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Second Life Toys Campaign Promotes Organ Donation With the Use of Old Toys

Japan’s organization Second Life Toys is hoping to promote the awareness of organ donation with a tender and provocative message. With the use of children’s stuffed animals, they appoint new limbs to the broken toys, in order to save them and make them whole again.

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Nine years ago, Japanese photographer Miyoko Ihara began snapping pictures of the relationship between her grandmother and her odd-eyed white cat. Miyoko’s grandma Misao found the abandoned cat in a shed on her land and the pair have barely been apart since. Misao named the white cat “Fukumaru” in hope the “God of fuku (good fortune) comes and everything will be smoothed over like maru (circle)”. Fukumaru is always in Misao’s shadow whether she is farming her land, having a bath, eating or sleeping. Now nearly a decade later their friendship and adventures have been documented by Miyoko in a photo book called Misao the Big Mama and Fukumaru the Cat.

from the Telegraph

                                                     I saved you                                                    now save me.

The Hours (2002) dir. by Stephen Daldry: “Nicole Kidman (with the word "Oscar” stamped on her forehead) delivers a performance of a lifetime playing a rather difficult role while disguising everything that is usually so associated with her. With a fake nose, a cold, dark and distant attitude and above all a rough change to her voice, Kidman portrays Mrs. Woolf exactly as the writers wanted us to grasp her and manages to be the most outstanding of the three despite getting the least screen time. Absolutely amazing.“

#not going to lie I got actual chills during this scene#setting aside all the other fuckery in this episode (which I have to actively do because I literally can’t even begin to dig through it now)#this was powerful#Regina is VIBRANT here and that is an incredible thing. She doesn’t falter. She faces up to a reflection of her anger and fear#of so many years ago and she doesn’t back down. She steps closer.#Closer to the physical danger of that gun in Emma’s hand pointing through someone else and right at her#and closer to that metaphorical edge she knows so intimately well.#This isn’t just Regina speaking the words Emma needs to hear. This is Regina confronting the reality of her own life.#This is the Regina who has broken through every dark wall she put up between herself and her own redemption#and this is her doing it for her and for Emma and for no one else. There’s a moment in this like a moment out of time.#It’s a moment that has nothing to do with Robin or Hook or the two idiots and Henry and it happens when she says ‘you’re better than this.’#Regina is saying it to Emma and she’s saying it to herself. And she’s doesn’t even look scared in that moment. Just determined.#She’s saying a truth she believes with every ounce of her being. And Emma hears it.#Emma hears the truth in what Regina is saying and more than that she hears belief. She hears a trust that no one else has ever given her.#. Not Hook with his ‘you make me good’ rhetoric where her love has to be a weapon against his darkness.#Not her parents with their ‘we just wanted to make you good’ where their love is conditional and comes at someone else’s expense.#Not Henry with the innocent idealized love of a child-as much as that love means to her.#Regina trusts Emma to make the right choice whether that choice is killing Cruella or fighting back against fate#and all she is asking for in this moment is the same thing. ‘Trust me. I know.’ (gdi menzosarres)

The gorgeous Palace of Venaria, Italy.

our best chance is together.

This honestly made me tear up. Imagining how great he must have felt that his planned worked and choosing that risk paid off. I also feel like him and the model have such good chemistry, they’re always so kind and loving to one another.

Holy shit what did he do?? That’s rad as hell!

Since the runway was going to have simulated rain, he wanted to make the outfit become colorful because of it rather than deflect it. He sewed dye into the seams and once the rain hit it the dye ran! Very simple but super effective. He was one of the two winners of that challenge.

Absolutely brilliant. Holy shit.

[…] When I heard “Breakthrough Artist”, all these things went through my head, and said: “I’m 43 years old and I’m a Breakthrough Artist.” [Laughter] And I was gonna make some cheeky jokes, just like I did. And you know, I’ve been around, and how ironic that is.

And then I started thinking about something my mom would always say to me, back in Long Island. She’d say: “Honey, you’re not really gonna make it until you build a thicker skin, and stop caring about what people think. The universe won’t give it to you until you’re ready.”

Well, it’s been many years of highs and lows and ups and downs, and beautiful moments like Rent, and Wicked, and then years of obscurity, and no work, and frustration. And you get dropped from enough labels and told countless of times a broadway singer can never cross over. You’re too expressive, you’re too dynamic, you’re too presentational, you have too much vibrato. Can you play the guitar while you sing, don’t play the guitar while you sing. What kind of artist are you? Well I’m a cross between this and this. You should write your own music, don’t write your own music.

Well, who are you? Who. Are. You.

And the answer to that question at the age of 43 is a resounding “I don’t know”.

I mean, I know I’m a cool chick, you know, I’m a good mom, a good friend, loyal friend, hard worker, pretty talented singer in all that. But it’s taken me this long to realize that if you can easily describe and categorize yourself, you’re probably adhering to other’s opinions of who and what you should be.

I have to be honest, I have yearned for so long to be accepted by the people in this room. Never realizing that, until I could finally surrender, and just sing music that I love, whether it be Broadway, or pop, or RnB, or rock, whatever, stop caring about fitting into some kind of mold, this moment right here and right now would never happen.

Breakthrough Artist at 43.

I think it’s less about a calculation of success, and a great year, and having a bigger profile. It’s not so much about a breakthrough publicly. It’s simply a breakthrough. A personal breakthrough for me.

It’s the irony of being given a song all about accepting who you are and then unleashing your power, your ability to be different and extraordinary without apologizing for it. I’ve been given the gift of this amazing song “Let It Go”, at a time in my life, a crossroads, when, I was finally learning to let it go. When I made the decision to stop trying to describe who I am, and follow my heart, my gut, my truth.

Thank you Billboard, for noticing me, for giving me my first magazine cover ever, for being there when I finally had my breakthrough. Thank you.

#THIS IS THE NEW POWER OF WEAKNESS #SWEN KNOWS WHAT I MEAN

this is the most amazing swan queen video i have ever seen in my entire life of sobbing to swan queen videos.