photography hoodoo

krrristen:

PRINT GIVEAWAY!!!!

Hey friends I’m doing a print giveaway. To be entered simply like & reblog this photo of my dear friend Kara Neko (styled by Morgan Leykam). The winner will get his/her print of choice.

latimes:

An end to zero tolerance for willful defiance in L.A. schools?

California schools have long brought about swift punishments for instances of so-called willful defiance, which have disproportionally led to suspensions of many minority students not just in our home state, but nationwide.

Take the case of Damien Valentine, a Manual Arts Senior High School sophomore fighting against the practice, who says that several such punishments earlier in his school accomplished nothing but setting him back.

So just what is “willful defiance?”

That offense is now widely criticized as an arbitrary catchall for any behavior a teacher finds objectionable, such as repeatedly tapping feet on the floor, refusing to remove a hat or failing to wear the school uniform. It accounted for 48% of 710,000 suspensions issued in California in 2011-12, prompting both state and local efforts to restrict its use in disciplinary actions.

A resolution moving through Los Angeles County would make L.A. Unified the first school district in California to ban suspensions for the aforementioned offenses.

Said Tonna Onyendu of the Liberty Hill Foundation, a Los Angeles nonprofit:

“This will be a transformational shift. Instead of punishing students, we’re going to engage them.”

Read more on the matter in Teresa Watanabe’s report.

Photos: Christina House / For The Times

(via stfuconservatives)

climateadaptation:

From Michael Marten’s series, Sea Change, which explores rising sea levels from regular tides and also climate change. His statement:

‘Sea Change’ is a study of the tides round the coast of Britain. The views in each diptych are taken from identical positions at low tide and high tide, usually 6 or 18 hours apart.

I am interested in showing how landscape changes over time through natural processes and cycles. The camera that observes low and high tide side by side enables us to observe simultaneously two moments in time, two states of nature.

Recent landscape photography often focuses on human shaping (and reshaping) of the environment - urbanisation, globalisation, pollution. Even when critical and committed, this approach can emphasise, even glamorise, humankind’s power over nature. I’m interested in rediscovering nature’s own powers: the elemental forces and processes that underlie and shape the planet.

The tides are one of these great natural cycles. I hope these photographs will stimulate people’s awareness of natural change, of landscape as dynamic process rather than static image. Attending to earth’s rhythms can help us to reconnect with the fundamentals of our planet, which we ignore at our peril.

‘Sea Change’ also comments on climate change. The tide floods in and quickly recedes again, but rising sea levels will flood our shores and not recede for thousands or millions of years. Many of the views in these pictures may have disappeared in 100 years’ time.

— Michael Marten

Lens Culture

(via upworthy)

bossnuahs:

freshiejuice:

Free stuff!!!!!

So I broke 1000 followers here on tumblr awhile ago. As a thank you to everyone who follows my blog and supports my work, I’m going to do a give away!

Here’s what you get:

A pair of high waisted vintage girdle panties from my shoot with Karen Jerzyk

A Signed Polaroid of London Andrews and myself

A silly card filled with heartfelt sentiments

How do you enter? The only rule is you must be following me. When this post reaches 1000 notes I will randomly pick a winner :D you can like and reblog this up to 3 times, the only way to be counted is to reblog from this so please don’t repost seperately!

So hot

(via freshiejuice)

the-magic-historian:

lacigreen:

“You Can’t Be a Princess” | Journalists from ABC’s “What Would You Do?” planted hidden cameras in a Halloween store and filmed shoppers’ reactions to a boy who wanted a princess costume and a girl who wanted a Spiderman costume.

we are policed into our respective gender roles at a very, very young age.

fucking rude-ass moms when i have kids and my daughter wants to be superman or thor or whoever the fuck else then GO AHEAD BABYDOLL or if my son wants to be cinderella or amy pond then HE CAN because being a good parent means making your child HAPPY and letting them do something harmless like wear a costume they wanna wear for halloween the one day of the year you can dress up like somebody else THAT ISNT YOURSELF.

i would slap these fucking women right in their fucking mouths.  just TRY sticking your nose where it doesnt belong ladies, just TRY it.

(Source: lalondes, via gtfothinspo)

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PLEASE hit me up if you were thinking of going!  i can probably swing you a deal :)

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february 2013

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shot with a nimslo, developed at home

my kid is cooler than your kid

april, 2013