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Princess Mononoke print!

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this is so beautiful!

I couldn’t decide what style to do…hm.

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Venus of Willendorf, artefacts-berlin.de

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"I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process."  — Vincent van Gogh

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Ma new tatt.

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*too

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Don't know if I'm really irritable, or if everyone is really fucking useless

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Zdenek Burian

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Fisherman and his cormorant at Lijiang River, Guilin, China | by: [eldedeque]

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The Bolton Strid. Being some-one who spent a lot of holidays in the mountains, I’ve been used to playing around rivers and streams like this, jumping across the rocks to the other side, paddling, even swimming (though it’s freezing).

But this place is different. It’s called the Bolton Strid, and its in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales in the North of England. You can take a pleasant walk to the Strid from Bolton Abbey. and many people do. The foolhardy have even attempted to jump it, as in places it’s only about 4-6 feet wide (the word ‘strid’ comes from ‘stride’ as it was supposed to be only a stride across in these narrow places). The rocks, soaked by the spray, are extremely slippery even in summer, and basically, to quote: ‘There is no recorded incidence of anyone having survived a fall into the thundering waters of the Strid - which mercilessly sucks its victims into the underwater caves and eroded tunnels which lie hidden underneath each side of the rocky channel.’ No-one knows how deep the water is here, as an article said, the river is literally ‘turned on its side’, has incredibly powerful undercurrents, and in very dry weather you may just be able to see the tops of the massive rock formations below that the water has shaped and carved, and where the river vanishes. There are warnings posted, but not every-one sees them, and people should keep clear of the Strid and the slippery rocks, make sure their dogs are leashed and that their children kept close. So far trying to swim in the Strid (or falling in) is deadly. A honeymoon couple vanished here in 1998, and the man’s body was not found for ten days, a long way downstream. Apparently a large percentage of bodies are never recovered. So these places that look pretty and harmless? Not always.  

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Cutie and the Boxer (Zachary Heinzerling, 2013)

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Noriko and Ushio Shinohara at their studio this morning.

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Tombs of ancient workers who built the Terracotta Warriors mausoleum have been unearthed.

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This chapter of “Condemned,” an extensive photography project by Robin Hammond, documents the long-term mental health impacts of the conflicts in Liberia and Sierra Leone—illustrating that signing of peace agreements does not ensure an end to suffering. Hammond discusses his reporting in Liberia which covers the lives of former child soldiers and the war’s legacy of mental health issues.

View Robin’s whole project: “Condemned: Mental Health in Liberia and Sierra Leone”