Melinda May, Someone From Downton Abbey, And Nick Burkhart. Even With The DA Character, I Think I'm Golden.

Melinda May, someone from Downton Abbey, and Nick Burkhart. Even with the DA character, I think I'm golden.

Martian Manhunter in Supergirl 1x07 -  Human for a Day

I went to see this at the Tacoma At museum in 2014. It's not just photographs. Wilbur also includes audio interviews with the people she photographed as well as video presentations. It's their voices accompanying their images, which makes the work that much more.

In 2012, Matika Wilbur ( Swinomish and Tulalip Tribes) sold almost everything she owned, left behind her apartment in Seattle, and set out on the open road. The former high school teacher had one goal: to photograph members of each federally recognized Native American tribe in the United States.

Wilbur’s photographs are mostly black and white. She shoots on a Canon EOS 7D digital, and a Mamiya film camera. When she finishes Project 562 (named for the number of federally recognized tribes at the time Wilbur began her work), she plans to compile the photographs and share them with the public through various publications, exhibitions and curricular material.

To date, the 31-year-old has driven more than 250,000 miles and has nearly completed her journey. She will finish her tour at the end of the month in the northeastern US. Wilbur has taken thousands of pictures so far. She has met with a range of people that include PhDs, lawyers, tribal elders, designers, grandmothers and artists. But sometimes she worries it isn’t enough.

A search for Native Americans on the internet yields almost nothing but reductionist, 18th-century representations of a “feathered and leathered people”, Wilbur says. She hopes the pictures she’s taking can someday replace the stereotyped, dated ones found in internet searches, and the ones we hold on to in our collective psyche.

“I’m ultimately doing this because our perception matters,” she says. “Our perception fuels racism. It fuels segregation. Our perception determines the way we treat each other.”   Article by The Guardian

I think I'm more worried about Downton Abbey being over than I am about Christmas

This showed up on my dash this morning. Apparently, Lesley Nicol’s brother is a diabetes specialist in South Carolina. It’s a lovely interview, and it includes pictures of BABY LESLEY!!!

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Relationship status: Happily single.

Favorite Color: Blue, purple or mint green, depending on my mood.

Wake Up Time: Don’t expect me to be conscious before noon.

Cats or Dogs: I have two cats (Abby and Leila), though I like dogs as well.

Coke or Pepsi: Water, please?

Day or Night: Daylight for photography and night for most everything else.

Text or Call: Text for quick stuff. If it gets to be more than 10 messages, I will call.

Chapstick or Lipstick: Chapstick most days. Cherry red lipstick when I need to summon my inner badass bitch.

Last Song I Listened To: End of an Era from Downton Abbey - the Ultimate Collection. Yes, I’m serious.

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