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Texts From Superheroes

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This is from a scene in ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ Legit this movie is so underrated

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This movie isn’t even out yet and I’m already crying. Thanks Disney.

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Video: Little Girl Shows Off Her Adorable BB-8 Costume

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I could get used to a view like this! Yep, I’m used to it. Guys. I want a castle.

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Beauty And The Beast #2, February 1985, cover by Bill Sienkiewicz

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Texts From Superheroes

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Cat people, amiright?

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The 100 greatest drummers of all time.

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The Flower Guy aka Michael De Feo’s “The Fashion Pages.”

Opening April 8th, 2016 at The Garage in Amsterdam is artist Michael De Feo’s solo show, “The Fashion Pages.”

Best known in the street art movement as “The Flower Guy” for his iconic flower image, Michael De Feo has created unsanctioned works on the streets in over 60 cities from New York to Hong Kong over nearly 25 years. His most recent street projects are takeovers of fashion ads in NYC’s bus stop shelters. His current studio practice reflects his interest in the world of fashion by painting atop images he sources from magazines.  These works highlight the blurred line of illegal intervention and sponsored partnerships.

“The Fashion Pages” will be on display until through April 2016.  If you’re in Amsterdam don’t miss it.  

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The Powerful Honesty of Cuban Singer Alex Cuba

To hear of Alex’s music, check out @iamalexcuba on Instagram. For more music stories, head to @music.

“There’s a lot of power in simplicity.”

Such is the philosophy of Cuban-born, Canadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba (@iamalexcuba) –– though that hasn’t always been the case. “At the beginning, I wanted to bring windows down with my music,” he says. “I’ve realized that the other side is as powerful, if not more powerful.”

Alex learned to play music as a child in the town of Artemisa, about an hour north of Havana. His father was a guitar teacher at a cultural center across the street from their home. After school, Alex would spend afternoons listening to people play. He soon began recording on his own, infusing his work with poetry and messages of peace. His songs, which he sings mostly in Spanish but sometimes in English, often touch on the power of love and always portray his excitement about music as a medium.

“I write a song and I can’t wait; I just do a little clip and put it on social media,” he says, about the intimate solo videos he shares with fans. “I don’t like to feel any disconnection between the way that I give my art and music to people and how they see me.”

Alex recently brought that message of honesty and self-confidence to struggling songwriters in his home country, as part of an upcoming documentary The Cuban Bus. There he found Cuba in the midst of a transition, one he hopes will free his people from economic oppression. Now more than ever, Alex says, it’s important to encourage the country’s strong cultural traditions.

“One thing that you can see in musicians right away is that when we were asking them to play a song, they were playing what they thought we wanted to hear,” he says. “They go into this survival mode of catering for tourists or whatever, and I’m like, ‘No, no. Play me the song you hate of yours, the one you hate the most, the one you think is not a good one. I want to hear that one.’ And it was often the best one.”

Just as Cubans fight to keep their traditions alive, Alex is working to open doors for Spanish-speaking musicians in his current home of Canada, as well as the United States. He was recently honored as the only Latin artist to participate in Canada’s annual JUNO Songwriters’ Circle. He also just wrapped a North American tour and is about ready to get back in the studio, perhaps for an acoustic album — and more in the vein of his little clips.

“A lot of artists are afraid of [playing acoustic], because that is complete nakedness,” he says. “I know that I’m taking the road less traveled at this moment in time, but it’s rewarding. I feel complete, I feel aligned with my spirit and that is the most beautiful thing for a human being. It’s the only way to exist.”

––Kat Bein for Instagram @music

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Is men in beauty ads the next step for the makeup industry?

Recently Maybelline posted a photo of a beauty blogger on its Instagram - not uncommon. The difference: This blogger happened to be male. Manny Gutierrez joins a growing number of male beauty bloggers with a belief that makeup is ungendered. Will someone like Gutierrez join the likes of female models on makeup billboards? Mic decided to ask male beauty bloggers for their first-hand perspective.

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Whatever happened to utopian architecture?

The Tale of Tomorrow: Utopian Architecture in the Modernist Realm collects photos and commentary about the mid-century heyday of utopian architecture, from Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti to Bangladesh’s National Assembly Building.

An interview in Wired with editor Sofia Borges asks where the utopian architecture went, what it’s like to live in it now, and why we stopped building it:

https://boingboing.net/2016/03/31/whatever-happened-to-utopian-a.html