#Study of Movement

[bodyalive]

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Inhabiting Our Body

As we inhabit our body with increasing sensitivity, we learn its unspoken language and patterns, which gives us tremendous freedom to make choices. The practice of cutting thoughts and dispersing negative repetitive patterns can be simplified by attending to the patterns in the body first, before they begin to be spun around in the mind.

- Jill Satterfield, “Meditation in Motion” [Tricycle Daily Dharma]

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Pavel Odvody

Study of Movement

[heritageposts]

Ask an older generation of white South Africans when they first felt the bite of anti-apartheid sanctions, and some point to the moment in 1968 when their prime minister, BJ Vorster, banned a tour by the England cricket team because it included a mixed-race player, Basil D’Oliveira. After that, South Africa was excluded from international cricket until Nelson Mandela walked free from prison 22 years later. The D’Oliveira affair, as it became known, proved a watershed in drumming up popular support for the sporting boycott that eventually saw the country excluded from most international competition including rugby, the great passion of the white Afrikaners who were the base of the ruling Nationalist party and who bitterly resented being cast out. For others, the moment of reckoning came years later, in 1985 when foreign banks called in South Africa’s loans. It was a clear sign that the country’s economy was going to pay an ever higher price for apartheid. Neither of those events was decisive in bringing down South Africa’s regime. Far more credit lies with the black schoolchildren who took to the streets of Soweto in 1976 and kicked off years of unrest and civil disobedience that made the country increasingly ungovernable until changing global politics, and the collapse of communism, played its part. But the rise of the popular anti-apartheid boycott over nearly 30 years made its mark on South Africans who were increasingly confronted by a repudiation of their system. Ordinary Europeans pressured supermarkets to stop selling South African products. British students forced Barclays Bank to pull out of the apartheid state. The refusal of a Dublin shop worker to ring up a Cape grapefruit led to a strike and then a total ban on South African imports by the Irish government. By the mid-1980s, one in four Britons said they were boycotting South African goods – a testament to the reach of the anti-apartheid campaign. . . . The musicians union blocked South African artists from playing on the BBC, and the cultural boycott saw most performers refusing to play in the apartheid state, although some, including Elton John and Queen, infamously put on concerts at Sun City in the Bophuthatswana homeland. The US didn’t have the same sporting or cultural ties, and imported far fewer South African products, but the mobilisation against apartheid in universities, churches and through local coalitions in the 1980s was instrumental in forcing the hand of American politicians and big business in favour of financial sanctions and divestment. By the time President FW de Klerk was ready to release Mandela and negotiate an end to apartheid, a big selling point for part of the white population was an end to boycotts and isolation. Twenty-seven years after the end of white rule, some see the boycott campaign against South Africa as a guide to mobilising popular support against what is increasingly condemned as Israel’s own brand of apartheid.

. . . continues at the guardian (21 May, 2021)

[possessedpasm]

The (Temporary) Beat Revolution

[skeletorg]

study from the only video that matters this month. EVERYBODY MOVEMENT.

[nikoco11]

swooshy

jammin

[michygranger23]

"The Conjunx of the Wind"

A TFOne! MegOp painting inspired by the expressionist artwork "The Bride of the Wind" by Oskar Kokoschka. Reference under the cut!

[cut-aare]

Getting used to drawing her lol

[kesobun]

intj badeni

[essektheylyss]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Midst is a perfectly-paced show. I know the story arcs are largely outlined, but it is actually astounding how flawless the pacing is given the improv aspect. It's clearly created by people who understand on an intrinsic level when and how plot points need to land in order for it to flow smoothly. Absolute chef's kiss, infinity/10, perfect pacing, no notes because I am in fact taking notes.

[spinjitsuburst]

since @icy-watch has finished seabound (my condolences btw a heartbreaking season finale to get through) I feel I should remind us all of one of the BEST FIGHT SCENES IN NINJAGO

[gammagoop]

buttercups aka 60s psychedelic band aka docm torture group

drawing these 3 is basically an infinite clout glitch but i promise i do it because i love it

[fragrantblossoms]

Wilhelm Pfeffer Pflanzenbewegungen-Study of plant movements 1898 - 1900

[dawnbreakersgaze]

Guys I was playing the event stories again one last time before they went away forever and I just noticed the sweetest fucking thing ever

When you first walk up to Zayne and catch him on his phone, look at his face. He goes from his normal neutral expression to the softest little smile when he realizes it's you/mc walking up to him 🥺🥺🥺

He even straightens himself up a little taller when he sees you i'm dying send help 😩

I'm gonna squish him 🥲

[tsutsumi-kurose]

nene and tsukasa staying very still and quiet staring at hanako openly letting the other one love him and loving them in return

[lucky-clover-gazette]

random thought on a wednesday but i really wish people talked more about why people loved the harry potter series so much

[pan-matsuri]

On anti-ai discourse, I saw something happen on Pixiv. An artist, new to the site, published their art for the first time. A random commenter asked if their work was AI. The artist replied it was not, and then the commenter replied TWO DOZEN TIMES with their demands for proof, claiming that the art was too good for a new artist to post. The artist, bless them, did reply at least once with further explanation, but it was simply not enough for this person. The thing is, it's difficult both to prove and to disprove whether something is AI generated, so at some point we have to trust the artist.

tl;dr Being anti-ai cannot be an excuse to harass artists. It's okay to question things, but in the end we should be acting in a way that supports creators.