

bowfolk:mudwerks:accidental mysteries: Snowflake Bentley in Chicago
“I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY ON THIS BLOG IN THE PAST. The reason is that I have always loved what he did. Here was a man who devoted his life (1865 - 1931) to making photomicrographs of snowflakes. A simple obsession, a devoted life looking deeply into the beauty of the world. What could be more beautiful than that?…”

OH RITE, C’EST WEDSNDSNDSEH

Cristofano Allori (1577-1621)
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
Oil on canvas, 1615
Pitti Gallery, Florence

Mokattam Ridge (Garbage City)
Cairo, Egypt, 2009
Bas PrincenThis is a real picture of a slum settlement on the outskirts of the city of Cairo whose economy revolves around the collection and recycling of the city’s garbage, mostly through the use of pigs by the city’s minority Coptic Christian population.
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