December 2011
24 posts
WatchHeliotropes (2010)
I’ve had this bookmarked and have been watching it at least once per day for about a month now.
The most beautiful 3 minutes you’ll ever spend watching a video. Do yourself a favor, click play.
Accomplishments of the Day:
Received a bachelor’s degree.
Got accepted to City Year LA for the 12-13 school year.
Moved home.
Lit the Christmas tree.
It’s great to be alive!
Twitter By Post →
“Twitter is the contemporary postcard—social updates that are limited by size, but not imagination. For a month, with a billion stamps, our correspondent moved his tweets from the laptop to the post office, and rediscovered the joy of mail.”
John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest... →
anaittamanian:
hahahahaha so good
this just might be the best TED talk I’ve ever seen.
CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND
IT’S TIME YOU HAD THE TALK
GIVE YOUR REASONS
SAY IT’S NOT HER FAULT
BUT YOU JUST MET SOMEBODY NEW
(themesong.)
Variations on a Theme: Works Cited
Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Ain’t I a Beauty Queen?: Black Women, Beauty, and the Politics of Race
Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival
Write Black Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature
Literary Feminisms
Intercultural Voices in Contemporary British Literature: The Implosion of Empire
Shades of Blackness:...
The National & Bon Iver perform "Vanderlyle... →
Rylan - The National
new song.
True Loves (The Hood Internet Remix) - Hooray for...
SAY IT OUT LOUD
When you think a loving thought about someone, it’s like a singular and unique bubble of positivity that, unless communicated to that person, evaporates into nothing, wasted. Why not give it life? Give that gift of insight to a person that will be changed by it. If there’s anything the world always needs more of, it’s positivity… Whatever goodness you are able to see in others or in...
So, sorry for totally dropping the ball on the...
I just kinda got sick of taking phone pictures of stuff and clogging up my tumblr.
…But I promise that over the past month I have gotten rid of nearly 50% of my wardrobe. This is not an exaggeration. Want proof: my donations filled up 2/3 of one of those Goodwill donation tubs (those big blue things). Want further proof? Go shopping at the Geneseo Goodwill, where at least 1/5 of their stock...
