Enchanted Relativity

todayinhistory: May 24th 1819: Queen Victoria born On this day...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:36:56 -0700

Victoria on her wedding day

Victoria towards the end of her life

May 24th 1819: Queen Victoria born

On this day in 1819 Queen Victoria of Great Britain was born in London. She became Queen in 1837 aged 18 upon the death of her uncle King William IV, who died with no legitimate children. She married her cousin Prince Albert in 1840 and the couple had nine children. Albert died in 1861 and Victoria was in deep mourning for the rest of her life. She was monarch until her death in 1901 aged 81, making her the longest reigning British monarch and longest reigning female monarch in history.

reuters: Funky Code Madea: One American has taken full use of...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:06:27 -0700

reuters:

Funky Code Madea: One American has taken full use of her free speech rights at every major political event of the past decade.

Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin heckles, shouts, yells, and berates politicians to listen to the organization’s messages.

Benjamin shouted at U.S. President Obama to close Guantanamo and apologize to innocent people killed in military strikes around the world during a major foreign policy speech today.

Watch: Madea Benjamin shouts at President Obama:

Photos: REUTERS and photographers Jason Reed, Mike Theiler, Mike Segar, Yuri Gripas, Damir Sagol, Brendan McDermid.

ramiblag: Two Palestinian schoolgirls going to school THROUGH...

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:46:58 -0700

ramiblag:

Two Palestinian schoolgirls going to school THROUGH the
“Israeli” Apartheid Wall.

hiromitsu: 川流不息　Endless stream by Singer 晴哥 on Flickr.

Thu, 23 May 2013 06:45:52 -0700

hiromitsu:

川流不息　Endless stream by Singer 晴哥 on Flickr.

blue-voids: Anselm Kiefer - Emanation, 1984-86

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:33 -0700

blue-voids:

Anselm Kiefer - Emanation, 1984-86

Théodore Rousseau, Sunset in the Auvergne (detail), 1844...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:13:46 -0700

Théodore Rousseau, Sunset in the Auvergne (detail), 1844 (x)

"Following in the footsteps of former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, conservatives faced with these..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:32 -0700

“Following in the footsteps of former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, conservatives faced with...

laughingsquid: Japanese Barista Makes 3D Latte Art

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:23:25 -0700

laughingsquid:

Japanese Barista Makes 3D Latte Art

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:36:55 -0700

todayinhistory: May 21st 1924: Leopold and Loeb kill Bobby...

Tue, 21 May 2013 06:08:25 -0700

todayinhistory:

May 21st 1924: Leopold and Loeb kill Bobby Franks

On this day in 1924, University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr murdered 14 year old Bobby Franks. The pair killed the boy as a ‘thrill killing’ in their attempt to perform the perfect crime. However, the two were caught and put on trial. They used their wealth and influence to hire famous defence lawyer Clarence Darrow who argued the pair could not be held morally accountable because they had been raised thinking they were superior and thus are not to blame for their actions. He was successful, and the men avoided the death penalty, instead getting life imprisonment.

bemusedlybespectacled: deathofadeity: c-anna-balism: enasnivol...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:24:23 -0700

bemusedlybespectacled:

deathofadeity:

c-anna-balism:

enasnivolz:

ealperin:

reading-thoughts:

edwardspoonhands:

Not Iambic….Do Not Accept…

These tags I’ll pop, and boast in rhyming verse
that what I wear puts swagger in my gait;
though twenty shillings have I in my purse,
my self-esteem and manhood both inflate
when lofty furs I purchase for a cent.
Thy grandpa’s clothes are worthy salvage, though
they smell a trifle musty. Still, I spent
much less to dress myself from head to toe.

To save or not to save? The question’s moot.
I’ll never give my coin to high-street crooks.
These dusty shelves will yield their hidden loot
to those, like me, more frugal in their looks.
Like ancient coins washed up on distant shores,
I’ll find my treasures in these thrifty stores.
- Macklemore, “Thrift Shoppe”

*Crying with laughter*

ITS IN IAMBIC PENTAMETER. SWEET JESUS THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE THING.

GET THE FUCK OUT

Christ almight

I’M IN LOVE

me: i'm gonna make you mine

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:24 -0700

me: i'm gonna make you mine me: *right click, save image as*

We at MoJo welcome our new Yumblr overlords.

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:07:57 -0700

thebacklot: motherjones: Reblogged for giraffe

The "act your age" game-- go to my askbox, anon or not, and tell me what age you think I act, regardless of whether or not you know how old I am. I'd like to be able to average out the responses and see how 'old' people think I am.

