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Stuffed animals ~
~I love the idea of a little genius kid writing her notes in crayon and getting sprinkles in her robots hardware
Jeeja Yanin in Chocolate (2008).
another of my fave asian action stars, if you haven't watched any of JiJa's movies you should seriously check her out… she pays homage to stars such as jackie chan, bruce lee and there's even a scene she pays homage to tony jaa…
chocolate has some great fights and really shows off what JiJa is capable of.
raging phoenix is a mix of styles ranging from Muay Thai, taekwondo, chinese drunken boxing and also a little hip hop dancing.
I am curling up with chocolate and Chocolate. Because sometimes the only cure for what ails you is watching Jeeja Yanin fuck some people’s shit up.
Martial Arts Files-Yanin “Jeeja” Vismitananda ญาณิน “จีจ้า” วิสมิตะนันทน์
Style: Muy Thai,Tae Kwon Do,Jeet Kun Do
Vismitananda was born in Bangkok, Thailand. Her mother Prasita Vismitananda and her father Pawadol Borirak is a businessman and died when his daughter was 17. She has an older brother, Nantapong “Jeed” Vismitananda. She is mainly of Thai descent with some English and Burmese ancestry.
She holds a 3rd Dan black belt in taekwondo.
She was discovered by Prachya Pinkaew in 2003.
Her film debut was the starring role in the film Chocolate (2008), and her second movie was Raging Phoenix (2008).
Filmography:
Chocolate (2008)
Raging Phoenix (2008)
Jak Ka Ran (2011)
The Kick (2011)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1107767469/get-anna-may-wong-on-public-tv/widget/video.html
From Colorlines:
by Channing Kennedy Thursday, November 10 2011
If you’re reading this, you’re probably interested in the history of racebending and POC representation in cinema — and that means you need to get familiar with Anna May Wong, the black-and-white-era film star who made a career out of smashing barriers in Hollywood. A new documentary by filmmaker Yunah Hong, Anna May Wong: In Her Own Words, can bring her story to PBS, but not without your help.
Wong’s Hollywood career is fascinating and instructive. Despite being a California-born native English speaker who didn’t visit China until adulthood, Wong was only given roles that reinforced stereotypes about hypersexualized, deceitful Asian women. Time’s film critic Richard Corliss identifies three rules that hemmed in Wong’s career, even at the peak of her success: she couldn’t kiss (unless she was being savaged by an Asian man), she had to die, and off-screen, she always got paid a fraction of what her co-stars earned. And for her trouble, she was cast by Chinese newspapers as a traitor and an embarrasment.
So why, as someone subject to her own misrepresentations of Asian women, did Wong take these roles? One answer is illustrated in a role she didn’t get, a cowering Chinese peasant in 1937’s The Good Earth — played in yellowface by German actress Luise Rainer. Landing the roles was Wong’s only chance to humanize the stereotypes.
Want to know how Anna May Wong felt about her career? Yunah Hong’s new documentary, made over the last eight years, tells Wong’s story through new interviews and archival footage. The film is completed, but in order for PBS to air it, Hong has to raise $12,000 in the next 19 days to pay for the archival footage’s licensing fees.
As Hong says on her Kickstarter page:
Many older Asian Americans look down on Anna for playing stock Asian characters. But a younger generation sees her as a pioneering artist who beat the odds in a tough industry. Besides her strength as a woman, I admire her for pushing herself as an actress. When her film roles were limited, she traveled around Europe performing in cabarets, polishing her talents as a singer, dancer and monologuist. When MGM didn’t cast her in The Good Earth, a film set in China, she went to China anyway and filmed her trip. Long before anyone was called a “community activist,” she devoted herself to the Chinese American community’s war effort during World War II. She was way ahead of her time. Her courage to be herself against all odds is truly inspiring, the kind of story I want my ten-year-old daughter to know.
In the instances when POC say shit like ‘Oh I can’t stand white folk’ or ‘Damn white people’, they aren’t saying ‘Oh I think they are inferior, I want to humiliate them, abuse them, enslave them and wipe out their people!’, they’re saying ‘Damn, after a couple hundred years of white people thinking I’m inferior, humiliating me, abusing me, enslaving me, and trying to wipe out my people, I don’t wanna deal with them.’ The context is completely different.
Briana
“but u guise reverse racism is real!!!1!!one!! im realy prejusidse against bcus im white every1 hatez me”
(via grrrlfoxxx)
THANK YOU.
