Month: September 2015

  • These are the Latin American authors you should be reading this summer

    These are the Latin American authors you should be reading this summer

  • Santa Marta, Colombia, Friday selfie in front of monument to Colombian Futbol, depicting the beloved international Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama. My uncle claims it is the largest statue of a footballer in the world.

  • Santa Marta, Colombia, Friday selfie in front of monument to Colombian Futbol, depicting the beloved international Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama. My uncle claims it is the largest statue of a footballer in the world.

  • boomerstarkiller67: G.I. Joe (1966) I never had the talking ones, but I did have some of those outfits, er, uniforms.

  • Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just … start. Ijeoma Umebinyuo  (via flommus)

  • Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just … start. Ijeoma Umebinyuo  (via flommus)

  • putthison: The Cultural History of the Hoodie Besides maybe the suit, is any single item of men’s clothing more freighted with potential meaning than the hoodie? Sportswear enthusiast Gary Warnett recently narrated the lineage of the humble knit cotton sweatshirt, from its origins as 1920s/1930s collegiate sideline wear to universal blank canvas, with different connotations…

  • putthison: The Cultural History of the Hoodie Besides maybe the suit, is any single item of men’s clothing more freighted with potential meaning than the hoodie? Sportswear enthusiast Gary Warnett recently narrated the lineage of the humble knit cotton sweatshirt, from its origins as 1920s/1930s collegiate sideline wear to universal blank canvas, with different connotations…

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  • The art units at my elementary school were even emptier than the music units. They were like recess periods held indoors. Art, the way my teachers introduced it, wasn’t really a subject as math and science were, but a state of mind. Achieving this state required glue and scissors, sometimes glitter, occasionally bits of yarn,…