Building a life with someone is full of highs and lows, moments both big and small. 

Real-life married couple Keone and Mari Madrid capture these ups and downs beautifully in a dance they choreographed to "Stuck With Me" by Timeflies. 

Posted to YouTube earlier this month, the dance follows a couple as they hit big milestones -- moving in together, getting engaged and having a baby -- but also touches on the less glamorous moments like cleaning the house and arguing over bills. 

Keone and Mari -- who first met while teaching at a dance workshop -- have been together for eight years, and married for three. Director David Javier approached them with the concept for the video and Keone and Mari took it from there, drawing inspiration from their experiences as a couple. 

"After David gave us the general outline, we filled it in with details of, 'How would we approach this [scenario] in real life?'" Keone told The Huffington Post. 

"Love isn't as easy as this three-minute video may portray," Keone added. "But we hope viewers find comfort in knowing that the couple in the video is husband and wife in real life and goes through similar ups and downs that other couples experience."

Watch the moving performance -- released by YouTube dance network DanceOn -- in its entirety above. 

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Sacred space is hard to define, but it's something many of us have experienced in our lives. The challenge for designers and architects is to find ways of evoking the divine through structures and shapes.

Every year for the past 30 years, Faith & Form magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture have honored outstanding religious architecture and design through their annual awards program. This year's winners were selected by a panel of five independent judges, and they demonstrate the diverse and creative ways in which human beings experience and depict the sacred.

View the 16 winners of the 2015 Faith & Form/IFRAA Religious Art and Architecture Award below:

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Oscar voting began Wednesday, giving members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences until Jan. 8 to submit their ballots for this year's prizes. We figure they need a little help in deciding which darlings should make the shortlist when nominations are announced on Jan. 14. With studios' campaigns entering the homestretch, The Huffington Post's movie gurus, Matthew Jacobs and Joe Satran, have some suggestions to help the Academy make the tough choices. In an Oscar derby as open-ended as this one, anything could happen. Here are two perspectives on what should.

BEST PICTURE

Joe:

"Bridge of Spies"
"Goodnight Mommy"
"Ex Machina"
"The Hateful Eight"
"Joy"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"Room"
"Spotlight"
"Star Wars: The Force Awakens"           

You wouldn't want to be the protagonist of many of these movies. Most of them suffered tremendously. (And I didn't even include "The Revenant," perhaps the most brutal of them all!) But the skillful filmmaking that went into them -- and it really was very skillful -- transformed their misery into my delight. 

Matt:

"The Big Short"
"Brooklyn"
"Carol"
"Inside Out"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Martian"
"Room"
"Spotlight"
"Tangerine"

It's hard to know where to stop when this category can include anywhere from five to 10 titles. My list of nine just barely misses "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," but I won't be mad if the Academy is as taken with BB-8 as the rest of the galaxy.

BEST DIRECTOR

Joe:

Alex Garland, "Ex Machina"
Todd Haynes, "Carol"
George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
David O. Russell, "Joy"
Ridley Scott, "The Martian"

I didn't like "Carol" quite as much as everyone else did -- I found it frosty, even, at times, inert -- but I have to admit that it was one of most beautiful, well-acted movies of the year. Still, I hope the award goes to Miller. 

Matt:

Lenny Abrahamson, "Room"
Sean Baker, "Tangerine"
Todd Haynes, "Carol"
George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Ridley Scott, "The Martian"

It's hard to weigh the subtlety of "Carol" against the grandeur of, say, "Mad Max: Fury Road," but each of these five directors gave us the same thing: intimate character studies wrapped in flashy but effortless cinema. As much as I'd love to include a woman on this list (Marielle Heller would be my first pick, for "The Diary of a Teenage Girl"), it's Hollywood's fault that the pickings were so slim.

See our full coverage of the Best Director race.

BEST ACTRESS

Joe:

Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Brie Larson, "Room"
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Daisy Ridley, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
Charlize Theron, "Mad Max: Fury Road"

I'm obsessed, in this category, with Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron and Daisy Ridley: They brought a strength and ferocity to their roles that made them into true icons. But Lawrence and Theron have both won before and Ridley hasn't even been in the conversation. Brie Larson, meanwhile, was amazing, so I have no issue with her as the frontrunner. 

