#there are many other movies that wouldnt have had that restraint

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finally watched D&D: Honor Among Thieves. it was good. minor spoiler-y complaints under the cut

Wildshape dont work like that, but its fun to watch so I'll let it slide. Sometimes we can have rule of cool, as a treat

They give us a whole Paladin fighting an enemy he knows by name and has history with, pulling out a glowing sword etched with magic runes...and we don't get to see a SINGLE smite? smh

So you're telling me Simon is a WILD MAGIC SORCERER and we don't see a SINGLE surge?? Do you know how much fun you could have with wild magic surges? The possibilities are endless. Instead the story treats him like an insecure wizard the entire time. Wild Magic isn't "sometimes spell dont work except when I'm stressed", Wild Magic is wild magic that does whatever the fuck it wants. It happens on top of whatever spell triggered it. There could have been a scene where Simon casts a simple spell thats ineffective, but it causes a surge that actually helps the group in an unexpected yet entertaining way. Like trying to repel the guards with a thunderwave, they dodge, but a surge triggers and turns them into a pair of goats or something. Sad they didn't do anything with that.

THE BARD DOESN'T CAST A SINGLE SPELL?? why is he a bard? why did they make him a bard? he couldve been a rogue if they wanted the charming trickster archetype. HE'S LITERALLY A THIEF. The only allusion to him being a bard is that he plays the lute sometimes and sings. There is a full scene where there is a minor illusion projection of him to fool guards, but then we find out its the sorcerer who is casting the illusion. Why?? It would have been so easy to have him be the one casting it. I was honestly expecting the movie to be clever with this when they entered the maze. The sorcerer and the druid get anti-magic cuffs because they're known casters, but because he hasn't been using magic people forget to cuff the bard. boom, perfect opportunity to be clever and have him pull out a spell at a surprising moment. But no, he never does any of that. He doesn't even get a Bardic Inspiration out there, despite that being one of the most well known features of the class. why

Still a fun movie, lots of litte references (I laughed out loud at the Volo portrait), and the dialogue is very charming. I get why they took some liberties with the mechanics, it is a completely different medium after all and I don't mind that. but like, cmon. not one even one spell? Not even one Vicious Mockery? Otto's Irresistable Dance? no? sad

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Markanna Housesitting :)

@marscats37 thank you for asking, hi!

so for the Disaster Trio AU (before Libra) Drew and Levi want to go on a trip to test how their relationship can handle Travel Stress, so of course besties Mark and Anna can step up to watch the apartment while they're gone!

Levi's place is a fairly small 2-bedroom apartment, he takes care to make sure it's nice and comfy for anyone who comes to visit. He would leave a nice champagne basket for Mark and Anna and insists they can use whatever in the house if they want. So there's not really any Big Secrecy but Mark and Anna are definitely curious to take a look around 👀 previously before they got there they talked about the kinds of wacky things they may find in the apartment. they make a little game out of it and while they're not surprised to find a pair of handcuffs or other restraints in the bedside drawer, they're a little surprised at the quantity. why do you need that many...? how many hands do you have??? hmm. (Anna is taking notes)

they said they wouldnt call Levi for any little problem, they can figure most stuff out, they're smart, but Levi's got this fancy coffee machine and Mark just can't handle it. he has to call Levi about it because Levi can't just explain what button to use, what do you want to make? "....a coffee?!!" ok and... its a coffee machine??? whats not clicking, Mark?? Drew finds this very amusing to listen to while he's driving them to their destination. hopefully Levi can walk him through this, otherwise Mark might have to make coffee runs somewhere for just some shitty coffee lmao.

on her first shower in the apartment Anna finds that there is so many smells to smell, all the shampoo and body washes and hair products and things-- she has to run out to show Mark he has to smell this one!! in their snooping expedition they also find 3 spare bottles of the same product, do you think he would even notice if we took one...? (later Levi would be like. hmm. i thought i had one more but i guess not.. 🤔 Drew, when was the last time i bought these? "huh? why would i....") Anna doesnt even wanna look up how much some of this costs she /knows/ its the good stuff, sometimes its better not to know..

oh also Drew would have asked Mark what bed they're gonna be "sleeping" in, because just so you know, Levi's bed is sooooo comfortable. or you could just fuck in the guest room its fine. Mark is just like wh-- why would i--- (has already fucked in their bed 😳) thanks buddy.....

anyway the plants get watered, the house is sitted, they have a good time. they have a nice tv setup there with all of Drew's games, gotta cuddle in for a nice movie or two from all this tough work of housesitting :P they get some champagne and free sneaky shampoo out of it as well:)

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i think the thing is that people want mature stories but most peoples idea of mature is just gore and sex or whatever. i blame adult swim for that skgjsnf theres probably a better thing to blame but still.

plenty of kids/family media prove you dont need those things to be mature. you just need to care. granted, theres restrictions on kids media that hold them back. thats the biggest issue fr.

when it comes to adult shows they dont put enough of those restraints on. they restrain other things though. like when morel orel created and aired an episode that was a major reason it got cancelled. the episode was fucked up.... but it cared. at least a little bit.

steven universe is mature. bluey is mature. id even consider multiple disney animated movies as mature.

the thing is... theyre also made for families of all ages.

they arent mature because of organs falling out of bodies on screen, or people having explicit sex for every viewer to see, or people foaming at the mouth from overdoses. theyre mature because they show humanity in a way that you can feel cares. they show people experiencing real feelings and getting through them in a way that feels real.

of course, its not all black and white. everything has its mature moments, and just because something doesnt do what ive said doesnt make it immature, its just different. inside out was mature for showing a girl running away and experiencing deep emotional pain until she decided to go back home to her parents and talk it out.

i wouldnt say moana was immature for not doing deep dives on the human experience in favor of having a fantastical story that had human moments more as a side dish. it has some amazing moments that are just as human, but theyre not the primary focus.

when i think of writing stories as mature, i think of having a dive into the human experience. i wrote a whole fic that was that and its still unfinished. the only part that could be considered adult is the way i added people cursing and vague references to sex.

when i think of a mature story i want on screen, i want one thats real, that tells human stories whether the characters are human or not, i want one that acknowledges the things we consider adult like violence/gore, sex, and sure, even drugs if it matters so much, but they arent some focal point for drama or shock. i dont want something that overtakes a story that couldve been good.

ive thought of many shows while writing this. many movies, just media in general. ones i love, ones i hate, ones ive experienced through other peoples words alone. maybe you have too.

hear me out here, a good example of what i consider a mature story i like on screen is stranger things. however, its also a horror franchise alongside its other genres, so of course it leans into gross things and gore a little bit, but never just because. it uses those elements to paint a world and further the story.

i also like the good place, too. a show that, from episode one, points at philosophy and ethics and runs with it. one that questions and attempts to answer things about humanity itself. its a comedy show so it can have its weird moments, but i honestly consider it a near perfect show personally. it also acknowledges sexual things without being in your face with them.

many shows do try to be mature but just go too far with some things. i mean, i think euphoria was trying to be mature? but when i watched it all i saw was oversexualized teenagers and so much talk about drugs that it got on my nerves from minute one. maybe its realistic to some people but it was a pain to get through for me.

and sigh. yes. i will acknowledge Velma. it shows close ups of brains falling out of heads. it opens on a shot of nude women in highschool only covered by conveniently placed bubbles and constantly talks about another students privates. it has a whole storyline about selling drugs. all of this is shock, all of this is immature 'adult' stuff. we been knew. its the type of stuff you see on family guy.

family guy is some of the worst about it all, only brought down the rankings of worst because its restrained from showing everything possible. also. admittedly. theres moments where family guy had, well, moments. its been years since ive watched the show but there were moments it got genuine and serious and you could feel they were trying, at least a little. but then the rest of the show is just... bad.

i dont know if ive gotten a point across or if my wording makes sense, but i just wanted to say all that considering conversations people have been having for a little while now.

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Ellen von Unwerth:’ Let’s photograph girlfriends experiencing life’

Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerths photographs are a riot of merriment and sly subversion. Richard Godwin sounds why it is also necessary go ourselves less seriously

Ellen von Unwerth cant stop laughter. The German photographer, 63, is bouncing all over the Taschen gallery in West Hollywood in her sneakers, attempting to talk through the likeness from her latest expo and prowes volume, Heimat .

So heimat represents Fatherland or Motherland or where you were born and where your roots are, she tells me. Bavaria is not my heimat , but we wanted to make a lampoon of the whole Bavarian thing.

