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A 19th century Fitbit?
This strange illustration comes from a book titled Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aërial Locomotion, by Etienne-Jules Marey. Marey was a pioneer in the various fields such as cardiology, scientific laboratory photography, and cinematography. He even made improvements on Eadweard Muybridge motion picture studies by making the captures more scientifically accurate.
Here, a runner, not a cyborg, is provided with an apparatus intended to register his different paces.
Teach children that this is not ok
Teach children that there’s nothing wrong with this
I’m really not understanding why you think cultural appropriation would be ok, unless you are assuming that the girl in the picture is part Japanese.
Yellow face yet she’s using white makeup in the traditional style but okay.
Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, hon. ☺️ Cultures should be shared by all means.
I disagree. The makeup is clearly reflective of traditional Geisha makeup which is yellowface and therefore racist. Furthermore, the girl is wearing a kimono, a garment that has for ages carried cultural significance. Assuming that she is white how can you think this is ok? And cultural appropriation isn’t a thing? What rock do you live under? I suggest you educate yourself on the differences between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation.
I am japanese, in japan at this very moment. The only people who think culture shouldnt be shared are racists like you.
A vast majority of Japanese people actually enjoy other people making an effort to spread and enjoy japanese culture, and encourage it. Many make businesses in deliberately taking pictures of people in kimono. A common omiage (gift) for foreigners from japanese people is traditional japanese things such as kimonos, tea seats, shisa dog statues, ect.
And to top it off, basically 80 percent of japanese customs, traditions, and food, came from other countries. Japanese is an integration of different cultures, like america. Japan takes influences from places like korea, china, russia, and europe. If japan stuck to itself, there would be no tempura, japanese tea, tea ceremonies, kabuki, japanese bread, japanese curry, j- pop, anime, cars, or modern fishing techniques. The picture is not “yellow face” they are not making fun of asians. In fact, it looks like they put extra care and research into their work.
The only reason that you have a problem with this is because that little girl is white and you know that it is acceptable on tumblr to crap all over white people. The only racist here is you.
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Dang she got shut down.
Damn I’ve never hit reblog so fast in my entire fucking life
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I reblog this every time I see it
I live in Japan and I’d like to back up this sentiment.
Recently a museum in Boston came under a lot of fire for allowing visitors to wear a ‘kimono’ (it was featuring a painting my Monet of a girl – a white girl – in a kimono, and the museum had replicas made that guests of ANY RACE could wear to mimic the painting, Pageant-of-the-Masters style). After protests and heated debate, the museum closed the event.
I was living in Japan at the time, and out of all the *actual* Japanese people I asked, not a single one was offended by the event. Rather, they were excited that people half a world away were showing interest in their culture, and were sad that visitors could no longer enjoy the event.
This party, though somewhat silly in application, is an attempt at experiencing and appreciating another culture. The mom who put this together is not an expert on Japan, but she did her best. She got a lot of things right: there are few things Japan loves more than tea, Pocky, and sakura.
Where do you draw the line for who is “allowed” to learn about Japan? If the girl were of Japanese descent, would that make it ok (even though her citizenship would be the same as the girl from the photo)? If one of the girl’s parents were from Japan, then would it be ok?
Are you only allowed to make pizza if you live in Italy? If you’re an Italian immigrant? How do we decide these things??
You can’t say you want to dismantle racism and then in the next breath make rules – based on race – for who people can wear, try, or eat, especially when the intent is obviously to have fun experiencing a culture (as opposed to having fun by making fun of a race or culture, like blackface does).
When you tell people they can only experience things ‘meant for their race’, it totally smacks of segregation to me and I can’t stand it. As someone who (obviously) loves Japan, I say let people learn about it, let people experience it, let people appreciate it. You don’t have to know every single thing about a culture to enjoy it.
Reblogging so fast!
woaaahhhh, you heard of Orientalism? (x) It isn’t about ‘segregating by race’, it is about taking the symbols of a culture you know nothing about and wearing it like a costume, or at best, a naive shadow of the real thing. I agree sharing cultural practices is great, but it is about context. the museum context seemed like a controlled cultural experience, the geisha tea party context seems like a hot mess. For example, when an outsider travels in India, it is pretty common for local people to be all excited when the outsider wears Indian outfits/henna/whatever, it is sharing! it is in a context where Indian people have power over their image. In contrast to this, remember the 90s fad of wearing bindis? Indian people, especially Indian immigrants to the US who wore bindis for specific cultural reasons, were totally not cool with that. For an Indian immigrant, it sucks to have your already-not-very-loud voice silenced by mainstream fashion for tweens. Consider multiple voices, a japanese person from japan might have a totally different experience with people half way accross the world wearing an outfit that vaguely looks like their culture than a person who belongs to the Japanese diaspora in a predominantly white country. “Sharing” can be great, but it can also be super disempowering and horrible, sharing can be co-opted by colonialism, like when designers take Inuit designs and make millions while families whose traditional designs they belong to get nothing, but ‘it is sharing’. Sharing is too broad a term. if you really want to share, think “am i empowering the group i am sharing from?”, “is a white kid with their white parents dressing up as a geisha doing any good to japanese people?” “is a single japanese person getting any benefit from this?” “are the only people benefiting from this sharing white?” if the answer is no, no, no, yes, then you probably know deep down you are being a dick.
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Happy Diamond Anniversary (aka 75 years) to Styrofoam, invented by researchers in Dow’s Chemical Physics Lab in 1941! While “Styrofoam” is often applied to foam coffee cups and packing materials, the name “Styrofoam” properly refers to the Dow Chemical Company’s trademarked brand of closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam commonly used for thermal insulation and craft applications. Composed of 98% air, Styrofoam is known for its buoyant and lightweight properties, characteristics Dow frequently highlighted in its advertisements for the product.
Photo credits: Dow Chemical Historical Image Collection, CHF Archives.
I’ve been seeing a lot of Scooby Doo on my dash lately. My friend discovered what he describes as “Shaggy eviscerating an ape”
i gasped. arsenic! a great taxidermy specimen gone foreverrrr
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Easter egg-painting - chemistry style!
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Point of fashion: gratuitous sausage shots
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Drawings i have been making lately: Titan seen from behind another one of Jupiter’s moons.
Drawings i have been making lately: Dog at the cultural village having the best day of its life
The 2016 Oscar nominations are out. And not a single actor of color was nominated – again. #OscarsSoWhite
The lack of diversity in Oscar nominations comes as no surprise to UCLA researchers at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, who have been tracking diversity in Hollywood films for years.
“Our research has shown that this is something that has been going on for years,” said Ana-Christina Ramon, assistant director of the Bunche Center, which produces an annual report on diversity in the entertainment industry. “There have been some good years, such as when ‘12 Years a Slave’ won a few years ago, but the pattern remains the same.“
Ramon said the film industry is making efforts to diversify, but said the pace is “glacial.” The Bunche Center’s research has found that movies with more female leads or characters of color sell tickets and are profitable.
“Films like ‘Fast and Furious’ or movies led by women like ‘The Hunger Games,’ they might not necessarily fit the mold of what gets nominated for an Oscar,” Ramon said. “In terms of what’s out there, audiences want to see more diversity onscreen and those movies are very successful.”
While change in the film industry is slow, Ramon said television is changing more quickly, a fact that will be reflected in the Bunche Center’s 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report, set for release Feb. 24.
um why have labcoats not evolved to this yet?
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