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nevver: Seven Deadly Sins

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Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

Illustrations by Vincent Mahé http://www.behance.net/vincentmahe

nevver:

Seven Deadly Sins

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Today it’s the subway, tomorrow it’s the PJets. ✈

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:19:23 -0400

Today it’s the subway, tomorrow it’s the PJets. ✈

"Our view of ourselves is a complicated thing, and a complex issue with far reaching repercussions on..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:08:43 -0400

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Our view of ourselves is a complicated thing, and a complex issue with far reaching repercussions on our lives. For as much as we hope to see ourselves clearly, no man alive sees the truth in himself. Or of himself, for that matter.
Every relationship we have is a mirror that reflects an opinion we take as truth. With every smile from a pretty girl, or rebuttal, we continue to paint this picture of who we are. A complex bit of art, we paint it, paint over it, making an image in our heads of our strengths and weaknesses, our skills, our talents, our flaws.
We wake up each day, and see an image in the mirror, and we dress that image according to who we hope to be, and often times who we rue being. We compensate, and overcompensate, adding solemnity to our wardrobes to balance the immaturity we fear to expose, or adding youth to disguise our creeping age. It is a complex thing that I fear I will never see through, and will be repainting my entire life.

I like to imagine that once we would have been guided in our presentation by our fathers and grandfathers, from the clothing we were bought as children to the first suit we’d have made at our fathers tailor. But that is a world far removed from my own, and an age I only read about.
The truth is that modern dressing isn’t directed by our fathers, giving texture and colour according to their understanding of what the world sees as appropriate, giving flair and personality for the character traits someone that proud of us sees above all else. Rather we are taught how we should appear by the airbrushed perfection of marketing, taught how we should dress by idolizing a far distant and removed designer.
The rules of men’s dressing, a spoken history of men’s clothing passed from father to son from one generation to the next, seems to have been dealt a mortal blow by the emergence of fashion, brand and designer. The rules change season in and season out to make each previous season obsolete, to make each new season sale able and every previous wardrobe an embarrassment. Men who are trying to see themselves accurately are left with no clue as to how they should dress themselves, and the guidelines on dressing for the world and its occasions are a daunting mystery. These men give up chasing the moving target of fashion, and believe that it is correct for them to hate dressing, shopping and exploring this image of themselves.

So it is such an empowering thing to have the power shifted back in to our own hands. To have a tailor, or a haberdasher, or a shoe maker that can give us the rules back, demystify dressing by taking out the designer and giving each man an understanding of how to dress for his body, life, personality, career.
A great tailor makes a man look at his best, builds him a uniform to play with as his moods see fit, and a framework of understanding to make, hopefully, very few mistakes. The man who thinks himself too short or stout or frail or plain can see clothing take shape that emphasizes his strengths, and his only. His colouring dictates the colours he wears, the cut of his clothing hides the parts of him he dislikes. Hopefully he looks in his mirror each day and sees a myriad of options to be the man he hopes to be, and in his wardrobe he sees the means to paint an amazing picture of himself. If only for himself, and it really should be for ourselves that we dress, to have a positive self image and the tools to make it better is a very liberating position.

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- (via ethandesu)

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Road trip tings.

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Road trip tings.

fckyeahundergroundhiphop: Bruce Lee had me up to three miles...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:25:23 -0400

fckyeahundergroundhiphop:

Bruce Lee had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-”if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”

The man

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xoxoclaire: I usually keep my personal life very private, but...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:28:52 -0400

xoxoclaire:

I usually keep my personal life very private, but felt compelled to share these shots from my recent 10 year college reunion. Above, my college roommates, best friends, and homies for life.

Just wanted to let you know that many beautiful educated black women exist, and represent in strong numbers. Above, you’ll find lawyers, doctors, professors, and investment bankers, who are all too private and shy to ever do a reality show or showcase daily looks on social media. They’re just everyday girls, yet they’re all so intelligent and inspiring. I’m glad to call them friends.

It sounds cliché, but you can be whatever you want to be. Black women are more than what you see on TV.

itsburied: born—for—this: Young & Beautiful.

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:13:58 -0400

itsburied:

born—for—this:

Young & Beautiful.

comicbooksexlife: so awesome

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:38:36 -0400

comicbooksexlife:

so awesome

tapatheo: airpunchingacademic: methcastle: Go ahead and think...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:09:45 -0400

tapatheo:

airpunchingacademic:

methcastle:

Go ahead and think we’re the only intelligent life out there. You go right ahead.

Fuck yeah Science

fuuuuuuuuck

Figure out how to get me there and I’ll be the first on board the ship

Kerry Washington for Elle Magazine, June 2013 My baby

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:00:37 -0400

Kerry Washington for Elle Magazine, June 2013

My baby

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