typographicverses:

Love hopes all things - 1 Corinthians 13:7. Designed by Greg Gerken.

thekhooll:

Life Before Photoshop -1950

Bruce Mozert was renowned for being pretty innovative, coming up with underwater tricks to make these scenes seem as real as possible including using baking powder to create the powdery “smoke” coming out of the underwater barbecue. 

crackerhell:

goodstuffhappenedtoday:

How A Middle-School Principal Persuaded Students To Come To School

by David Kestenbaum

Shawn Rux took over as principal of MS 53, a New York City middle school, last year. At the time, 50 or 60 kids were absent every day. You could understand why they stayed away: The school was chaos.

Twenty-two teachers had quit, the entire office staff had quit, and hundreds of kids had been suspended. The school was given a grade of F from the city’s department of education.

“It was in a bad place,” Rux says.

Rux decided he needed to create incentives for kids to come to school. Incentives that were more obvious to middle-school kids than, “If you come to school you’ll be better off 20 years from now.”

He handed out raffle tickets to anyone who showed up to school on time. One of the prizes was an Xbox. And he threw in an element of randomness: The first kids in line when the doors opened might get 20 tickets.

It worked. Kids started showing up early.

“It was … like, ‘Get out of my way, I’m trying to get into school,’ ” Rux says. “It was nice.”

Rux also created his own currency. He called it Rux Bux. Teachers hand them out when kids are well behaved. They can be traded in for school supplies, or special lunches. A sixth-grader named Wander Rodriguez is trying to save up 5,000 Rux Bux — enough for a personal shopping spree with Rux.

The principal also stands outside school every morning, greeting the students as they show up. This recognition is another, subtler incentive to come to school.

“I like this school,” Wander Rodriguez says. “They treat me like home, they treat me nice, they always give me stuff. … They always say ‘hi’ in the mornings.”

The school went from an F to a C. Daily attendance went up to over 90 percent. Then the hurricane hit.

The school is in Far Rockaway, Queens — one of the areas hardest hit by the storm. Some kids’ homes were destroyed. One student who stayed at home through the storm told a teacher, “My apartment complex was in the middle of the ocean.” Rux’s car was destroyed. The first floor of his house was flooded.

After the storm, after school started up again, Rux’s goal was to get attendance back to 90 percent. Every day, his staff texts him the attendance numbers. The day I visited last week, 89.2 percent of students attended school. Close, but not close enough for Rux.

The storm has been tough on everyone, he says. But that’s no excuse. Kids have to be in school.

not going to see this man in no news nowhere

laughingsquid:

Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine Volume 28

CAN’T WAITTTT

langleav:

Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav

letsgoforahike:

Let’s Go For A Hike

brotips:

Bed at 3am. Wake up at 6am. Work at 7:30am. Drink an energy drink, go, “Well, I’m fucked,” and face it like a champion. Repeat the following weekend.

Or you could start a blog. I hear that works for some people.

-Sketch

Posters

langleav:

kaylapocalypse:

Co-Dependency by Lang Leav

This would have been so much better if if went.

There is nothing more nice;
………..There is nothing 
………..much worse;

than me as your vice 
and you as my verse.

…

Like verse as in universe.  As in they are the other person’s vice and the person with issues is the  other person’s whole universe.
That would make ten million percent more sense.

And it would also rhyme better that way. 

Actually no. Your version makes no sense whatsoever. The poem is about co-dependency. It is a play on the phrase ’vice versa’ and meant to reflect the situation where someone drives you crazy but you can’t imagine life without them. Like Lewis Carroll and many other writers, I sometimes use nonsense words in my work. I think in this case, ‘worser’ is befitting and the rhyming structure is phonetically correct. Also, maybe focus on writing your own material, rather than rewriting mine. Thanks, Lang. 

mugenstyle:

Tyler Durden: Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.