Matt:

Cate Blanchett, "Truth"
Brie Larson, "Room"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"
Charlotte Rampling, "45 Years"
Lily Tomlin, "Grandma"

"Carol" will be rightfully seen as the defining Cate Blanchett film of 2015, but I thought she submitted stronger work in the unfairly maligned "Truth." (She was also great in "Cinderella," by the way.) Still, this is Brie Larson's prize, and the rest of us are just Imperator Furiosa rounding up a bushel of ladies who defined the year in film. Others include Teyonah Paris ("Chi-Raq"), Bel Powley ("The Diary of a Teenage Girl"), Melissa McCarthy ("Spy") and, of course, Charlize Theron ("Mad Max: Fury Road"). 

See our full coverage of the Best Actress race.

BEST ACTOR

Joe:

Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Paul Dano, "Love & Mercy"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"
Tom Hanks, "Bridge of Spies"
Samuel L. Jackson, "The Hateful Eight"

I'm not wild about any of these performances -- except Paul Dano's. His take on the young Brian Wilson was so uncanny that watching the 1960s parts of "Love and Mercy" felt like time travel. He's being campaigned as a supporting actor, while his co-star John Cusack is in contention for lead, but I think that's a mistake. I hope the Academy agrees.

Matt:

Christopher Abbott, "James White"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Paul Dano, "Love & Mercy"
Andrew Garfield, "99 Homes"
Michael B. Jordan, "Creed"

Imagine a calendar where male leads couldn't hold a candle to the year's female stars. That was 2015. Most of the A-list Oscar players -- Leonardo DiCaprio ("The Revenant"), Johnny Depp ("Black Mass"), Eddie Redmayne ("The Danish Girl"), Will Smith ("Concussion") -- turned in work that felt removed and performative. I'll echo Joe by saying that Paul Dano, in one of the year's best screen achievements, should be the lead contender to beat.

See our full coverage of the Best Actor race.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS 

Joe:

Joan Allen, "Room"
Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight"
Rooney Mara, "Carol"
Kristen Stewart, "Clouds of Sils Maria"
Alicia Vikander, "Ex Machina"

I guess it's a foregone conclusion that Vogue cover girl Alicia Vikander will be nominated for "The Danish Girl," but I still prefer her in "Ex Machina." She captured the uncanny and seductive power of artificial intelligence as well as any actor ever has. 

Matt:

Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight"
Rooney Mara, "Carol"
Cynthia Nixon, "James White"
Kristen Stewart, "Clouds of Sils Maria"
Kristen Wiig, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl"

This category is loaded, and it's a shame to omit Alicia Vikander ("The Danish Girl"), Elizabeth Banks ("Love & Mercy"), Tessa Thompson ("Creed"), Mya Taylor ("Tangerine") and a host of others. But the supporting-actress hardware begins and ends with Rooney Mara, even if she's arguably a co-lead in "Carol."

See our full coverage of the Best Supporting Actress race.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Joe:

Walton Goggins, "The Hateful Eight"
Oscar Isaac, "Ex Machina"
Michael Keaton, "Spotlight"
Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"
Jacob Tremblay, "Room"

Walton Goggins completely blew me away in "The Hateful Eight." There was something unhinged and committed about his performance as a Confederate sympathizer that made him seem alive in a way that few Quentin Tarantino characters do. 

Matt:

Joel Edgerton, "Black Mass"
Idris Elba, "Beasts of No Nation"
Jason Mitchell, "Straight Outta Compton"
Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"
Jason Segel, "The End of the Tour"

If Johnny Depp and Tom Hanks were forgettable in "Black Mass" and "Bridge of Spies," respectively, their supporting counterparts certainly were not. Hats off to Joel Edgerton and Mark Rylance for besting their upperclass screen partners. Really, any of these five men deserve this accolade. 

See our full coverage of the Best Supporting Actor race.

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Joe:

Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, "Inside Out"
Alex Garland, "Ex Machina"
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, "Spotlight"
David O. Russell, "Joy"
Quentin Tarantino, "The Hateful Eight"

I think everyone is wrong about "Joy." People say that its plot was confused, bizarre and implausible -- but my take is that David O. Russell was intentionally playing with our expectations about how a plot should work. Indeed, I think the whole movie was a brilliant commentary on the art of screenwriting. There's not enough room to explain why here, but I might revisit the topic in an essay soon.

