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expressions of aesthetic interest ^^^ beastie boys doozer dolls, from space! ^Links
danceswithfaeriesunderthemooon:
R.I.P. Khalida, Freshta, Nazifa, Basmaro, Salma, Marzia, Fawzia, Marzia and Farishta.
Nine of the ten little schoolgirls who died in a mine blast in Eastern Afghanistan today while searching for firewood.
Archive Photo: AP
http://news.sky.com/story/1026343/afghan-landmine-blast-kills-10-young-girls
I wish these little angels received as much attention as the victims of the recent shooting.
(Source: teeeems, via thenewwomensmovement)
Released a year and a month post-Columbine and a year and three and a half months pre-9/11.
And it has been TWELVE and a half years.
This is where my mind went. Eminem sucks for a lot of reasons, but this is just where my mind is at.
Internet, I need your help. My parents have some objects previously owned by my older relatives and I’d like to know more about what they are.
The first is a wooden sculpture with the words “AFATIMAH” and either “ID. BC. OK.” or “ID. BC. 0K.” carved into the base. There are places on the internet selling Balinese carvings from the 1940s by an artist “Afatimah.” So, I guess I just need to know if this is likely authentic, or how to find that out.
The second is some pottery that I thought, for years, I had no way to identify, thinking it might be from Egypt or a Virginia Indian reservation (for legitimate reasons…). Then, just recently I discovered the green “MADE IN MEXICO” stamp. Context clues! Still, it looks like either old or imitation old pottery. It’s probably from at least the ’60s, maybe the ’40s, but really I have no idea how my grandfather’s cousin obtained it, as she lived in Virginia and New York, but also sometimes Egypt.
i really have no idea what this has to do with survival skills
Actually she has identifying which plants and berries are poisonous. She was quizzing herself. It’s foreshadowing because she later dies from eating poisonous berries; in the book, it’s seen as a foolish mistake, but because of this scene, it has implications of suicide.
Holy shit
Well the Hunger Games just became even more devastating than it already was.
wait is suicide a really shocking/devastating revelation in the context of this
really
Nothing in this visual clip indicates she’s identifying which plants are poisonous. All we can see is she’s doing a standard matching game. This demonstrates that she’s observant and clever. In the book it’s made very explicit that Foxface strategizes to avoid conflict, rather than using brute strength, but the movie didn’t make that as clear, so they were trying to fill that in here. I don’t think her eating the berries is a “foolish” mistake, either, it was just the only time she trusted another player, assuming Peeta was not about to kill himself. It also indicates that Katniss shouldn’t trust Peeta, either, since his mistakes might drag her down.
edit: So it finally clicked why her being able to differentiate similar looking plant shapes would relate to whether she could actually identify the death berries. But it this clip still only foreshadows how she will die, not that she definitely knew they were poisonous. It could also show she was over-confident in her own intelligence, but the stuff about Peeta being dead weight still stands.
ALSO the thing about whether this story addresses suicide, duh (like, to me…), that’s a major factor in how the first book ends.
If she did do it intentionally, why would she take someone else’s berries? It would have to stretch out into her wanting them to stay alive, would she actually care about who eventually won if she was going to die, anyway?
(Source: shailenes)
~Neri Oxman is a badass. CNN has a show called “The Next List” which is great, super great, all about design and art and making things and the future. This one is about Neri Oxman, who did a design show of work based in algorithms derived from natural processes that resulted in 3D printed armor meant to be extensions of the human body.
~With only 513 views on the episode trailer, someone already posted this:
Welcome to 60 years ago and ripping off R.Buckminster Fuller….fuck this shill show dog…i wonder who she fucked to get an interview?”
~This esteemed gentleman sees a 1:11 video with a woman talking about making things in a new way, and even though he can see there are robots involved, and lots of science-y looking things he doesn’t understand, he *knows* that that she’s just a lazy whore getting acclaim for someone else’s work.
~p.s. “The Next List” only airs at 2:00pm for a half hour on Sundays, as far as I can tell. If you’ve ever watched the same investigative piece on Waco four times in one week on CNN, you will understand why I find this frustrating. Sometimes they manage to put two or three of the segments on Youtube, but I wish they’d just make it simple to see the whole episode, start to finish, or at least have each separate segment that I could then piece together for myself.
lastrealindians
By: Chase Iron Eyes
The unthinkable has happened! The world has shown its support and the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) has provided a powerful new narrative for Indigenous people. Indigenous is not a human construct as is “race.” Indigenous is a respect relationship between families, nations and life’s creatures, land, sacred sites, water, with each other, and with the holy powers of the Universe. Indigenous is not anthropocentric, but biocentric. Mitakuye Oyasin -We Are All Related. Even western science has reached this conclusion, finally. Pe’Sla is secured. Our ancestors are watching us, expecting us to fulfill our roles and reach our potential.
The Pe’Sla effort was driven and shared by many throughout the world, including Dr. Sara Jumping Eagle, Dana Lone Hill, Ruth Hopkins and all who donated time, energy, money and artwork for perks in the first campaign. There are simply too many people in too many capacities to thank. What a whirlwind when we activate. LRI wants to extend its gratitude to the bands of the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) who stepped up to make this happen along with the Indian Land Tenure Foundation. We owe a special shout out to DJ Two Bears, Sol Guy, Ezra Miller, Anneliese Vandenberg, and Piet Suess who helped spring the movement back into consciousness with the second campaign. Additionally, thanks to celebrities P. Diddy, Bette Midler, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rosanne Barr, Whoopi Goldberg, Ashley Judd, and Susan Sarandon who retweeted to raise awareness to help save Pe’Sla. Most thankfully, we send a voice to our spiritual leaders who answer the call to travel to our sacred sites to perform obligations on our behalf.
