Tom Hardy stars in "The Drop" opposite the late James Gandolfini, "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" star Noomi Rapace and Zora the dog. At the film's New York premiere on Tuesday, Hardy was reunited with the dog, which was one of three pitbulls used in the new film. The actor seemed pleased to see his old friend (as did Rapace). Uggie the dog better watch his back.
10 Pictures Of Tom Hardy Playing With A Dog At The Premiere Of 'The Drop'
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Millennials Are Actually MORE Likely To Read Books, Study Says
Although nearly every American under 30 uses the Internet in some capacity (a whopping 98 percent of millennials are online), younger people are more likely to believe that there's useful information that's only available offline. While 62 percent of citizens under 30 ascribe to this belief, only 53 percent of those 30 and older agree.
This and other information revealed by a recent PewResearch project could begin to explain why millennials are actually more likely to have picked up a book in the past year than their older peers. According to the study:
So the novel, it seems, is alive and kicking. While e-books were formerly a format reserved for older generations, millennials have begun to pick up tablets too -- 37 percent of adults between 18 and 29 have read an ebook in the past year.
Avid reading, in this case, also means avid library attendance, as millennials are more likely to visit library websites than older adults, and are equally likely to attend a physical library. Still, younger Americans are less likely to believe that the closing of their local library would have a significant impact on their lives.
This and other information revealed by a recent PewResearch project could begin to explain why millennials are actually more likely to have picked up a book in the past year than their older peers. According to the study:
Some 43 percent report reading a book -- in any format -- on a daily basis, a rate similar to older adults. Overall, 88 percent of Americans under 30 read a book in the past year, compared with 79 percent of those age 30 and older.
So the novel, it seems, is alive and kicking. While e-books were formerly a format reserved for older generations, millennials have begun to pick up tablets too -- 37 percent of adults between 18 and 29 have read an ebook in the past year.
Avid reading, in this case, also means avid library attendance, as millennials are more likely to visit library websites than older adults, and are equally likely to attend a physical library. Still, younger Americans are less likely to believe that the closing of their local library would have a significant impact on their lives.
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This Man's Impassioned Cover Of 'Say Something' On A Street Piano Will Leave You Speechless
Watch out, A Great Big World, this man's gorgeous cover of "Say Something" will stun you.
A video uploaded to YouTube captures Michael McNamara performing on a Cobourg, Ontario, street piano in Canada. The piano, called "Foxgang Amadeus," was painted and placed on the streets as part of Cobourg's "Keys to Our Town" art initiative, according to the video description.
The piano player's raw, impassioned vocals really demonstrate his amazing talent. He's got some pipes!
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A video uploaded to YouTube captures Michael McNamara performing on a Cobourg, Ontario, street piano in Canada. The piano, called "Foxgang Amadeus," was painted and placed on the streets as part of Cobourg's "Keys to Our Town" art initiative, according to the video description.
The piano player's raw, impassioned vocals really demonstrate his amazing talent. He's got some pipes!
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Crazy Cliff House Takes 'Living On The Edge' To A Literal Place
If you've ever seen a dramatic cliff and thought, "Hey, that would be an excellent location for a house!" we have the perfect future property for you.
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Meet "The Cliff House," a home by Australian design firm Modscape. The house is still in the idea phase, but Modscape's rendering makes it a little too easy to imagine what it would be like to live suspended above the ocean. If you have the stomach for heights, you'll be rewarded with some of the most dramatic views in the entire world. If you don't, maybe you'll appreciate the concept for what it is: A novel way to explore rarely-used land.
For a further look inside the proposed house, visit BBC News.
h/t LaughingSquid
Meet "The Cliff House," a home by Australian design firm Modscape. The house is still in the idea phase, but Modscape's rendering makes it a little too easy to imagine what it would be like to live suspended above the ocean. If you have the stomach for heights, you'll be rewarded with some of the most dramatic views in the entire world. If you don't, maybe you'll appreciate the concept for what it is: A novel way to explore rarely-used land.
For a further look inside the proposed house, visit BBC News.
h/t LaughingSquid
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The Face-Washing Affirmation That Has Nothing To Do With Your Skin
We've all seen our fair share of acne-shaming ads that have made us desperately wish we could hide all our pimples forever. But the next time you're washing your face in mirror, remember two things: Stop worrying and start living.
In a video tied to Clean & Clear's self-acceptance campaign, #SeeTheRealMe, poet and spoken word artist Azure Antoinette describes the pressures of being a girl in the age of Photoshop and social media. Having been called the "Maya Angelou of the Millennial generation," Antoinette reassures girls that it's OK to be different.
"Tomorrow morning, dunk your head in the sink," she urges in the video, which was originally launched in July. "Raise your face to the mirror. While your skin drips and the water sinks off the nose that is perfectly suited for your face, take a deep breath and say, this is the real me."
Thank you, Azure, for our new face-washing mantra.
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In a video tied to Clean & Clear's self-acceptance campaign, #SeeTheRealMe, poet and spoken word artist Azure Antoinette describes the pressures of being a girl in the age of Photoshop and social media. Having been called the "Maya Angelou of the Millennial generation," Antoinette reassures girls that it's OK to be different.
"Tomorrow morning, dunk your head in the sink," she urges in the video, which was originally launched in July. "Raise your face to the mirror. While your skin drips and the water sinks off the nose that is perfectly suited for your face, take a deep breath and say, this is the real me."
Thank you, Azure, for our new face-washing mantra.
[h/t The Frisky]
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FXX Is Having Another 'Simpsons' Marathon, But This Time It's Music-Themed
If you're still not totally Simpsonsed-out after that epic marathon of "The Simpsons," and if you're a fan of "The Monorail Song," then you're in luck this weekend.
Following its 12-day marathon of "The Simpsons," FXX is hosting a mini-marathon to include all the music-themed episodes. In honor of the upcoming three-night "Simpsons" show this weekend in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl, the network will air four hours of musical episodes from the animated series. It all kicks off on FXX on Thursday, Sept. 11, and will include episodes featuring the songs "Baby on Board," "Monorail Song" (which Conan O'Brien will perform live at the Bowl), “We Do – The Stonecutters Song," "See My Vest," "Señor Burns," "Dr. Zaius," “Chimpan A to Chimpan Z," “We Put the Spring in Springfield" and “Minimum Wage Nanny.”