Matt:

Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, "Tangerine"
Patrick Brice, "The Overnight"
Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve and Josh Cooley, "Inside Out"
Alex Garland, "Ex Machina"
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, "Spotlight"

"Spotlight" accomplished so much with so few flourishes, but I maintain that "The Overnight" is the year's most under-appreciated comedic script. Regardless, this victory belongs to the "Inside Out" scribes. Imagine conceptualizing something half as eye-opening and original as that Pixar gem.

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Joe:

J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
Emma Donoghue, "Room"
Drew Goddard, "The Martian"
Nick Hornby, "Brooklyn"
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, "The Big Short"

It initially seemed strange to me that "The Force Awakens" was competing in this category, but then I saw the genius of it: If you think about it as an adaptation of "A New Hope," it's a near-perfect script.

Matt:

Drew Goddard, "The Martian"
Marielle Heller, "The Diary of a Teenage Girl"
Nick Hornby, "Brooklyn"
Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, "The Big Short"
Phyllis Nagy, "Carol"

Each of these movies faced challenges in their source material, whether too esoteric ("The Big Short," "The Martian") or too intimate ("Carol," the also deserving "Room" and "45 Years"). They all overcame it, but it was Nick Hornby who penned the year's most graceful adaptation: "Brooklyn" is cinematic storytelling at its smoothest.

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This excerpt is from the new book Wired to Create: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind, by psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and HuffPost Senior Writer Carolyn Gregoire.

One of Frida Kahlo’s most famous self-portraits depicts her in a hospital bed naked and bleeding, connected by a web of red veins to floating objects that include a snail, a flower, bones, and a fetus. Henry Ford Hospital, the 1932 surrealist painting, is a powerful artistic rendering of Kahlo’s second miscarriage.

Kahlo wrote in her diaries that the painting “carries with it the message of pain.” The painter was known for channeling the experience of multiple miscarriages, childhood polio, and a number of other misfortunes into her iconic self-portraits, and a real understanding of her work requires some knowledge of the suffering that motivated it. 

The phenomenon of art born from adversity can be seen not only in the lives of famous creators, but also in the lab. In the past 20 years, psychologists have begun studying post-traumatic growth, which has now been observed in more than 300 scientific studies. 

The term post-traumatic growth was coined in the 1990s by psychologists Richard Tedeschi and Lawrence Calhoun to describe instances of individuals who experienced profound transformation as they coped with various types of trauma and challenging life circumstances. Up to 70 percent of trauma survivors report some positive psychological growth, research has found.

Growth after trauma can take a number of different forms, including a greater appreciation for life, the identification of new possibilities for one’s life, more satisfying interpersonal relationships, a richer spiritual life and a connection to something greater than oneself, and a sense of personal strength. A battle with cancer, for instance, can result in a renewed gratitude for one’s family, while a near-death experience could be a catalyst for connecting with a more spiritual side of life. Psychologists have found that experiences of trauma also commonly lead to increased empathy and altruism, and a motivation to act for the benefit of others.

Life After Trauma 

So how is it that out of suffering we can come to not only return to our baseline state but to deeply improve our lives? And why are some people crushed by trauma, while others thrive? Tedeschi and Calhoun explain that post-traumatic growth, in whatever form it takes, can be “an experience of improvement that is for some persons deeply profound.”

The two University of North Carolina researchers created the most accepted model of post-traumatic growth to date, which holds that people naturally develop and rely on a set of beliefs and assumptions that they’ve formed about the world, and in order for growth to occur after a trauma, the traumatic event must deeply challenge those beliefs. By Tedeschi and Calhoun’s account, the way that trauma shatters our worldviews, beliefs, and identities is like an earthquake—even our most foundational structures of thought and belief crumble to pieces from the magnitude of the impact. We are shaken, almost literally, from our ordinary perception, and left to rebuild ourselves and our worlds. The more we are shaken, the more we must let go of our former selves and assumptions, and begin again from the ground up.

“A psychologically seismic event can severely shake, threaten, or reduce to rubble many of the schematic structures that have guided understanding, decision making, and meaningfulness,” they write. 

The physical rebuilding of a city that takes place after an earthquake can be likened to the cognitive processing and restructuring that an individual experiences in the wake of a trauma. Once the most foundational structures of the self have been shaken, we are in a position to pursue new—and perhaps creative—opportunities.

The “rebuilding” process looks something like this: After a traumatic event, such as a serious illness or loss of a loved one, individuals intensely process the event—they’re constantly thinking about what happened, and usually with strong emotional reactions.

