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Akrapovič Full Moon Concept Motorcycle (via Uncrate)

Fri, 26 Dec 2014 10:53:43 +0800

Akrapovič Full Moon Concept Motorcycle (via Uncrate)

nickstoney: I recently did some work with the good people...

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 00:07:43 +0800

I recently did some work with the good people at Made In Me and Dr Sam Wass an investigator scientist at the medical research council cognition and brain sciences unit. I helped develop a series of games that were designed for research into how babies concentrate at a young age. I produced character design, game animations & level design for the project.

Here is a little snippet of some of the animation I did for the project..

More from this project can be found on my portfolio site

This… has to be the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while.

"Because here’s the thing about realizing you’re into girls. Hardly anyone I know has ever said, “Am..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:52:03 +0800

“Because here’s the thing about realizing you’re into girls. Hardly anyone I know has ever said, “Am I gay?” in the same way they say, “Hey, do you know what the weather’s supposed to be like tomorrow?” Like they just need to figure out how to dress for the occasion. No, when most people ask, “Am I gay?” they ask it with the kind of urgency they would usually reserve for things like, “Do I strap this parachute to my back and jump from this free falling airplane or do I nose dive into the ocean and hope the sharks don’t eat my remains? SINK OR SWIM? LIVE OR DIE? QUENCH THE FIRE OR BURN ALIVE?” It feels so urgent, and the reason it feels so urgent is because you’re probably not just asking, “Hey, do I want to make out with other girls?”

You’re also probably asking: What the hell are my parents going to say when I tell them I want to kiss other girls? And my friends and my co-workers and my classmates and everyone at my family reunion? And what’s that girl going to say when I tell her I want to kiss her? And how is my life ever going to be OK, and how can I go on being the same, and am I the same, and what else do I not know about what’s alive inside me? And who will still love me and who will start hating me, and is God involved, or the government maybe, and what if it’s only one girl I want to kiss, and how do I label myself and must I label myself, and what if I change my mind and, really, what if I do burn alive?”

- Heather Hogan (via ladysaviours)

it’s amazing how much those questions plagued my teenage existence.

rawr! :D

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:37:27 +0800

rawr! :D

tinana: The clever Game of Thrones ad features what looks...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:19:47 +0800

tinana:

The clever Game of Thrones ad features what looks unmistakably like the shadow of one of Khaleesi’s dragons, cast across a series of dummy articles, with headlines like “Lost Film Returns.” Less stable readers might even do a double-take above to make sure some sort of dragon apocalypse isn’t actually underway.

(via Cloudy With a Chance of Dragons: NYT’s “Game of Thrones” Ad Takes Over The News | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce)

Volkswagen XL1 (more information at vwvortex) This is a...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:30:00 +0800

Volkswagen XL1 (more information at vwvortex)

This is a production car?!?!?!??

Interesting how a little change of perspective changes...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:11:31 +0800

Interesting how a little change of perspective changes everything.

Then again, this is a beautiful picture to start out with.

TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 1887 Chronograph Jack Heuer Edition...

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:17:06 +0800

TAG Heuer Carrera Calibre 1887 Chronograph Jack Heuer Edition (via Acquire)

oh, hey there, beautiful. =]

Void V03C Chronograph (via Acquire)

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:00:14 +0800

Void V03C Chronograph (via Acquire)

Air Jordan XX8 (via Uncrate)

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:00:23 +0800

Air Jordan XX8 (via Uncrate)

JVC HA-FXZ200 (via Acquire)

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:00:21 +0800

JVC HA-FXZ200 (via Acquire)

WMF SmarTea Teapot (via Uncrate)

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:00:24 +0800

WMF SmarTea Teapot (via Uncrate)

Unionmade Matte Black Kitchenware (via Acquire)

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:00:16 +0800

Unionmade Matte Black Kitchenware (via Acquire)

Breitling Transocean Day & Date (via Acquire)

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:59:18 +0800

Breitling Transocean Day & Date (via Acquire)

Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk (via Acquire) I can’t say I like...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:24:53 +0800

Girard Perregaux Sea Hawk (via Acquire)

I can’t say I like it, but there’s something about the form that’s….interesting.

