Declan de Barra - Performing Bear

monster machine: Showtime MAY 15th - Broken Kingdom - Kingdom Come - Double Feature

Sat, 11 May 2013 23:43:56 -0400

monster machine: Showtime MAY 15th - Broken Kingdom - Kingdom Come - Double Feature:

Disciples of Mischief,

For those that don’t know, I made a movie in Colombia.
This movie is called ‘Broken Kingdom’.

You can see it here — www.brokenkingdomfilm.com

FORTUNATELY, I was not devoured by cannibals or emotionally raped by too many business charlatans... And DOUBLE-FORTUNATELY,…

Photo

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:06:56 -0400

dcpnomadictraveler: What you should find when you google the...

Sat, 11 May 2013 22:03:43 -0400

dcpnomadictraveler:

What you should find when you google the phrase “That’s f#*ked up!”…

fraserjames:

A.I

fotojournalismus: Bus stop, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca,...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:58:16 -0400

fotojournalismus:

Bus stop, Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, 1978.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

atavus: Tseng Kwong Chi - Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:39:17 -0400

atavus:

Tseng Kwong Chi - Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1987

fotojournalismus: Judy Richardson at a SNCC sit-in protest at a...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:36:33 -0400

fotojournalismus:

Judy Richardson at a SNCC sit-in protest at a Toddle House in Atlanta, Georgia, 1963.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

fuelingit: atonals: By Rosaleen Ryan I’ve reblogged this...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:31:22 -0400

fuelingit:

atonals:

By Rosaleen Ryan

I’ve reblogged this before but I really do love it so so very much

abandonedography: 9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions...

Sat, 11 May 2013 21:30:24 -0400

abandonedography:

9 of the Most Fascinating Abandoned Mansions from Around the World

pleatedjeans: An 8-year-old’s homework. via

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:13:52 -0400

pleatedjeans:

An 8-year-old’s homework. via

luzfosca: Jacques Henri Lartigue Jeanine Lhemann, Royan,...

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:37:07 -0400

luzfosca:

Jacques Henri Lartigue

Jeanine Lhemann, Royan, 1926.

hollylderr: Representation Visualization: Time to Wash Those...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:30:24 -0400

hollylderr:

Representation Visualization: Time to Wash Those Men Right out of our Hair

Photo

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:29:13 -0400

"After learning my flight was detained 4 hours, I heard the announcement: If anyone in the vicinity..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:27:45 -0400

“

After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If anyone in the vicinity of gate 4-A understands any Arabic,
Please come to the gate immediately.

Well—one pauses these days. Gate 4-A was my own gate. I went there.
An older woman in full traditional Palestinian dress,
Just like my grandma wore, was crumpled to the floor, wailing loudly.
Help, said the flight service person. Talk to her. What is her
Problem? we told her the flight was going to be four hours late and she
Did this.

I put my arm around her and spoke to her haltingly.
Shu dow-a, shu- biduck habibti, stani stani schway, min fadlick,
Sho bit se-wee?

The minute she heard any words she knew—however poorly used—
She stopped crying.

She thought our flight had been canceled entirely.
She needed to be in El Paso for some major medical treatment the
Following day. I said no, no, we’re fine, you’ll get there, just late,

Who is picking you up? Let’s call him and tell him.
We called her son and I spoke with him in English.
I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and
Would ride next to her—Southwest.

She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it.

Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and
Found out of course they had ten shared friends.

Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian
Poets I know and let them chat with her. This all took up about 2 hours.

She was laughing a lot by then. Telling about her life. Answering
Questions.

She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool cookies—little powdered
Sugar crumbly mounds stuffed with dates and nuts—out of her bag—
And was offering them to all the women at the gate.

To my amazement, not a single woman declined one. It was like a
Sacrament. The traveler from Argentina, the traveler from California,
The lovely woman from Laredo—we were all covered with the same
Powdered sugar. And smiling. There are no better cookies.

And then the airline broke out the free beverages from huge coolers—
Non-alcoholic—and the two little girls for our flight, one African
American, one Mexican American—ran around serving us all apple juice
And lemonade and they were covered with powdered sugar too.

And I noticed my new best friend—by now we were holding hands—
Had a potted plant poking out of her bag, some medicinal thing,

With green furry leaves. Such an old country traveling tradition. Always
Carry a plant. Always stay rooted to somewhere.

And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and thought,
This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Not a single person in this gate—once the crying of confusion stopped
—has seemed apprehensive about any other person.

They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women too.
This can still happen anywhere.

Not everything is lost.

”

- Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)

I wanna live inside this story.

(via theloversneedtocleartheroad)

I can’t reblog this poem enough, I adore it.

(via popelizbet)

ssweet-dispositionn: Age 104 year old man and his age 100...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:23:47 -0400

ssweet-dispositionn:

Age 104 year old man and his age 100 wife, they are poor. They have been married for 81 years and they never got to take a picture together on their wedding day. So when she finally tried on the wedding dress, he was so happy to hug her, and told her how beautiful she was.

Brb crying my eyes out

theremina: miss-love: archiemcphee: Who is that cheerful man...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:21:01 -0400

theremina:

miss-love:

archiemcphee:

Who is that cheerful man with the adorably double-braided beard and why is he dressed up as a Japanese schoolgirl? Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft has the scoop: This is Hideaki Kobayashi and he’s known (and rightfully so) as “Sailor Suit Old Man.”

Recently, Japanese sites and Twitter users in Tokyo have spotted an old guy dressed in a sailor style school uniform—a truly unusual sight to behold. People were amused. People were baffled. What the hell was going on?!

Japanese site IT Media met Kobayashi and asked him the question on everyone’s mind: Why do you dress like a Japanese schoolgirl?

“That’s a difficult question,” said Kobayashi. “It’s not really something I’ve thought too deeply about. Hrm. I guess it’s because sailor suits look good on me?”

We hope Mr. Kobayashi has some inkling of just how awesome he is. We can’t stop smiling as we look at these photos. Head over to Kotaku to learn more about “Sailor Suit Old Man,” our new hero of Japanese weirdness.

he’s precious

I love him so much.

explore-blog: Alexander Chen spent an afternoon improvising...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:14:59 -0400

explore-blog:

Alexander Chen spent an afternoon improvising melodies on viola, and recording them through Google Glass. This resulting song is composed completely from 8-second video loops, stitched together into a film. Chen says, “You can see all the layers of the song, like a first-person orchestra.”

Photo

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:07:33 -0400

binnorie: Kobayashi Eitaku |Body of a Courtesan in 9 stages of...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:03:34 -0400

binnorie:

Kobayashi Eitaku |Body of a Courtesan in 9 stages of Decomposition, c. 1870

Photo

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:02:36 -0400

vengefulolive: ozzyosborntodie: dovahqueene: higgsbr0son: Act...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:01:39 -0400

vengefulolive:

ozzyosborntodie:

dovahqueene:

higgsbr0son:

Actual 4th Grade science test in South Carolina

if you decide you want to secede again you go for it okay?

this makes me so angry

I want to vomit