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“Sometimes I like to find the most breakable thing on the highest surface, then I like to knock it off.”
It apes the popular "Humans of New York" blog, and shows a range of cats with their imagined quotes. It is amazing.
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?” Like this quiz.
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Miles Teller arrives at the The Divergent Series: Insurgent New York premiere at the Ziegfeld Theater on March 16, 2015.
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AUSTIN, Texas — It was a typically chaotic day at the SXSW festival, with tech-heads and cineasts literally bumping shoulders with over-it Austin locals, harried publicists, overdressed executives, and the occasional weary journalist. And the Four Seasons Hotel was where they all converged in a din of unending activity.
Into that whirlwind stepped actor Miles Teller, who, in his powder-blue muscle tank and ripped jeans, looked not unlike many other twentysomethings who have poured into the Texas capital. The only difference was that he's potentially on the precipice of major stardom.
It's been just over a year since Teller's breakout performance as an ambitious jazz percussionist in the indie movie Whiplash ignited the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, he's been navigating the biggest year of his career so far, including the increased media scrutiny such attention brings — like the time he said he did Divergent "for business reasons" and felt "dead inside" while making it. (The actor later said those quotes were "taken out of context.") And 2015 only promises to be bigger, with the Divergent sequel Insurgent opening Friday, Teller's role as Mr. Fantastic in the reboot of Fantastic Four hitting theaters in August, and the debut of the boxing biopic Bleed for This (which is already generating headlines thanks to Teller's ripped physique for the role) later this fall.
Theo James, Teller, and Shailene Woodley in Insurgent.
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After the backlash over his Divergent comments, the 28-year-old actor is being more careful while promoting Insurgent. The last thing he needs is to look like he’s grousing about being an actor people recognize. When responding to a question about a fan who ran up to him the moment he stepped into the Four Seasons hallway, one can almost see the quick calculation in his eyes, as he attempts a positive-sounding sound bite.
"You want to make a film that's, like, inspiring or affects somebody. You want to have that connection," he told BuzzFeed News. "Absolutely, it's nice to have people come up, especially if it's a film that you're really kind of proud of."
That Teller's role in Insurgent — as the morally dubious Peter, a begrudging compatriot of Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James), on the run after being exposed as Divergents in the first film — is more playful and dynamic than the brutal, one-note sociopath he was in the first film certainly helps the actor, both in terms of fans' response and his own outlook on the franchise. "It's nice, man — you can see people are a little relaxed and comfortable in the world," he said.
The first scenes Teller shot on Insurgent — in which Peter, Four, Tris, and Tris' brother Caleb (Ansel Elgort) hide out within the peaceful farming community of Amity — proved to be a interesting test of that newfound comfort for the simple reason that all three male actors had played Woodley's love interest: James in the Divergent movies, Elgort in The Fault in Our Stars (which filmed after Divergent), and Teller in 2013's The Spectacular Now.
"Well, I took [Shailene's] on-screen virginity, so you will only have one first. That's probably weird for the other guys."
"Ghosts of boyfriends past," Teller said with a laugh. "It's the Venn diagram, and Shailene's in the middle."
So, was that awkward? Teller grinned. "Well, I took her on-screen virginity, so you will only have one first," he said, seemingly unaware of her five seasons on the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager, which centered on Woodley's character's teen pregnancy. "That's probably weird for the other guys because they know that I had it first." He laughed before adding, "I mean, it's fun. Honestly, Shai has a good time. … We do have fun with that. And, yeah, she's a wonderful girl, and you know, I'm sure we're all happy to have our little moments with her, our films with her."
But with Insurgent, Teller didn't have that many moments with Woodley, or anyone else for that matter, as he was shooting Fantastic Four at the same time. And if the more languorous pace of big-budget filmmaking was weighing Teller down while shooting Divergent (hence the W magazine comments), he's learned how to express his appreciation for the process with two more likely blockbusters now under his belt. "Coming off of Whiplash, you're just used to doing scenes back to back-to-back," Teller said. "On these bigger ones, you can actually take a break in the middle of the scene, if it's not working, to talk about it, have a conversation with the director and the actor, and you can really kind of workshop through it. You're allowed that time."
