nickname's tarawr,
22, Mboro/Knox,TN:
a design thinker, film photographer, daily newspaper reader, M&Ms addict, indie listener, badminton player, & thai food lover
tarainahalfshell.com
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
STFU, Conservatives: Fighting the good fight
Why the US ‘War on Women’ can’t be ignored by Canadians
Thomas Jefferson once said that “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance”. It certainly seems so when one looks at the current state of women’s rights. Even in supposedly progressive countries, it has been a sad…
my summer update.
-did some volunteering habitat for humanity
-got a new apt in 4th and gill neighborhood, suck it fort sanders!
-sucking at finding Nashville design internships, the one in NY turned me down b/c I couldn’t interview in person
-getting back into training mode for badminton tourneys
-buying new camera lens for my upgraded assistant photo editor position
-my roadtrips include memphis bbq july 21st and atl six flags july 5th (hey memphis kids, hangout with me!)
by Keith Aggett
pictures taken by the Google Street View car cam (Utsira, Norway - Sao Joao Del Rei, Brazil - Inverallochy, Scotland - Prejmer, Romania - Saint Nicolas De La Grave, France - Capetown, South Africa)
(Source: stephwinchester)
a set of screencaps from ‘dys4ia’ an amazing flash game by anna anthropy, based on her experiences with hormone replacement therapy. you can play dys4ia here this is a link.
the gameplay of dys4ia is incredibly simple, but dys4ia tells a really really really personal story, particularly for a flash game. obviously i’m biased, but anna anthropy touches on things with dys4ia that i would struggle to discuss, even with close friends.
at one point, i stopped playing right in the middle of one of the final ‘mini-games’ of dys4ia to watch the sun set and reflect on what some of it meant to me personally. imo, it’s probably some of the most strangely “honest” media depicting transition i have personally experienced.
that said, the game isn’t like, a perfect masterpiece. but it’s VERY COOL IMO idk i am extremely biased just ignore me k wutever. here is what anna had to say on the night she released dys4ia
dys4ia is the story of the last six months of my life: when i made the decision to start hormone replacement therapy and began taking estrogen. i wanted to catalog all the frustrations of the experience and maybe create an “it gets better” for other trans women. when i started working on the game, though, i didn’t know whether it did get better. i was in the middle of the shit detailed in level 3 of the game, and at the time i had no idea what the ending would be; it was hard to envision a happy ending.
this was amazing. there’s also a great interview with anna anthropy at prettyqueer.com at the moment
1. Don’t play this if you’re not ready to cry for about 10 minutes afterwards.
1.5 stuck on level 1 for five months ugh I hate doctors, I hate them, I HATE them.
this is just so amazing, qutobiographical game?! genius.
“Birth of a Book” - How books are made.
Very cool.
What a beaut.
knoxville cannot satisfy my asian food needs, so i’m chilling here in mboro. & i just feel like bombarding tumblr with these laotian/thai food goodies.
unf beef pho, meatballs, khao lam, khao piak, and khanom krog
Chacho’s Grandma Has Advice for You from Behance via Photojojo.
Can I get her to pose for another one?
Don’t think you are a designer just because you own Photoshop.
