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The backdrops I’ve made for our photo booths at our school...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:25:00 -0400

Spring Gala

Carnival

AttenDANCE

Fall Fest

The backdrops I’ve made for our photo booths at our school dances this year! May they rest in peace in the gym closet.

What a Good Week Looks Like

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:12:00 -0400

finishing Harry Potter 3 (in French)
listening to amazing stories from The MOTH’s community programming
getting named as AdLo Director for CY Community Service Day
lovely dinners with friends
meeting my 1700 hours requirement for graduating from Americorps
running another successful photobooth at our last student event
getting an essay published by the Feminist Wire
taking a half day
the beginning of a long weekend

…Now all I need is a job.

(via Read J.K Rowling’s Hand-Written Plan For “Harry...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:52:00 -0400

(via Read J.K Rowling’s Hand-Written Plan For “Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix”)

COOOOOOOOOOOL!

31 Places in Plaquemines Parish Removed from Latest NOAA...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:37:00 -0400

31 Places in Plaquemines Parish Removed from Latest NOAA Maps

Despite decades of discussion about the problem in Louisiana, coastal land loss can be an abstract idea for people who don’t live in those areas.

I saw this headline while I was home a few weeks ago, and I couldn’t agree more with this quote. This is why the work that my Dad does in coastal wetland restoration and the oral history project my friend Darcy is running on coastal towns are so important. Coast-line loss is is a perfect example of how environment and culture affect each other, and why it’s so important to keep them both intact.

Recently Read: A Wrinkle in Time

Sun, 05 May 2013 18:34:40 -0400

“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”

I had somehow never read this when I was in middle school, and after raiding our giant room of books at school I decided it was time. It’s so good! The sci-fi/fantasy world Madeleine L’Engle created was so beautiful and fantastic, all while including so many puns and plays on words! And I loved reading a book for young people with such a strong leading lady. Please drop everything you’re doing and go read it if you haven’t done so yet.

vintageblackglamour: “I stole everything I ever heard, but...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:26:38 -0400

vintageblackglamour:

“I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.” ~ Ella Fitzgerald.

In this photo, she is performing at Mr. Kelly’s nightclub in Chicago in 1958. Photo by Yale Joel//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

"One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:19:33 -0400

“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before.”

- Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”

photojojo: You Are My Wild is a talented group of 14...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:17:53 -0400

photojojo:

You Are My Wild is a talented group of 14 photographers who publish a weekly portrait series of how they see their kids.

We talked with Meaghan Curry one of the founding members, and she gave us a little insight into how they started:

“Right after the new year, and in sort of a creative lull, we were brainstorming about starting a project to force ourselves to put down our phone cameras down and pick up our other cameras more regularly…

Ironically, Instagram is the common thread between us. It is where we found other people documenting their children in really loving, beautiful and respectful ways.”

You Are My Wild - Portrait Series Documenting Childhood

Read More at Photojojo

Photos by Meaghan Curry, Bina Brakken, Dera Frances White, Rebecca Zeller, Anje Marie

These are are so beautiful!

!!!!!!!!! (“Before Midnight” Trailer)

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:31:02 -0400

!!!!!!!!!

(“Before Midnight” Trailer)

fotojournalismus: Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor Afghanistan’s...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:56:09 -0400

A girl carries a pair of lambs to be reunited with their mothers for the night. On especially cold days the vulnerable young animals are kept warm in cloth bags hung in the herders’ huts.

Blanket-draped yaks hunker down outside a young couple’s yurt on the eve of a summer trading journey.

A nephew of the khan wears a makeshift face mask to protect himself from the biting winds that can whip through the high-altitude pamir.

Two girls venture outside their mud hut after a hailstorm at the khan’s autumn camp beside the Aksu River.

Herders adore their cell phones, which they acquire by trading and keep charged with solar-powered car batteries. Though useless for communication, the gadgets are used to play music and take pictures

fotojournalismus:

Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor

Afghanistan’s Kyrgyz nomads survive in one of the most remote, high-altitude, bewitching landscapes on Earth. It’s a heavenly life—and a living hell.

