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Lurang"Văn học đã dạy tôi điều gì về tình yêu ? Văn học ( cùng với kinh nghiệm ) đã dạy tôi rằng tình yêu là những thứ khác nhau ở những thời điểm khác nhau trong cuộc đời của chúng ta, và khi già đi chúng ta thường thiên về những câu chuyện hiền lành hơn, tĩnh lặng hơn, và nhận ra chúng phong phú hơn lúc ban đầu mình tưởng. "
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Artist Spends Up To 8 Hours On Beautiful Sand Paintings That Will Be Swept Away By The Wind
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New York-based artist Joe Mangrum has spent the last 8 years drawing beautiful, hypnotic patterns and designs on the streets and squares of New York. But chances are you probably won’t see any of them, because they tend to disappear.
Mangrum draws his impressive and expansive works by pouring brightly-colored sand from his hands. The circular geometric forms he uses, as well as his use of colored sand, makes his work resemble traditional Buddhist mandalas, but he also mixed in marine biological design elements and other to give his work a unique look. The artist writes that his “paintings are influenced by an abundant world of undersea creatures, carnivorous plants emanating electrical impulses,… [and] cross-cultural metaphors from many years of travels around the world.”
Even more interesting, however, is the impermanent nature of his work and the philosophical questions such art raises. If the paintings you spend hours creating can be blown away overnight, do they lose or gain value? Could it be that we are over-attached to things that provide us with fleeting moments of emotion or beauty? Is losing such a beautiful work of art to the wind wasteful or sacred?
For more excellent example of art created with sand, check out these beautiful and impermanent works by Andres Amador and the Sand In Your Eye gallery by Andy Moss and Jamie Wardley.
Prints: joemangrum.com | See works in progress: Facebook (via: thisiscolossal)
Artist Spends Up To 8 Hours On Beautiful Sand Paintings That Will Be Swept Away By The Wind originally appeared on Bored Panda on February 6, 2014.
The World’s Most Dangerous Hiking Trail
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As wonderful as Chinese tea is, it is definitely not something you’d closely associate with exhilaration, adrenaline and the fear of death. Mt. Huashan in China, however, manages to bring all of these things together by featuring a death-defying cliff-side mountain climb that brings daring visitors to a tea house 2,160 m (7,087 ft) up on the mountain’s southern peak.
Mt. Huashan has been a place of religious importance since at least the 2nd century BCE, when a Daoist temple was established at its base. Since then, pilgrims, monks and nuns have inhabited the mountain and the surrounding area. A network of dangerous and precipitous trails allows them to access the mountain’s five summits, each of which has a religious structure like the tea house on the southern summit. Together, these five summits form the points of a flower shape.
The paths have been reinforced due to a recent influx of tourists, but they are nonetheless dangerous, and carry a reputation for fatal falls. Although no official statistics are kept, some say that the number may be as much as about 100 fatal falls a year. Some of the more dangerous parts of the trails have names like Thousand-Foot Precipice, Hundred-Foot Crevice and Black Dragon Ridge.
The surrounding area is fascinating as well. Mt. Huashan is located in the city of Huayin, which is considered the 3000-year-old cradle of Chinese culture and the site of the famous Terracotta Warriors.
Source: travelchinaguide.com
Mt. Huashan is one of China’s five Great Mountains
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Some parts of the mountain are a little steep
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The area has been considered holy since at least the 2nd century BCE
Image credits: Aaron Feen
Monks, nuns and pilgrims carved a network of stairs and trails leading to the mountain’s peaks
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The trails were reinforced after the mountain became more popular with tourists
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The mountain’s highest southern peak reaches 2,160 m (7,087 ft)
Image credits: taiwandiscovery.wordpress.com
Just make sure you watch your step
Image credits: Aaron Feen
In some places, the locals have carved stairs into the mountain as well
Image credits: panoramio.com
In others, there’s little more than an iron chain to secure yourself
Image credits: Aaron Feen
The mountain has a reputation for fatal falls, but that doesn’t stop thrill-seekers from flocking to its trails
Image credits: masterok.livejournal.com
If the adrenaline gets to you, there is a chess pavilion you can relax at
Image credits: Gerben’s Photos
The World’s Most Dangerous Hiking Trail originally appeared on Bored Panda on January 7, 2014.
