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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
Barry Lategan. Roxanne, 1989.
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Letter from cartoonist Alfred Joseph Frueh to his wife Giuliette Fanciulli, sent on Jan. 10th, 1913. The letter opens up to form a model of a gallery hung with paintings. Frueh made this model to inform his wife about the details of a specific art gallery before her visit.
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Tree South Korea-based artist Myoung Ho Lee frames trees to create beautiful natural portraits. This series, soberly titled Tree, was exhibited at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York.
Source: fubiz.net
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gilgamesh: tell the whole world we’re bros
enkidu: you’re the only bro for me bro
gilgamesh: bro why’d you only tell me
enkidu: because you’re my world bro
gilgamesh, holding back tears: bro….
gilgamesh: namsheshme sharra heben
enkidu: zae ngar sheshashmen, shesh
gilgamesh: shesh, anaash ashbi maedug
enkidu: zae sharngumen, shesh
gilgamesh, er gugule: shesh…
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. Photography by © (Kate Cummings). Captured the bizarre scene in Monterey Bay. Luckily for the pelican the whale opened its jaws just before diving, allowing the bird to flap to freedom. #Amazing #Monterey #Pelican #Whale #Freedom
Interestingly, the whale couldn’t have eaten the bird even if it wanted to. Baleen whales only feed on small animals, from krill to sardines. As such, their throats are very narrow - a blue whale, the largest of all whales, has a throat less than 1 foot in diameter. The biggest thing a humpback could swallow is probably a grapefruit. So it makes sense that the whale released the bird, otherwise it would choke!
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THIS IS ACTUALLY FACTUAL AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED MORE
“Knowing that they were losing “valuable product” due to their slaves’ propensity to swim, slave owners began taking drastic steps to protect their property. One of these steps was to instill a fear of the water by dunking disobedient slaves in water until they nearly drowned and by creating fear through stories of creatures living in the water. Thus it didn’t take long to excise or destroy the West African swimming tradition from African- American culture. The Jim Crow laws that were enacted after The Civil War prohibited blacks from the popular seaside resorts in places like Atlantic City, N.J. and Revere Beach, Mass. And by the 20th Century, as the swimming pool began to gain in popularity in the United States, the color line prohibited blacks from enjoying this pleasant recreational skill.
In addition, self-segregation also played a role in limiting those of African ancestry from getting in the water. I remember my Aunt saying to stay away from the pool because, “black folk don’t swim.””
Such a long and consistent history of anti-Blackness and swimming. Long before police openly assaulted little black girls in McKinney, GoodWhitePeople™ were enforcing White Supremacy and segregating swimming pools.
Next time you hear someone ask questions like, “Why don’t black people swim?” Or “Why are so many black people afraid of dogs?” And, “Why are there do so many black people live in poverty?”…..let ‘em know that those aren’t coincidences. These things didn’t just happen naturally, all on their own. There’s a reason for it, and you don’t have to be an historian to know they’re all interconnected through slavery, endemic racism and persistently racist cultural norms.
