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they are gonna dance around this and twist it in every way they can think of until the problem is dodged again. they are gonna do every thing they can to vilify and pin the fault to Antonio Martin. its cyclical & fucked up. changes need to be made
REMINDER: While Darren Wilson gets away with shooting/killing an unarmed black boy under the white supremacist guise of “self defense”, Marissa Alexander is still behind bars for firing a single warning shot into the air, in hopes of deterring her abusive husband from attacking her.
Report: 95% Of Grandfathers Got Job By Walking Right Up And Just Asking
Fun story my history teacher told us: his grandfather during the industrial revolution walked past a flyer which said “looking for smart strong boys” so he went into the factory, said “i’m strong and smart”, and he had that job from age 13 to 78
and this is why they expect the younger generation to simply “get a job” ahh it’s so much clearer now
Like I don’t see how people don’t understand. There were literally HALF as many humans on this planet less than a generation ago as there are now. There was much more economic opportunity simply because there were less people applying for a proportionately larger number of jobs. Not to mention the fact that the inflation rate means that less money went further back then than it does now. Everything has advanced in the wrong direction when it comes to the economic health of the US and its citizens.
In 1941, Jews throughout the Third Reich were forced to wear a yellow Star of David. That same year, the first gassing experiments were conducted at Auschwitz and 33,771 Jews were killed by Germans and Ukrainians at Babi Yar outside Kiev. At the beginning of the war, the U.S. media rarely reported on or even knew about these horrific events, but word of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis trickled down to Kirby, Simon, and other Diaspora Jews in the form of wrenching letters from relatives trapped in the old country. Simon and Kirby used Captain America to strike back and boost American morale while proudly alluding to their religious faith. In a later issue, Steve Rogers watches newsreels depicting Nazi atrocities — newsreels Kirby and Simon surely must have watched as well. Captain America’s weapon of choice was a strange one — not a machine gun, but a shield. The shield is a famous Jewish symbol, the Magen David, which means the “Shield of David.” (It’s also known as the “Star of David” because the Magen David is a hexagram.) The term “shield” in Jewish prayer denotes the closeness and protection of God. In a sad twist of fate, Captain America’s costume featured a star at the same time that Simon and Kirby’s European brethren were being forced to wear a star of a very different kind.
Simcha Weinstein, Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero (x)
Kathleen Cleaver of the Black Panther Party breaks down: Why we [black people] wear our hair like this [natural], (1968)
A post that brilliantly explains why “Men’s Rights Activists” are misguided and why the oppression that men face in our culture is not a result of “misandry” but of misogyny.
No, I’d say the show does a great job of representing the typical 18-34 male with Larry, with his constant need for validation, attention, and the world to revolve around him.
not to mention Bennet’s quest to prove that he’s a man, Pornstache’s overcompensation that disguises his vulnerability, Healy’s struggle to make positive change that is frustrated by his need to be loved by a woman, and Caputo’s exploration of his desire to control the world around him and whether or not he wants to do that. men are quite accurately represented in the show, the only issue male viewers seem to have is that these men display the warped nature of man’s dominance, and the idea that their superiority is not perfect and noble is offensive.
There it is.
and…..ITS A SHOW ABOUT A WOMENS PRISON
In 2010, there were 8 school shootings in the US.
In 2011, there were 10.
In 2012, there were 14.
In 2013? 28.
In the first half of 2014 alone, we have already suffered 38 school shootings.
If that doesn’t horrify you, then I don’t know what would.
what the actual fuck goes on in america
White boys don’t get what they want so they shoot everybody.
^^^^literally the case
Adorable. Imagine the detailed work of the hair movement which is on point.
Somebody put so much love into the animation of those curls.
don’t they usually animate hair like this with physics rather than actually animate it by hand?
Correct, hair is usually done using a physics simulation because to individually animate every strand (or even just every cluster) would take months or years.
CG hair actually has a pretty amazing history. If we go back to 2004, the time of The Incredibles (which notably features the long-haired character of Violet) long hair was basically impossible. The physics calculations would make it wrap against itself and stick in place or violently fly around haphazardly. The Incredibles had to engineer the technology to simulate Violet’s hair mid-production to get it to work as well as it looks in the final release (they also did great work with wet hair too).
Prior to that, the best example is 2001’s Shrek, where hair simulation had to be done wholesale for the character of Donkey and for Princess Fiona’s braid. Having the hair be short or restricted in its movement made it a lot easier to simulate, but Shrek was still very pivotal in how fabric simulation progressed (a whole other can of worms, to say the least).
Now we have movies like Monsters Inc. and How to Train Your Dragon, where not only is hair varied in style, length, and volume, but it’s all simulated with physics rather than animated in the traditional fashion. Characters like Sully or Stoic the Vast would have been utterly impossible only 10 years ago.
