in the navy
The Ethnic Costume Ball
Seeking people in "national folklore costumes" to appear at a photo-op.
imperialism was hard work
Unisex. Unisex. Unisex. American Apparel really do that unisex thing well. Except the same shirt is marketed with pants to boys. (via En blommig tekopp)
Queequeg.
“For seven centuries, the practice of spinning gained popularity across Cappadocia. It was banned under Atatürk in 1925. It has been banned ever since. However, as Turkey has become a paradoxically permissive state—and more importantly because the Dervishes aren’t bad for tourism—Sufi mysticism has begun to thrive again, unofficially on the second and last Sunday of each month.”
In fact, it has been reported that Pascal Dangin, the photo artist who worked on the Dove ‘Real Beauty’ campaign posters (see below) admitted in the New Yorker in May 2008 that those pictures were edited “to keep everyone’s skin and faces showing the mileage but not looking unattractive.” And Unilever, the company selling Dove to Western women with messages about natural beauty also sells skin-lightening products with a disturbingly racialised narrative in India, including an actual Dove product sold using, at best, racial overtones: a “whitening” deodorant.
(via The problem with Dove’s real beauty - Blog - The F-Word)
In Ghana, when official movie posters can’t be imported for Hollywood films, local artists will bootleg them to the best of their abilities. Apparently this is a global phenomenon and countless ‘local’ interpretations of movie posters exist worldwide. These particular versions are from Ghana, and they are amazing. Some are even more interesting than the ‘official’ version IMO.
That moment when you turn your favorite cardigan inside out and realize it was made in the Bangladesh factory that just collapsed, killing more than 230 workers.
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