Embrace the Fro
For the girls who have never been kissed
So recently I was at a club with my friends and it's no secret among us that I have never been kissed. I've never shared an intimate relationship with anyone and growing up I always told myself that I shouldn't worry, my time would come. I'm 21 years old now and I'm slightly worried. Am I not attractive? Am I not desirable? Those were always my thoughts. But I was recently given the opportunity to tick this experience off my bucket list. To put the yearning for an experience that I felt I needed to validate my attractiveness behind me.
But something happened that night. As the guy and I danced and I felt him lean into me and bring his face closer to mine, as he entered my personal space and tightened his grip on me, I froze and pulled away. I couldn't do it. It was like there was something in me, some sense of self-preservation or maybe it was fear! All I know is after my yearning to be desired in that way I still couldn't commit.
After this experience I've asked myself why? What made me decline? My answers always stem back to maybe it's a consequence of my upbringing. Never seeing my parents express love physically to each other. No hand holding, no shy secreted kisses between them. It would be easy to put all the blame at their feet but I feel that that isn't the full cause of the problem. I've reflected on it and believe truly in my heart that I may want to be that girl, nonchalant, knowledgeable and free with her intimate relationships. But honestly I am not that girl. I realise that I do not want lips out of context. I don't want to give up myself that easily. Am I wrong to think that way? I don't judge anyone else who enjoys and seeks those moments that I yearn for with strangers, lovers and friends in dark nightclubs and secluded corners. I just think I should afford myself the courtesy to not have to hold myself to that way of living but find my own.
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Some of my favourite Disney characters and their Instagram accounts (insp.)
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Afar (2016) // Image Comics
“Boetema suddenly develops the ability to astrally project to other worlds, unintentionally possessing the bodies of people light years away.
Inotu, her inquisitive brother with a pension for trouble, finds himself on the run after he’s caught eavesdropping on an illegal business deal between small town business tycoons and their cyborg bodyguard. When Boetema accidentally gets someone hurt while in another girl’s body, the siblings are forced to work together to solve the problems they’ve created on their planet and others.”
Story: Leila Del Duca , Art: Kit Seaton
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Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942) is a Fluxus and Situastionist French artist, born in Nice.
Since 1966, using paste-ups, he creates ephemeral images on the walls of the large cities that make echo the events there. He is one of the initiators of the Urban Art in France, 25 years before Banksy, and as much as sensitive to injustices. His themes cover abortion (Tours, Nice, Paris, 1975), expelled people (Paris, 1979), AIDS ( Soweto, 2002), The Apartheid and what happened in Nagasaki / Hiroshima. His main inspiration comes from Caravaggio and we can say that he masters his technic.
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There’s nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.
Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle (via hqlines)
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I‘m a 28-years-old self-taught graphic designer, an illustrator and artist, a creative thinker, world inventor, dream shaper, problem solver and fighter against the ugliness.
I‘m currently based in Germany and have specialized in corporate identity, communication design, illustrationand image manipulation. I‘m working as freelancer for national and international clients. Incidentally, I‘m the CEO of the German art collective “Utopia” and also artist and illustrator of the art collectives “Cosmosys” and “Depthcore”.
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Hey!! I officially have all the Harry Potter prints up on my InPrint! Here’s the link if you’d like to check ‘em out.
Also I’ll be at NYCC next weekend (Oct. 8th-11th) at my Alma Mater Ringling College’s booth selling Lemon & Ket, ERIS, lots of prints and something new!!! :oooo hope to see you there ^-^
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The newest member of the Department of Awesomely Good Deeds is The Crayon Initiative, a nonprofit organization started by Bryan Ware. It all began when Ware was watching his sons coloring during a birthday dinner out at a restaurant and wondered what happened to the crayons if his kids left them behind. He posed this question to a restaurant employee and was distraught to learn that all the leftover crayons are simply thrown away after customers leave. It turns out that 75,000 pounds of crayons are thrown away by restaurants and schools each year. So Ware decided he could find a way to make sure the crayons weren’t wasted and instead given to kids in need.
Now Ware collects old crayons from restaurants, schools, and friends and turns them into brand new crayons for children at California-based hospitals. He melts down the leftover crayons and then uses a special mold that he created in collaboration with an occupational therapist. The new crayons are thicker, which makes them easier for little kids and children with special needs to grasp and use.
2,000 boxes of recycled crayons have been donated to California children’s hospitals since The Crayon Initiative was founded in 2013. Now the organization is planning its first out-of-state donation to a hospital in New York City later this month.
In doing so, Ware hopes to continue expanding as he supports the hospitalized youth all across the country. “From my perspective, the biggest goal is to give them an escape,” he continued. “I can’t even fathom what these kids are going through. If these crayons give them an escape from that hospital room for ten minutes, we did our job.”
Visit The Crayon Initiative Website or Facebook page to learn more about this awesome organization and maybe even get involved yourself.
[via My Modern Metropolis and Bored Panda]