If you can't make it to the live show at the Hollywood Bowl, which will also feature performances from Jon Lovitz, "Weird Al" and host Hank Azaria, then tune into FXX Thursday night. If anything, the music marathon will hold you over until the super meta "Simpsons" crossover happening this season. In Season 26's Halloween-themed episode, the Springfield family will encounter the ghosts of their "Tracey Ullman Show"-era selves, and we can't wait.
"The Simpsons" musical mini-marathon airs Thursday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m. ET on FXX.
[h/t Uproxx]
Following its 12-day marathon of "The Simpsons," FXX is hosting a mini-marathon to include all the music-themed episodes. In honor of the upcoming three-night "Simpsons" show this weekend in Los Angeles at the Hollywood Bowl, the network will air four hours of musical episodes from the animated series. It all kicks off on FXX on Thursday, Sept. 11, and will include episodes featuring the songs "Baby on Board," "Monorail Song" (which Conan O'Brien will perform live at the Bowl), “We Do – The Stonecutters Song," "See My Vest," "Señor Burns," "Dr. Zaius," “Chimpan A to Chimpan Z," “We Put the Spring in Springfield" and “Minimum Wage Nanny.”
If you can't make it to the live show at the Hollywood Bowl, which will also feature performances from Jon Lovitz, "Weird Al" and host Hank Azaria, then tune into FXX Thursday night. If anything, the music marathon will hold you over until the super meta "Simpsons" crossover happening this season. In Season 26's Halloween-themed episode, the Springfield family will encounter the ghosts of their "Tracey Ullman Show"-era selves, and we can't wait.
"The Simpsons" musical mini-marathon airs Thursday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m. ET on FXX.
[h/t Uproxx]
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These Drawings Depict Products Banned In Other Countries
Imagine this: You are at the barbershop, chewing gum, wearing cool vintage pants and sporting some fine leaded lipstick. The barber asks how you'd like your hair done. You point to a picture of Billy Ray Cyrus with a mullet, and say "Like this."
As the barber is cutting your hair, you get a little hungry. Luckily, you have a leftover burger in your bag, still cold from being in your used fridge. You take a bite, and savor the taste of ketchup. Yum.
Six things in that scenario are illegal in other countries. Watch the BuzzFeed video above to find out what they are and to see some drawings of other things -- like, baby walkers and handguns -- banned in some places around the world.
Side note: The video says Kinder Surprise Eggs (chocolate eggs with toys inside) are banned in the U.S. This ban was semi-lifted when a similar product, known as Chocolate Surprise Eggs, recently became legal in America. Alas, we can all sleep at night once more.
h/t Design Taxi
As the barber is cutting your hair, you get a little hungry. Luckily, you have a leftover burger in your bag, still cold from being in your used fridge. You take a bite, and savor the taste of ketchup. Yum.
Six things in that scenario are illegal in other countries. Watch the BuzzFeed video above to find out what they are and to see some drawings of other things -- like, baby walkers and handguns -- banned in some places around the world.
Side note: The video says Kinder Surprise Eggs (chocolate eggs with toys inside) are banned in the U.S. This ban was semi-lifted when a similar product, known as Chocolate Surprise Eggs, recently became legal in America. Alas, we can all sleep at night once more.
h/t Design Taxi
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Grown-Ups Use Legos To Re-Create Famous Movie Scenes That Will Blow You Away
When grown-ups get their hands on Legos, the results can be magical.
Currently the world's largest toy maker, Lego has an adult fan base that accounts for an estimated 5 to 10 percent of sales. Among those fans are members of the Sweden-based Lego-lovers group Swebrick, which recently wrapped its annual building contest.
Some of the submissions to this year's “AFOL vs. AFOL” (Adult Fans Of Lego) competition were nothing short of masterful. The theme, "Plastics From the Past," challenged members create cinematically faithful Lego versions of “any scene from an ’80s movie or TV show featuring a vehicle.” Participants put together their creations, photographed them and uploaded them to the group's online forum, where members voted to crown a 2014 champ.
Members of the six-year-old community regularly share pics of their creations, hold meet-ups and offer each other tips on building, buying and collecting. Those who take part in the group's contests -- including the Sept. 6 "Plastics From The Past" event -- must use regulation Lego bricks that are unmodified (no painting or cutting allowed) and aren't part of an existing branded series such as Lego "Star Wars."
The former Swebrick chairman, who goes by the online handle Etzel87, won this year's competition by creating the "You killed the car" scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," complete with flying bits of Lego glass from the garage windows and the horrified looks from the Lego Ferris, Cameron and Sloane.
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In case you need a refresher, here's that scene from the 1986 classic:
Pretty good, huh?
Other submissions included scenes from "Blade Runner," "Spaceballs" and "Alien."
Check out some of the best entries (below), then browse the rest at the Swebrick website.
h/t Gaper's Block
Currently the world's largest toy maker, Lego has an adult fan base that accounts for an estimated 5 to 10 percent of sales. Among those fans are members of the Sweden-based Lego-lovers group Swebrick, which recently wrapped its annual building contest.
Some of the submissions to this year's “AFOL vs. AFOL” (Adult Fans Of Lego) competition were nothing short of masterful. The theme, "Plastics From the Past," challenged members create cinematically faithful Lego versions of “any scene from an ’80s movie or TV show featuring a vehicle.” Participants put together their creations, photographed them and uploaded them to the group's online forum, where members voted to crown a 2014 champ.
Members of the six-year-old community regularly share pics of their creations, hold meet-ups and offer each other tips on building, buying and collecting. Those who take part in the group's contests -- including the Sept. 6 "Plastics From The Past" event -- must use regulation Lego bricks that are unmodified (no painting or cutting allowed) and aren't part of an existing branded series such as Lego "Star Wars."
