First ever photograph taken after Chernobyl disaster. The radiation is causing the graininess in the picture.
Laze II - William Thompson , 2018.
American, b. 1980s
oil on canvas, 7 x 12 in.
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The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Division of Birds
Pictured here the famous “Feather Lady”, Roxie Collie Laybourne, and staff
Yesterday was National Bird Day according to The Smithsonian’s twitter
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***January 5 is National Bird Day
I really love who i am now but i also miss who i was
me: *can’t handle the stress and demands of school* also me: *can’t function properly without the structure school gives my life*
pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors
so now it’s like ‘the point of doing them is to get good at them’ and not ‘this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives’.
What’s sad to me about this is that I’ve noticed a lot of people saying they “can’t” do art, or dance, or sing. That because it’s turned into a profitable vocation, and thus has some implied heirarchy to it (ie: there are ‘master artists’, and ‘professional singers and dancers’), people feel shame for not “living up to unattainable standards,” when in reality, art for humans is very therapeutic and good for the soul.
how many people are depressed because our socio-economic infrastructure makes their lives hell and not because their brains were just pre-wired to be depressed
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how many people developed anxiety or other mental health problems because they were constantly worried about whether or not they’d have housing or be able to eat or have running water and would actually be fine if they had stable living conditions they weren’t afraid of losing
Happy New Year to all of ewe! Overlooking the rugged beauty of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, a bighorn sheep ewe and lamb, share a sweet moment. With so much beauty to appreciate in this country, goal setting for where you want to go this year can be tricky. So now we have to ask, as a way to help those still deciding, what new national parks, monuments, national wildlife refuges, BLM lands, or other places will you resolve to visit in the 2020 New Year? There are no baaad answers, only bad sheep jokes. Photo by Louise Campbell (www.sharetheexperience.org).
NATASHA LYONNE - GUCCI, 2019. Stylist: Luke Jefferson Day Photographer: Samuel Bradley Make Up: Fiona Stiles Hair: Jillian Halouska
No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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No Man is an Island
John Donne 1572-1631
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Graphic - Pand Jiun (B.1936)