Andrew Shaw scores in triple OT to take game one of the Stanley Cup Finals
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36th Street
Arielle (or Ari).
Twenty one.
Chicagoan.
Grand Valley State University.
Psychology major, sociology minor.
Nice to meet you.
:)
Personal - My face
Questions, please.
June132013
June112013
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7PM
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6PM
Does anyone ever get into the shower and rapidly begin to realize the chaos that exists beyond the bathroom door, how overwhelming life can be, and just need to sit down? Just plop down in the middle of whatever you were doing, knees pulled into your chest, and let the water crash down over you? Clearing your mind of nearly everything except the wish that you were almost anywhere else - geographically or in your life in general? As if that would suddenly cure the stress or allow you to have control over the things you have suddenly noticed you don’t have any control over? And stay there, staring at the drain, until the water begins to get cold and you snap back to the truth that not even in the shower can you be totally free from the world and its limitations? That the past 30 or 40 minutes you’ve spent motionless, shriveling up is only a temporary break from the madness and that, because you’re an adult, it’s time to stand up, take a deep breath, and get on with it?
No? Just me? Okay, never mind.
5PM
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5PM
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4PM
Long exposure Kodachrome, Wacker, Wabash and State, 1947, Chicago.
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4PM
The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies
The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”
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3PM
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3PM
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3PM
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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12AM
- Me: ... so I think that's my goal. That's what I'm hoping for by the end of the year, you know?
- Andrew: Well if that's what you're hoping for, that's what I'm hoping for.
- Me: What would you be hoping for if you didn't know what I was hoping for?
- Andrew: For you to be happy.
