Pending Doom

(Vía): The Shark, Oxford, Reino Unido.

Estatua de dios de la guerra de 1.320 toneladas, China.

A Day Out, Adelaide, Australia.

Expansión, Nueva York, EE. UU.

Disminuir y Ascender, Bondi, Australia.

Les Voyageurs, Marsella, Francia.

Kelpies, Grangemouth, Reino Unido.

Mustangs, Texas, EE. UU.

Ocean Atlas, Nassau, Bahamas.

Spider, Londres, Reino Unido.

La fuerza de la naturaleza, Reino Unido.

Vicisitudes, Granada, Antillas.

El oficial desconocido, Reyjavik, Islandia.

El monumento de un transeúnte anónimo, Wroclaw, Polonia.

Edificio hundido, Melbourne, Australia.

De Vaartkapoen, Bruselas, Bélgica.

Metalmorfosis, Charlotte, EE. UU.

The Rising Tide, Londres, Reino Unido.

Romper a través de su molde, Filadelfia, EE.UU.

Coloso, Florencia, Italia.

Hada que baila con un diente de león, Reino Unido.

Iguana Park, Amsterdam, Países Bajos.

Popped Up, Budapest, Hungría.

I want to see myself with the clarity of a thousand stars. I want to scream from the depths of my soul, let out the fire onto pages and pages, but they remain empty. The bitter truth is that nothing has changed, and that is what I fear the most. I am no longer building a human being, no longer becoming a presence in this vast universe.

Start the conversation about personal self worth. I want to be worth something to me, not as an afterthought, not as a wild moment in a long night of many long nights. Broken only by bouts of momentary guilt and poorly made cups of dark roast.

I want to hope that youth will last forever if I truly live, and be, and exist as I want. Devoid of worry and anxiety and the uncomfortable positions of the hands on subway rides.

Step by step I take it all without any desire to form a direction, a belief, a self worth loving. The passions for what I love is dulled by the things I do to forget them, to wash the slate for a moment before the sun awakes my groggy senses.

A constant cycle of gluttony, emotionally gutting myself to the point of disillusionment. Pretentious sentences then flow from my finger tips filled with hollow words.

The morning comes and we drift on within this restless daze repeating what we said last week. Lets change the mold, but tomorrow.

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

Thought to have been lost for decades, the two-minute feature Virginian Types: Blue Ridge Mountaineers documents the life of an isolated and long-vanished mountain community—Old Rag, Virginia—using a similarly long-vanished color process called “Pathécolor“—a stencil-based method that added artificial colors to black-and-white prints, something like the colorization of recent years.

The footage seems to have been shot just after Congress in May of 1926 authorized the creation of the Shenandoah National Park. Congress had stipulated that Virginia could turn over to the federal government only lands that were free of permanent inhabitants. Most residents of the Old Rag settlement were longtime squatters with no legal record of their holdings. As a consequence, an administration was installed to “relocate” the startled mountain folk, who reacted to the uprooting in anguished grief.

Virginian Types appears to have been the one of the “last chances” to document Old Rag and its surrounding communities, as on November 1st, 1935 all remaining residents were given 10 days’ notice. By the middle of the month the last holdouts were led away in handcuffs. 

ALRIGHT AMERICANS TODAY WE’RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A THING.

How to make sure our pal Bernie Sanders wins the primaries so he can be our president: 

1. First of all, what are primaries? 

Well friends, it’s a preliminary election that decides the presidential candidates for each political party. If Bernie loses the primaries, he will NOT be able to become our next president. So for that reason it’s INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT that we all get our butts to those polls when the time comes. Here are the known or expected dates for the 2016 Democratic Party Primaries:

February

Monday, February 1: Iowa

Tuesday, February 9: New Hampshire

Saturday, February 20: Nevada

Saturday, February 27: South Carolina

March

Tuesday, March 1: Alabama; Arkansas; Colorado; Georgia; Massachusetts; Minnesota; North Carolina; Oklahoma; Tennessee; Texas; Vermont; Virginia