It’s important to note that sadness, grief, anger, and anxiety, of course, are common responses to trauma, and growth generally occurs alongside these challenging emotions—not in place of them. The process of growth can be seen as a way to adapt to extremely adverse circumstances and to gain an understanding of both the trauma and its negative psychological impact.

Rebuilding can be an incredibly challenging process. The work of growth requires detaching from and releasing deep-seated goals, identities, and assumptions, while also building up new goals, schemas, and meanings. It can be grueling, excruciating, and exhausting. But it can open the door to a new life. The trauma survivor begins to see herself as a thriver and revises her self-definition to accommodate her new strength and wisdom. She may reconstruct herself in a way that feels more authentic and true to her inner self and to her own unique path in life.

Creative Growth 

Out of loss, there can be creative gain. Of course, it's important to note that trauma is neither necessary nor sufficient for creativity. Experiences of trauma in any form are tragic and psychologically devastating, no matter what type of creative growth occurs in their aftermath. These experiences can just as easily lead to long-term loss as gain. Indeed, loss and gain, suffering and growth, often co‑occur.

Because adverse events force us to reexamine our beliefs and priorities, they can help us break out of habitual ways of thinking and thereby boost creativity, explains Marie Forgeard, a psychologist at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, who has done extensive research into post-traumatic growth and creativity.

“We’re forced to reconsider things we took for granted, and we’re forced to think about new things,” says Forgeard. “Adverse events can be so powerful that they force us to think about questions we never would have thought of otherwise.”

Creativity can even become a sort of coping mechanism after a difficult experience. Some people might find that the experience of adversity forces them to question their basic assumptions about the world and therefore to think more creatively. Others might find that they have a new (or renewed) motivation to spend time engaged in creative activities. And others who already had a strong interest in creative work may turn to creativity as the main way of rebuilding their lives.

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2015 was a year not unlike many others when it comes to race in America.

In a lot of ways, it felt as though the worlds of white and black America couldn't be further apart. Racial injustices, insults and aggressions from white people were as routine as the many times black folks banded together to speak out against them.

In the video above, the HuffPost Black Voices team is completely transparent about the things we want to set straight when it comes to race. While we certainly can't list everything, we are honest about a few of the things we think, feel and want white America to know for 2016 -- and every year following. 

Watch and absorb, folks. 

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Call it panda-monium.

On Dec. 16, Hungarian artist Gergely Dudás (also known as Dudolf) posted an illustrated puzzle to his Facebook page asking his followers to “find the panda” amongst a flurry of snowmen. That post went viral.

Some people found the puzzle easy, others found it difficult, but Tracy Lynn Heightchew of Louisville, Kentucky, found it familiar. In fact, it reminded her of a picture that hangs over her kitchen sink.

She decided to post her real life version of “find the panda” on Facebook.

“I knew that everyone would enjoy this too.”

So, can you find the panda in the picture above? Don’t worry, the panda is there, we’re not trying to bamboo-zle you.

“It's a photo I bought at a thrift store,” Heightchew told The Huffington Post of the August 1978 picture that was originally snapped at a Junior Achievers National Conference in in Bloomington, Indiana. It includes a bunch of kids wearing silly glasses and clothes. Many of whom are holding different stuffed animals.

Heightchew stared at the photo for years until one of those stuffed animals finally popped out at her -- a panda.

“I love pandas, so the day that the panda jumped out at me, years after I bought the pic was a sweet day for me,” she said.

[SPOILER note: Still can’t find the panda? Here is the answer]

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While Cinderella would have been able to stand in those sparkling glass slippers, she would have almost certainly ended up with a sliced foot the moment she tried to run away from Prince Charming.

That's according to physics students at the University of Leicester in England, who published a study in October, "Cinderella's Shattered Dreams," attempting to figure out how, exactly, the princess could have rocked glass shoes at the ball and still complied with the laws of matter and energy.

The students concluded that "in order for Cinderella to run away from the prince at midnight she would have to have a glass shoe with a heel of less than 1.15 [centimeters in height]" -- much smaller than the size often depicted in adaptations of the fairy tale.

The Cinderella study is among a number of papers recently published in the university's Journal of Physics Special Topics, in which students put science up against fiction and fantasy.

"There’s only one real world," UL physics Professor Mervyn Roy, who oversees the course, told National Geographic last week. "Students can run out of relatively simple problems because other groups have done them in the past. But once you start to look at fiction, there’s a huge realm of things to explore."

