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I created a character for the #drawthisinyourstyle challenge on instagram! Basically the idea is that I’m inviting other artists to draw this character in their own way :) I love what people have created so far!! Take a look!! https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/loishredraw/

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We go forward.

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Valentines day. That one day of the year again. That one day where everyone around you might be a bit too sweet and bubbly.  You might be making excuses calling it a Hallmark holiday as you put on your headphones and ignoring everything. Finding yourself rushing home and hope for the day to end sooner, but that’s not really the point of any of these holidays.

Like many holidays, it’s not about you.

Unfortunately, our society (and marketing strategies) keeps emphasizing on your needs over others and keeps so many of us blind by the simple things that keeps us human.  Instead of thinking about yourself, try and think about giving back to others and reminding them that there are still good people out there. 

Focus on the people around you or even a complete stranger. There’s a lot of people out there that spend Valentines completely alone that were once loved. Spend time at a local nursing home. Give some of your time to people that have been forgotten by their own family. Share your gifts with them. If you can make amazing cupcakes, bring them. Bring them to work even or just hand them out on a subway. Volunteer your time at a children’s hospital even. Just go out there and be yourself instead of covering up in bed sheets watching Netflixs. 

You just have to go out there and try and brighten someone’s day. Even if it’s one person, that’s one more person you wouldn’t be helping by eating a pint of Ben & Jerrys. You can even spend time with your own family. If there’s anything that Frozen has taught us, love isn’t just limited to being in love.

Most importantly, don’t expect to be rewarded for this, that’s not the point. It’s never the point.

Not everyone has the same neat and simple timeline finding love. Everyone has their own timeline, so don’t feel left out or depressed. Your time will come and when it does, it’ll be all worth the wait.

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Some works of french artist David Maingault. Watch his graduation short-film Tacky, Sticky & Glutinous (from french EMCA school).

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My sister asked if the events of “The Labyrinth" are meant to be Sarah dreaming, or are they real? Although my primary reaction was that she shouldn’t put that much thought into any children’s movie (or any instance of David Bowie in tight pants), I’d like to take this opportunity to put so much thought into this children’s movie, that it’ll blow your mind.

So why is David Bowie kidnapping a child from an underage Jennifer Connelley?

In a time long long ago a sorcerer named Jareth fell in love with a girl named Sarah. Sarah’s father and step-mother would not let her marry Jareth because they wanted her to keep her, as a servant, to care for their other child. In a fit of rage Jareth kidnapped this other child and spirited it away to the fairy world. In this new world Jareth built a palace for his Sarah. He turned the spoiled child into a goblin, and kept it to be a servant.

Many stories of the fairy world tell us that time moves differently there than in our world (Rip Van Winkle for one). In the time it took for Jareth to build his kingdom, which he may have thought was little more than a few years, Sarah grew old and died.

Overcome by grief and addled by a lifetime spent in a strange world filled with monsters, Jareth goes mad. He refuses to believe that he has lost his love. He searches the mortal world from his castle, looking for her.

Sarah is Hebrew name. So, it is common, and has been in use for thousands and thousands of years. It does not take long (for him) to find a dark haired girl named Sarah, who has a younger sibling, and who feels that she is treated unfairly by her step mother. In a fit of rage he kidnaps this other child and spirits it away to the fairy world. Perhaps this new Sarah dies in the quest to find the child, perhaps she wins her sibling back and flees.

Jareth searches the mortal world from his from his castle, looking for her.  It does not take long to find a dark haired girl named Sarah…

This is how Jareth becomes the goblin king. Every goblin in the goblin city is a child Jareth has stolen, who was not recovered by a Sarah. (he told the current Sarah that Toby would become a goblin if she did not find him in time)

This is why he builds the maze. The magic bog, the junk yard of useless treasures, all tricks to slow Sarah down. Because if he can only have his Sarah for the time it takes for her to regain the stolen child, he will make it take as long as possible, keep her as long as possible.

This is why there exists in our world a book containing the story. Because it has happened before. So many times. At some point some lucky Sarah must have returned to our world to tell the story.

This is why when the most recent Sarah first meets Hoggle at the start of the labyrinth, and introduces herself; “I’m Sarah", Hoggle responds “That’s what I figured."

