I like pretty things, vintage things, political things, animated things, British things, flippy things, fiendiesh thingies and things that are funny, interesting, speak the truth, or simply manage to catch my very short attention span.
Hope you like some of these things too. :)
Warning: There will be rambling, incoherent tags and gratuitous gifs. If I could I would communicate only in gifs.
Kevin Bauman - 100 Abandoned Houses
Artist’s statement:
“100 seemed like a lot, although the number of abandoned houses in Detroit is more like 12,000. Encompassing an area of over 138 square miles, Detroit has enough room to hold the land mass of San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan Island, yet the population has fallen from close to 2 million citizens, to most likely less than 800,000. With such a dramatic decline, the abandoned house problem is not likely to go away any time soon.”
Who is the most attractive US president of all time?
It’s not the gorgeous Barack Obama or the zesty Bill Clinton or the tragically beautiful John F. Kennedy or either of the Roosevelts or even Baberaham Lincoln
THAT’S RIGHT FRIENDS
IT’S RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
Extraordinary photos of young hitchhikers and freight train hoppers by Mike Brodie
Mike Brodie (tumblr | facebook) first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. Working under the moniker, The Polaroid Kidd, Brodie spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S. amassing an archive of photographs that would go on to make up one of the few, true collections of American travel photography. Having never undergone any formal training, he chose to remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of the art market.
mike brodie has been my hero for a long time now. <3
I do not have the skills of an artist but how do we make this (or something like it) happen?
yes it is a real quote.
please make this real so i can have one.
!!! !!! !!!
ULTIMATE LIBRARIAN SWAG!
I need this in my life.
Immediately.
Then and Now Photos of Abandoned Detroit School
Upsetting.
20 schools proposed to be shut down in DC.
This is sad.
Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years….
Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano 300 miles west of here near the Chilean border, their frozen bodies were among the best preserved mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work. They froze to death as they slept, and 500 years later still looked like sleeping children, not mummies.This is “the maiden” and she is extraordinary. After a CAT scan or two it was determined that she had tuberculosis. Do you know what this means?!?!? It means that tuberculosis was a preexisting condition and not initially brought over to the Americas by Europeans. WOW
LANGUAGE NERDING: Map of languages in Spain/Portugal/Southwest France over the years. Mozarabic, btw, is awesome - this weird muddle of vulgar Latin, Spanish, and medieval Arabic that sounds crazy awesome in folk songs.
THIS COMMERICAL TAKES LIKE THE BIGGEST TURN FOR THE WORST EVER AND I DON’[T LIKE IT
OH MY GOD
This is the best thing on the whole internet