Below, you'll find eight more scientific studies that will have you rethinking your favorite characters and stories.

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NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — One man's back hair is another man's canvas.

At least that's how Mike Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, has decided to approach manscaping.

Wolfe tells KTVB-TV (http://bit.ly/1RbVtWe) that after years of feeling ashamed of his body hair, he asked a friend in 2008 to trim an American flag on his back rather than undergoing hair removal processes like shaving or waxing.

Since then, the two meet up several times throughout the year to design a new creation onto Wolfe's back.

"Pssh, it's manhandling back hair," said Wolfe. "It's disgusting. But it's funny. You can't deny it's funny."

Tyler Harding, a former graphic artist who has been friends with Wolfe for more than a decade, says it takes about an hour to complete the artistic trim.

And the creations can now be seen on a calendar -- called a Calend-hair -- available for $20. Some proceeds will benefit a charity at Wolfe's church.

Designs are uniquely named, such as Grim Reap-hair for October and M-hair-achi Band for May. 

"Everybody always makes fun of the guy with back hair," Wolfe said. "Well now it's my turn to shine, right?"

Wolfe's wife takes some credit for him flaunting his fur. When they went on their first date, Wolfe told her he was hairy. He felt nervous at the time, but she took it in stride.

"Looking back now this might be because of me," Jamie Wolfe said. "Maybe I shouldn't have given him so much confidence in his back hair."

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Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, who won an Oscar for his work on Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," has died. He was 85 years old. 

Zsigmond, who was born in Szeged, Hungary, died on New Year's Day, Deadline reported. His business partner and friend Yuri Neyman confirmed the news on Facebook on Sunday afternoon. 

Throughout his career, Zsigmond was also nominated for Academy Awards for Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" (1978), Mark Rydell's "The River" (1984) and Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" (2006).

He became well-known after working on a group of movies in the 1970s including Robert Altman's "McCabe and Mrs. Miller," "Images" and "The Long Goodbye." 

Before becoming one of the most important cinematographers in the industry, Zsigmond worked as a photographer and lab technician in the 1960s. He was first credited as a cinematographer on the 1963 cult film "The Sadist." Through the end of the decade he continued to work on exploitation films, horror films and low-budget comedies, such as "Tales of a Salesman" (1965) and "The Monitors" (1969). 

In more recent years, Zsigmond worked on three Woody Allen films, including 2010's "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger," and also shot a number of episodes of Mindy Kaling's "The Mindy Project" between 2012 and 2014.  

Zsigmond ranked among the top 10 most influential cinematographers in the history of film in a 2003 survey conducted by the International Cinematographers Guild.

He was also honored with lifetime achievement awards from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1999 and Poland's Camerimage festival in 1997. 

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What better way to close out 2015 and welcome 2016 than with a New Year's Eve weekend wedding?

See some gorgeous shots from our readers' celebrations below:

If you go to a wedding or get married yourself, hashtag your photos #HPrealweddings or e-mail one to us afterwards so we can feature it on the site!

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In fact, one of his greatest engineering feats was an ambitious bridge designed to span the Bosphorus, the 32-kilometer long strait that separates the continents of Europe and Asia in what is now Istanbul. Leonardo da Vinci sketched the design of the stone bridge in 1502, but the 240-meter long structure was never built.

Until now, that is. A group of students and volunteers is currently building a bridge based on Leonardo's sketch in Juuka, Finland. Led by the Eindhoven University of Technology, the contemporary reinterpretation of the Italian polymath's work has a surprising twist: instead of using typical construction materials, the environmentally-friendly project titled "Bridge in Ice" is created, as the name suggests, with frozen water.

The structure is being built using huge inflatable molds, where a composite of water with added cellulose fibers -- a material called pykrete -- is pumped into. It will be, according to the project's website, the longest ice bridge in the world (apparently, there have been previous, more modest attempts to construct Leonardo's bridge design using ice).

The ice bridge is erected as part of an open-air installation along the Snow Track in Juuka, where other experimental ice projects are located, including a series of sculptures by artist Rinus Roelofs, a self-confessed Leonardo fan.

The area also plays host to additional pieces by the students responsible for the bridge, such as the largest-ever ice dome, and a scaled ice-model of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Familia.

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This movie just got a whole lot darker. 

Like any good Pixar flick, "Inside Out" elicited a hefty dose of tears as the main character Riley grew up, matured and dealt with her changing relationships to the people around her. 

