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holespoles:

Asako Yoshihama “Cat”
吉濱あさこ「猫」

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everythingstarstuff:

@Yui_mera

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okay but to be fair i’m like really into movies right now i use letterboxd in a fun way

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i love my tumblr because it reminds me of how i loved to read and cared about art and wanted to learn about and from these things or whatever

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i did some important things over the summer and now i have this job that feels important but i dont know who i am i want to be 15 again i cant make friends in this big stupid city

this feels so angsty to put on my tumblr but its how i feel and why i needed to come back and solely use this not instagram or tiktok or twitter

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surfacetexture:

Guadalupe Rosales and her archive of Chicano life in Los Angeles.
Guadalupe Rosales moved to New York with little more than a stack of wallet-sized photographs to remind her of home. She’d left Los Angeles in 2000, a few years after her cousin, Ever Sanchez, was stabbed to death at a party. Nearing her twenties, at the beginning of a new millennium, she decided to relocate her life to New York, where she’d remain living for over a decade. During that time, as she came of age away from the violence that had marked her youth, she held on to those photographs not only as reminders of unresolved trauma, but also as important links to her past. The photographs, given to her by family and friends she had grown up with in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Boyle Heights, were all made in a similar “glamour-shots style” using hazy filters. In the pre-selfie era, young people would flock to their local malls wearing coordinated outfits, sharply outlined lips and eyebrows, and meticulously teased perms to pose with friends in front of ambient backdrops. The diffused lighting spared them from blemishes, including emotional ones, and saturated the images with sentimentality that with time would turn into acute nostalgia.
In 2015, Rosales started Veteranas y Rucas, an Instagram archive focused on youth culture in LA’s Latino neighbourhoods. Its point of view is from the women’s perspective. She posted photographs from her own collection, along with brief anecdotes, in hopes of eliciting feedback. Before long, she had a steady stream of followers that eagerly shared photographs and memories of their teenage party days in LA in the 1990s. Then, in 2016, she developed a second Instagram project, Map Pointz, to collect images and memories of Southern California raves and party crews.

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