2010 World Press Photo: Nick Cobbing for Green Peace: Arctic Melt
"Change is driven not by government or institutions but by the passion of individuals"
Portuguese artist, Alexandre Farto aka Vhils takes street art to a deeper level with his deconstructed street portraits. He creates striking multi-textural faces in decaying brick walls by meticulously chipping away at the wall’s weathered layers. Vhils brilliant work ranges from paper, wood, metal and billboards and can be seen in galleries and streets around the world.
This is talent.
"If you are not a millionaire or bankrupt by the time you are 30, you are not really trying!"
— Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
Home
Feel like going back home. Last time I was still a kid, want to see it from my adult perspective. Experience it for myself.
Here’s a little fact about my birth city - Odessa. The Potemkin Stairs were created as the stair case to welcome visitors from the ports to the city. It is the first thing they pass through on the way into the city center. The cool thing about them is they were created with an optical illusion in the design. From the bottom of the stairs, you can’t see the landings and the stairs look really long. Yet from the top it doesn’t look that long. This illusion is accomplished by making the stairs wider at the bottom and narrower at the top and making it so you can’t see the landings from the bottom.
Read about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_Stairs
Anonymous asked: how big is your cock
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Taboo
We live in the 21st century. We question everything. We are, for the most part, an intelligent society capable of discussion. When somebody states a falsity and claims it as fact, nobody will perceive it as wrong of you to point it out. If some idiot tries to convince me that the honey badger isn’t the most cunning, dangerous and evil animal in the wild, I will tell him he’s straight up wrong. In all seriousness, evil honey badgers aside, we all accept people questioning each other’s statements when in doubt over their validity.
The next question may already be controversial to some of you, but its my blog. Why is it then that when someone mentions their beliefs, it is all of a sudden taboo as a motherfucker to do anything except ignore it or agree with it. Disbelief, disagreement, even skepticism - all are apparently not allowed. The majority of people I encounter happen to keep their beliefs to themselves; that I don’t mind. Its the ones who announce it, claim it as truth, then for lack of a better response throw a fucking hissy fit when I rebuke everything they say. Why is it so insulting to question these things? Especially given the ridiculousness of the claims. Seriously, think about it.
- Stay awesome. Vlad out.
P.S. I do have a lot more to say on the subject matter. However, I will refrain myself for now.