From the bottom of my heart and spirit I know the world is a better place because of the Pe’Sla campaign. Lastrealindians, Inc. has contributed over $900,000 toward the total purchase price of $9 Million. All the day-to-day hustle to meet our basic needs in the artificial, destructive corporate economy fades away when we are engaged in prayer. Our spirits are lifted. I know that when considerable numbers of people around the globe are all thinking and praying about Pe’Sla, our collective human consciousness ascends in a prayer bringing us all to the center. This is a story that transcends race, space and linear time. Ceremonies have been conducted at Pe’Sla for untold millennia. Indeed, the ceremonies carried out at Pe’Sla are for the survival of humanity and the renewal of life’s gifts.
These are times of prophecy. White buffalo calves are being born, earthquakes and tsunamis abound, droughts ravage our lands, we as humans have lost our way; but there is still hope. We want hope and our spirits require more than what money, oil, and pop “culture” can offer us. As Arvol Looking Horse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle, says, “We humans send sacred energy, we have power, but we don’t use it and we need to in these times; our prophecies tell us to return to the Black Hills.” It is time we come together as one. When we are at our center we are one with the Universe. There is nothing more powerful than dedicated humans strong in their love for Creator. Indeed, this is the only thing that will save us. I believe this is a sign that humans are returning to their center as Crazy Horse said they would…READ THE REST HERE: http://www.lastrealindians.com/axCommentDetails.php?postId=2138
So, there was a sketch show called Roundhouse on Nickelodeon that predated All That! and I found the theme song and I feel weird.
hannahorovitz
I wish I was more like the Beastie Boys………. (by MsPacMan7230)
One time on the metro this possibly homeless guy with a giant hiking backpack and a Free Tibet t-shirt started asking me about the carry-out box I had. I thought, “What would the Beastie Boys do?” and I gave him the semi-dessert sandwich. He seemed really surprised, so then I thought I had misinterpreted the situation, then he started talking about how it was the kind of sandwich Elvis ate and about how Wal-Mart wanted to open a store in DC and someone told them to have their community engagement meeting at the place I got it from. Then I pretty much bolted when I got past the gate because I was planning on walking home at 1:30am and did not want to invite him along. Then I realized that he didn’t even go through the gates, actually. Anyway, that’s the one and only time I can remember seeing someone in a legit Free Tibet t-shirt.
“Quick” thoughts:
~My dad last night, to my mom, not me, started talking about how he’d just started hearing people talk about”that word, ‘entitlement’” a lot recently. My dad is mostly absent from the wider world, except for the PBS Newshour, The History Channel, and Suze Orman. Though, he did read a few books about the financial crisis, so I’m surprised this concept didn’t enter his mind with the whole debate over whether homeowners or bankers we responsible for people getting mortgages they clearly couldn’t afford. Maybe the fact that he believed it was the bankers’ fault blocked him from hearing the criticism of “entitlement.” In any event, he now really dislikes the idea that there are people out there who just want what they want regardless of their means.
NPR: Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning
~Basic idea of this article is that Asian adults push kids to work through problems until they succeed, whereas Western adults make kids feel they are unable to solve problems if they can’t solve them easily. This reminds me of the “tiger mom” memoir author saying she believed Asian kids and young adults were genuinely confident in their abilities, whereas children of non-immigrants in the US would always say they weren’t really good at something. They were just lucky, or people were complimenting them just to be nice. However, I have met people who grew up in Asia who were clearly overconfident in their abilities when entering into situations where they actually had no experience.
~There was an international student from South Korea who was a new transfer to my school, but I always forgot he’d spent two years at a private US high school and another year at a US college. He asked us to help him with his papers, which we were glad to do at first (though a few weeks on when I said I really had to focus on my own work one day he seriously would not take “no” for an answer). One of the first times, his professor had given out a sheet on how she wanted the papers formatted. Instead of giving a simple demo sentence with an in-text citation, she did the crazy annoying thing of placing, in the context of a paragraph, “(e.g. “Author Page”).”
~This led our student to write all of his citations like “(e.g. “Stephens 287”)” rather than “(Stephens 287).” My friend and I noticed this, figured out the miscommunication, explained that “e.g.” means example, and that there was no way that this is what his professor wanted. He proceeded to argue that she wouldn’t have written it this way if she didn’t want it to look this way. He very firmly refused to change it, so then we just read through the rest of his essay, but pointed out with every single citation, “I know you think that’s what she wants, but it’s not standard and it’s not what she wants.”
~I think about 2/3 of the way through it finally occurred to him that it was possible that we might actually know more about this process since we were older than him, therefore had spent a whole year more than he had not only in college, but in this specific college, where he was a brand new student. In the end, he did a lot of other things to disrupt the lives of people living on the hall and talked about how he was going to transfer again to a way more expensive private school, before just moving back to South Korea.
Not even joking, a part of my jade plant just broke and rolled off the shelf of its own accord. I… I don’t even know… Giving up the plant food from now on…
~ Do you like Ezra Miller or The Perks of Being a Wallflower? Do you like stories with happy endings? Watch this video and then go here indiegogo.com/pesla and contribute and hopefully we’ll all get some of both!
~ “Protect Pe’Sla Lakota Sioux Sacred Site: Final push to raise money for the Sioux Nation’s effort to save sacred site. Purchase price of $9M. Tribes have raised approx. $7.5M but have a shortfall.”
~ By November 30!