The whole Bavarian occasion, apparently, involves supermodels frolicking nude in Alpine grasslands, performing suggest ordinances with sausages, udders and piou innocents, sledging topless, spanking one another in dirndls and generally experiencing the fecundity and vigor for which the countries of the south German ascents are celebrated. Oh, ja , its very sex there, even the clothes they push up the breasts and there are lots and lots of sausages, ha ha ha, she interprets. But you realise so many personas that are dark and depressing at the moment. All these lamentable girls being lamentable! So I figured, lets show girls having fun and experiencing life.

The new Bardot: Claudia Schiffer in Italy, 1989. Photo: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth has a strange flair for getting famous and beautiful women( Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, Kate Moss) to remove their inhibitions and frequently their underwear while at the same time maintaining self-restraint. Her portraits are often provocatively sexual, but its generally her topics who are doing the elicit. I ever give them something to do, she discloses. When someone not moving I get bored. I take two word-paintings and I say: Great, I have it now. But I love their own bodies in push. I like the nude mas in movement.

The fashion world adores her for this. You could tell from the raucous opening defendant for Heimat , where Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably scratched shoulders with Yolandi Visser, and most of the models from the hit ceased up jump-start in a swimming pool. Von Unwerths Instagram feed is just one of the few that clear pattern weeks actually search fun. On International Womens Day, the fashiony corners of Instagram were awash with tributes to her: You make fun, sexy, craziness to give. I ever experience pushing my boundaries, hugging my femininity/ virility and of course my personality always raucous and proud when we work together, wrote one example, Alexina Graham. Ellen von Unwerths playful and empowering photos are such a exultation to be a part of and I am so happy she is there to represent women in such a male reigned professing! wrote another, Syrie Moskowitz.

I ever give the representations something to do: Ellen von Unwerth. Image: Steffen Kugler

It is clear that everyone had a whole lot of snickers in Bavaria. Von Unwerth flows towards an image of three women topless on a sled: This example is Miss Russia and she brought a lot of vodka to the kill. So the latter are boozing behind my back in the snow. Von Unwerth is not much given to analysing. When I allude to the male gape she has no theory what Im talking about. When I find myself comprehending for the word porn she hit back: Have you ever seen a porno? Well, one of your envisions does literally outline two beings having sex in a hayloft. Its more inspired by a B-movie sense of camp. I wouldnt say porno.( After our interrogation, one of her deputies calls me to make sure that I dont think its prurient .)

Of course, the word I should have reached for was sexual. Or perhaps simply German. Look at the scandal there was with Janet Jackson over here, she says referring to the Super Bowl nipple slip of 2004. It was a tit! Its something you should be proud of and not obscure. Especially if its nice. Ha ha ha ha! In Germany it is not like this. Even if you go to a common in Berlin in the summer, everybody is naked and playing frisbee. You would get arrested if you did that in LA.

Leg pulling: Bumpy Slide, from Heimat. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth was birth in Frankfurt in 1954 and grown up in an orphanage and a succession of foster homes. She has no recollection of her parents and not much inclination to reflect on their absence. Its what drew “peoples lives”, she says. I was free from affect and I was able to take best available from everywhere. I dont truly have a heimat . So her heimat is wherever she happens to be? Exactly.

She moved to Bavaria aged 16 to join a commune and later went to study in Munich. On her first day at university person said: Hey, would you like to do a modelling enterprise? And I turned around and never went back to university. That led to a shoot for the German magazine Bravo , which in turn led to her being signed by Elite simulates in Paris. I kind of hated modelling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist kind. Its hard psychologically to be a model. And predominantly beings told me not to move when I was posing. I just wanted to be like the girls in my scenes now.

Your Turn,( Rihanna ), 2009. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

It was exclusively in 1986 that she firstly started taking picture herself a boyfriend lent her his camera on a fashion product in Kenya and she went into a nearby hamlet to kill local children. I came back home and established them to my friends and they were like: Theyre really good, Ellen! Because prototypes are supposed to be stupid. I was astonished myself because I wasnt so interested in photography. I had never learnt how to do it.

Her portraits were published in the French periodical Jill , and she went on to shoot for i-D , the Face , Interview and Vogue , in the vein of her greatest force Helmut Newton. It was a shoot with the then unknown Claudia Schiffer for French Elle in 1988 that cleared both of their occupations. She was a sugared girl and I didnt think so much of it, but when I looked at the pictures, I called my husband[ music producer Christian Fourteau] and said: Doesnt she look like Brigitte Bardot? The teeth, the eyes? Soon after we did the Guess jeans campaign and it was a jumpstart to my vocation. She also detected Eva Herzigov( shes gushing with vigour) and Nadja Auermann, and hit the notorious 1995 Playboy shoot that announced that Drew Barrymore was no longer the girl from ET . She has remained in demand even though the smartphone epoch has debased the art.

Saddle up: On the high horse, 2015. Photo: Ellen von Unwerth

Its not special any more to be a photographer, she says. Even when I take a drawing, everybody countenances next to me and takes the same video. Five minutes later its on everyone elses Instagram and Im old information so Im forced to take paints on my iPhone too.

She tells me she can usually tell the difference between a photo a follower has taken and one a woman has taken. But I find it crazy how girls photograph themselves all the time. When I was a girl and searched in the reflect, my stepmother would come in and give me a slap. There was this idea that if you did that, the demon would get in you and steal your temperament. Now everyone does this. I question patterns sometimes, Do you were supposed to take so many selfies? And “theyre saying”: Simply when I take selfies do I get likes. Its heartbreaking! Narcissism is so celebrated in our society, sometimes beings lose interest in other people.

Heimat by Ellen von Unwerth, price 650, issued by Taschen as a collectors edition of 1,500 prints, each numbered and signed by the photographer. For more information, go to taschen.com

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Why the Internet cannot represent the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh

Warning : Such articles contains video that are likely to potentially triggering .

He developed. He received. He brutalized.

In a shaking viral video, Columbia, South Carolina deputy Ben Fields( a grey male police officer the size of an offensive lineman, better known as Officer Slam to students) squints toward an gullible young Black female student at Spring Valley High School. Harmonizing to unconfirmed reports, as the Root notes, she refused to leave the classroom per her teachers requisition, for supposedly not following a few simple guilds: namely, to stop chewing gumor to put away her phone. But that’s irrelevant.

As the footage depicts, the unidentified student is apparently without a artillery. She constitutes no clear and present peril. Shes not even suspected of having committed a violent crimes. Yet Fields, acting as the schools safety officer, enters the classroom to occur on the teaches behalf. Hes barely tries to encourage her partnership, let alone ask for her back of the narration. Instead, Fields instantly picks her up from her table, slings her in the various regions of the chamber, and persists roughing her up after she thuds to the floor.

On face, that alone might be enough for most people on the Internet to respond in feeling, cruelty, or abhorrence with the undue oblige used by the officer against an unarmed high school student. But where theres a will to be ignorant, theres surely a direction. Cue the impulsive, allowed online spectators shaking in to defend law enforcement.

As the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh demonstrates, yet again, the Internet is filled to the brim with people who assert that Black people must have done something to deserve merciless medication from detectives. Since Monday, the hashtag associated with the violent incident has elicitedmore than 150,000 tweets, according to Topsy, but the online sentiment still exposes a broader indifference or unwillingness to condemn anti-Black police brutality.

Its time to stop represent the officers who behave with the immunity theyre rendered, both by the long arm of the law, and by usespecially as it were related to Black women and girls.

A video posted by @_the. kiddd on Oct 26, 2015 at 3:04 pm PDT

One prime enabler of Fields acts at Spring Valley High, and a villain du jour in the debates on anti-Black combating racism and violence, is none other than Don Lemon. In his initial on-air reaction, the CNN fixes row of questioning testified so contentious, his call( again) became a top-1 0 veering Twitter topic in the United States, sparking online dialogue about whether or not the young student shouldve been treated in such a manner.

This broadcasted exchange is about more than Don Lemons prolonged stupidity while enveloping racial questions on a major national pulpit .

Id like to know more before passing arbitration, Lemon articulated, a position echoed by many online onlookers in the hours immediately following the liberation of three different inclinations of footage from that Spring Valley classroom. But former federal prosecutor, CNN contributor Sunny Hostinwho happens to be a Black woman, and an expert much more qualified to address the nature of the situationimmediately defied his legal logic.

I dont need to know more, Hostin told, despite Lemons attempts to shush her. The constitution provides that the standard here is whether the policeman has to use this kind of patrol, whether its reasonable and necessary to somehow assure restraint in the school. The bottom line is, Don, this is a young girl in institution. “They dont have” justification for using this kind and it is assault.