This Is How Sand Looks Magnified Up To 300 Times
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Comparing something to a grain of sand is usually supposed to mean that it’s small or insignificant, but Dr. Gary Greenberg’s microscopic photography aims to turn this stereotype on its head. His photographs of miniscule grains of sands magnified up to 300 times reveal that each grain of sand can be beautiful and unique.
Greenberg’s story is a fascinating one. First of all, he invented the high-definition 3D microscopes that he takes his pictures on, resulting in 18 U.S. patents under his name. He was a photographer and filmmaker until age 33, when he moved from LA to London and earned a Ph. D. in biomedical research. This seems to have given him a unique appreciation for biological and scientific curiosities and for the optical technologies he would need to document them.
Sand composition can vary drastically depending on where it’s located. The coastal sands in Hawaii, where Dr. Greenberg is located, are very likely the subjects of his amazing micro-photography. The sand in his images is full of remnants from various tropical sea organisms large and small. The sand on other coasts, depending on the temperature, surf conditions and marine environment, may include a totally different set of rocks, minerals and organic matter.
Source: sandgrains.com
We’d like to thank our reader Lukas Palaitis for the tip!
This Is How Sand Looks Magnified Up To 300 Times originally appeared on Bored Panda on January 17, 2014.
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LurangNhưng tôi tin rằng, sứ mệnh của người viết văn hoàn toàn không phải là để làm cho những tâm hồn rách nát trở nên yên tâm với sự rách nát của mình!
Rất nhiều độc giả yêu mến những trang văn của Trang Hạ hai mươi năm trước đã nói rằng, họ thật sự thất vọng khi đọc Trang Hạ những năm gần đây.
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Hai mươi năm trước cái chinh phục tuyệt đối độc giả tuổi 18-20 là những truyện ngắn lãng mạn về tình yêu, những trang viết nhẹ nhàng và thấm thía về cái đẹp của những mối quan hệ nhẹ nhàng, nhiều độc giả còn giữ những mảnh báo cắt lại, đăng tản văn tôi viết về mùa xuân, mùa hạ, mùa thu, mùa đông, mùa mưa, mùa gió, mùa thi, mùa Giáng Sinh.
Bây giờ tôi đàn bà hơn và đời hơn, tôi đánh mất phần lớn những độc giả thích những cái đẹp êm đềm óng ả mà tôi đã cần cù lượm họ suốt hơn chục năm viết truyện ngắn, chịu khó chinh phục các giải thưởng văn học, dự trại sáng tác viết văn, náu mình trong những tổ nhóm sáng tác.
Giờ đây mỗi mùa báo Tết, các thư ký tòa soạn lại nhớn nhác hỏi Trang Hạ có cái truyện ngắn nào không? Tôi thường mỉm cười và nói, tôi đã không hề viết văn từ biết bao năm nay rồi! Giờ tôi viết một thứ chỉ mang vỏ bọc văn chương mà thôi, còn cốt lõi hoàn toàn không dính chút gì tới văn chương cả. Tôi đâm ra sợ những người viết văn chỉ lăm lăm viết văn. Có biết vì sao không?
Suốt mười năm trời từ 1993-2003 tôi vẫn nghĩ rằng mình viết cho cả xã hội đọc. Cứ ai có tiền mua sách báo là đều có quyền được đọc hết, đều thành độc giả hết. Tôi có trách nhiệm phải viết văn, hư cấu, thêm cảm xúc, thành một món ăn đặt tên là truyện ngắn Trang Hạ. Tất nhiên tôi có một số giải thưởng văn học cho món truyện ngắn Trang Hạ.
Năm 2005 có một nhân vật báo chí của tôi quay lại xin tôi một lời khuyên. Đó là một người phụ nữ cụt tay, không bằng cấp, nghèo, thất nghiệp, người nhà quê, xấu, ế chồng. Chị ta nói chị ta không tìm được chỗ của mình trong xã hội. Người lành lặn còn thất nghiệp nữa là chị, ở quê người ta đàm tiếu về cánh tay cụt của chị, không ai muốn lấy chị, chị muốn bị người khác lợi dụng cũng chẳng ai thèm lợi dụng, đi ra giếng giặt quần áo bị hàng xóm nói móc vài câu, chị ấy nghẹn ngào ôm chậu quần áo về và khóc, muốn chết vì bế tắc và không có tương lai. Chị nói, chị được nhận mấy chục triệu tiền bồi thường mất cánh tay, chẳng đủ tiền trả viện phí, mà còn bị làng xóm nói đổng là, bán trinh được có mấy triệu đồng, đằng này mất có một tay được hẳn vài chục triệu sao mà sướng thế!