A book of Matthieu Paley’s photographs of the Kyrgyz, “Pamir: Forgotten on the Roof of the World” was published in October by La Martinière in French and Knesebeck in German. He is trying to get it printed in English, too.

Photographs from his two latest trips in 2012 are featured in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine, accompanied by a story by Michael Finkel.

[Credit : Matthieu Paley]

nevver: “We’ll act as if this were a bad dream”, Sylvia Plath’s...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:54:55 -0400

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nevver:

“We’ll act as if this were a bad dream”, Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar Illustrated

This is beautiful!

kateoplis: Marc Escañuelas is on a solo trip around the world....

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:53:23 -0400

kateoplis:

Marc Escañuelas is on a solo trip around the world. You may want to keep tabs on him.

“I love myself when I am laughing…and then again...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:17:32 -0400

“I love myself when I am laughing…and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”

- Zora Neale Hurston

photographs by Carl Van Vechten

NEW LAURA MARLING

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:09:00 -0400

NEW LAURA MARLING

This is one of our students, Neveah! She is one of the coolest...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:05:11 -0400

This is one of our students, Neveah! She is one of the coolest and wisest kids I know. I’m so excited that Jezebel posted this video earlier today because everyone should get a chance to meet her if only a little bit. Big thanks to my teammate’s friend Ian Moubayed who filmed the video!

Ryan Gosling on the MPAA’s decision to give Blue Valentine an...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:57:43 -0400

Ryan Gosling on the MPAA’s decision to give Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating over its inclusion of an oral sex scene. (x)

…. feminism is so sexy.

Free Angela (and All Political Prisoners) trailer. I HAVE TO SEE...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:34:32 -0400

Free Angela (and All Political Prisoners) trailer. I HAVE TO SEE THIS. She is awesome. April 5th!

kateoplis: Locomotive aérodynamique à la gare de Lyon, Paris,...

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:30:12 -0400

kateoplis:

Locomotive aérodynamique à la gare de Lyon, Paris, 1937

Longing to travel again.

My Name is Asher Lev

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:27:37 -0400

My Name is Asher Lev:

It’s a primal scene of American drama: The angry, uncomprehending father argues with his rebellious son. The man’s wife — the boy’s mother — looks on, worried, her sympathy torn between the two.

Variations on that scene occur in “My Name Is Asher Lev,” Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chaim Potok’s novel, now at the Westside Theater in a heartfelt production directed by Gordon Edelstein. Asher Lev (Ari Brand), a Hasid growing up in Brooklyn in the 1950s, is marked by that conflict with his father, which shapes him as a man and an artist.

The young Asher — a “prodigy in payos,” as one character says — has a gift for drawing. It acts on him like a compulsion (“Gotta draw!”) and puts him at odds with his father (Mark Nelson) and community.

The reviewer liked the first half better than the second, and I liked the second better than the first, so maybe you’ll like both! I can’t remember the last time I went to a play. Now I’m in a Broadway-mode I can’t afford. Whoops!

todayinhistory: March 17th 1959: Dalai Lama flees TibetOn this...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:39:34 -0400

The group flees Tibet 1959

The Dalai Lama as a young child

The 14th Dalai Lama now

todayinhistory:

March 17th 1959: Dalai Lama flees Tibet

On this day in 1959 Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet following an uprising against Chinese rule. He and around 20 of his entourage fled Lhasa and embarked on a 15 day journey on foot over the Himalayas on their way to Dharamsala in India where they had been offered asylum. On 30th March they crossed into India. Around 80,000 Tibetans later settled in the same area, leading to it becoming known as ‘Little Lhasa’. This place became the home of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Tibet is still under Chinese rule, and the Dalai Lama continues to try to find a peaceful negotiation for Tibetan self rule.

Interested in this topic? You should read Orphans of the Cold War by John Kenneth Knaus!