these dancers are from China Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe and they’re deaf. also, this dance is about Guanyin/Avalokitesvara, a bodhisattva (a form of buddha) who’s known for hearing and helping all those who cry out for her — hence the thousand hands. it isn’t just a stunt!
“American kids are immersed in a ruthless culture of violence through entertainment and television, but unless they’ve grown up terrorized by gangs or poverty, they have no idea what war feels like, how it affects every aspect of your life and psyche. They have no idea what kind of harm this ‘cowboy’ culture perpetuates against human beings around the world, let alone in their own towns and cities. War is the natural extension of American popular culture and values. Look at the camouflage clothing parents are drowning their children in. This military clothing is at once a symbol of sex appeal and naive, rebellion without context. And it’s shamelessly flaunted while people are being slaughtered in the Middle East as a result of American aggression. We are objects of indoctrination and recruitment the moment we’re born.”
“More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.”
One of the first known flash night photographs of wildlife shot in the early 1900s by the “father of wildlife photography” George Shiras III (1859-1942)
this scene is fucking crazy. gendo isn’t even sitting in his chair. despite having the most luxurious kingly armchair around gendo chooses to balance himself right on the tippy tip of the seat grinding his tailbone to dust. and then kaji decides to warm his ass right on gendo’s desk when literally everyone else is forced to maintain a cool 35 feet of distance away. kaji isn’t even giving gendo a good look at his face. kaji’s giving gendo a view of his back and ass like he’s one waist swivel away from busting it wide open on gendo’s desk like some kind of thot. look back at it. meanwhile fuyutsuki is compelled to stand 5 feet away like hannibal on the eric andre show. fuyutsuki is sixty. meanwhile this looks like the bisexual pride flag
