Sarah.

This damn website is the fuel and source of my procrastination. Hi.

[kevinruss]

new print from the california superbloom

[vintageeveryday]

If you compare Punk makeup to Star Wars characters, you’re doing it wrong. Here’s a How-to-be-a-Punk guide from 1977.

[whatisthatevenlike]

I have, more than once, compared Lin to Shakespeare, and I do it without blushing or apologizing. Lin, in Hamilton, is doing exactly what Shakespeare did in his history plays. He’s taking the voice of the common people, elevating it to poetry - in Shakespeare’s case, iambic pentameter; in Lin’s case, rap, rhyme, hip hop, R&B - and by elevating it to poetry, ennobling the people themselves. He is bringing out what is noble about the common tongue. And that is something that nobody has done as effectively as Lin since Shakespeare. Yeah, I said it.

Oskar Eustis, on Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton’s America)

[arcadiainteriorana]

Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite Valley, California Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902) Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 48 x 66.1 cm, 1871-1873. Cincinnati Art Museum.

[thunderstruck9]

Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976), Beginner’s Slope, 1966. Gouache and ink on paper, 74.9 x 107.6 cm.

[vintageeveryday]

A little English girl comforts her doll in the rubble of her bomb damaged home in 1940.  

[historicallyblack]

Tartt family photo, 1928, West Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Tartt Family.

This picture taken in the Spring of 1928 is of my grandmother, Lucy Tartt, grandfather, Simmie Tartt, and uncle Arthur Tartt. Although a simple studio photo, it embodies all the stories my mother told about her upbringing in a small coal camp house at the intersections of Lewis Street and Lehman Avenue in Fairmont, West Virginia in the 1940s. Mom had few photos of her parents. Nonetheless, the truths and travails of Mama Lucy, her brood of 15 children, her beloved siblings in far off Baltimore, and, especially, my grandfather who had been tragically killed, leapt off the paper and into the imaginations of us kids as we felt the plastic that kept it safe in the album, and sometimes held it in our hands. Those stories have stayed with me through my 46 years. When I began to research my family’s enslaved past and prior existence as people on the African continent, it was the stories sparked by this photo that unerringly lead the way from the coal camps of northern West Virginia to the cotton fields of Society Hill, South Carolina. Remembered tones of voice and shifts in conversation as she told and retold the stories guided both heart and intellect as I reconnected through DNA testing with individuals from the Guinea-Bissaun ethnicities from whom my fourth great grandmother likely came. Mom’s oral testimony on this side of an African continuum spanning millennia resonated with the realities of folks on the continent today with stories of their own, stories which very often overlooked the details of the chapters concerning transatlantic slavery. Those untold stories are as much a part of us as is this picture; both affirmations not only of the strength of my grandparents, but also of the hope of those who came before them who, if they can’t be known, must at least be remembered.

Story from Nathan Hinton 

[deracinationoftheworld]

Don't they look fierce

[historyandmemes]

Switzerland during both world wars

[thischarmingcharlie]

I’m deeply honored that Morrissey spoke out on behalf of This Charming Charlie, although not surprised. Morrissey is not a stranger to fair use, and it was my extreme respect for his appropriation of words and images that led to this project in the first place. I’m glad he is able to see the humor in all of this, even if lawyers could not. Hopefully, this example will set a precedent for copyright laws in the future, and encourage others to express themselves and enrich our culture through free speech, parody and social critique.

[poetsorg]

Thom Gunn, born on this day in 1929. Read his work at Poets.org.

[deracinationoftheworld]

Appreciate the question.

[deracinationoftheworld]

✌

[vintageeveryday]

The range of Afro hairstyles for black men in the 1970s.

[deracinationoftheworld]

Absolute shock.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/burkini-cannes-islamophobia-banning-the-burkini-is-misogynistic-and-western-feminists-are-turning-a-a7188806.html

[deracinationoftheworld]

[deracinationoftheworld]

Organized by Arielle Jovellos and given to the cast as a gift, see the story of Hamilton told through the eyes of 46 different artists. Learn more about the project here.

[stefanieshank]