megan's inspiration file

"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by..."

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:35:20 -0500

“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn’t help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind)

‘I wanna do something logical to you, baby.’ ianbrooks: Oh...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:11:02 -0500

‘I wanna do something logical to you, baby.’

ianbrooks:

Oh yeah, talk nerdy to me baby, who’s your half-blood prince?

(via We Are the 99 Percent)

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:30:57 -0500

(via We Are the 99 Percent)

www.soundcloud.com/digitalFrequenz-Records Just what your...

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:21:07 -0500

www.soundcloud.com/digitalFrequenz-Records

Just what your sluggish afternoon needs…

(via Creative Suite Podcast: Photographers - How to Remove a...

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:20:08 -0500

(via Creative Suite Podcast: Photographers - How to Remove a Background from an Image in Photoshop CS5 | Adobe TV)

Just watched this great video for Photoshop CS5 on removing a background from an image. A common question here, and a valuable skill.

gothiccharmschool: Dear Cass404, minim_calibre, and...

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:06:51 -0500

gothiccharmschool:

Dear Cass404, minim_calibre, and lovingmyselfishard: look, a bookfession for us!

bookfessions:

Credit: wellwhatelsewasigoingtodo

ohyeahworldofwarcraft: Tangled - Minhee - 9/7/1

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:24:32 -0500

ohyeahworldofwarcraft:

Tangled - Minhee - 9/7/1

world-shaker: This month’s issue of Student Debt Living. Partly...

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:07:15 -0500

world-shaker:

This month’s issue of Student Debt Living.

Partly NSFW language.

cultural-sense: Lady Gaga - Government Hooker (DJ White Shadow...

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:14:53 -0500

cultural-sense:

Lady Gaga - Government Hooker (DJ White Shadow Remix)
*I think it’s fanmade, but it’s amazing.

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Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:14:22 -0500

reclusiveobscenities: 8 page mini-zineGet it Here I just...

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:53:26 -0500

reclusiveobscenities:

8 page mini-zine
Get it Here

I just finished printing and reading this little mini-zine on girl love. What Happened to Sisterhood is a free one page zine available at Zine Library that gives a short lesson on how our patriarchal society teaches girls to be jealous of and compete against each other instead of banding together and supporting one another. It covers slut shaming, body policing, name calling and internalized oppression.

There is lots of great info packed into a tiny one page zine. These would be great to print out, carry around and hand out whenever the need arises. Or to just leave around various places such as libraries, magazine racks, makeup counters, etc.

Original Article

creativeinspiration: so pretty….haha

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:23:25 -0500

creativeinspiration:

so pretty….haha

hautemacabre: New on Haute Macabre : Black on Black need...

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:28:57 -0500

hautemacabre:

New on Haute Macabre : Black on Black

need to do this.

fuckyeahladygaga: Submitted by Armstackwhale YES. Katy Perry...

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:13:02 -0500

fuckyeahladygaga:

Submitted by Armstackwhale

YES. Katy Perry had a cheese cube on her head. Lady GaGa crossdressed. POW.

"Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story..."

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:48:35 -0500

“Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.”

- Smart Versus Realism

Clever Makeup Tips For Girls Who Wear Glasses

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:32:46 -0500

Clever Makeup Tips For Girls Who Wear Glasses:

Required reading!

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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:33:03 -0500

uhuh-she-said: curiousgeorgiana: keepcalmanddrinkalatte: stfuh...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:04:36 -0500

uhuh-she-said:

curiousgeorgiana:

keepcalmanddrinkalatte:

stfuhypocrisy:

mylifeasafeminista:

Sonya Renee Taylor, “What Women Deserve”

Culturally-diversified biracial girl with
a small diamond nose ring and a pretty smile
poses besides the words
“Women Deserve Better”.

and I almost let her non-threatening grin
begin to infiltrate my psyche
until I read the unlikely small print
at the bottom of the ad:
Sponsored by the US Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities
and the Knights of Columbus

On a bus
in a city
with a population of 553,000,
4 teenage mothers on the bus with me,
1 Latina woman with 3 children under 3
and no signs of a daddy.

One sixteen year old black girl
standing in 22-degree weather
with only a sweater
a book bag
and a bassinette,
with an infant that ain’t even four weeks yet
tell me that Yes ….

Women do deserve better.

Women deserve better
than public transportation rhetoric
from the same people who
won’t give that teenage mother
a ride to the next transit.
Won’t let you talk to their kids about safer sex
Have never had to listen as the door SLAMS
behind the man who adamantly says,
“That shit” ain’t his
leaving her to wonder how she’ll raise this kid.

Women deserve better
than the 300 dollars TANF and AFC
will provide that family of three
or the 6 dollar an hour job at KFC
with no benefits for her new baby
or the college degree she may never see
because you can’t have infants at the university

Women deserve better
than lip service paid for by politicians
who have no alternatives to abortion
though I am sure
right this moment one of their seventeen year old daughters
is sitting in a clinic lobby
sobbing quietly and anonymously
praying parents don’t find out
or will be waiting for mom to pick her up because research shows
that out-of-wedlock childbirth doesn’t look good on political polls and
Daddy ain’t having that.

Women deserve better
than backwards governmental policies
that don’t want to pay
for welfare for kids
or health care for kids
or child care for kids
Don’t want to pay living wages to working mothers,
Don’t want to make men who only want to be last night’s lovers
responsible for the semen they lay.

Flat out don’t want to pay for SHIT
but want to control the woman who’s having it.
Acting outraged at abortion.
Well I’m outraged
that they want us to believe
that they believe
that women deserve better.

The Vatican won’t prosecute pedophile priests
But I decide I’m not ready for motherhood
and it’s condemnation for me
These are the same people who won’t support
national condom distribution to prevent teenage pregnancy.
But women deserve better.

Women deserve better
than back-alley surgeries
that leave our wombs barren and empty.
Deserve better
than organizations bearing the name
of land-stealing racist rapists
funding million dollar campaigns on subway trains
with no money to give these women
while balding middle-aged white men
tell us what to do with our bodies
while they wage wars and kill other people’s babies

So maybe women deserve better
than propaganda and lies
to get into office
Propaganda and lies
to get into panties
to get out of court
to get out of paying child support

Get the hell out of our decisions
and give us back our voice
Women do deserve better
Women deserve choice

Will never not reblog. This has to be the 3rd time in 6 months I’ve been running this blog that I’ve posted this.

This is so wonderful I can’t even….why have I never heard of her before?

Damn.

Amazing.

"Today, we see very talented, intelligent designers who use their skills to create useless products,..."

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:33:36 -0500

“Today, we see very talented, intelligent designers who use their skills to create useless products, which are developed not to help people but to put money in the pocket of companies, and to take money out of the pocket of a “target consumer.” It’s a very cynical way to work, and done with greed and no respect. We need to design things that are more ecological, more social. And, yes, we need to produce less.”

- French Visionary Starck’s Advice to Designers: Create Fewer Useless Products | Wired.com (via nathanielswhite)

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Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:31:29 -0500