These things take time

nevver:

Behind every great novelist …

ikenbot:

Oldest Mayan Astronomical Calendar Discovered

The oldest-known version of the ancient Maya calendar has been discovered adorning a lavishly painted wall in the ruins of a city deep in the Guatemalan rainforest.

The hieroglyphs, painted in black and red, along with a colorful mural of a king and his mysterious attendants, seem to have been a sort of handy reference chart for court scribes in A.D. 800 — the astronomers and mathematicians of their day. Contrary to popular myth, this calendar isn’t a countdown to the end of the world in December 2012, the study researchers said.

“The Mayan calendar is going to keep going for billions, trillions, octillions of years into the future,” said archaeologist David Stuart of the University of Texas, who worked to decipher the glyphs. “Numbers we can’t even wrap our heads around.”

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libertesedosistema:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me.

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photojojo:

Jamie Beck (From Me to You) and Kevin Burg’s Cinemagraphs just keep getting better and better.

Here’s a Cinemagraph she made for Banana Republic.

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soyface:

torayot:

Two topics I am interested in are 19th - early 20th century Siam/Thailand and gender dissimulation.

This photographic image from 1900 shows a Siamese woman in traditional dress. She is wearing a loincloth, known as sarong or chongkraben in Thai. This covers the waist to the knees, and is formed with a length of cloth wrapped around the waist and thighs which is then passed through the legs before being secured. She also has the sides of her head shaved, leaving only a topknot and two locks in front of her ears. There is a cord around her shoulder that is looped round her torso, but otherwise her upper body is completely bare, leaving her breasts completely uncovered. Men would also present themselves in a similar way - bare chested, loincloth only, partially shaved head. (Unfortunately I cannot readily find information on Thai non-binary identities and presentation with my limited resources, which makes me sad and frustrated.)

Please observe the next image:

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Dating from several decades later, between 1935 - 1945, it is a poster which shows proper Thai dress, as circumscribed by Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram. He issued a series of Thai cultural mandates (many of which are still de facto in effect today) that described appropriately civilised behaviour as befitting Thai citizens.

The left hand side shows inappropriate dress, which are described in text below the picture. Examples of dress, grooming, and carriage now deemed uncouth include:

• Wearing a sarong
• Sporting a completely bare torso
• Having a shaved head
• Wearing an “Indian hat” or head covering/wrapping. 
• Binding one’s chest or wearing only undergarments to partially conceal one’s upper body
• Carrying loads upon one’s head

Dress and comportment considered acceptable were as follows:

• Wearing uniforms;
• “International style” attire
• ‘Polite’ versions of traditional dress, such as pha sin/pha toong
• Wearing longer hair
• Ensuring they wear presentable garments which are clean and neat

These orders were applicable to everyone.

Notice that they clearly erase any ethnic and cultural markers (indeed, the mandates explictly erased all identities and referred to all Thailanders as “Thai”) and, returning to the topic at hand, dissimulated gender by prescribing hair and dress according to norms which could perhaps be described as recognisably Euro-American.

One day I will do more research on why and how this came about, &c.

Ahhh oh my god this is so amazing and i want to know so much more about it.

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estonoesuntumblr:

Elizabeth

Acrylic on laser print / 29 x 42 cm

by SOWAT

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