Benjamin Hubert Plicate Watch (Benjamin Hubert via Uncrate) Go...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:10:00 +0800

Benjamin Hubert Plicate Watch (Benjamin Hubert via Uncrate)

Go check out the studio’s website! I honestly haven’t been this impressed in a while.

EDIT: Also go check out the video on dezeen. Yes, visibility is so, so important.

EDIT EDIT: Yes, this is also the studio that did the only “crane” type lamp that I like.

Photo

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:53:42 +0800

Autodromo Monoposto (via Acquire)

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:41:28 +0800

Autodromo Monoposto (via Acquire)

"A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a..."

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:33:59 +0800

“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.””

- http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html (via alullaby)

That sums it up

[trigger warning for the commentary below]

(via erikawithac)

This reminds me of a discussion we had in school, and one girl was talking about living in fear of her safety because she is a girl, and this guy chimed in and was all “It’s hard for guys too! I’m so awkward around girls! It’s embarrassing!” Yeah, not the same thing, exactly?

(via tulletulle)

Wow.

(via kittencoaster)

This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat, whereas the highest ranked fear that women had was that their date would turn out to be violent and kill them.

I think that says a lot.

(via kaitg)

Its interesting also that these fears sit subconsciously until woman are asked to exams their responses to men. We women will operate with this fear in mind, the way we protect ourselves, make sure our friends know where we are when we go on a date, words that we use while interacting with men, all in hopes they will not kill us, but simultaneously love us.

I think bell hooks made a point about this in her series on love. something along the lines of how can women hope to love and receive love from men when at the foundation of our relationships there is this strong fear of men. you can’t build true trust when your foundation is crumbling under you.

the scariest part is, once you recognize this fear, and face it, how do you address it when there is evidence of “good” men abusing, hurting, and killing women everyday?

(via becomingchichi)

I was in my early 20’s when one of my homegirls broke this down for me.

I was in a broken relationship, and one of the things was that bugged me at the time was that the girlfriend at the time would freak out whenever I got angry - I never yelled, never throw or hit things, mostly, I just needed some time to cool out.

“Why does she get scared when I’m angry? I’d never hit her!”

“But she doesn’t KNOW that. She can’t assume that. Look at how many dudes are out there pulling shit.”

And that stuck with me for a hot minute. The relationship was broken on so many levels anyway, but that fact still remains, as a man, I can’t fault women for assuming the worst in order to protect themselves, especially how the world’s patriarchy and misogyny rolls.

(via bankuei)

My brain knows that my husband won’t hit me. Really, the logical part of me totally gets that. But when we’re arguing he has to stay on the other side of the room & not yell too loud because my fight or flight instincts have 25+ years of being hard wired that loud = violent & our 11 year relationship isn’t long enough to undo that.

(via karnythia)

I’ve had continual discussions with Tchy about this, and I don’t expect to stop. It’s fair to say that there’s no one in the world that I trust more, and he has been extremely careful with me, but… the fact remains that he leans quite a bit towards the masculine, and this means that that fear is always there. The news of transmasculine folks abusing/raping people doesn’t help that fear any. :(

I’m learning not to apologize for it. It’s not my fault (nor, really, is it his) that I’m scared of dude-type people. But it’s always there. Which is another reason why I get so pissed off when trans men try to make transmisogyny about them.

(via kiriamaya)

men, read all of this please. including the commentary. esp if you consider yourself a Nice Guy.

(via static-nonsense)

This is an incredible thread of responses. I’ve seen this quote before, but not the dialogue that built up around it. The part about loud=violent hits home particularly hard for me. I am terrified of getting into irl arguments with men, especially when they get loud. It’s always going to sit in the pit of my stomach.

(via mizbingley)

That part resonates for me too, although from a completely different angle. Despite being more terrified of sexual violence than I am of anything other than my own brain, I do not hesitate to yell, confront, get up in the face of, threaten, even hit men twice my size and many times my strength. Faced with a threat of violence from men, I will either imply or state “I dare you to.”

I also, as previously established on this blog, have a death wish.

To me, that encapsulates everything about the violence, especially sexual violence, coded into relationships between men and women in our society: for a woman to assert herself in the face of maleness may require the woman in question (such as me) to be perpetually suicidal.