(via theoceanandthesky)
I am not a woman of feminine frivolity or fear, but I direct these letters to you for the advantage of my whole kingdom; when you receive them accept me and the whole kingdom of Lombardy. I shall give you so many cities, castles, renowned palaces, and infinite gold and silver; over all these you will have an illustrious name if you make yourself dear to me. Do not consider me bold that I approach you first. It is permitted as much to the virile as to the feminine sex to desire a legitimate spouse. Nor does it matter if a man or a woman make the first move in love as long it involves an indissoluble marriage. Which can not be except by the consent of both. Fare well.
~ Matilda of Canossa's marriage proposal for purely political reasons to Guelph V of Bavaria, her second husband.
1089 A.D.
This Woman Does a Pretty Convincing Batman-Style Beatdown When it comes to bringing action found in popular comics, anime and video games to life, the Thousand Pounds Action Company sets a pretty high standard. They’ve done videos based off of DC Comics, Naruto Shippuden and Street Fighter and now they’re adding the Dark Knight’s latest video game to their portfolio. The young lady in the clip is Mickey Facchinello and she really makes me want to see a Batgirl kicking ass in the Batman video game universe. Folks familiar with Arkham City’s combat moveset will see a bunch of familiar moves and camera tricks. Sure, there are no costumes but, with fight choreography this good, who needs ‘em?
Holy badass, Batman! Batwoman in Arkham City anyone?
If that sounds like a terrible recipe for abuse of power, that’s because it is.
If enacted, a new law would make it so a simple allegation of copyright infringement—with no review process—could lead to the shutdown of sites from YouTube to Wikipedia to MoveOn.org. Any...
Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.com reported that the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had participated in an 18-city mayor conference call advising mayors on “how to suppress” Occupy protests.
To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Our system of government prohibits the creation of a federalised police force, and forbids federal or militarised involvement in municipal peacekeeping.
I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy
Here’s some more from later in the article
The mainstream media was declaring continually “OWS has no message”. Frustrated, I simply asked them. I began soliciting online “What is it you want?” answers from Occupy. In the first 15 minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.
The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.
No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.
sigh
unboliviable:
Salar de Uyuni - Potosi/Bolivia
The largest salt flat is in Bolivia, during the rainy season the ground turns into a huge mirror. Its called the border between Heaven & Earth.
Source: drillkitty :: odiodiodio
Laleh Seddigh (born 1977), is an Iranian female race car driver. Racing both on circuits and in rallies, she is recognized as the best female racer in the country. Seddigh had to get special permission from a local ayatollah in order to compete against men. A PhD student from Tehran, she has been nicknamed "a little Schumacher" after the German Formula One champion.
"Resistance from men does not bother me. Once I get on the track I like to use my technical skills, take control and dominate the other drivers."
listgrrrl:
Tumblr for Ashley Day!
Laleh Seddigh, the first female race car driver in Iran
amschel:
Laleh Seddigh, Iranian Formula 3 race car driver. She is recognized as the best female racer in the country.
People who need people are threatened by people who don’t. The idea of seeking contentment alone is heretical, for society steadfastly decrees that our completeness lies in others.
Lionel Fisher (via middlenameconfused)
temenuga:
In 1808, Napoleon, running out of scenic holiday destinations to invade, somehow totally forgot about his neighbor to the south, Spain. So that year he dispatched his troops, kicking off the Peninsular War. Only 20 years old and working as a barmaid in the town of Valdepenas, Juana Galan was not expecting a surge of French soldiers to come storming through her village. But on June 6, that’s exactly what happened. At that time, most of the men were fighting Napoleon’s forces elsewhere in the nation. Juana, unfazed by things like rifles and Frenchmen and French riflemen, began organizing the women in her village to form a trap for the approaching army. When the army arrived, Juana and her friends were ready. They dumped boiling water and oil on the French troops, which by all accounts will instantly take the fight out of pretty much anyone. Then Juana, armed with only a batan, beat back the heavily armed French cavalry with her squad of village women, almost none of whom were armed with guns. The French retreated, giving up on capturing not just Juana’s town but the entire province of La Mancha, leading to ultimate Spanish victory. Today, she is seen in Spain as a national hero, a symbol of resistance, strength, patriotism, feminism and hitting shit with a stick. (x)
masteradept:
midwestmountainmama:
ritheory:
What the fuck.
wow. my point made. i don’t even need to say anything anymore! eventually, tumblr WILL get to it! :D
Those in power using it to stay in power.
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
Sappho (via theancientworld)
Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Ain't That Good News - 1964)
I was born by the river in a little tent Oh, and just like the river I been a runnin' ever since It's been a long, a long time coming but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die 'Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will I go to the movie, and I go downtown Somebody keep tellin' me "don't hang around" It's been a long, a long time coming, but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will Then I go to my brother And I say "brother, help me please" But he winds up knocking me Back down on my knees There been times that I thought I wouldn't last for long But now think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, a long time coming but I know A change gon' come, oh yes it will