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Jacksonstudios
I grew this potato.
Pictures of Kathrine Switzer running marathon five years before women were allowed to.
http://meme-rage.tumblr.com
npr:
One Monday two years ago, Bay Area poet Sonya Renee Taylor did something many people wouldn’t: She picked a photo of herself that she hated, and made it her Facebook profile picture. Taylor already had her hundreds of well-curated images on the Internet. And, before this move, she had been regularly combing her Facebook profile for unflattering images and untagging them.
But Taylor had also just launched a “positive body image community” called The Body Is Not an Apology, and had grown wary of the ways in which she upheld the same beauty standards that her new website was railing against. “I had this secret cyber world full of images of myself that I hated,” she recalls. “I realized the reason that I was so intent on making them disappear was because I had this idea that I should only be seen if I looked a certain way.”
via Ugly Is the New Pretty: How Unattractive Selfies Took Over the Internet - The Cut
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Do you untag unflattering images of yourself? — tanya b.
Leslie Oldaker | on Tumblr (UK/Switzerland)
A Sense of Purpose. Oil on canvas, 167x112cm (2011)
Connections. Oil on canvas, 167x112cm (2011)Lesley Oldaker explores the transient nature, purpose and interconnecting relationships of random moving figurative groupings and their interaction with the space around them. Expressing a personal response to co-occupying the space communicates a sense of displacement and a question of belonging and relevance within that space. The work originates from drawing, photographic and printing studies, which enables the abstraction of the essence of form, space and colour for the paintings. Initial washes of inks and acrylics create the sense of structure, negative space and perspective. Oil paint, the main medium, communicates more desirably the sense of continual movement and fluidity of the form within the work. Painterly mark making, limited colour pallet and a large canvas enhances the suggestion of mood and place, creating a more engaging visual experience and encourages the viewer to explore further, the form and space of the painting. Please visit artist’s website or follow her Tumblr for more work.
[more Leslie Oldaker | artist found at myampgoesto11]
(Source: artchipel, via fndartnaomi12)
This St. Patricks Day, don’t make any decisions you’ll regret.
