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Catharsis is my favorite feeling.

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Looks like Kid Blue’s on board.

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Characterizing Middle of Nowhere and similar films as “different” and “revolutionary” for their depiction of fleshed-out black female characters...

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[I am walking through our office's reception area carrying my sad desk salad with its accompanying tub of dressing perched atop. The tub falls. The lid is forced ajar. My dressing begins to slowly spill onto the floor.]

... ...

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We [Fraction and his wife, Kelly Sue DeConnick] were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter,...
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Night View Through Trees of Pittsburgh, W. Eugene Smith, c. 1955 (via)

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Jacquard Woven Glitch Blanket design DCP_2994 (Edition 3 of 5) installed in its new home in SoHo as a wall hanging.

Glitch Textiles were featured recently on Kottke.org and BoingBoing

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soniasaraiya:

clambistro:

coketalk:

coverjunkie:

Libertine (UK)

There’s a new mag in town. Libertine Magazine: “For Interested Women”

Founder and editor Debbi Evans explains:

“to redefine the ‘women’s interest’ category. In addition to luxury lifestyle content we cover tech, science and business, and celebrate high achieving maverick women for the contents of their brains, not their beds. There is no fashion or beauty content in issue 1, unless you count a piece on the semiotics of handbags. There’s nothing like it, and we’re really excited (and relieved!) to have finally got it out there.”

I love everything about this.

SO COOL

ooooh

about fucking time

When I was a little girl, growing up in france, my mother worked sewing tapestries. Some of the tapestries were exported to America. The only problem was that many of the images on the tapestries were of naked people. My mother’s job was to cut out—the genitals of men and women and replace these parts with flowers so they could be sold to americans. My mother saved all the pictures of the genitials over the years, and one day she sewed them together as a quilt and then she gave the quilt to me. That’s the difference between French and American aesthetics.

Louise Bourgeois, “Sunday Afternoons”

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loved the use of Bourgeois in The Skin I Live In

America Has a Serious Eating Disorder | Michael Ruhlman →

See that white stuff raining down from my fingers? It’s salt. And it’s the way you should salt the food you cook on your stove top or the chicken that’s going into your oven. But if you listen to the ABC Nightly News reporting about The Dangers of Salt, aka ABC News acid reflux, and then read today’s NYTimes page one story saying that salt is not bad for you, you must be wondering who to listen to. Well if you are, just stop listening and think for your fucking self.

And this is why I <3 Michael Ruhlman

thefrogman:

yeahiwasintheshit:

come and play with us

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

kronosinasuit:

Kerry Washington being amazing as always.

Understand colorblinders out there. Please get it.

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ashleyeleigh:

howto-kissdistinctly-american:

This is relevant to pretty much all of my interests.

Dead.

maxistentialist:

Kurt Braunohler raised $6,000 on Kickstarter to “hire a man in a plane to write stupid things in the sky.” I backed this project.

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archatlas:

Rothko Room

The intimate Rothko Room, located at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, holds four paintings by abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, and reflects the artist’s preference for exhibiting his art “in a scale of normal living.”

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ofakind:

Let’s pour something summery into these Up in the Air Somewhere cups and drink up, shall we? —erica

Oh man. Is this going to turn into a home design blog now?

We (hopefully) close on our house next week. I am so excited I can barely stand it.

A week off has done wonders for my anxiety, and even though I’m still tempted to worry about what could go wrong, I’m kind of at a loss for coming up with things that could go wrong as pretty much every single step except for the actual closing is done. My therapist would say, “what could you be thinking about if you weren’t worrying?”and the answer would be decorating.

I think I tend to be quite obsessive and find it difficult to focus on more than two or three hobbies in my life. For the past year it has been movies and makeup. But lately I haven’t been able to watch any movies, and all I’ve been thinking about is the house. I’ve been researching the shit out of fridges, washers, sofas, curtains, and subscribed to every home design blog ever. It’s a lot of fun and only slightly overwhelming.

We are very lucky, very privileged to be in this position. I am willing myself (and allowing myself) to be really happy about it and enjoy it.

I don’t plan on posting a lot about the house, but if I do I’ll use a tag so you can tumblr savior the posts.

itscolossal:

This chandelier from Hilden & Diaz projects the shadow of a forest into your room!

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Free.

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We just got back from a magical trip where, once we got past the comedy of errors of travel there, I was able to pretty much totally let my nervous system have a break and recover and to do nothing but look at that ridiculously turquoise water and read five (five!!) books and eat good food and welcome my impending thirties. I’m not even going to try to catch up on the world I missed for a week, so if there’s anything you want me to check out or think I should know about or whatever, drop me a note.