The next day, Richmond County Sheriff Leon Lott had similar questions as Hostin, which induced the FBI to open an investigation into the matter on Tuesday.

To be clear, “its about” more than Don Lemonspersistent ignorance while covering racial issues on a major national scaffold. Its about the propensityfrom Black humen in situations of ability, racists with negligent abandon, and staunch polouse guards on the Internetto erase, ignore, or minimise the pain that many Black women and girls face at the mitts of police officers, many of whom are white.

The online defense of Fields too spotlights a pernicious doubled guideline .

Citing Lemons questioning, online users have concealed behind faux-journalistic ethics and a purported need for verification to enable the people who defend Disciplines the most. In a post for the unaffiliated CNN Commentary blog, which Lemon retweeted on Tuesday, the author lauds Lemon hesitantly, calling him for formerly the voice of reason before decrying the trolls( including Hostin) who blared him on Twitter. Lemons reactionone shared by several on social mediawas praised as reasonable and responsible.

But even further, the online defense of Fields likewise highlights a injurious double criterion.

@Nettaaaaaaaa Don Lemon was right for formerly. Chris Hayes is a moron.

Mama P. (@ anniebeans5 9) October 28, 2015

@Mediaite @SunnyHostin @donlemon Don you should not have to defend ur point of vue u were& 100% right to say if u were not in the room

sam (@ sammedisam) October 28, 2015

@Mediaite @normagenie Actually, @donlemon, you’ve done the right thing, even if it was only accidental. I honour you.

Marie von Astra (@ marievonastra) October 27, 2015

@donlemon delivering a almost perfect thinking just now on @CNN impartial ruling certainly best available CNN has to offer right now

Howard (@ hsmythwithaY) October 27, 2015

Anyone with a lash pulsing could bet their times income that the Internet reactionand maybe even Lemonswould be markedly different if a burly, bodybuilding, Black male police officer roughed up a lily-white, blonde, female student in a high school class. The Internet would be in even bigger uproar calling for the officers ouster, and he wouldve likely been fired without question, even before a formal investigation took shape, as Fields has been afforded.

Yet its officers like Fields who often get the benefit of the doubt from many observers, and even get away with slaughter in special courts. That includes Daniel Holtzclaw in Oklahoma, who are continuing faces indicts for supposedly abusing his supremacy to serially crimes multiple Black maidens. It also includes Eric Casebolt in McKinney, Texas, who resigned after slamming and pinning a teenage Black girl wearing a swimsuit, while utilizing his handgun to scare away concerned bystanders over an suspect consortium defendant quarrel. And lest we not forget Brian Encinia, in Waller County, Texas, who viciously took down an unarmed Sandra Bland over an alleged traffic misdemeanour, dragging her out of her gondola and resulting her to the holding station where molted soon, mysteriously die.

And with the ethnic capacity reversalhad the man been Black and the student been whiteat most any other high school in America, the classroom teacher may have even is seeking to deescalate developments in the situation. The young lady bystanding peers may have defied his authority even more than they did at Spring Valley, where a number of concerned students defiantly recorded the incident on their cell phone.

Officer who violently apprehended student known as “Officer Slam, ” speaks witness #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh #inners https :// t.co /8 DqARYar9H

All In w/ Chris Hayes (@ allinwithchris) October 28, 2015

Ben Fields dating a Black woman has NOTHING to do with his actions. #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh https :// t.co/ 2SqQz50ggM

rolandsmartin (@ rolandsmartin) October 27, 2015

Notably, one of those students1 8-year-old Niya Kenny, a young Black womanwas also arrested for intervene in defense of her classmate.

I was bellowing, What the f, what the f is really happening? I was praying out loud for the girl, she told South Carolinas WLTX, adding that she also preserved the traumatic happen on her cameraphone. I only couldnt believe this was happening, I was just exclaiming, and he articulated, Since “youve had” so much better to say, you are coming too. I simply applied my hands behind my back.

But as Kenny also spotlights, according to reports, Fields has a sick honour for administering female students. Ive listened in the past slammed pregnant women, teenage girlfriends, hes known for throwing, Kenny told MSNBCs Chris Hayes on Tuesday evening , noting that she told fellow classmates to strap in for the purposes of an unsettling occurrence. And granted his violent honour for undue army, Kenny said she also spurred her peers to take out their cell phone to movie an incident that she knew wouldnt dissolve well.

If a surrendering, white supremacist murder suspect can getcoddled into police custody, then young, unarmed Black students should expect more from police officer .

Kennys dreads arent unfounded, after all, contributed Fieldss history of misconduct and ethnic bias. In addition, as the Roots Kristen West-Savali highlights, Black girls in the United States are six times more likely to be suspended or expelled than their lily-white counterparts, per a 2015 reportfrom the African American Policy Forum. As AAPF co-founder and statute professor Kimberle Crenshaw memo in the report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, very concerned about the dangers that Black girls and other girls of hue encounter rarely receive the full courtesy of researchers, counselors, policy makers, and funders.

Indeed, the why does it have to be about hasten protection simply doesnt work in the cases in which ethnic and gender biases, combined, demonstrably play a role in how Black girls are treated in institution fixes. If the challenges of daughters of coloring are to be addressed, then research and policy frameworks must move beyond the notion that all of the young people of coloring who are in crisis are boys, the reports executive summary governments, and that the concerns of white girlfriends are indistinguishable from those of girls of dye.

Black girls accept hugely from overpolicing in schools. Via @aapf: #SpringValleyHigh pic.twitter.com/ aJP4 2m3Ht7

Brittany Packnett (@ MsPackyetti) October 26, 2015

“The narrative that pitch-black daughters are just fine is a dangerous myth.” https :// t.co/ P1LG0WzyEk #BlackGirlsMatter #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh

Ash Consulting Group (@ AshConsultingGr) October 27, 2015

What will it take for the public to condemn police inhumanity outright, when its a clear and present danger to people of color in America, including and especially Black women and girls? If the Internet has long waited for a intellect, the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh is most certainly a prime one. But, even so, the reasons are irrelevant here, because no man in similar circumstances deserves being brutalized by the police officers who swore protecting children.

If a surrender, white supremacist carnage believe( speak: the Charleston crap-shooter) can getcoddled into police detention and furnished with a bulletproof vestafter murdering several Black church congregants exactly a two-hour drive away from Spring Valley High Schoolthen young, unarmed Black students should expect police officer and government agencies to fully involve their lives with respect and dignity.

Because their Black lives question, even when the Internet bickers otherwise.

Derrick Cliftonis the agent mind editor for the Daily Dot and a New York-based journalist and orator, principally clothing issues of identity, culture, and social right .

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Ellen von Unwerth:’ Let’s photograph daughters enjoying life’

Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerths photographs are a riot of enjoyable and sly subversion. Richard Godwin listens why we need to go ourselves less seriously

Ellen von Unwerth cant stop laughter. The German photographer, 63, is bouncing all over the Taschen gallery in West Hollywood in her sneakers, attempting to talk through the personas from her latest exhibit and artistry journal, Heimat .

So heimat necessitates Fatherland or Motherland or where you were born and where your springs are, she tells me. Bavaria is not my heimat , but we wanted to make a charade of the whole Bavarian thing.

The whole Bavarian occasion, apparently, concerns supermodels cavorting nude in Alpine fields, acting suggest numbers with sausages, udders and sacred virgins, sledging topless, spanking one another in dirndls and generally experiencing the fecundity and strength for which the countries of the south German descents are celebrated. Oh, ja , its exceedingly sex there, even the clothes they push up the bosoms and there are lots and lots of sausages, ha ha ha, she clarifies. But you read so many epitomes that are dark and depressing at the moment. All these happy dames being sad! So I figured, makes show girls having fun and experiencing life.

The new Bardot: Claudia Schiffer in Italy, 1989. Picture: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth has a strange ability for getting famous and beautiful maidens( Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, Kate Moss) to remove their inhibitions and routinely their underwear while at the same time maintaining restraint. Her portraits are often provocatively sexual, but its usually her themes who are doing the excite. I always give them something to do, she discloses. When someone not moving I get bored. I take two paintings and I say: Great, I have it now. But I enjoy their own bodies in shift. I like the nude form in movement.

The fashion world adores her for this. You could tell from the raucous opening party for Heimat , where Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably rubbed shoulders with Yolandi Visser, and most of the models from the film ended up start in a swimming pool. Von Unwerths Instagram feed is just one of the few that do manner weeks actually search fun. On International Womens Day, the fashiony areas of Instagram were awash with tributes to her: You raise fun, sexy, craziness to situated. I ever experience pushing my borderlines, espousing my femininity/ virility and of course my personality always loud and proud when we work together, wrote one prototype, Alexina Graham. Ellen von Unwerths playful and empowering photos are such a joy to be a part of and I am so happy she is there to represent women in such a male predominated professing! wrote another, Syrie Moskowitz.