Because of course she’s Sarah.

They were all Sarah.

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Climbing The Income Ladder, Location Matters

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Amazing Dive Bombing Birds

Off the coast of South Africa, Cape Gannets spot their targets from the air and dive like a squadron of bombers to pursue their prey. A Cape Gannet can snap up a fish before it realizes it’s even being chased. Photographer Alexander Safonov is astounded as he watches these amazing birds dive 25 feet (8 meters) underwater to catch a meal from a school of sardines.

As you can see from looking at these photographs, Cape Gannets are awesome fishers. For one, they can spot their prey from almost 100 feet (30 m) up in the air. Large flocks scour the sea together – sometimes in groups of up to 1,000 – searching for shoals of fish. Then, once the birds spot their fishy meals, they plunge through the air like heavy arrows raining down. Their wings are flexed back against their bodies, and their tails and feet are pointed, making them look like Olympic high divers.

“Photographing diving cape gannets is one of the most incredible things I’ve done so far in my life,” says Safonov. “Seeing hunting birds which normally belong to the air element deep underwater is a surreal sight. Sun rays, bubble trails, scales, chaotically moving bait fish – all contributes to the dramatic spectacle orchestrated and choreographed by nature itself.”

The predatory gannets bomb the water at speeds approaching an incredible 75 miles (120 km) per hour. Luckily, they have no external nostrils for water to force its way into – because at those speeds, a whoosh of water up the nose would really sting! As mentioned earlier, these birds can reach depths of up to 25 feet (eight meters), driven only by their own momentum. Cape Gannets can then stay under the water for three to seven seconds – just long enough for them to snatch their slippery snacks in their sharp bills and gulp them down before surfacing again.

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Most guys do not have to deal with the world of women. They’re born from us, they live around us, but for the most part, we take care of our own shit. We buy our own tampons. We deal with skeevy guys who catcall us. We deal with crappier work situations. We deal with getting told we suck at things because we have a vagina, and that we need to be prettier. Even when these guys married, they still married someone who dealt with this stuff solo. There might be stories and gripe sessions, but they tended to try to equate some part of their experience to the woman’s. Sure, you’re told to be beautiful, but I’m told to lift heavy things! Same, right? Then, they had daughters. Kids are very good at not dealing with their own shit. It’s not their job. It’s yours. Suddenly, you’re shoved into a toy aisle where there’s nary a Lego or car or building block, but instead, rows and rows of dead-eyed dolls. You realize how hard it is to find play clothes for a girl, because everything seems to be optimized for ‘cute’ rather than ‘comfort.’ You hear people compliment your daughter only on how pretty she is, and never on how smart or clever she is. The girl goes to school, and you watch how she’s never called on. You hear someone insult someone else by calling them ‘a girl’, and it stings. Your little girl is awesome! She’s brave and smart and funny! Why would anyone use that as an insult? Then, you remember all the times you did it. And then, you realize that, all along, you’ve been a part of the problem. So, it’s not a perfect way to get men to be more aware of feminism. It would be better if they were raised into it. But it’s still a way.

Jezebel commentor kcunning, on the recent study showing that men with daughters and boys with sisters are more likely to show more generous, caring and gentle tendencies. (via misandry-mermaid)

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If you are reading this, thank this woman. Her name is Grace Hopper, and she is one of the most under appreciated computer scientists ever. You think Gates and Jobs were cool? THIS WOMAN WORKED ON COMPUTERS WHEN THEY TOOK UP ROOMS. She invented the first compiler, which is a program that translates a computer language like Java or C++ into machine code, called assembly, that can be read by a processor. Every single program you use, every OS and server, was made possible by her first compiler.

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Photomanipulations by PSHoudini (Miguel P). Via My Modern Met.

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Massive river of 10,000 discarded books flows through Melbourne.

For The Light in Winter Festival, Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus was commissioned to create a work of art that, quite literally, stopped traffic. 10,000 discarded books, donated by public libraries and collected by the Salvation Army, were lit up and then arranged to look like a massive river flowing through the city. On the final night of the installation, visitors were encouraged to take the books home.

Via My Modern Met.