Tôi nói, một là chị phải ra ngay Hà Nội, bán đồng nát hay làm thuê bưng phở, đứng máy photocopy cũng được, còn hơn ở lại quê nghèo không tương lai. Chị ra đây ôn thi một năm rồi thi đại học tại chức, đã không có sức khỏe thì càng phải có tri thức. Chịu nghèo khổ vài năm mà có tương lai sáng sủa của mình còn hơn ở mãi quê cả đời sẽ cúi gằm mặt giữa những thị phi. Tôi cũng nghèo nhưng có cho chị ít tiền đóng học phí thời gian đó. Nhưng trước khi chào bố mẹ ra Hà Nội, chị phải làm cho tôi một việc: Chị sang nhà hàng xóm, bảo họ rằng, có người chỉ cần thấy tí tiền là đào được cả mồ mả ông bà tổ tiên lên, phá chùa trộm chuông, nữa là ao ước mất một cánh tay!
Tất nhiên chị kia chẳng đủ bạo mồm nanh nọc mà sang trả đũa hàng xóm, nhưng chị lên Hà Nội chịu khó luyện thi rồi vào học đại học tại chức, trong thời gian học đại học, chị rất may mắn xin được công việc vào một tổ chức phi chính phủ. Lương cực kỳ thấp nhưng cũng tạm đủ ăn học, và tất nhiên hơn làm đồng trồng vườn ở quê. Vài năm sau, chị lấy một anh cùng quê nhưng cũng đang đi làm nhà nước. Sống được với sự lương thiện.
Tôi bị ám ảnh bởi câu chuyện này suốt vài năm ròng. Hóa ra đàn bà có thể mạnh mẽ đối diện và vượt qua nghèo, khổ, cực, xấu xí, vất vả, hoàn cảnh, bi kịch, nhưng cái làm đàn bà gục ngã lại là đám đông và thị phi, là một câu nói bâng quơ, là một lời trêu ghẹo, một cái nhìn ác cảm, bị gọi là gái ế, chồng chê mất trinh v.v… Tôi thích quan sát buồn vui sướng khổ của cuộc đời. Và vào tuổi ba mươi ba, tôi kết thúc hoàn toàn việc viết văn hư cấu, truyện ngắn, chỉ để dành thời gian viết về đời sống và đàn bà. Tôi tin rất nhiều người đàn bà đọc Trang Hạ xong đã tìm được lý lẽ để đối mặt với khó khăn, lý lẽ ấy là: Bởi vì bạn là phụ nữ, bạn không nên bị đánh gục bởi những thứ không xứng đáng, bạn sinh ra không phải là để cho kẻ khác chà đạp! Chẳng còn ai trao giải thưởng văn học cho Trang Hạ nữa. Vì đơn giản là tôi không còn viết văn đã lâu rồi, tôi chỉ còn viết về con người, càng viết thật càng tốt. Mà viết thật, không thể nào tránh được sự trần trụi.
Nhưng tôi tin rằng, sứ mệnh của người viết văn hoàn toàn không phải là để làm cho những tâm hồn rách nát trở nên yên tâm với sự rách nát của mình!
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Breathtaking Supercell Storm Photos Captured in US by Storm Chaser
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These aren’t invading alien ships or volcanic explosions – they’re supercell thunderstorms forming in the U.S.A’s tornado alley. These shots of hail-producing, tornado-generating, thundering super storms were taken this summer by Slovenian storm chaser Marko Korosec.
Storm chasers like Korosec often gather in the central U.S., where the moist warm air from the Gulf of Mexico meets with the cold, dry air from the Rockies and creates the perfect conditions for tornadoes and super-storms. Many storm chasers have specially-equipped vehicles with sensors that help them track the developing storms and, should the need arise, avoid their wrath. These storms bring high winds, dangerous hail and frequent lightning strikes, and they often form tornadoes. Their unique shape forms owing to cyclone-like storms, called mesocyclones, spinning in their centers.
