Brazilian artist L7M (previously) depicts owls, ducks, sparrows, and other birds materializing from a chaotic swirl of dripped paint and flourishes of spray.
Ohhhhhh! I like that method of mocha diffusion MUCH better. I’ve been seeing lots examples of the technique lately, but usually people hold the pot in place and the resulting diffusion pattern looks very static. That swirl technique gives it a much more dynamic feel. Hmmmmm. Okay. I’m going to have to try that someday.
I really hope the silver/gray hair trend is making sweet old ladies feel better about their gray hair. I really really do.
just so you all know – i’m a hairstylist and i can tell you for certain that it is. 🙂
whenever a senior woman with gray/silver/white hair sits in my chair i always tell her it’s lovely (which it is!) and i’ve had numerous conversations with elderly women about how their hair color is “popular with the young folks these days!”
one woman with white hair said to me before that she’s been getting a lot more compliments about her hair from people my age (i’m in my twenties) and that it’s made her feel so good about “the hair that god gave her”. a few other older women have joked that the kids these days only wish they could have colored hair “as beautiful as [their] natural hair!”
a lot of women with white/silver/grey hair are very self-conscious about it and so many of them have told me honestly that this trend has made them feel so much more proud of their hair.
Huh. I recently let my hair go it’s natural color and I got a compliment on it from a very young hairdresser. (Age is relative. 🙂 ) Just thought she was just her own spirit. Had no idea it was a trend beyond her.
Am I the only one that’s a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?
The Original Series wasn’t even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, “Ohh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each side” and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldn’t be clearly spelled out, “pro-choice is right, if you’re against it you’re the bad guys.”
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. That episode is exactly what you think it is: pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-women’s right to choose. And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969.
It probably couldn’t air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like “I miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasn’t all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldn’t put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!” And meanwhile I’m just over here like “…did you actually watch the show?”
It’s also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. It’s difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchise’s roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.
Hearseeno 