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[localstarboy]

I just starting bawling my eyes out

[afrojabi]

Slavery was a choice though right? 

[wakeupslaves]

[secretsunkept]

My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.

[darkmoonperfume]

Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.

[wildlyunlikelybabe]

My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.

[readytorunway]

Sung Hee at Dolce & Gabbana

Spring/Summer 2014

Look Number 30, Detail

[malepix]

[zenndaddy]

👑

[kaisketch]

I’ve been having bad days and drawing this helped me remember things.

I hope it helps you, too.

[tlatollotl]

Kneeling Female Figure

Date: 15th–early 16th century

Geography: Mexico, Mesoamerica

Culture: Aztec

Aztec sculptors used specific formal and aesthetic conventions to depict the human figure. Seated female figures are usually shown with their legs tucked under them, their feet turned inward so that in the back their toes are touching. Their hands rest on their knees. This sculpture depicts an elegant Aztec lady wearing a short, simple skirt fastened around the waist with a knotted belt worked in low relief. She wears no upper garment. Circular ornaments bedeck her ears. Her hair is wound about her head in two strands and held at the top. Her face has delicate rounded contours and is gently animated. The eyes and mouth are shown as recessed ovals which once contained inlays. Sculptures of females without any deity attributes are rare in Aztec art. It is possible that this figure was dressed on specific days of the ritual calendar in deity costumes made of cloth and/or other perishable materials.

The Met

[webcomicname]

[theolduvaigorge]

Dancing Goddesses

These are AWESOME.

(Source: Nina Paley)

[dappermouth]

dogs in the dark.

[enchantemoimerlin]

James Owen Mahoney (1907-1987)

“The Etruscans”

[jifewjfiojiowjwe-deactivated201]

[pocmemes]

Big mood

[lrnce]

LRNCE

Marrakech www.lrnce.com [email protected]

[localstarboy]

Visual representation of over thinking

[juliadorable-deactivated2020120]

Never in my life have I heard a more perfect and seamless use of Vivaldi.

[archaicwonder]

Greek Gold Bracelet with Agate Goat Terminals, 5th Cen. BC

[spandex-drives-me-wild]

[pet-and-dot]

Dot by dot, star by star…

[fiddleabout]

#what the fRESH HELL#

[animatingforfun]

Stop-Motion Moana

“We can rebuild her… We have the technology… We know the way!”

A few months ago I ripped apart a Moana doll and made it into a stop-motion puppet using a kinetic armature kit.  

The walk cycle above was the first thing I animated with this puppet, and was just a throw-away practice test with no green screen. I had never done a walk cycle in stop-motion before and soon discovered how difficult animating a straight-ahead cycle within a localized space with no retakes could be.

I showed the cycle to my dad while he was holding my Moana puppet in his hand and he seemed more impressed with this crappy test than the actual animation I did on the movie! I think the combination of him holding the puppet, and then seeing it come to life on the video before him was what blew him away. I guess that’s the appeal and magic of stop-motion. :)

Here’s a second test I animated for fun:

I read that it’s best to have the foot joints nice and tight to hold the weight of the puppet, and have the arms looser.  It’s amazing how much weight those toe and foot ball-joints could hold for the falling poses:

[mindfulwrath]

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