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Ten years ago, photographers James and Karla Murray began documenting the unique storefronts that define New York as a wonderfully diverse place to live. After a decade had passed, the pair went back to the same locations, only to sadly discover that many of the charming family-owned stores had been pushed out and replaced by large chains, banks, and generic businesses. The Murrays documented these rapid changes with side-by-side photographs compiled in a book entitled Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York.

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Like damn.

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Well this hurts to see

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1 and 2: Jewel Beetle - Chrysochroa fulgens 3 and 4: Flower Beetle - Smaragdesthes africana oertzeni 5 and 6: Rainbow Shield Bug - Calidea dregii 7 and 8: Picasso Bug - Sphaerocoris annulus 9: Imperial Tortoise Beetle - Stolas imperialis 10: Neon Tortoise Beetle - Cassida azurea

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Jørgen V. Sonne (1801 - 1890) - Sky Study with Mill. Oil on paper.

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👏🏼WHERE👏🏼IS 👏🏼THE👏🏼LIE👏🏼?👏🏼

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we’re all broken and the situation is excellent

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Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)

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“Manhattan Island, New York at 6th Ave. & 42nd Street” Watercolor by Lester Burbank Bridaham, 1931 via Museum of the City of New York

Vivid watercolor early ‘30s illustration.

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Philip Govedare (via artisticexpansion)

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Although violence is self-perpetuating and offended parties often become offenders, deep, sustained and systemic violence by a dominant group over and against another group is harder to reciprocate than individual or small-group violence. In the case of systemic racism in the United States, there is no way for racial minorities to wield the powers of violence and oppression against white people that have been wielded against them. The pervasiveness of racism and the power structures keeping it in place are such that the victims and perpetrators cannot simply be swapped out. It is possible for individual African Americans, for example, to hold a degree of power over individual white people, but they cannot inflict the burdens of generations of slavery, physical violence, economic oppression, housing and employment restriction, squashing of progress, stereotypes about intelligence and beauty, and all-around dehumanization that white supremacy has inflicted.

Mimetic Theory and Race Relations: Avoiding Pitfalls that Perpetuate Racismn (via azspot)

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I will end… with a little scene that took place in the last months of peace. They were the most terrible months of my life, for, helplessly and hopelessly, one watched the inevitable approach of war. One of the most horrible things at that time was to listen on the wireless to the speeches of Hitler—the savage and insane ravings of a vindictive underdog who suddenly saw himself to be all-powerful. We were in Rodmell during the late summer of 1939, and I used to listen to those ranting, raving speeches. One afternoon I was planting in the orchard under an apple-tree iris reticulata, those lovely violet flowers… Suddenly I heard Virginia’s voice calling to me from the sitting room window: “Hitler is making a speech.” I shouted back, “I shan’t come. I’m planting iris and they will be flowering long after he is dead.” Last March, twenty-one years after Hitler committed suicide in the bunker, a few of those violet flowers still flowered under the apple-tree in the orchard.

Leonard Woolf, Downhill All The Way: An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 (via austinkleon)