Surround yourself in all the things that fascinate you. Let it encompass all aspects of your life and you will emerge the product of all things you hold dear.
Here is an ongoing accumulation of all the things that fascinate me. From yoga, food, music, the human form, and fashion to belly dancing, religion, graffiti and relics from foreign/ancient cultures. Also photos that I've taken
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Takoyaki after church. Havent had some of this for a really long time.
#takoyaki #mitsua #sunday
Best stuff ever.
Hookah…Because there’s nothing else to do.
…I think you mean there’s nothing more AWESOME to do hehe
The most deep insightful moments that I’ve ever had in my life, some heartfelt conversations, and jovial times were had over hookah. Me and a friend still look at each other and say we need to consult the hookah whenever issues concerning our significant other arise.
Until recently, European tourists seeking poverty-porn have been crowding onto buses to ride through “a real New York City ‘GHETTO,’” i.e., the Bronx.
The controversy that erupted over the tour caused the operator, Real Bronx Tours, to drop it today.
But the NY Post tagged along last week as one tour guide, Lynn Battaglia,made snide comments and gazed at impoverished locals.
As the bus idled across from historic St. Ann’s Episcopalian Church, Battaglia launched into a description of the crime, poverty and violence that plagued the South Bronx during the 1970s recession.
As she spoke, a line of two dozen poor people — including one man visibly agitated by the onlookers — waited for handouts from the church pantry.
“I don’t know what that line’s about, but every Wednesday we see it,” Battaglia told the tourists. “We see them go in with empty carts, and we see them come out with carts full.”
Bronx Borough President slammed Real Bronx Tours last week:
“To have foreigners come and gawk at a long line of people who are less fortunate than they are and to make money off of that and to view them as they are some sort of entertainment is pretty disgusting.”
Well this is what happens when you cut urban funding for 10 years, have mandatory minimum sentences, don’t promote rehab, and have a country built on racism.
Why does he look “special”?
He could be special. Idgaf
…good point. Everyone needs “love”.
(Source: ricanromeo)
People of India (by Marie-Sophie Leturcq)
(Source: indiaincredible)
I don’t trust anyone who thinks the only form of racism is the dictionary definition.
And I don’t trust anyone who thinks racism only goes one way.
Nosferatutrait: Actually… it does. You can’t oppress the oppressors.
A man holds up the horn of a white rhino, which has been removed by a vet, to help protect the animal by poachers. Despite the fact that rhinoceros horn is illegal worldwide, demand is rising steeply as a newly wealthy Asian middle class is able to afford the prized substance, previously the province of the rich. Authorities are often bribed, or turn a blind eye to illegal trade in, and use of rhino horn. Ground rhino horn is used primarily as an anti-fever and anti-toxin medication, in practices that go back centuries. In Vietnam, where a senior government minister has claimed that rhino horn cured his cancer, it sells for €1,865 per 100g to local customers, and for over €6,340 to foreign buyers. With rhinoceros horn worth more than gold, the animals are the target of poachers. South Africa alone lost over 400 rhinos to illegal poaching in 2011. It is estimated there are only 16,000 rhinos left in the world, and the animal faces extinction.
Local River (by Mathieu Lehanneur)
Judge Criticizes ‘High Error Rate’ of New York Police Stops
Observing that only about 12 percent of police stops resulted in an arrest or summons, Judge Scheindlin, who is hearing the case without a jury, focused her remarks on Monday on the other 88 percent of stops, in which the police did not find evidence of criminality after a stop. She characterized that as “a high error rate” and remarked to a lawyer representing the city, “You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”“You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”
“You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”
“You reasonably suspect something and you’re wrong 90 percent of the time.”
(Source: letterstomycountry)
Objects used for growing moss by Claire Robert
One of the largest mass lynchings in American history involved eleven Italians in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1891. Nine Italians, who were thought to have assassinated police chief David Hennessy, were arrested, tried and acquitted. However, subsequent to the trial, they were dragged from the jail and lynched by a mob that had stormed the jailhouse, together with two other Italians who were being held in the jail at the time on unrelated charges. Afterwards, hundreds of Italian immigrants, most of whom were not criminals, were arrested by the police.
In 1899, in Tallulah, Louisiana, three Italian Americans shopkeepers were lynched because they had given equal status in their shops to blacks. A vigilante mob hanged five Italian Americans, the three shopkeepers and two bystanders.
Wow holy shit!!!
#594: “Until 1893, lynching was legal in the United States. The first anti-lynching law was passed in Georgia, but it only made the violation punishable by four years in prison.”
False. False.
Lynching was only made illegal in 1918 with the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill.
It doesn’t make sense for Georgia to have an anti-lynching law, given that it was the most violent state for lynching, ahead of Mississippi.
