The Way Things Fall

melodysblog:

This plan for an underwater hotel in Dubai looks like it was ripped from a Bond villain’s dream journal.

Ummm Idk bout this one

holysoul:

Johnny Adams Reconsider Me

davidurbanke:

Kremi Otashliyska by David Urbanke

She is way to skinny

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holysoul:

Funkadelic Hit It And Quit It

Gross!! But I love Ricky rose

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vintageblackglamour:

Model, actress, singer and writer Mauryne Brent. She appeared in the 1948 film Come On, Cowboy! with Mantan Moreland and was a cousin of jazz pianist and composer Billy Taylor. She is included in her half-sister Shirlee Taylor Haizlip’s critically-acclaimed memoir, The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White:

Mauryne was an honor student and the class poet, but she wanted a career in show business. Hollywood would not find a place for her, however. The studios told her she was too light and beautiful to be black, and too “exotic” to be white. Independent producers wanted to take her to Europe, but she resisted and turned her attention to the Negro films called “race movies” at that time.

Mauryne’s odyssey took her to New York as well, where she sang in jazz clubs on 52nd street and at the well-known Harlem club Wells, with her cousin Billy Taylor, who was in the early stages of his jazz career. While in New York, she wrote lyrics for Arnold records. 

Black is beautiful

rollingstone:

Thrity-three years ago today, over 900 members of Reverend Jim Jones’ Jonestown community in northwest Guyana died from apparent cyanide poisoning. Amidst the devastation, controversy and investigation of Jones’ questionable political practices and involvement in the alleged mass suicide, Tim Cahill visited Guyana and reported back to Rolling Stone with a gruesome account of a terrible tragedy. To read the full article, first published on January 25th, 1979, visit RollingStone.com. 

— Parry Ernsberger

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futuresmiles:

DOPE

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