last year of the 140,000 teenagers who were stopped and frisked, 86% of them were black and Latino and most of them were young men.”
Not only does she recognise this, but she also makes some insightful observations on the nature of print media, specifically in her industry:
“I hope that what you are seeing is that these pictures are not pictures of me, they are constructions… That’s not me.”
She finishes her interesting and adept talk with a clear-cut exposition of who benefits from inequality:
“Mostly it was difficult to unpack a legacy of gender and racial oppression when I am one of the biggest beneficiaries.”
Kudos to Cameron Russel for her honesty, and you can watch the whole speech which is as funny as it is interesting, above.
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In this absolutely incredible image by Jónína Óskarsdóttir, we see an aurora spotted on March 8, 2012, shimmering over snow-covered mountains in Faskrudsfjordur, Iceland. Geomagnetic storms due to coronal mass ejections (CMEs) earlier in the week have increased in strength, and are now rated a G3 on a scale from G1 to G5. (x)
I want to see this IRL, so much…
(via climate-changing)
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(Source: defractured, via quasiflexuralthrusting)
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We pass’d into very thick, soled and darke body of Clowds, which look’d like rocks at a little distance, which dured us for neere a mile going up; they were dry misty Vapours hanging undissolved for a vast thickness, and altogether both obscuring the Sunn and Earth, so as we seemed to be rather in the Sea than the Clowdes, till we having pierc’d quite through came into a most serene heaven, as if we had been above all human Conversation, the Mountaine appearing more like a greate Iland, than joyned to any other hills; for we could perceive nothing but a Sea of thick Clowds rowling under our feete like huge Waves, ever now and then suffering the top of some other mountaine to peepe through, which we could discover many miles off, and betweene some breaches of the Clowds, Landskips and Villages of the subjacent Country: This was I must acknowledge one of the most pleasant, new and altogether surprizing objects that in my life I have ever beheld.
— John Evelyn, describing an ascent in the Alps in 1644 (via invisiblestories) -
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unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.— Charles Bukowski’s “So You Want To Be a Writer,” a necessary read for any creator. (via explore-blog)(Source: , via gravity-rainbow)
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Advertising’s image of women. Watch this and get your mind blown.
Bloody terrible. And awfully, I didn’t really notice, or pay real attention, until I had a daughter - now it’s all I see. >_
(Source: hustleforchange)