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:01:59 -0700

continueplease: nbcnews: Teen’s invention could charge your...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:01:44 -0700

continueplease:

nbcnews:

Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

(Photo: Intel)

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.

Read the complete story.

Everybody, remember this face.
Remember this name.
If this becomes a commonly used & highly lauded discovery, at some point a White guy is going to take credit, even if he has to word it like “Improved upon a previous…”
No no no
Fuck that guy.
Remember this brown girl.
Remeeeemmmmmberrrrr

"But the biggest surprise of “Aschenputtel” [Grimm brothers version of the Cinderella story] is that..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:59:36 -0700

“But the biggest surprise of “Aschenputtel” [Grimm brothers version of the Cinderella story]...

breakingnews: Yahoo! buys Tumblr The New York Times: The board...

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:56:21 -0700

breakingnews:

Yahoo! buys Tumblr

The New York Times: The board of Yahoo, the faded Web pioneer, agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, the companies announced Monday, a signal of how the company plans to reposition itself as the technology industry makes a headlong rush into social media.

Photo: yahoo.tumblr.com

"The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers. I am not being critical of..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:01:33 -0700

“The casting of Cumberbatch was a mistake on the part of the producers. I am not being...

feminishblog: bitterbuffalo: thiscuntsays: kiskex: Distinguis...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:34:37 -0700

feminishblog:

bitterbuffalo:

thiscuntsays:

kiskex:

Distinguished sociologist Erving Goffman noted that women in photographs are often portrayed in compromising or submissive situations such as having the head turned upwards to expose the neck or in a contorted stances often with light self-touching. Such poses invite the gaze of the viewer and make the subject of the photograph seem vulnerable and exposed to sexualization.

as highlighted by the image, Erving Goffman made it known that these poses were problematic because if we saw any reversal of the gender roles, we perceive it as weird or strange. this image shows a man posing in a feminine fashion… men are very rarely posing like this in professional photography.

essentially, if our instincts tell us something is strange about a person in a photograph, it is representative of the demand of gender display in advertisements.

This kind of thing is super interesting to me. Other ways women are photographed but men rarely are include;

Standing on one leg/legs crossed and weight all on one leg/leaning on someone or something - The woman is vulnerable and incapable. She literally can’t stand (exist) alone.

With their head cropped out of the image or with their eyes down - This goes back to Madonna and Child and is totally entwined with the whole subject/object problem. The (male) viewer is the active subject, the woman is the passive object. You’re allowed to look because she sure as hell isn’t going to do anything, her body exists for you. (Hello rape culture.)

Not dressed - This isn’t such a big deal if the woman is photographed alone but often photos will depict naked women and fully dressed men, often in suits. The implications of this are pretty obvious.

Cut/Bruised - Vulnerability again. To be honest I’ve seen these kinds of images more on tumblr than I have anywhere else, they don’t seem to have made it into mainstream photography quite as much. But Tumblr is super fond of headless semi-dressed women with grazed knees. I guess in some way you could agrue that these photos show the strength of women, but I personally don’t buy that. For the same reason I don’t like this theme used domestic violence ads, I think it only serves to re-victimise the women.

Obviously there are also some really great photographs of women that don’t do any of these things, and some photographs that use these themes for legitimate reasons.

Always reblog, because this is so damn provoking.

aniseshaw: ‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:18:34 -0700

aniseshaw:

‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers Wrong

Through their writings, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald—the young, glamorous literary couple du jour—defined the Jazz Age as we know it. Scott declared his Southern belle wife, whom he married in 1920, “the first American flapper.” The inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby,” Zelda was known for her wild antics, like drunkenly jumping, fully clothed, into the fountain at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Even as a kid, she was always creating a scene: She stole a car when she was 8; she went swimming in a flesh-colored bathing suit in her teens….

But Zelda, as fearless and trail-blazing as she was, can’t even embody the flapper movement fully. For one, it was not all white women, as NYU’s Modern America reports: “For the time being, the bob and the entire Flapper wardrobe, united blacks and whites under a common hip-culture.” Secondly, the flapper’s rebellion against Victorian sexual mores didn’t start among the high-society debutantes, but in “working-class neighborhoods and radical circles in the early 1900s before it spread to middle-class youth and college campuses.”

Pictured: African American Flappers at a football game in Washington D.C. from the Smithsonian Institute.