Street art illusions by Strøk
Stenciled mural featuring overhead images of photorealistic pedestrians and their shadows on a wall in Porsgrunn, Norway.
A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.
Street art illusions by Strøk
Stenciled mural featuring overhead images of photorealistic pedestrians and their shadows on a wall in Porsgrunn, Norway.
(Source: streetsy.com)
Real-life Grave of the Fireflies: (Photo) Stoic Japanese orphan, standing at attention having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, Nagasaki, by Joe O’Donnell 1945
This photograph was taken by an American photojournalist, Joe O’Donnell, in Nagasaki in 1945.
He recently spoke to a Japanese interviewer about this picture:
“I saw a boy about ten years old walking by. He was carrying a baby on his back. In those days in Japan, we often saw children playing with their little brothers or sisters on their backs, but this boy was clearly different. I could see that he had come to this place for a serious reason. He was wearing no shoes. His face was hard. The little head was tipped back as if the baby were fast asleep.
“The boy stood there for five or ten minutes. The men in white masks walked over to him and quietly began to take off the rope that was holding the baby. That is when I saw that the baby was already dead. The men held the body by the hands and feet and placed it on the fire.
“The boy stood there straight without moving, watching the flames. He was biting his lower lip so hard that it shone with blood. The flame burned low like the sun going down. The boy turned around and walked silently away.
wow…
Indochine- College Boy
(Source: paultoes)
A dog walks on cracked ground at the Las Canoas dam, some 59 km north of the capital Managua on April 26, 2013.. A large area of the dam has been dry since last February, as most of its water have been used by rice farmers for their crops, affecting around hundreds of peasants living in the area, according to local media.
[Credit : Oswaldo Rivas/Reuters]
Drought.

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - Recovering alcoholic Eric Wilson is not really that excited about the upcoming weekend, according to sources close to the 29 year old Seattle native.
“I don’t really have any plans at the moment,” said Wilson as he lit up a cigarette outside his place of employment on…
You can change the direction this train is moving just by thinking about it.
That is freaky.
(via 2headedsnake)
Daniel Nilsson
Attempting to fulfill my lifelong dream of flying silently and peacefully, I jumped off a two story roof
attached to approximately five hundred helium-filled balloons.
photos - James Edward Neuhalfen