anenst

vivian, 21, local banh mi enthusiast

[xianzhong]

[black-culture]

[yemme]

This is heartbreaking.  God watch over her and guide her into heaven.  Praying for the family.

[manhood]

[1010ll]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc6_PRJljNr/?

[evilrashida]

Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Gisele Bündchen, Irina Shayk, Raquel Zimmerman, Natalia Vodianova, Gigi Hadid, Vittoria Ceretti, Kaia Gerber, Cara Taylor, Birgit Kos, and Grace Elizabeth for Versace Spring/Summer 2018 by Steven Meisel

[anenst]

SO GOOD

[china-money]

Gifts. Acrylic 30”x40”. The only painting I made in 2017 🤟 A playful riff on Chinese cultural symbols. “Gifts” conveys endowments, inheritances, blessings - as well as the throw-away, souvenir quality of visual clichés. There’s the familiar Chinatown iconography of kitschy opulence, the urban legends of New-Money excess from the 00s onwards, the sheen of cheap, oriental materialism that coats every watered-down, abridged-for-America cultural rite. But I still remember Harbin in the 90s: the residual socialism, the nationalist rhetoric, the values of humility, courage, and self-sacrifice that pervaded pre-K education. There’s a tougher core within Chinese heritage, one that’s always been more about suffering than about fortune cookies, yet also one that my family left behind in search of greener pastures and easier Californian living. All of these disparate elements hover just above consciousness when I think about where I’m from and who I am; removed by time and space, however, Chinese-ness dilutes into a superficial identity that I can hold up to look at, as if it were a postcard from someone else’s past. And that’s really what my painting is, I guess.

Heavily borrows from the illustrative style of 70s-90s Chinese propaganda posters, which fittingly mimic aesthetics of pre-revolution printed advertisements. Flowers might be the ultimate bourgeois symbol.

[splendidland]

Top 10 highest numbers

10: 1 Pathetic. When it comes to numbers, this one is real low.

9: 27 We’re seeing some progression here. not bad

8: 28 Even higher than 27, if you can believe it

7: 100 This used to be the highest number, but was dethroned a few years ago. Still pretty impressive though, especially if you’re into the retro aesthetic.

6: 200 Adding two 100′s together gets you this chunky beast, a really awe inspiring number.

5: 9,486 A pretty terrible number, but even the haters can’t deny the size of this one.

4: 12,345 Not physically big enough to make it to the top of this list, but how could we leave out such a good, no-nonsense number?

3: Mega 2 Mega numbers are much larger than their non-mega counterparts, being around 30ft tall each, earning this one a spot in the top 3.

2: 100,000 Sorry 100,000, you’re huge, but you only get 2nd place this time! Good effort though.

1: A Million. Numbers just don’t get better than this!

[jollygreengiantveggies]

future reminders

[ajaegerpilot]

men who straight white ppl consider attractive but activate my fight or flight response

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

Apple has finally admitted they throttle older iPhones with iOS updates when they release a new model. As the battery degrades over time it’s no longer capable of providing as much power as the CPU needs to draw at peak performance and this can cause unexpected shutdowns so they’ve just been quietly slowing down their phones without disclosing it until now. Probably to encourage you to just buy a new phone for $1000 instead of having the battery replaced for $80.

Anyways if you’re able to replace the battery yourself iFixit sells a kit for $24.99

[lowsmoke405]

[waspie]

[koenji]

“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.”

Devon Aoki photographed by Jane McLeish-Kelsey

[otherduck]

David Shrigley

[liveitout]

Bob The Drag Queen explains why he raises money for women’s shelters in New York City on TRANSFORMATIONS: Bob The Drag Queen & James St. James [x]

[alternativeblkgal]

emotionally manipulative people will drop you so quickly once they realize they won’t have all the control. once they realize that you’ll call them out on their shit and that you won’t just allow them to treat you like garbage willingly, all of a sudden it’s you and your behavior that’s “crazy”, etc.

[alternativeblkgal]

watch out for if you try to talk about how your feeling and they position it as an attack on them.

watch out if y'all only talk on their terms.

watch out if they get mad and will only listen or speak to you when THEY’RE ready.

my point here is if everything is on their terms…watch out.

[sensitivesuggestion]

celebrate your personal victories because no one else understands what it took to accomplish them