From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
All hail Supermoon.
Falling Down Is All That I’ve Ever
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Damaged house in Bareges, southwestern France, two days after unseasonal storms caused havoc across huge swaths of the country. France said today it would declare a state of natural disaster in the southwest of the country after floods claimed three lives and devastated Lourdes. Photograph: Laurent Dard/AFP/Getty Images
It’s been a week in which I’ve felt like I’ve been under a lot of pressure from multiple directions, and for multiple reasons; I woke up today with a sense of Thank God it’s finally Friday after all. I feel like I know where this house is coming from, in other words.
Gets In Your Eyes
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Firefighters spray water on the burning land on the outskirts of Pekanbaru in Indonesia’s Riau province. The haze from fires in Indonesia is currently blanketing Singapore and could persist for some weeks. Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
This is one of those images that looks beautiful on first glance and then you read the description of what is actually happening.
When The Fireworks in Me Are Gone
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Graduate students celebrate by splashing water during a parade after their graduation gala at Huazhong University, China. Photograph: China Stringer Network/Reuters
It’s been a hard week, so far, with too much needing to be done and no time to do it all in, for various reasons (I finally just caught up with a deadline from Monday, to give you an idea of how my timing isn’t working out). There’s something both beautiful and joyous about this pic; I think it’s going to be my inspiration today as I continue to struggle through.
This Kind of Thing is The Reason The Dogs Will Rise Up and Kill Us All
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Who’s a pretty boy then? A dog with animal designs at a creative grooming competition in Seacaucus, New Jersey. And he’s not the only one – check out the others in our gallery. Photograph: Ren Netherland/Barcroft Media
STOP THIS UNREASONABLE CRUELTY RIGHT NOW.
Seriously, we can class this as a crime against nature, right? I’m not just imagining that…?
I Heard The Siren Call A Truce
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Tight security around Belfast while residents go about their daily business. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
Life during wartime.
Twice In The Same Place
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
Pyrotechnics as lightning strikes the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in downtown Chicago, Illinois last night. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Once again, whatever you may think is spectacular, the natural world will quietly – or not, in this circumstance – remind you that it can beat that shit effortlessly.
Say The Word And Be Like
A little – Okay, a lot, but there were deadlines and I overslept – late, but from the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
A copy of ‘Le Poete de l’Enfance’ from 1846 measuring 27mm x 19mm.
Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images. And that is, apparently, a real book. That small! I find that both surreal and kind of wonderful. Imagine making that book, never mind reading it.
Have We Decided If We Like Being Part of The Plan?
My favorite thing about “Flick of The Finger,” I think, is that it’s the first track of the second Beady Eye album, BE. Everything about it says that it’s a classic opening track to an album, after all; it has the right mix of excitement – provided here, almost entirely, by the horns, although I find myself weirdly drawn to Liam Gallagher’s half-assed “come on” at 2:00 – and claustrophobia, as if you get the feeling that this is the start of something, instead of a full experience in and of itself. It’s a song that, despite the musical build throughout the entire thing (and it does have an almost classic structure in that way), never quite peaks, but just teases something that remains out of reach.
(Also, again with the musical thievery – There’s Iggy and the Stooges in there, and the spoken word finale is, of course, straight out of “I Am The Walrus” by the Beatles. My favorite reference is the one to the band’s old band, though: “I see the wonder of life and look for the wall,” Liam sings at one point. Ah, was “Wonderwall” really that long ago…?)
All In All, It’s Just A
From the Guardian’s Photo Blog:
A porter takes a nap on a wall in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photograph: Navesh Chitrakar/Reuters
I love the idea that countless people just nap on that wall, all day. I mean, look at the right of the pic: There’s someone else napping, too! It’s not just that one guy! Every major city in the world should have an officially designated nap wall for people to take a load off in the middle of the day.