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caturday: Sexy Leggings

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:55:23 -0400

caturday:

Sexy Leggings

kuch-kuch: Goodbye Bombay!

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:07:27 -0400

kuch-kuch:

Goodbye Bombay!

hansgullickson: Two Painting of mine were accepted into ACNY’s...

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:28:07 -0400

hansgullickson:

Two Painting of mine were accepted into ACNY’s December Affordable Art exhibition. The exhibition will open to the public on Wednesday, November 28th, with a private preview for our VIP collectors on Tuesday, November 27th.

Im excited to b a part of this event.

Tilden…

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 03:17:08 -0400

Tilden…

Tilden Park. Last evening in Berkeley 2012.

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 02:22:04 -0400

Tilden Park. Last evening in Berkeley 2012.

Photo

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:10:44 -0400

hansgullickson: Excited to announce my CRS show is being held...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:10:09 -0400

hansgullickson:

Excited to announce my CRS show is being held over through nov…

hansgullickson: print im working on now. dark red/neon...

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:09:42 -0400

hansgullickson:

print im working on now.

dark red/neon blue

90”/30”

Photo

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:06:29 -0400

ashishgajera: Cat underneath. on Flickr.

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:36:10 -0400

ashishgajera:

Cat underneath. on Flickr.

ashishgajera: Untitled on Flickr.

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:35:59 -0400

ashishgajera:

Untitled on Flickr.

rookiemag: miumachi: beautilation: At Comic Con today, I went...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:33:40 -0400

rookiemag:

miumachi:

beautilation:

At Comic Con today, I went as Black Cat. This is a shitty picture and there will be better ones of my whole costume coming up but I just want to say something.

Black Cat’s costume has a fair amount of cleavage (conservative compared to many other female comic characters but a good amount as far as what I’ve ever shown). I guess I was not surprised to have a couple men ask to pose with me and then do some doofy “WHOA LOOK AT THOSE KNOCKERS” poses. I just make a really ugly face when I see they’re doing it. One guy with the social graces of a lemur said to me “I was this close to wearing that same outfit. My breasts are large and supple and I think it would have been nice.” Nope. Stop talking.

But aside from guys being doofy and awkward (but clearly not foul-intentioned), I did have my first truly skeezy experience at Comic Con today.

And my first truly empowering moment as well.

This group of men from some kind of Stan Lee fan club blah blah internet video channel blah blah asked to interview with them on camera about Comic Con. I said well okay, sure. Camera is rolling. The “host” is a middle aged, rotund dude. It’s an all-male crew and lots of people (mostly guys) were beginning to crowd around. The following is the interview as burned in my mind. Keep in mind that I expected this to be about Comic Con in general.

Him: I’m here with…

Me: Mandy, aka Felicia Hardy aka Black Cat

Him: ..And she is HOT. Do you think I’m hot enough to pull that off?

Me: Uh, I’m not sure, I’ve never seen you in drag.

Him: I’ve got a great ass. Go on, spank me.

Me: (look at his large ass, popped up mere inches away from me then look into the camera like are you kidding me . No thanks. I may hurt you, I’m a lot stronger than I look.

Him: Aw come on!

Me: No, seriously. Stop.

Him: Damn, alright! Well let me ask you an important question then…what is your cup size?

Me: (big talk show smile) That is actually none of your fucking business.

Him: Oh! I think that means to say she’s a C.

Me: I actually have no breasts at all, what you see is just all of the fat from my midsection pulled up to my chest and carefully held in place with this corset. It’s really uncomfortable, I don’t know why I do it.

Him: (to the male crowd) Aw, come on what do you guys think? C cup?

—a few males start to shout out cup sizes as I stand there looking at this guy like this has to be a fucking joke, then look at the crowd and see that no amount of witty banter or fiestiness will stop making this whole thing fucking dumb. It was clearly a ploy to single out cosplaying women to get them to talk sexual innuendos and flirt with this asshole and let him talk down to them simply because they were in costume and were attractive. Whether I’m in a skintight catsuit or not, I’m a fucking professional in everything I do and I don’t need to play nice for this idiot.

