Fiat Nox

"Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old...."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:12:01 -0700

“Let the record show that you can be a United States senator for 21 years. You can be 79 years old. You can be the chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and one of the most recognizable and widely-respected veteran public servants in your nation. But if you are female while all of those things, men who you defeat in arguments will still respond to you by calling you hysterical and telling you to calm down. They’ll patronize you and say they admire your passion, ‘sweetie,’ but they deal in facts, not your silly, girly feelings. It’s inescapable. You can set your watch by it.”

- Rachel Maddow on the showdown on the Hill Thursday between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Sen. Ted Cruz

This was from the start of her show, and the video is about 18 minutes long, but it’s really worth watching. Really.

(via traciglee)

That time when Rachel Maddow outlined perfectly the reality of institutionalized sexism and male privilege.

(via liberalbutnotpartisan)

rightspecs: harperperennial: kateoplis: Huxley vs. Orwell Oh...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:06:49 -0700

rightspecs:

harperperennial:

kateoplis:

Huxley vs. Orwell

Oh crap.

this this this this this

Zorita. <3

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:51:00 -0700

Zorita. <3

clintcatalyst: “ In 1906 The Journal of the English Folk Song...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:12:54 -0700

clintcatalyst:

“ In 1906 The Journal of the English Folk Song Society published a piece on the old English ballad ‘Death and the Lady.’ Some enterprising female entertainer encountered the article and realized the story might be used as a great vaudeville piece about the evils of card play and alcohol. Touring performers were always searching for material that would play well in the sticks. The city folks would enjoy the Grand Guignol staging, the traditional song, and the vocal technique.

Here Joseph Hall, the Brooklyn born photographer who had made a career on baseball pictures and theatrical production stills, captured the sequence of the action, providing a peculiarly detailed—and rare view—of the progress of a single vaudeville performance. ”

[ Text : David Shields ]

larkfall: Cosmological diagram, sign of the days of the week...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:09:08 -0700

larkfall:

Cosmological diagram, sign of the days of the week and talismans against demons from L.A. Waddell’s The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism (1895).

atthelamppost: hotdamnitsbam: I like these more than the Annie...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:17:05 -0700

atthelamppost:

hotdamnitsbam:

I like these more than the Annie Lebowitz (sp?) set. <3

I agree. I think because they’re not as smooth.

LOVE!

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:28:41 -0700

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.

Just keep going. No feeling is final.

kathudsonart: Disney Beastly Family Did these over a period of...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:26:48 -0700

kathudsonart:

Disney Beastly Family

Did these over a period of about 4 years

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:17:18 -0700

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the-fast-and-the-fluffiest: queenabaddon: imperial-bubble: what if you scrolled past one of those...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 09:58:11 -0700

the-fast-and-the-fluffiest:

queenabaddon:

imperial-bubble:

what if you scrolled past one of those posts that said “like if you love god, scroll down if you love satan” and then a day later you get a call and you pick up the phone and a gruff voice on the other end goes “i heard that you loved me and i just want to say that no one has ever loved me before” and then you guys go on a date and eventually get married and you become queen of hell.

a dream come true

Someone draw this

Yes, I lol’d.

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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:28:26 -0700

charlesholbert: Rock Star Wonder Woman

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:08:43 -0700

charlesholbert:

Rock Star Wonder Woman

=(

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:30:53 -0700

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys'

Wed, 29 May 2013 15:14:05 -0700

The Problem with 'Boys Will Be Boys':

For months, every morning when my daughter was in preschool, I watched her construct an elaborate castle out of blocks, colorful plastic discs, bits of rope, ribbons and feathers, only to have the same little boy gleefully destroy it within seconds of its completion.

No matter how many times he did it, his parents never swooped in BEFORE the morning’s live 3-D reenactment of “Invasion of AstroMonster.” This is what they’d say repeatedly:

“You know! Boys will be boys!”

“He’s just going through a phase!”

“He’s such a boy! He LOVES destroying things!”

“Oh my god! Girls and boys are SO different!”

“He. Just. Can’t. Help himself!”

I tried to teach my daughter how to stop this from happening. She asked him politely not to do it. We talked about some things she might do. She moved where she built. She stood in his way. She built a stronger foundation to the castle, so that, if he did get to it, she wouldn’t have to rebuild the whole thing. In the meantime, I imagine his parents thinking, “What red-blooded boy wouldn’t knock it down?”

She built a beautiful, glittery castle in a public space.

It was so tempting.

He just couldn’t control himself and, being a boy, had violent inclinations.

She had to keep her building safe.

Her consent didn’t matter. Besides, it’s not like she made a big fuss when he knocked it down. It wasn’t a “legitimate” knocking over if she didn’t throw a tantrum.

His desire — for power, destruction, control, whatever- - was understandable.

Maybe she “shouldn’t have gone to preschool” at all. OR, better if she just kept her building activities to home.

I know it’s a lurid metaphor, but I taught my daughter the preschool block precursor of don’t “get raped” and this child, Boy #1, did not learn the preschool equivalent of “don’t rape.”

