[menofvietnam]

Stevo Trann

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“The strangest thing I’ve noticed is that there are a lot of straight women who are fans of our relationship. I was sitting at a bar and two women approached me saying they were huge fans of the show. I said, “Can I ask you a question? I’ve noticed that a lot of straight women are really into Connor and Oliver’s relationship. Can you illuminate me as to why?” They said that a lot of times, when women are portrayed in a relationship with a man, there’s a disparity in intelligence, they aren’t written as smartly and there’s an inequality there. It seems, that with these two guys, there’s an equality in their relationship and that’s something they want to have a mirror for. They’re tired of the damsel in distress stereotype and aren’t interested in watching that anymore.“ - Conrad Ricamora 

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Simonas Pham by Tomas Adomavičius and Lukas Gricius

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eyebrow goals

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Why you should be hooking up with your friends : Chicago Phoenix

I have what many would consider to be a problem. I keep sleeping with my friends. And I keep befriending the men I sleep with. This is why I’m the lamest one-night stand ever, because if you are foolish enough to give me your number after we fuck, you best believe I’ll text you the next day to see if you want to come with me to get my oil changed. As a gay man, sleeping with friends has proved an illuminating survival strategy, and if you’ve never tried it, you should. For a long time I didn’t have gay friends because I didn't know how to do it. I was too paranoid about the sex factor. Whenever I met a new guy with whom I hit it off, I would start slicing myself with the double-edged sword, trying to figure out if one of us was really just chasing the other and, if we did get along so well as "friends,” whether we were fooling ourselves out of something more. When sex isn’t involved, the line between compatibility and chemistry is deceivingly asymptotic, and I couldn’t help but wonder

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the street,  public space, as a forum of protest and remembrance and social cohesion. the civic. 

Top: A line of roses lines the street where Michael Brown was shot

Bottom: Trans* activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

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san fransokyo?

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verticality. urbanism. san fransokyo? organic?

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brutal. urbanism.

[levelian]

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form. openness/exposure/integration. height. urban. 

[levelian]

[jakeelko]

Downtown Anchorage Moon Limited prints available at jakeelko.bigcartel.com if interested.

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anchorage.

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Interesting Doc about Isle de Jean Charles, La. 

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LA river

P1: Verdugo Wash, where the Los Angeles River bends and starts its journey to downtown and the port, falls within the scope of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Alternative 20 proposal for river upgrades. If envisioned as expected and approved by Congress, the plan would facilitate ecological connectivity from the mountains to the river. Courtesy Mia Lehrer + Associates and Nuvis

P2: The industrial corridor of the Los Angeles River at the Seventh Street bridge in downtown L.A., as photographed by Lane Barden for his Linear City Portfolio.

P3: The Los Angeles River, a wasteland or opportunity? Courtesy Downtowngal under Wikimedia Commons

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LACMA Project, by Zumthor

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Here it is: photos of Peter Zumthor’s proposed new building for LACMA. See & share even more here.

Over on Unframed, LACMA’s director Michael Govan writes about the years of thought that have gone into this project:

What if, instead of being hidden, a museum’s collections were visible even when they were in storage? What if art objects could be methodically rotated to describe many cultural stories and not just one chronological and geographic historical narrative? What if there could be a comfortable and seamless transition from the casual space of an outdoor plaza to the inner sanctum of a meditative gallery? Could a museum have lots of windows to see outside, could kids be accommodated as easily as art historians, and could an arrangement of coincident spaces be suited to contemplation, education, or just hanging out? And instead of being a notorious energy hog, could a public museum building collect the energy of the sun to give back to its environment? Could the art museum’s architecture be reconsidered from scratch?

You can see these models, and much more, in The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, opening to members tomorrow and to the public on Sunday.

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Amazing!

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