So yeah, it’s maybe a little bit of a let-down to find out that hair such as in these gifs isn’t hand-crafted on a frame-by-frame basis, but that doesn’t really make it any less impressive I think.
Cool commentary.
UM EXCUSE YOU YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE HISTORY OF CG HAIR AND YOU AREN’T EVEN GOING TO MENTION BRAVE!?? Sit down son cause everything you just talked about dealt with STRAIGHT hair. Curly hair is a WHOLE new challenge when it comes to animation.
Brave was a fucking trailblazer for this shit. Pixar had to develop an entirely new physics simulator and add in new properties that were never necessary for straight-haired characters. Since each individual hair acts as a spring (and most curly hair has at least some variety in how loose or tight each curl is), Merida’s curls had to be individually adjusted in order to achieve that perfectly messy look.
And lets also point out that in order to capture the movement of the hair, they had to put it through a separate physics simulator from the rest of the animation — a simulator that had its gravity set closer to that of the moon. BECAUSE CURLY HAIR FUCKING DEFIES GRAVITY.
And do you know why this is so important? Because it opened the door for beautifully rendered natural hair. It expanded the range of hair that was available for PoC characters and is the reason that girl above has such beautifully curly hair.
The fear of progression since the dawn of man
Hey y’all, a children’s book project I worked on last year recently wrapped up, so I thought I would share a few of the illustrations from it and ideally promote it. ;) It is a short book about natural hair care from the perspective of a little girl named Emi, created and written by Tina Olajide. It was super fun to work on and I’m really excited to see how it all came together.
If you are interested, please check out the website below!
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In other news, one of my resolutions for next year is to create more personal work, so ideally (for me) I will be poking back in here more next year, maybe, eek. Either way HAPPY NEW YEAR HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!!!!
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heyemi.com
Buy the book on Amazon
Buy the book on Amazon UK
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Keep killing them folks bruh
He smoked him got damn.
Why do you people have to make everything about race???
Long answer: White Europeans decided to colonize the rest of the world. They enslaved, massacred, segregated, displaced, tortured, disenfranchised, and raped other racial groups. They stole land, resources, and art. They put other races in zoos and death camps. They destroyed written and pictorial history. They suppressed the religions of other races. They dehumanized us. They refused to teach the history of these atrocities in their schools. They refused to acknowledge the achievements of other races. They used the theory of their racial superiority as their excuse. All social institutions reflect this history. All affected racial groups are still feeling the aftereffects of this. So it tends to come up a lot.
Short answer: Please shut up.
Be outraged over Micheal Brown. Be outraged over Eric Garner. Be outraged over Peshawar. Be outraged over Sydney. Be outraged over the abduction of the students in Mexico. Be outraged over the CIA torture report. Be outraged over the injustices done to the Canadian native peoples and the police state that is North Korea.
This is not the Tragedy Olympics or the Oppression Olympics. You do not have to pick one team.
The View Co-hosts Debate Racism: Does It Still Exist in America? [x]
It’s crazy and sad that Whoopi and Nicolle think racism in America doesn’t exist just because we have a black President.
Santas of Color
1. http://richmondfreepress.com/news/2014/dec/05/santa-soul-black-history-museum/
2. Dion “Santa Dee” Sinclair
http://thegrio.com/2012/12/25/christmas-2012-the-burden-of-being-a-black-santa/#50274233
3. http://lubbockonline.com/stories/122108/loc_370072784.shtml
4. http://theonlyperuguide.com/2012/10/peru-vacations-peru-festivals-calendar/
5. http://ibnlive.in.com/news/in-diverse-us-santa-claus-has-many-faces-races/440694-2.html
6. Principal Chief of the United Houma Nation, Thomas Dardar Jr. as Santa
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/12/santa-claus-is-coming-to-town/100213/
7. Canadian First Nations Mrs. and Mr. Claus presented by the Canadian Museum of History.
http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cmc/urbannativelife/urbannativelife05e.shtml
8. Julian Perez, Lubbock’s Pancho Clos
http://www.latinpost.com/articles/5152/20131224/panch-claus-pancho-claus-santa-claus-latin-santa-claus-latin-santa-claus-christmas-chicano-texas-california.htm
This is so dope.
YAS!
This makes me so happy!
PANCHO CLAUS YAS
ho ho ho
I remember when teen titans was bout somethin
For real. What’s sad now is that they’ve taken the deeper, humanizing and conscious content out of these cartoons with all the remakes and simple minded programs that are put out now. There’s a lack of depth and maturity that would allow youth to appreciate character development, plots, and morality. That’s why kids today go to movies and talk through the dialogue and just watch the action parts. It’s a grim depiction of what’s to come for our future, and the loss of the appreciation of creative writing. Breaks my heart.