Korosec shot the storms during a 26-day expedition in the U.S. over the summer. He encountered them in the states of Texas, Kansas and Colorado. He spent at least an hour near each storm, and made sure never to get closer than a kilometer to the storms. “I usually observe storms in as safe a position as possible, to avoid any dangerous conditions which could cause us damage or to the vehicle. Storm chasing usually means a lot of moving around, remaining in one position for some time and then moving when storm gets closer,” the storm chaser told Daily Mail.
Source: weather-photos.net
Photos by: Marko Korosec
Breathtaking Supercell Storm Photos Captured in US by Storm Chaser originally appeared on Bored Panda on September 13, 2013.
Heart-Breaking Pictures of Child Labour In USA by Lewis Hine
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As hard as things might seem right now for high school or university students entering the job market, it’s probably nothing compared to what these kids had to go through in early 1900s America. This photo series, archived by the Library of Congress, shows what conditions were like for child laborers before child labor was largely eliminated in 1938.
The photo series, taken by photographer Lewis Hine on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee, illustrates the dangers and hardships working children were subject to, especially in dangerous work where the modern safety equipment we’re used to was not yet available. The kids, some as young as 4, worked in factories, mines, plantations and textile mills. Children in coal mines inhaled damaging dust daily, while those working in canneries or textile mills could lose fingers. Many skipped school or didn’t do their homework so that they could work.
Today, child labor is largely a thing of the past in the U.S., although exceptions do remain allowing for children to work in agriculture, show business, and for their parents. It has been largely eliminated elsewhere in the world as well, although child labor, primarily through the children’s parents, still has a high rate of occurrence in the developing world. With photos like these, it kind of makes me feel bad about complaining when my mom made me sweep the house or take out the garbage.
Source: The U.S. Library of Congress
Youngsters at Bibb Mill No. 1, 1909
Some boys were so small they had to climb up on the spinning frame to mend the broken threads and put back the empty bobbins. Location: Macon, Georgia.
Manuel, the young shrimp-picker, 5 years old
Manuel and a mountain of child-labor oyster shells behind him. He worked last year. Understands not a word of English. Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Location: Biloxi, Mississippi.
11-year-old at Crescent Hosiery Mill
Nannie Coleson, looper who said she was 11 years old, and has been working in the Crescent Hosiery Mill for some months. Makes about $3 a week. Has been through the 5th grade in school. She is bright, but unsophisticated. Told investigator, “There are other little girls in the mill too. One of them, says she’s 13, but she doesn’t look any older than me.” Location: Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
Young Cigarmakers in Englahardt & Co., Tampa, Fla.
There boys looked under 14. Work was slack and youngsters were not being employed much. Labor told me in busy times many small boys and girls are employed. Youngsters all smoke. Location: Tampa, Florida.
Stealing coal from railroad coal-yard.
Location: Boston, Massachusetts.
Vance, a Trapper Boy, 15 years old
Has trapped for several years in a West Va. Coal mine. $.75 a day for 10 hours work. All he does is to open and shut this door: most of the time he sits here idle, waiting for the cars to come. On account of the intense darkness in the mine, the hieroglyphics on the door were not visible until plate was developed. Location: West Virginia.
Willie Bryden, 13, holding the door open in a mine
Waiting all alone in the dark for a trip to come through. It was so damp that Willie said he had to be doctoring all the time for his cough. A short distance from here, the gas was pouring into the mine so rapidly that it made a great torch when the foreman lit it. Willie had been working here for four months, 500 feet down the shaft, and a quarter of a mile underground from there. (Shaft #6 Pennsylvania Coal Co.) Walls have been whitewashed to make it lighter. January 16th, I found Willie at home sick, His mother admitted that he is only 13 yrs old; will be 14 next July. Said that 4 mos. ago the mine boss told the father to take Willie to work, and that they obtained the certificate from Squire Barrett. (The only thing the Squire could do was to make Willie out to be 16 yrs old.) Willie’s father and brother are miners and the home is that of a frugal German family. Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Amos, 6, and Horace, 4 years old, in Tobacco Fields
Their father, John Neal is a renter and raises tobacco. He said (and the owner of the land confirmed it) that both these boys work day after day from “sun-up to sun-down” worming and suckering, and that they are as steady as a grown-up. Location: Warren County –Albaton, Kentucky
Breaker boys in #9 breaker
Location: Pittston, Pennsylvania.
