The Himba wear little clothing, but the women are famous for covering themselves with otjize, a mixture of butter fat and ochre. The mixture gives their skins a reddish tinge. This symbolizes earth’s rich red color and the blood that symbolizes life, and is consistent with the Himba ideal of beauty.
fucking awesome
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3 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from radioactivedust with 8,530 notes
Who’d have known your stomach could double as a camera?
Two UK students, Josh Lake and Luke Evans, ate 35mm film and were able to process photos after the film, erm, came out!
Now that is some Alt. Processing.
3 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from buddhabrot with 22,648 notes
the mediocre gatsby
the decent wall of china
the ok depression
alexander the alright
eh expectations
3 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from themysteryremains with 29,923 notes
Turns out the Easter Island heads have bodies, too! Archeologists discovered bodies beneath the 887 stoic faces after 12 years excavating and studying the statues.
“They’re buried up to mid-torso level. So it’s understandable that the general public didn’t have a clue that those statues had bodies,” Jo Anne Van Tilburg, director of the Easter Island Statue Project, told Fox News this week.
While experts have known for some time that much of the stone figures has been partially buried due to centuries of exposure to the elements, “this is the first time that one has been excavated in such a way that the documentation was complete and scientific,” said Van Tilburg.
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3 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from partyingwithgrandma with 2,416 notes
I haven’t worn clothing in over 24 hours. Just me and my blanket, all day and all night.
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I don’t know, but I’ve been told if you don’t believe, ‘the devil owns your soul!’ Well if this is the truth, then to hell I go. I don’t need to know.
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2 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from theodorelle with 182 notes
George Orwell
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by Edyta Leśniak
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“The fact is that if a man loves, he makes the woman feel like the most beautiful creature in the whole world. And if a woman loves, she can accept and feel all of his love, making one love, in one motion, of all feeling at once.”
— Charles Manson, 1967
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2 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from notabody with 311 notes
Carsten Nicolai, Anti, 2004.
Regular geometric forms represent systematic thinking and the interrelationship between mathematics, optics, art and philosophy. anti is a geometrical form, a distorted cube, truncated on top and bottom to obtain rhombic and triangular faces. It reacts to the magnetic field of bodies, enabling an interaction with the visitor while its mechanism remains hidden. anti refuses instant recognition. Its black, light-absorbent surface and monolith-like crystalline shape, that derives from Albrecht Dürer’s engraving Melancholia I (1514), confronts the viewer, trying both to mask its form and to disguise its function and thereby absorbing information.
2 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from darksilenceinsuburbia with 322 notes
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
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