I ever give the frameworks something to do: Ellen von Unwerth. Photo: Steffen Kugler

It is clear that everyone had a whole lot of laughters in Bavaria. Von Unwerth motions towards an image of three women topless on a sled: This representation is Miss Russia and she raised a lot of vodka to the hit. So the latter are boozing behind my back in the snow. Von Unwerth is not much paid attention to analysing. When I allude to the male gape she has no plan what Im talking about. When I find myself grasping for the word porn she hit back: Have you ever seen a porno? Well, one of your draws does literally depict two people having fornication in a hayloft. Its more inspired by a B-movie sense of camp. I wouldnt say porno.( After our interrogation, one of her auxiliaries calls me to make sure that I dont think its prurient .)

Of course, the word I should have reached for was sexual. Or perhaps simply German. Appear at the scandal there was with Janet Jackson over here, she says referring to the Super Bowl nipple move of 2004. It was a tit! Its something you should be proud of and not conceal. Especially if its nice. Ha ha ha ha! In Germany it is not like this. Even if you go to a ballpark in Berlin in the summer, everybody is naked and playing frisbee. You would get arrested if you did that in LA.

Leg draw: Bumpy Slide, from Heimat. Picture: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth was bear in Frankfurt in 1954 and grown up in an orphanage and a succession of foster homes. She has no recollection of her parents and not much inclination to reflect on their absence. Its what formed my life, she says. I was free from influence and I was able to take best available from everywhere. I dont really have a heimat . So her heimat is wherever she happens to be? Exactly.

She moved to Bavaria aged 16 to join a commune and later went to study in Munich. On her first day at university someone said: Hey, would you like to do a modelling job? And I turned around and never went back to university. That led to a shoot for the German periodical Bravo , which in turn led to her being signed by Elite models in Paris. I kind of hated modelling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist nature. Its hard psychologically to be a model. And principally people told me not to move when I was constituting. I just wanted to be like the girls in my drawings now.

Your Turn,( Rihanna ), 2009. Photo: Ellen von Unwerth

It was only in 1986 that she first started taking photograph herself a boyfriend lent her his camera on a fashion creation in Kenya and she ventured into a nearby village to film neighbourhood children. I came back home and depicted them to my friends and they were like: Theyre really good, Ellen! Because simulates are supposed to be stupid. I was amazed myself because I wasnt so interested in photography. I had never learnt how to do it.

Her epitomes were published in the French periodical Jill , and she went on to shoot for i-D , the Face , Interview and Vogue , in the vein of her greatest influence Helmut Newton. It was a hit with the then unknown Claudia Schiffer for French Elle in 1988 that manufactured both of their vocations. She was a sweet daughter and I didnt think so much of it, but when I looked at the pictures, I called my husband[ music producer Christian Fourteau] and said: Doesnt she look like Brigitte Bardot? The teeth, the eyes? Soon after we did the Guess jeans safarus and it was a jumpstart to my vocation. She too discovered Eva Herzigov( shes gushing with sparkle) and Nadja Auermann, and killed the infamous 1995 Playboy kill that announced that Drew Barrymore was no longer the girl from ET . She has remained in demand even though the smartphone period has demeaned the art.

Saddle up: On the high horse, 2015. Photo: Ellen von Unwerth

Its not special any more to be a photographer, she says. Even when I take a draw, everybody countenances next to me and takes the same painting. Five a few minutes later its on everyone elses Instagram and Im old information so Im forced to take word-paintings on my iPhone too.

She tells me she can usually tell the difference between a photo a husband has taken and one a woman has taken. But I find it crazy how wives photograph themselves all the time. When I was a girl and gazed in the reflect, my stepmother would come in and give me a slap. There was this idea that if you did that, the demon would get in you and plagiarize your identity. Now everyone does this. I question modelings sometimes, Do you have to take so many selfies? And they say: Simply when I take selfies do I get likes. Its happy! Narcissism is so celebrated in national societies, sometimes people lose interest in other people.

Heimat by Ellen von Unwerth, price 650, issued by Taschen as a collectors copy of 1,500 imitates, each numbered and signed by the photographer. For more information, going to see taschen.com

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Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerths photographs are a riot of recreation and sly subversion. Richard Godwin hears why it is also necessary take ourselves less seriously

Ellen von Unwerth cant stop laughter. The German photographer, 63, is bouncing around the Taschen gallery in West Hollywood in her sneakers, attempting to talk through the likeness from her recent expo and artwork notebook, Heimat .

So heimat makes Fatherland or Motherland or where you were born and where your beginnings are, she tells me. Bavaria is not my heimat , but we wanted to make a lampoon of the whole Bavarian thing.

The whole Bavarian concept, apparently, commits supermodels frolicking nude in Alpine meadows, playing suggest deeds with sausages, udders and sacred innocents, sledging topless, spanking one another in dirndls and generally enjoying the fecundity and verve for which the countries of the south German descents are celebrated. Oh, ja , its very sexual there, even the clothes they push up the bosoms and there are lots and lots of sausages, ha ha ha, she excuses. But you insure so many images that are dark and depressing at the moment. All these pathetic dames being happy! So I figured, lets show girls having fun and experiencing life.

The brand-new Bardot: Claudia Schiffer in Italy, 1989. Photo: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth has a peculiar expertise for get famous and beautiful wives( Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, Kate Moss) to remove their restraints and often their underwear while at the same time maintaining authority. Her portraits are often provocatively sex, but its usually her subjects who are doing the instigate. I always give them something to do, she confides. When somebodys not moving I get bored. I take two word-paintings and I say: Great, I have it now. But I love their own bodies in move. I like the nude figure in movement.

The fashion world adores her for this. You could tell from the raucous propel defendant for Heimat , where Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably rubbed shoulders with Yolandi Visser, and most of the prototypes from the kill intent up leap in a swimming bath. Von Unwerths Instagram feed is just one of the few that become pattern weeks actually seem enjoyable. On International Womens Day, the fashiony recess of Instagram were awash with honours to her: You produce fun, seductive, craziness to located. I ever experience pushing my borders, cuddling my femininity/ sexuality and of course my personality ever thunderous and proud when we work together, wrote one example, Alexina Graham. Ellen von Unwerths playful and empowering photos are such a exultation to be a part of and I am so happy she is there to represent women around such a male predominated profession! wrote another, Syrie Moskowitz.

I always give the examples something to do: Ellen von Unwerth. Photograph: Steffen Kugler

It is clear that everyone had a whole lot of chuckles in Bavaria. Von Unwerth gestures towards an image of three women topless on a sled: This modeling is Miss Russia and she delivered a heap of vodka to the hit. So the latter are boozing behind my back in the snowfall. Von Unwerth is not much paid attention to analysing. When I allude to the male gape she has no mind what Im talking about. When I find myself comprehending for the word porn she filmed back: Have you ever seen a porno? Well, one of your slides does literally outline two parties having copulation in a hayloft. Its more inspired by a B-movie sense of clique. I wouldnt say porno.( After our interrogation, one of her aides announces me to make sure that I dont think its prurient .)

Of course, the word I should have reached for was sexual. Or perhaps plainly German. Look at the scandal there was with Janet Jackson over here, she says referring to the Super Bowl nipple stumble of 2004. It was a tit! Its something you should be proud of and not obscure. Especially if its neat. Ha ha ha ha! In Germany it is not like this. Even if you go to a ballpark in Berlin in the summer, everybody is naked and playing frisbee. You would get arrested if you did that in LA.

Leg pluck: Bumpy Slide, from Heimat. Image: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth was abide in Frankfurt in 1954 and grew up in an orphanage and a succession of foster homes. She has no recollection of her parents and not much inclination to reflect on their absence. Its what became “peoples lives”, she says. I was free from affect and I was able to take the best from everywhere. I dont certainly have a heimat . So her heimat is wherever she happens to be? Exactly.

She moved to Bavaria aged 16 to assemble a commune and later went to study in Munich. On her first day at university person said: Hey, are you trying to do a modelling chore? And I turned around and never went back to university. That led to a shoot for the German magazine Bravo , which in turn led to her being signed by Elite representations in Paris. I kind of hated modelling, but somehow I did it for 10 times. I was not really the exhibitionist type. Its hard psychologically to be a model. And principally beings told me not to move when I was posing. I just wanted to be like the girls in my representations now.