The former Swebrick chairman, who goes by the online handle Etzel87, won this year's competition by creating the "You killed the car" scene from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," complete with flying bits of Lego glass from the garage windows and the horrified looks from the Lego Ferris, Cameron and Sloane.
In case you need a refresher, here's that scene from the 1986 classic:
Pretty good, huh?
Other submissions included scenes from "Blade Runner," "Spaceballs" and "Alien."
Check out some of the best entries (below), then browse the rest at the Swebrick website.
h/t Gaper's Block
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David Lynch Explains The Dark Origins Of His Nightmarish Retrospective
David Lynch's first museum retrospective in the U.S. is in Philadelphia, with good reason. "Fear, insanity, corruption, filth, despair, violence," the filmmaker told reporters Wednesday, all hung "in the air" when he was a student there in the 1960s.
The matter of Philly's darkness permeated this introduction to the exhibit, David Lynch: The Unified Field, which opens at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts this weekend. Figuratively and literally: Not only was Lynch's home broken into thrice in those days (he was a PAFA student when he made much of the work in the show), but even visually, "every building was black," he said.
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An untitled work by Lynch, painted in 1971.
A "soot-colored" landscape burrowed into Lynch's psyche. Palm trees and noir may mark his best known films (for example, Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet), but "no place," he said Wednesday, "has influenced me as much as Philadelphia."
"It was very pure, very filthy," he said, before adding with a chuckle: "It was so beautiful to me."
Lynch is an unexpected ham, as anyone who watched the third season of Louie knows. He dresses in black and would fit right into any of his own macabre movies, but he's far from self-serious. His counterintuitive statements come with a wry smile, and the effect is transformative. Suddenly, he's your grandfather letting you in on a joke. You feel you understand him more than you did before. (At the "beautiful" line, the audience laughed knowingly -- dutifully -- along with him.)
Of course, he is not your grandpa or anything like him. Lynch's paintings -- the subject of the exhibit -- are flecked in band-aids and cigarette butts. The one everyone's talking about, Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times), involves plaster casts of his own, younger, head, onto which animations of vomit are projected to the tune of sirens. These are among his earliest works. Before Lynch ever touched a camera, he was a classical artist, an advanced painting student at PAFA. His interests soon expanded to a concept he describes as a "moving image." His first experiment in this realm was Six Figures, which is on display for the first time since it showed in Lynch's student days (in the room used Wednesday for the press conference) and won him a prize. A minute long and strangely affecting, the audiovisual experience could reasonably be called a proto-film.
Lynch paints to this day. He describes the activity as a narrative exercise. Humanoid figures populate his works. Sometimes they are decapitated, or fleeing monsters. "I like to think of a little story in a world," he said Wednesday, on his approach to painting. "Maybe a few frames before the one you see, and a few after."
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For "I Burn Pinecone And Throw In Your House," Lynch incorporated the materials of the narrative: pinecones and matches.
The concerns of these works -- insects, decay, danger -- also haunt his filmography. One of the burglaries at Lynch's home in Philadelphia occurred while his young family slept. The experience stayed with him, notes PAFA's senior curator, Robert Cozzolino, who worked closely with Lynch on building the show with the help of friends in the area for whom a young Lynch painted for cash. Nowhere is safe in a Lynch film, and fixations include "domestic interiors, and what happens to the body in stressful situations," as Cozzolino delicately described the Lynchian aesthetic Wednesday.
Elevating human misery to art inevitably yields questions. A local reporter brought up the Philly neighborhood dubbed "Eraserhood" after Lynch's "Eraserhead." The area, which Lynch used to live in, has since been "ruined," the director said.
"So it's a little nicer, therefore ruined?" asked the reporter.
"Yeah," Lynch said, the little smile back.
Why did the old danger so enthrall him, another asked? Lynch admitted to not knowing exactly why, except that "it just gave a lot of ideas." The dark energy became "a fuel" still "percolating inside me."
The tale of the artist and the underbelly is not a new one. Look at Detroit today. Prices are cheap, tragedies play out on the street, and artists are moving in. Such a place is "cut off," Lynch said. "When I was here, Philadelphia was this lost, remote corner of the world. People had a certain way of dressing, a certain music they listened to."
The philosopher John Dewey famously defined art as a manifestation of daily experience. So too might Lynch. He claims to know little about the history of art or film, out of disinterest. "I'm not proud of it, but I don't care about what happened yesterday, really."
Disconnection arguably keeps the horrors of modern life fresh. Case in point: Lynch's first night in Philadelphia, "I saw a TV," he told the audience, as if describing a meeting with an alien. (He watches television rarely, he added, mostly when traveling.)
"It was a story about a man who hit a woman in an elevator," he continued. "Hit her so hard she fell down."
The man is almost certainly NFL running back Ray Rice, whose abusive behavior is all over the news right now. Lynch detailed a little more: about Rice dragging his fiancée from the elevator, and "plopping" her to the ground, as he put it. He spoke wonderingly, as if we'd switched tracks into a parallel world in which none of the press corps knew the awful facts. Into the rhythm of a press conference, here was suffering. We halted into a moment of silence. A reporter eventually broke it, venturing: "It's like a scene from one of your movies."
The matter of Philly's darkness permeated this introduction to the exhibit, David Lynch: The Unified Field, which opens at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts this weekend. Figuratively and literally: Not only was Lynch's home broken into thrice in those days (he was a PAFA student when he made much of the work in the show), but even visually, "every building was black," he said.
A "soot-colored" landscape burrowed into Lynch's psyche. Palm trees and noir may mark his best known films (for example, Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet), but "no place," he said Wednesday, "has influenced me as much as Philadelphia."
"It was very pure, very filthy," he said, before adding with a chuckle: "It was so beautiful to me."
Lynch is an unexpected ham, as anyone who watched the third season of Louie knows. He dresses in black and would fit right into any of his own macabre movies, but he's far from self-serious. His counterintuitive statements come with a wry smile, and the effect is transformative. Suddenly, he's your grandfather letting you in on a joke. You feel you understand him more than you did before. (At the "beautiful" line, the audience laughed knowingly -- dutifully -- along with him.)
