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A study of perspective of one my favourite cities. Respect.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:47:53 -0400

A study of perspective of one my favourite cities. Respect.

the-absolute-best-posts: nydialilian: FANCIFUL LIFE — Nydia...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:27:43 -0400

nydialilian:

FANCIFUL LIFE — Nydia Lilian

San José del Pacífico - Mazunte - Punta Cometa
Oaxaca, Mexico, 2013.

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

instagram: Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPsolocolor Weekend...

Mon, 27 May 2013 22:59:59 -0400

instagram.com/p/Zuy6i3QnZy/#hesoyam93

instagram.com/p/Zv4T1yM2Lr/#rjribbit

instagram.com/p/Z0diakGrO6/#nathalia8a

instagram.com/p/Z0dMt5TY7F/#merileeloo

instagram.com/p/Zy_J5HRO4U/#sejkko

instagram.com/p/ZzOsGQDoxT/#lifewithart

instagram.com/p/ZyjvwCo2Cm/#coryacrawford

instagram.com/p/ZyhTZ5S0Rw/#yellowillow

instagram.com/p/Zy-vnYnIQj/#loversponder

instagram:

Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPsolocolor

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes & hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a photo announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

This weekend’s tag was #WHPsolocolor, which asked participants to create photographs organized around a single color. Every Monday we feature some of our favorite submissions from the project, but be sure to check out the rest here.

tyleroakley: 30-Year-Old Recreates His 20-Year-Old Self’s...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:04:49 -0400

tyleroakley:

30-Year-Old Recreates His 20-Year-Old Self’s ‘Landslide’ Interpretive Dance In Undies

theonlymagicleftisart: (Matutino!) I’m in love with...

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:09:40 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Matutino!)

I’m in love with this. So pure.

abandonedography: David LaChapelle - After the Deluge:...

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:05:24 -0400

abandonedography:

David LaChapelle - After the Deluge: Statue and Museum

theonlymagicleftisart: (Bliss Katherine)

Sat, 04 May 2013 09:02:49 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Bliss Katherine)

pikeys: Skin on Skin for Neil Barrett F/W 2011

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:21:50 -0400

pikeys:

Skin on Skin for Neil Barrett F/W 2011

theonlymagicleftisart: (wiissa)

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:16:08 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(wiissa)

“Couture Clash” - Kiara Kabukuru & Debra Shaw by Irving...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:15:33 -0400

“Couture Clash” - Kiara Kabukuru & Debra Shaw by Irving Penn for Vogue US, April 1997

artistswanted: Emma McEvoy | Featured EXPOSURE entrant Climb...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:12:25 -0400

artistswanted:

Emma McEvoy | Featured EXPOSURE entrant

Climb to the Top in EXPOSURE and win a Dream Vacation to Paris, the city of lights.

Enter your photos today at http://bit.ly/12IbL1O

theonlymagicleftisart: (Li Hui)

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:07:07 -0400

theonlymagicleftisart:

(Li Hui)

Photo

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:59:11 -0500

theonlymagicleftisart: (gzi24◎歌無岸)

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:22:27 -0500

theonlymagicleftisart:

(gzi24◎歌無岸)

thepoliticalnotebook: Fine art in Damascus… Digital artist...

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:42:12 -0500

thepoliticalnotebook:

Fine art in Damascus… Digital artist Tammam Azzam created this work, superimposing Gustav Klimt’s famous painting “The Kiss” over a bullet-riddled building façade in Damascus. (This is not an actual mural there.)

According to the artist:

I want to discuss how the whole world could be interested in art and on the other hand two hundred people are killed every day in Syria. Goya created a work to immortalize [the] killing of hundreds of innocent Spanish citizens on May 3, 1808. How many May 3rds do we have in Syria today?

The other two images are similar works of Azzam’s… using Matisse’s “La Danse” and Gauguin’s “Tahitian Women on the Beach” on top of similar scenes from Syria.