Big-budget, effects-driven movies also take a lot of time to complete after filming has wrapped. And with Fantastic Four, the period before any footage was released led to idle speculation and downright anxiety on the part of fans, concerned that director Josh Trank (Chronicle) was screwing up the thing that they love — including casting Teller as Reed Richards (aka Mr. Fantastic). Many Marvel diehards thought Teller was far too young to play a character who is often drawn with graying temples.
Teller in Fantastic Four.
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"People just need stuff to bitch about too, you know what I mean?" the actor said. "Like, if they don't have a comment, then what are they doing?" By the same token, Teller understands where all that concern is coming from. "If Fantastic Four was my favorite comic, and I felt like they casted, whatever they want to say, like, too young, or I felt like it wasn't my version of it, then I would be kind of worried too," he admitted.
The release of the first Fantastic Four trailer in late January did help to alleviate some of those fan concerns. "I think people saw that it wasn't just a flipping franchise for us, that Fox was [not] just trying to quickly make before they lost the rights and this and that," he said. Now Teller is eager for fans to see more. "We definitely put our stamp on it," he said. "We didn't put something up there that was just a generic representation or generic interpretation of this comic book. We really tried to do something with these characters — not original, we took it all from the [comic's] history, but I'm just excited to get it out there and let people kind of say what they want."
But Teller — who's basically worked nonstop for three years, shooting nine films since 2012 — doesn't have much of an opportunity to worry, seeing as he has already moved on to his next project. He's in the middle of filming the Todd Phillips comedy Arms and the Dudes in Romania with Jonah Hill, after which he'll segue right into shooting Allegiant, the two-part conclusion to the Divergent franchise. "In my head, I'm like, I'm taking this time off, trust me. I will. And I get a script that I just can't not do. It speaks to me," he said. "Also for me, I just don't want somebody else to do it. I would hate to turn it down and then watch kind of another actor — probably be even a friend of mine — get to do it."
"I'm attractive enough, but I'm not too attractive to where, you know, I'm not accessible."
Teller's latest must-do project is The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang, adapted from the Atavist story by Josh Dean about the notorious trio of bank robbers who learned how to pull off a heist in roughly 90 seconds. "It's just like everything I'd want a movie," a suddenly animated Teller said of the film, which doesn't even have a script yet. "It's a heist movie. It's crime-action-adventure. I mean, the life that these guys lived was crazy. ... It's like the most unbelievable true story. I'm pumped."
So pumped, in fact, that this will be the first time Teller will serve as a producer as well, with Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) attached to direct. It's the next evolution in a career in which Teller has managed to avoid the pitfalls of the handsome-but-bland young leading man — at least, on camera. While he's clearly learning from past mistakes off-camera, sometimes he just cannot help himself.
"I think my face helps with that, because I'm attractive enough, but I'm not too attractive to where, you know, I'm not accessible," he said with a smile. "I want to thank my parents for that, for my face."
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Apparently, it’s not just for babies.
"I got the idea from my pregnant girlfriends who started to learn a lot about breast milk from mommy blogs," Mud president Shama Patel tells BuzzFeed Life of the $50 treatment. "A lot of women use breast milk to calm irritations and heal small cuts on their children's skin—and their own."
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"Breast milk has certain antibodies that smooth and re-texturize the skin better than cow's milk can," according to Patel.
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"The breast milk is dropped off fresh," says Patel. The facial bar went through a breast milk bank to find liberal donors (since some donors specify that they want their milk used for infants only).
"There's nothing inherent about breast milk that's either stronger or superior to cow's milk when it comes to inflammation," dermatologist Dr. David E. Bank, director of The Center for Dermatology, Cosmetic & Laser Surgery, tells BuzzFeed Life. "With using breast milk, which is unpasteurized, you run the risk of contamination with bacteria that can block your pores."
