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Monument Valley

In-game art featured in Monument Valley. iam8bit collaborated with ustwo studio, the creator of “Monument Valley, to create these prints.

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HARD ACTRESS by Mink Couteaux

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Sólo faltó Furiosa

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Not Bad For a Human - Created by Chet Phillips

Aliens tribute print available for sale at Chet’s Etsy Shop.

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The modern adventures of Han and Ben Kylo (Manip AU)

Kylo and Han have an epic fight. Kylo, as usual, owes his father money in damages.

The rest of the series is here

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Written by Brandon Sheffield

Drawn by Dami Lee

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Project Monsoon Clever colorful street art that only appears when it rains

After the Superhydrophobic Street Art, which uses a superhydrophobic coating to create designs which appear only in the rain, here is the Project Monsoon, which uses the same concept, this time with hydrochromic painting, which reveals its color only when wet. This amazing and clever project was designed by a Korean team of designers, in collaboration with Pantone, to provide color to the streets of Seoul during the rainy season, while paying tribute to the Korean culture. A brilliant idea! Source: ufunk

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The world is filled with such wonderful things.

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I Refuse to Refuse Anyone.

At the hospital, we had a training session from a fellow chaplain about how to approach the LGBT community.

We needed this: because no matter how “open-minded” or “tolerant” a person might claim to be, from atheist to Buddhist to liberal Christian, there’s always a stigma about the unknown. And when it comes to medical care, we can’t flinch.

We were told about an incident in another state where some paramedics were cracking up in the ambulance over a transgender woman, and because of their neglect, the woman coded and died. The mother won a lawsuit: but who really wins in that sort of thing?

Then another story, about a transgender woman who was locked up in a van with saran wrap and left to die in the Florida heat – and she died in the hospital. The doctor went to her family, who had been supportive of her choices, and graciously asked, “What name does your child go by?” And from that point on, the doctor used her chosen name and the correct pronouns, and it was this little bit of dignity that made a huge difference for the deceased woman’s family.

I started thinking, If we can accord this sort of dignity at death: why can’t we do it when they’re alive?

Because it shouldn’t take sickness or dying or death for someone to be a whole person worthy of such value.

The policy of the hospital is that we can never, ever refuse someone based on their race, gender, orientation, age, or ability to pay. Yet our subconscious prejudice, the hatred inside that we’ve never confronted, can bleed out into the way we treat others. Even in the hospital. There are doctors and nurses who won’t take orders for gay couples; there are gay spouses who are demanded to prove they’re married for visitation rights, when we don’t ask straight couples; there are transgender people who are scared out of their minds that they won’t get fair treatment because they’ve been rejected their entire lives. Over and over, there are stats and case studies on how the LGBT community is abused in the medical field, and most of us aren’t aware we do it. It goes deeper than “the religious right” or “right-wing conservatives.” It’s a human thing to hate what we fear and to fear what we don’t understand.

The chaplain who instructed us then revealed that he was a transgender male, who had successfully transitioned from a female about ten years ago. The room suddenly changed: I could see gasps and shock and shaking heads. We had all been working with this chaplain for months or years, and some didn’t know. Why would it even come up? And why did some of us feel shock? And why should we work any differently with him?

He carefully brought up his journey, acknowledging that he had massive amounts of resources to undergo the surgery and take the medicine, and that becoming a white male offered even more status than he was comfortable with. He was kicked out of his church, but he became a chaplain anyway, because a hospital is the one safe place where a human being’s life is way more important than our tiny cultural boxes and biases.

Then he said, “I’ve learned that people are conditional. They’ll love you up to a point. Our job is to break these conditions.”

Our job is to break these conditions.

All this challenged me right upside the head. Yes, I’m a Christian, and we believe certain things about how they should be. But – the second I see a patient enter the trauma bay, the second I enter a patient’s room, the second I visit their families, I’m there to serve that person. I can’t give in to conditions. I refuse to refuse anyone in their moment of crisis and need. I must honor who they are, fully without flinching, and I must serve them simply because they’re alive, because they exist, because they have a name.

And you know, if my faith is making me a jerk: maybe I need to step back and start over on why it’s making me worse. I don’t mean that we neglect accountability; I don’t endorse a free-for-all theology; I don’t mean that everything is okay. But maybe I missed part of the message somewhere back there. Maybe this is why they killed Jesus, because he loved too much.

I’m finding that love, the kind of gritty real sacrificial love that puts others first, doesn’t draw up a contract when it comes to someone at the edge of death. And I’m wondering why it should draw contracts at the edge of life.

I’m wondering how I can break my conditions.

— J.S.

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By Maysoon Masalha , Abu Dhabi’s airport art hub 👌

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Beautiful.

Wow…just wow!

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Japanese Artist Tatsuya Tanaka Creates Fun Miniature Dioramas Every Day For 5 Years

—Pues bien —exclamó al fin colérico D'Artagnan—: pues bien, dejemos los huesos, ya que os empeñáis, en este maldito país, donde siempre hacer frío, donde se llama buen tiempo a la niebla, niebla a la lluvia, y lluvia a los diluvios; donde el sol es como nuestra luna y la luna como un plato de crema. Al fin y al cabo, si tenemos que morir, tanto monta que aquí sea como en otra parte.

Veinte años después, Alexandre Dumas

Odio, admiro y a fin de cuentas envidio la facilidad que tiene Dumas para escribir.

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