Sky Six

I like things and I like to share things. I like to think that I think well on my own.

[czeppeli]

we are starving

"oh my GOd there are TWO gay characters in this movie lets watch it"

"dude dude dude we have to see it it has a queer girl”

"I heard this movie has non-sexualized female character”

"ok I know it only has one girl but she is written like an ACTUAL PERSON!!"

"THERE IS A TRANS CHARACTER"

"so its not canon but if you squint I think this character is asexual”

"and get this the gay character is actually not white”

[ttragician]

#we are desperate

[cjwho]

Street Art by Mona Caron

What you are looking at is an amazing street art mural painted on an ordinary electrical utility box that, when viewed from a specific point and distance, lines up with the intersection in the background, offering the viewer a glimpse into an alternative streetscape. Called ‘Manifestation Station‘, the piece was created by San Francisco-based illustrator and muralist Mona Caron. Location – Duboce avenue near Church Street, San Francisco

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[publicdesignfestival]

Set art free. Outings by Julien de Casabianca is a world participative project with simple instructions: take a picture of portraits of anonymous people hung in museums, print them and move them to streets walls.

[skysix-blog]

Then I realized that mere opposition to the status quo wasn’t enough to distinguish [radical leftists] from nihilists. In the software industry, a hyped-up piece of software that never actually gets released is called vapourware.' We should be wary of political vapourware. If somebody’s alternative to the status quo is nothing, or at least nothing very specific, then what are they even talking about?

"Everything is Problematic" by Aurora Dagny in McGill Daily

[humansofnewyork]

"It’s the City of Dreams but it’s fucking hard. It seems like there are endless opportunities all around you, and they seem so real and tangible, and then suddenly they dissolve out of nowhere."

[urbanfunscape]

A glowing golden forest of trees called Aspire by artist Warren Langley, illuminates a site beneath the Western Distributor at Ultimo, Sydney on May 19, 2010. The permanent artwork is designed to strengthen the pedestrian link between the communities of Pyrmont and Ultimo by providing a brighter, more engaging and safer public space.

[oahficw]

Beautiful!

[skysix-blog]

Disclosure - Help Me Lose My Mind (Ta-ku Bootleg)

[uyobabi-blog]

Sunday PM ride. #cycling #cyclelove #roadbike #Jakarta (at Pondok Indah Jakarta Selatan)

[skysix-blog]

No matter what you decide you are, others will disagree [...]

Those who claim that my whiteness erases my otherness are forgetting that the same way white people don’t choose their white privilege and women of color do not choose their “otherness,” I didn’t choose my between-ness. I didn’t choose to identify more with my white peers, by nature of my class, sexual orientation, cisgender status, able-bodied-ness, nationality, in certain spaces: I just did.

[skysix-blog]

For all the hyperbole and straw man arguments, I've discovered why the negative view of our generation persists [...]

Millennials were raised (often by boomers) to assume that by going to school and working hard, we could achieve a degree, a job, or raise a family just as they did. We were always told this investment would pay off, and so we racked up huge debt, poured money into education, and continue to take on more debt for the chance at unpaid internships. These choices are already a sunk cost, and those millennials who share the pessimistic perspective on their own generation are doing so in a way that rationalizes their own challenges

The story of our generation doesn't have to belong to someone else; we've believed that hyperbole for way too long.

[asexual-not-a-sexual]

[brutereason]

The purpose of understanding your privilege isn’t to make you feel something. Not guilt, not shame, not anything else. It’s to help you understand that you have a set of things you take for granted that other people don’t have, so that you can change the way you act.

tacit: Some thoughts on privilege: Look, it isn’t about your guilt. (via brutereason)

[hel-looks]

Jussi, 20

“I’m wearing a self-made leather vest, a vintage knit, my brother’s old jeans and shoes from Dinsko.

At the moment I like big pullovers, leather, studs and extraordinary prints. Givenchy is my favourite but anything can inspire me.”

