The Avengers storyboards by Jane Wu.
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Anita Ekberg gives Frank Sinatra a shave in 4 for Texas, 1963
reblogging this because i enjoy it and also because it upsets brenna
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Calling for those interested in creating a teen mag/mag for young women
Chelsea and I are going to start an online magazine with a strong emphasis on young girls and women of color, trans girls, disabled girls, non-heteronormative girls, queer girls, fat girls, mentally ill girls, etc etc.
We (Chelsea, also known as popca on tumblr, and I) are interested in whatever capacity you are willing to help. Please tell us if you are interested in writing, designing, doing artwork, creating, organizing, CSS/flash coding or something you would like to do that we haven’t listed.
Anybody who is interested, get at us by sending us an e-mail at untitledteenmag@gmail.com. Thanks!
this is AWESOME!
I tried to send this to some of the body positive blogs I follow but sometimes I am too impatient for the internet so I’m going to post it here and maybe if people reblog it that would be great.
I work with this lady named Kate Robinson who is trying to raise money to get her yoga teacher certification so she can teach yoga to all sorts of people in the greater-Boston area, but specifically her goal is to create a safe space for larger bodies or people with specific yoga needs to practice without judgement and with plenty of support.
Yoga is the best, Kate is a wonderful and supportive lady and sensitive to a fault. If you live in Boston and want to practice yoga but are perhaps embarrassed to do so, worried that you won’t be able to keep up or that specific body needs will hinder your ability, you should donate to this fund and take a class with Kate who is champing at the bit to aid you in any way she can.
this is awesome!
Image - an outfit photo of Natalie who is fat and tall and temporarily ginger haired and wears a cream lace dress over a black slip and dark blue jeggings and carries a green satchel.
I’m really into looking like I have grown too big for my satchel.
Lace dress: Asos Curve
Slip: from an Evans dress
Jeggings: Best & Less
Shoes: Shoebuy
Bag: Shanghai Magicbox on ebay
love this outfit SO MUCH. i miss all the lacy dresses of my youth.
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I JUST found out about this blog and then remembered this picture. This is my BFF Sarah (right) and me (left) at my birthday party in 2010. I had a prom themed birthday because I’d never gone to any prom before, but I was turning 22 and had been imbibing mad Long Island iced teas and made everyone take prom pictures with me.
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fine-ass babes
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a real hero (by ash russell) [more here]
super recipe/protip par excellence:
1. prepare for shower in your usual manner
2. find small light (nightlight or flashlight — red light is IDEAL) and thing for playing music
3. close up bathroom
4. turn on small light, turn off bathroom lights (you want VERY LITTLE LIGHT, but not complete darkness. darkness is decidedly un-cinematic)
5. let bathroom get steamy
6. shuffle & repeat the following playlist or some combination thereof:
kavinsky & lovefoxxx, “nightcall”
hooverphonic, “2wicky”
desire, “under your spell”
kidneythieves, “feathers”
salem, “redlights”
college f. electric youth, “a real hero”
the glitch mob, “bad wings”
awolnation, “sail”
the chromatics, “tick of the clock”
sneaker pimps, “post-modern sleaze”
portishead, “biscuit”
basement jaxx, “the block”
switchblade symphony, “dirty dog”
7. enjoy your cinematic shower/change your hygienic life forever
optional: cry/mb8/pretend to wash blood from a recently committed murder from your hands/photograph your steamy visage for posterity
the original post went all weird, sorry/don’t make me keep reblogging this until you all try it
bringing this back because i can and because i haven’t done it in awhile](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx9oyqkups1qzsj2ko1_r1_500.jpg)
a real hero (by ash russell) [more here]
super recipe/protip par excellence:
1. prepare for shower in your usual manner
2. find small light (nightlight or flashlight — red light is IDEAL) and thing for playing music
3. close up bathroom
4. turn on small light, turn off bathroom lights (you want VERY LITTLE LIGHT, but not complete darkness. darkness is decidedly un-cinematic)
5. let bathroom get steamy
6. shuffle & repeat the following playlist or some combination thereof:kavinsky & lovefoxxx, “nightcall”
hooverphonic, “2wicky”
desire, “under your spell”
kidneythieves, “feathers”
salem, “redlights”
college f. electric youth, “a real hero”
the glitch mob, “bad wings”
awolnation, “sail”
the chromatics, “tick of the clock”
sneaker pimps, “post-modern sleaze”
portishead, “biscuit”
basement jaxx, “the block”
switchblade symphony, “dirty dog”7. enjoy your cinematic shower/change your hygienic life forever
optional: cry/mb8/pretend to wash blood from a recently committed murder from your hands/photograph your steamy visage for posterity
the original post went all weird, sorry/don’t make me keep reblogging this until you all try it
bringing this back because i can and because i haven’t done it in awhile
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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Amy Poehler, John Krasinski and Tracy Morgan
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An Indian Inventor Disrupts the Period Industry
An Indian Inventor Disrupts The Period Industry
When Arunachalam Muruganantham decided he was going to do something about the fact that women in India can’t afford sanitary napkins, he went the extra mile: He wore his own for a week to figure out the best design.
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Analyzing branded napkins at laboratories led to Muruganantham’s first breakthrough. “I found out that these napkins were made of cellulose derived from the bark of a tree,” he said. A high school dropout, he taught himself English and pretended to be a millionaire to get U.S. manufacturers to send him samples of their raw material.
Demystifying the napkin was only the first step. Once he knew how to make them, he discovered that the machine necessary to convert the pine wood fiber into cellulose cost more than half a million U.S. dollars. It’s one of the reasons why only multinational giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble have dominated the sanitary napkin making industry in India.
It took Muruganantham a little over four years to create a simpler version of the machine, but he eventually found a solution. Powered by electricity and foot pedals, the machine de-fibers the cellulose, compresses it into napkin form, seals it with non-woven fabrics, and finally sterilizes it with ultraviolet light. He can now make 1,000 napkins a day, which retail for about $.25 for a package of eight.
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Though he’s won numerous awards (and won his wife back) he doesn’t sell his product commercially. “It’s a service,” he says. His company, Jayaashree Industries, helps rural women buy one of the $2,500 machines through NGOs, government loans, and rural self-help groups. “My vision is to make India a 100% napkin-using country,” said Muruganantham at the INK conference in Jaipur. “We can create 1 million employment opportunities for rural women and expand the model to other developing nations.” Today, there are about 600 machines deployed in 23 states across India and in a few countries abroad.
This sounds like a really neat way of empowering people. I really like how he sees his company as a service, not as a profit-making machine (when he could so easily do so) and rather than hoard the methods of production, he enables it to be easily replicated and distributed so other people can benefit from it, not just himself.
I love how he faked his way into gaming a system that worships money (srsly, a millionaire will get the respect for free shit, but not rural women, let’s think about how fucked up that is) and instead of reproducing the same attitude of hoarding money, he seems to be channeling that into a system of distributing income-producing means. We need more people who think that way, of spreading means of making stuff, rather than controlling them. I bet if the women’s sanitary napkin industry was taken more seriously, someone would find a way to trip up Muruganantham’s efforts to sell the machine.
OMG I am cheesy and perhaps hormonal but this reads to me like an awesome romance epic that needs to be made into a movie. And this movie would then off-set the one-dimensional awfulness that was presented in Slumdog Millionaire. Also, this movie will make me cry endlessly like The Namesake did. I mean, I’m kinda tearing up right now, just imagining it, lolololbawwwww.
