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”The 20th helmer to take on a Pixar short since the mid-1980s, and the the first woman to do so, Bao‘s Domee Shi is now on the path to making her feature debut, with the backing of one of the most impactful animation studios in the world. “We’re just developing the story for it right now,” Shi says. “It’s super early on, but I’m really excited to play in this new 90-minute film format.” A storyboard artist behind a key sequence in Incredibles 2 and the upcoming Toy Story 4, Shi’s experience with Bao—a learning process, in which she took the reins and offered up her voice—demonstrates just how significant Pixar’s shorts are, as a platform to launch exciting new voices into the animation world.

Screening in front of Incredibles 2, Bao centers on a Chinese-Canadian woman struggling with empty nest syndrome, who gets a new chance at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes to life. Starting out with the short as a side project some years ago—”doodling outside of work”—Shi was given the opportunity to pitch Pixar on three short concepts in 2016, in a studio open call. “I practiced really, really hard, the weeks leading up to it. I drew a ton of boards for it, and then I just presented all three ideas,” the director shares. “I pitched a rough beginning, middle and end for each idea. I had some concept art, some reference images, and slowly, I made it through each round.”

Inspired by a love of food and Asian cinema, it was the personal elements of the story—elements that reflected her own life, added later on—that would really flesh out Bao. And while Shi benefitted from top-notch mentorship from the likes of Pete Docter and Brad Bird, it was ultimately her singular contributions that made the short a story worth telling.”

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I love how sexism goes to such extremes that it completely skews musical history

“Cordell Jackson, an American musician thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label. She was making music reminiscent of the Velvet Underground before the world was even introduced to rock & roll. The Mississippi-born, ballgown-wearing guitarist played with more energy than any Indie band worth their salt today, and during live performances, Cordell would strum on her guitar so fast that she would often break her guitar picks by the end of the song. At the height of her career, she appeared on David Letterman and MTV news and became known as “rock-and-roll granny”.

Source: You May Be Cool but You’ll never be Cordell Jackson “the Rockin’ Granny” Cool

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One time I had one of my mom’s weed cookies and took my dog out for a walk not knowing what was in said cookies, this is what it felt like

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Twenty years ago, Nicole Bilderback was nearly as ubiquitous in teen movies and TV shows as Freddie Prinze Jr. She was in “Clueless,” “Bring It On” and “Can’t Hardly Wait.” She was in episodes of “Dawson’s Creek,” the “Clueless” TV series and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Her name didn’t show up on the movie posters, though, and some of her roles were blink-and-you’ll-miss-it slim. Still, she stood out: She was often the only Asian-American in the cast.

…“If Nicole was a teenage actress today,” [Jenny] Han wrote, “I’d like to think she’d be more than just a minor character. She’d be the star of a teen movie, because I would make it my mission to write one for her.”

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Harper’s Bazaar Bazar Magazine ~ July 1924 ~ Erte Raynaldo

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An Appliqued Solar System Quilt Used as a Teaching Aide in the Late 19th-Century

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[In October] “New York became the first city in the nation to pass a law offering gender-neutral birth certificates. The new policy will go into effect on January 1, 2019, and calls for the creation of a third gender marker — X — in addition to the current options of M and F.

The new law also mandates that people be allowed to choose their gender marker when applying for amended birth certificates, replacing a previous requirement that applicants provide letters from medical and mental health practitioners confirming their gender identity.

“New Yorkers should be free to tell their government who they are, not the other way around,” New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio said in a press release. “This new legislation will empower all New Yorkers — especially our transgender and gender nonbinary residents — to have birth certificates that better reflect their identity, and it furthers the City’s commitment to defending the rights of our LGBTQ community.”

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4D-Printed Aquatic Plants Spring to Life in “Hydrophytes” by Nicole Hone

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Charming Photographs Capture the Daily Life of Three Daughters Growing Up in Kamakura, Japan 

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A System of Root-Like Benches Spreads Organically Through a South Korean Public Park

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“You can’t be annoyed at feminism being called feminism when the entire history of the human race is called mankind”

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Camouflaged Self-Portraits Conceal Photographer Cecilia Paredes Against Bright Floral Patterns

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A 10-Ton Copper Staircase Designed by CEBRA Floats Above Copenhagen’s Redesigned Experimentarium Museum