Marten Tonnis
‘Face 83’, 2012, ink, watercolors
‘Congo girl 7’, 2011, ink, watercolors, pantone
‘Indie face’, 2012, inks, watercolors
Norio Fujikawa - Moleskine Sketches 2, 2012 Drawings: Ballpoint Pens, Brushpens on Moleskine
The Aokigahara Forest is a lonely place to die. So dense is the vegetation at the foot of Japan’s Mount Fuji, it is all too easy to disappear among the evergreens and never be seen again.
Each year the authorities remove as many as 100 bodies found hanging at the country’s suicide hotspot – but others can lie undiscovered for years.
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.
Marvel Mash-Up: Thor Ep. 1
Unplugged by Scott Newkirk - A one-room cabin in the woods pulls the cord on modern living in New York.
Nagoya Castle - 名古屋城 by stoicviking on Flickr.
My eye caught a dark form lying on the river bottom. It took me a few moments to comprehend what I had stumbled upon. Lying peacefully in the shallow waters of the river, only a few meters from shore, was a full-grown cougar. The contrast between the serenity of the scene I was witnessing and what must have played out here in the cougar’s final moments made me shiver. It was the first shiver of many, as I stripped down and waded out into the icy water to get this shot. x
Allegories
Batman (Allegory of St. George and the dragon), Superman (Allegory of Superman - The meeting between the Nietzschean Superman and superman imperial), & Spider-Man (Allegory of David and Goliath).
Created by José Quintero
(via:moon83)
Levada walk to 25 Fontes in Madeira Island, Portugal (by Pui-Leng).