kiss the bottle, spin the girl

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gentledom: kumquatsessions: The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:09:34 -0400

kumquatsessions:

The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies

The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.

Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”

http://thenuproject.com/

Bravo!

A great project indeed. Keep it going!

Hometown pride

Also yes good I love this.

bohemea: Tilda Swinton by Lorenzo Agius

Sat, 18 May 2013 20:18:53 -0400

bohemea:

Tilda Swinton by Lorenzo Agius

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Sat, 18 May 2013 16:37:22 -0400

"Go to the edge sometime and prove your body wrong."

Sat, 18 May 2013 14:46:32 -0400

“Go to the edge sometime and prove your body wrong.”

- The Crow, Dessa (via beezelump)

parscilla: instead of publicly shaming girls for wearing shorts on an 80 degree day you should...

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:55:50 -0400

parscilla:

instead of publicly shaming girls for wearing shorts on an 80 degree day you should teach teachers and male students to not overly sexualize a normal body part to the point where they apparently cant function in daily life

shored-fragments: commovente: “Women who encountered Joan...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:04:50 -0400

shored-fragments:

commovente:

“Women who encountered Joan Didion when they were young received from her a way of being female and being writers that no one else could give them. She was our Hunter Thompson, and Slouching Towards Bethlehem was our Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He gave the boys twisted pig-fuckers and quarts of tequila; she gave us quiet days in Malibu and flowers in our hair. “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold,” Thompson wrote. “All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom windows, because I had some idea that the gold light would make me feel better,” Didion wrote. To not understand the way that those two statements would reverberate in the minds of, respectively, young men and young women is to not know very much at all about those types of creatures. Thompson’s work was illustrated by Ralph Steadman’s grotesque ink blots, and early Didion by the ravishing photographs of the mysterious girl-woman: sitting barelegged on a stone balustrade; posing behind the wheel of her yellow Corvette; wearing an elegant silk gown and staring off into space, all alone in a chic living room.”

-Caitlin Flanagan, The Autumn of Joan Didion

I think that both can be dangerous in the hands of a person who is too young and too lost. But liberating still.

oh this is real

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definitelydope: By Paolo Fusco “Almost anything is open 24h in...

Sat, 18 May 2013 05:32:46 -0400

definitelydope:

By Paolo Fusco

“Almost anything is open 24h in Rome: a few bars, a few stores, self service gas stations and flower kiosks, a lot of flower kiosks.

You can find them everywhere in the city and they never close. They never close.

Their presence has always fascinated me, they seem like sentinels in the quiet roman night, small lighthouses populated by half-asleep immigrant workers.

The photos were taken while wondering through the city in search of these islands of light and flowers.”

whisk-ey: the look on their faces though. its like “omg,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 03:41:46 -0400

whisk-ey:

the look on their faces though. its like “omg, charles. charles, charles. THE HUMAN IS WAVING. WAVE BACK, HURRY.”

This is the best thing I have ever seen

BEARS

reblogging again because I cannot freaking contain myself so cute

aww effin perfect.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 01:51:16 -0400

Virginia Woolf, “The Years” (1937)

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:09:44 -0400

Virginia Woolf, “The Years” (1937)

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cupcakedujour: Hard Girl/Soft Light Tita by Rich Burroughs

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:25 -0400

cupcakedujour:

Hard Girl/Soft Light

Tita by Rich Burroughs

artforadults: White dress by Ramón aka rpintor

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:46:34 -0400

artforadults:

White dress by Ramón aka rpintor

totesyourmate: The Quiet City: Winter in Paris - GIF

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:55:56 -0400

totesyourmate:

The Quiet City: Winter in Paris - GIF

korraa: korraa: korraa: lets play how many more people are...

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:05:06 -0400

korraa:

korraa:

korraa:

lets play how many more people are going to message me for the address

PEOPLE KEEP MESSAGING ME WHERE IT IS AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT SO IM JUST SAYING ‘the big house in west egg you cant miss it’

im having too much fun