Let’s reminisce about the good ol’ Britney/JT days.
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Silly rabbit. Trix are for kids.
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1. Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman came up with the plot all the way back in 1994, while they were working on Pulp Fiction. She said it took them "minutes" to create a solid idea.
2. Thurman was pregnant when the script was finally finished 10 years later, pushing production back further. Tarantino waited, saying he knew how perfect she'd be for the part.
3. Though the story throughout both films skips around in time frame, it was actually shot in sequence.
4. In every scene in which The Bride is wearing her yellow jumpsuit, the bottom of her shoes say "Fuck U."
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5. The first time Thurman practiced swinging a sword on set, she "hit herself in the head and nearly burst into tears."
6. Thurman initially thought Tarantino's physical expectations for her on set were "literally absurd," especially since her martial arts and sword-fighting training started just three months after she gave birth to her second child.
7. Thurman's on-set trainer was Yuen Wo-ping, the same trainer used for The Matrix films and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
8. Tarantino admitted The Bride would have been an entirely different character if the script hadn't taken so long to finish. Spending time with Thurman and her daughter inspired a more family-centric storyline.
9. The two films were the first in Tarantino's career where violence was actually portrayed on screen — in full detail — as opposed to being left to the imagination.
After I wrote an essay about my college experience, lots of people are talking about universities, fraternities, and race. But what happens next?
When I hit "publish" on the essay I wrote detailing my experience with racism while I was a student at Transylvania University, I didn't know exactly what to expect. I figured the article would resonate with other students of color who had or are having similar experiences; it would be spread around by the handful of us who have been through it all before; people would nod their heads and say, "Yep, this is what it's like," or, "Wow, I didn't know that's what it's like."
But the essay exploded online and is currently closing in on 200,000 views, a first for any essay I have ever written for BuzzFeed. I was invited to appear on All In With Chris Hayes and The Melissa Harris Perry Show. It also blew up on Transy's small campus in Lexington, Kentucky, so much so that some were cautioned not to discuss the article on social media. There was an outpouring of emails from people who could identify with my situation, emails that I can't imagine ever having the time to respond to with the thoughtfulness they deserve. Many of those emails came from current Transy students who said they felt silenced by the same institution I felt had silenced me.
When you are young and full of fire and you feel you've had your voice stolen from you, you don't feel whole until you're able to say everything you couldn't say then. I definitely feel heard, at last, but there is no sense of resolution, of tied ends, of repair. I always knew that I wanted to write about my experience once I left Transylvania — but not to make the school look bad. Healing is never about the people who hurt us; it is about us and our wellness. I just wanted to be able to breathe again, to shake loose the boulder of everything I couldn't say from my chest and breathe freely. I did not want them to hurt. I wanted them to hear me.
After all, you can't be hurt by something you don't care about. If I didn't care about what happens to Transy, I wouldn't have put the energy into sharing my story. And now I feel a sense of responsibility to help fix things at a place that I actually care for.
My time at Transy was tumultuous, yes, but there was good in my four years there. It's a very well-respected institution, and with its small class sizes and demanding curriculum, students willing to put forth the effort are guaranteed a good education. Whenever my friends and I met someone in Lexington and told them where we were enrolled, the response was usually, "Oh, so y'all are smart, huh?" I had a treasured collection of some of the kindest people I'd ever met, both white and of color, people who always had a smile for me on my toughest days. I followed the example of some amazingly brave and open-minded professors who truly did work for change, even if their efforts didn't go as far as they would have liked. There were reasons that I stayed at Transy beyond being stubborn, headstrong, and prideful, and those reasons lived in the smiling faces of people who cared for me. Lots of schools are like this. Students of color often find themselves confused by feelings of affinity for an institution where they also struggled so much.
