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Fri, 24 May 2013 09:26:57 +0100

10 Signs That They Are “The One”

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:26:44 +0100

You might reeeeeally like you boyfriend or girlfriend but how do you know if it’s more than that? Here are some clues to tell if they are “the one”?

1.    You still get excited to see them. Even if you’ve been together for a long time, if you still get butterflies or excited at the thought of seeing them, it’s safe to say that you have something special.

2.    You picture them when you think of your future. Everyone daydreams of their future life – maybe your wedding, your dream home, kids or travel. Do you picture a generic face along with you or do you picture your boyfriend/girlfriend when you imagine your future? If they have already become part of your future there could be a real possibility that they’ll actually be part of it.

3.    You don’t have to be perfect around them. And they don’t have to be perfect around you and it’s ok. Sure, you want to impress them, but you can also be yourself and let your guard down. Being comfortable enough to do this and still like each other is a sign that you have a close connection.

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darwinmagazine: DAY 22 - Steve Jewitt Running on Fumes “This...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:23:51 +0100

darwinmagazine:

DAY 22 - Steve Jewitt

Running on Fumes

“This is a personal project in which I hope to demonstrate my perception during the last few months of an addiction to opiates and heroin.

It was important to me to convey this experience from a conceptual level as opposed to the hard-hitting reaction grabbing pictures that are usually made on the subject of addiction. I wanted to focus on how it feels to be in this kind of situation rather than what it necessarily looks like.

I would like to say at this point that I have no distain for works such as Cocaine True Cocaine Blue by Eugene Richards or much of the work by Gareth McConnell. Rather they are two artists that have influenced me greatly and continue to do so. Eugene Richards in particular appears to move easily along the documentary to conceptual scale (if such a thing exists) and Gareth McDonnell approaches the conceptual in a fascinating way that I hope is reflected in my own work.

But I would like to explore this subject from a different angle. For such a broad topic as that of addiction, I think it requires many projects to even begin to represent the subject as a whole – or at least as close as photography can ever truly come. As such I have tried to be precise in what this project in particular represents.

It has been my aim in this collection of work to reflect the mood and emotion of the individual addict and how the details of their environment can come to represent the experience of addiction itself. I will play with metaphor throughout the work as a way of communicating this with the viewer. Some of the images I have created, for example, are evocative of heroin itself and represent triggers in the environment for its user.

I used a digital camera as a means to capture a large number of images and because of the convenience of development that it enables me. When the work is finished, I intend for the project to be displayed on A0 prints in triptych style in the gallery.

I have sequenced the images in order to blend the chaotic with the mundane – both of which are staples in the life of a heroin addict. I have also included some softer pictures to represent the sedative almost trance like state that an addict regularly finds themselves in. These are also a reminder of the never-ending search and struggle for peace and beauty experienced by each junkie.

My hope, in summary, is that this work begins to show some of the emotions that the user can go through and the emotional wilderness that they often find themselves in. I have shown it as the user sees it – a perception of the world in which they are a few more inches back into their mind than the average person, always unable to take hold of what is immediately in front of them. In essence I have tried to show a distant view of reality.” - JEWITT

DARWIN MAGAZINE

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Wed, 22 May 2013 12:11:29 +0100

thekhooll: Antarctic landscapes In stark contrast to the harsh...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:25:55 +0100

thekhooll:

Antarctic landscapes

In stark contrast to the harsh reality of surviving Antartic is its striking natural beauty. In among all that freezing white are beautiful textures and strange natural patterns that seem to mask the underlying danger. By Lars Focke

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Wed, 22 May 2013 11:25:04 +0100

nature-loves-all: seafarers: Scotland by Ian Cameron The...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:43:42 +0100

nature-loves-all:

seafarers:

Scotland by Ian Cameron

The second picture, beyond amazing

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:42:32 +0100

about to go for a run and all i’m thinking about is how much food i’m gonna eat when i...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:42:17 +0100

about to go for a run and all i’m thinking about is how much food i’m gonna eat when i get back

hippieseurope: ☮❤☮❤

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:40:19 +0100

hippieseurope:

☮❤☮❤

villenoire: ndcpalmer: some-bitch-just: nemomeimpune-lacessit:...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:37:17 +0100

villenoire:

ndcpalmer:

some-bitch-just:

nemomeimpune-lacessit:

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.”

http://thenuproject.com/

this is gorgeous.

perfect

Beautiful.

ikenbot: I agree :)

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:35:45 +0100

ikenbot:

I agree :)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 00:41:59 +0100

bootchartanddesign: The Life and Death of Alastair Ballack:...

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:40:49 +0100

bootchartanddesign:

The Life and Death of Alastair Ballack: Part 1

Part 1 of the 3 exhibitions. This one is entitled ‘Here Lies Buried..

This was my first ever exhibition and was great to get my work on the walls of a gallery; the whole exhibition will be in three parts, over three different months and in three different venues. Each will be unique and tell more about Alastair Ballack and his story.

Beautiful.