Of course, he is not your grandpa or anything like him. Lynch's paintings -- the subject of the exhibit -- are flecked in band-aids and cigarette butts. The one everyone's talking about, Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times), involves plaster casts of his own, younger, head, onto which animations of vomit are projected to the tune of sirens. These are among his earliest works. Before Lynch ever touched a camera, he was a classical artist, an advanced painting student at PAFA. His interests soon expanded to a concept he describes as a "moving image." His first experiment in this realm was Six Figures, which is on display for the first time since it showed in Lynch's student days (in the room used Wednesday for the press conference) and won him a prize. A minute long and strangely affecting, the audiovisual experience could reasonably be called a proto-film.
Lynch paints to this day. He describes the activity as a narrative exercise. Humanoid figures populate his works. Sometimes they are decapitated, or fleeing monsters. "I like to think of a little story in a world," he said Wednesday, on his approach to painting. "Maybe a few frames before the one you see, and a few after."
The concerns of these works -- insects, decay, danger -- also haunt his filmography. One of the burglaries at Lynch's home in Philadelphia occurred while his young family slept. The experience stayed with him, notes PAFA's senior curator, Robert Cozzolino, who worked closely with Lynch on building the show with the help of friends in the area for whom a young Lynch painted for cash. Nowhere is safe in a Lynch film, and fixations include "domestic interiors, and what happens to the body in stressful situations," as Cozzolino delicately described the Lynchian aesthetic Wednesday.
Elevating human misery to art inevitably yields questions. A local reporter brought up the Philly neighborhood dubbed "Eraserhood" after Lynch's "Eraserhead." The area, which Lynch used to live in, has since been "ruined," the director said.
"So it's a little nicer, therefore ruined?" asked the reporter.
"Yeah," Lynch said, the little smile back.
Why did the old danger so enthrall him, another asked? Lynch admitted to not knowing exactly why, except that "it just gave a lot of ideas." The dark energy became "a fuel" still "percolating inside me."
The tale of the artist and the underbelly is not a new one. Look at Detroit today. Prices are cheap, tragedies play out on the street, and artists are moving in. Such a place is "cut off," Lynch said. "When I was here, Philadelphia was this lost, remote corner of the world. People had a certain way of dressing, a certain music they listened to."
The philosopher John Dewey famously defined art as a manifestation of daily experience. So too might Lynch. He claims to know little about the history of art or film, out of disinterest. "I'm not proud of it, but I don't care about what happened yesterday, really."
Disconnection arguably keeps the horrors of modern life fresh. Case in point: Lynch's first night in Philadelphia, "I saw a TV," he told the audience, as if describing a meeting with an alien. (He watches television rarely, he added, mostly when traveling.)
"It was a story about a man who hit a woman in an elevator," he continued. "Hit her so hard she fell down."
The man is almost certainly NFL running back Ray Rice, whose abusive behavior is all over the news right now. Lynch detailed a little more: about Rice dragging his fiancée from the elevator, and "plopping" her to the ground, as he put it. He spoke wonderingly, as if we'd switched tracks into a parallel world in which none of the press corps knew the awful facts. Into the rhythm of a press conference, here was suffering. We halted into a moment of silence. A reporter eventually broke it, venturing: "It's like a scene from one of your movies."
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Ballerina Misty Copeland On Racism: No, All Black Women Don't Have The Same Body
Misty Copeland knows criticism is part of being a ballerina, but she's sick of the criticism focusing on things she can't change.
In support of her new children's book, Firebird, Copeland got candid earlier this week during a conversation on HuffPost Live about how she deals with racism and body-shaming.
"As a dancer, when you're put in front of the spotlight and an audience, it is a subjective art form. Not everyone is going to like you," she said during the interview. "But it's hard when you're being judged for things you can't control, like the color of your skin, like the type of body that you have."
The ballet superstar said the idea that black women can't be graceful dancers -- or anything else -- because of their body shape simply doesn't ring true.
"Everyone has different body types. It's really, I think, ignorant to just kind of categorize someone and say all African Americans have this body, therefore you can't do this," she explained. "It's not true. You look at track runners, you look at models, you look at swimmers that are African American, and they don't have that body that they're saying only exists for African American women."
Copeland added that it's important to remember skin color doesn't dictate talent.
"You can be any color, you can morph your body into what it's capable of becoming, and it can be beautiful still and fit into that realm of what classical ballet should be," she said.
Watch the full HuffPost Live conversation with Misty Copeland here.
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In support of her new children's book, Firebird, Copeland got candid earlier this week during a conversation on HuffPost Live about how she deals with racism and body-shaming.
"As a dancer, when you're put in front of the spotlight and an audience, it is a subjective art form. Not everyone is going to like you," she said during the interview. "But it's hard when you're being judged for things you can't control, like the color of your skin, like the type of body that you have."
The ballet superstar said the idea that black women can't be graceful dancers -- or anything else -- because of their body shape simply doesn't ring true.
"Everyone has different body types. It's really, I think, ignorant to just kind of categorize someone and say all African Americans have this body, therefore you can't do this," she explained. "It's not true. You look at track runners, you look at models, you look at swimmers that are African American, and they don't have that body that they're saying only exists for African American women."
Copeland added that it's important to remember skin color doesn't dictate talent.
"You can be any color, you can morph your body into what it's capable of becoming, and it can be beautiful still and fit into that realm of what classical ballet should be," she said.
Watch the full HuffPost Live conversation with Misty Copeland here.
Sign up here for Live Today, HuffPost Live's new morning email that will let you know the newsmakers, celebrities and politicians joining us that day and give you the best clips from the day before!
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New York Fashion Week Trends That Work On The Runway AND In Your Home
As New York's Spring 2015 Fashion Week comes to an end, it's time to take stock of all the trends we can expect to see come spring and, more importantly, what they might look like if we brought them into our homes.
Check out the runway-inspired accents we rounded up below and start giving your home a stylish update that even Anna Wintour would approve of.
