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Ramblings about the experiences of one Ceramics Grad Student

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coolchicksfromhistory: Feminist Gloria Steinem speaking at Cal State Long Beach, Calif., 1970. “Our objection to women being regarded as sex objects is that it goes only one way. Men are beautiful, too.”

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Feminist Gloria Steinem speaking at Cal State Long Beach, Calif., 1970.

“Our objection to women being regarded as sex objects is that it goes only one way. Men are beautiful, too.”

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I had a beautiful childhood and a lovely childhood. I just didn’t like being a child. I didn’t like the rank injustice of not being listened to. I didn’t like the lack of autonomy. I didn’t like my chubby little hands that couldn’t manipulate the world of objects in the way that I wanted them to. Being a child, for me, was an exercise in impotent powerlessness. I was never terribly good at that kind of no-holds-barred fun. … I’ve essentially made a career on not being good at no-holds-barred fun.
But, you know, I [was] just never sort of like, hey, yes, let’s go play. I was always more sort of like, does everybody know where the fire exit is? And let’s make sure there’s enough oxygen in this elevator. … As a grownup it’s much easier to work — to navigate the world with that, because then you can just go home to your own apartment.
David Rakoff on his childhood (via nprfreshair)

(via nprfreshair)

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coolchicksfromhistory: Aly Raisman’s gold medal winning floor exercise to Hava Nagila. It is always nice when floor exercise music is easily recognizable, but this selection had a special punch considering the controversial lack of a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed in the 1972 Munich games.  Aly has said “Having that floor music wasn’t intentional, but the fact it was on the 40th anniversary is special, and winning the gold today means a lot to me.”  This is the cover of today’s New York Post, the tabloid style paper the provided the quote above. Aly is the first American woman to win gold on the floor exercise.  In the US, you can see her routine here.

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Aly Raisman’s gold medal winning floor exercise to Hava Nagila.

It is always nice when floor exercise music is easily recognizable, but this selection had a special punch considering the controversial lack of a moment of silence for the Israeli athletes killed in the 1972 Munich games.  Aly has said “Having that floor music wasn’t intentional, but the fact it was on the 40th anniversary is special, and winning the gold today means a lot to me.”  This is the cover of today’s New York Post, the tabloid style paper the provided the quote above.

Aly is the first American woman to win gold on the floor exercise.  In the US, you can see her routine here.

(Source: dreamingaboutflowersandclouds)

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Reunited with my Prismacolor markers and pencils after 10+ years, and the markers still work!!

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Jason Hackett

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“I understand the world in an evocative fashion and view my artworks as both physical and philosophical memorials to ‘Closeness’. During the construction of new works in series, I commonly consider ideas such as the value of community and family, the honesty of both gross and tedious labor, and the mysteriousness of the metaphysical.

I primarily construct pieces using my hands and molding methods while also using found manufactured ceramics. Captured materials, images and forms; of man and of machine; from immediate and distant pasts are merged in commemorative context where contemplation defines their functional nature. Individually they are cups, plaques, and cultural icons made in clay. Collectively, they express proximity and distance, material and immaterial, and both the tangible and intangible.” Jason Hackett

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