Sweeper and Doffer Boys
Sweeper and Doffer Boys, Lancaster Mills (Cotton). S.C. Many more as small. Location: Lancaster, South Carolina.
Some of the boys at a busy trolley junction
3 brothers, Salvatore, 9 yrs. (in front), Joseph, 11 yrs. (cripple), Lewis, 13 yrs. (between these 2). “We would be murdered if we shop craps.” Boy at left sold me pair of dice for 2 c[en]ts. – what he would have to pay for more. Location: Jersey City, New Jersey.
Pennsylvania Breakers
The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view. This dust penetrates the utmost recess of the boy’s lungs. Location: South Pittston, Pennsylvania.
11-year-old boys working a two-man saw
Boys working in Maple Mill, Dillon, S.C. Pete Dunlap (smaller). Said 11 years old. Mannings Dunlap. Both doff-40 cents a day. Location: Dillon, South Carolina.
11-year-old Callie Campbell picking cotton
Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, and totes 50 pounds of it when sack gets full. “No, I don’t like it very much.” Location: Potawotamie County, Oklahoma.
15-year-old Estelle Poiriere with finger injury
Union Hospital case – Estelle Poiriere, 137 Robeson St., 15 years old. Doffer at Granite No. 1 mill. Laceration of index and middle finger of right hand. Caught in card machine. Injured Dec. 21, 1915 and finger grew stiff and had to have cord cut. Still an outpatient in June and not working yet. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.
3-year-old playing at Ivey Mill
Ivey Mill, Hickory, N.C. Little one, 3 years old, who visits and plays in the mill. Daughter of the overseer. Location: Hickory, North Carolina.
Boys working on and around moving coal cars
On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys said, “Ain’t hardly a day goes by that someone don’t get pinched or hurt.” “I got my leg jammed a while ago and was laid up a week.” Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.
12-year old who lost his hand
Rural Accident. Twelve-year old Clinton Stewart and his mowing machine which cut off his hand.
Cartoners at canning factory
Some of the cartoners, not the youngest, at Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #2. Location: Eastport, Maine.
5-year-old Jo Benevidos Having Lunch
Jo Benevidos, 5 Merion St. Curled up in a doffing box, eating his lunch. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts.
Heart-Breaking Pictures of Child Labour In USA by Lewis Hine originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 8, 2013.
30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever
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A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are created equal. The pictures we usually feature on Bored Panda can be cute, beautiful, funny, or enchanting, but these pictures are powerful. They are gripping and unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition – about some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence.
We should warn our readers that some of these pictures may upset them, while others may fill them with joy. But that’s precisely because these images reflect some of the best and worst parts of the human experience and world events. Our post of must-see photos from the past described our history while these photos, for the most part, describe our present – our suffering and our triumphs, our perseverance and our failures, our compassion and our hatred, our intelligence and our stupidity.
Some of these photographs may mean more to some of our readers than to others. But hopefully, they will remind us all that the world can always use a little bit more love, tolerance, compassion and understanding.
P.S: we always try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes it’s impossible to track some of them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.
1. Starving boy and missionary
Image credits: Mike Wells
2. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber
Image credits: kligon5
3. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.
Image credits: James Stanfield
4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)
Image credits: Vojage-Vojage
5. Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music
Image credits: salvemasnossascriancas.blogspot.com
6. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994
Image credits: drugoi.livejournal.com
7. Young man just found out his brother was killed
Image credits: Nhat V. Meyer
8. Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt
Image credits: Nevine Zaki
9. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009
Image credits: abc.net.au
10. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months
Image credits: Louie Favorite
11. Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India
Image credits: Tsering Topgyal / AP
12. Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000
Image credits: STR News / Reuters
13. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”
Image credits: Richard Drew /AP
14. Alcoholic father with his son
Image credits: imgur.com
15. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory
Image credits: Taslima Akhter
16. Sunset on Mars
Image credits: nasa.gov
17. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke
Image credits: Jesco Denzel
18. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives
Image credits: Brian Sokol
19. A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.
Image credits: Vanderlei Almeida / Getty Images
20. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940
Image credits: Claud Detloff
21. An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument
Image credits: englishrussia.com
22. Flower power
Image credits: Bernie Boston
23. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunam, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011
Image credits: Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP
24. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888
Image credits: retronaut.com
25. Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012
Image credits: Gary Cosby Jr. / AP
26. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009
Image credits: Adri Tambunan
27. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943
Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein
Update: Our reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in 1941-1945.
