shananaomi: “I really, honestly think that anybody who is openly gay and visible is powerful. It doesn’t matter what you do, you are impacting people.” —Portia de Rossi in OUT’s May 2013 issue. In my new cover story with Portia de Rossi, she talks about taking the plunge into producing, happy home life with Ellen and how she feels about having the gayest TV husband ever on Arrested Development. Read it here. View high resolution

shananaomi:

“I really, honestly think that anybody who is openly gay and visible is powerful. It doesn’t matter what you do, you are impacting people.”

—Portia de Rossi in OUT’s May 2013 issue.

In my new cover story with Portia de Rossi, she talks about taking the plunge into producing, happy home life with Ellen and how she feels about having the gayest TV husband ever on Arrested Development.

Read it here.

(Reblogged from lizlet)
maddieonthings: Party Nose View high resolution

maddieonthings:

Party Nose

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explodingdog: My Favorite Songs View high resolution

explodingdog:

My Favorite Songs

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doctorswithoutborders: Photo: The raining season may close off vehicle access to roads, but MSF staff will find the means to reach their patients in need. DRC 2013 © MSF

doctorswithoutborders:

Photo: The raining season may close off vehicle access to roads, but MSF staff will find the means to reach their patients in need. DRC 2013 © MSF

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futurejournalismproject: Remembering Rwanda Via Pieter Hugo: In 2004, most of the photojournalists I knew were heading to South Africa to cover that country’s decade of democracy celebrations. Following a succession of terrible events – widespread famine, Somalia’s endless civil war, the scourge of Aids and finally the genocide in Rwanda, which led to the war in former Zaire – people were desperate to tell positive stories from Africa. Publications and academics demanded it, claiming that it was irresponsible to continue depicting Africa as a continent tethered to war, famine and disaster. Yet, not engaging with the complexities of Rwanda seemed thoughtless to me. As I still worked primarily as a photojournalist at the time, I tried petitioning every foreign publication I knew to send me to Rwanda. None obliged, so I decided to go on my own and stayed there for a few months photographing and contemplating these sites. Rwanda did eventually rebury its dead ceremoniously in 2004. After President Paul Kagame stated that France ‘knowingly trained and armed the government soldiers and militias who were going to commit genocide and they knew they were going to commit genocide’, the French junior foreign minister, Renaud Muselier, cut his trip short. These photographs offer a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place, and a very limited forensic view of a few of the genocide sites. At many of the places there is nothing happening and historical knowledge is needed to support the images; through the stillness the atrocity continues to resonate. At some of the sites human remains and the personal effects of the dead are still present. I hope these images in some small way bear testament to the personal anguish of these individuals. April 7 was the United Nations’ Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide. Human rights organizations estimate that 800,000 people were killed within a one hundred day period. Image: Bodies Covered in Lime, Murambi, by Pieter Hugo.

futurejournalismproject:

Remembering Rwanda

Via Pieter Hugo:

In 2004, most of the photojournalists I knew were heading to South Africa to cover that country’s decade of democracy celebrations. Following a succession of terrible events – widespread famine, Somalia’s endless civil war, the scourge of Aids and finally the genocide in Rwanda, which led to the war in former Zaire – people were desperate to tell positive stories from Africa. Publications and academics demanded it, claiming that it was irresponsible to continue depicting Africa as a continent tethered to war, famine and disaster. Yet, not engaging with the complexities of Rwanda seemed thoughtless to me.

As I still worked primarily as a photojournalist at the time, I tried petitioning every foreign publication I knew to send me to Rwanda. None obliged, so I decided to go on my own and stayed there for a few months photographing and contemplating these sites.

Rwanda did eventually rebury its dead ceremoniously in 2004. After President Paul Kagame stated that France ‘knowingly trained and armed the government soldiers and militias who were going to commit genocide and they knew they were going to commit genocide’, the French junior foreign minister, Renaud Muselier, cut his trip short.

These photographs offer a glimpse of what I saw there before the reburials took place, and a very limited forensic view of a few of the genocide sites. At many of the places there is nothing happening and historical knowledge is needed to support the images; through the stillness the atrocity continues to resonate. At some of the sites human remains and the personal effects of the dead are still present. I hope these images in some small way bear testament to the personal anguish of these individuals.

April 7 was the United Nations’ Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide. Human rights organizations estimate that 800,000 people were killed within a one hundred day period.

Image: Bodies Covered in Lime, Murambi, by Pieter Hugo.

