andreanina:

TGIF

hahamagartconnect:

Thrown to the Wind

Beijing-based artist Wang Zhiyuan piece entitled Thrown to the Wind ascends 36 feet into the air. Zhiyuan’s tornado of plastic waste is a reminder of the trash that overwhelms his hometown and it’s surrounding environment. It pretty much speaks to anyone - the reality is that we are all living with it the effects of non-dispoable waste.

via my modern met

(via pema)

orientaltiger:

Melting Disco Balls by Rotganzen

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pema:

The building at 190 Bowery is a mystery: a graffiti-covered Gilded Age relic, with a beat-up wooden door that looks like it hasn’t been opened since La Guardia was mayor. A few years ago, that described a lot of the neighborhood, but with the Bowery Hotel and the New Museum, the Rogan and John Varvatos boutiques, 190 is now an anomaly, not the norm. Why isn’t some developer turning it into luxury condos?

Because Jay Maisel, the photographer who bought it 42 years ago for $102,000, still lives there, with his wife, Linda Adam Maisel, and daughter, Amanda. It isn’t a decrepit ruin; 190 Bowery is a six-story, 72-room, 35,000-square-foot (depending on how you measure) single-family home.

This is old news but phenomenal nonetheless. On February 19, hundreds of disabled Bolivians, among the most marginalized population in the country headed the capital, La Paz to protest for state benefits.

The images from Reuters are incredible. 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/gavon/disabled-protesters-vs-riot-police?sub=1432410_138915

ingenuity

livelymorgue:

Jan. 9, 1930: “The latest thing in speakeasies: Sergeant Frank T. Zimmie and Detective Joseph Pallinado of the Philadelphia Police, exhibiting one of the twelve pint bottles of liquor cached in the papier-mâché clothes dummy, draped with an evening gown, found in the tailor shop they raided.” Two days later, The Times published an article about claims of a “police protected” speakeasy made at a luncheon of the Women’s Organization for Prohibition Reform in Philadelphia. Photo: The New York Times  

paxmachina:

Shida - Sao Paulo, Brazil

Australia’s Shida is in Sao Paulo this week.

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tix to the midnight show of the hunger games. hollaaaaaaaa!

josh ritter - love is making its way back home vid.

12,000 pieces of construction paper and a gazillion papercuts.