South African designer Porky Hefer of animal farm
South African designer Porky Hefer of animal farm
Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj has won the Reuters Photo of the Year award for this image captured in North Korea in 2011.
“After days of excitement and lots of rare pictures in the provinces, I came back to Pyongyang without big plans for shooting in the capital. All I wanted were some moody general views of the city,” Sagolj wrote. “This is probably the easiest big picture I shot for a long time - it was taken from the window of my hotel room in Pyongyang early morning, just before the sunrise. I knew that portrait was there and I insisted with our hosts to get a room on a very high floor facing that direction. So, all I had to do is to wake up early in the morning, make a coffee, light a cigarette and make sure I exposed well. The scene has this eerie look for maybe 5 to 10 minutes, then the revolutionary songs and propaganda speeches from loudspeakers wake the city up.”
The photo shows a picture of North Korea’s founder Kim Il-sung decorating a building in the capital of Pyongyang on October 5, 2011.
Excited for that Toddlers and Tiaras crossover episode with The Walking Dead.
*Spoiler Alert* Honey Boo Boo Child is the Governor.
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Puppies pull a play sledge for the amusement of supply officer George Black during Richard E. Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition. They were the offspring of the 94 dogs originally brought along for transport on the journey—and would soon be the youngest residents of a part of the camp called Dog Town
Dog town. Dog town.
First of all, this is a photograph, even though I thought it was a painting until I clicked through to Nat Geo. Second, the rest of the caption is pretty great:
“Oh Lord, all the perfumes in France couldn’t have rid Dog Town of its gamy aroma,” wrote Byrd in a book about his travels, Exploring With Byrd. (This photograph ran in his August 1930 account of the 1928-30 Antarctic trip for National Geographic.) “The air in the tunnels was thick enough not only to be cut with a knife; spiced with a dash of garlic from the bulbs that hung over Noville’s door, it could have been served as pemmican.”
I guess pemmican was a sort of high-protein energy-bar type food made of powdered dry meats mixed with fat and berries. So, um, ew.
Tweet velocity for GOP candidates since beginning of 2011 (via Twitter’s blog)
2012 International Women’s Day Heroes: Just a few of the thousands of courageous Iranian women activists, artists, lawyers, journalists who are detained, jailed, exiled, black-listed, and harassed. From left to right:
artist Bahar Sabzevari
photographer & filmmaker Tahmineh Monzavi
actress Pegah Ahangarani
Haleh Esfandiari, author of My Prison, My Home: One Woman’s Story of Captivity in Iran
journalist Nazanin Khosravani
activist & documentary filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi
human rights activist and journalist Shiva Nazar Ahari
writer, attorney, & activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, presently serving an 11-year sentence
journalist and human rights activist Zhila Baniyaghoub
Today in Ramallah, West Bank: Palestinian women marked International Women’s Day by protesting against Israeli occupation before getting dispersed by water canons.