Your Turn,( Rihanna ), 2009. Image: Ellen von Unwerth

It was merely in 1986 that she first started taking image herself a boyfriend lent her his camera on a fashion production in Kenya and she ventured into a nearby hamlet to shoot neighbourhood children. I came back home and indicated them to my friends and they were like: Theyre really good, Ellen! Because simulates are supposed to be stupid. I was amazed myself because I wasnt very interested in photography. I had never learnt how to do it.

Her likeness were published in the French periodical Jill , and she went on to shoot for i-D , the Face , Interview and Vogue , in the vein of her greatest influence Helmut Newton. It was a kill with the then unknown Claudia Schiffer for French Elle in 1988 that attained both of their professions. She was a sweetened girl and I didnt think so much of it, but when I looked at the pictures, I announced my husband[ music producer Christian Fourteau] and said: Doesnt she look like Brigitte Bardot? The teeth, the eyes? Soon after we did the Guess jeans expedition and it was a jumpstart to my vocation. She also discovered Eva Herzigov( shes exuding with verve) and Nadja Auermann, and killed the notorious 1995 Playboy film that announced that Drew Barrymore was no longer the girl from ET . She has remained in demand although there are the smartphone period has debased the art.

Saddle up: On the high horse, 2015. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Its not special any more to be a photographer, she says. Even when I take a video, everybody countenances next to me and takes the same depict. Five minutes later its on everybody else Instagram and Im age-old word so Im forced to take situations on my iPhone too.

She tells me she can usually tell the difference between a photograph a gentleman has taken and one a woman has taken. But I find it crazy how maidens photograph themselves all the time. When I was a girl and searched in the reflect, my stepmother would come in and give me a blow. There was this idea that if you did that, the devil would get in you and embezzle your temperament. Now everyone does this. I question patterns sometimes, Do you have to take so many selfies? And “theyre saying”: Exclusively when I take selfies do I get likes. Its pathetic! Narcissism is so celebrated in national societies, sometimes beings lose interest in other people.

Heimat by Ellen von Unwerth, rate 650, is published by Taschen as a collectors edition of 1,500 replicas, each numbered and signed by the photographer. For more information, going to see taschen.com

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Ellen von Unwerth:’ Let’s photograph girls experiencing life’

Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerths photographs are a riot of fun and sly subversion. Richard Godwin discovers why it is also necessary go ourselves less seriously

Ellen von Unwerth cant stop laughing. The German photographer, 63, is bouncing all over the Taschen gallery in West Hollywood in her sneakers, attempting to talk through the personas from her recent exhibit and artistry journal, Heimat .

So heimat represents Fatherland or Motherland or where you were born and where your beginnings are, she tells me. Bavaria is not my heimat , but we wanted to make a lampoon of the whole Bavarian thing.

The whole Bavarian stuff, apparently, concerns supermodels frolicking nude in Alpine grasslands, performing suggest routines with sausages, udders and piou innocents, sledging topless, spanking one another in dirndls and generally enjoying the fecundity and strength for which the southern German slopes are celebrated. Oh, ja , its very sex there, even the clothes they push up the breasts and there are lots and lots of sausages, ha ha ha, she clarifies. But you ensure so many likeness that are dark and depressing at the moment. All these pathetic wives being sad! So I figured, lets show girls having fun and enjoying life.

The new Bardot: Claudia Schiffer in Italy, 1989. Image: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth has a strange endowment for getting famous and beautiful girls( Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, Kate Moss) to remove their restraints and frequently their underwear while retaining power. Her images are often provocatively sexual, but its frequently her topics who are doing the foment. I always give them something to do, she commends. When person not moving I get bored. I take two drawings and I speak: Great, I have it now. But I adoration the body in movement. I like the nude form in movement.

The fashion world adores her for this. You could tell from the raucous launching party for Heimat , where Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably scratched shoulders with Yolandi Visser, and most of the patterns from the kill discontinued up leap in a swimming pool. Von Unwerths Instagram feed is just one of the few that draw style weeks actually gaze enjoyable. On International Womens Day, the fashiony areas of Instagram were awash with honours to her: You accompany fun, seductive, craziness to define. I ever experience pushing my frontiers, hugging my femininity/ virility and of course my personality always raucous and proud when we work together, wrote one prototype, Alexina Graham. Ellen von Unwerths playful and empowering photos are such a rejoice to be a part of and I am so happy she is there to represent women in such a male reigned professing! wrote another, Syrie Moskowitz.

I ever give the prototypes something to do: Ellen von Unwerth. Picture: Steffen Kugler

It is clear that everyone had a whole lot of titters in Bavaria. Von Unwerth actions towards an image of three women topless on a sled: This modeling is Miss Russia and she drew a mint of vodka to the kill. So the latter are drinking behind my back in the snowfall. Von Unwerth is not much given to analysing. When I allude to the male gaze she has no idea what Im talking about. When I find myself comprehending for the word porn she killed back: Have you ever seen a porno? Well, one of your situations does literally illustrate two beings having fornication in a hayloft. Its more motivated by a B-movie sense of camp. I wouldnt tell porno.( After our interview, one of her assistants announces me to make sure that I dont think its indecent .)

Of course, the word I should have reached for was erotic. Or perhaps simply German. Examine at the scandal there was with Janet Jackson over here, she does referring to the Super Bowl nipple decline of 2004. It was a tit! Its something you should be proud of and not obscure. Specially if its neat. Ha ha ha ha! In Germany it is not like this. Even if you go to a park in Berlin in the summer, everybody is naked and playing frisbee. You would get arrested if you did that in LA.

Leg pluck: Bumpy Slide, from Heimat. Image: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth was accept in Frankfurt in 1954 and grew up in an orphanage and a succession of foster homes. She has no recollection of her parents and not much inclination to reflect on their absence. Its what established my life, she mentions. I was free from force and I was able to take best available from everywhere. I dont really have a heimat . So her heimat is wherever she happens to be? Exactly.

She moved to Bavaria aged 16 to meet a commune and later went to study in Munich. On her first day at university someone announced: Hey, would you like to do a modelling job? And I turned around and never went back to university. That led to a shoot for the German publication Bravo , which in turn led to her being signed by Elite frameworks in Paris. I kind of hated modelling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist category. Its hard psychologically to be a model. And largely beings told me not to move when I was posing. I just wanted to be like the girls in my images now.

Your Turn,( Rihanna ), 2009. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

It was only in 1986 that she first started taking photograph herself a boyfriend lent her his camera on a fashion make in Kenya and she ventured into a nearby hamlet to film neighbourhood children. I came back home and depicted them to my friends and they were like: Theyre really good, Ellen! Because simulates are supposed to be stupid. I was astounded myself because I wasnt very interested in photography. I had never learnt how to do it.

Her images were published in the French periodical Jill , and she went on to shoot for i-D , the Face , Interview and Vogue , in the vein of her greatest affect Helmut Newton. It was a kill with the then unknown Claudia Schiffer for French Elle in 1988 that acquired both of their jobs. She was a sweet girlfriend and I didnt think so much of it, but when I looked at the pictures, I called my husband[ music producer Christian Fourteau] and spoke: Doesnt she look like Brigitte Bardot? The teeth, the eyes? Soon after we did the Guess jean expedition and it was a jumpstart to my job. She also discovered Eva Herzigov( shes gushing with vitality) and Nadja Auermann, and killed the notorious 1995 Playboy hit that was indicated that Drew Barrymore was no longer the girl from ET . She has remained in demand even though the smartphone age has demeaned the art.

Saddle up: On the high horse, 2015. Picture: Ellen von Unwerth

Its not special any more to be a photographer, she articulates. Even when I take a word-painting, everybody stands next to me and takes the same representation. Five minutes later its on everyone elses Instagram and Im old-fashioned news so Im was necessary to take drawings on my iPhone too.

She tells me she can usually tell the difference between a photograph a gentleman has taken and one the status of women has taken. But I find it crazy how ladies photograph themselves all the time. When I was a girl and looked in the mirror, my stepmother would come in and give me a slap. There was this idea that if you did that, the demon would get in you and plagiarize your temperament. Now everyone does this. I ask modelings sometimes, Do you have to take so many selfies? And “theyre saying”: Merely when I take selfies do I get likes. Its sad! Narcissism is so celebrated in national societies, sometimes people lose interest in other people.

