shitao:

Winter days / Fuyu no hi

Winter Days (冬の日 Fuyu no Hi) is a 2003 animated film, directed by Kihachirō Kawamoto. It is based upon the renga of the same name by the 17th-century Japanese poet Bashō.

The creation of the film followed the traditional collaborative nature of the source material — the visuals for each of the 36 stanzas were independently created by 35 different animators. As well as many Japanese animators, Kawamoto assembled leading names of animation from across the world. Each animator was asked to contribute at least 30 seconds to illustrate their stanza, and most of the sequences are under a minute (Yuriy Norshteyn’s, though, is nearly two minutes long).

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elledark:

cheguevaraslovechild:

The Smile of Hope

This is a picture of a young girl being arrested during the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The picture tells us something very important, with brutal clarity. When the police are out on the streets arresting kids for peacefully protesting political issues then we know beyond argument something is terminally rotten in America.

It tells us there is hope too, though. The spark of freedom that flickered in the middle-east during the Arab Spring is being re-ignited in America. People are waking up from the long, bad dream. They are seeing the lies and exploitation and hypocrisy all around them and saying ‘Enough’.

The battles to be fought are formidable, the forces ranged against us are frightening, but now at least we have hope that a better America, and a better world, is possible. 

Ellie

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Quite creepy!

Artist-Ronit Baranga found at Boing-boing

kilsoquah:

by James Neeley

Tree from Hell’s Half Acre

Another tree doing well in the lava rock. 5xp hdr

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.” Seneca

Welcome to my friends from Stumbleupon who know me as Worzel, and new friends to come.

This is my new home, although it’s looking a bit spartan until I get some furniture. Any advice you want to give on finding one’s way around would be welcome.

Thanks, Phil