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i don’t think i could put into words how much i hate anything related to dr. who
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I’m downloading so much good music right now. I’m very excited.
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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The worst part is that it wasn’t like, 15 or 16 year old girls who took nudes of themselves or something. He got busted for having pictures and videos of young children being sexually abused and tortured.
Also he asked me out a few times and once during HOPE class he gave me a necklace and told me I was “a beautiful person.”
This kid I went to high school with went to jail for six counts of child pornography a few years ago when he was 18 and he’s gonna be in jail for the next 33 years and I guess today is his birthday so all these people are posting on his Facebook wall saying things like “Happy Birthday! Long time no see! Where have you been?” and I guess they don’t know or something but happy birthday Phil I hope prison is fun.
“This is a photo of the Harpy Eagle, a bird of prey usually inhabits tropical lowland rainforests in the upper canopy layer. “
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