Heimat by Ellen von Unwerth, rate 650, is published by Taschen as a collectors copy of 1,500 photocopies, each numbered and signed by the photographer. For more information, go to taschen.com

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Ellen von Unwerth:’ Let’s photograph girlfriends experiencing life’

Blending old-world charm with a uniquely provocative eroticism, Ellen von Unwerths photographs are a riot of fun and sly subversion. Richard Godwin discovers why it is also necessary give ourselves less seriously

Ellen von Unwerth cant stop laugh. The German photographer, 63, is rebounding around the Taschen gallery in West Hollywood in her sneakers, attempting to talk through the epitomes from her recent expo and prowes notebook, Heimat .

So heimat signifies Fatherland or Motherland or where you were born and where your beginnings are, she tells me. Bavaria is not my heimat , but we wanted to make a charade of the whole Bavarian thing.

The whole Bavarian thought, apparently, commits supermodels cavorting nude in Alpine grasslands, performing suggestive plays with sausages, udders and sacred innocents, sledging topless, spanking each other in dirndls and generally enjoying the fecundity and vigor for which the countries of the south German ascents are celebrated. Oh, ja , its very sex there, even the clothes they push up the bosoms and there are lots and lots of sausages, ha ha ha, she interprets. But you examine so many portraits that are dark and depressing at the moment. All these pathetic wives being happy! So I figured, tells show girls having fun and experiencing life.

The brand-new Bardot: Claudia Schiffer in Italy, 1989. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth has a strange flair for going famous and beautiful dames( Claudia Schiffer, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Rihanna, Kate Moss) to remove their restraints and often their underwear while at the same time maintaining ascendancy. Her images are often provocatively sexual, but its generally her themes who are doing the incite. I always give them something to do, she discloses. When individual not moving I get bored. I take two word-paintings and I allege: Great, I have it now. But I adoration their own bodies in gesture. I like the nude figure in movement.

The fashion world adores her for this. You could tell from the raucous launch defendant for Heimat , where Arnold Schwarzenegger improbably rubbed shoulders with Yolandi Visser, and most of the modelings from the kill intent up leap in a swimming pool. Von Unwerths Instagram feed is among the few that represent pattern weeks actually appear enjoyable. On International Womens Day, the fashiony corners of Instagram were awash with salutes to her: You fetch fun, seductive, craziness to define. I always experience pushing my boundaries, cuddling my femininity/ virility and of course my personality always loud and proud when we work together, wrote one modeling, Alexina Graham. Ellen von Unwerths playful and empowering photos are such a exultation to be a part of and I am so happy she is there to represent women in such a male reigned profession! wrote another, Syrie Moskowitz.

I ever give the models something to do: Ellen von Unwerth. Photo: Steffen Kugler

It is clear that everyone had a whole lot of titters in Bavaria. Von Unwerth gestures towards an image of three women topless on a sled: This example is Miss Russia and she raised a mint of vodka to the kill. So they were boozing behind my back in the snow. Von Unwerth is not much given to analysing. When I allude to the male gaze she has no idea what Im talking about. When I find myself comprehending for the word porn she hit back: Have you ever seen a porno? Well, one of your drawings does literally image two parties having sex in a hayloft. Its more motivated by a B-movie sense of clique. I wouldnt enunciate porno.( After our interrogation, one of her deputies calls me is responsible for ensuring that I dont think its indecent .)

Of course, the word I should have reached for was erotic. Or perhaps simply German. Look at the gossip there was with Janet Jackson over here, she pronounces referring to the Super Bowl nipple steal of 2004. It was a boob! Its something you should be proud of and not disguise. Especially if its neat. Ha ha ha ha! In Germany it is not like this. Even if you go to a ballpark in Berlin in the summer, everybody is naked and playing frisbee. You would get arrested if you did that in LA.

Leg pulling: Bumpy Slide, from Heimat. Photo: Ellen von Unwerth

Von Unwerth was carry in Frankfurt in 1954 and grew up in an orphanage and a succession of foster homes. She has no recollection of her parents and not much inclination to reflect on their absence. Its what realise my life, she does. I was free from force and I was able to take best available from everywhere. I dont genuinely have a heimat . So her heimat is wherever she happens to be? Exactly.

She moved to Bavaria aged 16 to meet a commune and later went to study in Munich. On her first day at university someone responded: Hey, would you like to do a pattern responsibility? And I turned around and never went back to university. That led to a shoot for the German magazine Bravo , which in turn led to her being signed by Elite models in Paris. I kind of hated modelling, but somehow I did it for 10 years. I was not really the exhibitionist form. Its hard psychologically to be a model. And predominantly people told me not to move when I was posing. I just wanted to be like the girls in my paints now.

Your Turn,( Rihanna ), 2009. Photograph: Ellen von Unwerth

It was only in 1986 that she first started taking picture herself a boyfriend lent her his camera on a pattern product in Kenya and she ventured into a nearby hamlet to kill local offsprings. I came back home and testified them to your best friend and they were like: Theyre really good, Ellen! Because frameworks are supposed to be stupid. I was astounded myself because I wasnt very interested in photography. I had never learnt how to do it.

Her portraits were published in the French publication Jill , and she went on to shoot for i-D , the Face , Interview and Vogue , in the vein of her greatest affect Helmut Newton. It was a film with the then unknown Claudia Schiffer for French Elle in 1988 that established both of their occupations. She was a sugared girlfriend and I didnt think so much of it, but when I looked at the pictures, I announced my husband[ music producer Christian Fourteau] and supposed: Doesnt she look like Brigitte Bardot? The teeth, the eyes? Soon after we did the Guess jean safarus and it was a jumpstart to my job. She also discovered Eva Herzigov( shes gushing with verve) and Nadja Auermann, and hit the infamous 1995 Playboy shoot that was indicated that Drew Barrymore was no longer the girl from ET . She has remained in demand even though the smartphone era has debased the art.

Saddle up: On the high horse, 2015. Picture: Ellen von Unwerth

Its not special any more to be a photographer, she does. Even when I take a video, everybody stands next to me and takes the same envision. Five a few minutes later its on everybody else Instagram and Im old-time word so Im forced to take photos on my iPhone too.

She tells me she can usually tell the difference between a photograph a man has taken and one the status of women has taken. But I find it crazy how wives photograph themselves all the time. When I was a girl and examined in the mirror, my stepmother would come in and give me a smacking. There was this idea that if you did that, the demon would get in you and steal your identity. Now everyone does this. I expect patterns sometimes, Do you were supposed to take so many selfies? And “theyre saying”: Merely when I take selfies do I get likes. Its sad! Narcissism is so celebrated in national societies, sometimes people lose interest in other people.

Heimat by Ellen von Unwerth, cost 650, issued by Taschen as a collectors copy of 1,500 simulates, each numbered and signed by the photographer. For more information, go to taschen.com

Read more: www.theguardian.com

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Why the Internet cannot represent the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh

Warning : Such articles contains video that are likely to potentially triggering .

He developed. He received. He brutalized.

In a shaking viral video, Columbia, South Carolina deputy Ben Fields( a grey male police officer the size of an offensive lineman, better known as Officer Slam to students) squints toward an gullible young Black female student at Spring Valley High School. Harmonizing to unconfirmed reports, as the Root notes, she refused to leave the classroom per her teachers requisition, for supposedly not following a few simple guilds: namely, to stop chewing gumor to put away her phone. But that’s irrelevant.

As the footage depicts, the unidentified student is apparently without a artillery. She constitutes no clear and present peril. Shes not even suspected of having committed a violent crimes. Yet Fields, acting as the schools safety officer, enters the classroom to occur on the teaches behalf. Hes barely tries to encourage her partnership, let alone ask for her back of the narration. Instead, Fields instantly picks her up from her table, slings her in the various regions of the chamber, and persists roughing her up after she thuds to the floor.

On face, that alone might be enough for most people on the Internet to respond in feeling, cruelty, or abhorrence with the undue oblige used by the officer against an unarmed high school student. But where theres a will to be ignorant, theres surely a direction. Cue the impulsive, allowed online spectators shaking in to defend law enforcement.

As the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh demonstrates, yet again, the Internet is filled to the brim with people who assert that Black people must have done something to deserve merciless medication from detectives. Since Monday, the hashtag associated with the violent incident has elicitedmore than 150,000 tweets, according to Topsy, but the online sentiment still exposes a broader indifference or unwillingness to condemn anti-Black police brutality.

Its time to stop represent the officers who behave with the immunity theyre rendered, both by the long arm of the law, and by usespecially as it were related to Black women and girls.

