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snealiv:

The single greatest picture ever taken in my life. We threw Yu-gi-oh cards at the ceiling fan to watch them scatter, and just happened to take a picture right at this exact moment. To this day, this is the only time I’ve ever heard of anyone breaking a ceiling fan blade with cards.

holy shit

Cutting bodies: Illustrations from period Japanese manuals on tameshigiri and suemonogiri

• by Randy McCall 

The origins of modern test cutting descend from a much more violent era.  Modern tameshigiri is defined as the testing of the skill of the practitioner by cutting objects, usually rolled straw mats or bundled straw.

In the late Edo Period (1603 t0 1868) and early Meiji Period (1868 to 1912) — where a smith or the owner of a blade might wish to prove the its quality and cutting power — tameshigiri was defined as testing the sword against the object being cut. Under this definition, helmets (kabuto), armour (yoroi), and heavy sections of bamboo or wood might be cut.   This testing process, if incorrectly carried out by unskilled practitioners, or where the quality of the blade was not the best, could easily result in the destruction of the sword.

This same time periods also saw  the practice of the extreme form of tameshigiri known as aratameshi — testing a sword to destruction to see how much abuse it could take.  As I mention in the articled linked to, many believe this practice was an attempt by the Japanese to prove the superiority of their weapons over European blades.

In even earlier times (Edo period and before) another version of tameshigiri was performed on the bodies of executed criminals.  This practice is more properly defined as suemonogiri, “the cutting of tied objects”.

The reason for this is quite simple; the bodies of criminals would be tied into various positions to allow the test cutter to make the appropriate cuts.

In this grisly test, positioning was important, as the blades would often bisect the criminal’s body along lines designed to cut through the maximum amount of bone possible.  It required extreme skill on the part of the tester, who must cut precisely or potentially break the blade.

That such a manual existed for the training of test cutters shows the importance this position held.  At certain points of Japanese history professional test cutters known as “otameshi-geisha” were in great demand.

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Source: Copyright © 2014 Tameshigiri - The Art of Cutting

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dumbthingswhitepplsay:

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nativevoice:

“Stop sending expired food”….”fried chicken 64.99” 

IQALUIT, Nunavut — A head of cabbage for $20. Fifteen bucks for a small bag of apples.

A case of ginger ale: $82.

Fed up and frustrated by sky-high food prices and concerned over widespread hunger in their communities, thousands of Inuit have spent weeks posting pictures and price tags from their local grocery stores to a Facebook site called Feed My Family.

Read more: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20120608/inuit-food-prices-protest-120608/#ixzz1xKWAJkGe

Holy hell.

WHAT IN THE FUCK? This shit is not okay.

ughhslfkajsdlf gross gross gross

64.99?????

These people are starving for a reason.

Conservationists

have been starving

these people

to death for years.

Reblogging for the extra articles. 

Also… I might show up to this protest and support them. 

Pay attention to this stuff, please, followers who haven’t heard about this!  This kind of thing is completely erased in news media.

This is really fucking important.

This is why I don’t respect anyone who blindly supports the anti-sealing protestors. Because for a lot of people, it’s the only affordable option.

It’s not just Iqaluit. In Nain, Labrador this problem has been going on for ages and nobody does anything about it. $47 for a ham and $17 for a block of cheese. In Rigolet, Labrador, a loaf of bread costs $7. Here’s another picture of an Iqaluit food price changing before your very eyes.

The NNCP is starving people, reducing their food choices, and keeping people on EI poor. This is so, so wrong.

How can we help? I joined the group and checked out the website, but I didn’t see anything that can be actively done (other than raising awareness, which, of course, is great).

Excellent question! If you read through the group (which is here, for anyone who missed it), there are people talking about some ways to help.

• Look at the latest news on the Feeding My Family website to see what the priorities are and how you might be able to help.
• If you’re Canadian, call your local MP and ask to discuss this issue and express your concern.
• Look up ways to support putting pressure onto airlines to charge fair rates (a $1000 plane ticket should be from one coast to the other, not a few hundred miles).
• Research and learn what you can about food sustainability. For a start, how about learning square foot/metre (French intensive) gardening or container gardening and starting to practice it yourself? Share these techniques with friends and family. Get good at it so you can teach them to others who have poor food security in your own area.
• For the love of God, stop signing “anti-sealing”/”anti-hunting” petitions and supporting Greenpeace’s actions without understanding the complicated, nuanced situation in the North.
• Watch the FB group, because people there mention direct donations and ways to help the organizations actually on the ground there.
• For example, one person is starting up a donation project/fundraiser.
• Look at what organizations like FoodShare are doing and support them.

