The Art of Shell Cultivation

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Tue, 14 May 2013 22:54:16 -0400

angstblog: WELL.

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:50:58 -0400

angstblog:

WELL.

vegitall: “i’m a vegan, but you know i still LOVE my leather!” “i’m only going vegan because i...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:44:53 -0400

vegitall:

“i’m a vegan, but you know i still LOVE my leather!”

“i’m only going vegan because i want a beach body”

“i’m a vegetarian, i live a cruelty free life”

“I’M A DEMIVEGETARIAN!”

fer1972: Life is Endless by Nishinihon Tenrei

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:44:28 -0400

fer1972:

Life is Endless by Nishinihon Tenrei

fer1972: Contact1: An Extraterrestial City made of 200,000...

Thu, 09 May 2013 11:24:24 -0400

fer1972:

Contact1: An Extraterrestial City made of 200,000 LEGO Bricks by Mike Doyle

End of April 2013

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:19:00 -0400

I haven’t used cigarettes today, and yes. I would like a medal.

Thinking over this, I haven’t smoked in a few days, and I don’t have strong cravings really. Yawn.

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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:27:46 -0400

"You have my permission not to love me; I am a cathedral of deadbolts and I’d rather burn myself..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:15:52 -0400

“You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I’d rather burn myself down
than change the locks.”

- Rachel McKibbens, “Letter From My Brain To My Heart” (via themightierthor)

optomaisamurai: yum yum

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:37:29 -0400

optomaisamurai:

yum yum

" I need to eat meat for health reasons"

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:44:40 -0400

vegan-because-fuck-you:

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:31:55 -0400

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Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:23:28 -0400

"Protect your friends. You only have one hometown. If you think you’ve had a bad date, remember, it..."

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:29:30 -0500

“Protect your friends. You only have one hometown. If you think you’ve had a bad date, remember, it can always get worse. And it’s okay to eat breakfast for dinner.”

- Amy Poehler in New York Magazine on what she’s learned from Leslie Knope (via wheezy)

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:28:18 -0500

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:22:02 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia: Marina...

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:42:58 -0500

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Marina Bychkova.

http://enchanteddoll.com/

moregininteacups: VALENTINO SPRING 2012 COUTURE

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:57:05 -0500

moregininteacups:

VALENTINO SPRING 2012 COUTURE

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Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:30:51 -0500

malformalady: Arctic fox(Vulpes lagopus) with its meal Photo...

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:42:12 -0500

malformalady:

Arctic fox(Vulpes lagopus) with its meal

Photo credit: Inge Ground Land

raissacaselas: 14 year old Jean Rayner surrounded by young...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:12:32 -0500

raissacaselas:

14 year old Jean Rayner surrounded by young aspiring Teddy Boys on a bombsite, January 1955

Teddy Girls (Judies)

The original Teddy Girls, like the Teddy Boys started in London. These were a group of feisty young women who were set on creating an identity of their own. Their choice of clothes wasn’t only for aesthetic effect: these girls were collectively rejecting post-war austerity.

These were young working-class women, often from Irish immigrant families who had had settled in the poorer districts of London - Walthamstow, Poplar and North Kensington. They would typically leave school at 14 or 15, work in factories or offices.The Teddy girls would spent their free time buying or making their trademark clothes - pencil skirts, rolled-up jeans, flat shoes, tailored jackets with velvet collars, coolie hats and long, elegant clutch bags. It was head-turning, fastidious dressing, taken from the fashion houses of the time, which had launched haute-couture clothing lines recalling the Edwardian era. Soon the fashion had leapt across the class barrier, and young working-class men and women in London picked up the trend.

The Teddy Girls didn’t care that their outfits shocked their families, as long as they were noticed among their peers. One of the original Teddy Girls famously photographed by Ken Russell in 1955, Rose Shine (then Rose Hendon) comments:

“We got dressed up because it was always the Teddy Boys who got the look-in. We weren’t being noticed by them”.

Rose, a 66-year-old grandmother in 2006 and proud to have been one of the first teddy girls states:

“It was our fashion that we made up.”

These young, working-class women were the first generation of their social stratum and gender to express their financial independence and fashion acumen in such a forthright style. The settings of many of Ken Russell’s 1955 pictures show the down-at-heel and often bomb-blasted neighbourhoods they hailed from, and serve as a fascinating counterpoint to the Teddy Girls gusty grace and sartorial inventiveness.

(via edwardianteddyboyassociation )