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The Nu Project’s Nude Photos Tell The Truth About Women’s Bodies
The Nu Project is a no-glamor honest look at beauty and image in our world.
Female nudity isn’t hard to come by in the media, but the bodies we see usually represent a fairly limited scope of sizes and shapes. The Nu Project, a collection of nude photographs shot by Minneapolis photographer Matt Blum, seeks to add some variety to the mix. Blum started The Nu Project in 2005 but said it really took off when his wife, Katy Kessler, became the project’s editor. Blum sees the photos as filling a void. “When I started shooting nudes there was no project like it,” he told The Huffington Post in an email. The things that I had seen either used models with typical model bodies or average people who were made to look extremely unimpressive. I figured there was a way to treat women (of any size/shape) like models and photograph them beautifully, respectfully without a lot of sexual under or overtones. The women photographed are all volunteers, and most of the pictures are taken in the subjects’ homes — where they feel most comfortable. The Nu Project’s website showcases six galleries of nudes, three shot in North America, three in South America. Although Blum told HuffPost that he feels that they have a “good variety of people involved,” he and Kessler acknowledge on The Nu Project website that they’d love for the subjects to be more diverse. “The hardest part for us is that the project is 100 percent volunteer, so I do not see the women until I show up at their door,” Blum writes on the website. “We’re doing our best to encourage all types of women, but we need volunteers of all backgrounds and walks of life to make the project more complete.” Blum said he ultimately hopes that these images inspire the women who see them to feel better about their own bodies. “It’s been really exciting to hear people react to the images,” he told HuffPost. “We get a lot of feedback from women (especially) who have struggled to see themselves as beautiful, and this project has helped them on that path.”
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WELP.
Stop what you are doing.
Read those.
Right now.
I’ll wait.
If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:
This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”
This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”
The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.
They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.
Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.
A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.
YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.
MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.
I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.
This shit is important.
Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.
Reblog this.
imma get in trouble when i’m a teacher and I spent a lesson talking about this
the second source is the court transcript. give it a gander.
I knew about this. And I’ll always be angry about this.
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Savory Mexican Salad with Guacamole
This raw meal never fails to satisfy! It’s not only delicious but it’s also a nutritional powerhouse.
Salad Ingredients
- ½ Bunch Romaine Lettuce chopped
- ½ Bunch Lacinato Kale de-stemmed and chopped
- Cucumber slices
- Mixed Baby Greens
- Sprouts
Salsa:
- 2 Heirloom Tomatoes
- 1 Red Bell Pepper
- 1 Stalk Celery
- Handful Cilantro
- ¼ Onion
- ½ Lemon juiced
- Dash of Cayenne
Directions: Chop and mix all ingredients in a large bowl or add to a food processor.
Guacamole:
- 2 Avocados
- Handful Cilantro
- 1 Clove Garlic
- ½ Lemon juiced
Directions: Chop and mix all ingredients in a large bowl or add to a food processor.
Enjoy! :)
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I’ll confess I’ve no shortage of ideas about what I would do with supercute Oakland slavegirl / skater chick Alani Pi, but I’m not quite cray enough to have dreamed up this shenanigans. I’m glad, though, that these guys did.
Here’s a video of her longboarding around the park and then getting “abducted” by one of those creepy sadist types. Lots of horrid things are done to her that she pretends to dislike quite effectively.
Pretty hot.

