hotcircus:

"Let Your Reach Exceed Your Grasp" (by moodscapes)

Close crop of this shot focussing on Kylie here:
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Kylie and Jason came back for a second shoot recently. They are both dancers and aerialists and Jason is also an expert rigger (he just finished doing J-Lo’s concert and is about to do Mariah Carey’s here in Sydney)

Shot from our first shoot here:
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So I took them out to the rainforest and told them the shots I had in mind and they said “Easy”. So we brought all their gear down to the creek and Jason climbed a tree on one side, secured a line, climbed back down, dragged the line across the creek, tied a ring to it, fed the black silks through the ring and then climbed the tree directly opposite the first one on the other side of the creek and secured it.

Hey presto - 2 X 10 meter black silks hanging in mid-air right over the creek. Kylie then scampered up the silks and proceeded to do a stunning series of manoeuvres and dance poses suspended 8m over the creek without any safety harness. One slip and splash (actually splat as the creek is only about a foot deep at the moment) but she didn’t miss a beat - what a professional!

KitzPost

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/76251073677

whisperinglion:

"Tribal Spirit" — Leon Richman
Patina work by Fyrebringer Studios.

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/76201389747

hotcircus:

"Straight Up - Sirasana - Head Stand - Kelley" (by Philip Werner)

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/76152905391

bluepueblo:

Log Home, Idaho

photo via melissa

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/76101123089

hotcircus:

"up in the air" (by LadyMartist)

KitzPost

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/76033454390

hotcircus:

"Jill Silks 3" (by Andy Amyx)

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75925537549

brandonmcgill:

Inspired by Shiva/Mateus from Final Fantasy, I’ve created this chilling piece in front of a live audience.  This was my fifth show, and the lovely Tyler co-hosted the event.  Wendy (of The Wendy Variety) was the event photographer, and is credited for the fourth and fifth photo.  Everything else was shot by myself, ABBM.

If you like this, can you share it with your followers?  Extra special points if you link back the original.  Otherwise please follow me here:

http://brandonmcgill.tumblr.com/
https://www.facebook.com/artbybrandonmcgill

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75825488119

mariamagnolia6:

AMBRE FIBONACCI

Christophe Dougnac

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75723059213

suggahill:

no title 48 by ABrito

Straight Dope!

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75616494914

Andy Lewis - slacklining shot by Jordan Tybon

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75512545872

hotcircus:

Zorybel Garc'ia (by Edisson Villegas and Jos'e Soriano)

KitzPost

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75403943781

Erika Lemay by Douglas Kirkland

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75288622331

Arches - fb101 - deviantart

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75180124793

The Faun - fb101 - deviantart

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/75077610812

Brodie Chesher by Sean Higgins 

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/74973189338

Light and Shadows by Cenevols

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/74864920967

The terms you propose are unenforceable and will result in selective targeting of those who rise to your attention.   

If you truly want to accomplish your stated goals, then you need to add a few features to your site that will permit enforcement.

You could add to each post a tag similar to the like tag for each of the things that you want to discourage.  For example, if you want to make sure a site that posts offensive material has a NSFW label then allow visitors to flag that post.  If a particular user gets enough flagged posts, then your system will automatically label the blog for them.  Similar to those who post without attribution or any of the other things that you say you dont like but currently do nothing to stop.  Of course, there is potential for the public to wrongly flag posts; but that is far less likely than what is happening now.  Perhaps you could even have a flag for foul language, but that might censer your own posts so you will probably want to avoid that  which brings up another point.

The terms as proposed are so nebulous that the users are not going to know if they are in compliance or violation.  It is likely that different Tumblr staff would decide differently on the same blog.

How is it decided what is offensive or inappropriate?  One person’s opinion?  A decision-making group of executives?  Tumblr users flagging posts and an automatic warning goes out once a certain number of flags has occurred?  What is inappropriate in one person’s view – or even in the view of a group overseeing the process – is potentially “beautiful” in the view of another person(s).  So, where is the line drawn and in what way? 

Even if all these questions are satisfactorily answered to the benefit of the majority of Tumblr users, is the majority always “right?”  The “follow”/”unfollow” button seems fairly important and useful to me, an individual who is happy with the way it works right now.  We seem fairly self-regulated already except for the lack of attribution.

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/74781925558

Thought Tension II by Mariusbudu

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/74755500239

Thought Tension by Mariusbudu

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/74644766907

Josketh - Deviantart

http://xye.tumblr.com/post/74527059839