Apt#7 has given me a place to rest my head for over 6 years - this will be my last night. Love ya alwayz. (Taken with instagram)
The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.
Enjoying this 12 year - courtesy of @millerarnold. (Taken with instagram)
Enjoy the Silence, from the excellent album Violator by Depeche Mode
This song and video are something that I always come back to - a musical and visual anchor of sorts. I remember watching MTV in my early teen years, and catching this video countless times. Every time it would play, I was completely pulled in and had to finish watching it. At the time I don’t think I necessarily understood what I was hearing or seeing, but I knew that it was unique and that Depeche Mode and Anton Corbijn were trying to communicate something deeper than most of the other late 80’s/early 90’s music videos.
Over twenty years later, I still believe this to be a perfect combination of music and video. The black and white shots of the band are some of my favorite visual images ever captured on film - and are the epitome of cool.
Taken with instagram
Taken with instagram
Blue & green hair on my lady. (Taken with instagram)
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Horst Faas died on Thursday at the age of 79. But his incredible standard-setting war photography lives on.
(via slowblog)
Source: thedaily.com
The Aokigahara Forest is the most popular site for suicides in Japan. After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published, in which a young lover commits suicide in the forest, people started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 deaths a year. The site holds so many bodies that the Yakuza pays homeless people to sneak into the forest and rob the corpses. The authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol more frequently.
This mini-documentary is simultaneously hopeful and heartbreaking. Although I don’t follow their print media, one thing I think VICE does well is filming difficult cultural and social topics that remain honest while respecting the viewer.
When you have time, I also recommend their Guide to Liberia and Guide to North Korea - incredibly eye opening.
Warning: The documentaries listed aren’t for the faint of heart.
Need help? There is hope. In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Source: rhythminthepews