I also didn't make a space in my first essay for the advancements that the campus or the KAs may have made in the 11 years since I graduated. There is now a Black Student Alliance at Transy, something that did not exist while I was there, and I understand that they were finally given the cultural center that my class was promised while we were on campus. Transylvania released a statement earlier today outlining the advancements that have been made since my time there: the minority population at Transy is now 18%, up from 3% in 2001. And they confirmed that once Davis Hall, the dormitory named after Jefferson Davis, is torn down and rebuilt, it will be renamed as well. Many of the students who I have been in communication with said that my story sounded very familiar to them, but I never figured or assumed that things are the same there today as they were 15 years ago.
So what happens next? Something has to happen next or all of this — the airing of dirty laundry, reliving traumatizing events, students threatened with disciplinary action for sharing my essay — will have been for nothing. Amends are being made; I received an apology from the national executive director of Kappa Alpha, which I accepted. But this isn't just my story, and it isn't specific to Transylvania or this fraternity or Kentucky or the South, as the SAE video has shown us. This is what it is like for scores of students of color at primarily white colleges and universities across the country. We work overtime to claw out a place for ourselves on campuses that do not reflect our images and still make time to study; we fight to prove our worth and right to exist in these spheres even though our applications and our money have already been accepted. And once we graduate, we have a healing process to go through. I don't know exactly what that looks like because I feel like mine, with the publication of that first essay, has just started.
When it comes to difficult things like race and change, something that people love to champion is "starting conversations." When something deplorable happens and people demand change, the thing to do is say, "Well at least people are talking about it now! At least we've started a conversation!" But we've been having these conversations for centuries.
And this particular one has been happening for at least 15 years. If nothing is actually done in its wake, then it'll be a conversation we're having for 15 more. What do we do? How do we fix this? I'm just a writer, not a school administrator. I don't have the answers, but I have some ideas: Don't wait until videos like the one from the University of Oklahoma and stories like mine to become public to care about making your institutions more inclusive. Don't dismiss the offensive pranks and practices often carried out by fraternities as "foolishness" they they are "entitled" to. Capitalize on the influence that Greek organizations have over their members by encouraging open-mindedness when it comes to things like race, gender, and sexuality. Make an honest, genuine effort to diversify your student bodies — don't just gather the handful of brown students you have for marketing photographs. Actively seek to recruit students and professors of color. Encourage them to speak up about their hardships and concerns and listen to them when they do. Don't be afraid to implement changes and stop offensive traditional practices because you're worried about losing money from alumni. Make your campuses welcoming and safe for the people who will call them home for at least four years. All of them.
You can't kill a tree by plucking at its leaves; you have to reach beneath the surface and kill it at the root. I'm very interested in seeing what Transylvania President Seamus Carey and administrators at schools across the country will do now that the stories of those who were once voiceless are being heard.
Transylvania can be a success story. Melissa Harris Perry suggested that Carey and his colleagues say, "We have been challenged on this point, let's talk about it and that is how we indicate how open we are, how willing we are to engage in dialogue and discourse, and how unafraid we are to be challenged." Transy can be an example of how white institutions can help their students of color be proud of their alma maters. There is still time for us. There is still time for me to not just be happy about the stellar classroom education at Transy or the friends I made, but to become a full-fledged, proud Transy Pioneer.
So much shade.
Reminder that he ignores your phone calls on top of all this shit.
A lot can change about a Disney movie from when the first concept art is created to when the film hits theaters. How good are you at spotting your favorite places and characters?
LINK: Concept art mostly from "Disney Concepts and Stuff" on Tumblr
More teenagers should record family fights.
"My dad’s yelling at me and in the middle of this, I think to myself, what the heck, my tape recorder's here," Cohen told BuzzFeed News. "I remember sharing it with my friends."
He taped fights on and off until he was about 28, amassing at least a couple dozen recordings.
The struggle is real.
Come on, it's spelled just like it sounds!
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IT'S BOTH, PEOPLE!
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Your friend's mom still calls you Zsclarbk Q.
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