Children circle around an ultraviolet lamp to get a dose of vitamin D in Murmansk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 1977.
Photograph by Dean Conger, National Geographic
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Children circle around an ultraviolet lamp to get a dose of vitamin D in Murmansk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, August 1977.
Photograph by Dean Conger, National Geographic
I’m an amateur tattooist and by “amateur tattooist” I mean that I am really good at giving hickeys. One girl said that hers lasted for two weeks.
Amy Stein - Domesticated (2008)
Artist’s statement:
“Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the wild and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild.”
i carry a big spear everywhere so one day i’ll stop carrying it and someone will be trying to explain that i usually carry a big spear everywhere but the person they’re explaining it to wont believe them
Jerry’s housekeys disappear upon each use, and he must solve elaborate, room-sized block puzzles to earn more. Elaine gives Jerry a Jew’s harp on which he can play songs that have a mystical quality. He recoils, and tells her that she could have called it a jaw harp, Ozark harp, trump, khomus, drymba, or kubyz instead, if she were just a little more sensitive. Newman intentionally kills a small tree in front of the apartment building, then laughs at Jerry’s inability to do anything about it. Kramer becomes highly skittish whenever Jerry comes near unless he plays a particular song on the Jew’s harp, in which case he’s happy to take Jerry wherever he pleases. George keeps trying to get Jerry’s attention by shouting, “Hey! Listen!” in the most annoying voice possible.