There is so much to be done. Sharing news articles and stories, lists of resources, donation and fundraising pages, and knowledge about food security is critical, but there’s a lot more work of all sorts.

undr:

National Geographic, Flatiron Building, New York. W.W. Rock. 1918

Dagger (Qama) with Sheath and Knife

• Dated: 1856–57, 1861
• Culture: Caucasian
• Medium: steel, bone, silver, gold, shark skin, ivory, niello, iron
• Measurements: Dagger (a); L. with sheath 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm); L. without sheath 19 1/16 in. (48.4 cm); L. of blade 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm); W. 1 3/4 in. (4.5 cm); D. 15/16 in. (2.4 cm); Wt. 12.8 oz. (362.9 g); Wt. of sheath 4.5 oz. (127.6 g); knife (c); L. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); L. of blade 3 11/16 in. (9.4 cm); W. 9/16 in. (1.4 cm); D. 5/16 in. (0.8 cm); Wt. 0.8 oz. (22.7 g)

Source: Copyright © 2014 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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wednesdaydreams:

_{Personally, Veda’s convinced me that alligators have the right idea. They eat their young.}

_{Mildred Pierce (1945), Michael Curtiz}

brianmichaelbendis:

By Schuiten & Peeters.

“Please do not enter the garden area”

cognitivedissonance:

huffingtonpost:

"I wanted Americans to see what was happening to their country from the comfort of their suburban homes and smartphones," photographer Seph Lawless  said. “I didn’t think the problems we face as a country would change unless we faced these problems, and I thought we could start by simply looking at them.” 

 You can check out a selection of his work, “Black Friday,” here, and head over his Facebook page to see more.

One of those malls was one my family shopped at for back to school 20-25 years ago. So weird.

maniclaughter:

raggediandi:

ghostgif:

when you yell “puppy!” at a lil doge and they get happy and wag their lil tail like “yess!! i am a puppy!! a baby dog!!! thank you!!!!!!”

When you yell “puppy!!!!” At an old doge and they wag their tail and get all happy like “yes I am still a little doge thank you for noticing! !”

#every dog is puppy. all dog. no age limit on puppy. all are puppy. puppies.

always reblorg

the-big-phan-theory:

doyounoelyourenemy:

sidvintage:

motherfuckin-pajamas:

deadkennedysandattractivemen:

A punk stops during a gay pride parade to allow a mesmerized child to touch his jacket spikes.

I lost control about reblogging this picture. 

and this is the perfect “fuck you” to people who stereotype people like this. 

literally one of my favourite pictures ever

nothing more punk than letting small children touch your clothes spikes or hair spikes

what a cool door

dilfgod:

u got any dr pepper

nothingbutthedreams:

objectoccult:

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock ‘n’ roll records were “pressed” on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen. “You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”

This is really ingenious and looks cool so it’s A+++ to me.

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MsValentine Cosplay wanted to dress like Batgirl long before she even knew what cosplay was. She eventually got around to making the costume, and she based the design on Batgirl’s appearance in Batman: The Animated Series. She assembled the outfit with a few ready-made items she ordered from eBay and a couple of pieces she sewed by hand:

Essentially there was two ways to go about making this costume; buy a zentai suit or make one. I compared the price of buying the fabric to buying the suit and since it was the same total I went with the “easy option and purchased one. Before I knew it this had turned into the “eBay costume”. After waiting for the suit to arrive I soon discovered it was not what I requested. I had asked for the hood to be removed and it was still attached when I received the suit. So I pulled out the seams and removed the hood which I later used to make the cowl for this costume. The belt and bat symbol were made out of yellow pvc vinyl I ordered off of eBay. The bat symbol I reinforced with felt and for the belt I wrapped small boxes in the fabric to make the “pouches”.

The boots and gloves I also ordered off of eBay but I absolutely HATE the gloves and I really wish that I could have made a pair. The cape I made by using a standard cape pattern, the inside was yellow while the other side of it was black. The cape was held in place with sewn on snaps and the belt was held down with velcro. As for the cowl, I wore the hood while my husband traced the holes for the eyes, wig and mouth. I cut those out and then traced the edges with fray check.

See more of MsValentine’s work at her website.

Photos by Outer Haven Productions.

tacomaster420:

I’m gonna scream