(via 14kgoldnyc)

Reblogging for commentary. I have been frightened and scared by men being loud with me, even if I don’t think they’ll be violent. Like people have said above, it’s just a latent response in your brain to fear violence from men.

I went out to dinner with someone a couple of weeks ago (LONG story, was supposed to be a group dinner but it ended up just being me & a strange man) and I told him I blogged about feminism and politics, and he went off on me. He told me feelings were bullshit and women just wanted special privileges, and then he said, “Women don’t give men enough credit for not being violent psychopaths. That’s what we are, deep down. We want to rape and pillage, and we don’t, and women don’t give us enough credit for that.” I burst into tears. That shit was terrifying.

(via stfuconservatives)

I’ll always reblog this when it comes across my blog with different commentary! It’s all important!

(via everythingbutharleyquinn)

I referenced this quote in a discussion I was having with a teacher a few weeks ago. He shifted uncomfortably and didn’t say anything for a few minutes, then told me “I couldn’t write like that in an essay.”

The truth hurts, huh.

(via gtfothinspo)

14K and I are twins because I will not hesitate to answer a physical threat from a man. It’s a built-in response from years of watching my mother get hurt that I WOULD NOT go down so gently.

And even with non-physical responses. I don’t let anyone in, I don’t lean on anyone, I don’t trust anyone because damnit I will not let myself go through what she did. And I’m definitely a “I’ll hurt you before you hurt me” kinda person.

Therapy’s making it better, but these ingrained fight or flight defensive mechanism aren’t uncommon.

(via nanner)

I too am reblogging this for the amazing commentary.

When supposed feminist ally men deny this very basic, simple truth - that’s how you know they are an ally to no one.

This all gets taught to women at a very young age, how dangerous the world is when you’re in it being a woman. I’ve been struggling to write about something that happened with my daughter a few weeks ago, how to form the words, but this is possibly the best context.

We were in the wine shop, in line to pay, and she was so excited to get her lollipop (in the time honored tradition of wine stores everywhere). A man two people ahead of us started fighting with the woman behind the counter about how much money he’d given her. As I was moving her behind my body, my daughter froze, and when I say froze, I mean wasn’t moving a muscle except to shake.

It sorted itself out pretty quickly. We paid and left.

Once we got back into the car, she started crying. I asked her what was the matter, and she said, “Mama, I was so scared. When men get angry they shoot people.”

That’s a direct quote. When men get angry, they shoot people.

I asked her, “baby, why do you think that?” She replied, “on NPR, that’s what happens. When men get really mad they kill people. That guy was really mad, what if he had a gun? What would you do?”

The talk we had afterwards was difficult; no one said parenting was easy. But this is the life we live as women. If my 9 year old understands it, then men of the world, alleged feminist allies, Nice Guys, random douches on the street, and even actual non-dangerous men: so can you.

(via someauthorgirl)

I cant take men posturing me. Or getting loud with me. Fight or flight kicks in. And, like karny, ima be as far away as possible while talking if im feelin some kinna way. I have every reason to respond that way. We all do. Its the norm for us to incur the wrath of men. (via bad-dominicana)

Reblogging for the truth in this thread. There are two men in my life who I know will never hit me. One is my dad, the other is a guy I’ve come to consider my brother. Everyone else, if you do anything that implies any sort of threat to my person, fight or flight will kick in because that’s what I’ve been taught. And, if I feel like I can take you in a fight, I will not stop until you’re immobile on the ground because then you can’t come after me when I run away.

Sorry, dudebros, but that’s how it is. I’ve seen some fucked-up shit happen to my female friends at the hands of Nice Guys™ and I refuse to let that happen to me.

(via secretlyscully)

As a man, I think the best thing I can do here is repost this for all of my followers to see and learn from.

(via religiousragings)

Everyone who has ever rolled their eyes and complained about women or female-presenting people “overreacting” or being “drama queens” when it comes to feeling threatened by men or male-presenting people should fucking read this. There are so many different places these testimonies are coming from, but they all focus on the same thing.

(via siuilapuca)

wow, this…. struck a nerve.

Otto Expresso Machine (via Uncrate) What a Gorgeous machine! A...

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:48:33 +0800

Otto Expresso Machine (via Uncrate)

What a Gorgeous machine!

A pity how visible that softbox is in the reflections though.