A video posted by @_the. kiddd on Oct 26, 2015 at 3:04 pm PDT

One prime enabler of Fields acts at Spring Valley High, and a villain du jour in the debates on anti-Black combating racism and violence, is none other than Don Lemon. In his initial on-air reaction, the CNN fixes row of questioning testified so contentious, his call( again) became a top-1 0 veering Twitter topic in the United States, sparking online dialogue about whether or not the young student shouldve been treated in such a manner.

This broadcasted exchange is about more than Don Lemons prolonged stupidity while enveloping racial questions on a major national pulpit .

Id like to know more before passing arbitration, Lemon articulated, a position echoed by many online onlookers in the hours immediately following the liberation of three different inclinations of footage from that Spring Valley classroom. But former federal prosecutor, CNN contributor Sunny Hostinwho happens to be a Black woman, and an expert much more qualified to address the nature of the situationimmediately defied his legal logic.

I dont need to know more, Hostin told, despite Lemons attempts to shush her. The constitution provides that the standard here is whether the policeman has to use this kind of patrol, whether its reasonable and necessary to somehow assure restraint in the school. The bottom line is, Don, this is a young girl in institution. “They dont have” justification for using this kind and it is assault.

The next day, Richmond County Sheriff Leon Lott had similar questions as Hostin, which induced the FBI to open an investigation into the matter on Tuesday.

To be clear, “its about” more than Don Lemonspersistent ignorance while covering racial issues on a major national scaffold. Its about the propensityfrom Black humen in situations of ability, racists with negligent abandon, and staunch polouse guards on the Internetto erase, ignore, or minimise the pain that many Black women and girls face at the mitts of police officers, many of whom are white.

The online defense of Fields too spotlights a pernicious doubled guideline .

Citing Lemons questioning, online users have concealed behind faux-journalistic ethics and a purported need for verification to enable the people who defend Disciplines the most. In a post for the unaffiliated CNN Commentary blog, which Lemon retweeted on Tuesday, the author lauds Lemon hesitantly, calling him for formerly the voice of reason before decrying the trolls( including Hostin) who blared him on Twitter. Lemons reactionone shared by several on social mediawas praised as reasonable and responsible.

But even further, the online defense of Fields likewise highlights a injurious double criterion.

@Nettaaaaaaaa Don Lemon was right for formerly. Chris Hayes is a moron.

Mama P. (@ anniebeans5 9) October 28, 2015

@Mediaite @SunnyHostin @donlemon Don you should not have to defend ur point of vue u were& 100% right to say if u were not in the room

sam (@ sammedisam) October 28, 2015

@Mediaite @normagenie Actually, @donlemon, you’ve done the right thing, even if it was only accidental. I honour you.

Marie von Astra (@ marievonastra) October 27, 2015

@donlemon delivering a almost perfect thinking just now on @CNN impartial ruling certainly best available CNN has to offer right now

Howard (@ hsmythwithaY) October 27, 2015

Anyone with a lash pulsing could bet their times income that the Internet reactionand maybe even Lemonswould be markedly different if a burly, bodybuilding, Black male police officer roughed up a lily-white, blonde, female student in a high school class. The Internet would be in even bigger uproar calling for the officers ouster, and he wouldve likely been fired without question, even before a formal investigation took shape, as Fields has been afforded.

Yet its officers like Fields who often get the benefit of the doubt from many observers, and even get away with slaughter in special courts. That includes Daniel Holtzclaw in Oklahoma, who are continuing faces indicts for supposedly abusing his supremacy to serially crimes multiple Black maidens. It also includes Eric Casebolt in McKinney, Texas, who resigned after slamming and pinning a teenage Black girl wearing a swimsuit, while utilizing his handgun to scare away concerned bystanders over an suspect consortium defendant quarrel. And lest we not forget Brian Encinia, in Waller County, Texas, who viciously took down an unarmed Sandra Bland over an alleged traffic misdemeanour, dragging her out of her gondola and resulting her to the holding station where molted soon, mysteriously die.

And with the ethnic capacity reversalhad the man been Black and the student been whiteat most any other high school in America, the classroom teacher may have even is seeking to deescalate developments in the situation. The young lady bystanding peers may have defied his authority even more than they did at Spring Valley, where a number of concerned students defiantly recorded the incident on their cell phone.

Officer who violently apprehended student known as “Officer Slam, ” speaks witness #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh #inners https :// t.co /8 DqARYar9H

All In w/ Chris Hayes (@ allinwithchris) October 28, 2015

Ben Fields dating a Black woman has NOTHING to do with his actions. #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh https :// t.co/ 2SqQz50ggM

rolandsmartin (@ rolandsmartin) October 27, 2015

Notably, one of those students1 8-year-old Niya Kenny, a young Black womanwas also arrested for intervene in defense of her classmate.

I was bellowing, What the f, what the f is really happening? I was praying out loud for the girl, she told South Carolinas WLTX, adding that she also preserved the traumatic happen on her cameraphone. I only couldnt believe this was happening, I was just exclaiming, and he articulated, Since “youve had” so much better to say, you are coming too. I simply applied my hands behind my back.

But as Kenny also spotlights, according to reports, Fields has a sick honour for administering female students. Ive listened in the past slammed pregnant women, teenage girlfriends, hes known for throwing, Kenny told MSNBCs Chris Hayes on Tuesday evening , noting that she told fellow classmates to strap in for the purposes of an unsettling occurrence. And granted his violent honour for undue army, Kenny said she also spurred her peers to take out their cell phone to movie an incident that she knew wouldnt dissolve well.

If a surrendering, white supremacist murder suspect can getcoddled into police custody, then young, unarmed Black students should expect more from police officer .

Kennys dreads arent unfounded, after all, contributed Fieldss history of misconduct and ethnic bias. In addition, as the Roots Kristen West-Savali highlights, Black girls in the United States are six times more likely to be suspended or expelled than their lily-white counterparts, per a 2015 reportfrom the African American Policy Forum. As AAPF co-founder and statute professor Kimberle Crenshaw memo in the report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, very concerned about the dangers that Black girls and other girls of hue encounter rarely receive the full courtesy of researchers, counselors, policy makers, and funders.

Indeed, the why does it have to be about hasten protection simply doesnt work in the cases in which ethnic and gender biases, combined, demonstrably play a role in how Black girls are treated in institution fixes. If the challenges of daughters of coloring are to be addressed, then research and policy frameworks must move beyond the notion that all of the young people of coloring who are in crisis are boys, the reports executive summary governments, and that the concerns of white girlfriends are indistinguishable from those of girls of dye.

Black girls accept hugely from overpolicing in schools. Via @aapf: #SpringValleyHigh pic.twitter.com/ aJP4 2m3Ht7

Brittany Packnett (@ MsPackyetti) October 26, 2015

“The narrative that pitch-black daughters are just fine is a dangerous myth.” https :// t.co/ P1LG0WzyEk #BlackGirlsMatter #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh

Ash Consulting Group (@ AshConsultingGr) October 27, 2015

What will it take for the public to condemn police inhumanity outright, when its a clear and present danger to people of color in America, including and especially Black women and girls? If the Internet has long waited for a intellect, the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh is most certainly a prime one. But, even so, the reasons are irrelevant here, because no man in similar circumstances deserves being brutalized by the police officers who swore protecting children.

If a surrender, white supremacist carnage believe( speak: the Charleston crap-shooter) can getcoddled into police detention and furnished with a bulletproof vestafter murdering several Black church congregants exactly a two-hour drive away from Spring Valley High Schoolthen young, unarmed Black students should expect police officer and government agencies to fully involve their lives with respect and dignity.

Because their Black lives question, even when the Internet bickers otherwise.

Derrick Cliftonis the agent mind editor for the Daily Dot and a New York-based journalist and orator, principally clothing issues of identity, culture, and social right .

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He developed. He received. He brutalized.

In a shaking viral video, Columbia, South Carolina deputy Ben Fields( a grey male police officer the size of an offensive lineman, better known as Officer Slam to students) squints toward an gullible young Black female student at Spring Valley High School. Harmonizing to unconfirmed reports, as the Root notes, she refused to leave the classroom per her teachers requisition, for supposedly not following a few simple guilds: namely, to stop chewing gumor to put away her phone. But that’s irrelevant.

As the footage depicts, the unidentified student is apparently without a artillery. She constitutes no clear and present peril. Shes not even suspected of having committed a violent crimes. Yet Fields, acting as the schools safety officer, enters the classroom to occur on the teaches behalf. Hes barely tries to encourage her partnership, let alone ask for her back of the narration. Instead, Fields instantly picks her up from her table, slings her in the various regions of the chamber, and persists roughing her up after she thuds to the floor.

