The so-called Hill of Shame is a hill in the island of Lampedusa, half-way between Sicily and North Africa in the Mediterranean Sea, where hundreds of migrants lived in poor conditions in improvised tents during the immigration crisis in April 2011. Tents were built with metal sticks, sheets, clothes and mattresses in an open-air dump of plastic bags, dishes and bottles used as urinals. In 2011, about 53,000 North African and Sub-Saharan migrants arrived in the so-called “Door of Europe”, fleeing the unrest of the region and stranded on the island in appalling conditions. Migrants weren’t provided with the most basic humanitarian assistance such as shelter, medical care, blankets and access to sanitary facilities, while thousands slept outdoors.
Photos of young hitchhikers and freight train hoppers by Mike Brodie
In 2004, when Mike Brodie was only 17 years old, he hopped trains with this weathered group of youngsters armed with a camera in order to document their exhilarating existence on the roofs of freight trains and on the banks of the railroads.
Since 2002, Brodie has covered more than 50,000 miles and visited 46 US states on over 170 different freight trains. The photography started in 2004 after Brodie found a neglected Polaroid camera hidden behind a friend’s carseat. Once Polaroid film was discontinued, Brodie switched to 35mm film and a more traditional camera and these images are the result.
http://hypenotice.com/news/photos-of-young-hitchhikers-and-freight-train-hoppers-by-mike-brodie/14/
“This gorgeous Hälssen & Lyon calendar is made of brewable tea. Each day is made of fine pressed wafer thin tea leaves.”
(via thetudorhouse)
Thiago Rocha Pitta, artist.
Thiago Rocha Pitta grows in the historic town of Tiradentes and moved as a teenager, to the mountain town of Petropolis in Rio de Janeiro. Goes to live in Rio in 1999 when studying arts at UFRJ, not finishing the course. In addition to studying philosophy and aesthetics in free courses. In 2004 he was awarded the prize CNI SESI Marcantonio Vilaca. He joined the 5 th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, RS, 2005. Come exhibiting his work in several cities in the world.
Begins to show its work in 2001, with interventions outdoors. From the beginning his work seeking an intimate relationship with nature. You could say that in their work nature is a kind of co-author. This is evident in works such as Homage to William Turner, a video from a small boat on fire, or in the mirror / platform built on a cliff, where the public is invited to walk on the reflection of the sky.The artist also has a large production of paintings and watercolors, always looking for poetic language states the matter and its mutations.
To answer the question “How can a city control its Street Art?” Let’s look at an analogy in a different field: wildfires. In wild areas in Spain, the government adopts a zero-tolerance policy. However, the forest ecosystem depends on fires for its well-being. To attempt to suppress forest fires allows vegetation to grow unchecked, so in the dry summer months, the smallest ground fires can quickly spread to the canopy, where it becomes an unstoppable inferno. The right policy is to provoke controlled fires which allows for appropriate stratification, that is, layering of the woods so that a ground fire stays a ground fire. If a zero-tolerance policy is adopted towards Street Art, undeveloped tagging will go on the increase. Professional artists will move to other countries. Unrest, especially among the budding Street artists, will grow.
—Ian Currie on street art culture in Spanish cities. (via thisbigcity)
The Sequence - Urban Sculpture by Arne Quinze in Brussels
(via workman)
“So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching everywhere for new-creative inspiration for her 5yr pictures. I noticed quite a pattern of so many young girls dressing up as beautiful Disney Princesses, no matter where I looked 95% of the “ideas” were the “How to’s” of how to dress your little girl like a Disney Princess…We chose 5 women (five amazing and strong women), as it was her 5th birthday but there are thousands of unbelievable women (and girls) who have beat the odds and fought (and still fight) for their equal rights all over the world”
- Jaime Moore, Not Just a Girl
(via feministdisney)
This chandelier from Hilden & Diaz projects the shadow of a forest into your room!
(Source: malbominance, via emotional-and-unstable)
Gliding lizard, like a tiny dragon.
Thoughts Revolving: Geocaching.
Recently I’ve come across this really really super awesome activity called geocaching. It’s basically like a giant treasure hunt, people hide caches all around the world, and then give out the exact latitude and longitude of the cache. Some only containing log books where you write your name and…
