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visual-poetry:

“try a little tenderness as painful as it seems” by ben skinner

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Either terrribly sweet or sad.
lovingthelifeilive:

This.

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fromonesurvivortoanother:

“Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable” —Cesar A. Cruz

"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

- Roland Barthes

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seanpadilla:

fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

Tarika Wilson, the 26-year old unarmed, bi-racial mother of six who was fatally shot by police officers during a raid-gone-wrong in early January of 2008.
She was likely on her knees and complying with a SWAT team’s orders to get down when she was hit in the neck and chest, two experts testified.
A forensic pathologist and firearms expert each said that bullet wounds indicate that Tarika Wilson wasn’t standing or struggling with officers.
She was holding her 1-year-old son on her knees when she was shot. The boy also was hit and had a finger amputated.
This tragedy set off protests and debate about race relations in the city (LIMA, Ohio), where one in four residents are black.

It saddens me that this is the first time I’ve seen her name in print.

devidsketchbook:

Graphic Designer & Illustrator | Neil Brian - Splash!

A simple project study on the creation of tonal values on a black & white medium. Pencils and ink used.

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"Everything surrounding, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings and if the photographer has a bit of sense in his head maybe he is able to capture some of this — and I suppose that’s lyricism."

- Josef Sudek

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Self portrait by Rosa Rolando. #surrealism

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theoddmentemporium:

The Mother of Modern-Day Genetics: Henrietta Lacks. Lived: 1920-1951
When tobacco farmer Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed with cervical cancer at the age of 30 in 1951, all she wanted to do was get better. Sadly, after eight months of radiation and surgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Lacks and her tumor-riddled body lost the battle with the disease.
However, unbeknownst to her and her family, her cells lived on — right up until today. Known as HeLa cells (a combo of the first two letters of her first and last name), they have been multiplying since the sample was (secretly) taken from one of Lacks’ tumors and sent to Dr. George Gey’s tissue-culture research lab back in the 1950s. Not only did Lacks’ cells help scientists test the polio vaccine, HeLa cells were also sent into space.
Unfortunately, Lacks’ family didn’t find out about the grand experiment till the early 1970s when a researcher from Johns Hopkins called them. But now Rebecca Skloot’s recently released “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” will ensure history knows the unprecedented role Lacks played — and how her body revolutionized modern science.

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Copacabana beach. My version jred style #RIO

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lovingthelifeilive:

imbicoastal : Lady Spins the Blues by R. Stevenson

"Writing cannot express words fully; words cannot express thoughts fully."

- The Book of Changes, c. 350 BC (via laphamsquarterly)

(via infoneer-pulse)

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