Pilot film of Funan, the new people french animated feature film by Denis Do (inspired by his mother’s personal story during the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia).
Grownup, visually and thematically sophisticated European 2D. One of many. Don’t let people tell you it can’t be done. What a fascinating modern age we live in.
today i finally put together a “book” that one of my classes wrote together last year and felt it was necessary to bring back this classic not-at-all-prompted contribution from a then 7 year old: “I got stuck in a castle. I was in its jail. They did not feeded me all I had was a porta potty. I was in jail because I didn’t even know there were taxes there. Except I lied. I read a lot about England and I decided I did not want to pay taxes.”
please appreciate that this child was free to write about literally whatever she could imagine about herself time traveling and she wrote about being jailed for tax evasion in the middle ages
The most dramatic moment during my Camp Counseling career at an all girls camp was when a girl got a letter from a friend saying that Zac Efron had died and one of her bunkmates ran out of the cabin and shouted “ZAC EFRON IS DEAD!!!!!” and the camp immediately fell into chaos girls were crying in the middle of camp and running around spreading the news everyone was yelling and the counselors had to look up wether or not Zac Efron was dead (this is a wireless camp so the girls couldn’t access the internet and check for themselves) and then get out a megaphone and be like “ZAC EFRON IS NOT DEAD PLEASE REMAIN CALM” outside of all the cabins it was insanity.
On Friday, May 9, 2014, just after 5:30am in Killeen, Texas, Marvin Louis Guy was the target of a no knock raid.
The officers were looking for drugs, yet none were found in the home. There was some questionable paraphernalia, but nothing indicative of drug dealing- or anything damning enough for a reasonable person to feel the need to take an officers life.
Likely alarmed by the men climbing through his windows at 5:30 in the morning, Guy and his wife sought to protect themselves and their property and fired on the intruders – in self defense.
Dinwiddie, along with three other officers were shot while attempting to breach the windows to the home, according to the department’s press release.
Since the shooting occurred during the break in, a reasonable person would assume they had not yet identified themselves as police officers. How on earth is this not self defense?
Prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty against Guy. He is charged with capital murder in Dinwiddie’s death, as well as three counts of attempted capital murder for firing on the other officers during the shootout, injuring one other officer. Body armor protected others who were hit.
This is wrong on so many levels… Everything he wanted to do is to save himself, his pregnant woman and their property. That’s what the 2nd amendment was created for. But he’s a black man, and if he had been white NRA supporters would be in the streets protesting his 2nd amendment rights and his right to defend his home.
Hell if he had been white they never would have considered pressing charges.
Justice for Martin Louis Guy!
Bust it.
Here’s the petition “Please drop the Capital Murder and Attempted Murder charges against Marvin Louis Guy for the shooting death of Officer during a No-Knock Raid at his Home”.
What the fuck is a no-knock raid??? They shouldn’t be allowed to do that!
A No-Knock Raid was practice that was implemented during the War On Drugs. There are “legal” parameters for it. General speaking it is ineffective and has a strong likelihood of civilians getting shot. Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow explains it better than I can
1,913 more signatures needed
This prosecution isn’t justice. It’s revenge. The man did the right thing by protecting his family from intruders. The cops were in the wrong. Period.
art history meme: (1/5) movements – The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters, poets, and critics that were founded in 1848. The group’s intention was to reform art by rejecting what it considered the mechanistic approach first adopted by Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo.
Lady Godiva by John Collier, 1897
Lady of Shalot by John William Waterhouse, 1888
Hylas and the Nymphs by John William Waterhouse, 1896
“The stories of Vampires turning into bats are true, they just never told you how long it takes”.
Timeline documenting the ‘ageing’ process of a vampire over a millennia. I always thought the idea of a vampire staying young and beautiful forever was really boring, what’s the point of being a bloodsucking monster if you can’t at least look terrifying (although ultimately kind of goofy).
Anyway, this turned out to be really fun and I’d like to do another one with a different type of vampire or something.
A Middleground 