ADULTHOOD IS A S#!%SHOW
I know what I said yesterday, but it’s Beyoncé…period. On this day she selflessly donated $1,000,000 to the NAACP. I love you and happy birthday to an icon, a legend, a queen. Go enjoy your last summer weekend folks. Buying red wine tomorrow for the beach, because Beyoncé is drinking red wine. Via: Beyonce Fan 2.1
Birthday Bey
Making clear that this isn’t a celebrity site. I am not going to do birthday tributes to everyone, nor do I follow a fraction of the people I adore on social media. If I did my number would be astronomical. There are so many artists I love: Ava DuVernay, Steve Carrell, Selma Hayek, Viola Davis…I show my support in other ways. Spreading the art, the work, the clip that made me laugh, the song. My level of film, iconoclast, literature, music…knowledge is esoteric. Art is how I live. How crazy do those people look with 100 followers, but following 7,000? Still Zendaya moved me in Euphoria and that transition from child star to an adult one is perilous. This is my favorite shoot, because it’s pure art. Is anybody ready for season two?
Then when I tell you what to do to rectify the situation you don’t, it could all be as simple as taking accountability, saying sorry and being a better human being with good intentions. One that cares about the feelings of others. Don’t project, reflect. Your shitty karma, or fate was your doing not mine. Via: 8.46 AM
Processing the reality of this has been heartbreaking; I feel like a wrung out rag, filled with fluid, twisted to tatters and tears. What do you say about a man whose body ate him alive from the inside, who used what energy was left from fighting, to perform for the world as he died before our eyes quietly? He didn’t make it about himself, he made it about everyone else. Never seeking pity, his terminal illness went undisclosed, even when brightening the day of other cancer patients. Chadwick worked with the intention of pure, unfiltered love, to make us proud in the present and for the future. Pushing his diseased body to give representation true to black people beyond stereotypes and caricatures; the importance of a legacy. These bodies go, but the work from the soul is immortal if you do it right.
People always covet youth, which everyone gets unmerited, but we don’t all make it to gather years. Your youth in Da 5 Bloods is eerie and hurts. Thank you Chadwick for making us proud, for being a true hero on and off screen, for allowing us to witness your divinity. You are a king and an ancestor, you are love and loved, you are light to lift this darkness. You are free. Those who die feel serenity and it is us who live with the void left behind. We love you. Rest in peace king, Wakanda forever. How will you live your life differently by his example? I won’t take a moment for granted, for none are promised. Via: Rolling Stone & Time Magazine
Two options: apologize for your vile comments/behavior, or shut the f*ck up to begin with.
Going through photographs for this curation of Claudia, I completely understand the photographers dilemma. This one, no this one, no that one, what’s the limit? The camera loves her. If Barbie were a real life human she would be it, the pure blue eyes, long blond locks and pouty pink lips. The German beauty was discovered in a Dusseldorf nightclub and has been gracing countless magazine covers and runways ever since. Karl Lagerfeld declared her his muse in 1988, making her the face of Chanel. Now a mother of three she’s spread her wings beyond the modeling industry, adding to her resume fashion design and acting. This iconic supermodel just turned 50 and damn, she’s still got it. Is she Barbie or sex icon Brigitte Bardot? Via: Cosmopolitan Magazine, L’officiel, and Supermodel Claudia Schiffer (instagram)
Catch me
chasing kisses
from the sun.
Via: The Ace
A throwback to this exhibit by Mat Maitland, coined the digital Warhol, using 2018 beauty trends on classic icons of the category. These timeless dime pieces didn’t need to be altered, neither do some of you. There is nothing wrong with modifying yourself if it brings you joy and gives you confidence. However there is a line that’s been crossed, you all look the same. I literally scroll through my insta explore page and mix people up all the time. Where is that thing that makes you unique, one of a kind, memorable? Also it’s aging the skin of young girls dramatically. Think, are you doing it to fit in? Are you doing it because you don’t love yourself? Are you doing it to be the object of another being, one that isn’t valued? Are you doing it to be someone other than you? Why? Shout out to Dame Elizabeth Taylor, we have the same birthday!