As inspired by Marc By Marc Jacobs
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Flatware, One Kings Lane; Desk Chair, Pottery Barn Teen
As inspired by Nonoo
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Pendant Lamp, Domino; Agate Box, One Kings Lane
As inspired by Alexander Wang
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Side Table, Domino; Dining Chair, Houzz
As inspired by Altuzarra
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Throw Pillow, Hayneedle; Pendant Lamp, Houzz
As inspired by Victoria Beckham
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Tea Towels, One Kings Lane; Stool, Domino
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Check out the runway-inspired accents we rounded up below and start giving your home a stylish update that even Anna Wintour would approve of.
Oversized Polka Dots
As inspired by Marc By Marc Jacobs
Flatware, One Kings Lane; Desk Chair, Pottery Barn Teen
All-White Everything
As inspired by Nonoo
Pendant Lamp, Domino; Agate Box, One Kings Lane
Sportswear
As inspired by Alexander Wang
Side Table, Domino; Dining Chair, Houzz
Gingham
As inspired by Altuzarra
Throw Pillow, Hayneedle; Pendant Lamp, Houzz
Linen
As inspired by Victoria Beckham
Tea Towels, One Kings Lane; Stool, Domino
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18 Incredibly Important 'Gilmore Girls' Episodes You Must Watch On Netflix
"Gilmore Girls" is coming to Netflix this October! We'll let you take a moment to rejoice. Yep, it looks like you get to spend your days and nights hanging out with the best mother-daughter duo of all time while sipping pumpkin spice lattes and watching the leaves fall outside.
It sounds great ... until you think about all the other shows you have to dedicate your time to on top of watching 153 hour-long episodes of "Gilmore." Luckily, we've picked out the 18 most important episodes to help you relive the series to its fullest.
It sounds great ... until you think about all the other shows you have to dedicate your time to on top of watching 153 hour-long episodes of "Gilmore." Luckily, we've picked out the 18 most important episodes to help you relive the series to its fullest.
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Violinist Plays Mozart Through Her Own Brain Surgery
Violinist Naomi Elishuv gave her surgeons their own private Mozart concert Tuesday -- as they operated on her brain.
Elishuv performed professionally with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra before being diagnosed with essential tremor two decades ago, according to the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. The neurological condition can effect muscles throughout the body, but for Elishuv, it meant a trembling of the hands and the end of her orchestral career.
Earlier this week, surgeons inserted a pacemaker into the affected area of Elishuv's brain to regulate her tremors through electric impulses. According to the hospital's director of functional neurosurgery, Yitzhak Fried, she was asked to play during the procedure because he and other doctors needed Elishuv's "active participation in real-time" to implant the pacemaker.
Now, thanks to the life-changing operation, she's regained her rhythm.
"When we activated the stimulation in the exact location, we found that the tremor had disappeared and Elishuv continued to play Mozart -- with great emotion, but without the tremor or side effects,” Fried told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. According to RT.com, it was the first time Fried had operated on someone playing an instrument.
The different between her playing before and after the surgery is clearly apparent in video above.
“It’s a shame that I didn’t know about this operation before,” said Elishuv, according to JNS.org. “Now I’m going to live again.”
Elishuv performed professionally with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra before being diagnosed with essential tremor two decades ago, according to the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. The neurological condition can effect muscles throughout the body, but for Elishuv, it meant a trembling of the hands and the end of her orchestral career.
Earlier this week, surgeons inserted a pacemaker into the affected area of Elishuv's brain to regulate her tremors through electric impulses. According to the hospital's director of functional neurosurgery, Yitzhak Fried, she was asked to play during the procedure because he and other doctors needed Elishuv's "active participation in real-time" to implant the pacemaker.
Now, thanks to the life-changing operation, she's regained her rhythm.
"When we activated the stimulation in the exact location, we found that the tremor had disappeared and Elishuv continued to play Mozart -- with great emotion, but without the tremor or side effects,” Fried told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. According to RT.com, it was the first time Fried had operated on someone playing an instrument.
The different between her playing before and after the surgery is clearly apparent in video above.
“It’s a shame that I didn’t know about this operation before,” said Elishuv, according to JNS.org. “Now I’m going to live again.”
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War Gives Inspiration To Gaza's Artists
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian filmmaker Khalil Mozayen's latest work was already complexly layered — a movie within a movie about a director and screenwriter producing a film about an honor killing in the Gaza Strip.
Then the latest Gaza war burst in to add yet another layer: An Israeli airstrike levelled the 13-story apartment tower where Mozayen's office, studio and archive were located. So he filmed the mountain of rubble and used it for the final scene of his movie, "Sarah 2014." Mozayen had hoped to create a film not connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he and his screenwriter Naim al-Khatib said they decided they couldn't avoid addressing the war.
"It is like, as a Palestinian, you don't have the right to have your own dream, that everything in your life has to have something to do with war and (Israeli) occupation," said al-Khatib, who also plays the fictional screenwriter in the movie.
"The occupation crashed our privacy ... and the war became an integral part of the film's ending," he said.
The themes and reality of war impose themselves on Gaza's small but vibrant arts scene, and the latest war has been a powerful inspiration for its artists in their new work. The 50 days of fighting, which ended with an indefinite truce on Aug. 26, was the deadliest and most ruinous of three such conflicts between Israel and Gaza's Hamas militant rulers since late 2008. More than 2,143 Palestinians were killed and 100,000 left homeless.
The artists also incorporate the death and destruction into themes drawn from the other realities of life in the tiny Mediterranean coastal strip — a seven-year blockade enforced by Israel and Egypt and the restrictions on freedoms imposed by Hamas on a society that is already deeply conservative.
Manal Miqdad, a 27-year-old poet, has lived through all those restrictions.
She wanted to study music, but there was no place to teach her that, so she joined the information technology department in the Hamas-run Islamic University, where a flowing robe and a headscarf are obligatory for women.
When she fell in love with a colleague and a fellow music buff, she could not be alone with him except on a handful of occasions. Once, plainclothes Hamas security men stopped the couple as they walked together, demanding to know if they were married or related.