28. During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head
Image credits: Biswaranjan Rout / AP
29. An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers
Image credits: Rafiq Maqbool / AP
30. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.
Image credits: reddit.com
P.S: we always try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes it’s impossible to track some of them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.
30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever originally appeared on Bored Panda on November 4, 2013.
New Thought-Provoking Satirical Illustrations By Pawel Kuczynski
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Art isn’t just meant to look pretty – it can also be used to transfer ideas and messages. Polish illustrator Pawel Kuczynski’s grim and sharply satirical works, which we’ve featured before here, are a perfect example of art that speaks volumes.
Kuczynski’s images are so powerful because they force us to face some of the worst realities of our times. It’s beautiful – not in a flowers-and-sunlight kind of way, but in a brutally truthful way. He addresses war, political manipulation and hypocrisy, environmental damage, economic disparity and many other ills facing mankind today. The images strike just the right balance between obvious and complicated – just about anyone can get what they mean, but you will have to discover that meaning first.
The pastel colors and simple shapes and forms of his artwork gives it a sort of timeless look. And, for better or for worse, so do the messages he displays in his work.
Source: pawelkuczynski.com | Facebook | Prints
Previously Featured Work
New Thought-Provoking Satirical Illustrations By Pawel Kuczynski originally appeared on Bored Panda on November 15, 2013.
Sleep With The Fishes In Underwater Bedroom At Floating Hotel In Zanzibar
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The Manta Resort’s new room on Pemba Island in Zanzibar is a tropical island hotel room like any other – except that it floats anchored above a shallow coastal coral reef.
The bedroom, which was opened just this month, is located in a room below deck that has large viewing glasses offering guests a view of the colorful aquatic world outside. Above deck, a three-story structure gives guests all the amenities of a regular hotel room, albeit with an incredible view.
By day, tropical fish and other sea organisms float and swim by the window. At night, lights illuminate the water outside the windows, attracting squids and other otherwise shy sea creatures. The whole thing is anchored about 250m from the coast. Can you imagine being rocked to sleep by gentle waves, waking up in the morning and diving in to swim with tropical fish? If so, you also better imagine shelling out $1,500 USD a night for two or $900 USD for a single occupant.
The creator of the floating room, Mikael Genberg, first created an underwater hotel room in Sweden called Utter Inn (Otter Inn). The single room floats in the middle of Lake Mälaren and, like at the Pemba Island room, gives occupants an enchanting underwater view of the lake’s fishes from its under-water bedroom.
Source: Genberg Underwater Hotels (via mymodernmet.com)
Sleep With The Fishes In Underwater Bedroom At Floating Hotel In Zanzibar originally appeared on Bored Panda on November 21, 2013.
How People React When Complete Strangers Fall Asleep On Them On The Subway
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Most of us are all about compassion towards our fellow man, but would you let a tired stranger rest their head on your shoulder for a quick snooze? New York-based artist George Ferrandi has put that to the test in her quirky and fun photo project “It felt like I knew you.”
The premise of Ferrandi’s project is simple – she pretends to fall asleep on a total stranger on the NY subway system, and her associate Angela Gilland captured their reactions on her phone. Most people were, not surprisingly, surprised. Some commuters, however, let Ferrandi snooze, while others either woke her or moved their seats.
Napping on strangers is often a part of public prank videos, but Ferrandi approaches strangers with a somewhat more tender approach; “I focus on the shape of the space between the person sitting next to me and myself. In my mind, I reshape it- from the stiff and guarded space between strangers to the soft and yielding space between friends. When the space palpably changes, and I completely feel like the stranger sitting next to me is my friend, I rest my head on that person’s shoulder.”
For more interesting public New York photography, check out this photographer’s pictures of kissing couples in New York.
Source: georgeferrandi.com (via: huffingtonpost)
How People React When Complete Strangers Fall Asleep On Them On The Subway originally appeared on Bored Panda on November 22, 2013.