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iii. Telegraph Ave.

And we can do the same thing if you wanna have better When your thoughts can’t breathe and you thinkin’ asthmatic And you wanna be a mom and I wasn’t mad at her  I was thinking ‘bout me, I’d be really bad at it Cause I’m thinking ‘bout me, weeks in Dubai,  Fourth of July, house in Kauai, yeah we can try

So let’s try. 

#Childish Gambino #Donald Glover #music video #because the internet #oakland #atlanta #fan art #Illustration #-- #marianne's artwork

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And I will wait for you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov | Caravaggio, Bacchus/The Lute Player/Saint Jerome Writing/Young Sick Bacchus (details)

#fyodor dostoevsky #The Brothers Karamazov #quotes #literature #my literary poppa

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You should love for no reason.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via quotemadness)

#fyodor dostoevsky #quotes #my guy - my muse - my literary poppa #I love him

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Brand new business cards, gents. They n i c e.

A refresher of where I'm at for dat art stuff: My personal website - http://raggedyarts.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/RaggedyArts Instagram Portfolio - https://www.instagram.com/raggedyarts/ Redbubble - https://www.redbubble.com/people/longfallof1979

#artists on tumblr #Illustration #commission #business stuffs #raggedy arts #look at 'em - the tagnames all match now : ))) #Whoop. #Thank you to all of you guys who help me make dat monies.

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iv. Sweatpants (ft. Problem)

“Fiskers don't make noise when they start up, just so you know”

#Childish Gambino #Donald Glover #because the internet #sweatpants #rap #hip hop #Illustration #grammys #-- #'Sweatpants' ain't my favorite track on the record by a stretch but the video is definitely a modest trip with a great sense of photography #and color #(I like drawing those golden inbetween frames that only hold for a second #and this one did it for me.)

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Kirb why is you lying, Kirb why you Mufasa

#Childish Gambino #Donald Glover #3005 #music video #music video parody #closet cosplay #kirby #hip hop #-- #(When you have a little extra time and think 'hey let me recreate a shot from a music video with gear that's equivalent to a paper clip) #plus a kirby #have a fun and safe long weekend - full of shenanigans like THIS #selfie business #face time

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III. Telegraph Ave. ("Oakland" by Lloyd)

Foot on the gas I'm just trying to pass All the red lights And the stop signs

#Childish Gambino #Donald Glover #because the internet #music video #grammys #oakland #Illustration #-- #I've been on a Gambino kick lately (though when am I not) #I've been digging back on his music video collection and there are so many gorgeous shots to paint #so this might be a new series or something #we gon see #in the meantime enjoy

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Let’s hope that, with the warm weather that will return, you’re going to get well at last. The winter is always dangerous to you.

At Eternity’s Gate (2018), dir. Julian Schnabel

#At Eternity's Gate #Oscar Issac #william dafoe #pure cinema #screencaps #this one be callin' to me - I got to watch it sometime #it looks like it's gonna move me something fierce

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#tales of symphonia #Kratos Aurion #anna aurion #scribble allies #very cute #always enjoy that Kratos/Anna love #the morning of strength #for the sake of the world

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Encounter with Save Frog (2019 ver)

“Give my regards to the next frog you meet.”

#Mother 3 #lucas mother 3 #earthbound series #Mother series #nintendo #save frog #Illustration #Video Game Fan Art #-- #the tradition continues.... #....with save frog <3 #please enjoy #I couldn't choose between the sketchy and the fully colored so y'all enjoy both now ya hear #the gentle boy #the boy named Lucas

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my top five of 2018 | [4/5] people i love ↳ darren criss

“There’s people who I meet, young people who are now in the workforce, who say to me, ‘I just want you to know when I was 16, I watched your show and it really meant a lot to me.’ It can’t help but give you pause, because that’s so much bigger than me or the show. I’m a part of your life? What an honor. But I’m also well aware of the idea that all this is fleeting. I’m waiting to wake up one morning and not see some of the same faces that I’ve been seeing for the past eight years at these events.”

#Darren Criss #acs versace #glee #A very very happy birthday to you - you are indeed someone that is very noteworthy #You are a rare person #I'm glad I found you #I wanna stick around to see what you'll make next #people i love

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Representation Matters

#into the spider verse #miles morales #twitter post #this makes me VERY happy #<3 #(and boi that kid is adorable)

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Darren Criss has been awarded the Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG Award, and Critics’ Choice Award as well as the Gold Derby TV Award, OFTA Television Award, and Satellite Award for his portrayal of Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. CONGRATULATIONS, DARREN!

#awards season #golden globes awards #critics choice awards #emmy love #Darren Criss #acs versace #andrew cunanan #Well done. #people i love

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#dunkirk #Mark Rylance #tom glynn carney #pure cinema #beautiful shots #the miracle of deliverance #hope. home.

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‘Hamilton’ opens in Puerto Rico with emotional performance by Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'I just love this island so much’ (Chicago Tribune):

[…] “Hamilton” has caused a stir wherever it has landed, but the scene outside the Centro de Bellas Artes Luis A. Ferré in San Juan still was extraordinary.

In one corner of the plaza, a high-school student named Gustavo Rosa was surprised by his drama teacher Miguel Rosa (no relation) with a ticket to the sold-out show, even though the young man had thought he was just getting to watch a few celebrity arrivals of the likes of Shonda Rhimes, Leslie Odom Jr. and Jimmy Fallon, who had brought his “Tonight Show” to the island in honor of “Hamilton.”