But Jordan Hanzon, a film student at the University of Utah, found a way to make the movie even more heartbreaking -- by editing out all of the "Inside" scenes. 

The result is a tear-jerking tale of a girl struggling to fit in in her new school and city. 

People took to Reddit to discuss how the edits made the movie so different:

And others thought the movie took on a new meaning (and genre) entirely:

Looks like there really is no "Inside Out" when it's just the outside. 

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Authorities in Kankakee, Illinois, have a serious art theft problem.

It seems a plaster sculpture of President Abraham Lincoln's hand has been missing from the Kankakee County Museum since early December.

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Our hearts are defying gravity after watching this!

Josh Daniel Green, a cast member in Broadway's "Wicked," got the surprise of his life last week after he took his bow on Christmas Day. 

Seconds after the curtain fell at New York's Gershwin Theatre, Green began to gather with his co-stars for what he thought was a standard cast photo. But boyfriend Daniel Robinson had something else in mind, and seized the opportunity to pop the question. 

"I'm beyond blessed to wake up next to you every day. You're the most intelligent, talented, handsomest best friend I could ask for," Robinson said, before dropping to one knee. "You inspire me, you dream with me, and you judge me only when I ask you to." 

After a teary-eyed Green gleefully accepted Robinson's proposal, the rest of the "Wicked" cast applauded the couple, who were still dressed in their flying monkey costumes. 

On Sunday, Robinson shared a great snapshot of the proposal on Instagram.  

Congrats, gentlemen! We can safely assume that both Elphaba and Glinda gave their blessing.

H/T Playbill 

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Despite being Denmark’s most photographed statue, taking this little mermaid’s photo isn’t always a snap.

That's something one Danish politician recently learned after she says Facebook barred her from posting a photo of Copenhagen’s iconic 102-year-old waterside statue because of the social media site’s nudity rules.

Then, once it was finally approved, social democrat MP Mette Gjerskov claims a copyright held by the late artist's family prevented her from publishing an image of the statue on her blog.

Gjerskov said her eye-opening struggle began when her photo upload to Facebook was rejected. She said their “national treasure” was described as having “too much bare skin or sexual undertones,” local news site Ekstra Bladet reports.

Facebook’s community standards policies prohibit many instances of nudity out of respect for some audiences’ sensitivity, according to their website.

They do, however, allow photos of “paintings, sculptures, and other art that depicts nude figures." They also allow photos of women breastfeeding and post-mastectomy scarring.

According to Gjerskov, contrary to the statue's nudity being an exception according to these rules, her photo was rejected.

That decision was later reversed, she wrote on her Facebook wall, though her photo was still removed from her blog on Danish public news station TV2 because of yet another red flag: it being a potential copyright violation.

"It turns out that you can't take photos [of the artwork] ... without generous payment to the artist's heirs. It's the law -- which Parliament adopted,” Gjerskov wrote.

According to local reports, when the statue celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013, local media opted to describe the statue rather than show its picture because of this very copyright.

The Local reported that the family of the artwork’s sculptor, Edvard Eriksen, will send Danish media outlets a large bill if they use a photo of his statue.

“Rather than illustrate the photo with a beautiful picture of the sculpture -- thousands of which can be found all over the Internet -- we chose a photo in which the famous landmark was surrounded by tourists and thus not the main focus of the image,” the outlet explained.

Despite the risks and limitations, the statue is snapped more than 5 million times each year, according to the city’s tourism bureau, which considers the statue – based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale -- a city icon.

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It's like they always say: If at first you don't succeed in photographing your loved ones, try, try again.

Mikaël Theimer, a Montreal-based photographer, took matters into his own creative hands when his girlfriend Marion refused to pose for him  -- by documenting all the ways she tried to dodge his camera.

"She hates to pose, and she hates to be in front of the camera. So this became a little game that we have," Theimer told The Huffington Post. "Whenever I see a scene I would love to photograph her in, she has to find a way to hide her face. I find it results in much more interesting pictures than just traditional portraits."

 Whether using a book, a hat or even her own hair, Theimer's girlfriend of six years goes to creative lengths to avoid the camera.

Check out the photo series below. To see more of Theimer's work, click here and here. 

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Raise your hand if you love dogs. Great! Raise your hand if you love performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Even greater. 

