tour de franzia champion.

my heart is ugly. but it could be all yours.

[the59thstreetbridge]

Untitled #230 by the59thstreetbridge

[nicolejanelle]

adorable

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If someone had said to me when I started directing 20 years ago that in 2014 we would still be talking about the lack of employment of women directors, I would have said that’s impossible. Sadly, the stats are essentially the same as they were in 1994: In TV, women directors represent 14% and in film a meager 9%. Films schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren’t being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts. Directing isn’t an easy road for anyone. But it’s also not an equal playing field. We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman. Here are a few common excuses: “We hired a woman director once and it didn’t work out, so we won’t hire another one.” Can you imagine someone saying: “We hired a male director once and it didn’t work out, so no more men”? If a woman succeeds, another will be allowed into the club. If not, the whole gender is somehow held responsible. And there’s this one: “Women can’t direct action.” What? Gender has nothing to do with the ability to blow up a truck or stage a fight or a car chase! That’s as ridiculous as saying men can’t direct scenes with character or emotion. And this one: “We wanted to hire a woman director, but you and a handful of constantly working women directors weren’t available and there aren’t any others.” That might be the lamest excuse of all and a great way to look like you tried when you actually didn’t.

Lesli Linka Glatter, "What Happens to All These Women After They Direct Their First Film?"

(via cinematicfantastic)

[3dbabyfromallymcbeal]

"Beard culture guys who are obsessed with Aubrey Plaza" THIS IS SUCH A SUCCINCT DESCRIPTION OF A VERY REAL TYPE OF DUDE THST I HATE

Tim. 25. Girls, microbrew, and bacon. *that lingerie photoshoot of the actresses on community* *selfie wearing a beanie making that awful jim halpert face*

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My new new

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[sometimesfriendsaremean-blog]

Taylor Swift is an awful human but her songs are fire.

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[littlegoythings]

I hope people realize that Jewish institutions are attacked in France on average 1 to 2 times a week.

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Utah is ending homelessness by giving people an apartment or home.

Earlier this month, Hawaii State representative Tom Bower (D) began walking the streets of his Waikiki district with a sledgehammer, and smashing shopping carts used by homeless people. “Disgusted” by the city’s chronic homelessness problem, Bower decided to take matters into his own hands — literally. He also took to rousing homeless people if he saw them sleeping at bus stops during the day.

Bower’s tactics were over the top, and so unpopular that he quickly declared “Mission accomplished,” and retired his sledgehammer. But Bower’s frustration with his city’s homelessness problem is just an extreme example of the frustration that has led cities to pass measures that effective deal with the homeless by criminalizing homelessness.

City council members in Columbia, South Carolina, concerned that the city was becoming a “magnet for homeless people,” passed an ordinance giving the homeless the option to either relocate or get arrested. The council later rescinded the ordinance, after backlash from police officers, city workers, and advocates.

Last year, Tampa, Florida — which had the most homeless people for a mid-sized city — passed an ordinance allowing police officers to arrest anyone they saw sleeping in public, or “storing personal property in public.” The city followed up with a ban on panhandling downtown, and other locations around the city.

Philadelphia took a somewhat different approach, with a law banning the feeding of homeless people on city parkland. Religious groups objected to the ban, and announced that they would not obey it.

Raleigh, North Carolina took the step of asking religious groups to stop their longstanding practice of feeding the homeless in a downtown park on weekends. Religious leaders announced that they would risk arrest rather than stop.

This trend makes Utah’s accomplishment even more noteworthy. In eight years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 percent, and is on track to end homelessness by 2015.

How did Utah accomplish this? Simple. Utah solved homelessness by giving people homes. In 2005, Utah figured out that the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail says for homeless people was about $16,670 per person, compared to $11,000 to provide each homeless person with an apartment and a social worker. So, the state began giving away apartments, with no strings attached. Each participant in Utah’s Housing First program also gets a caseworker to help them become self-sufficient, but the keep the apartment even if they fail. The program has been so successful that other states are hoping to achieve similar results with programs modeled on Utah’s.

[himsbian]

my tru aesthetic is “wears mostly black and imagines they’re hard and tough but stutters when socializing and is seconds away from crying at any given moment”

[popculturediedin2009]

A page from Anna Nicole Smith’s diary, 1992

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[seinfeld]

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