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You can’t save someone  out of their own lives.

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Model  @jordanblake10 Photography  breannwhite 

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aperio series 1 announcement

aperio series 1 announcement

Welcome to a brand new series called aperio! aperiō (Latin)Pronunciation guide: /aˈpe.ri.oː/, [äˈpɛrioː](literally) to uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear(figuratively) to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aperio About this series The name aperio was chosen because we aim to explore music (and those who create it) from across the world. We hope…

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Watch John Oliver Fire a Salmon Cannon at Jon Stewart, Kelly Ripa and Homer Simpson

Watch John Oliver Fire a Salmon Cannon at Jon Stewart, Kelly Ripa and Homer Simpson

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I love you, selflessly. From afar, through tears, and in my loneliness.

N.M.Sanchez (via wnq-writers)

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Afropunk 2019. Step in your essence and know that you're excellent.

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I remember seeing them perform this live on my campus.. My jaw dropped within 10 seconds.

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High Fashion Baroque-Inspired Portraits of  Black Girls Encourage Them To Embrace Their Natural Hair

Photographic series called Afro Art celebrates the girls of color’s natural hair that they often fail to appreciate, falling prey to the stringent beauty standards of the world.

Black girls often hide their real hair behind wigs and extensions as the feel that they need to fit the mold of what it means to be beautiful. The entire concept of beauty, as defined by media, fails to incorporate diversity. And to push this thought process, dynamic couple, Regis and Kahran, a husband and wife, from Atlanta-based CreativeSoul Photo have teamed up. The duo depicted a series of portraits of young girls with elaborate hairstyles, drawing inspiration from the Baroque period.

Each of these bespoke compositions are a step towards body positivity, sending the message to little girls to flaunt the hair that they are born with. Because it is truly beautiful. These photos not only are appealing for their aesthetics but are considered phenomenal for standing as an example where the power of art is used to challenge the status quo.

View the photographs here to embrace the versatility of afro hair.

h/t:boredpanda

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Stunning Lamps Shaped as Potted Plants

San Francisco-based designer Mariana Fernandez Folberg has composed lamps shaped as beautiful plants.

Her deep love for nature, especially potted plants, is translated in all of her creations; her realistic plants, complete with intricate leaves and veins, glow in the dark, illuminating its surroundings in a soft, nuanced glow. As an industrial designer, Folberg has always been fascinated by the world of Botany, something that she admits herself; she handcrafts each of these unique lamps, each element on the sublime lamps placed to serve a particular function. Her lamp series can also be seen as a study of different plant species where Folberg uses LED lights in the veins and stems of the plants to give off a pale green glow, something that is both eerie and beautiful, all at once.

See her Etsy profile here!

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illustration for Keith Ape’s tokyo show flyer

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2016 in Self-portraits – shifting.

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@kingkesia x @juniorsealy Photographed by @kylebabb

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The Art of Ray Morimura

Ray Morimura is a graduate of Tokyo Gakugei University, where he studied oil painting. Originally his works were geometric-style abstractions. But later he was inspired by Shigeru Hatsuyama and Sumio Kawakami, and began to study woodblock techniques. Unlike most other Japanese woodblock printmakers, he uses oil-based inks to create these detailed images.

His technique is to carve both 6mm thick plywood blocks and 3mm thick blocks laminated with P-tile, a flooring material. The “linocut” process permits quite complex designs, which are printed on mulberry bark kozo paper. Essentially each color requires a separate block, and separate inking. Some blocks are printed with solid colors, while others include bokashi or a gradation of color. Of his work, Morimura says “printing demands total concentration as a single hair or dust can ruin a print. I usually clean my studio thoroughly and wait to begin the printing process until after midnight when it is quiet. With prints one can never be certain of the outcome until the final print is completed. There is always the unexpected, which makes it all the more intriguing. As with Zen and ink paintings, I hope something spiritual, in a contemporary sense, can be expressed in these landscape works.”

Learn more about Ray Morimura here.

See more ARCHy here.

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Pakistani couture is so slept on bc damnnn