pugletto:

World Avatars/Ancient Avatars. Africa, Middle East, East Asia, and South America.

we are shining, and we will never be afraid again

akitron:

limpwristsraisedfists:

kehinde wiley.

OH MAN I LEARNED ABOUT HIM AND ART HISTORY AND HE’S LIKE MY NEW FAVE

he takes dudes like these guys and lets them pick out/chooses an older picture to emulate and it’s a really interesting dichotomy between the hypermasculine way we’re supposed to think of black men and the way masculinity was thought of back in the day!

SO COOL RIGHT

UGH, there was a piece of his at the Blanton and it was SO FREAKING GOOD lakdsfkdsdskl

queeniman:

I’m sorry that you’re so oppressed

Does your father beat you?

 Are you going to be forced to have an arranged marriage?

mutarou:

special-k-art:

sixtoninecats:

…I really like these o.o

I can’t believe there’s not a tumblr one, though!

Reblogging for my sister because she loves this sort of thing

brain-food:

Curvy Pin-Up illustrations for Jen Oaks 2012 calendar titled “Cheeky” which you can purchase at her Etsy store. She also has a  tumblr.

bookshop:

nannaia:

Fashion Timeline History of Vietnamese Clothing (and Ao Dai).

A few of my refs here.

I love historical clothing and seeing how it evolves. I’ve longed to see the evolution of Vietnamese clothing but always came up empty handed due to lack of information… until now. I owe a lot of the references to the documentary “Searching for Vietnamese Clothing” (which impressively took the filmmaker’ 3 decades to research) and the sources on the Internet. I created this timeline because as a visual person, I like to know how clothing changed by seeing it side by side.

I attempted to make a timeline with only primary references (i.e. paintings, sculptures, and photographs from that time period).  I tried to stay true to the original sources’ as much as possible but I can’t say that this is completely accurate. A few art pieces were really hard to decipher (the sitting Buddhist statues in particular) and not being able to see them in person required me to take some educated guesses. I used my own color preferences with the statues that did not have color to reference from. Regrettably I had to skip a few early dynasties because artifacts of those eras seem to have been lost to time or too stylized.

Continually a work in progress and more may be added.

Artist Observations:

* Le Dynasty wins for being the most stylish and varied. IMO.

* The colors in Fig. 1 is largely hypothetical. Having no clue what colors the Dong Son culture wore I decided to take inspiration from various ethnic tribes. The pattern on her yellow sash thingy (words fail me, bah) came from an Ao Dai which coincidentally had a pattern that came from a Dong Son drum. Coming full circle here. Lol.

*Due to approximately 1,000 years of on and off Chinese domination, the clothing shares qualities to Hanfu but contains tell-tale differences. Dong Son Culture (fig. 1) is the time period before any Han influence takes place.

* On average, people wore 3-5 layers of clothing. The climate could be cold (e.g. the Northern regions) and 16-18th century scarves and gloves have been excavated. 

* Sleeves could reach to 40cm and were typically the length of chin to waist.

* Skirts were banned in 1826 as they were deemed to be “unseemingly”. Not all women followed suit as it was easier to work in skirts than pants.

* Buttoned up collars and buttoned clothing does not seem to appear until the 19th century (perhaps late 18th century at the earliest). Interestingly this change seems to coincide with the advent of French Imperialism/Colonization. Collars started rather low but gradually got higher and closer together.

* The Ao Tu Than (Fig. 9, 10 and 12) is still around today but as it stopped evolving in the 20th century I decided to concentrate on the Ao Dai (long shirt).

* The conical rice hat was originally worn by men (which can be seen in many photographs with Nguyen dynasty soldiers) and only became part of women’s wear sometime in the 20th century.

this is the coolest. thing. i love how a lot of the oldest styles actually feel the most modern in a way.

bookshop:

(because i’m so tired of seeing all the ‘tee hee! fandom, such a dirty little secret!’ posts on tumblr!)

thedailywhat:

Supercut of the Day: After watching every romantic movie ever made, Overthinking It’s Matthew Belinkie pieced together the ultimate Hollywood “I love you” using 95 of cinema’s most memorable soul-baring moments. 

[mentalfloss.]

I do not care about many supercuts.

But here I got you some feels.

akitron:

shoomlah:

Multiculturalism for Steampunk is starting up a weekly art challenge, and it looks promising. SO EXCITED. I’ve had a bunch of ideas for non-Western steampunk outfits floating around in my head, and it’s nice actually having a weekly deadline to motivate me to finish some of them.

This is pretty subtle in its steampunkery (read: no extranneous metal bits), but I was just trying to bring in a few western/Victorian elements to traditional Indian clothing- legomuttoned sleeves, the double breasted, collared choli, and adapting the churidar into buttoned spats.

…Also a sweet hat.

-C

UUGGGHHH amazing

lettersfromtheattic:

fannybaws:

pistachiosandredvines:

keeponpretending6277:

ouisee:

penotbutter:

indigachristy:

A dramatic reading of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It”. (x)

 jesus fucking fuck

holy shit

 oh dear god the wiggles got me hahaha

Laughing so loud

Orson Welles?

omg he’s supposed to be Peter O’Toole? HILARIOUS.

… that was…. truly amazing.

fecundityisntanissue:

This is every song you have ever loved and every song you have ever hated.

#when i find myself in times of trouble mother mary comes to me she says party rock is in the house tonight everybody just have a good time.

barackobama:

It’s nice to meet you.

There are lots of reasons we’re excited to be launching the Obama 2012 campaign’s new Tumblr today. But mostly it’s because we’re looking at this as an opportunity to create something that’s not just ours, but yours, too.

We’d like this Tumblr to be a huge collaborative storytelling effort—a place for people across the country to share what’s going on in our respective corners of it and how we’re getting involved in this campaign to keep making it better.

It’s possible because of Tumblr’s submission feature.

You can send us a few paragraphs about how your latest phonebanking gig went or why you’re in for 2012. Share the latest chart you saw that made you go “woah.” Ask a question. Upload a photo of 2012 t-shirts or signs you see out in the wild. Pass along jokes, particularly if they’re funny. And if you’re among the Tumbl-inclined, send us posts you’ve published on your own Tumblr that we should look at re-blogging.

There will be trolls among you: this we know. We ask only that you remember that we’re people—fairly nice ones—and that your mother would want you to be polite.

Thanks, Tumblr. We’re looking forward to getting to know you.

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