Monday night, the American artist is hosting a free concert in New York City's Times Square to honor 9/11 first responder dogs. According to a press release, the performance will be transmitted to "silent disco" headphones for humans and low-decibel speakers for dogs. Cue giant d'awww. 

Anderson's performance coincides this month's "Midnight Moment," courtesy of Times Square Arts. Throughout January, portions of Anderson's film "Heart of a Dog," recently shortlisted for an Oscar, will be shown on Times Square’s electronic billboards from 11:57 p.m. to midnight.

"Heart of a Dog" is described as a selection of vignettes that celebrate "dogs, time, family, love, memory and death." The portion of the film set for viewing involves a melodic collage of images that shift from a dog's eye view to the lens of a surveillance camera to free floating photos, mimicking the sequence of a dream state. This segment references "The Tibetan Book of the Dead," which describes the transition of energy and consciousness at the time of death.

"I love Times Square," Anderson explained in a statement to Times Square Arts. "It's a dream. Desire, speed, the explosions of color, patterns and energy. What a great way to start the New Year! The ball drops and 'Heart of a Dog' leaps onto all those massive screens at three minutes to midnight. Who could have predicted the unraveling dreams of my dog would be magnified up there like this? And sound too!"

Anderson will join NYPD canine handlers and their dogs for the Jan. 4 gathering that will begin at 11:30 p.m. on Duffy Square and culminate in the 11:57 viewing of the work. The event is free and open to the public (headphones will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis starting at 11 p.m.).

And yes, you are encouraged to bring your furry friends.

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A striking new ad from Equinox Fitness features an image of a mother breastfeeding twins while dining at a restaurant. 

The Equinox ad is part of a campaign called "Commit to Something," a collection of seven bold images by iconic fashion photographer Steven Klein.

According to a press release from the New York-based chain of fitness clubs, "Each of the seven images tells a different story about commitment." The nursing image is meant to depict "a young mother unapologetically breastfeeding in public."

The mom is portrayed by model and actress Lydia Hearst. "All vignettes are a virtuous expression of taking deliberate action and going 'all in,'" states the release.

Normalizing the sight of breastfeeding is a positive, but we'd like to think moms don't have to be wearing fancy jewelry to nurse in public.

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All I ever wanted to do was rid the world of zits and transform the New York City subway into the rainbow kingdom of my dreams. When I used to visit the Big Apple as a little Ziz, nobody was buying anything they saw on the train. I would see rotten ads for cigarettes with the F-word spray-painted over it. Dirty pieces of cardboard soaked in asbestos. Manilla posters warning people that gingivitis was coming for your kids. I vowed one day I would move to the city that never sleeps and clean up the subway like a monthly all-purpose chemical peel.

I can proudly say that after seven years of popping pimples and preventing blackheads, my dream became a reality.

RAINBOWS! LISTS! STARS WITH WORDS IN THEM! Everything you could want in a banner ad. This is the New York I always dreamed about. A New York for me. A New York I could call home. Looking up at this, I remember thinking, "How the hell could you live anywhere else?"

But somewhere down the line, subway ads went astray. Dazzling eye-grabbing spots fell out of favor only to be replaced by egg-sucking liberal jabs, Nazi propaganda and deals on breast augmentation. Nowadays, you can't get anywhere in NYC without being insulted, seduced or scared out of your daily moisturizer. The fight to be the boldest has turned our once great city into a big pile of eczema.

So I've decided to leave NYC. The city is broken and you people wouldn't know a good ad if it jumped up and gave you incurable rosacea. Sure, it feels like giving up. But I've come to terms with it and decided that I have nothing left to prove and I no longer recognize this place. I mean, just look at this bulls**t.

How is storing things liberal? More importantly, where are the rainbows?! Where's the candy falling from the sky? Where are people leaping up and down? Nowhere. And look at these poor bastards riding the train. Great complexions! But where are the smiles?

Look out, it's Adolf Hitler! Just kidding. But I'm serious!

I used to ride the rails and dream. It used to have dignity. It used to mean something. And now it all belongs to somebody named Bethany Mota.

But bottom line, I'm not bitter. I had my run and now it's time for a new generation. And if I'm being honest, I've spent so long listening to people tell me "THANK YOU, DR. ZIZMOR!" but I never took the time to thank the city that made me everything I am.

Stay Beautifully Clear, New York.

Dr. Jonathan Zizmor M.D.

212- 594-SKIN

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