After seeing each other for four years, his family prevented them from marrying. His mother, a native of Gaza, objected to her son marrying into a "refugee" family. Miqdad's family hails from the village of Hamamah, now in Israel, just outside Gaza.
Thrown into depression, Miqdad said she didn't leave her home for 243 days and attempted suicide twice. Her boyfriend eventually left Gaza.
"You cannot love in Gaza, it's a crime," she lamented.
She recalled how during the Hamas-Israel war in the winter of 2008-2009, her family fled their home and discovered when they returned that Hamas fighters had stayed in their house during their absence. The fighters left an apologetic note, saying they had taken some honey and eggs.
The house was undamaged except for one item: a piano the family had received as a gift only a month earlier. Miqdad has been playing it just before the family fled. Now the keyboard and strings were ripped apart.
"It was obvious who did that," she said. Miqdad didn't elaborate, but music is generally frowned on by hard-line Islamists.
The pain and frustration came out in poetry Miqdad wrote in the latest war. She posted it on social media during the fighting and it quickly spread as online volunteers translated it into English, French and, significantly, Hebrew.
She was so terrified by the bombardment that she hardly left home, cooped up in a hall between the bathroom and the kitchen that the family deemed the safest place.
"Security in Gaza is to look for the safest spot in a dangerous place," she bitterly mused in one of her poems.
"In Gaza, how many times must we die to convince life that we deserve one?" she wrote. "And how many miracles do we need to defend our dreams and dignity?"
During the war, painter Basel al-Maqosui wanted to show the world something beyond the death and destruction.
"People outside will look at the gruesome images of Gaza's dead and wounded for a day, maybe two, but not longer," he said. "I wanted to give the world something they can look at day after day for as long as the war lasted."
Al-Maqosui normally paints with oil on canvas, but he needed a quicker medium. There was also the question of how to deliver his work to an outside audience amid war and blockade.
The answer: Photo collage and social media.
The artist, a 42-year-old father of five, took advantage of the brief reprieves in the fighting to photograph some of the most devastated parts of Gaza. He then paired them with images of some of the world's most famous paintings by Monet, Cezanne and Picasso and posted them on social media.
His work, along with similar production by other artists, attracted much attention in Gaza and abroad.
Al-Maqosui and other artists are partners in Windows From Gaza, a cultural center used as an art gallery and for art courses for children — one of only a handful of galleries in the territory. He and others point to the challenges of being an artist under rule by Hamas.
They recall the suspension for three months in 2010 of a project to give children cameras to take photographs while they investigated it. Eventually, Hamas allowed the project to go on.
"We have learned to be our own censors," said Shareef Sarhan, a photographer and artist associated with Windows from Gaza. "We set our own ceilings rather than, as artists, push the boundaries of artistic expression."
The filmmaker Mozayen said he intended for "Sarah 2014" to be a look at women's rights in a deeply patriarchal society and more universal issues of human suffering — to tell the world "that we are human and have human issues like everyone else."
Made on a shoestring budget of $220,000, "Sarah 2014" tells the story of a film director, played by actor Jamal Abu Komsan, and a script writer, played by al-Khatib, cooperating on a movie about a Gaza woman who disappeared, most likely killed by her family for entering at relationship with a married man.
When the strike, only hours before the Aug. 26 truce, flattened the apartment tower, Mozayen went to film the site. Last week, he climbed up the rubble on a ridge-like section 20 meters (yards) up.
"This is a godsend. Hollywood producers would pay millions for a location like this and I got it for free," he quipped.
The final scene twists the movie within a movie and reality versus fiction.
The director and screenwriter stand in front of the huge pile of wreckage, arguing over whether to include the images of the war's destruction in the final scene of their movie. The screenwriter argues against it, complaining the film is being pulled away from its intended subject.
"Man, I wish I could be an ordinary human being for once. Someone whose pain is caused by normal causes," he tells the director. "I am fed up with being a Palestinian."
Then the latest Gaza war burst in to add yet another layer: An Israeli airstrike levelled the 13-story apartment tower where Mozayen's office, studio and archive were located. So he filmed the mountain of rubble and used it for the final scene of his movie, "Sarah 2014." Mozayen had hoped to create a film not connected to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he and his screenwriter Naim al-Khatib said they decided they couldn't avoid addressing the war.
"It is like, as a Palestinian, you don't have the right to have your own dream, that everything in your life has to have something to do with war and (Israeli) occupation," said al-Khatib, who also plays the fictional screenwriter in the movie.
"The occupation crashed our privacy ... and the war became an integral part of the film's ending," he said.
The themes and reality of war impose themselves on Gaza's small but vibrant arts scene, and the latest war has been a powerful inspiration for its artists in their new work. The 50 days of fighting, which ended with an indefinite truce on Aug. 26, was the deadliest and most ruinous of three such conflicts between Israel and Gaza's Hamas militant rulers since late 2008. More than 2,143 Palestinians were killed and 100,000 left homeless.
The artists also incorporate the death and destruction into themes drawn from the other realities of life in the tiny Mediterranean coastal strip — a seven-year blockade enforced by Israel and Egypt and the restrictions on freedoms imposed by Hamas on a society that is already deeply conservative.
Manal Miqdad, a 27-year-old poet, has lived through all those restrictions.
She wanted to study music, but there was no place to teach her that, so she joined the information technology department in the Hamas-run Islamic University, where a flowing robe and a headscarf are obligatory for women.
When she fell in love with a colleague and a fellow music buff, she could not be alone with him except on a handful of occasions. Once, plainclothes Hamas security men stopped the couple as they walked together, demanding to know if they were married or related.
After seeing each other for four years, his family prevented them from marrying. His mother, a native of Gaza, objected to her son marrying into a "refugee" family. Miqdad's family hails from the village of Hamamah, now in Israel, just outside Gaza.
Thrown into depression, Miqdad said she didn't leave her home for 243 days and attempted suicide twice. Her boyfriend eventually left Gaza.
"You cannot love in Gaza, it's a crime," she lamented.
She recalled how during the Hamas-Israel war in the winter of 2008-2009, her family fled their home and discovered when they returned that Hamas fighters had stayed in their house during their absence. The fighters left an apologetic note, saying they had taken some honey and eggs.
