PHOTOGRAPHER TOURS SHELTERS TO HELP DOGS GET ADOPTED - “Our mission is to provide shelter staff and volunteers with the resources to successfully groom and photograph shelter pets, helping give them the second chance they deserve.”
The One Picture Saves a Life initiative teaches animal shelters how to groom and photograph the shelter animals to present them in the best light (probably both literally and figuratively) for adoption. Photographer Seth Casteel is currently touring various shelters in the U.S. to put on workshops. You may be familiar with Casteel’s Underwater Dogs series. The photos above are examples of how different the dogs look depending on how they are presented.
In addition to Casteel, John Paul Pet, The Animal Rescue Site, GreaterGood.org, and the Petfinder Foundation are all partners in this endeavor. Click here to learn more about One Picture Saves a Life. You can also donate to this cause by clicking here. (Photos from One Picture Saves a Life)
I wrote a paper before on language policy in national media (looking mainly at China and Singapore). On the one hand, I buy the argument that broadcasting in a standard language allows for the greatest number of people to understand; on the other hand, what message does the under-representation of minority languages send?
I get the argument about languages evolving naturally and the futility of “preserving” dying languages, to an extent: language is a living thing and recording its waning existence for the sake of posterity isn’t quite the same as keeping its oral, cultural traditions alive. But when mass media has made the scope of communication vastly different, when the implications of “using” a language changes because of this scale, should we be content to let minority languages be bulldozed with the times as well?
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Alphatecture
How brilliantly executed. This reminds you to look up once and a while.
ALPHATECTURE by Peter Defty, UK
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My left foot is a 250
My right foot is a 245
I need some ggalchang up in my shoesLETS BUY SHOES TOGETHER! my left is 245 and my right is 250!!!!
omg my left foot is 250 and my right is 255. kkalchang can’t fix this one.
(Source: jejecooksrice)
Si la K-pop domine les MTV asiatiques, elle subit de plein fouet les susceptibilités nationales. Au point où certains groupes coréens sont bannis du territoire japonais pour avoir pris parti dans les disputes territoriales des pays limitrophes.
article fort intéressant même s’il est plein d’inexactitudes, voire de faussetés.
la censure en chine, par exemple, d’une photo truquée qui représente hu jintao et son successeur xi jinping faisant la danse du cheval n’a rien à voir avec quelconque “invasion” (pretendue coréenne). il s’agit plutôt de l’artiste dissident ai wei wei, qui avait posté sur youtube sa propre version de ‘gangnam style’ …
une fois les (multiples) erreurs corrigés, cela ne tient pas debout. il me semble que l’on ne peut plus parler de l’asie sauf en termes d’une invasion. il n’y avait pas un article il y a pas longtemps sur les cours de coréen “envahis” par les jeunes françaises fans de kpop? qui parle en plus d’une exode vers la corée, à la recherche d’une vie inspirée des kdramas…
When it hits me that graduation is only a few months away
the theme of the last two days, to increasing panic. think this baby, x10000
&ILOVEYOUTOO<3
SPREAD THE DAMN WORD
THAT WAS COOL
My hands are too small to do this effectively.
I wish I wasn’t iPod