Via The Huffington Post. (HT @sultanalqassemi)

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: The home of Ettore Guatelli

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:39:32 -0500

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: The home of Ettore Guatelli

foulmouthedliberty: Same

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:51:49 -0500

foulmouthedliberty:

Same

fotojournalismus: In Uganda, gay people are being forced into...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:50:41 -0500

A year ago, Kampala had several gay-friendly bars and clubs. Today, there is only one gay bar left, and its visitors are certain that it will close when the bill is passed.

Cleo is a transsexual woman. She lives in less danger than some of her peers because she has received hormonal treatment to enhance her feminine appearance.

'Bad Black' is a transsexual man who has struggled to make a living as a sex worker since his family threw him out of their home because of his sexuality.

Ema and Simon are a couple living in a shelter for gay people in Kampala. Their families shunned them when they found out they were gay.

Brian is the leader of the gay community project, Icebreakers. The project runs a free clinic for LGBT people, and a small shelter for those faced with homelessness.

fotojournalismus:

In Uganda, gay people are being forced into exile. If a new bill becomes law, homosexuality will be punishable by death – which means many people are choosing to leave and seek asylum elsewhere. With the vote on the country’s anti-homosexuality bill set to become public in the coming days, photographer Mathias Christensen met gay people in Uganda who fear the changing of the law.

Gay people in Uganda: love on the run

by Rasmus Thirup Beck

(via Guardian)

“Five police officers force three young men out of their one-room slum dwelling in Kampala, with no explanation. As they are dragged down the slum’s main shopping street, their neighbours’ hateful shouts make their “crime” all too clear: “Beat those gays up!” “Kill those monsters!” “Give them what they deserve!”

Threats were also issued – threats they had heard before:

“We’ll burn down your house!”

After two days in a small, dirty prison cell they are released. Now they’ve gone underground, and hope to gain asylum in another country.

“We don’t dare to live here any more. We have felt unsafe for a long time and it only gets worse. It’s all the talk about that law that agitates people. If it is passed I am sure they will burn down the house,” says one, a 23-year-old transsexual who prefers to be called “Bad Black” for safety reasons.

The law he refers to is the so-called “Kill the Gays” bill, which is set to become reality in Uganda within days. It is already illegal to commit a homosexual act in the country, but a unified parliament now supports a tightening of the law, which, among other things, will make it punishable by death to be a “serial offender”.

The parliamentarian behind the bill is David Bahati. He describes homosexuality as an evil that has to be fought. He also says that he and his peers “do not hate the homosexuals but the sin in them”.

Bahati’s reference to sin reveals the direct connection between Uganda’s politicians and a group of very influential pastors. One of these pastors is Moses Solomon Male, who travels the country presenting his talk, Understanding the Challenges of Homosexuality (Sodomy).

“Those homosexuals … They call it anal sex. It ruins the anus. And they say they enjoy it,” said Male in a recent speech to Sunday-school pupils in a Kampala suburb. He also described the cornerstone of both the pastors’ and the politicians’ argument against homosexuals: That they are “recruiting” innocents to their side – especially children.

LGBT rights advocates are doing their best to challenge these views – and the bill. One of these, transsexual activist Pepe Julian Onziema, has courageously come out with his message as well as his sexuality. Homosexuality is not something you become, it is something you are, he stresses.

“The only thing we can do is to try to inform as many people as possible about how we’re human beings just like them – just with different sexual preferences,” he explains.”

All photographs taken by Mathias Christensen.

xxmisty: tatsu-maki: oleeves: Finally used my sewing machine...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:46:05 -0500

xxmisty:

tatsu-maki:

oleeves:

Finally used my sewing machine and turned my daughters artwork into reality - Imgur

omg that’s adorable

OK I misunderstood this picture completely and thought that creature was doing a self portrait

theonlymagicleftisart: (Tom French)

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:43:29 -0500

theonlymagicleftisart:

(**Tom French**)