The house was undamaged except for one item: a piano the family had received as a gift only a month earlier. Miqdad has been playing it just before the family fled. Now the keyboard and strings were ripped apart.
"It was obvious who did that," she said. Miqdad didn't elaborate, but music is generally frowned on by hard-line Islamists.
The pain and frustration came out in poetry Miqdad wrote in the latest war. She posted it on social media during the fighting and it quickly spread as online volunteers translated it into English, French and, significantly, Hebrew.
She was so terrified by the bombardment that she hardly left home, cooped up in a hall between the bathroom and the kitchen that the family deemed the safest place.
"Security in Gaza is to look for the safest spot in a dangerous place," she bitterly mused in one of her poems.
"In Gaza, how many times must we die to convince life that we deserve one?" she wrote. "And how many miracles do we need to defend our dreams and dignity?"
During the war, painter Basel al-Maqosui wanted to show the world something beyond the death and destruction.
"People outside will look at the gruesome images of Gaza's dead and wounded for a day, maybe two, but not longer," he said. "I wanted to give the world something they can look at day after day for as long as the war lasted."
Al-Maqosui normally paints with oil on canvas, but he needed a quicker medium. There was also the question of how to deliver his work to an outside audience amid war and blockade.
The answer: Photo collage and social media.
The artist, a 42-year-old father of five, took advantage of the brief reprieves in the fighting to photograph some of the most devastated parts of Gaza. He then paired them with images of some of the world's most famous paintings by Monet, Cezanne and Picasso and posted them on social media.
His work, along with similar production by other artists, attracted much attention in Gaza and abroad.
Al-Maqosui and other artists are partners in Windows From Gaza, a cultural center used as an art gallery and for art courses for children — one of only a handful of galleries in the territory. He and others point to the challenges of being an artist under rule by Hamas.
They recall the suspension for three months in 2010 of a project to give children cameras to take photographs while they investigated it. Eventually, Hamas allowed the project to go on.
"We have learned to be our own censors," said Shareef Sarhan, a photographer and artist associated with Windows from Gaza. "We set our own ceilings rather than, as artists, push the boundaries of artistic expression."
The filmmaker Mozayen said he intended for "Sarah 2014" to be a look at women's rights in a deeply patriarchal society and more universal issues of human suffering — to tell the world "that we are human and have human issues like everyone else."
Made on a shoestring budget of $220,000, "Sarah 2014" tells the story of a film director, played by actor Jamal Abu Komsan, and a script writer, played by al-Khatib, cooperating on a movie about a Gaza woman who disappeared, most likely killed by her family for entering at relationship with a married man.
When the strike, only hours before the Aug. 26 truce, flattened the apartment tower, Mozayen went to film the site. Last week, he climbed up the rubble on a ridge-like section 20 meters (yards) up.
"This is a godsend. Hollywood producers would pay millions for a location like this and I got it for free," he quipped.
The final scene twists the movie within a movie and reality versus fiction.
The director and screenwriter stand in front of the huge pile of wreckage, arguing over whether to include the images of the war's destruction in the final scene of their movie. The screenwriter argues against it, complaining the film is being pulled away from its intended subject.
"Man, I wish I could be an ordinary human being for once. Someone whose pain is caused by normal causes," he tells the director. "I am fed up with being a Palestinian."
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Ancient Swamp Creature Named For Mick Jagger—And For Good Reason
Sure, being knighted is an impressive achievement. But you haven't really made it big until scientists name a prehistoric swamp creature after you.
That's why a new paper published on Sept. 8 in the Journal of Paleontology is such good news for Mick Jagger. It describes an extinct animal that researchers named Jaggermeryx naida -- because like Jagger, it had big lips.
“Some of my colleagues suggested naming the new species after Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, because she also has famous lips," study co-author Dr. Ellen Miller, an anthropologist at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, said in a written statement. "But for me it had to be Mick.”
The jaw bones of Jaggermeryx naida, which translates to "Jagger’s water nymph," suggest that the animal had a nerve-rich muzzle with "mobile and tactile lips,” the researchers said. The animal was likely the size of a small deer, looking a bit like a cross between a "slender hippo and a long-legged pig."
Though the bones were discovered in the desert region of Egypt, they researchers said that the area was likely a lush tropical delta when Jaggermeryx lived there around 19 million years ago.
“It may have used its sensitive snout to forage along river banks, scooping up plants with its lower teeth and large lips,” Miller said in the statement.
It's not the first creature to be named after rock royalty. Jagger, along with Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards, both have ancient trilobites -- extinct marine arthropods -- named after them.
For a comprehensive list of animals named after celebrities, read more here.
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Top and side views of a fossilized jaw bone of an ancient creature recently named after Mick Jagger, because of the animal’s big, sensitive lips and snout.
That's why a new paper published on Sept. 8 in the Journal of Paleontology is such good news for Mick Jagger. It describes an extinct animal that researchers named Jaggermeryx naida -- because like Jagger, it had big lips.
“Some of my colleagues suggested naming the new species after Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, because she also has famous lips," study co-author Dr. Ellen Miller, an anthropologist at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, said in a written statement. "But for me it had to be Mick.”
The jaw bones of Jaggermeryx naida, which translates to "Jagger’s water nymph," suggest that the animal had a nerve-rich muzzle with "mobile and tactile lips,” the researchers said. The animal was likely the size of a small deer, looking a bit like a cross between a "slender hippo and a long-legged pig."
Though the bones were discovered in the desert region of Egypt, they researchers said that the area was likely a lush tropical delta when Jaggermeryx lived there around 19 million years ago.
“It may have used its sensitive snout to forage along river banks, scooping up plants with its lower teeth and large lips,” Miller said in the statement.
It's not the first creature to be named after rock royalty. Jagger, along with Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards, both have ancient trilobites -- extinct marine arthropods -- named after them.
For a comprehensive list of animals named after celebrities, read more here.
Top and side views of a fossilized jaw bone of an ancient creature recently named after Mick Jagger, because of the animal’s big, sensitive lips and snout.