On face, that alone might be enough for most people on the Internet to respond in feeling, cruelty, or abhorrence with the undue oblige used by the officer against an unarmed high school student. But where theres a will to be ignorant, theres surely a direction. Cue the impulsive, allowed online spectators shaking in to defend law enforcement.

As the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh demonstrates, yet again, the Internet is filled to the brim with people who assert that Black people must have done something to deserve merciless medication from detectives. Since Monday, the hashtag associated with the violent incident has elicitedmore than 150,000 tweets, according to Topsy, but the online sentiment still exposes a broader indifference or unwillingness to condemn anti-Black police brutality.

Its time to stop represent the officers who behave with the immunity theyre rendered, both by the long arm of the law, and by usespecially as it were related to Black women and girls.

A video posted by @_the. kiddd on Oct 26, 2015 at 3:04 pm PDT

One prime enabler of Fields acts at Spring Valley High, and a villain du jour in the debates on anti-Black combating racism and violence, is none other than Don Lemon. In his initial on-air reaction, the CNN fixes row of questioning testified so contentious, his call( again) became a top-1 0 veering Twitter topic in the United States, sparking online dialogue about whether or not the young student shouldve been treated in such a manner.

This broadcasted exchange is about more than Don Lemons prolonged stupidity while enveloping racial questions on a major national pulpit .

Id like to know more before passing arbitration, Lemon articulated, a position echoed by many online onlookers in the hours immediately following the liberation of three different inclinations of footage from that Spring Valley classroom. But former federal prosecutor, CNN contributor Sunny Hostinwho happens to be a Black woman, and an expert much more qualified to address the nature of the situationimmediately defied his legal logic.

I dont need to know more, Hostin told, despite Lemons attempts to shush her. The constitution provides that the standard here is whether the policeman has to use this kind of patrol, whether its reasonable and necessary to somehow assure restraint in the school. The bottom line is, Don, this is a young girl in institution. “They dont have” justification for using this kind and it is assault.

The next day, Richmond County Sheriff Leon Lott had similar questions as Hostin, which induced the FBI to open an investigation into the matter on Tuesday.

To be clear, “its about” more than Don Lemonspersistent ignorance while covering racial issues on a major national scaffold. Its about the propensityfrom Black humen in situations of ability, racists with negligent abandon, and staunch polouse guards on the Internetto erase, ignore, or minimise the pain that many Black women and girls face at the mitts of police officers, many of whom are white.

The online defense of Fields too spotlights a pernicious doubled guideline .

Citing Lemons questioning, online users have concealed behind faux-journalistic ethics and a purported need for verification to enable the people who defend Disciplines the most. In a post for the unaffiliated CNN Commentary blog, which Lemon retweeted on Tuesday, the author lauds Lemon hesitantly, calling him for formerly the voice of reason before decrying the trolls( including Hostin) who blared him on Twitter. Lemons reactionone shared by several on social mediawas praised as reasonable and responsible.

But even further, the online defense of Fields likewise highlights a injurious double criterion.

@Nettaaaaaaaa Don Lemon was right for formerly. Chris Hayes is a moron.

Mama P. (@ anniebeans5 9) October 28, 2015

@Mediaite @SunnyHostin @donlemon Don you should not have to defend ur point of vue u were& 100% right to say if u were not in the room

sam (@ sammedisam) October 28, 2015

@Mediaite @normagenie Actually, @donlemon, you’ve done the right thing, even if it was only accidental. I honour you.

Marie von Astra (@ marievonastra) October 27, 2015

@donlemon delivering a almost perfect thinking just now on @CNN impartial ruling certainly best available CNN has to offer right now

Howard (@ hsmythwithaY) October 27, 2015

Anyone with a lash pulsing could bet their times income that the Internet reactionand maybe even Lemonswould be markedly different if a burly, bodybuilding, Black male police officer roughed up a lily-white, blonde, female student in a high school class. The Internet would be in even bigger uproar calling for the officers ouster, and he wouldve likely been fired without question, even before a formal investigation took shape, as Fields has been afforded.

Yet its officers like Fields who often get the benefit of the doubt from many observers, and even get away with slaughter in special courts. That includes Daniel Holtzclaw in Oklahoma, who are continuing faces indicts for supposedly abusing his supremacy to serially crimes multiple Black maidens. It also includes Eric Casebolt in McKinney, Texas, who resigned after slamming and pinning a teenage Black girl wearing a swimsuit, while utilizing his handgun to scare away concerned bystanders over an suspect consortium defendant quarrel. And lest we not forget Brian Encinia, in Waller County, Texas, who viciously took down an unarmed Sandra Bland over an alleged traffic misdemeanour, dragging her out of her gondola and resulting her to the holding station where molted soon, mysteriously die.

And with the ethnic capacity reversalhad the man been Black and the student been whiteat most any other high school in America, the classroom teacher may have even is seeking to deescalate developments in the situation. The young lady bystanding peers may have defied his authority even more than they did at Spring Valley, where a number of concerned students defiantly recorded the incident on their cell phone.

Officer who violently apprehended student known as “Officer Slam, ” speaks witness #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh #inners https :// t.co /8 DqARYar9H

All In w/ Chris Hayes (@ allinwithchris) October 28, 2015

Ben Fields dating a Black woman has NOTHING to do with his actions. #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh https :// t.co/ 2SqQz50ggM

rolandsmartin (@ rolandsmartin) October 27, 2015

Notably, one of those students1 8-year-old Niya Kenny, a young Black womanwas also arrested for intervene in defense of her classmate.

I was bellowing, What the f, what the f is really happening? I was praying out loud for the girl, she told South Carolinas WLTX, adding that she also preserved the traumatic happen on her cameraphone. I only couldnt believe this was happening, I was just exclaiming, and he articulated, Since “youve had” so much better to say, you are coming too. I simply applied my hands behind my back.

But as Kenny also spotlights, according to reports, Fields has a sick honour for administering female students. Ive listened in the past slammed pregnant women, teenage girlfriends, hes known for throwing, Kenny told MSNBCs Chris Hayes on Tuesday evening , noting that she told fellow classmates to strap in for the purposes of an unsettling occurrence. And granted his violent honour for undue army, Kenny said she also spurred her peers to take out their cell phone to movie an incident that she knew wouldnt dissolve well.

If a surrendering, white supremacist murder suspect can getcoddled into police custody, then young, unarmed Black students should expect more from police officer .

Kennys dreads arent unfounded, after all, contributed Fieldss history of misconduct and ethnic bias. In addition, as the Roots Kristen West-Savali highlights, Black girls in the United States are six times more likely to be suspended or expelled than their lily-white counterparts, per a 2015 reportfrom the African American Policy Forum. As AAPF co-founder and statute professor Kimberle Crenshaw memo in the report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, very concerned about the dangers that Black girls and other girls of hue encounter rarely receive the full courtesy of researchers, counselors, policy makers, and funders.

Indeed, the why does it have to be about hasten protection simply doesnt work in the cases in which ethnic and gender biases, combined, demonstrably play a role in how Black girls are treated in institution fixes. If the challenges of daughters of coloring are to be addressed, then research and policy frameworks must move beyond the notion that all of the young people of coloring who are in crisis are boys, the reports executive summary governments, and that the concerns of white girlfriends are indistinguishable from those of girls of dye.

Black girls accept hugely from overpolicing in schools. Via @aapf: #SpringValleyHigh pic.twitter.com/ aJP4 2m3Ht7

Brittany Packnett (@ MsPackyetti) October 26, 2015

“The narrative that pitch-black daughters are just fine is a dangerous myth.” https :// t.co/ P1LG0WzyEk #BlackGirlsMatter #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh

Ash Consulting Group (@ AshConsultingGr) October 27, 2015

What will it take for the public to condemn police inhumanity outright, when its a clear and present danger to people of color in America, including and especially Black women and girls? If the Internet has long waited for a intellect, the #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh is most certainly a prime one. But, even so, the reasons are irrelevant here, because no man in similar circumstances deserves being brutalized by the police officers who swore protecting children.

If a surrender, white supremacist carnage believe( speak: the Charleston crap-shooter) can getcoddled into police detention and furnished with a bulletproof vestafter murdering several Black church congregants exactly a two-hour drive away from Spring Valley High Schoolthen young, unarmed Black students should expect police officer and government agencies to fully involve their lives with respect and dignity.

Because their Black lives question, even when the Internet bickers otherwise.

Derrick Cliftonis the agent mind editor for the Daily Dot and a New York-based journalist and orator, principally clothing issues of identity, culture, and social right .

Photo via _the.kidd/ Instagram( CC by 2.0) | Remix by Max Fleishman

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