Saturday, March 5: Louisiana; Nebraska; Kansas

Tuesday, March 8: Mississippi; Michigan

Tuesday, March 15: Florida; Illinois; Missouri; Ohio

Tuesday, March 22: Arizona; Utah

Saturday, March 26: Alaska caucuses; Hawaii; Washington

April

Tuesday, April 5: Wisconsin

Tuesday, April 19: New York

Tuesday, April 26: Maryland; Connecticut; Delaware; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island

May

Tuesday, May 3: Indiana

Tuesday, May 10: West Virginia

Tuesday, May 17: Kentucky; Oregon

June

Sunday, June 5: Puerto Rico

Tuesday, June 7: California; Montana; New Jersey; New Mexico; South Dakota

Tuesday, June 14: Washington, DC

2. Okay cool, now I know when I need to vote!

But do you know in some states you can ONLY vote for Bernie if you are a registered Democrat?

STATES THAT ARE OPEN PRIMARIES (you do NOT need to be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

Alabama

Michigan

North Dakota

Arkansas

Minnesota

Vermont

Georgia

Missouri

Wisconsin

Hawaii

Montana

STATES THAT ARE CLOSED PRIMARIES (you MUST be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

Delaware

Maine

New York

Florida

Nevada

Pennsylvania

Kansas

New Jersey

Wyoming

Kentucky

New Mexico

STATES THAT ARE TOP-TWO PRIMARIES (you vote on candidates regardless of their party affiliation so you do NOT need to be a registered Democrat to vote for Bernie):

California

Nebraska

Louisiana

Washington

STATES THAT ARE HYBRID PRIMARIES (these vary between open and closed, and often depend on the current party, so if you live in one of these states you WILL need to find out the protocol for the 2016 presidential primaries):

Alaska

Maryland

Rhode Island

Arizona

Massachusetts

South Carolina

Colorado

Mississippi

South Dakota

Connecticut

New Hampshire

Tennessee

Idaho

North Carolina

Texas

Illinois

Ohio

Utah

Indiana

Oklahoma

Virginia

Iowa

Oregon

West Virginia

3. Okay, so how do I register to vote/as a Democrat?

Worried because your state has closed primaries or you’ve never used your constitutional rights to vote before and you think registering will be a terrible, vigorous, process?

DON’T WORRY FRIENDS.

Registering to vote is so easy, let me walk you through it.

Here is an online form you can mail in (available in multiple languages) that also gives you step by step instructions depending on your state. If you live in New Hampshire, North Dakota, Wyoming, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands, unfortunately you can NOT use this method.

For any state, you can check the following places to register in person:

State or local voter registration and/or election offices

The department of motor vehicles

Public assistance agencies

Armed services recruitment centers

State-funded programs that serve people with disabilities

Any public facility that a state has designated as a voter registration agency

Here is another link of states where you can register online, if you’re an anxious nugget like me.

EACH STATE HAS A SPECIFIC DEADLINE TO REGISTER IN TIME FOR PRIMARIES. IF YOU NEED TO REGISTER, MAKE SURE YOU FIND OUT WHEN THAT IS AND REGISTER BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

If you do end up having to register in person, do not be afraid friends! You are doing a very important and brave thing.

4. Alright, so I know when I have to vote, I am registered to vote, and if my state has closed primaries, I registered as a Democrat! I’m done now, right?

Nope, there’s one last thing! If you’re like me and unable to get to a voting poll, whether or not it’s due to school, work, your health, or being out of your state/country, you need to fill out an ABSENTEE BALLOT FORM!

This link contains not only the absentee ballot forms of every state, but some even have more voter registration forms as well!

DON’T FORGET. DEADLINES EXIST.

Write it in your planner, your calendar. Post it on your ceiling. Write it in ketchup on your burger. Tattoo it to your arm. Whatever helps!

AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, WHATEVER YOU DO:

Do not brush this off. Do not assume, well I’m just one person, what is one vote going to do? Bernie can win without little old me.

That’s wrong. You and your vote is so incredibly important. Bernie cannot win without you. Without us.

So please. Read this. Spread this. Register. Get ready to vote. Bernie promises to do his best to better America. Let’s do our best to get him there.

You sure you’re up for this?