Such was the prolonged scream and dance of joy that came from the younger Rosa at the sight of the prized ducat that many of the scores of security officers watching the plaza turned their heads. “I have been a musical theater student for seven years,” Rosa said, jumping around. “I have been dying to see this show.”

At the front of the crowd barrier was 13-year-old Patricia Schaffer from San Juan. “I have been obsessed with ‘Hamilton’ since I was in sixth grade,” she said, seeming almost too excited to speak. “This is the highlight of my year.”

Indeed the opening, which commanded a huge exterior footprint filled with sponsors, theatergoers, gawkers and police officers, seemed like the highlight of everyone’s tough year here. Even the group of protesters on the plaza arguing for statehood said they were glad Miranda and “Hamilton” were on the island.

“We welcome the musical here because it gives us a chance to air our issues before every leading newspaper in America,” said Jose Olmos, who said he was both a veteran of the United States armed forces and a statehood activist looking forward to protesting in front of the large delegation of members of U.S. Congress expected to see “Hamilton” in Puerto Rico on Sunday night.

“I want to ask them, are they really living up to the standards of Alexander Hamilton, a disenfranchised immigrant, a poor man from the Caribbean?” Olmos said.

Standing next to Olmos was Dan Santiago, clad in “Hamilton”-like attire. “Puerto Rico should be the 51st state,” he said, grinning at the cameras and reporters looking his way.

Across the plaza was a Chicagoan named Carolyn Kaiser, who had bought a T-shirt for her niece, Zoe, only to find herself the winner of a raffle in aid of the Flamboyan Arts Fund, a philanthropy dedicated to the arts in Puerto Rico and a main beneficiary of the decision by “Hamilton” producer Jeffrey Seller to price some tickets affordably so local residents could attend while dedicating most of the best seats as costly fundraisers.

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On Friday, Miranda’s first entrance as Hamilton was greeted by a prolonged standing ovation that at first seemed to threaten the ability of the show to proceed. Even by “Hamilton” standards, it was an extraordinary burst of affection for a favorite son, returning at the peak of his influence. Onlookers wondered if he felt the obligation that comes with such adoration.

“I couldn’t see anybody,” Miranda said of the moment, after the show, “but I felt my hair move.”

full article & photo gallery here!

#hamilton #alexander hamilton #lin manuel miranda #puerto rico #whewwwwww <3 #This makes me incandescently happy #that's very incredible #happy birthday Alexander - Happy birthday Lin-Manuel #wonderful wonderful #people i love

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I was listening to a podcast with one of my favorite speakers (he's an incredible theologian/psychologist), and I heard him say the following: "Faith is the art of hearing the invisible. Hope is the art of believing the invisible. Love is the art of trusting the invisible." That almost perfectly explains why I am how I am with the people I'm close with. Sometimes it's difficult for people to understand why I support or believe in them so ardently; why I'm so interested in what they have to say, or why I care about the things they've made or are excited about. Well, a lot of it has to do with the unseen. It is nonsensical on the surface, but if you know me, you'll know that I'm prone to keeping my ears attuned to the grander narrative than the one this world shoves in front of us. I'm not an optimist. I call it like I see it and sometimes it doesn't look good, but at the same time: that means that everything I speak of, or say, or see comes from a place, it's not a figment of vague positivity. It is not baseless. Essentially, when I refer to 'the future' in terms of where I see you all going, I am speaking of it as a promise with potential. The core of you and what you're meant to bring. It isn't certain because we need to continue to say 'yes' and do the work, but by love, I trust that you are and will continue to become. I have faith in you guys, because I hear the gears turning in your minds, I sense the quickening palpitation of your heart when you discover you could really make something great. The heart is so key and-- a lot of you have it. Maintain it. Cherish it. I have so much hope for you all because I believe the glimpses I see. Flashes of many beautiful lives that are indeed a work in progress, but steadily manifesting. If no one else believes you're gonna make it, guess what-- I seriously do. Try me. I love the deepest core of you, because the same thing that you are made of, I am made of. You are my brothers and sisters just by knowing that. With all the talk that's out there, all the noise and cares of life-- it all comes back to the unseen fight on who gets to write the narrative of our lives. It all comes back to darkness and light and "Why?".

Before I am an artist, a writer of any kind, before I am here to create great things-- I am here for people. When I look back on times where I struggled on what major to choose, or how I could become that great writer/painter/poet/veterinarian/astronaut/moviemaker, I realize that the "why" behind those things has always been about people. The shape and medium that my work takes will shift, just as how I am might shift, but the pulse is one and the same. Thanks for coming to my talk Help yourself to some tea (but not the gossipy kind, the nice kind)

- Marianne

#Words and Deeds #writing #thoughts #my spiels #marianne's writing #Purpose.

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The infamous Normandy Plaza Hotel, 20 years after Andrew Cunanan made it his hiding spot during the two months he was in Miami in 1997.

(Big thanks to Shawn for some of these photos!)

#american crime story #history #miami beach #south beach #Normandy Plaza Hotel #true crime #how facinating #I hope to visit some of those places for myself sometime - just hasn't been the right time but I'm gonna do it #Somber and facinating #It's so strange to know that I walked around those areas having no idea