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Against a sumptuous backdrop of jewel-coloured houses filled with candy-striped rooms, two of the most enchanting young leads ever captured on celluloid – Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo – fall passionately in love. From the off, Jacques Demy’s 1964 masterpiece, in which every line is sung, impresses as a super-stylish paean to the MGM musicals, complete with a swinging score by Michel Legrand and bustling street scenes choreographed with the minute precision and contagious energy of Gene Kelly’s finest work. But if 50s America was the land of the happy ever after, Demy’s film marks very different, distinctly European territory. (x)

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Terms I’m going to start using: The Large Dipper, great potatoes, the Big Hadron Collider, and Large Orphan Annie.

Size Venn Diagram [Explained]

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Kirsten Rothbart, Recent Work.

Incredible recent illustrations by the always amazing Kirsten Rothbart (Previously on Supersonic Art).

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The second edition of Smengi ( Smekkleysa x Mengi) took place on Óðinsgata on February 19th under a full moon. Guests were invited to enjoy the free, monthly collaboration between two of Reykjavík’s cultural neighbours and were treated to DJ sets from Ásmundur, HöH, Björk an

Good event, good set, lot’s of fun.

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GERTIE BROWN & SAINT SUTTLE “Something Good-Negro Kiss,” the newly discovered William Selig silent film from 1898 is believed to be the earliest cinematic depiction of African-American affection. Thanks to scholars at the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California, the footage is prompting a rethinking of early film history. The performance by cakewalk partners Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown is a reinterpretation of Thomas Edison’s “The Kiss,” featuring May Irwin and John Rice. The film was announced December 12, 2018 as a new addition to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry—one of 25 selected for their enduring importance to American culture. The 29-second clip is free of stereotypes and racist caricatures, a stark contrast from the majority of black performances at the turn of the century.

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When you see it… , Roman Vishniac

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The language of sexual negotiation must go far beyond ‘consent’ and ‘refusal’ if we are to foster ethical, autonomous sex

Communication is essential to ethical sex. Typically, our public discussions focus on only one narrow kind of communication: requests for sex followed by consent or refusal. But notice that we use language and communication in a wide variety of ways in negotiating sex. We flirt and rebuff, express curiosity and repulsion, and articulate fantasies. Ideally, we talk about what kind of sex we want to have, involving which activities, and what we like and don’t like. We settle whether or not we are going to have sex at all, and when we want to stop. We check in with one another and talk dirty to one another during sex. In this essay I explore the language of sexual negotiation. My specific interest is in what philosophers call the ‘pragmatics’ of speech. That is, I am less interested in what words mean than I am in how speaking can be understood as a kind of action that has a pragmatic effect on the world. Philosophers who specialise in what is known as ‘speech act theory’ focus on what an act of speaking accomplishes, as opposed to what its words mean. J L Austin developed this way of thinking about the different things that speech can do in his classic book, How To Do Things With Words (1962), and many philosophers of language have developed the idea since.

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Deborah Kerr photographed by Allan Grant, 1950

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I was really depressed today and my gf convinced me to go take a bath and then a nap and when I came back out into the main area of our apartment she had cleaned, lit candles, and made me dinner I’m gonna fucking cry I love her so much

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I really appreciate how she’s taught me to run through a checklist of what might be wrong when I’m down and I’ve learned to do the same with her. The questions are all super basic but help me a lot like:

- have you eaten recently?

- have you drank water?

- have you done something for your hygiene yet today?

- do you need to take a rest?

- is the space we’re in causing stress in some way? (too dirty, loud, bright, crowded, etc.)

- has something happened or is there a specific emotion you need to acknowledge right now?

- are you putting something off you need to do or a problem you need to solve and can I help you to accomplish/fix it?

Idk just having someone help me assess my feelings and give me space to open up has really made it so i shutdown due to depression/anxiety less and communicate more clearly. It’s really helped us not fight or get frustrated with each other.