Cooper Griggs

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Sergei sez, "George Takei has written an open letter to Arizona legislators regarding a bill that would allow businesses, based on a 'sincerely held religious belief' to bar LGBT patrons from entering their establishments."

Takei reminds Arizona of the estimated $500M it lost by not ratifying MLK Day, and threatens a supercharged version of the boycott, multiplied by the Internet, if the bill passes.

But not you, Arizona. You’re willing to ostracize and marginalize LGBT people to score political points with the extreme right of the Republican Party. You say this bill protects “religious freedom,” but no one is fooled. When I was younger, people used “God’s Will” as a reason to keep the races separate, too. Make no mistake, this is the new segregation, yours is a Jim Crow law, and you are about to make yourself ground zero.

The law is breathtaking in its scope. It gives bigotry against us gays and lesbians a powerful and unprecedented weapon. But your mean-spirited representatives and senators know this. They also know that it is going to be struck down eventually by the courts. But they passed it anyway, just to make their hateful opinion of us crystal clear.

So let me make mine just as clear. If your Governor Jan Brewer signs this repugnant bill into law, make no mistake. We will not come. We will not spend. And we will urge everyone we know–from large corporations to small families on vacation–to boycott. Because you don’t deserve our dollars. Not one red cent.

Razing Arizona [George Takei]

going through my files after moving to the new laptop, realizing i’ve got a lot of digital housekeeping to do.

here are some random photos from various road trips i’ve taken myself on. apparently i was doing selfies before it was a term - but then, when you travel solo, you don’t really have another option.

also, if there’s a roadside attraction to be had, i’m having it. i can’t pass them up. i will drive miles out of my way to see the world’s largest freestanding turnip statue.

• cadillac ranch, amarillo, texas
• geographic center of the us, rugby, north dakota
• largest ball of twine, cawker city, kansas
• 100th meridian museum, cozad, nebraska

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It's the little things we have in common that makes a friendship.

crazycritterlife:

How to take selfies with a bald eagle.

Not sure if racist… [x]

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[safelyendangered]

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Everyone has normal holiday photos, but Weerapong Chaipuck has made something really special while traveling!

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UK-based artist Beccy Ridsdel creates fun yet strangely macabre interventions where ceramics have been surgically altered to reveal additional layers of detail. Where the metaphor of surgery might normally evoke blood and guts, Ridsdel instead reveals further floral patterns inside bone china plates and cups. The pieces are part of an ongoing examination regarding the perception of ceramics as craft or art. You can see more of her work over on Facebook and she has a few pieces for sale in her shop. (via Slow Art Day)

[cyanide&happiness]

BFFs

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Previously: Cats Stuck in Things

This is a Threadless design by Eduardo San Gil which upgrades the Orca's other name with Assassin's Creed duds. Can we do this for everything with "killer" in the name? Bees, for example. Let's see "Expert Killer Bees."

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themoonphase:

blck-kng:

We Are All Made of Stars

Fucking love this

For the past 35 years designer Hans Fex has been collecting some of the Earth’s most rare historical specimens including a fossil of a palm tree from Antarctica, wrap from a mummy, coal from the Titanic, dinosaur bones, and even a piece of the Apollo 11 command module. Working with specialists recommended by museum curators, research scientists and university historians, he has now amassed some 33 special objects that he’s broken down into tiny fragments and inserted into translucent resin case he calls the Mini Museum. Because the collected specimens are absurdly unique, the project is currently going crazy over on Kickstarter where you can see detailed information and photos of every single object appearing in the museum.

Some additional specimens include the foundation of Abraham Lincoln’s House, the Berlin Wall, the London Bridge, mammoth hair, 60 million year old insect amber, and part of a t-rex tooth.

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Using self-portrait photographs and watercolors, artist Aliza Razell has been exploring several abstract narratives by merging the two mediums in Photoshop. Her first series, Anesidora , involves the story of Pandora’s Jar (Pandora’s box was actually a jar, a detail misinterpreted in the 1400s), while the second is inspired by the Finnish word ikävä, meaning the feeling of missing someone or something. You can see much more of her work over on Flickr, and you might interested to know Razell is the older sister of young photographer Fiddle Oak, featured here last year.

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