Me: This is not an interview, this is degrading. I’m done. (I walk away)

Him: (clearly dumbfounded and surprised) ..Come on, it’s all in good fun!

Me: Being degraded is fun? That was unprofessional and I hope that isn’t your day job because you can’t interview for shit, my man.

And the entire crew and the crowd were SILENT. NOTHING. SHOCK, HONEY. It felt like I was in a heated fog, full of rage and pride and I sashayed away feeling like the most badass motherfucker in the whole damn room, but kind of also on the verge of tears. A slow build of applause would have been appropriate, but from the looks on people’s faces, they were just completely not expecting me to do what I just did- which was really nothing more than speaking up for myself. It wasn’t something one should feel brave for doing but crazy for not doing when necessary.

It’s because many people at these cons expect women cosplaying as vixens (or even just wearing particularly flattering costumes) to be open/ welcoming to crude male commentary and lecherous ogling, like our presence comes with subtitles that say “I represent your fantasy thus you may treat me like a fantasy and not a human in a costume”. And maybe that will always be how the majority of people see us. But that does not mean we have to put up with shit that crosses the line, it does not mean we owe them a fantasy, it does not mean we dress up to have guys drooling over us and letting us know that we turn them on. It is not all about your dicks, gentlemen. So I encourage cosplaying women everywhere to be blunt and vocal with their rights, their personal boundaries, and their comfort level at conventions. I actually encourage girls to be brashly shameless about these things, to not be afraid to speak up if you feel uncomfortable and to let the person doing it know that they are crossing the line. Don’t keep quiet because you’re scared of what they might say or think- because if you say nothing they will continue to see what they’re doing as OK.

such a badass — olivia

What do gangsters represent for you?JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE:...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:30:01 -0400

What do gangsters represent for you?
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE: Nothing at all. I think they’re pathetic losers. But it so happens that the gangster story… is a very suitable vehicle for the particular form of modern tragedy called film noir, which was born from American detective novels. It’s a flexible genre. You can put whatever you want into it, good or bad. And it’s a fairly easy vehicle to use to tell stories that matter to you about individual freedom, friendship, or rather human relationships, because they’re not always friendly. Or betrayal, one of the driving forces in American crime novels.

Do you know any gangsters?
MELVILLE: Yes, I knew quite a few. But they’re nothing like the ones in my films.

strangewood: Jean-Pierre MelvilleOctober 20, 1917 — August 2,...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 01:29:09 -0400

strangewood:

Jean-Pierre Melville
October 20, 1917 — August 2, 1973

“I don’t want to situate my heroes in time; I don’t want the action of a film to be recognizable as something that happens in 1968. That’s why in Le samouraï, for example, the women aren’t wearing miniskirts, while the men are wearing hats—something, unfortunately, that no one does anymore. I’m not interested in realism. All my films hinge on the fantastic. I’m not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it’s absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact re-creation of it. Transposition is more or less a reflex with me: I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.”

ashishgajera: Getting tattooed. on Flickr.

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:22:04 -0400

ashishgajera:

Getting tattooed. on Flickr.

0ffth323c02d: Hoodie’s artwork | Shigeru Sugiura

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:03:55 -0400

0ffth323c02d:

Hoodie’s artwork | Shigeru Sugiura

rookiemag: troubleeveryday: th3skinny: keeponplayingwithmyhear...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:03:33 -0400

rookiemag:

troubleeveryday:

th3skinny:

keeponplayingwithmyheart:

Blue jeans, white shirt.
Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn.

I think I’m in love.

dead

In love with this bitchface/flower-crown combo. <3 AA

Preparing for India… (Taken with Instagram)

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:19:42 -0400

Preparing for India… (Taken with Instagram)

Leaving for India in 2 weeks + 4 days!

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:07:57 -0400

Leaving for India in 2 weeks + 4 days!

One Footstep: Of paper planes and boats

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:08:13 -0400

One Footstep: Of paper planes and boats:

onefootstep:

I was the only child for the first 6 years of my life. In those 6 years my mother used to make paper boats for me during the monsoon and sometimes when i wanted to play a little longer in the small plastic tub we had in our bathroom. Those paper boats have always made me happy. I never quite…