Thumbs In Place of Guns
Thumbs and Ammo posits the idea: would it be funny to replace guns with thumbs up in stills from movies?
YES!
Design Wish - Drawing Gear for a User Experience Designer
Most often the clearest, fastest and most generative way to get to an articulated vision is stay clear of the temptations of polish and presentation and to live instead in the world of hand-sketching. I spend most of my design time drawing and sketching and these are the tools I love.
Light Painting Animation by Darius Twin
Design Wish - NOCS NS2-110US NS2 Air Monitors V2 Bookshelf Speaker
These stylish and top tech AirPlay speakers will give a lift to any study or living room.
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
“Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.”
from wikipedia:
Edwidge Danticat (Haitian Creole pronunciation: [ɛdwidʒ dãtika]; born January 19, 1969) is a Haitian-American author.
More from The Black History Month Reading List
Massive Starling Murmuration in Israel
This murmuration happened just yesterday in the skies above Israel.
Design Wish - Basics Wallet
I needed a replacement for my rubberband-based wallet that will still fit in my front pocket. I got the BASICS Wallet in grey.
Collected Poems of Audre Lorde
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.”
from wikipedia:
Audre Lorde; born Audrey Geraldine Lorde, February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) was a Caribbean-American writer, radical feminist, womanist, lesbian, and civil rights activist. Lorde served as an inspiration to women worldwide, one of her most notable efforts being her activist work with Afro-German women in the 1980s. Her identity as a black lesbian gave her work a novel perspective and put her in a unique position to speak on issues surrounding civil rights, feminism, and oppression. Her work gained both wide acclaim and wide criticism, due to the elements of social liberalism and sexuality presented in her work and her emphasis on revolution and change.[1] She died of breast cancer in 1992, at the age of 58.
Stylish Closeup on Hand Lettering and Calligraphy
This short stylish video shows off the calligraphy and lettering technique of Ged Palmer.
Design Wish - Industrial Edison Vintage Pendant Glass Hanging Light
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Get Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
From wikipedia:
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
In addition to new editions of her work being published after a revival of interest in her in 1975, her manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.
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Design Wish - Cast Iron Teapot from Primula
This stunning and simple cast iron tea kettle from Primula will elevate your ordinary kitchen or harmonize if you have a beautiful one.
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois - Black History Month Reading List
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
Get The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois
From wikipedia:
William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (pronounced /duːˈbɔɪz/ doo-boyz; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After graduating from Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Mystical Whiskey Residue - Vanishing Spirits by Ernie Button
Photographer Ernie Button's photo project is called Vanishing Spirits: the bottom of Scotch glasses once the whisky has evaporated way, leaving textures and colors.
From the project page:
Some of the images reference the celestial, as if the image was taken of space; something that the Hubble telescope may have taken or an image taken from space looking down on Earth. The circular image references a drinking glass, typically circular, and what the consumer might see if they were to look at the bottom of the glass after the scotch has dried.
POTD - Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith
Dinosaurs in the Hood
BY DANEZ SMITH
Let’s make a movie called Dinosaurs in the Hood.
Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness.
There should be a scene where a little black boy is playing
with a toy dinosaur on the bus, then looks out the window
& sees the T. Rex, because there has to be a T. Rex.
Don’t let Tarantino direct this. In his version, the boy plays
with a gun, the metaphor: black boys toy with their own lives,
the foreshadow to his end, the spitting image of his father.
Fuck that, the kid has a plastic Brontosaurus or Triceratops
& this is his proof of magic or God or Santa. I want a scene
where a cop car gets pooped on by a pterodactyl, a scene
where the corner store turns into a battle ground. Don’t let
the Wayans brothers in this movie. I don’t want any racist shit
about Asian people or overused Latino stereotypes.
This movie is about a neighborhood of royal folks —
children of slaves & immigrants & addicts & exiles — saving their town
from real-ass dinosaurs. I don’t want some cheesy yet progressive
Hmong sexy hot dude hero with a funny yet strong commanding
black girl buddy-cop film. This is not a vehicle for Will Smith
& Sofia Vergara. I want grandmas on the front porch taking out raptors
with guns they hid in walls & under mattresses. I want those little spitty,
screamy dinosaurs. I want Cicely Tyson to make a speech, maybe two.
I want Viola Davis to save the city in the last scene with a black fist afro pick
through the last dinosaur’s long, cold-blood neck. But this can’t be
a black movie. This can’t be a black movie. This movie can’t be dismissed
because of its cast or its audience. This movie can’t be a metaphor
for black people & extinction. This movie can’t be about race.
This movie can’t be about black pain or cause black people pain.
This movie can’t be about a long history of having a long history with hurt.
This movie can’t be about race. Nobody can say nigga in this movie
who can’t say it to my face in public. No chicken jokes in this movie.
No bullets in the heroes. & no one kills the black boy. & no one kills
the black boy. & no one kills the black boy. Besides, the only reason
I want to make this is for that first scene anyway: the little black boy
on the bus with a toy dinosaur, his eyes wide & endless
his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there.
Design Wish - Hasami Ultra-Minimal Plates, Trays, Bowls and Mugs
Hasami with its simple geometry and modularity makes a lot of designers drool.
Famous Paintings Remade in FOOD
Food photographer and stylist Tatiana Shkondina, has, using edible materials created these very recognizable iconic images.
Light Sculptures Around California
Light painting photographer Darren Pearson created this stop motion animation, “Lightspeed,” in locations across California: Mono Lake, Big Sur, Trona Pinnacles, Death Valley, Sequoia, Joshua Tree, Lake Tahoe, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
“I’ve spent many nights in the middle of nowhere with coyotes howling in the distance while I look like some idiot at a rave waving around an LED."
Villains of the 80s on Fake Pop Album Covers
Rocky Davies takes these 1980s villains and mashes them up with 1990s music for this series of fictional album covers.
