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Chips, Vodka and Sadness
I am like really terrible sometimes at being human.
I kind of want to walk around and just squawk at people like a peacock and hope they will accept my invitation of friendship.
YEAH WELL WE’VE STILL WON EUROVISION MORE THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY SO WHATEVER.
(Photos by my baby bro Matt, the deranged looking person in the tiger pyjamas is me)
A baby blackbird fell into our garden this morning!
He’s just a little bit too young to fly, his grownup plumage is coming in but he just can’t quite manage to get off the ground. He’s got a fair strong flap on him though!
He’s still trapped in our garden, his mother knows where he is and keeps visiting to feed him. He doesn’t appear to be injured and he’s pretty safe from cats cos our dog chases them off.
If anyone has any advice on how to help this little chap we’d appreciate it!
(Source: were-bear)
Dramatic Reading Of A Break-Up Letter
YOU MAKE ME TOUCH YOUR HANDS FOR STUPID REASONS
THIS WILL NEVER GET OLD.
(Source: adrians1)
Feral, stray, and pet cats are all members of the same species; they are all domestic cats. But stray cats and feral cats are also different from each other in a very important way—in their relationship to and interactions with people.
Whether you are a shelter worker, veterinarian, or feral cat advocate—or you just share your neighborhood with feral cats—knowing how to tell the difference can help inform how best to interact with a cat or what, if any, intervention would be in each cat’s best interest.
Some drawings from Villagers “Cecelia & Her Selfhood” music video directed and animated by Adrien Merigeau.
Some of Adrien’s amazing drawings from the music video I helped out a little with: https://vimeo.com/24116255
The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies
The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”
