all you have to do today
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If she always looked this way maybe people would take her a bit more serious (or is it seriously? ya’ll get it).
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After a while you learn the subtle difference between
holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and
company doesn’t always mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
and presents aren’t promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats with your head
up and your eyes open, with the grace of an adult,
not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns if
you get too much.
So plant your own garden and decorate your own
soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
that you really are strong,
you really do have worth.
And you learn and you learn…
with every goodbye, you learn..After a While, (Veronica Shoftshall, 1971)(via ladystilts)
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Having worked in design, photoshop and by playing around with photography and self portraits, I know that nothing goes to print without touch ups. Even though photoshop is only half the story, the first being the makeup, hair, lighting, clothes, etc., I’m still amazed at the transformation.
Compare these two images with alterations in photoshop. It’s not a before makeup/after makeup (we personally know what makeup can do). It’s how believably unreal the end result is. If I had not seen the before picture, I would have said, “ya, probably some smoothing of the skintone, evenness of the face. Maybe clean up some stray hair.” But this difference was pretty amazing to me. Same image, both posed with makeup and lighting, but the photoshop difference. Pretty wow.
Dont feel bad when do don’t look the way models do in magazines. Chances are, the models don’t either.
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Awwww! That’s love!
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This past Memorial Day weekend, while walking home from work, twin brothers Aaron and Kristin were brutally attacked around 3 am Sunday in the LES by approximately 10-12 men. Despite eyewitnesses and surveillance video of the attack, the NYPD were quick to label the attack “gang related” and close the case without any investigation. When Aaron’s girlfriend, Cipriana followed up with police a day after the attack she was told that the twins said they did not want an investigation and would “handle it themselves”. Knowing this was untrue, Cipriana encouraged Aaron to contact the police and ask them to pursue the investigation.
When Aaron spoke with police and explained that they did in fact want an investigation he was told he could “face jail time for lying”. It wasn’t until Cipriana took to her blog, urbanbushbabes.com to write about the attack and the lack of police investigation that the press took note (NY Post & Fox 5) and the police suddenly changed their tune. Now the NYPD claims the case was never closed and has labeled it a hate crime.
We really need your help to get this story out and to get justice for the twins. Here’s how you can help:
• Sign the change.org petition to hold the NYPD & Internal Affairs Bureau Liable for their misconduct in the handling of Aaron and Kristin’s case
• Click here to tweet the petition using the #justice4twins hashtag• read and share the full story and video from Cipriana’s blog
• Reblog and share this post
• Tweet this story using #justice4twins to media influencers like @MHarrisPerry @TheRevAl @ClutchMagazine @blackvoices and @thinkprogress
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