(Reblogged from futurejournalismproject)
hipsterfood: Over the winter I’ve been falling in love with sour foods. Citrus are the easiest to identify: lemons, limes, grapefruit - but also cranberries, vinegars, and fermented and pickled foods. I’ve always eaten too much sugar and soda, so when I wanted to stop consuming (at times) 10 or 20 times the recommended amount of sugar every day, I went sour. What I found wasn’t unpleasant, as you would normally think these foods are, it was a whole new sense that I had never explored, and I’m so glad I did. Read More View high resolution

hipsterfood:

Over the winter I’ve been falling in love with sour foods. Citrus are the easiest to identify: lemons, limes, grapefruit - but also cranberries, vinegars, and fermented and pickled foods. I’ve always eaten too much sugar and soda, so when I wanted to stop consuming (at times) 10 or 20 times the recommended amount of sugar every day, I went sour. What I found wasn’t unpleasant, as you would normally think these foods are, it was a whole new sense that I had never explored, and I’m so glad I did.

Read More

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nprfreshair:

From the family vault of our executive producer, Danny Miller:

Today on the show, we’re rebroadcasting Dave Davies’s interview with Frank Langella about Langella’s role in the 2012 movie Robot & Frank. That, combined with the chatter about “botnets” in the massive denial of service cyber-attacks this week got me thinking about Botro. Botro was an imaginary robot character that my dad invented when we were kids. My father, Joe Miller, was an architect very much in the modern tradition. When one of us were sick, or sometimes for our birthdays, Botro would show up in a drawing flashing a message on his belly screen. Botro really hit his stride when the grandkids Eitan, Marie and Karen arrived on the scene.

And speaking of Botros - or Robots – there’s this gem from The Flight of the Conchords.

 

(Reblogged from nprfreshair)

motherjones:

jhermann:

archiemcphee:

Yago Partal, a graphic artist based in Barcelona, has created an awesome photo series entitled Zoo Portraits, depicting a wide variety of animals who all share two things in common: they like dressing up in stylish clothing and posing for fashion portraits.

There are lots of different animals in the series and you can purchase prints of the photos via Yago’s online shop. We love each and every one of them.

[via HiConsumption]

menswear dog is crying alone somewhere right now

Yup.

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meganwest: brucesterling: Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab: From a Wired interview: http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/resiliency-risk-and-a-good-compass-how-to-survive-the-coming-chaos/ Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this: 1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure. 2. You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them. 3. You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety. 4. You want to focus on the system instead of objects. 5. You want to have good compasses not maps. 6. You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it. 7. It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience. 8. It’s the crowd instead of experts. 9. It’s a focus on learning instead of education. We’re still working on it, but that is where our thinking is headed. Needed this today. 

meganwest:

brucesterling:

Joi Ito of MIT Media Lab:

From a Wired interview:

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/06/resiliency-risk-and-a-good-compass-how-to-survive-the-coming-chaos/

Ito: There are nine or so principles to work in a world like this:

1. Resilience instead of strength, which means you want to yield and allow failure and you bounce back instead of trying to resist failure.

2. You pull instead of push. That means you pull the resources from the network as you need them, as opposed to centrally stocking them and controlling them.

3. You want to take risk instead of focusing on safety.

4. You want to focus on the system instead of objects.

5. You want to have good compasses not maps.

6. You want to work on practice instead of theory. Because sometimes you don’t why it works, but what is important is that it is working, not that you have some theory around it.

7. It disobedience instead of compliance. You don’t get a Nobel Prize for doing what you are told. Too much of school is about obedience, we should really be celebrating disobedience.

8. It’s the crowd instead of experts.

9. It’s a focus on learning instead of education.

We’re still working on it, but that is where our thinking is headed.

Needed this today. 

(Reblogged from meganwest)

Big changes ahead.

I’ve been rather quiet because I’ve been busy and haven’t really had the energy for Tumblr. Not sure when this will change and I’ll go back to posting regularly, but I’m around and just busy.

In April I’m leaving NYC and moving to San Francisco for a new job. My boyfriend recently started a job out in the bay area, which was a major part of the incentive to move. I’m not done with school yet, but I’m arranging things so I can finish up remotely.

It’s scary and exciting. I love San Francisco, but it’s definitely different than New York. There are a lot of things I’ll miss about NYC. Honestly, I don’t think I’m done with this city yet and won’t be surprised if I end up back here in the future.