Not once did his parents talk to him about invading another person’s space and claiming for his own purposes something that was not his to claim. Respect for her and her work and words was not something he was learning. How much of the boy’s behavior in coming years would be excused in these ways, be calibrated to meet these expectations and enforce the “rules” his parents kept repeating?

There was another boy who, similarly, decided to knock down her castle one day. When he did it his mother took him in hand, explained to him that it was not his to destroy, asked him how he thought my daughter felt after working so hard on her building and walked over with him so he could apologize. That probably wasn’t much fun for him, but he did not do it again.

There was a third child. He was really smart. He asked if he could knock her building down. She, beneficent ruler of all pre-circle-time castle construction, said yes… but only after she was done building it and said it was OK. They worked out a plan together and eventually he started building things with her and they would both knock the thing down with unadulterated joy. You can’t make this stuff up.

Take each of these three boys and consider what he might do when he’s older, say, at college, drunk at a party, mad at an ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him and uses words that she expects will be meaningful and respecte, “No, I don’t want to. Stop. Leave.”

The “overarching attitudinal characteristic” of abusive men is entitlement.

agameofclothes: What Dacey Mormont would wear, UK Bazaar I...

Wed, 29 May 2013 13:40:31 -0700

agameofclothes:

What Dacey Mormont would wear, UK Bazaar

I love this. So, so much.

blackphoenixalchemylab: We are thrilled to be a part of Century...

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:54:28 -0700

blackphoenixalchemylab:

We are thrilled to be a part of Century Guild’s kickstarter project - Century Guild Magazine 2013: from Klimt to The Great Gatsby.

THE SCENT! —

PURSUE RABBIT
Inspired by one of Gail Potocki’s extraordinary interpretations of the Cheshire Cat, and created exclusively for Century Guild! An enigmatic blend of vanilla-infused sandalwood with wild black tobacco, white tea leaf, matcha, white musk, orange blossom, pale incense, and opium tar.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/337503446/century-guild-magazine-2013-from-klimt-to-the-grea/posts/484614

The oil is limited to fifty bottles, all emblazoned with Gail Potocki’s artwork, and is available in three packages: $26 for the oil alone, $47 for a package including the magazine, and $99 for a special package with the oil, the magazine, and a signed and numbered print of Gail’s Cheshire Cat!

Even if you don’t choose to purchase the oil packages, please consider supporting this project! Century Guild is an incredible salon, Gail is a phenomenal artist, and Tom, Chandra, and Melissa are three of our favorite people!

Visit Century Guild!
6150 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232

STAWP.

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:16:07 -0700

STAWP.

Bofur, Bombur and Bifur

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:14:49 -0700

Bofur, Bombur and Bifur

oftheforest: grimsperation: Michele Caragher Embroidered...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:14:07 -0700

oftheforest:

grimsperation:

Michele Caragher

Embroidered details in Game of Thrones

‘Michele Carragher is a London-based Hand Embroiderer and Illustrator who has been working in costume on film and television productions for over 15 years. She studied Fashion Design at The London College of Fashion, where the course incorporated design, pattern cutting, garment construction, embroidery, millinery and illustration. At the same time she attended a three year evening course in Saddlery at Cordwainers College learning skills in leatherwork.

After leaving college Michele worked in Textile Conservation, repairing and restoring historical textiles for private collectors and museums, specialising in hand embroidery. She then moved into a career in costume for film and television, initially working as a Costume Assistant/Maker on productions such as the BBC’s Our Mutual Friend, ITV’s David Copperfield and Mansfield Park. She soon gravitated towards the decoration and embellishment of costumes, using skills in hand embroidery and surface decoration, taking inspiration from the many historical textiles she had encountered working as a Textile Conservator.

The first production that saw her undertake the role of a Principal Costume Embroiderer was for HBO’s 2005 Emmy Costume award-winning production of Elizabeth 1. Her most recent work has been on HBO’s 2012 Costume award-winning television series Game of Thrones, working on all three seasons.

As a Costume Embroiderer Michele specialises in hand embroidery and surface embellishment, using traditional hand embroidery techniques, smocking, beading and surface decoration. She works directly onto the completed garment or starts with motifs and textures on silk crepeline/organza, which are applied to the costume and then worked into once on the actual garment. She also works on existing machine embroidery designs that are not too dense, adding some hand stitching and beading to give a more authentic, hand-finished look.

Michele finds hand embroidery has more flexibility and diversity than that of embroidery created by machine, as there is a greater variety of thread choice and colours to use. It is also possible to work more easily on garments that are already constructed. However, machine embroidery in combination with hand work can be very useful when completing many repeats by creating light outlines or a less dense machine stitch, work can then be completed by hand and again can be carried out on a finished garment.

Michele is a highly creative Costume Embroiderer, producing original designs as well as working closely to a costume designer’s brief to create their desired look.’

Text and images from http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com

God, that embroidery is so gorgeous! I had no idea that third dress was so detailed after seeing it on the show… Amazing work.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 09:04:17 -0700