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Watch These Musicians Turn Patty-Cake On Its Head In Epic Video
These musicians turned a favorite childhood game into a musical masterpiece.
In a video uploaded to YouTube, four musicians perform an original song, "I'll Think of You," written by Kurt Schneider and arranged by Sam Tsui, (who both appear in the video). The only beat they have is provided by their brilliantly played game of patty-cake.
While their gorgeous vocals are enough to wow you, the beat they create with the hand game will make your jaw drop.
At the 1:22 mark, the singers' game becomes even more remarkable as they stop their singing and kick their patty-cake into high gear. They trade partners, take turns and amp up the beats.
Excuse us while we go and furiously practice our patty-cake game.
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In a video uploaded to YouTube, four musicians perform an original song, "I'll Think of You," written by Kurt Schneider and arranged by Sam Tsui, (who both appear in the video). The only beat they have is provided by their brilliantly played game of patty-cake.
While their gorgeous vocals are enough to wow you, the beat they create with the hand game will make your jaw drop.
At the 1:22 mark, the singers' game becomes even more remarkable as they stop their singing and kick their patty-cake into high gear. They trade partners, take turns and amp up the beats.
Excuse us while we go and furiously practice our patty-cake game.
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Why The 'Gay Parent Trap' Is Shifting Queer Culture, According To Justin Sayre Of 'The Meeting'
Writer-performer Justin Sayre laments the demise of queer culture and the rise of what he describes as "the gay parent trap" in his latest clip for HuffPost Gay Voices.
In a recent installment of his variety show, "The Meeting," Sayre pokes fun at news that the final season of CBS's "Two and a Half Men" will feature a gay adoption storyline (sort of). True to form, it's all done in good humor.
"You used to want to get gay married so you could own property in Fire Island and hire rent boys and not hate each other," Sayre notes in the clip. "You used to want to get gay married so that your knick-knacks would go to someone responsible ... now we're getting gay married so that we can have children."
He then concludes, "We've become straight people, and it's boring."
Sayre's "International Order of Sodomites" (I.O.S.) gathers once a month for "The Meeting," a live variety show honoring an artist or a cultural work that is iconic to the gay community. Previous editions have been dedicated to Cher, Karen Carpenter and Judy Garland.
This month's show will be dedicated to Amy Winehouse and hits New York's Joe's Pub on Sept. 14.
The New York Times reported that Sayre, 32, was recently hired to write for "2 Broke Girls," which returns to CBS on Oct. 27.
You can view some of Sayre's previous performances on his official YouTube page here. You can read more about his show on Facebook here or follow the official Twitter account.
Video by Matt Pfeifer.
In a recent installment of his variety show, "The Meeting," Sayre pokes fun at news that the final season of CBS's "Two and a Half Men" will feature a gay adoption storyline (sort of). True to form, it's all done in good humor.
"You used to want to get gay married so you could own property in Fire Island and hire rent boys and not hate each other," Sayre notes in the clip. "You used to want to get gay married so that your knick-knacks would go to someone responsible ... now we're getting gay married so that we can have children."
He then concludes, "We've become straight people, and it's boring."
Sayre's "International Order of Sodomites" (I.O.S.) gathers once a month for "The Meeting," a live variety show honoring an artist or a cultural work that is iconic to the gay community. Previous editions have been dedicated to Cher, Karen Carpenter and Judy Garland.
This month's show will be dedicated to Amy Winehouse and hits New York's Joe's Pub on Sept. 14.
The New York Times reported that Sayre, 32, was recently hired to write for "2 Broke Girls," which returns to CBS on Oct. 27.
You can view some of Sayre's previous performances on his official YouTube page here. You can read more about his show on Facebook here or follow the official Twitter account.
Video by Matt Pfeifer.
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'Star Wars' Without Music Is Just Silent People Smiling Creepily At One Another
"Star Wars" is a cult classic. The "Star Wars" theme song is a cult classic.
But what happens when you separate the two? The mood in our galaxy goes from serious to seriously hilarious.
In the above video posted to Youtube this week by Auralnauts, we see a well-known Star Wars scene -- the "throne room" finale of Episode IV -- without John Williams' iconic score.
In the silence, Luke, Leia and Han's triumphant smiles look super sketchy. And Chewbacca, just like the rest of us, clearly can't handle it.
h/t Tastefully Offensive
But what happens when you separate the two? The mood in our galaxy goes from serious to seriously hilarious.
In the above video posted to Youtube this week by Auralnauts, we see a well-known Star Wars scene -- the "throne room" finale of Episode IV -- without John Williams' iconic score.
In the silence, Luke, Leia and Han's triumphant smiles look super sketchy. And Chewbacca, just like the rest of us, clearly can't handle it.
h/t Tastefully Offensive
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'Grateful For The Time We Were Given': Emotional Delivery Room Photos Help Mom Through Loss
After struggling for many years with my health, I was beyond thrilled to find out in January that my husband and I were expecting our second child. I had been in remission from my autoimmune disease for three years and this pregnancy, as well as our new home, seemed to symbolize embarking on a new, happier time.
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This Is What Happens When You Look Up
Welcome to "Moving Image," our weekly roundup of beautiful photographs that tell stories from around the globe.
While technology and innovation is connecting us to people and ideas that are worlds away, it can also disconnect us from the world around us. If your eyes are glued down to your phone, there are invariably a lot of interesting things going over your head, literally.
With that in mind, we challenged our photographer friends over at EyeEm to get outside and show us what they find when they cast their eyes up and look toward the sky.
These are just a few of our favorites.
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You can also submit photos to us via the hashtag #lookupandthrive!
While technology and innovation is connecting us to people and ideas that are worlds away, it can also disconnect us from the world around us. If your eyes are glued down to your phone, there are invariably a lot of interesting things going over your head, literally.
With that in mind, we challenged our photographer friends over at EyeEm to get outside and show us what they find when they cast their eyes up and look toward the sky.
These are just a few of our favorites.
You can also submit photos to us via the hashtag #lookupandthrive!
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