Behind the Lens

Mar 25 2012 ∞

I went grocery shopping with my mum today to help her, and so that I could get a ride to another store to buy more conditioner and body wash. 

Ended up spending 60 dollars.  But, I got a workout top (taking going to the gym very seriously this summer, to get more healthy), two dresses that can be casual or business casual as well as a 100% silk tunic which is absolutely stunning and only 10$ from a thrift store.  [to clarify, only the silk tunic was thrifted, definitely NOT the workout top!]  Didn’t plan to spend so much, but if I had bought dresses another day and from another store I imagine that I would have spent much more.  And that 60$ includes the toiletries… at the very least, bang for the buck. 

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Mar 20 2012 ∞
champagnecandy: derica: Jean-Michel Basquiat | Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) Michael Stewart was an 135 pound, 25 year old African American graffiti artist from NYC who was arrested on September 15th 1983 after being seen scrawling graffiti on a wall of First Avenue Station in Manhattan .   He was booked at the Union Square District 4 transit police headquarters for resisting arrest and unlawful possession of marijuana, then was transported to Bellevue Hospital Center to undergo psychiatric observation. Stewart was admited to  Bellevue Hospital at 03:22 am, handcuffed, legs bound and comatose. He never regained consciousness. was admitted to hospital about half an hour after his arrest in a coma from which he never awoke, dying on September 28th.   Six of those officers eventually faced homicide charges, and were acquitted.  They were all white, and the jury were all white.  According to the city’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Elliot Gross’s preliminary autopsy report, Stewart’s injuries of facial bruises and abrasions on his wrists were not linked to his death  His death was from cardiac arrest caused by strangulation. The November 2 medical examiner’s final report from Dr. Gross differed from his preliminary report. Gross declined to state explicitly what caused the death, but reported that Stewart died of “physical injury to the spinal cord in the upper neck” and concluded that there were “a number of possibilities as to how an injury of this type can occur… (via southerntellect:) Jean Michel Basquiat was upset and traumatized by the police killing of Michael Stewart; he felt that it could just as easily have been him. Obviously this piece looks at police brutality, with the word “defacement” referring to both the graffiti artist’s offense and the lethal beating to the face which the police administered for that offense (and probably more than that, too; e.g. erasure, dehumanization, non-recognition). Being the son of a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Jean Michel grew up trilingual, speaking Spanish, French, and English, and all three languages make frequent appearances on his canvases. (via zuky:) relevant, New York. read this. 

champagnecandy:

derica:

Jean-Michel Basquiat | Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)

Michael Stewart was an 135 pound, 25 year old African American graffiti artist from NYC who was arrested on September 15th 1983 after being seen scrawling graffiti on a wall of First Avenue Station in Manhattan . 

 He was booked at the Union Square District 4 transit police headquarters for resisting arrest and unlawful possession of marijuana, then was transported to Bellevue Hospital Center to undergo psychiatric observation. Stewart was admited to  Bellevue Hospital at 03:22 am, handcuffed, legs bound and comatose. He never regained consciousness. was admitted to hospital about half an hour after his arrest in a coma from which he never awoke, dying on September 28th.  

Six of those officers eventually faced homicide charges, and were acquitted.  They were all white, and the jury were all white.  According to the city’s Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Elliot Gross’s preliminary autopsy report, Stewart’s injuries of facial bruises and abrasions on his wrists were not linked to his death  His death was from cardiac arrest caused by strangulation.

The November 2 medical examiner’s final report from Dr. Gross differed from his preliminary report. Gross declined to state explicitly what caused the death, but reported that Stewart died of “physical injury to the spinal cord in the upper neck” and concluded that there were “a number of possibilities as to how an injury of this type can occur…

(via southerntellect:)

Jean Michel Basquiat was upset and traumatized by the police killing of Michael Stewart; he felt that it could just as easily have been him. Obviously this piece looks at police brutality, with the word “defacement” referring to both the graffiti artist’s offense and the lethal beating to the face which the police administered for that offense (and probably more than that, too; e.g. erasure, dehumanization, non-recognition). Being the son of a Haitian father and Puerto Rican mother, Jean Michel grew up trilingual, speaking Spanish, French, and English, and all three languages make frequent appearances on his canvases.

(via zuky:)

relevant, New York. read this. 

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Mar 19 2012 ∞

Three hours to go. I can do this.

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Six hours to go.  Then onto the next one.

Mar 18 2012 ∞
urhajos: ‘Love Is All Right’ by Young Davies In a strange way, this reminds me of “Son of Man” by Magritte. (now to force myself back to work)

urhajos:

‘Love Is All Right’ by Young Davies


In a strange way, this reminds me of “Son of Man” by Magritte.

(now to force myself back to work)

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Can’t believe I’ve been sick for two solid weeks now. I was almost feeling better around Thursday but I’ve woken up today feeling much worse. Obviously I just can’t get a break.

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Mar 17 2012 ∞

May have made up my mind.

Now that I’ve wasted the whole evening, I better scratch out at least a draft of this paper on refugee policy/global governance.  And I’m going to bed by 1.

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D:  I would quite like this set of cutlery.

D:  I would quite like this set of cutlery.

(via thingsorganizedneatly)

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psychedelicmindfluid: Prayer of the woods

psychedelicmindfluid:

Prayer of the woods

(Source: , via amorebella)

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