16 November 2013, Aleksanterinkatu

[urbanplannerholic]

Real-Life Instagram Turns A City Into An Indictment Of Our Distracted Photo Culture

Artist Bruno Ribeiro thinks we spend too much time taking photos with our phones. So he created an analog version of Instagram and placed it near London landmarks. Surprise: people took out their phones to capture the moment.

Walking down certain London streets, you’ll run into “Real Life Instagram”: an analog version of the app made of cardboard and cellophane and stuck to a post or wall to frame an interesting view.

The artist behind the project, Bruno Ribeiro, explains that he was inspired to create it both as a tribute to Instagram and a reminder that it’s worthwhile to occasionally leave your phone in your pocket.

“I’m a huge fan of Instagram—both the app itself and also the way it changes our habits,” Ribiero says. “It brought photography to our daily life, not just when we’re on vacation. It made us more observant of details—things we haven’t seen before, and it made us learn more about photography in general.”

On the other hand, he says, Instagram is just another way that we stay tethered to our phones, and he wants to help push people to disconnect. “I’m from a pre-Internet generation,” he says. “I’m 35 years old—I’m kind of an old guy. I think the obsession with being connected 24/7 is kind of weird. I’ve been living abroad for a long time, so I see technology bringing people who are physically far away closer, but it’s simultaneously pushing people away from their own neighbors.”

The project, he hopes, will help people take a moment to notice things about the city. “I want to say, look at this amazing cathedral you’re missing because you’re checking your email,” Ribiero says. “But I also want to bring a little joy to people’s lives—it’s not that I want to be very serious and make a statement. I don’t want to preach. If people are commuting and see these on a lamppost or a wall, and they smile, for me, it works.”

[skysix-blog]

How Feminism Hurts Men

Yesterday somebody on Facebook told me that feminism elevates women at the expense of men, that its agenda to validate women emasculates us guys. He was right [...]

Because of feminism, all birth control is covered for women without question or debate, while men have to fight to get insurance companies to pay for their Viagra prescriptions. When men do speak up about this, leaders of the “family friendly” right wing labels them “sluts” and “whores”.

[skysix-blog]

The immorality of college admissions

Wealth is the overriding factor for college admissions, making a farce of institutions that boast of diversity [...]

Students whose parents pay tens of thousands for SAT tutors to help their child take the test over and over compete against students who struggle to pay the fee to take the test once. Students who spend afternoons on "enrichment" activities compete against students working service jobs to pay bills - jobs which don't "count" in the admissions process. Students who shell out for exotic volunteer trips abroad compete with students of what C Z Nnaemeka termed "the un-exotic underclass" - the poor who have "the misfortune of being insufficiently interesting", the poor who make up most of the US today.

[skysix-blog]

In response to "Is it O.K. to Kill Cyclists?" originally published in the New York Times:

 "Everybody's a little right?"  You should be starting to get a little bit uncomfortable at this point.  Drivers are "a little right" to be "furious at cyclists for clogging roads?"  Do me a favor: tonight, at the peak of the evening rush, please head out to the BQE or the LIE or the 405 or your favorite local clogged automotive artery and find me the cyclists who are responsible for that particular clusterfuck.  In fact, find me any situation (outside of annual charity rides or actual protests such as Critical Mass, which are statistically insignificant) in which cyclists are delaying motorists by more than a handful of seconds.  Even the hated Sunday group rides that cause suburban motorists to lose their shit because a bunch of Freds are taking up the road really don't cause them any appreciable delay.  All it means is that a driver has to go 20mph instead of 30mph for a minute or two--but of course every second counts when you're headed to the shopping center for those bagels [...]

It's impossible, and in fact downright stupid, to "obey the letter of the law" on your bicycle when you find yourself in a situation where the streets and the laws are designed specifically for cars, which describes most of the United States.  Moreover, it's gone way, way past the point where cyclists should need to prove to the very people who are fucking us (that's drivers and police officers) that we "deserve respect."  We deserve respect for being human, and it ends there.  Yet we're supposed to be good little boy scouts and girl scouts--even when it's more dangerous for us to do so--to prove we're deserving of not being killed?  That's just stupid and insulting.